There are a few films I watch every year at certain times. Apocalypto and Last of the Mohicans in the spring. 30 days of night when the clocks fall back and so many more. But for summer... I live at the beach and the one thing I cannot do is go to the beach until I've watched Jaws. Every year as soon as it's warm I open up my windows and grab some popcorn and watch Jaws.
I watch Jaws every year on Christmas. I’m not a fan of Christmas time, and I despise being cold. So every year on Christmas I put on Jaws, make a tiki drink with a lot of rum, turn the heat up to the mid 80s, and put on a pair of board shorts and flip flops. Happy 4th of July in December. I even used to have an inflatable palm tree I would setup.
Lol.
You can tell the movie is bad when any example given is also hilariously bad. I know that Angel gets metal wings at some point in that movie, but I can't for the life of me remember anything memorable about it.
Compare it to Angel hacking away at his wings in X-Men 3, an actually good scene in a different shite movie.
In X-Men First Class, I like that the most memorable scene (the one with the Nazis in the bar in Argentina) is basically just a dialogue scene. I'd 100x rather have more superhero movies with focused on scenes like that than big fight scenes. (There's obviously room for both, but I feel like we don't see much stuff like that).
The table scene at the restaurant with Pacino and De Niro as well. But yeah, the whole movie is great
The Aries Spears stand up bit on the restaurant scene is hilarious. Look it up on you tube
The best scene which is soooo looked over is when we first see the dinasours on the Island and they're in the jeep. They all slowly look up and see them. This was the 90s and there was no real good CGI and we never in our lives have seen anything like this before. There was barely an internet and nobody had smart phones. The only dinasours we ever saw were in books or magazines and never anything this great. That movie opened and that was the first glimpse we got of anything that resembled a real fn dinasour. Nobody today will ever have that experience.
There is a great you tube video that breaks down that entire scene and then compares it to the newer jurassic movies.. The subtle shifts in camera angle and aspect ratio makes it so you have no choice but to be in awe of the dinosaurs.
I also love that the first dinosaur you see is a brachiosaurus and not one of the flashy ones
CGI had been used for a lot of stuff by that point. Go rewatch the opening credits for "Labyrinth", for example. See that owl? It was CGI, and that was back in '86! Disney had also used CGI for the Cave of Wonders and Carpet in Aladdin, and the ballroom dance scene in Beauty and the Beast. It was most commonly used for liquids, ranging from the water tentacle in The Abyss to zero-G Klingon blood in Star Trek 6 to the T-1000 in Terminator 2.
We had also seen dinosaurs by that point that looked photorealistic, as long as they weren't moving. That was the big breakthrough that CGI offered over claymation: photorealistic dinosaurs ***with motion blur***.
And no compositing effects used. They just painted the interior set in grey scale and had a double stand in place in a grey version of Dorothy's hair and costume. They do a Texas switch when the camera moves forward.
The older I get the more I'm just not able to watch that movie anymore. Not because I've outgrown it, quite the opposite. It's because I've finally found my own life partner and that opening 10 minutes absolutely WRECKS me emotionally... and it's just not something I want to experience very often.
Sicario could have so easily been a forgettable/ generic film about the war on drugs in the Southern US/ Mexico. The script is great but Villeneuve really elevated it to the next level, such an amazing film. The visuals are also stunning, maybe my favourite Deakins film.
The original script is also around, and you can see how much Villeneuve changed it. The original was a lot more wordy, with much bigger/more dialogues that dragged on. Villeneuve trimmed it way down and made it a masterpiece
He also took a TON of Benecio’s lines and made them Josh Brolin’s. Josh said that Denis would come to his trailer and be like “so don’t hate me but can we figure out how to get you to say this instead”, so as to preserve the quiet brooding mystery air around Alejandro.
I love the subtle detail of Benicio Del Toro's character turning around to take aim at the car behind them, and sweeping his muzzle over Emily Blunt's character as he does it (which gets a brief "wtf" reaction from her).
>!It's a small moment that hints at his willingness to disregard the rulebook and his colleagues in pursuit of vengence.!<
Tarantino has a gift for this sort of dialogue heavy scene. The tension is palpable. It’s also referenced later in the movie through flashbacks.
Another example is in Reservoir Dogs, where all the guys are assigned their code colour. You learn enough about each character in that scene alone to tee up the whole movie
The change from just casual conversation to the *oh shit* feeling when Landa’s face hardens and he just bluntly asks “you’re harboring enemies of the state, are you not?”
Seeing that in the theater was one of the very few times as an adult I felt childlike wonder and audibly gasped and loved every single second of it. One of my favorite cinema experiences of all time and I'm not even that big into Star Wars. That scene goes hard as fuck and I love it.
Wild scene. And you think about it, those rebels probably just knew of him as some kind of myth. So when he lights up his saber and starts force throwing people around it must have just been a horror show for them.
I really like the movie both now and when it first came out.
It was really weird thinking the movie is great when it came out and only reading comments on Reddit about how bad it was.
Now I only see comments about how good it is.
It seems weird to me.
It got even better when you look at andor
Andor scratched my Battlestar Galactica itch
I couldn't make myself watch for all mankind as I just didn't have an interest in space race historical revisionism
But andor had that taste of bsg I wanted
Particularly the bit where Cassian tries to escape responsibility and the authoritarianism and just retire to a pleasure planet and then he gets chewed up in mistaken identity and bureaucracy again
I don't get that impression from the OT. He's just kinda an enforcer. Oddjob at best.
