Just thinking of the movies I've seen over the years....
The opening scene of the original Star Wars was a big one for me. Seven years old at the time. Pure awe at the opening crawl followed by the spaceship battle.
I remember in 1979 a made-for-TV movie called Kingdom of the Spiders, starring William Shatner. As the opening credits rolled, I felt something crawl over my foot while I was sitting at the table. I thought it was just a cockroach so I tried to kick it away, then after toeing it, I looked down and saw that it was a centipede. That made me no longer want to watch a movie about spiders!
The made-for-TV Martian Chronicles had many memorable scenes. The one that got me was the whole Sam's Diner scene. Sam (played by Darren McGaven, who has just died) is talking with his wife in the diner and as the camera pans over to her, a Martian wearing a mask comes into view almost inconspicuously into the frame....that scene FREAKED me (just 9 years old at the time). Then Sam shoots the Martin, thinking he had a weapon, and then more Martians show up and they have a chase across the sand dunes, until he is cornered and then learns from them that the poor Martian was giving him a deed to half of Mars, and announced cryptically that "tonight is the night". Then that night, he thinks the Martin meant that the rockets were coming from earth, with all those hungry men for the diner to feed, so he looks at earth through his telescope and then witnesses the destruction of the planet in a nuclear war. Then his wife takes a look, laughs in disbelief, and says that she thinks it's going to an "off season". That is burned indelibly in my mind.
There was a movie I saw when I was in fifth grade on TV that scared me s**tless. I have no idea what it was, but it had these ancient tombs, but those who went into them would turn into skeletons...
That summer I saw Raiders of the Lost Ark at Mann's Chinese Theatre. Most memorable movie experience of all. Great music, loved the "archaeology", and again the ark opening part was soooo scary for me (LOL)...
Sixteen Candles....I love the scene at the church when Samantha saw her crush across the street and she pointed at herself, and he says, "Yeah, you." Or the scene in the car in the room with geeky Anthony Michael Hall...asking for her undies...
Another big moviegoing experience....Back to the Future. I don't know what was more memorable...the movie itself or the two lesbians kissing in public in front of the movie theatre.
I must have gone to see Ferris Bueller four times at the movies....at least it wasn't the six times I went to see the Goonies (and I didn't like it all that much). The scene that stands out of course is that Ferrari in reverse going out the rear window of the house....
The Untouchables....The baby carriage scene.
Goodfellas....The scene when Lois wanted to go home to get her "lucky hat". Priceless.
Clerks....Selling cigarettes to a child.
My Cousin Vinny....I could say the "biological clock" scene, but I want to draw attention to Pesci's response in that scene...(whole movie was great)
Pulp Fiction....Discussing burgers before doing a hit? Travolta injecting into Thurman's heart? Blowing off the kid's head in the car? Zed's dead? The scene with Christopher Walken explaining the watch? Can't settle on just one...
Strange Days....Either the horrific rape scene or the awesome speech by Angela Bassett on "This is real time, you hear me, real time, time to get real", or the scene when Juliette Lewis tells Nero "It's over!"
Chasing Amy...The very last scene in the movie, when they meet each other again at the comic meet.
Dogma....The scene when Loki and Bartleby meet the board of directors of that fast food company....