the most AMAZING thing

[RobertScorpio]

Growing up as a kid, before you were ten years old. What sceen from a scifi/fantasy movie still stays with you today, as much as it did when you first saw it, because it was just so...amazing. Could be a brief shot, or a scene. But something that really made you go "wow".

Rob

 

[ThePlumsofWrath]

Spacehunter - Adventures in the Forbidden Zone in 3D

Galaxy of Terror

Both dreadful films.

 

[The Nth Doctor]

Damn, and here I thought this was going to be a thread about the old Commodore 64 game "In Search of the Most Amazing Thing." Alas...

 

[FalTorPan]

One amazing shot that stands out in my mind is from Return of the Jedi. The Death Star is in its final death throes before exploding, and when all hope for Lando's survival seems to be futile, the Millennium Falcon shoots out of the Death Star shaft and into space. Lando and Nien Numb's shouts of relief mirrored what was going through my head when I first saw that sequence at the age of seven.

 

[sojourner]

Star Wars, before there was a bloody "IV" or "A New Hope" tacked on to it. The scene where Luke is on Tattoine looking off to the 2 suns at sunset. John William's music swells and you can just feel it in your bones that a great Saga lies in Luke's future. And back then it hadn't been corrupted by any of the following movies.

 

[Agenda]

I love that part in LOTR (the first one) when they go to Lothlorien and they see that big tree in the distance.

 

[RobertScorpio]

I love that part in LOTR (the first one) when they go to Lothlorien and they see that big tree in the distance.

2001, when they show that monolith on the moon

 

[mirandafave]

Well a big one HAS to be TMP>Kirk>shuttlepod> Enterprise in spacedock

 

[Hyperspace05]

My early epic shot memories are SW tainted

Star Wars... The opening Star Destroyer shot - what else?

The Empire Strikes back... The 3 Star Destroyers almost colliding with each other as the chase the Millenium Falcon.

 

[Agenda]

I love that part in LOTR (the first one) when they go to Lothlorien and they see that big tree in the distance.

2001, when they show that monolith on the moon

Speaking of that movie, I think my fave part is when the ape discovers how to use the bone.

 

[23skidoo]

There are three scenes, from 2 movies, that stick with me decades after having seen them for the first time. They marked one of the few occasions in which mainstream SF films truly became art, as opposed to simply a narrative framework. And of course you find people who hate these scenes as often as you find people who love them.

Two are from Star Trek TMP: The shuttlepod flypast of the Enterprise, and the later sequence in which the Enterprise enters V'GER. I saw them on the big screen back when TMP first came out, and I have never no other film I've seen in the 30 years since have replicated the feeling I got watching these scenes unfold on the big screen.

The other is the psychedelic Beyond the Infinite sequence from 2001: A Space Odyssey, which I've been told is the closest filmmakers have gotten to accurately representing an acid trip on screen. I'm not into drugs so that aspect of it is lost on me, but it nonetheless took the film places where I didn't think a film could go. And I've only ever seen the film on TV and DVD; I can only imagine the big-screen experience.

Honorable mention: The closing sequence of The Quiet Earth.

Alex

 

[RobertScorpio]

There are three scenes, from 2 movies, that stick with me decades after having seen them for the first time. They marked one of the few occasions in which mainstream SF films truly became art, as opposed to simply a narrative framework. And of course you find people who hate these scenes as often as you find people who love them.

Two are from Star Trek TMP: The shuttlepod flypast of the Enterprise, and the later sequence in which the Enterprise enters V'GER. I saw them on the big screen back when TMP first came out, and I have never no other film I've seen in the 30 years since have replicated the feeling I got watching these scenes unfold on the big screen.

The other is the psychedelic Beyond the Infinite sequence from 2001: A Space Odyssey, which I've been told is the closest filmmakers have gotten to accurately representing an acid trip on screen. I'm not into drugs so that aspect of it is lost on me, but it nonetheless took the film places where I didn't think a film could go. And I've only ever seen the film on TV and DVD; I can only imagine the big-screen experience.

Honorable mention: The closing sequence of The Quiet Earth.

Alex

Wow...love the picks alex. I think we are both 'wowwed' by the same stuff. Good to know I'm not the only nut in out there LOL..just kidding.

Rob

 

[zakkrusz]

The Battle of Endor in Return of the Jedi, particularly the space combat scenes.

 

[MeanJoePhaser]

Star Wars. Ruined my life forever.

Could've been an accoutant who watches PBS and listens to NPR for "fun". Damn you, Lucas!!

 

[Cicero]

For me, it was the scene of Superman repowering the magnetic telescope in the short "The Magnetic Telescope." I watched maybe three of those Superman shorts, some Betty Boop and Casper cartoons, and Return of the Jedi and Star Wars every time I went to my grandparents' house when I was little.

For whatever reason, I didn't realize they had The Empire Strikes Back until I was in middle school. When I finally watched it, I discovered that it was a movie I'd seen when I was two that had terribly confused me, and had long wondered what it was (I'd settled on The Big Chill, because I couldn't remember it at all, and knew I'd seen it at about that time).

 

[Gojira]

When I was a kid in the 60s I watched the War of the Gargantuas, a Toho classic and there was a scene when the giant Green Gargantua came out of the sea to the airport and grabbed a woman from inside of the airport and ate her and then spit her clothes out.

 

[RobertScorpio]

When I was a kid in the 60s I watched the War of the Gargantuas, a Toho classic and there was a scene when the giant Green Gargantua came out of the sea to the airport and grabbed a woman from inside of the airport and ate her and then spit her clothes out.

Oh yes!!! Great pick..and that was the best part of that movie. Actually, its a pretty good movie. And one of the dudes from Westside story plays the american.

Sad ending when both monsters, including the brown gargantua, die in the volcano at the end...

Toho classic indeed

Rob

 

[Agony_Boothb]

Watching re-runs of the 1960's versions of 'the lost world' and 'Journey to the centre of the earth' and any of the movies with harryhausen effects simply wowed me as a boy and still do to this very day

 

[The Castellan]

Damn, and here I thought this was going to be a thread about the old Commodore 64 game "In Search of the Most Amazing Thing." Alas...

My favorate C64 game. In fact, almost all my sci-fi stories I make are based on the universe in that game. The one little game sparked my science-fiction imaginatiob.

I might one day post some of it.
I still am trying to make a model of the B-liner...inside and out.


Anyhow, back on topic:

V'ger fly by: Just like someone else said.

Robocop taking off his helmet for the first time.

The first time I seen the Daleks.

ED-209.

Unicron.

Alex kicking the Kodan Armada's ass in The Last Starfighter.

Jupiter becoming a mini solar system in 2010.

The face on Mars and what was inside in Mission to Mars.

Seeing the Doctor regenerate for the first time.

Rick Berman and Brannon Braga.

 

[The Nth Doctor]

Damn, and here I thought this was going to be a thread about the old Commodore 64 game "In Search of the Most Amazing Thing." Alas...

My favorate C64 game. In fact, almost all my sci-fi stories I make are based on the universe in that game. The one little game sparked my science-fiction imaginatiob.

Holy crap! Someone who actually remember this game!

Sadly, I never completed the game mostly because the Commodore loaded so slowly. However, I did read the short story that came with it, which was marvelous. The furthest I ever got was visiting villages. Every year or so, I look around for a Commodore 64 emulator which includes that game but I've never found anything. I would love to play that game again.