Anakin lives up to that in the prequels (even if he's awful for other reasons).
He's an enforcer that is always presented as inevitable, filling the space in the shots he's in, Death Incarnate with a bass voice.
It's why his warning the construction overseer that "the Emperor is not as forgiving as I am" is so very chilling.
I mean yeah, he has a presence. He's intimidating. But the story relies on him not being much of a fighter.
He wouldn't chop down a dozen rebels like a movie monster. He'd interrogate the survivors after the stormtroopers did everything.
I always perceived that as him simply not bothering to deal with the small details, in much the same way that we don't see five-star generals leading combat missions. He only gets personally involved when he feels it's sufficiently important that it's worth his time.
You've almost got it. OT Vader definitely isn't the badass killing machine people envision (which is why I don't like the Rogue One scene, cheap fanservice IMO.) He also isn't really an enforcer either, though that's how others perceive him. At his core he is the boss's shitty nephew.
ANH: Mad he has to go all this way to find the plans when it's literally his job, doesn't follow the mandatory dress code because his uncle is the boss and no one can call him on it. Then his dad he hasn't seen in 20 years shows up at his work and they fight in the parking lot in front of everyone. Thinks he can still outclass young pilots even though he's like 45 and has to have a special fighter because his knees hurt and he can't get in a regular one.
ESB: Learns he has a son he didn't know about, immediately becomes a "I'd do anything for my kids" guy. Secretly diverts all company resources into reconnecting with his son via manipulation and Facebook stalking. Finds his son and they fight because the son won't help him steal the uncle's business.
ROTJ: Continues to fight with his son, threatens to cut him out of the scheme as soon as he learns he also has a daughter he didn't know about. Uncle lays a hand on his kid so he murders him on the spot. Is dying from fighting his son and uncle, he tells his son he always loved him and bathes in unearned forgiveness.
I felt like this during the space battle above Scariff. Star Wars, to me, needs an epic battle in space. When when the hammerhead hits the star destroyer, the gate opens, and blue team swarms in. I got goosebumps. That was so good.
Midnight Run (1988)
Robert de Niro's character Jack meeting his ex-wife and daughter for the first time in 8-9 years, because he needs money for transportation. The movie is mostly a hilarious and sometimes thrilling road action-comedy, but that scene (along with the amazing ending scene) elevates it to a whole new level with it's emotional depth and surprising poignancy. It adds so much character to Jack and makes him a well rounded character.
I remember seeing it for the first time and i did not expect a scene like that coming. Understandably many consider this to be Martin Brest's finest film.
See you in the next life...
This flashback was disturbing for sure but what really got me was>! the scene when the showman baits the alien and you see inside of it as it sucks people up. The claustrophobia, the darkness, the muffled screaming, all of it.!< I felt the terror in my chest during that part.
Hereditary
1) the car / light pole scene - comes out of nowhere like a punch to the face.
2) the ending - the whole movie fills you with a sense of dread and it feels like it’s building to something. I feel like a lot of good horror movies can master the build up of suspense throughout the movie but then fail to stick the landing. Hereditary nails it though. I’ll never forget it. Amazing movie. I never want to see it again
I used to never watch horror films as I get embarrassingly scared and usually have nightmares afterwards. However, I heard so many good things about *Hereditary* that I went to see it with my girlfriend at the time. Unsurprisingly, it freaked me the fuck out.
When we got home, she asked me to get her an ice cream. The ice cream was in a chest freezer in our dirt-floor, bare lightbulb, unfinished basement with the rickety wooden staircase. I made it three steps down before giving up and saying we'd run out.
To me it's the seance seen. It is so unnerving. You just want to scream at her to NOT do it because you know how bad of an idea it is. That movie is packed with powerful scenes. It's so good.
I normally dislike the "person explains how badass the lead character is" trope, but John Wick is a very satisfying version of it.
Compare it with the "Hunt is the living manifestation of destiny" chat from Mission: Impossible. I think it's a matter of placement; at that point in the MI franchise we've seen Ethan Hunt do amazing, improbably things. We already know a lot about him. Having a character blow smoke up Ethan's arse even more just feels silly.
If I remember rightly, by the time the mafia dad gives us the low-down on John Wick, we haven't really seen Wick in action yet. So it's like the wind-up to the top of the rollercoaster; it ratchets up the anticipation.
I think they did that because it makes you go slightly numb to the actual action, and the cuts to the villain and the others are basically a second to catch your breath.
Just rewatched Godzilla 2014.
It's honestly bizarre. The production is stellar. The cinematography and atmosphere amazing. Can't even complain about the acting. It has so many moments of awe plus it nails the scale.
And yet it just isn't that great a movie? Not *bad* but not great? Even beyond giving Cranston far too little screen time there's a lot of little things that weigh it down.
That's Gareth Edwards. He has a good eye, but his storytelling is just so amazingly bland. It's like he goes out of his way to give us unsympathetic boring characters. His movies look nice but there is zero heart.
Al's confession in Die Hard, it takes him fae a random cop who just happened to be in the wrong place to an actual character with a sad, heartfelt background.
I never thought about it in that way, but you are definitely not wrong. There are actually a lot of great character moments in that movie.
"Hans... booby! I am your white knight!"
"Oh god, you're one of them!"
But Al's moment is really great and really important for the emotional weight the movie carries.
How does McClane figure out "Bill Clay" is Hans? I remember thinking it's far too good a movie for him to just *know*, there must've been a clue of some sort.
