Best Arctic Scene in a Movie

[Ash]

Not many fight or struggle scenes in films take place in a wintery, arctic locale.
    One of the best in my opinion is in "The Empire Strikes Back" with the snowspeeders and the AT-AT walkers.
Do any of you know of any other scenes in other movies where some serious action takes place in a winter setting?
(other than "The Thing")

[AndyC]

There's the big showdown at the end of Orca, between Richard Harris and a killer whale on a sheet of ice. Pretty funny stuff.

[Ash]

Oh yeah!  I remember that scene from Orca!  
Didn't Richard Harris's character die in that film while the female co-star looks on?  
It's been several years since I've seen it.

[frannie]

GI Joe: the movie?

[Andrew]

I guess we are talking about any sort of movie with lots of snow and ice.

"The Thing" - when the helicopter is chasing the "dog" across the snow.  Just good stuff that movie.  In the light you get the feeling of broad expanses of endless snow.  Darkness brings a different feeling though.  Something almost claustrophobic with the cold and black night crowding in.  I have to mention it because, along these lines, it is the embodiment of "definitive."

Along the lines of worst, I have to vote for "Battle Queen 2020."  People on snowmobiles - breasts - people on snowmobiles - breasts - people on snowmobiles...

[Fearless Freep]

Along the lines of worst, I have to vote for "Battle Queen 2020"

LOL...I'd forgotten that one

[wheresthecarrot]

I love "The Thing."  That movie takes the cake for wintery goodness......and plenty of movie badness.....

[wheresthecarrot]

Cannibla the Musical also comes to mind.....that's a good one!

[Mofo Rising]

The Battle of Hoth is good.

The white snow palette for the movie FARGO was good.  The opening shot itself was amazing.

ATANARJUAT: THE FAST RUNNER made pretty good use of the arctic.  How can you forget a naked eskimo running across broken ice?  Also see the movie HIMALAYA.

[wheresthecarrot]

Jack Frost (the cool "scary one" with Shannon Elizabeth), uuum.....and "Silent Night, Deadly Night (PUNISH!!!!!!)"

[Fearless Freep]

Jackie Chan chasing and being chased across frozen lands wearing a silly seal cap in "First Strike"

[Gerry]

RAVENOUS has some good wintry action scenes.

[John]

I can't believe nobody has mentioned The Shining! Unlike most movies where the snow scenes looked fake, the final chase in the hedge maze really looked like it was taking place in sub-zero weather.

[Will]

Well, this one is ANTarctic, but hopefully it counts, because it's just.so.great.

Every scene in BOA. Wow. I honestly think this is the greatest American film crafted in the history of the medium. Dean Cain was BORN for this role. BORN for it. Like Malcolm McDowell was born for Alex in A Clockwork Orange.

The writer must have been thinking Dean Cain all the way while preparing the script. I can imagine the meeting with producers now: "If we don't have Dean Cain, we don't have a movie. No deal without Dean." Thank god the producers listened.

This is the undeniable masterpiece, not only of the giant snake genre, but of all film genres as a whole. This will be the standard, supplanting Citizen Kane, by which all other films made in the future shall be judged.

Wonderful. And with the Boa's knowledge of parachuting, we're assured a sequel! Even better! The Godfather II of giant snake movies!

[Neville]

For badness, I'd say the scene of "The saint" where Val Kilmer goes underwater to avoid being noticed and ends up lying with a seminaked Elizabeth Shue so he can warm up.