Raging Bull, when everything goes in slow motion and Sugar Ray Robinson is posing and imposing over Jake La Motta, reading to rain down death. Takes my breath away every time.
Yeah, I wasn't hugely impressed with the rest of Mirrormask (I by no means thought it was bad, but nor did I think it was fantastic) but the giants scene really stood out for me.
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Yeah, Grave of Fireflies is the only movie from Studio Ghibli I have not watched, on purpose, because I just knew I would end up sad and depressed.
Back to the Future Part II:
[spoiler:817c8d89cc]After the tunnel scene, when the storm is picking up and you've thunder going on in the background and the wind is really strong and Doc asks him if he's got the almanac.
Yelling at the walkie-talkie through the storm "I've got it in my hands, Doc!" Then Doc yells back "Burn it!" and the music is going crazy and as it burns in the bucket all the stuff is fading back to normal. Makes the movie right there.[/spoiler:817c8d89cc]
Two Towers:
[spoiler:817c8d89cc]Balrog fight at the start. Recaps the most powerful moment/music of the first movie before diving headlong into a new awesome scene.[/spoiler:817c8d89cc]
Rambo First Blood Part II:
[spoiler:817c8d89cc]After he gets captured and tortured he's talking to base and grips the mic really tight and says "Murdock, I'm coming for you" then slams the guard with it and starts a super-epic action sequence. Yeah![/spoiler:817c8d89cc]
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because of crying or because you didn't like them?
Because you have no soul if you don't like Love, Actually. that's easily one of my top ten favorite movies. ever.
fuck I might need to watch it.
Because I cried like a little whore, sheesh
Actually I made my friend buy his nephew the Iron Giant for christmas. Apparently he's watched it a few hundred times already. How cool is that? Also a lot cooler because his name is Lincoln, which his parents named him so they could shorten it to Link. Geek parents!
because of crying or because you didn't like them?
Because you have no soul if you don't like Love, Actually. that's easily one of my top ten favorite movies. ever.
fuck I might need to watch it.
Because I cried like a little whore, sheesh
Actually I made my friend buy his nephew the Iron Giant for christmas. Apparently he's watched it a few hundred times already. How cool is that? Also a lot cooler because his name is Lincoln, which his parents named him so they could shorten it to Link. Geek parents!
because of crying or because you didn't like them?
Because you have no soul if you don't like Love, Actually. that's easily one of my top ten favorite movies. ever.
fuck I might need to watch it.
Because I cried like a little whore, sheesh
Actually I made my friend buy his nephew the Iron Giant for christmas. Apparently he's watched it a few hundred times already. How cool is that? Also a lot cooler because his name is Lincoln, which his parents named him so they could shorten it to Link. Geek parents!
I never saw The Iron Giant, but now I will.
Its good man, really good. I cant figure out why but the characters just make it all work.
because of crying or because you didn't like them?
Because you have no soul if you don't like Love, Actually. that's easily one of my top ten favorite movies. ever.
fuck I might need to watch it.
Because I cried like a little whore, sheesh
Actually I made my friend buy his nephew the Iron Giant for christmas. Apparently he's watched it a few hundred times already. How cool is that? Also a lot cooler because his name is Lincoln, which his parents named him so they could shorten it to Link. Geek parents!
I never saw The Iron Giant, but now I will.
Its good man, really good. I cant figure out why but the characters just make it all work.
It would have been a much more popular movie, but, if I remember correctly, it was released at the same time as a major blockbuster and got overshadowed.
Yeah, Grave of Fireflies is the only movie from Studio Ghibli I have not watched, on purpose, because I just knew I would end up sad and depressed.
It's definitely worth a single viewing. I made the mistake of buying the DVD. After seeing it once, I'm not sure I want to endure that again.
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jpegODIE, YOUR FACEScenic Illinois FlatlandsRegistered Userregular
edited January 2007
I am a fan of the whole scene in Pulp Fiction where [spoiler:1d397540a7]Jules and Vincent bring their car to Jimmy's house, especially where Jimmy says something along the lines of, "You don't need me to tell me how good my fuckin' coffee is. I know how good it is, I bought it. When Bonnie goes to the store, she buys shit." Then immediately afterwards when the Wolf asks for coffee, and he gives Jimmy a nod after taking a sip makes me chuckle every time.[/spoiler:1d397540a7]
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so I just type in this box and it goes on the screen?
Contact, when Ellie is sitting outside on her car, and the message starts pulsing through her earphones, first just in the background and then getting louder and louder. Chills, every single damn time.