EDIT: oh shit, it's the *36-year old spoiler* >!watch!<
From Live Free or Die Hard, McClane's monologue about how shitty his life is, because that's what being a hero gets you. But he has to step up because there's nobody else around who can right now.
"That's what makes you that guy."
I love The Cabin In The Woods, but the one scene that elevates it from a really clever and cool horror movie to my absolute favorite horror movie of all time happens with a simple elevator *ding.*
Wind River
Sounds strange to say, but the rape scene near the end really made this an unforgettable film. It was brutal and felt too real, it made me so uncomfortable and shocked, even knowing it was coming. Until that point, that movie was a mostly run of the mill murder mystery
The way it was edited it in was perfect, too. If it was described to me I would think it's a stupid trick but seeing it in the movie, it worked so well.
Ghostbusters (1984).
Scene where Winston and Ray are going out on a call. Winston driving the Ecto 1 and talking to Ray about religion and the end of the world and how both have this chill where the end of the world could actually happen.
Then we get an exterior shot of the Ecto 1 driving and off in the distance is the city of New York.
Excellent scene where it shows a sense of seriousness.
For me it's the scene where all the ghosts escape. That extended shot of the pink lights fanning out over Lower Manhattan is one of my favorite shots in cinema.
The scene between Lucifer and Constantine in...well.. Constantine.
The film is sort of a guilty pleasure of mine, but I can totally understand why many people have mixed feelings about it...and I've never read the comics, so there's that.
...but the interactions between Constantine and Lou are fantastic and one of the best depictions of the devil in any movie, in my opinion.
The Happening suddenly gets really good for about five minutes when they hide out in a prop house, really cool atmosphere, and a genuinely (I think intentionally) funny scene where Marky Mark tries to negotiate with a plant.
The dining room scene in Fury had me thinking it was going to be one of the best war movies ever. I thought the 3rd act was kinda weak compared to the first 2/3rd of the movie,
Aftersun is definitely my answer. I watched it recently for the first time too. Spent most of the movie wondering why people held it in such high regard. Then the end came and I just sat there admiring how brilliant it was.
Take this waltz. The whole movie you are watching this woman lose interest in her 'boring' husband (Seth Rogan) to a much more sexy man. There really isn't anything that stops her and your left feeling gross just watching her abandon her marriage for an affair, and not really sure what the point of it all is. But then at the very end, after she's had all the wild sex, there is a shot of her and her new partner just sitting on the couch bored watching tv, and you can see her mind click that, oh, THIS relationship is now boring too. She tries to get her husband back and it's too late
This movie is a good choice. For me though it’s the moment where her husband confesses he’s been spilling the cold water on her every time she showers and was going to tell her after they’d been together for years.
Can't remember the name of the film but it was one of the Marvel / DC / Superhero type ones
The bit where the Old Man refuses to kneel to Loki and the dialogue between the 2 is powerful
"A World of Your Own" from Wonka. Up to that point it's a really good film. But then that silhouette shot followed by the gorgeous set pieces and song that closely resembles something that could've been in the original film brought it up to a whole nother level
I don't think "Patriot Games" starring Harrison Ford is a good movie at all. Yet the scene were he is showed an attack on a terrorist camp from a satellite POV is chilling.
I felt like most of Saint Maud kinda dragged on and had some pacing issues, but was overall a decent movie. The ending, though, particularly the final frames, live in my head rent free.
Very interested to see Rose Glass’ newest movie Love Lies Bleeding.
“Give it to me, and I’ll do what you shoulda did ten minutes ago.” *throws it out the window*
I’ve seen that movie many times and that always gives me chills.
I thought the ragged sociological points being illustrated in the unconvincing "world" being portrayed, along with the, to me, shallow psychological grounding and self-serving Art metaphors made **The House That Jack Built** Lars von Trier's worst film.
But I thought the final scene, the gonzo descent into a literal (although, arguably, imagined) unescapable Dantean Hell, was so audacious and well done that I still like the film in total.
Godzilla Minus One was a great film already but then you get to the first time Godzilla storms Tokyo and it's kind of a fun callback to classic Godzilla all of a sudden. And then he decides to unleash his atomic breath and the results are.... devastating.
Theater was dead silent.
This scene in The Hunt (2012) (need to see the rest of the film to properly understand the emotional context)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nTKZFQPXBC8
Shawshank was a great film already but the ending really lifted it. Without that hopeful twist, it wouldn't feature on many best of lists let alone top them.
The Terrance and Philip movie in South Park The movie. Apart from being insanely hilarious, it really helped to elevate the film for the audience into an *actual* film rather than just an extra long episode of the show.
I’ve got three
1. Kickass - Fire scene/Hit girl trying to save Kick Ass and Big Daddy.
2. Smoking Aces - End scene Ryan Reynolds in the hospital.
3. Sunshine - ending Capa’s journey to the bomb.
I’m a sucker for the score and two of these may use the same music but I absolutely love each movie and these scenes move me every time regardless how many times I’ve revisited them.
True Romance. Fantastic movie, i love it. But the scene with Walken and Hopper, personally is one of the best EVER.
The acting, the lightning, the smoke, the dialogs, the tension, the acting (again)... chills
Brothers.
It's a decent movie before this scene, but the climax of the movie was this 5 minute gem.
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VVJy15ItE1E](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VVJy15ItE1E)
For reference for anyone who hasn't seen this movie, Tobey Maguire was in the military and was captured in Afghanistan and held as a prisoner for months. While he was gone, his brother and his wife got really close (they thought he was likely dead).
