Favorite Movie Moments

[Mathew81]

 

[MrYeahBut]

For whatever reason, I just feel like posting in this thread..





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[Mathew81]

 

[Chaplin]

 

[Cardinals.Ken]

I love the fight scene right before that clip starts. Luke just loses it. It's all emotion with him just channeling all his anger and beating Vader down.

That's the biggest difference between the lightsaber duels in the original triology versus the prequels. In Episodes IV-VI the duels mean something, they're rife with emotion and feel like natural character arc progression. In Episodes I-III the duels feel contrived. Like Lucas is taking advantage of the audience's prior knowledge of the Star Wars universe, and just choreographing huge complex scenes that lack emotional investment from us...like it's all just a series of foregone conclusions.

That said, of the prequels this is my favorite moment from them:



The best portion of the clip rest at the 3:36 mark to 4:25. Of the prequel duels, it's the most fluid, and organic. It requires no context, no prior Star Wars knowledge, it just flows naturally. Kudos to Ray Park for the fight choreography.

I still contend that "Phantom Menace" is the best of the three prequels.

My favorite "Princess Bride" moment:



I just love how you expect an epic sword duel, and then Count Rugen just runs away.

 

[Cardinals.Ken]

As far as sports movies go, I prefer this moment:



Crummy quality, but it has the complete portion of Roy Hobb's final at bat versus "himself".

"Go pick me out a winner Bobby."

"Ok."

 

[Chaplin]

That's the biggest difference between the lightsaber duels in the original triology versus the prequels. In Episodes IV-VI the duels mean something, they're rife with emotion and feel like natural character arc progression. In Episodes I-III the duels feel contrived. Like Lucas is taking advantage of the audience's prior knowledge of the Star Wars universe, and just choreographing huge complex scenes that lack emotional investment from us...like it's all just a series of foregone conclusions.

That said, of the prequels this is my favorite moment from them:



The best portion of the clip rest at the 3:36 mark to 4:25. Of the prequel duels, it's the most fluid, and organic. It requires no context, no prior Star Wars knowledge, it just flows naturally. Kudos to Ray Park for the fight choreography.

I still contend that "Phantom Menace" is the best of the three prequels.

Sure, that battle is probably the best part of that movie, but taken as a battle, it's actually just ok. Lucas threw in environmental obstacles that make no sense, like those revolving "doors" that cut Obi-Wan off from Qui-Gon and Darth Maul. Horrible device that hits you over the head with how useless it is except to make Qui-Gon vs. Darth Maul one-on-one. Coupled with the rest of that abomination of a movie, I can't in good conscience agree one bit with Phantom Menace is the best of the prequels. Revenge of the Sith was far and away the best, IMO, because it started to really tie into New Hope.

 

[AzStevenCal]

As far as sports movies go, I prefer this moment:

Crummy quality, but it has the whole final at bat.

"Go pick me out a winner Bobby."

"Ok."

I love that scene (and that movie) but my favorite moments in The Natural revolve around the sequences in Chicago with Glenn Close, from her discovery that Roy is playing ball again up through the moment where her presence brings Hobbs out of his slump.

Although you've asked for favorite moments, not lines, I'm not at all surprised that many of these scenes come from probably the 3 most quotable movies of all time. I'd have a lot less to say if I wasn't allowed to quote or paraprhase Tombstone, The Princess Bride or The Big Lebowski. But speaking of quotable movies, where's the National Lampoon's Vacation love? Daddy says I'm the best.

Steve

 

[Cardinals.Ken]

Sure, that battle is probably the best part of that movie, but taken as a battle, it's actually just ok. Lucas threw in environmental obstacles that make no sense, like those revolving "doors" that cut Obi-Wan off from Qui-Gon and Darth Maul. Horrible device that hits you over the head with how useless it is except to make Qui-Gon vs. Darth Maul one-on-one. Coupled with the rest of that abomination of a movie, I can't in good conscience agree one bit with Phantom Menace is the best of the prequels. Revenge of the Sith was far and away the best, IMO, because it started to really tie into New Hope.

In terms of action, I can see what you're saying. But the Obi-Wan vs. Darth Vader duel in Episode III was full of contrivances as well, as was the lightsaber duels in II. Like Lucas was saying "Oh, let's do this. It'll be cool! People will see how I'm hearkening back to the originals."

My biggest issue with Episodes II & III is that Lucas, in my opinion, makes the mistake of relying too much on archetype at the expense of character development. I know he's said that he wanted to make the films "timeless" in terms of figures of speech and costuming but the result is flat cardboard cutout characters that only have meaning because they say so. All the dialogue is just there to provide expositional context for the larger, and more overdone, action sequences.

Phantom is superior, in my mind, due to the fact that it was the most unsullied by the events of IV-VI. Phantom lays the closest to Lucas' original idea of paying homage to the Saturday serials of his youth (Buck Rogers, Flash Gordon, et al). II and III spend way too much time moving, not building, toward the foregone conclusion of Anikin Skywalker's fall to the darkside and his final battle with Obi-Wan completing the transformation into Darth Vader.

On a side note...not to beat a dead horse, but look at how Obi-Wan reminiscences about Anikin to Luke about their friendship and service in Episode IV, versus the way Lucas attempts to establish that comradery with two sentences, and a shared chuckle, in the elevator scene in Episode II. I'll take the 2 minute Obi-Wan vs. Darth Vader duel in Star Wars over the 8 minute snozefest of the two in Revenge of the Sith. Just the banter back and and forth between the two in Star Wars almost makes the action inconsequential, and a great deal more powerful.

You want a long swordfight that has meaning and power? Here you go:



This is how you let action tell the story.

 

[DemsMyBoys]

From the first True Grit:

Robert Duval as Ned Pepper: "I call that bold talk for a one-eyed fat man."

