Awesome / Backdraft

• The scene near the end when Brian decides to battle the blaze on his own to rescue the firefighters he needed to rescue a dying Stephen. Just the way he battles the fire is awesome personified because it's shot in a way that he is fighting a demonic force of hell and it's losing. Stephen whom throughout the entire movie refused to take Brian seriously watches in awe as the fighters make it to him. What he said also becomes a crowning moment of heartwarming.
  Stephen: Look at him, that's my brother goddammit.
• Stephen punching a jerkass who called Brian a dumbass for saving a mannequin and then Brian returning the favor by punching the guy's friend for attacking Stephen.
• The scene where Stephen saves the child in the burning building. Hell, any scene where they battle a fire counts.
• Shadow exposing Ronald Bartel’s charade during his parole hearing by getting him to confess that he would love to burn the whole world down. His parole gets denied as a result.
• The sequence where Stephen and Adcox are hanging from the walkway. The fact that Stephen manages to hold on for as long as he does and his refusal to let Adcox fall to his death (even though Stephen knows he can't save him) is remarkable. The way it's shot just adds to the effect.
• The funeral procession through the rain-slicked streets of downtown Chicago, with hundreds of real-life firefighters in dress uniforms marching behind the firetrucks/hearses with bagpipes playing.
• Brian and Shadow (still in dress firefighter uniforms, having come from the funeral!) exposing Swayzak and his fellow cronies true intentions during his press conference!!! Not to mention Brian delivering the same line to Swayzak as he delivered to Stephen about his career dissipation light going into high gear.