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Famous Movie Scenes #3

Guess the movies that featured these famous scenes.
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First submittedMay 17, 2014
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Scene
Movie
Thousands of balloons lift a house off its foundations and into the air
Up
Man dances on a giant keyboard in a toy store
Big
Girl spins around. As she spins, her red dress catches fire and the audience claps
The Hunger Games
Teen waxes a car to learn essential martial arts skills
Karate Kid
Athlete trains by punching slabs of beef
Rocky
Three men destroy a printer with a baseball bat
Office Space
Men climb over a barbed-wire fence to steal bags of fat from a liposuction clinic
Fight Club
Boy gets his tongue stuck on a freezing metal pole
A Christmas Story
POW in solitary confinment bounces a baseball against the wall over and over
The Great Escape
Woman holding an umbrella descends from the sky
Mary Poppins
Man impresses his date by performing an epic jazz flute solo
Anchorman
Bearded muscleman kicks an ambassador into a well
300
Bathing man is surprised when Germans drop a ferret into the tub
The Big Lebowski
Dozens of bags of letters addressed to Santa Claus are brought into a courtroom
Miracle on 34th Street
Teenager stands outside his ex-girlfriend's window and holds a boombox above his head
Say Anything
Woman's white dress billows above a subway grate
The Seven Year Itch
Boy puts on aftershave and then screams
Home Alone
Woman with a very short skirt uncrosses her legs during a police interrogation
Basic Instinct
Suave man is tied on a table while a laser beam slowly moves towards him
Goldfinger
Man interrupts a wedding and escapes with the bride via bus
The Graduate
53 Comments
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Level 81
May 30, 2014
Missed The Great Escape (never saw it) and The Graduate (think I watched most of it, but it was a long time ago). But I did get the 7 Year Itch and Goldfinger in spite of never seeing either of those, either.
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Level 85
Sep 12, 2016
Wow, you've GOT to see The Great Escape! Other than featuring 2 American POW's (McQueen & Garner) instead of Aussies in an attempt to make the film more appealing to American audiences, they stayed very true to how the whole escape went down. Oh yeah, and James Coburn's attempt at an Australian accent was cringe-worthy, but still, it's a must-see movie, IMO.
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Level 74
Nov 10, 2016
I really liked the Great Escape, too. The first half was a little like Hogan's Heroes, but the last half was serious. And there is an abundance of great actors in addition to those already mentioned - Charles Bronson, Donald Pleasance, David McCallum, Richard Attenborough, Gordon Jackson... I was never as impressed with The Graduate as others are. I am glad I saw it once, but I could watch the Great Escape over and over.
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Level 36
Sep 22, 2019
^ Same here. I simply love "the Great Escape" and cry each time as David McCallum dies. Especially poignant since he lost his wife (Jill Ireland) to Charles Bronson during the making of the movie.
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Level 74
Nov 10, 2016
There are several on here I've never seen, either - Anchorman, 300, Fight Club, Office Space, Basic Instinct, and A Christmas Story. I watched The Big Lebowski just because it appears so often in these quizzes. It was fun, although not as appealing to a grandmother as some of these others. I like British period films, anything by Jane Austen, musicals, dramas, romantic films, etc. Not too many chick flicks on this list, but still a good and fun mix.
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Level 74
Sep 22, 2019
I've finally seen A Christmas Story. It was a fun movie, but I'd still like to see some new films added to the movie quizzes such as Steel Magnolias (SO many memorable scenes and lines), Sense and Sensibility, Fried Green Tomatoes, Love Actually, The Reader, etc. I would have added The Englishman who Went Up a Hill but Came Down a Mountain to that list but I'd guess the title makes it too long for a quiz. (I realize the phrase "chick flick" is no longer politically correct so I'll just call them "movies that appeal to me, a retired grandmother.")
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Level 70
May 30, 2014
Catching Fire should also be accepted for Hunger Games clue.
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Level 57
May 30, 2014
Except that doesn't happen in Catching Fire. Her dress turns into Mockingjay wings in Catching Fire.
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Level 43
Nov 10, 2016
I think it catches flame before it turns into the mockingjay wings. Not 100% sure
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Level 91
Nov 10, 2016
You guys are right about the dress catching fire (lol) and the audience applauding, but the clue in this quiz says a red dress, and she wears a white dress in the second film, which later turns into the mockingjay color.
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Level 67
Dec 3, 2018
I agree with Jacktheguy because it was her wedding dress. And yeah, it was totally in Catching fire. RIght before the Quarter Quell.
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Level 60
Jun 2, 2014
It's clearly identified as a marmot...
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Level 92
Jun 3, 2014
And I'm pretty sure they're nihilists, not just Germans.
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Level 60
Jun 3, 2014
They were threatening castration, are we going to split hairs here?
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Level 48
Nov 10, 2016
Shut up, Donnie.
