Speaking of SR, I'd put the airplane rescue scene in the list of scenes that transcend a film. That part was great.
Scenes that transcend the movie.
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Speaking of SR, I'd put the airplane rescue scene in the list of scenes that transcend a film. That part was great.
For Your Eyes Only is my favorite Bond film, period! Because it's so damn down to earth, especially for Moore. It incorporates everything that makes Bond great while still allowing Moore to have some comedic fun with the role.
Superman III - the fight between Superman and Clark Kent.
Big Fish
The end of the movie where fairy tale and real life mix together and you can't help but smile because it sums up the movie so well
Source Code
The revelation midway through the movie.. i was a bit shocked at the idea but it worked
A New Hope
Luke steps outside the house after an argument with his uncle and aunt.. the music rises and he looks into the distance and you can feel his frustration and longing to leave this dead end world and to make a mark on the universe.. brilliant scene
The end of the movie where fairy tale and real life mix together and you can't help but smile because it sums up the movie so well
Source Code
The revelation midway through the movie.. i was a bit shocked at the idea but it worked
A New Hope
Luke steps outside the house after an argument with his uncle and aunt.. the music rises and he looks into the distance and you can feel his frustration and longing to leave this dead end world and to make a mark on the universe.. brilliant scene
When Worlds Collide is a fairly routine 50s SF film, but the scene where the wheelchair-bound professor gives up his seat on the rocket and watches its subsequent escape is just great. In a similarly moving vein, A Night to Remember is pretty turgid in places, but the scene with the band opting to play on is splendidly underplayed.
Con Air is a fun action flick. But the scene with Steve Buscemi and the little girl with the doll in the half-abandoned desert town is so damn creepy and feels totally different in tone to the rest of the movie.
Music & Lyrics is a by-the-number romantic comedy, but the scenes where Grant and Barrymore write their song together is absolutely charming.
Severance is a decent horror comedy. The scene with the American CEO, the rocket launcher and Stars & Stripes playing in the background is priceless.
And finally, not quite the same, but St Elmo's Fire has to take the prize for biggest mismatch between awesomeness of theme tune and awfulness of movie.
Agreed.
I also felt the same with the Daily Planet Helicopter falling from the rooftop rescue by Superman in the 1978 movie SUPERMAN:THE MOVIE.
So you didn't like any of these movies and these were the only scenes in the films that worked?
Hey in my post I liked the films I listed. I just pointed out scenes that stood out beyond the film
Doesn't the OP say Bill and Ted is a great movie when he mentions Joan of Arc?
With that in mind I'm going to say the opening set piece of Blade.
I've watched the car chase in Bullitt dozens of times but the whole film only once or twice.
The opening titles montage of Watchmen is so fantastic that nothing else in the film was able to live up to it... And I say that as somebody who loves the movie as a whole.
I don't think you have to "hate" the movie. However, "transcend" means, in essence, to be significantly better than the rest of film or rising above the negative aspects of same.
Under that meaning, it's not simply the best part of something. There has to be a meaningful difference between the scene in question and the rest of the film.
Under that meaning, it's not simply the best part of something. There has to be a meaningful difference between the scene in question and the rest of the film.
This line from ST V:
"I don't want my pain taken away. I NEED my pain!"
"I don't want my pain taken away. I NEED my pain!"
Knightriders is a fun movie, but one moment always catches my breath:
The Black Bird has challenged King Billy, and they fight brutally until Billy knocks the Black Bird off his bike. Bleeding from the wound Morgan gave him earlier, Billy parks his bike and, exhausted and hurt, staggers over to the prostrate Black Bird. His men run to help him but he waves them off. He touches his sword to the Bird's chest to demand surrender, and we see, in close up, a runnel of Billy's blood pour down the blade and pool on the Bird's chest armor. The crowd is transfixed. The world is silent. The Bird raises his hands in surrender. And King Billy finally collapses. As he drops his sword, both the Black Bird and one of Billy's knights catch it with equal respect. They lock eyes for a second, both knowing the gravity of what's happened, both of them holding it loosely, neither trying to take it away, both concerned about the King.
It's a good movie to begin with, but that moment is just brilliant, perfect film making.
The Black Bird has challenged King Billy, and they fight brutally until Billy knocks the Black Bird off his bike. Bleeding from the wound Morgan gave him earlier, Billy parks his bike and, exhausted and hurt, staggers over to the prostrate Black Bird. His men run to help him but he waves them off. He touches his sword to the Bird's chest to demand surrender, and we see, in close up, a runnel of Billy's blood pour down the blade and pool on the Bird's chest armor. The crowd is transfixed. The world is silent. The Bird raises his hands in surrender. And King Billy finally collapses. As he drops his sword, both the Black Bird and one of Billy's knights catch it with equal respect. They lock eyes for a second, both knowing the gravity of what's happened, both of them holding it loosely, neither trying to take it away, both concerned about the King.
It's a good movie to begin with, but that moment is just brilliant, perfect film making.
Oh gosh...
All I remember about that movie is a couple of frames that seemed...a bit beyond the rest of the film, let's just say...and the moment when, while seeing it for the first time with a bunch of my friends, one of them muttered the immortal words-
"Watch him get hit by a truck!"
It may have just been bad timing for me or something, but "good" isn't a word I'd use for that film. But hey, to each their own. (smile)
All I remember about that movie is a couple of frames that seemed...a bit beyond the rest of the film, let's just say...and the moment when, while seeing it for the first time with a bunch of my friends, one of them muttered the immortal words-
"Watch him get hit by a truck!"
It may have just been bad timing for me or something, but "good" isn't a word I'd use for that film. But hey, to each their own. (smile)
Agreed. I like the movie overall, but the rest of it doesn't quite live up to that marvelous opening.
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