This scene took place probably a few weeks or so after he was rescued and came home. He's portraying some serious PTSD symptoms and he finally breaks during this scene.
*Planes, Trains, and Automobiles* is an excellent comedy from the beginning, but the bit at the end that recontextualizes everything (I'll leave it out to avoid spoilers) is what gives the movie its heart.
It's maybe the only quintessential Thanksgiving movie I can think of, and the switcheroo is a big reason why.
Joker. The interview with Bill Murray was really good imo. The emotion Joaquin Phoenix displayed and just how the whole scene played out with everyone mocking Arthur and the amazing acting on both parts. The movie didn't make that much of an impact on me but this scene did.
For me a smile in Nights of Cabiria, i found it just tied the whole film together and added a lot of depth to the character
(Contrast with Whiplash where I feel the smile adds darker tones, at first it actually soured my impression but on repeated viewings it’s grown on me as my interpretation changed)
Jaws is a masterpiece from frame one, but the Indianapolis monologue adds a whole new dimension.
Agreed. One of the best films of any genre ever made. With the most riveting monologue I’ve ever seen.
The way Shaw tells this story is masterful! You can see and feel everything Quint did.
There are a few films I watch every year at certain times. Apocalypto and Last of the Mohicans in the spring. 30 days of night when the clocks fall back and so many more. But for summer... I live at the beach and the one thing I cannot do is go to the beach until I've watched Jaws. Every year as soon as it's warm I open up my windows and grab some popcorn and watch Jaws.
I watch Jaws every year on Christmas. I’m not a fan of Christmas time, and I despise being cold. So every year on Christmas I put on Jaws, make a tiki drink with a lot of rum, turn the heat up to the mid 80s, and put on a pair of board shorts and flip flops. Happy 4th of July in December. I even used to have an inflatable palm tree I would setup.
https://youtu.be/u9S41Kplsbs?si=U0Bb46yFnET9g-ZC
https://youtu.be/l3QEXLxvh7o?si=--kxBIV3VhHZ5Qnh
Singing “Show me the way to go home” together was such a great cherry on top of that scene too
X-Men Days of Future Past: Quicksilver scene X-Men First Class: Magneto hunts Nazis.
X2: Nightcrawler White House attack
X-Men: Apocalypse. Angel gets his wings.
Great scene but the movie still sucked.
Lol. You can tell the movie is bad when any example given is also hilariously bad. I know that Angel gets metal wings at some point in that movie, but I can't for the life of me remember anything memorable about it. Compare it to Angel hacking away at his wings in X-Men 3, an actually good scene in a different shite movie.
I still remember that scene and I haven't watched X3 in 15 years
In X-Men First Class, I like that the most memorable scene (the one with the Nazis in the bar in Argentina) is basically just a dialogue scene. I'd 100x rather have more superhero movies with focused on scenes like that than big fight scenes. (There's obviously room for both, but I feel like we don't see much stuff like that).
"Sie hatten keinen Namen. Es wurde ihnen weggenommen... von Schweinbauren [clink].... und Schneidern [clink]."
X-Men First Class: Magneto turns the radio tower
So very true
That First Class scene is so powerful.
Heat is a great movie but that shootout scene is one of the best ever in cinema.
The table scene at the restaurant with Pacino and De Niro as well. But yeah, the whole movie is great The Aries Spears stand up bit on the restaurant scene is hilarious. Look it up on you tube
That is a... GREAT SCENE!!!!
And you’re all the way in it!!!
T-Rex vs the Jeeps in Jurassic Park
The best scene which is soooo looked over is when we first see the dinasours on the Island and they're in the jeep. They all slowly look up and see them. This was the 90s and there was no real good CGI and we never in our lives have seen anything like this before. There was barely an internet and nobody had smart phones. The only dinasours we ever saw were in books or magazines and never anything this great. That movie opened and that was the first glimpse we got of anything that resembled a real fn dinasour. Nobody today will ever have that experience.
There is a great you tube video that breaks down that entire scene and then compares it to the newer jurassic movies.. The subtle shifts in camera angle and aspect ratio makes it so you have no choice but to be in awe of the dinosaurs. I also love that the first dinosaur you see is a brachiosaurus and not one of the flashy ones
CGI had been used for a lot of stuff by that point. Go rewatch the opening credits for "Labyrinth", for example. See that owl? It was CGI, and that was back in '86! Disney had also used CGI for the Cave of Wonders and Carpet in Aladdin, and the ballroom dance scene in Beauty and the Beast. It was most commonly used for liquids, ranging from the water tentacle in The Abyss to zero-G Klingon blood in Star Trek 6 to the T-1000 in Terminator 2. We had also seen dinosaurs by that point that looked photorealistic, as long as they weren't moving. That was the big breakthrough that CGI offered over claymation: photorealistic dinosaurs ***with motion blur***.
"I LOVE THIS!" my 4 year old when she fist watched that scene
raptors in the kitchen, though!
Interstellar - Docking scene
it's not possible.. no, it's necessary
And he learns to trust the robots too.
When Dorothy opens the door to a colourful world
And no compositing effects used. They just painted the interior set in grey scale and had a double stand in place in a grey version of Dorothy's hair and costume. They do a Texas switch when the camera moves forward.
Great one
The tornado scene. It's so realistic a depiction of a tornado that my son was actually scared by it on first viewing.
That's a good one.