John Wayne as.... John Wayne: "Fill your hands you son of a bitch!"

Then the Duke puts the reins in his mouth and.... does what the Duke did. Kills the bad guy in epic style. I love that scene. It's beautifully filmed and John Wayne won the Oscar with that moment. (I'd seen that movie a couple of times, including its opening weekend in Hollywood. Then I later saw it in Payson. The audience stood up and cheered. It was a heck of a movie-going moment.)

 

[Chaplin]

From the first True Grit:

Robert Duval as Ned Pepper: "I call that bold talk for a one-eyed fat man."

John Wayne as.... John Wayne: "Fill your hands you son of a bitch!"

Then the Duke puts the reins in his mouth and.... does what the Duke did. Kills the bad guy in epic style. I love that scene. It's beautifully filmed and John Wayne won the Oscar with that moment. (I'd seen that movie a couple of times, including its opening weekend in Hollywood. Then I later saw it in Payson. The audience stood up and cheered. It was a heck of a movie-going moment.)

Great choice! I'm a huge John Wayne fan, but if I had to choose my favorite of his, it would probably be this scene from She Wore a Yellow Ribbon:



IMO some of the finest acting he's ever done, and he's not known as a great actor.

 

[jw7]

Slapshot. Hanson brothers debut.

 

[Cardinals.Ken]

Slapshot. Hanson brothers debut.

"We were f'ing robbed!"

LOL

 

[RugbyMuffin]

Great choice! I'm a huge John Wayne fan, but if I had to choose my favorite of his, it would probably be this scene from She Wore a Yellow Ribbon:



IMO some of the finest acting he's ever done, and he's not known as a great actor.

"Mr. Cohill, it is a bitter thing, indeed, to learn that an officer who has had nine years experience in the cavalry - the officer to whom I am surrendering command of this troop in two more days - should have so little grasp of leadership as to allow himself to be chivvied into a go at fisticuffs while 'Taps' still sounds over a brave man's grave! God help this troop when I'm gone."

One of the best quotes ever.

 

[NJCardFan]

As a child, I was fascinated with dinosaurs. My older brothers still like to tell the story about how I would say I wanted to grow up to be an archaeologist when I was only 5 years old. As I grew older, my life goals may have changed but I always kept that fascination with those creatures. So when I first saw this scene in "Jurassic Park" I was completely blown away, and I was in literal awe of what I saw on the screen.



Now, being even a bit more older, Dr. Grant's line "They're moving in herds. They do move in herds" resonates with me. Not that I've had some sort of controversial theory, but that kind of vindication is something I think all of would like to see for ourselves in some respect.

Spielberg is one of the greats.

They're releasing this in 3D next month.

 

[DemsMyBoys]

IMO some of the finest acting he's ever done, and he's not known as a great actor.

The Duke is in several of my favorite movie moments, including:

The Searchers when Ethan says, "What do you want me to do? Draw you a picture?" (I think it's a powerful moment, beautifully acted by John Wayne.)

and the first time the audience sees him in Hondo.

 

[Cardinals.Ken]

They're releasing this in 3D next month.

This will be the first movie that I'm looking forward to seeing in 3D since Jaws 3, in 3D.

We've had some mighty fine films referenced in the thread so far, but where's the 80's B-movie action films?

 

[NJCardFan]

Jaws 3 in 3D. Now there's 8 bucks and 2 hours of my life I'll never get back. As for great movie scenes, I just finished watching Se7en and the final scene is a great one as well. Especially the ending monologue.

 

[mojorizen7]

I was 10 years old when I went to see Jaws in the theater. My friends and I were real monster movie freaks back then so this was the motivation for our wanting to see this. Well, there was a scene that had me riveted then and it still does, now, nearly 40 years later and that was the scene where it's their first night on the water after a day of shooting barrels into the shark and Hooper and Quint are trading scars when Brody, who has no real scars to speak of, notices a scar on Quint's left arm to which Quint tells them that it was a tattoo he had removed. Hooper teases him about it(they were all pretty drunk) until Quint tells him that the tattoo was from the U.S.S. Indianapolis which makes Hooper stop his giggling instantly. Quint then goes on to tell the story of what happened. I don't know if it was Robert Shaw's performance but the very real story that his character told but the story give me chills every time I hear it when I watch this movie. The antagonist shark in the movie was fake but even though the story was a bit embellished, Quint's recount of the fate of the crew of the Indianapolis was very real. 1198 men went into the water and only about 320 survived. Speilberg is a complete genius in that while the story was being told, there wasn't a sound save for the gentle lapping of the ocean on the boat and the soft crescendo of the music and when Quint finished, the beginning whale song was perfect. To me it was one of the greatest movie scenes of all time.

Gets my vote.

 

[mojorizen7]

Oh man, I don't know how I forgot this:

"We got'em Abe, Got us the Josie Wales"

"Watch'it Abe, I've seen him do some things"



I make reference to this scene all the time, and I mean all the time.

"Seen him do some things" - my goodness, I use that to describe anything that is "beyond worldly" Like Patrick Peterson punt return.

+1
This film has a few of my favorite moments. Its pretty much a masterpiece as a whole.

 

[mojorizen7]

Some truly great choices in here. So many come to mind,but i'll go with this moment.

 

[Cardinals.Ken]

A pretty powerful scene, in context of of the rest of the film. You'd think you were safe in a building full of cops, but The Terminator just strolls through mowing down everything in his path.

 

[Chaplin]

 

[Chaplin]

You want your cheesy 80s-b-action? Here you go:

 

[AzStevenCal]

You want your cheesy 80s-b-action? Here you go:

He said cheesy, why'd you put Commando up there? I'm pretty sure it was nominated for a Best Picture Oscar and if it wasn't, I say conspiracy.

Steve