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Level 67
Nov 10, 2016
They believe in nothing, tschutzer! Nothing!
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Level 90
Jul 14, 2018
We can't all be little urban achievers.
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Level 84
Jun 24, 2022
Say what you will about the tenets of national socialism, at least it's an ethos.
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Level 66
Sep 23, 2019
But it was also clearly *actually* a ferret. Last-minute casting change. :-P
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Level 29
Jun 22, 2014
Lot of fun. A little sad at how many people didn't get Say Anything
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Level 74
Jan 4, 2016
It's been a long time since I saw it. I was trying "Never Say Anything", "Say Something," but I just couldn't get the correct title. I saw several of these but the right combo of words just wouldn't flow from my brain.
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Level 14
Apr 18, 2017
Never even heard of it.
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Level 70
Sep 22, 2019
This is how I got introduced me to Peter Gabriel
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Level 89
Jul 13, 2022
I could picture the scene in my head, but all I could think of was Better Off Dead. I've taken this quiz three times over years and only gotten it right once.
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Level 40
Mar 21, 2016
I tried Dumb and Dumber for getting his tongue stuck to a frozen pole.
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Level 67
Apr 23, 2016
So sud I, because ir happens in that movie too.
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Level 69
Sep 22, 2019
he's not a boy though
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Level 72
Sep 22, 2019
well if a ferret can be a marmot, he a guy can be a boy
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Level 74
Mar 9, 2020
maybe it should say light post or something, I think the one from dumb and dumber was a ski lift chair.
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Level 48
Nov 10, 2016
Some great choices and movies. And I decide to complain anyway: it seems there are better iconic scenes in both Lebowski and Fight Club.
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Level 81
Nov 10, 2016
I'd say the scene in Fight Club is pretty darn iconic; but, every scene in Fight Club is iconic. The Big Lebowski one maybe less so but it was at least memorable.
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Level 66
Nov 10, 2016
I saw Lebowski a little while ago, and the ferret scene was definitely my favourite scene in a great movie.
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Level 67
Jun 26, 2022
I feel like the most iconic scene in Lebowski is John Goodman telling Larry what happens when you "French a stranger in the Alps" (according to the edited-for-TV version), but there are so many that I'm sure everyone thinks of a different one first.
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Level 66
Nov 10, 2016
You know what would be awesome? If when you typed Fight Club the answer that appears said "You just broke the two first rules of fight club"
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Level 20
Sep 22, 2019
Lol that's gold
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Level 67
Nov 10, 2016
Missed the Great Escape because I couldn't place it, and the Hunger Games, because I've never seen it. I feel like that's the cultural phenomenon that marked when I passed into middle age and lost touch with pop culture. Never saw the movies. Never read the books. Don't really feel the urge to do either.
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Level 89
Jul 13, 2022
I never saw the Hunger Games movies but I thought the books were decent.
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Level 66
Nov 10, 2016
Who else guessed "Grease" for the liposuction one? Be honest, now.
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Level 86
Jul 6, 2018
What version of Grease did you see?
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Level 90
Jul 14, 2018
Somebody really likes Will Ferrell, Anchorman in particular.
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Level ∞
Apr 23, 2019
I'd give Anchorman a 7/10. But it's one of those movies that is just so ridiculously quotable. Other examples: The Wizard of Oz, Casablanca, The Big Lebowski, The Princess Bride, etc...
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Level 70
Sep 22, 2019
I eventually got it, but the first movie I visualized with Steve McQueen in solitary was Papillon.
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Level 86
Sep 22, 2019
. . . or maybe not so famous.
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Level 68
Sep 22, 2019
Am I the only one who thought of Wayne's World 2 for the wedding/bus scene?
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Level 66
Sep 23, 2019
It should count IMO. :-P
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Level 66
Sep 23, 2019
Wasn't that a fax machine in office space?
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Level 67
Sep 24, 2019
I don't think so. "PC Load Letter" is an error message from the old HP printers. I remember thinking how hilarious that scene was, because I remember seeing that same error message on my old printer and getting just as angry about it.
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Level 74
Feb 28, 2021
"POW in solitary confinEment bounces a baseball against the wall over and over"
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Level 70
Dec 17, 2021
Got Big when guessing Big Lebowski
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Level 85
Jun 24, 2022
Yes, having both 'Big' and 'The Big Lebowski' seems suboptimal.
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Level 57
Sep 2, 2022
Spoiler Alert- the Fight Club clue is not quite accurate.
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Level 70
Mar 13, 2023
Missed Great Escape, Say Anything, 7 Year Itch, and The Graduate
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Level 70
Aug 18, 2024
I feel like Say Anything is one of those movies where the scene is more famous than the movie itself, same with that movie Flashdance which is on some of the other quizzes, I've never heard anyone talk about it but I've seen that chair scene parodied many times