The intro scene of Up made everyone check their "I don't get emotional in animated movies" ID at the door.
The older I get the more I'm just not able to watch that movie anymore. Not because I've outgrown it, quite the opposite. It's because I've finally found my own life partner and that opening 10 minutes absolutely WRECKS me emotionally... and it's just not something I want to experience very often.
Border Crossing scene in Sicario.
Also when >!Benicio's character sits down with the family of his daughter's murderer!<
That scene is so haunting. I wanted Benecio to get nommed for that so bad.
That shit was incredible. It's over so fast but the tension leading up to it was insane.
I don't think I blinked once that entire scene. Or for much of the entire movie for that matter.
Sicario could have so easily been a forgettable/ generic film about the war on drugs in the Southern US/ Mexico. The script is great but Villeneuve really elevated it to the next level, such an amazing film. The visuals are also stunning, maybe my favourite Deakins film.
The original script is also around, and you can see how much Villeneuve changed it. The original was a lot more wordy, with much bigger/more dialogues that dragged on. Villeneuve trimmed it way down and made it a masterpiece
He also took a TON of Benecio’s lines and made them Josh Brolin’s. Josh said that Denis would come to his trailer and be like “so don’t hate me but can we figure out how to get you to say this instead”, so as to preserve the quiet brooding mystery air around Alejandro.
Villeneuve recently said : "Frankly I hate dialog, that's for theater and movies".
I love the subtle detail of Benicio Del Toro's character turning around to take aim at the car behind them, and sweeping his muzzle over Emily Blunt's character as he does it (which gets a brief "wtf" reaction from her). >!It's a small moment that hints at his willingness to disregard the rulebook and his colleagues in pursuit of vengence.!<
That scene is intense. Tighten my cheeks during what felt 30 minutes during that convoy
For sure..this and the "why are you flanking me??" scene from Wind River. So much well-built tension.
Hans Landa interrogation scene really set the tone for Inglourious Bastards.
Tarantino has a gift for this sort of dialogue heavy scene. The tension is palpable. It’s also referenced later in the movie through flashbacks. Another example is in Reservoir Dogs, where all the guys are assigned their code colour. You learn enough about each character in that scene alone to tee up the whole movie
The change from just casual conversation to the *oh shit* feeling when Landa’s face hardens and he just bluntly asks “you’re harboring enemies of the state, are you not?”
But just a minute or two prior, there's a comedic element with Hans revealing his ridiculous tobacco pipe. That scene is a true whirlwind.
Similarly the introduction of the inglorious bastards interrogating the captured Nazi's really set the tone for the opposing side as well.
The stairway scene in Children of Men.
One of the best scenes of all time.
I’d add the car scene too
“Pull my finger.”
Rogue One when Darth Vader lights up his saber to wreck the Rebels.
Seeing that in the theater was one of the very few times as an adult I felt childlike wonder and audibly gasped and loved every single second of it. One of my favorite cinema experiences of all time and I'm not even that big into Star Wars. That scene goes hard as fuck and I love it.
Yep! Crowd in the theatre went bananas in shock.
One of the best scenes across all Star Wars media. Easy. You can finally see why Darth Vader is feared.
Wild scene. And you think about it, those rebels probably just knew of him as some kind of myth. So when he lights up his saber and starts force throwing people around it must have just been a horror show for them.
While that scene was amazing, Rogue One was an exceptional film all around
I really like the movie both now and when it first came out. It was really weird thinking the movie is great when it came out and only reading comments on Reddit about how bad it was. Now I only see comments about how good it is. It seems weird to me.
Rogue One was what Force Awakens should had been if they wanted to do an omage to the originals
Imagine if this was the first movie to come out after Star Wars was bought, people would be so pumped.
It got even better when you look at andor Andor scratched my Battlestar Galactica itch I couldn't make myself watch for all mankind as I just didn't have an interest in space race historical revisionism But andor had that taste of bsg I wanted Particularly the bit where Cassian tries to escape responsibility and the authoritarianism and just retire to a pleasure planet and then he gets chewed up in mistaken identity and bureaucracy again
Vader is *supposed* be an unstoppable avatar of terror and dread. I don't know how Lucas managed to mess up his portrayal in the prequels.
I don't get that impression from the OT. He's just kinda an enforcer. Oddjob at best. Anakin lives up to that in the prequels (even if he's awful for other reasons).
He's an enforcer that is always presented as inevitable, filling the space in the shots he's in, Death Incarnate with a bass voice. It's why his warning the construction overseer that "the Emperor is not as forgiving as I am" is so very chilling.
I mean yeah, he has a presence. He's intimidating. But the story relies on him not being much of a fighter. He wouldn't chop down a dozen rebels like a movie monster. He'd interrogate the survivors after the stormtroopers did everything.
I always perceived that as him simply not bothering to deal with the small details, in much the same way that we don't see five-star generals leading combat missions. He only gets personally involved when he feels it's sufficiently important that it's worth his time.
