[SPOILERS] Top 10 Best Scenes from Nolan's Films

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What's the top 10 best scenes from Nolan's films?
I'll think about it for a little while (and look at what you guys have to say) and then I'll post mine.
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This is a good topic and since no one else has chimed in yet I'll try my best with a list.

Inception - No gravity/corridor rotating hotel
Inception - Yusuf's rainy downtown dream
Inception - Eames wiping out an entire army in snow mountain fortress
TDK - armored truck/Batman's batpod chase/semi flips over
TDK - Joker's bank heist
Memento - Leonard burns photo and drives off to tattoo parlor
The Prestige - Borden'ss reveal to Angier
The Prestige - the light bulbs
TDKR - first fight Batman/Bane
Batman Begins - tumbler rooftop/highway chase

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Memento- Ending "We all need mirrors..."
Batman Begins- Training with Ra's
The Prestige- Borden's reveal
The Dark Knight- Bank Robbery
The Dark Knight- Pencil Trick
The Dark Knight- Two Face/Gordon/Batman scene "We thought we could be decent men..."
Inception- Hallway Scene
Inception- Ending
The Dark Knight Rises- Batman vs. Bane round 1
The Dark Knight Rises- Football montage

I unfortunately had to leave off Following and Insomnia, and I shortchanged Memento and The Prestige, which are my two fav. Nolan films. I felt these specific scenes had the most power to them, and I remember them most from the theaters.

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1. Memento - Last 15 Minutes
2. Inception - Rotating/Zero Gravity Hallway
3. The Dark Knight - Prewitt Building
4. The Prestige - The Twist
5. Inception - Folding Paris
6. Inception - Last Frame
7. The Dark Knight - Last 10 Minutes
8. Inception - Limbo Scenes with Mal
9. The Prestige - "Man's Reach exceeds his Imagination"
10. The Dark Knight - Lower Wacker Scene/Chase Scene

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1. The Prestige: Last 10 - 15 minutes of the movie.
2. The Dark Knight Rises - Batman vs Bane in the sewers.
3. Memento: The ending.
4. Inception: Rotating hallway fight scene.
5. The Dark Knight: The build-up to the party scene.
6. The Dark Knight: Joker pencil scene.
7. Batman Begins: When Bruce Wayne discovers the cave.
8. The Dark Knight Rises: When Alfred gives his emotional speech to Bruce.
9. The Dark Knight Rises: Batman chase scene with the police.
10. Memento: "Nope... he's chasing me."

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Subject to change:
1. Inception - Rotating Gravity hallway
2. TDK - Interrogation scene
3. BB & TDKR - the discovering of the batcave
4. BB - Batman jumping down through all the bats.
5. TDKR - Batman vs Bane 1
6. The Prestige - Ending
7. Inception - Ending
8. TDK - Ending ("Lie. Like I lied.")
9. Insomnia - Finch and Dormer's discussion of death. ("Life's so important, so how can it be so fragile.")
10. BB - Training
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Off the top of my head...uhmmmmm
1.Inception Vault Scene: my favorite scene in any movie.
2.Bale making the jump in TDKR
3.TDK interrogation scene: Heath ledger best acting I have ever seen.
4.TDKR cafe scene
5.Prestige ending
6.Opening scene and ending of TDK
7.Joker fundraiser scene
8.Big action scene in TDK: Beautifully crafted.
9.Mal suicide scene
10.waking up on plane in Inception

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***In no particular order***

TDKR:
- Prologue
- Bane vs Batman first fight

TDK:
- Pencil trick
- Batman cape gliding in Hong Kong

Inception:
- Rotating hallway fight

BB:
- Bruce entering Ra's Temple

The Prestige:
- Angier and Tesla first meeting

Memento:
- Bruised Natalie and Leonard interaction in the restaurant
- Leonard kicking the wrong Motel door

Following:
- Bill and Cobb breaking into the first flat together

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In no particular order.

Inception - The rotating hallway/van
Inception - Ariadne riding the kicks from Limbo to the van
TDK - The Tokyo sticky bombs, base-jump and gliding into the building
TDK - The scene with nurse-Joker and newly-scarred Two-Face
TDKR - Bruce's successful climb out of the pit
BB - Bruce closing his eyes amongst the swirling bats
Prestige - Borden humiliating Angier and sabotaging his act "He does try so very hard!"
Prestige - Of course the big reveal at the end, which was one of my great movie-going experiences
Memento - The scene where Leonard is searching for a pen and Natalie comes in and pretends she was beaten by Dodd
Memento - Chasing Dodd--"Okay, what am I doing? I'm chasing this guy. Nooo, he's chasing me."

This was difficult.

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