One of my all-time favorite movie scenes was in the original Star Trek: The Motion Picture. When Spock goes on his little spacewalk on by his onesees and you really get a sense of how huge and ancient V-ger is, that scared the bejeesus out of me when I was a little kid.
Also, "sex nuts and retard strong" had me cracking up for days. Just so you all know, the professor really doesn't like it when you're visibly straining to stifle a laugh in the middle of a lecture.
Zimmydoom, Zimmydoom
Flew away in a balloon
Had sex with polar bears
While sitting in a reclining chair
Now there are Zim-Bear hybrids
Running around and clawing eyelids
Watch out, a Zim-Bear is about to have sex with yooooooou!
Contact, when Ellie is sitting outside on her car, and the message starts pulsing through her earphones, first just in the background and then getting louder and louder. Chills, every single damn time.
Speaking of contact, the opening scene, wow. At first you're like "what?" but then it keeps zooming out and going back in time and the radio signal getting quieter, then it after it cuts out entirely, it just keeps on zooming back, wow.
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DuPont: And you, Preston, the supposed savior of the resistance, are now its destroyer, and, along with them, you've given me yourself... calmly... coolly... entirely without incident.
John Preston: [Polygraph machine scribbling rapidly] No.
[Polygraph suddenly registers Preston completely in control]
Polygraph Technician: Oh... Shit.
John Preston: Not without incident.
I always get a smile from that scene.
flatlineing polygraph as Preston enters "the zone"
I will eventually buy this movie just to watch that scene over and over
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The last 6 minutes of Six Feet Under are worth watching all 5 seasons for.
As far as nerve-wrenching scenes, the scene in In America where the father plays the carnival game in an attempt to win the E.T. doll for his daughter. Absolutely exhausting to watch.
[spoiler:a8dbf215cd] A horribly depressing movie, but awesome nontheless. The best parts were about Sarah Goldfarb since she was the most compelling and heart wrenching character.
The greatest moments in that movie:
When Sarah finally snaps and wanders over to a TV studio: "I'm Sarah Goldfarb, I'm going to be on television!" Heart wrenching.
The scene where Sarah is frantically cleaning her apartment, being hopped up on the diet pills.
When the young guy and girl are lying and bed and professing their love to each other. It's not actually corny, and the warm music and tone contrast with the rest of the dreadful movie.
When all four of the characters are self destructing, with "Meltdown" playing in the background. A deeply disturbing moment in the moving, and extremely moving. Sarah was getting electro shock treatment... I had to turn my head away from the screen at some points.
The end bit. Sarah's two friends visit her in the loony bin and are unable to recognize their former friend, as she has descended deeply into psychosis. Lux Aeterna is playing in the background, and the two friends start sobbing uncontrollably and hug each other tightly.
[/spoiler:a8dbf215cd]
Edit: And a huge :^: on the very end of Six Feet Under.
There is so much awesome in this thread that I had to dig into old memories to think of something to add
The Legend of the Lone Ranger, which was not that great a film overall BUT
[spoiler:5efbda5518] The baddies abush the last of the rangers in a dead end canyon and massacre them all then ride off thinking them all dead.
One survives (of course) after being found by good ol Tonto and slowly recovers.
The baddies are sitting around a table in the back of a smokey saloon when a man with a shadowed visage appears and tosses a bullet-dented ranger badge on the table.
They all look down, they all look at each other, their mental "oh shit" is almost audible.[/spoiler:5efbda5518]
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Yes,... yes, I agree. It's totally unfair that sober you gets into trouble for things that drunk you did.
Zimmydoom, Zimmydoom
Flew away in a balloon
Had sex with polar bears
While sitting in a reclining chair
Now there are Zim-Bear hybrids
Running around and clawing eyelids
Watch out, a Zim-Bear is about to have sex with yooooooou!
oh yeah, band of brothers: i can't remember the episode, one of the later ones... where they're walking through the woods and one guy remarks (paraphrased), "hey, this forest is kind of like bastogne!" and another guy says, "yeah, except the trees aren't fucking exploding!"
Another from Band of Brothers, even though it's not a movie. Every one of the interviews with the vets at the beginning of the episode really get to me, but especially the last one;
Even today, on a real cold night, we'll go to bed -- and my wife will tell you, the first thing I'll say is "I'm glad I'm not in Bastogne."
The guy chokes up a little after he says that.
That whole episode is so intense and emotional, but that one line really sticks out in my mind.
DuPont: And you, Preston, the supposed savior of the resistance, are now its destroyer, and, along with them, you've given me yourself... calmly... coolly... entirely without incident.
John Preston: [Polygraph machine scribbling rapidly] No.
