Was talkin' about FFVII's brilliant direction in the other thread and nowhere is that better captured than in this whole sequence.

The tense music as the cannon is prepared...

The way said music fades out as it's fired....

The silence save for the sound of the waves as everyone waits to see what happens....

THEN BAM! The alarm is back on and Weapon is closing in! Cue "Weapon Raid" one of the best tracks in FFVII's marvelous soundtrack.

I could watch it swimming towards Junon, ignoring the humans' pitiful defenses, all day.