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[deckardcanine]

A scene from the first Harry Potter film has been voted the best moment in movie history.

The scene, from 2001's Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, shows the boy wizard discovering platform nine-and-three-quarters at Kings Cross train station in London before setting off for Hogwarts school for the first time.

The moment beat out competition from Dick Van Dyke's classic rooftop chimney sweep's dance in 1964 musical Mary Poppins, in the poll by the Oreo cookie brand.

I was appalled until I got to the Oreo detail. Most likely the average age of the voters is under 15.

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[nefaria.livejournal.com]

Probably from a short list compiled by a clueless Nabisco employee.

A few of my personal favorites:
The Bright Eyes sequence from "Watership Down"
Bruce Willis lifing up his ringless hand near the end of "The Sixth Sense"
Dorothy opening the door to Munchkinland in "The Wizard of Oz"
The ending of "Pan's Labyrinth"

[ccdesan.livejournal.com]

I agree that this is certainly an unsophisticated selection.

I hadn't thought about my own favorites, but right off the top of my head:

Charade - Cary Grant in the stamps bazaar
The ending of "Planet of the Apes" (original)
The 6th Sense realization scene
"Roads? Where we're going, we don't need roads!"
The ending of "The Game"
"I'm a po-LICE officer" (In the Heat of the Night)
The epilogue shot from "Men in Black"
The encounter between Alec Guinness and Nancy Walker in "Murder by Death"

I'm sure I could think of many others, but I enjoyed recalling these...

[deckardcanine.livejournal.com]

I've seen all of those but The Game and Murder by Death.

I'd be hard pressed to pick my favorite movie moments. Some of them don't work very well out of context, like the last spoken line of Amistad.

[marmoe.livejournal.com]

To add a few.

The end sequence of The Usual Suspects.
Roth "going home" in Soylent Green.
"Das Boot", trying to break through the narrows of Gibraltar.
The shoot-out in The Good, the Bad and the Ugly.
The shoot-out in Once upon a Time in the West.

The ones Old Wolf mentioned, in addition "They call me MISTER Tibbs!"

[darthhowie.livejournal.com]

Ummm. Yeah. *sets an Oreo cookie on fire*

[thatcatgirl.livejournal.com]

On the bright side, at least it's a scene I regard as "good", that's about the best I can can expect from such declarations. And to be fair, it might be a good choice for "best scene they actually saw in a theatre".

There are some gems your other friends listed here, I'll jump on the bandwagon and add some of my own favorites (though I'm terrible at coming up with such lists, and if other people mention more, some may stand out as glaring omissions):

The zoom-in at the beginning of Contact
The speeder bike chase from Return of the Jedi
standing in the rain from The Shawshank Redemption
the "I wish the ring had never come to me" conversation from LoTR, though that's really for it's real-life resonance.
Come to think of it, those movies had an incredible "Cavalry Coming Over The Hill" type scene, too.
the fight scene from Candleshoe
The survivors rolling into area 51 in Independence Day

It seems like there should be some transcendent sci-fi moment or some musical number in here, but nothing comes to mind. I really loved the ballroom scene in Beauty and the Beast, though.