[Polygraph suddenly registers Preston completely in control]
Polygraph Technician: Oh... Shit.
John Preston: Not without incident.
I always get a smile from that scene.
flatlineing polygraph as Preston enters "the zone"
I will eventually buy this movie just to watch that scene over and over
reminds me of the similar scene from true lies, where Arnold tells the guy exactly how he's going to kill him and escape.
[spoiler:f8a81980fd]and then he does exactly that.[/spoiler:f8a81980fd]
Near the end of The Man From Snowy River when the main character
[spoiler:bb8930b488]Rides his horse down the side of a mountain so steep at points is seems like the face of a cliff.[/spoiler:bb8930b488]
is all kinds of badass. ESPECIALLY when you consider there were no special effects, stuntmen, or harnesses to protect him.
oh yeah, band of brothers: i can't remember the episode, one of the later ones... where they're walking through the woods and one guy remarks (paraphrased), "hey, this forest is kind of like bastogne!" and another guy says, "yeah, except the trees aren't fucking exploding!"
Another from Band of Brothers, even though it's not a movie. Every one of the interviews with the vets at the beginning of the episode really get to me, but especially the last one;
Even today, on a real cold night, we'll go to bed -- and my wife will tell you, the first thing I'll say is "I'm glad I'm not in Bastogne."
The guy chokes up a little after he says that.
That whole episode is so intense and emotional, but that one line really sticks out in my mind.
my favorite band of brothers moment: spears showing that he's got the biggest balls in the entire world by running straight fucking through a german line and back again to rescue a stranded squad BY HIMSELF. the fact that this happened in real life is completely insane to me.
and since the book thread has got me thinking, atticus shooting the rabid dog is awesome and hilarious due to his kid's reaction. "wait what?!? we thought our dad was a nerd!"
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"okay byron, my grandma has a right to be happy, so i give you my blessing. just... don't get her pregnant. i don't need another mom."
Matilda runs to Leon's apartment to flee the carnage. She begs and begs to be let in for a few agonizing moments until Leon opens the door, bathing her face in light.
Also, I've gotten some flak for recommending Strange Days in this forum, but the climax where Vincent D'Onofrio's face is
[realspoiler:86f3e035cf]covered in his partner's blood[/realspoiler:86f3e035cf]
was an awesome villian moment.
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every person who doesn't like an acquired taste always seems to think everyone who likes it is faking it. it should be an official fallacy.
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Same here. I love Neil Gaiman's writing, but the I don't think I got the movie like I should have.
Grave of Fireflies
[spoiler:6de6e71922]The montage of the young girl, where it ends with her giving a mock salute with a bowl as a helmet.[/spoiler:6de6e71922]
Only movie I have really cried in.
Then we played DOAX to cheer up.
Because you have no soul if you don't like Love, Actually. that's easily one of my top ten favorite movies. ever.
fuck I might need to watch it.
[spoiler:817c8d89cc]After the tunnel scene, when the storm is picking up and you've thunder going on in the background and the wind is really strong and Doc asks him if he's got the almanac.
Yelling at the walkie-talkie through the storm "I've got it in my hands, Doc!" Then Doc yells back "Burn it!" and the music is going crazy and as it burns in the bucket all the stuff is fading back to normal. Makes the movie right there.[/spoiler:817c8d89cc]
Two Towers:
[spoiler:817c8d89cc]Balrog fight at the start. Recaps the most powerful moment/music of the first movie before diving headlong into a new awesome scene.[/spoiler:817c8d89cc]
Rambo First Blood Part II:
[spoiler:817c8d89cc]After he gets captured and tortured he's talking to base and grips the mic really tight and says "Murdock, I'm coming for you" then slams the guard with it and starts a super-epic action sequence. Yeah![/spoiler:817c8d89cc]
Because I cried like a little whore, sheesh
Actually I made my friend buy his nephew the Iron Giant for christmas. Apparently he's watched it a few hundred times already. How cool is that? Also a lot cooler because his name is Lincoln, which his parents named him so they could shorten it to Link. Geek parents!
I never saw The Iron Giant, but now I will.
Its good man, really good. I cant figure out why but the characters just make it all work.
It would have been a much more popular movie, but, if I remember correctly, it was released at the same time as a major blockbuster and got overshadowed.
It's definitely worth a single viewing. I made the mistake of buying the DVD. After seeing it once, I'm not sure I want to endure that again.
One of my all-time favorite movie scenes was in the original Star Trek: The Motion Picture. When Spock goes on his little spacewalk on by his onesees and you really get a sense of how huge and ancient V-ger is, that scared the bejeesus out of me when I was a little kid.
