Shatner Movie Moment

[RobertScorpio]

One of my favorite Shatner/kirk moments in a movie does not involve dialog, from him, at all...

It comes from Generations. He just told scotty to hold the ship together while he goes down to fix the deflector thingy...

Scotty says "I always do", or something like that..

Then here is the moment, Kirk backs into the turbolift, and smiles at Scotty's line. I have always liked that little smile he does because he isn't smiling as Kirk; he is smiling along with us at the line, as shatner, a 'fourth wall' moment. If you dont know what I mean, just play that little part.

OKay..that is a shatner movie moment. What is one of your favorite Shatner Movie Moments (I am shocked Paramount hasn't put out a Fan Collection of "Shatner Trek Moments" Because you gotta know Bill would do the commentaries for it as well.

 

[shapeshifter]

Kahn, I'm laughing at the superior intellect.

 

[Joker]

Does "Get a life" count?

 

[Kegek]

My favourite is similarly without dialogue:

Spock has just died. Kirk slumps against the glass wall as the camera pans back. The man who had always cheated death hss been rendered desolate.

 

[Peach Wookiee]

^That was a very powerful moment.

 

[T'Baio]

Kegek said:
Spock has just died. Kirk slumps against the glass wall as the camera pans back. The man who had always cheated death hss been rendered desolate.

I've always liked that, and when he trips on the chair in The Search For Spock when he realizes David is dead. "You Klingon Bastard, you killed my son." I love that moment.

 

[egonbeeblebrox]

T’Baio said:

I've always liked that, and when he trips on the chair in The Search For Spock when he realizes David is dead. "You Klingon Bastard, you killed my son." I love that moment.

That's my favorite one. Shatner's great right there.

 

[sbk1234]

The whole little "I'm old" talk he has with Carol Marcus in the Wrath of Khan. I still play that one over and over again in my mind. Even more powerful now that I'm over 25 years older.


And to show how Shatner could juggle the best with the worst: I cringe when they start singing "Row, Row, Row Your Boat," but I love the "I've always known I'll die alone" bit in Trek Five.
Also to be noted, "I NEED my pain."

 

[EnsignRicky]

I...Have...Had...Enough...Of...You!!!

 

[shatastrophic]

in TSFS, when he is just staring while the Admiral is telling him he needs to let this Spock thing go or he will ruin his career, then he looks at the Admiral and says, "I hear ya, I had to try."

 

[Peach Wookiee]

And he has the look on his face that says, "I'm going to do something..."

 

[trash80]

The scene early in TUC when they walk into the staff meeting and Kirk says "What are we doing here?" (or something like that), i don't know why but that always cracks me up.

 

[The Squire of Gothos]

Shatner does well when he's delivering Kirk's one liners;

"Aren't you dead?"

"Fine, I'll kill you later."

"The word is no, I am therefore going anyway."

"Well, double dumbass on you!"

Perhaps its Shatner's experience in comedy that lets him deliver them so well.

 

[137th Gebirg]

^^^ The irony there is I don't recall him ever being in a sitcom, or in a comedy movie up until the "Miss Congeniality" movie pair and "Free Enterprise", yet he has ALWAYS done it so well!

I'm finally going through the complete Boston Legal series on DVD and I had no idea how good he was. The man is a genius. He really gets it...

 

[A beaker full of death]

RobertScorpio said:

Scotty says "I always do", or something like that..

Then here is the moment, Kirk backs into the turbolift, and smiles at Scotty's line. I have always liked that little smile he does because he isn't smiling as Kirk; he is smiling along with us at the line, as shatner, a 'fourth wall' moment. If you dont know what I mean, just play that little part.

he flashed that very same smile at Scotty in their first scene together, in WNMHGB. Scotty says something like "ship's status ready, as always, Sir," and Kirk resoponds with that knowing grin.

 

[ClayinCA]

I like the moment at the end of The Wrath of Khan when Kirk embraces David, too exhausted to even cry. It's the way he gives David these tiny little pats on the back that does it - he's desperate for some comfort and he just can't articulate it. Great acting from Shatner there.

 

[estrea]

There's so many besides the ones that have already been posted...two leap to mind for me:

From TUC: "Note to galley. No more Romulan ale to be served at diplomatic functions."

and,

From Generations, Jean-Luc is following him up the stairs with Kirk carrying the breakfast tray, he opens the door and suddenly they're in the barn. "This isn't my bedroom."

 

[T'Baio]

137th Gebirg said:
^^^ The irony there is I don't recall him ever being in a sitcom, or in a comedy movie up until the "Miss Congeniality" movie pair and "Free Enterprise", yet he has ALWAYS done it so well!

Shatner grew up doing comedy on stage and in Montreal radio plays...with Christopher Plummer, no less.

 

[Ryan Thomas Riddle]

My favorite Shatner acting moments come from TWOK, where he is a little more subtle than in his other performances. From that movie, I like the talk he has with Carol in the Genesis cavern and the bit with Bones in the Director's Cut-- "We're only alive because I knew something about these ships that he didn't."

Although, I do enjoy his over-the-top scenes in TFF especially the "I need my pain" speech. Also, TVH shows that Shatner is very good at comedy especially when paired with the less-than-functioning Spock.

 

[ClayinCA]

You know what other Shatner bit I always liked? It's in The Undiscovered Country, when Spock has summoned Kirk to the bridge after the Klingon dinner to tell him about the neutrino surge. Spock starts to talk to Kirk about it, and rubbing his eyes, Shatner murmurs, "Spock, I'm really tired," only to come fully awake and alert when Spock tells him what's going on.

It's such a human moment, that - always liked it.