I can't really decide for one, so here is my list (in no order):
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cameronthemaneron — 11 years ago(July 24, 2014 07:34 PM)
Sidney: Opening establishing shot of gas station
Boogie Nights: New Years Eve tracking shot
Magnolia: William H. Macy's bar scene
Punch Drunk Love: Hawaii kiss scene
There Will Be Blood: Plain View and son having dinner at Eli's house/or Ending
The Master- Any scene with Freddie- His most beautiful film.
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Ser_Stephen_Seaworth — 11 years ago(August 20, 2014 01:57 PM)
The derrick fire.
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GSP_the_Moviegoer — 11 years ago(August 20, 2014 03:50 PM)
On a purely visceral level the derrick fire is truly astonishing filmmaking but in terms of pure, layered perfection, I gotta go with the first processing scene from The Master.
Without dreams I would not want to live- Werner Herzog
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warthogjump — 11 years ago(September 02, 2014 04:29 AM)
Although there will be blood is my favourite PTA film, and essentially my favourite film ever, in terms of the best scene I would say it has to come out of Boogie Nightsthe opening scene of that movie is unbeatable!! and the Pool Party and New Year Party come very very close, any of these I could put as number 1!!
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bprimus001 — 11 years ago(September 06, 2014 10:00 AM)
By each film in chronological order
Hard Eight: When Sydney waits for Jimmy to arrive
Boogie Nights: Opening scene
Magnolia: Frogs
Punch-Drunk Love: Barry breaking the glass
There Will Be Blood: Baptism scene
The Master: First processing scene
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dkast85 — 11 years ago(September 17, 2014 03:55 AM)
There is no scene in the tons of movies that I've seen that has come close to replicating the feeling I had during the firecracker scene in Boogie Nights.
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ksghorror97 — 11 years ago(September 22, 2014 04:37 PM)
- Hard Eight - When Sidney goes to the casino alone.
- Boogie Nights - Fire cracker scene, that scene is intense.
- Magnolia - The scene in the bar, when "The Logical Song" plays.
- Punch-Drunk Love - Where Barry beats up the brothers.
- There Will Be Blood - The final scene.
- The Master - The scene at the party, where Dodd gets into an argument with John More.
I couldn't narrow it to5b4 one scene. So I picked from each movie.
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DeclanCochran — 11 years ago(September 30, 2014 03:07 PM)
scene with the phone-call-girl in punch drunk, watched that with my friend and we were both like "woah that's good" and since then it's hard to argue since it captures an entire world of feeling and loneliness in like two minutes, which probably points to the higher functions of cinema or some sh!t, but either way it's pretty moving
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midwestmoviemaven — 11 years ago(October 18, 2014 11:11 AM)
Boogie NightsFirercracker scene,maybe the shootout at the convenience store
Magnolia any scene with PSH (I love his subtle work in that film),
Punch drunk lovethe phone call,
TWBBthe Baptism scene, oil derrick
The Masterthe slow boat to China part
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dehumanized — 11 years ago(November 10, 2014 05:43 AM)
Impossible for me to pick an individual scene so I'll list my favorites from his films
- Hard Eight the flashback as John C. Reilly tells the matchbook story
- Boogie Nights the drug deal gone awry (I saw the film for the gazillionth time in the theatre and you could tell who the people who hadn't seen it before were in the theatre based on their reactions, it still holds up marvelously)
- Magnolia the ambulance overturning when it begins raining frogs
- Punch-Drunk Love Barry screaming at his sister on the phone in Hawaii
- There Will be Blood Daniel slapping around Eli in the mud
- The Master the window to the wall scene in its entirety with the flashback to the war
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bijinius — 11 years ago(December 29, 2014 02:32 PM)
- I L5b4OVE the scene in "Magnolia" where yes, it's raining Frogs, and at one point the camera audaciously zooms into a picture on the wall to the words "But it did happen". Love, love,
love. - The first fifteen minutes of There Will Be Blood. a masterclass in tone.
- Of course, the opening of Boogie Nights. unbelievable technical proficiency, blah blah, you've heard it written about by smarter men than me.
- The 'processing' scene in "The Master", absolutely.
- And now, of course, the standard dark horse pick. For this, after some consideration, I choose the scene in "Grown Ups 2" where the man working behind the counter at the ice cream stand is tricked into a compromising position by our heroes so that it looks like chocolate ice cream is in fact coming out of his bum bum. It was an extremely daring direction choice to have this run on so long, and to have three(!) plops of the fake doo doo poo.
- I L5b4OVE the scene in "Magnolia" where yes, it's raining Frogs, and at one point the camera audaciously zooms into a picture on the wall to the words "But it did happen". Love, love,
