Perfect end-it-all scenes

[JarodRussell]

Recently watched The Abyss again. And the CPR scene is just so amazingly well done (not in a realistic way, but in a dramatic one). So intense. In my opinion, every other attempt at doing another “reanimated in the last second“ scene in books or film is just a waste of time, because the drama just can't be topped.

Also: Smaug of the 2nd Hobbit film. I thought it was the ultimate dragon. The culmination of dragon designs for film. Future films trying to do yet another dragon... just forget it, why bother?

In general, LotR and the Hobbit films should never be remade. The kind of dedication and effort put into them just cannot be surpassed. Surely, some mishaps here and there could be corrected, but that's just it.

What else? Nolan's Batman approach was, to me, the perfect Batman version. It hit all the marks I always wanted to see hit. I am not interested in other interpretations any more.


What are your favorite scenes, elements, characters, etc... of films and shows where you think any further attempt is just a waste of time because it will be inferior?

 

[sojourner]

Damn me for saying it, but I'd like to see a version of The Hobbit that adheres more to the book.

 

[Harvey]

Hard to say. Although, when I read your thread title, the first thing that came to mind was Beneath the Planet of the Apes. But, I don't think that's quite what you had in mind!

 

[Flying Spaghetti Monster]

I liked Smaug a lot, but there were a couple of shots, particularly when he turns his head completely around, that weren't so hot. Coupled with the fact that the inside of the lonely mountain was not a real place, and some of the Smaug stuff just felt "off" to me. I watched Dragonheart recently, and you know what? Draco holds up very well, and he exists in real environments.

The Abyss is a spectuacular movie, especially because of the scene you mentioned. I'm still waiting for an anamorphic Blue Ray.

I love the Skorponok scene from Transformers. It's more intense (for a comic book blockbuster) than most ending battles. A big part is the "the Air Force is going to kick ass" score when they start talking Killbox 1 Alpha

The Trench Run in a New Hope is perfect.

 

[MacLeod]

Recently watched The Abyss again. And the CPR scene is just so amazingly well done (not in a realistic way, but in a dramatic one). So intense. In my opinion, every other attempt at doing another “reanimated in the last second“ scene in books or film is just a waste of time, because the drama just can't be topped.

Also: Smaug of the 2nd Hobbit film. I thought it was the ultimate dragon. The culmination of dragon designs for film. Future films trying to do yet another dragon... just forget it, why bother?

In general, LotR and the Hobbit films should never be remade. The kind of dedication and effort put into them just cannot be surpassed. Surely, some mishaps here and there could be corrected, but that's just it.

What else? Nolan's Batman approach was, to me, the perfect Batman version. It hit all the marks I always wanted to see hit. I am not interested in other interpretations any more.


What are your favorite scenes, elements, characters, etc... of films and shows where you think any further attempt is just a waste of time because it will be inferior?

TV/Film comapnies will always remake/reimagine call it what you want something that was/is popular. Quite often the first version we see of something we consider the definitive version or at least the version to which we compare all others.

So lets take Batman for example there was the 89 film which was quite good, but yes the Nolan films are better, but that doesn't mean someone won't come along later and do something better than the Nolan films once again. To give an opposite example, there have been numerous Musketeer films over the years but many will say the 1973 version is the best. But once again perhaps I'm biased because the first Batman film I saw was the 89 film (aside from the TV show obviously) and the 73 The Three Musketeers film. Someone who say a different version first might hold a differing opinion.

 

[Gary Mitchell]

Hard to say. Although, when I read your thread title, the first thing that came to mind was Beneath the Planet of the Apes. But, I don't think that's quite what you had in mind!

I was thinking the same thing when I saw the thread title.