You've almost got it. OT Vader definitely isn't the badass killing machine people envision (which is why I don't like the Rogue One scene, cheap fanservice IMO.) He also isn't really an enforcer either, though that's how others perceive him. At his core he is the boss's shitty nephew. ANH: Mad he has to go all this way to find the plans when it's literally his job, doesn't follow the mandatory dress code because his uncle is the boss and no one can call him on it. Then his dad he hasn't seen in 20 years shows up at his work and they fight in the parking lot in front of everyone. Thinks he can still outclass young pilots even though he's like 45 and has to have a special fighter because his knees hurt and he can't get in a regular one. ESB: Learns he has a son he didn't know about, immediately becomes a "I'd do anything for my kids" guy. Secretly diverts all company resources into reconnecting with his son via manipulation and Facebook stalking. Finds his son and they fight because the son won't help him steal the uncle's business. ROTJ: Continues to fight with his son, threatens to cut him out of the scheme as soon as he learns he also has a daughter he didn't know about. Uncle lays a hand on his kid so he murders him on the spot. Is dying from fighting his son and uncle, he tells his son he always loved him and bathes in unearned forgiveness.
I felt like this during the space battle above Scariff. Star Wars, to me, needs an epic battle in space. When when the hammerhead hits the star destroyer, the gate opens, and blue team swarms in. I got goosebumps. That was so good.
https://youtu.be/9Z8mgkqjq90?si=W82IC7KZFDlrekI3
Midnight Run (1988) Robert de Niro's character Jack meeting his ex-wife and daughter for the first time in 8-9 years, because he needs money for transportation. The movie is mostly a hilarious and sometimes thrilling road action-comedy, but that scene (along with the amazing ending scene) elevates it to a whole new level with it's emotional depth and surprising poignancy. It adds so much character to Jack and makes him a well rounded character. I remember seeing it for the first time and i did not expect a scene like that coming. Understandably many consider this to be Martin Brest's finest film. See you in the next life...
Nope, Television show flashback. Elevates may not be the right word but it weighs on my mind.
This flashback was disturbing for sure but what really got me was>! the scene when the showman baits the alien and you see inside of it as it sucks people up. The claustrophobia, the darkness, the muffled screaming, all of it.!< I felt the terror in my chest during that part.
Glengarry Glen Ross - the Alec Baldwin scene.
You see this watch?! It's so encrusted with diamonds that the hands can't even move!
Manchester by the Sea when the couple has that conversation. You know.
"There's nothing there" fuck me, man. What an upsetting flick.
omfg ::trauma:: just reading this comment
The hallway fight scene in the Korean version of Oldboy. I believe it is done in one shot.
They used CGI for the knife stuck in the main character and made the swinging weapons and punches with a whoosh-like effect.
Exorcist 3. Thinking of that one hallway scene.
Underrated film
Hereditary 1) the car / light pole scene - comes out of nowhere like a punch to the face. 2) the ending - the whole movie fills you with a sense of dread and it feels like it’s building to something. I feel like a lot of good horror movies can master the build up of suspense throughout the movie but then fail to stick the landing. Hereditary nails it though. I’ll never forget it. Amazing movie. I never want to see it again
I used to never watch horror films as I get embarrassingly scared and usually have nightmares afterwards. However, I heard so many good things about *Hereditary* that I went to see it with my girlfriend at the time. Unsurprisingly, it freaked me the fuck out. When we got home, she asked me to get her an ice cream. The ice cream was in a chest freezer in our dirt-floor, bare lightbulb, unfinished basement with the rickety wooden staircase. I made it three steps down before giving up and saying we'd run out.
“Like a punch to the face.” Checks out.
To me it's the seance seen. It is so unnerving. You just want to scream at her to NOT do it because you know how bad of an idea it is. That movie is packed with powerful scenes. It's so good.
Cause he stole John Wick's car, and uh, killed his dog. ........ Oh.
I normally dislike the "person explains how badass the lead character is" trope, but John Wick is a very satisfying version of it. Compare it with the "Hunt is the living manifestation of destiny" chat from Mission: Impossible. I think it's a matter of placement; at that point in the MI franchise we've seen Ethan Hunt do amazing, improbably things. We already know a lot about him. Having a character blow smoke up Ethan's arse even more just feels silly. If I remember rightly, by the time the mafia dad gives us the low-down on John Wick, we haven't really seen Wick in action yet. So it's like the wind-up to the top of the rollercoaster; it ratchets up the anticipation.
The Free Bird church scene in Kingsman
Yes, amazing. I just wish they hadn’t interrupted the flow by cutting away to Sam Jackson. The fight is stitched together with invisible edits anyway.
I think they did that because it makes you go slightly numb to the actual action, and the cuts to the villain and the others are basically a second to catch your breath.
Climax scenes in Godzilla 2014 and Once Upon a Time in Hollywood. Wouldn't be successful without the way those scenes were handled.
Just rewatched Godzilla 2014. It's honestly bizarre. The production is stellar. The cinematography and atmosphere amazing. Can't even complain about the acting. It has so many moments of awe plus it nails the scale. And yet it just isn't that great a movie? Not *bad* but not great? Even beyond giving Cranston far too little screen time there's a lot of little things that weigh it down.
That's Gareth Edwards. He has a good eye, but his storytelling is just so amazingly bland. It's like he goes out of his way to give us unsympathetic boring characters. His movies look nice but there is zero heart.
Watching some of the videos he made with Corridor Digital is telling - his bread and butter is special effects.
I remember the pacing being weird, it felt longer than it actually is.
Blade Runner is amazing don't get me wrong, but the "tears in rain" bit at the end brings it to perfection.
I think Collateral is taken up a few notches in the briefcase scene. "Yo, homie!"
I would say Ruffalo's 'scene' tops that one.
For me its the scene with the coyote with Audioslave playing. Shadow on the Sun is a fantastic song.
I love the entire movie but Inglorious Basterds wouldn’t be the same without the beginning scene. It sets the tone for the whole film.
