Scenes that STILL give you goosebumps

The absolute intensity of the scene and prop designs of one our very own gets me every time. The manual docking sequence in Interstellar is amazing down to the every detail. I get noticeably anxious every time. When the music swells I get goosebumps. I'm actually getting them just thinking about it as I type this.

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The scene where Gandalf the White is reunited with the rest in the forrest and initally they mistake him for an enemy,then the light fades and they see his face.
 
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1) The most magical moment of the greatest movie ever made.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BxFNNMAtUmI

2) So much from this scene, but especially at the 3:30 mark, the 4:00 mark, the 5:58 mark, and the 6:06 mark.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q_qhLRUh66k

3) Sorry, God, for not ranking this number 1.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OqCTq3EeDcY

4) In John Boorman's, Excalibur, which is in my Top-5 films of all time, there is a such a scene. It's not an uplifting scene--just the opposite, actually. But the mystical symbolism of that sword, in that primal setting, with all that's at stake in the kingdom, gets me every time. Lancelot is asleep with Guinevere in the woods outside of Camelot, after their carnal betrayal of Arthur. Lancelot awakens in horror, to the site of Excalibur, sticking out of the ground between their naked bodies. Unsure if it's real or an evil apparition, he runs his palm against its blade, drawing blood, exclaiming, "A king without a sword! A land without a king!!".

5) The warden throwing a stone at the Raquel Welch poster, then listening to it bounce, and skip and careen down the tunnel, before ripping the poster off the wall.
 
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- Indiana Jones not taking **** any longer in Temple of Doom, and hurls a rock at a guy whipping a kid. Indy standing in that doorways with THAT LOOK.

This moment is even better when you are watching the movie as a prequel, as It's meant to be. It is at this moment when Indy stops being just another Belloq, to becoming the Indy we know and love from "Raiders".

Myself, the moments from "Iron Giant", and "Return of the Jedi" (Vader saving Luke) are so obvious, I don't need to go any further into detail. So a few others;

"3:10 To Yuma" when Ben Wade looks at the crucifix on the Hand of God before wasting his evil crew. You can see in his eyes that he's had a moment of clarity.

https://youtu.be/gV4WFBjc01I

"Real Steel" Cheesy as can be, but God help me I was hopelessly sucked in and invested in those characters, Atom especially. The scene where Max has Atom pick him up and they just stare at each other (the movie was filmed under the notion that Atom is indeed special, sentient). Then at the end of movie when Atom finally lets loose on Zeus. I don't know how long Danny Elfman was sitting on that out-of-character, incredible score, but it can cause goose bumps just listening to it on its own.
https://youtu.be/JQKxsG7GcDs
 
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Was just thinking about Iron Giant, which I re-watched a couple of weeks ago, but there's another one that always gets me and it's this specific trailer for Titan A.E. Don't know what it is, but it always gets me pumped.

 
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For some reason, the opening titles of "Star Trek III" have had that special impact on me, ever since I first saw it in a theater in the third grade.

Something about the crescendo of James Horner's opening title score when the title card slams into the screen...

 
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Star Trek: The Wrath of Khan is, for me at least, not just great Trek but about as close to a perfectly constructed movie as you can find. It has several well earned goosebump moments but the one that always kills me is Kirk's eulogy for Spock as his voice wavers on the word "human." That whole scene defiantly manages to be uplifting and heartbreaking all at the same time.
 
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