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* Copied from a Netflix review "I work at Creator/DreamWorks. Didn't know whether to send an email to the legal department or Jen. In the end, I guess imitation is the sincerest form of flattery."

* ''Film/TheValleyOfGwangi'' - [[TheWestern Cowboys]] [[CoolVsAwesome versus]] [[EverythingsBetterWithDinosaurs Dinosaurs]] using LASSOS! There is nothing about that one scene that isn't awesome.

* Personally, This Troper always found Harryhausen's greatest scene to be the fight with the 6-armed statue of Kali in ''The Golden Voyage of Sinbad.'' [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tP4cLBjHwZs You will never see a cooler swordfight.]]
** ''This'' troper finds the Miklos Rosza score for the Kali fight SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic as well.

[[AC: Years of the Beast]]
* ''Years of the Beast'', an otherwise mediocre Apocalyptic drama, sold itself based on one moment. Some background: This troper attended a Christian school where this movie was shown as part of a study of the book of Revelation. Late in the film, TheDragon (a vehemently pro-regime sheriff who seems to have it in for this one group of people) catches up with the protagonists fleeing the Antichrist's regime, gets the drop on our hero Stephen in the middle of nowhere, puts a gun to the back of his head, and snarls at him not to move. Stephen pauses for a second... then spins around and punches him in the jaw before he can fire, knocking him to the ground. The entire class, which hadn't been particularly invested in the film before now, ''cheered''.

* During a sorority hazing in which Domino is being body-shamed, Domino asks the AlphaBitch if she's had a nose job, just before belting her right in the face.

* Perhaps this belongs in Real Life or Live Action TV, but it occurred at the Oscars, so it's movie-related. During this year's show, Creator/WillSmith presented an award for effects. Before doing so, he noted that though summer blockbusters rarely receive any prominent awards, he loves them anyway, saying that they have "explosions, special effects, and, oh yeah, fans."

* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k-BlyQHfYp0 This]]. To give context [[spoiler: Sam, the man with the knife has been trying to escape his criminal side for a long time and his brother's gang has been contracted to kill him (unbeknownst to either sibling). When his brother finds his friend is about to stab his Sam, he gives Sam the chance to turn the knife on his friend. Sam goes through a moral dilemma, but eventually settles for discarding the knife and nailing a killer punch into his assailant, knocking him back several feet into a bin]]

* ''Boys From Brazil'' definitely has a SugarWiki/MomentOfAwesome at the end when Mengele who is about to kill Lieberman pauses when Bobby an, American boy who is really [[spoiler:Adolf Hitler's clone]], walks in to find them both battered from fighting. Mengele then tries to convince Bobby that his true self should make him despise Lieberman who is Jewish and that they should kill Lieberman together. Bobby then tells Mengele how much of a weirdo he is, and to add another blow to Mengele's crumbling self-esteem, Lieberman tells Bobby the truth that [[spoiler:Mengele killed Bobby's father]]. Bobby, very upset in hearing this, [[spoiler:ignores Mengele's cries that his "adoptive parents" are worthless compared to Bobby completely to search for his father. And when he discovers his dead father, he retaliates at the shocked Mengele by calling him a psycho, then resorts to ordering his dogs to kill Mengele to avenge his dead father while shedding a tear from his father's passing. He then strikes a deal with Lieberman to save him in exchange to keep quiet about his revenge against Mengele. And at the end Lieberman decides to protect the boys against Jewish radicals, coming to the conclusion that they are merely just children after all.]]

* Fronsac, who is righteously pissed off after [[spoiler:his brother Mani is brutally tortured and murdered by the bad guys]], sheds his civilized veneer, dons some warpaint, and proceeds to go on a one-man rampage through the bad guys' hideout. This troper heard the audience give a collective "ooooh" at the severity of the beat-down he dished out to one of the mooks.

* The final fate of Sergio Lopez' villain. [[spoiler:Chiwetel Ejiofor steals his kidneys]]. It makes more sense in context.

* The otherwise Z-grade 80's Creator/JuddNelson film ''From The Hip'' is loaded with awesome whenever Nelson's "Stormy" Weathers is in court, and pretty much ONLY when he's in court (especially when he [[spoiler: calls the victim of the last case in the movie to the witness stand, proving that no one believes the defendant actually killed her]]), but the two big MoodWhiplash moments of the film definitely count as [=CMoAs=]: [[spoiler: when John Hurt's character delivers his HannibalLecture, proving to Stormy, his assistant, and the entire audience that HE DID IT, and when, on the verge of winning the case and getting an insane murderer acquitted, Weathers delivers a closing argument with the express purpose of driving his client into a murderous rage, risking disbarment and, oh yeah, his OWN LIFE to make sure the killer is imprisoned]]. I'm still trying to figure out why they didn't just make the whole movie a thriller...

* In the samurai movie ''Harakiri'' (1962), [[spoiler: when Tsugumo Hanshiro tosses out the topknots of the retainers he has humiliated in battle]].

** [[spoiler: She leaves a note on a carton of cigarettes to her wayward husband "Knock yourself out. PS I want a divorce"]].

* Duncan launching the cherry bomb at [[spoiler: Robert]]

* This troper saw a brief scene from this 1937 film, which stars a newspaper reporter and a woman who [[spoiler:thinks she]] has a terminal illness. The woman's lying in bed, having more or less given up on life, and the reporter ''picks her up, professes his love to her, and hits the ice pack off her head.'' He then proceeds to fight with her (physically), throwing her back onto the bed a few times, ''while still telling her about his love.''

* In this 1997 movie starring Martin Lawrence and Tim Robbins, main character Nick Beam (played by Robbins) undergoes a breakdown and then goes on a driving rampage with an unwilling passenger, T-Paul (played by Lawrence) after T-Paul fails to carjack him; and all this happens after Nick sees his wife in bed with his boss [[spoiler:(or so he thinks)]]. Near the end of the film, after a phone call to confront his wife [[spoiler:during which he discovers that the woman he saw was actually his sister-in-law with her fiancé]], he and T-Paul are confronted by two crooks who've been dogging them throughout the entire film, with all of them having [[GunsAkimbo guns drawn]] on each other. One of the crooks loudly declares that [[LargeHam he's a KILLER,]] and demands to know what Nick is. Nick's response? A cool and confident [[spoiler:"I'm married,"]] followed by ''blasting the crook's pistol out of his hand with a shotgun,'' followed by him and T-Paul subduing both crooks and leaving them tied up in the alley for the police to find.

* The "Titanic Dreams" prom is a huge one. [[spoiler:Accordion music. The dance floor tears open and people falls to the pool. Ryan dives (a bit after a "no diving" sign can be read :D) and doesn't save Ashley, but [[RaceForYourLove goes after Maggie instead]]. Floyd gets the credit, meets Virgil Doolittle and digs up the neck. Maggie [[ChainedToABed ties Chris to a bed]]]].