Favourite Scene In A Movie/Film
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I'm going to cheat and choose 2, neither of which is from my favourite movie because I can't possibly decide on only one movie as being the best. The first scene is the final scene from Smokin' Aces. A great performance from Ryan Reynolds and some amazing music courtesy of Clint Mansell. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tbh4w9SlgZ0
The second is the opening scene of Sucker Punch. I thought it was very powerful with some nice acting and another great song. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-gl2I5exFfM
Apologies for the lack of embedded video but I have no idea how to do so yet.
The second is the opening scene of Sucker Punch. I thought it was very powerful with some nice acting and another great song. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-gl2I5exFfM
Apologies for the lack of embedded video but I have no idea how to do so yet.
All of The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly and The beginning of Up is surprisingly moving mostly because you don't expect it (Incidentally I still not a sissy).
How dare you ask me for a single favourite scene. ;_;
From my favourite movie of all time. It's so much better than the rep it has and if people would only look past the Bush nonsense (which I did automatically, as being Canadian all I know about Bush is that people like to complain about him). The dominoes are a pretty obvious symbol, showing how one person's actions can slowly effect more and more people until they fall into one united shape. The leftover domino at the end is one of the antagonists of the film, and V's action of picking it up gives more meaning to the final fight scene than just killin a dude who works for the government.
My second favourite movie of all time. This scene actually goes on for a lot longer, but I figured part of it is better than none at all. It symbolizes how a person's emotional state can change when it seems like no time at all has passed and how one can find oneself alone in a crowd, lost in not only the swarms of people but in the flurry of emotions they're feeling in the moment.
My third favourite movie of all time is Pan's Labyrinth (3/3 came from 2006; best year in cinema IMO), but I can't find any of the scene on youtube so I'll just describe it. Ofelia's mom is feeling pains from her pregnancy and asks Ofelia to tell the unborn baby a story to calm him down. She tells a story, possibly made up, possibly memorized, of a rose at the top of a poisonous, thorned mountain that can make people immortal. No-one ever goes and seeks immortality because it would risk their mortal souls in doing so. It begins with the camera dropping into the mother's womb (the first time in the movie the colour yellow is prominently featured which makes it amazingly bright and wonderful), moving sideways to a view of the mountain from the top, then gliding down it to show all the thorns, then back to Ofelia and her mother with no visible edits. The music played throughout is absolutely perfect for the atmosphere of the scene. It, like many fairy tales, can symbolize any number of things; my personal choice being the fear that mankind has of achieving anything truly great out of fear that they could lose what it is they have.
I won't do anymore. Three's good enough.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iUkgNvvF7Vk
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ha6cqLHmQNU
My third favourite movie of all time is Pan's Labyrinth (3/3 came from 2006; best year in cinema IMO), but I can't find any of the scene on youtube so I'll just describe it. Ofelia's mom is feeling pains from her pregnancy and asks Ofelia to tell the unborn baby a story to calm him down. She tells a story, possibly made up, possibly memorized, of a rose at the top of a poisonous, thorned mountain that can make people immortal. No-one ever goes and seeks immortality because it would risk their mortal souls in doing so. It begins with the camera dropping into the mother's womb (the first time in the movie the colour yellow is prominently featured which makes it amazingly bright and wonderful), moving sideways to a view of the mountain from the top, then gliding down it to show all the thorns, then back to Ofelia and her mother with no visible edits. The music played throughout is absolutely perfect for the atmosphere of the scene. It, like many fairy tales, can symbolize any number of things; my personal choice being the fear that mankind has of achieving anything truly great out of fear that they could lose what it is they have.
I won't do anymore. Three's good enough.
the thug scene from Collateral.
Two idiot thugs steal some stuff from a cabbie (Jaime Foxx) whose been ziptied to his steering wheel by an ex military assassin, Vincent (Tom Cruise). When he comes out, he asks if they have his briefcase. They turn around and hold a gun on him. He knocks the thugs gun away and draws his own USP .45 and double taps the first thug, and does a failure drill on the second before he can draw his sidearm.
Cruise clocked in with five well aimed shots in 1.39 seconds, which beat the script by .21 seconds.
Double Tap, for those who dont know, is two shots with very little time in between, its not some special technique, its simply firing the first shot and bringing the sights back into line and firing again with as little time as possible in between. The Failure Drill, is a three shot technique which uses a double tap to the chest with a third and final shot to the head.
