Of the hundreds of movies I watched this decade, these moments were the ones that I remember the most.
22 Jump Street – Slam poetry
Annihilation – Bear attack
Baby Driver – Opening chase
The Big Sick – The 9/11 joke
Blindspotting – Garage confrontation
Call Me by Your Name – Father and son
Captain America: Civil War – Airport showdown
Captain America: The Winter Soldier – Fury attacked
Captain Phillips – State of shock
Climax – Opening dance number
Crazy Stupid Love – Makeover montage
Deadpool 2 – First mission
Deepwater Horizon – The explosion
Drive – Opening drive
Flight – “I had two glasses of wine.”
Get Out – The Sunken Place
Gone Girl – The Cool Girl monologue
The Grand Budapest Hotel – “What’s the meaning of this shit?!”
Hail, Caesar! – “Would that it were so simple.”
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Part 2 – Snape’s story
The Hateful Eight – Dingus
Incredibles 2 – Runaway train
Inside Llewyn Davis – The audition
Inside Out – Bye bye, Bing Bong
The Intouchables – Name that tune
Iron Man 3 – The Mandarin revealed
La La Land – What could have been
Manchester by the Sea – Police station
The Martian – “Starman” montage
The Master – The audit
Mission: Impossible – Fallout – The bathroom fight
Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol – Scaling the Burj Khalifa
Molly’s Game – Going full tilt
The Nice Guys – Caught with his pants down
Phoenix – The end
Pitch Perfect – The Riff-Off
Roma – The beach
Sicario – Border crossing
The Skeleton Twins – “Nothing’s Gonna Stop Us Now”
The Social Network – The Victoria’s Secret story
A Star Is Born – “Shallow”
Star Wars: The Last Jedi – The Holdo maneuver
Suspiria – Mirror dance
(I couldn’t find a clip of this online. But trust me. Once you see it, you won’t forget it.)
Toy Story 3 – Two goodbyes (Part 1, Part 2)
What We Do in the Shadows – Dark bidding
Whiplash – Grand finale
Wind River – Flanking / Shootout
The Wolf of Wall Street – Quaaludes
Wonder Woman – No Man’s Land
X-Men: Days of Future Past – “Time in a Bottle”