On opening night, the audience at my local theater clapped after Aragorn cut Lurtz's head off. I've seen people clap AFTER a movie but NEVER during a scene like that. You could really just feel the emotion spilling out of the screen and the speakers and twisting the crap out of you.Matrixman wrote:Fellowship of the Ring -- Boromir's last stand and Aragorn's heroics. A moving sequence with muted sound and sorrowful music, punctuated by the thud of the Urukhai's arrows striking Boromir. Then Aragorn stops the Urukhai from finishing off Boromir, they fight, and Aragorn beheads the creature. That felt very good.
I'll never forget that night, to be sure; perhaps the most memorable moment of 2001 for me (I was/am an LOTR geek).