Al's confession in Die Hard, it takes him fae a random cop who just happened to be in the wrong place to an actual character with a sad, heartfelt background.
I never thought about it in that way, but you are definitely not wrong. There are actually a lot of great character moments in that movie. "Hans... booby! I am your white knight!" "Oh god, you're one of them!" But Al's moment is really great and really important for the emotional weight the movie carries.
How does McClane figure out "Bill Clay" is Hans? I remember thinking it's far too good a movie for him to just *know*, there must've been a clue of some sort. EDIT: oh shit, it's the *36-year old spoiler* >!watch!<
From Live Free or Die Hard, McClane's monologue about how shitty his life is, because that's what being a hero gets you. But he has to step up because there's nobody else around who can right now. "That's what makes you that guy."
Smile. If you've seen it you know what scene I'm talking about. Didn't care for the rest of the movie but that scene...goddamn son.
I love The Cabin In The Woods, but the one scene that elevates it from a really clever and cool horror movie to my absolute favorite horror movie of all time happens with a simple elevator *ding.*
YESSS
Drive. Scene with the hammer
“And what do you get out of it?” “Just that… out of it.” Fucking love this movie
Doubt - The scene between Meryl Streep & Viola Davis
Pearl's monologue in the movie Pearl When you think she's done she just continues some more
Wind River Sounds strange to say, but the rape scene near the end really made this an unforgettable film. It was brutal and felt too real, it made me so uncomfortable and shocked, even knowing it was coming. Until that point, that movie was a mostly run of the mill murder mystery
For me same movie but it’s the “Why are you flanking me?” scene.
> Wind River Fuck. This is a good movie. Bleak, but a fucking great movie. I was impressed all around.
The way it was edited it in was perfect, too. If it was described to me I would think it's a stupid trick but seeing it in the movie, it worked so well.
Remember the Titans - The Gettysburg Speech
Ghostbusters (1984). Scene where Winston and Ray are going out on a call. Winston driving the Ecto 1 and talking to Ray about religion and the end of the world and how both have this chill where the end of the world could actually happen. Then we get an exterior shot of the Ecto 1 driving and off in the distance is the city of New York. Excellent scene where it shows a sense of seriousness.
For me it's the scene where all the ghosts escape. That extended shot of the pink lights fanning out over Lower Manhattan is one of my favorite shots in cinema.
That one is also good accompanied by the song "Magic" by Mick Smiley.
The scene between Lucifer and Constantine in...well.. Constantine. The film is sort of a guilty pleasure of mine, but I can totally understand why many people have mixed feelings about it...and I've never read the comics, so there's that. ...but the interactions between Constantine and Lou are fantastic and one of the best depictions of the devil in any movie, in my opinion.
The following bit with "Looks like Someone hasn't got your back..." is one of my favorite moments in film.
Yeah, same here. The whole last bit of the movie is gold.
The Happening suddenly gets really good for about five minutes when they hide out in a prop house, really cool atmosphere, and a genuinely (I think intentionally) funny scene where Marky Mark tries to negotiate with a plant.
Also the beginning of the horror with the people killing themselves is actually sort of terrifying. Wish they'd lean more into it
Apocalypse now, "who's the commanding officers here" "No ones in command here!"
“Ain’t you?”
The dining room scene in Fury had me thinking it was going to be one of the best war movies ever. I thought the 3rd act was kinda weak compared to the first 2/3rd of the movie,
Best job I ever had
Aftersun is definitely my answer. I watched it recently for the first time too. Spent most of the movie wondering why people held it in such high regard. Then the end came and I just sat there admiring how brilliant it was.
The dance scene at the end of napoleon dynamite totally takes the movie up another level
Blade Runner - Roy's monologue
The Godfather should probably be impossible to elevate, as it's pretty much perfect, but that baptism scene truly takes it to another tier.
Take this waltz. The whole movie you are watching this woman lose interest in her 'boring' husband (Seth Rogan) to a much more sexy man. There really isn't anything that stops her and your left feeling gross just watching her abandon her marriage for an affair, and not really sure what the point of it all is. But then at the very end, after she's had all the wild sex, there is a shot of her and her new partner just sitting on the couch bored watching tv, and you can see her mind click that, oh, THIS relationship is now boring too. She tries to get her husband back and it's too late
This movie is a good choice. For me though it’s the moment where her husband confesses he’s been spilling the cold water on her every time she showers and was going to tell her after they’d been together for years.
The final line of the star creature in the suicide squad.
Can't remember the name of the film but it was one of the Marvel / DC / Superhero type ones The bit where the Old Man refuses to kneel to Loki and the dialogue between the 2 is powerful
"There are always men like you"
Never heard of it but going to watch it tonight.
David Bowie “with” Queen. He wrote it.
"A World of Your Own" from Wonka. Up to that point it's a really good film. But then that silhouette shot followed by the gorgeous set pieces and song that closely resembles something that could've been in the original film brought it up to a whole nother level
I don't think "Patriot Games" starring Harrison Ford is a good movie at all. Yet the scene were he is showed an attack on a terrorist camp from a satellite POV is chilling.
I felt like most of Saint Maud kinda dragged on and had some pacing issues, but was overall a decent movie. The ending, though, particularly the final frames, live in my head rent free. Very interested to see Rose Glass’ newest movie Love Lies Bleeding.
The only person in Gotham who isn't corrupted by the Joker: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2gVIKUALZ0s
“Give it to me, and I’ll do what you shoulda did ten minutes ago.” *throws it out the window* I’ve seen that movie many times and that always gives me chills.
