Another exciting rating topic arising from my boredom. This time, I wonder which movie in the series has the best/most exciting/whatever climax. I'll just list my thoughts on all of them in order of preference.
Movie 6: Though the movie as a whole was flawed, the struggle above the train was quite exciting and (quite important for a climax) very well scored. The appearance of Holmes, though expected is a touching father-son moment. The only issue is the presence of 'Hideki' who is obviously something more than he seems to be by that point.
Movie 9: My favorite character gets his place in the sun and there's nothing particularly unrealistic. Some memorable lines. Probably segment of DC I've rewatched the most.
Movie 2: Gut-wrenching to say the least. This is also a well executed climax in the literary sense (as opposed to simply the "moment of greatest intensity sense), which is nice. It's also fairly short (I'm only counting the time at the top of Aquacrystal), which helps the intensity/time metric.
Movie 3: A cheap trick, but an excellent cheap trick at that. Shinichi's bravery/arrogance/confidence really comes out in this one: if the culprit misses a 1-2 inch targets by half an inch or so it's game over.
Movie 1: Though this was one of the weaker DC movies (understandably) the climax was quite well done, in terms of both emotion and adrenaline, though especially the former. The red thread of love!
Movie 5: I'll consider the climax here to be Haibara's rescue from her own ill designs. Flying car shenanigans are nice, but not very exciting given that Conan had already explained what would happened. The "if you leave one grain of rice behind..." line is one of those oddly touching remarks that I couldn't help but like.
Movie 13: The climax answers the "does the main character jump off an 800 foot tower question" pretty well. Other than that, it's drawn out and removed, but such is to be expected from a movie where Conan isn't allowed to meet the actual villains.
Movie 4: A great scene, but one that felt like it was missing something. The pacing was somewhat of an issue as the Tropical Land Fun Trip that preceded dragged on forever, making the ending a bit less exciting.
Movie 8: This should probably go in the "other" category. Given the comedic nature of the movie, it's hard to compare to the others.
Movie 7: Sword fights are cool, though there was nothing too exciting or surprising.
Movie 12: The suspense/action part is really unconvincing, but the human interaction aspect is nice. Definitely could have used better scoring (irony) or "camera" work.
Movie 10: I consider the climax of this to be the password scene, not the silly bouncing bomb bit at the end. Not that there's much difference, because they are both wholly uninteresting and predictable.
Movie 11: Ugh. Doesn't make much sense, not that exciting, doesn't do anything interesting with the characters. I think the writers seriously overestimated the cool factor of having the ship rise out of the island, which led them to not bother making the other parts of the climax interesting.
