Scenes that transcend the movie.
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That's the scene that jumps out at me, too - the authenticity and power of that scene was a huge break from the embarrassing nonsense it was embedded in, a brief glimpse of the PT as it should have been.
The revelation of the mutated Guild navigator and the Water of Life transformation sequence in David Lynch's version of Dune.
The dock sequence in Batman Begins (where he takes out all of Falcone's men before getting Falcone himself). I absolutely love how it's shot like a horror film, with Batman as the monster.
In Iron Man 2 I thought there was a lovely scene where, since Tony Stark has outed himself as Iron Man and merchandised the smeg out of the idea, a young boy in a Iron Man helmet stands up to a drone and thinks he actually has the power within him to stop the evil machine in front of him about to kill him.
This is actually quite shocking even before Iron Man pops up behind him, shoots down the drone in the same way the kid is pretending to and then lets the kid believe he took the shot and thanks him for it!
An amazing little scene in what I quite liked as a movie, but that scene definitely stood out for me.
(Also loved the extended Pause as Iron Man and War Machine fly through a car park and the camera pauses for a short moment on all the car alarms going off as a result of the disturbance. Totally brought a realistic aspect to a fantastical chase! )
This is actually quite shocking even before Iron Man pops up behind him, shoots down the drone in the same way the kid is pretending to and then lets the kid believe he took the shot and thanks him for it!
An amazing little scene in what I quite liked as a movie, but that scene definitely stood out for me.
(Also loved the extended Pause as Iron Man and War Machine fly through a car park and the camera pauses for a short moment on all the car alarms going off as a result of the disturbance. Totally brought a realistic aspect to a fantastical chase! )
That was one of the action beats suggested by animation legend Genndy Tartakovsky (Samurai Jack, Star Wars Clone Wars) when he was brought in to consult on the climactic Expo battle. I had heard before I saw the movie that he'd done some work on it, and as soon as I saw that shot, I thought, "That was Tartakovsky." Its composition, timing, and humor were recognizable as his style. So it's interesting that you'd see "realistic" when I saw the signature of a very stylized animator.
Give it another look some time. It's one of my favorite films. And, hey, Pat Tallman naked.
The Captain's (can't remember the character's actual name) anguish over his son's death in 300.
Kind of puts the lie to the cliché that Spartans were nothing but soulless killers who have no emotions.
Kind of puts the lie to the cliché that Spartans were nothing but soulless killers who have no emotions.
I can rebut that with two words - I'm gay.
I might be willing to watch it again. Might. With other people. And booze.
I can rebut that with two words - I'm gay.
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Well in that case, a young Ed Harris nude.
I would agree with you except for the really silly close-ups of Denethor's mouth chomping and slurping food. Totally ruined the scene.
Two stock sequences featuring Bela Lugosi as "the old man" in PLAN 9 FROM OUTER SPACE stand out from the rest of the film, and not just because another actor played the character in most of the rest of the movie:
In the scene of the old man's wife's funeral, you actually feel for the guy.
In the scene of the old man walking from his home to somewhere off-screen, where he's hit by a car, again you feel for the guy.
In the scene of the old man's wife's funeral, you actually feel for the guy.
In the scene of the old man walking from his home to somewhere off-screen, where he's hit by a car, again you feel for the guy.
Superman Returns is an okay Superman movie - a lot of people were disappointed by it. I liked it okay.
This scene, though, is one of the best in any of the Superman movies - better than most of the rescues in the Reeve films.
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This scene, though, is one of the best in any of the Superman movies - better than most of the rescues in the Reeve films.
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Fo'sho.
Although, I'm quite fond of the rooftop interview followed by the bittersweet flight.
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Oh, I personally liked a lot of things about the movie. For one thing, I believed this guy could fly - effects had improved a lot. 
I liked the airplane rescue. That, good as it is, is also somewhat more predictable - it's loud, it's kinetic, it's fast. One of the strong characteristics of this scene is that (score aside) it's quiet and concentrated. One is able to feel the dread of what an awful thing is happening to these people, and sense the physical effort and focus of what Supes is doing here. He ain't throwing rocks at a dam. The shot of the boy looking down after the yacht falling back into the water is beautiful, too.
I liked the airplane rescue. That, good as it is, is also somewhat more predictable - it's loud, it's kinetic, it's fast. One of the strong characteristics of this scene is that (score aside) it's quiet and concentrated. One is able to feel the dread of what an awful thing is happening to these people, and sense the physical effort and focus of what Supes is doing here. He ain't throwing rocks at a dam. The shot of the boy looking down after the yacht falling back into the water is beautiful, too.
Great scene, but I always felt it wouold have worked even better if the only sound was Pippin's song. For some reason the sound effects, though muted, keep it from greatness.
One of the best sequences in the entire franchise especially the McCoy/Father scene of that bit.
I would also like to add the scene of Kirk in TMP being shown the USS Enterprise in spacedock, the music with the fact this was the first time the ship looked real and the emotion on Kirk's face was perfect.
I've always loved both the opening sequence (set to Bob Dylan's "The Times They Are a-Changin") and the Doctor Manhattan flashbacks sequence (set to Philip Glass's "Pruit Igoe" and "Prophecies" from his score for Koyaanisqatsi: Life Out of Balance) from Zack Snyder's Watchmen adaptation.
Yeah that scene reminds me of Alien, with Bats as the Alien- it's also the scene that convinced me *this* was a movie about the same Batman who's comics i read...
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