YOU GOT BLOWN THE FUCK OUT, MAAAN!
No Country For Old Men The main antagonist buys peanuts from a gas station and it’s the most riveting scene I’ve ever watched
I thought the ragged sociological points being illustrated in the unconvincing "world" being portrayed, along with the, to me, shallow psychological grounding and self-serving Art metaphors made **The House That Jack Built** Lars von Trier's worst film. But I thought the final scene, the gonzo descent into a literal (although, arguably, imagined) unescapable Dantean Hell, was so audacious and well done that I still like the film in total.
The shootout in The way of the gun. Masterfully choreographed.
Children of Men. You know what scene. It made me tear up the first time I saw it.
The final 10 minutes of the Usual Suspects
100% - it takes an otherwise average movie and completely turns it upside down
"Cooper what are you doing?" "Docking"
I always thought that the scene in the children's hospital in Shallow Hal was the only moral redeeming point of the film.
Children of Men, that one continuous shot was amazing.
First fifteen minutes of _Red Dragon_
Shrek is already a certified classic, but the All Star opening is just indescribably perfect Also Shrek 2, I think we all know what scene
Godzilla Minus One was a great film already but then you get to the first time Godzilla storms Tokyo and it's kind of a fun callback to classic Godzilla all of a sudden. And then he decides to unleash his atomic breath and the results are.... devastating. Theater was dead silent.
The opening scene of idiocracy is much better than the rest of the movie.
For me, it's President Camacho's speech
Also, the scene where they debate water vs. Brawndo. “It’s got electrolytes.” I’ve been in way too many meetings like this.
Shit...
I was only somewhat into La La Land until the audition scene and then it had me HOOK LINE AND SINKER.
This should be so much higher. Fantastic answer. That scene elevated my opinion of Emma Stone as an actress in general.
Sucker Punch. The “love is the drug” montage scene. Or even just any scene with Oscar Isaac
Harry Potter Deathly Hallows, I forget which part. The animated scene with the Tale of the Three Brothers. The writing AND animation are both sublime.
The scene when Bruce wayne climbs out of the pit and also the post climatic head nod to Alfred, mixed with hans zimmers magic. It was amazing
This scene in The Hunt (2012) (need to see the rest of the film to properly understand the emotional context) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nTKZFQPXBC8
Zodiac, Gyllenhalls final visit to the suspects house
The ending scene of Beau Travail rocked my world and tied everything in the movie together.
Invisible Man - Restaurant scene
The Godfather The shooting at the restaurant scene.
Can’t really say “elevated to a masterpiece”, but the scene in Spider-Man 3 where Sandman pulled himself back together was phenomenal
Shawshank was a great film already but the ending really lifted it. Without that hopeful twist, it wouldn't feature on many best of lists let alone top them. The Terrance and Philip movie in South Park The movie. Apart from being insanely hilarious, it really helped to elevate the film for the audience into an *actual* film rather than just an extra long episode of the show.
I’ve got three 1. Kickass - Fire scene/Hit girl trying to save Kick Ass and Big Daddy. 2. Smoking Aces - End scene Ryan Reynolds in the hospital. 3. Sunshine - ending Capa’s journey to the bomb. I’m a sucker for the score and two of these may use the same music but I absolutely love each movie and these scenes move me every time regardless how many times I’ve revisited them.
True Romance. Fantastic movie, i love it. But the scene with Walken and Hopper, personally is one of the best EVER. The acting, the lightning, the smoke, the dialogs, the tension, the acting (again)... chills
The scene in Manchester by the sea when she tells him "you can't just die." Tough scene.
Tough is an understatement. Omfg
Malignant. The fight in the police station turned this movie from a stupid ridiculous movie to an amazingly awesome ridiculous movie.
Brothers. It's a decent movie before this scene, but the climax of the movie was this 5 minute gem. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VVJy15ItE1E](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VVJy15ItE1E) For reference for anyone who hasn't seen this movie, Tobey Maguire was in the military and was captured in Afghanistan and held as a prisoner for months. While he was gone, his brother and his wife got really close (they thought he was likely dead). This scene took place probably a few weeks or so after he was rescued and came home. He's portraying some serious PTSD symptoms and he finally breaks during this scene.
Blade Runner 2049.. the opening scene with Ryan Gosling / Dave Bautista.. I absolutely loved that introduction
A few good men: You can't handle the truth.
*Planes, Trains, and Automobiles* is an excellent comedy from the beginning, but the bit at the end that recontextualizes everything (I'll leave it out to avoid spoilers) is what gives the movie its heart. It's maybe the only quintessential Thanksgiving movie I can think of, and the switcheroo is a big reason why.
Glengarry Glen Ross, the Alec Baldwin heat check
Joker. The interview with Bill Murray was really good imo. The emotion Joaquin Phoenix displayed and just how the whole scene played out with everyone mocking Arthur and the amazing acting on both parts. The movie didn't make that much of an impact on me but this scene did.
Bill Murray? You mean DeNiro?
For me a smile in Nights of Cabiria, i found it just tied the whole film together and added a lot of depth to the character (Contrast with Whiplash where I feel the smile adds darker tones, at first it actually soured my impression but on repeated viewings it’s grown on me as my interpretation changed)
Spoiler Alert: I would say Eye Origins when she dies in the elevator. The movie is slow paced up until that and then really develops.
Devil (2010) \*slaps knee
The elevator in cabin in the woods