| 1) ROTJ: Battle of Endor. Still my absolute favorite for pacing, camera movement, excitement, and sheer artistry and grace. Plus, the Falcon going into the Death Star superstructure is probably my favorite VFX sequence of all time.
@Alain: according to "Industrial Light and Magic - Into the Digital Realm" Who Framed Roger Rabbit actually stole the crown from ROTJ for complex optical compositing. IIRC, ILM had to buy a whole new optical compositing system because they wore the old one out with the intensity of what they were doing. Now, that may be more a matter of the number of shots with compositing rather than the number of composited elements.
2) STII:TWOK - both battles are brilliant, tense, wonderfully shot and edited, and wonderfully acted. Best sub battle since Das Boot.
3) ROTS: Battle of Corruscant - I want to love it more, but Lucas kind of hurried us through the fight and focused on a very small portion of the whole battle. Still, the first set of shots where the two Jedi Fighters dive to the surface of the Venator-class Cruiser and then plunge into the fight are amazing stuff.
4) BSG - End fight for miniseries, Resurrection Ship, and Escape from New Caprica (other than Lee being a dumbass in the way he deployed the Pegasus)
5) Serenity - Battle of whatever-planet-that-was-at-the-end. I'm not super thrilled with the designs of the ships themselves, but the sequence was very well shot (rendered) and edited nonetheless.
6) Starship Troopers - death of the Roger Young |