Also, "sex nuts and retard strong" had me cracking up for days. Just so you all know, the professor really doesn't like it when you're visibly straining to stifle a laugh in the middle of a lecture.
Speaking of contact, the opening scene, wow. At first you're like "what?" but then it keeps zooming out and going back in time and the radio signal getting quieter, then it after it cuts out entirely, it just keeps on zooming back, wow.
God damn was that an amazing show.
Check out my art! Buy some prints!
we should start a club. i think there's three or four of us that love that movie to death around here.
i loved the silly little bit where the PM and his driver sing to the kids.
flatlineing polygraph as Preston enters "the zone"
I will eventually buy this movie just to watch that scene over and over
As far as nerve-wrenching scenes, the scene in In America where the father plays the carnival game in an attempt to win the E.T. doll for his daughter. Absolutely exhausting to watch.
[spoiler:a8dbf215cd] A horribly depressing movie, but awesome nontheless. The best parts were about Sarah Goldfarb since she was the most compelling and heart wrenching character.
The greatest moments in that movie:
When Sarah finally snaps and wanders over to a TV studio: "I'm Sarah Goldfarb, I'm going to be on television!" Heart wrenching.
The scene where Sarah is frantically cleaning her apartment, being hopped up on the diet pills.
When the young guy and girl are lying and bed and professing their love to each other. It's not actually corny, and the warm music and tone contrast with the rest of the dreadful movie.
When all four of the characters are self destructing, with "Meltdown" playing in the background. A deeply disturbing moment in the moving, and extremely moving. Sarah was getting electro shock treatment... I had to turn my head away from the screen at some points.
The end bit. Sarah's two friends visit her in the loony bin and are unable to recognize their former friend, as she has descended deeply into psychosis. Lux Aeterna is playing in the background, and the two friends start sobbing uncontrollably and hug each other tightly.
[/spoiler:a8dbf215cd]
Edit: And a huge :^: on the very end of Six Feet Under.
The entire fucking beginning scene at Omaha Beach!
Check out my art! Buy some prints!
The Legend of the Lone Ranger, which was not that great a film overall BUT
[spoiler:5efbda5518] The baddies abush the last of the rangers in a dead end canyon and massacre them all then ride off thinking them all dead.
One survives (of course) after being found by good ol Tonto and slowly recovers.
The baddies are sitting around a table in the back of a smokey saloon when a man with a shadowed visage appears and tosses a bullet-dented ranger badge on the table.
They all look down, they all look at each other, their mental "oh shit" is almost audible.[/spoiler:5efbda5518]
Wait, chicks can do that?
go read "American Gods"
or don't. whatevers good for ya
Another from Band of Brothers, even though it's not a movie. Every one of the interviews with the vets at the beginning of the episode really get to me, but especially the last one;
The guy chokes up a little after he says that.
That whole episode is so intense and emotional, but that one line really sticks out in my mind.
reminds me of the similar scene from true lies, where Arnold tells the guy exactly how he's going to kill him and escape.
[spoiler:f8a81980fd]and then he does exactly that.[/spoiler:f8a81980fd]
awesomeness.
that page was not good for me.
[spoiler:bb8930b488]Rides his horse down the side of a mountain so steep at points is seems like the face of a cliff.[/spoiler:bb8930b488]
is all kinds of badass. ESPECIALLY when you consider there were no special effects, stuntmen, or harnesses to protect him.
"Got a Big Gulp, huh?
...
Well, catch ya later!"
I don't know why but that singular moment is just really hilarious.
Also, for another Jim Carrey movie, the first Ace Ventura, when they're at the mental institution.
"I'm gonna run a buttonhook pattern, super slo-mo!"
Oh jesus. So funny.
my favorite band of brothers moment: spears showing that he's got the biggest balls in the entire world by running straight fucking through a german line and back again to rescue a stranded squad BY HIMSELF. the fact that this happened in real life is completely insane to me.
and since the book thread has got me thinking, atticus shooting the rabid dog is awesome and hilarious due to his kid's reaction. "wait what?!? we thought our dad was a nerd!"
Matilda runs to Leon's apartment to flee the carnage. She begs and begs to be let in for a few agonizing moments until Leon opens the door, bathing her face in light.
Also, I've gotten some flak for recommending Strange Days in this forum, but the climax where Vincent D'Onofrio's face is
[realspoiler:86f3e035cf]covered in his partner's blood[/realspoiler:86f3e035cf]
was an awesome villian moment.
the "no true scotch man" fallacy.
Good! Then I and people with taste can form a club to combat yours.