I mostly loved this scene, because it was a movie in which i was throughly impressed by the gun handling in the movie, which is a trademark of Michael Mann, but as well as how focused Tom Cruise was in the film. He spent time training with live ammo on a range with a former SAS operator who trained him to shoot, as would be befitting of his character, a highly trained ex military assassin.
There was a lot of depth in the film, that gave some deeper meaning to the characters. YOu felt they understood and played their parts better than i see in most movies. Yes, i am a gun fanatic, and personally, seeing someone handle a gun like they would if they were a real person, sells a movie to me a lot.
Vincent is a cold, calculating assassin with a lot of experience. Hes highly trained, extremely skilled and indeniably deadly. His skill with a pistol, knife and unarmed combat are fitting of someone whose spent their life fighting and killing.
Mark Ruffalo plays a Narcotics Detective, who gives a vibe of the gangster in his performance, he handles his gun as you might expect a gangster would. It just makes him feel authentic.
Max the cabbie, is just that a cabbie with big dreams who has yet to make them happen. At one point he gets Vincent's sidearm and his shooting is poor and untrained, he handles it like hes never touched a weapon before in his life. Something that is obviously real.
Its just hands down one of the great under appreciated works of Michael Mann, Tom Cruise, Jaime Foxx and Mark Ruffalo. Its a gem of a movie and it passed fairly unnoticed, but i love it.
(its currently 3am, no one is on my buddy lists at all, and im lonely, so sue me >.>)
Two idiot thugs steal some stuff from a cabbie (Jaime Foxx) whose been ziptied to his steering wheel by an ex military assassin, Vincent (Tom Cruise). When he comes out, he asks if they have his briefcase. They turn around and hold a gun on him. He knocks the thugs gun away and draws his own USP .45 and double taps the first thug, and does a failure drill on the second before he can draw his sidearm.
Cruise clocked in with five well aimed shots in 1.39 seconds, which beat the script by .21 seconds.
Double Tap, for those who dont know, is two shots with very little time in between, its not some special technique, its simply firing the first shot and bringing the sights back into line and firing again with as little time as possible in between. The Failure Drill, is a three shot technique which uses a double tap to the chest with a third and final shot to the head.
I mostly loved this scene, because it was a movie in which i was throughly impressed by the gun handling in the movie, which is a trademark of Michael Mann, but as well as how focused Tom Cruise was in the film. He spent time training with live ammo on a range with a former SAS operator who trained him to shoot, as would be befitting of his character, a highly trained ex military assassin.
There was a lot of depth in the film, that gave some deeper meaning to the characters. YOu felt they understood and played their parts better than i see in most movies. Yes, i am a gun fanatic, and personally, seeing someone handle a gun like they would if they were a real person, sells a movie to me a lot.
Vincent is a cold, calculating assassin with a lot of experience. Hes highly trained, extremely skilled and indeniably deadly. His skill with a pistol, knife and unarmed combat are fitting of someone whose spent their life fighting and killing.
Mark Ruffalo plays a Narcotics Detective, who gives a vibe of the gangster in his performance, he handles his gun as you might expect a gangster would. It just makes him feel authentic.
Max the cabbie, is just that a cabbie with big dreams who has yet to make them happen. At one point he gets Vincent's sidearm and his shooting is poor and untrained, he handles it like hes never touched a weapon before in his life. Something that is obviously real.
Its just hands down one of the great under appreciated works of Michael Mann, Tom Cruise, Jaime Foxx and Mark Ruffalo. Its a gem of a movie and it passed fairly unnoticed, but i love it.
(its currently 3am, no one is on my buddy lists at all, and im lonely, so sue me >.>)
The intro for Johnny English, it's just him getting completely lost to an awesome theme song.
Better than it sounds
Better than it sounds
As far as my favorite scene in any movie (not necessarily the best movie) would have to be... how do I describe this, from 30 Days of night. There's a scene where (after the vampires have begun their siege on the Alaskan town), there's an overhead shot (done by helicopter, I assume) over the whole town, where you can see dozens of vampires slaughtering these townspeople brutally, and everyone just looks like a little toy running around. It's fantastic, really.
One scene in "Shoot Em Up" Where the main character is zip lining down a couple of floors while shooting some people and the main evil character is running up the stairs and shouts "Do we suck that much or is that guy really that good!"