That One Part Was Awesome

[SimGrave]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_XuPHlX0Di4

At 1:49 you get the BEST scene or The Expendables.
Terry Crews rocks... but was it worth paying for the movie?
Or just suffering the movies for that 1 sec scene?
Absolutely NOT.

Plus the scene with Bruce/Arnie/Sly is so blend.
They might crack jokes at each other, but there's no chemestry going on between the 3 of them.
Yes it's kinda of big moment in cinema, but wrapped in an horrible movie.
You want to talk about a scene that made History?

Pacino vs DeNiro in Heat.

 

[Jhereg42]

The tragic thing about The Lost World was if you read the book it was practically a great screen play. It was writen for the movie. Bah.

I remember Mrs Storm's rack from Swordfish, but the scene that stuck with me in that movie was "This is what a home-made claymore does to a bunch of dumb asses." at the opening. Also liked Travola's opening monologue over a cigar. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w2EZK-YQHZo&feature=related

I think my personal favorite though is the very end of Smoking Aces, which is about the best "F-you, the world, and everything in it" moment I've ever seen.

 

[Shoggoth2588]

The opening and ending bits of Wanted where the camera follows the one single shot backwards, from target back into the gun. "What the fuck have you done lately?"

Also the keyboard-smashing scene where keys, blood and, a tooth spell out 'Fuck You'. Both are kinda juvenile I guess but I still thought they were really cool parts of an over-all good movie.

 

[Warachia]

I saw the fight between bruce lee and chuck norris, and it sucked. What I hate is when things are staged, and that is one of the worst fights in movie history that I've seen for a while, he clearly stops before hitting him almost every single time, oh, and the protector sucked, the one camera shot was cool until I realized I couldn't suspend my disbelief any longer when he was taking down people by throwing them once, or by not dieing in the final part of the movie, if you've seen it you'd now which part(s) I mean. Also, "goofy" is not to be confused with "stupid", as in "strapping elephant bones to your arms and making it so that you can't possibly use either in a real combat scenario is stupid."

 

[The Boy in the Hat]

I suspect that the German film Downfall would be nowhere near as well known without the scene where Hitler realises the war is lost and has a big rant at his generals.
Of course, it's a minor internet phenomenon because of that scene, but with the subtitles changed to something funnier.
(For example - Hitler gets banned form Xbox Live, Hitler finds out his car has been vandalised)

 

[omicron1]

"the (onscreen) romantic entanglement of the two female leads."

...And my interest in this film has completely evaporated. Not every guy thinks "lesbians r hawt."

My thoughts on "that one legendary scene" in general are, if that's all a movie has going for it, it's going to fall prey to YouTube before too long.

 

[Scobie]

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[TaboriHK]

I hated that sequence in 2001. It was such a waste of time for anyone who wasn't high out of their minds.

 

[Jebusetti]

I would have to nominate the original Gone in 60 Seconds for that EPIC car chase; it really was the ONLY redeeming part of that flick.

Very cool list, but...


The Protector (one-take fight): This is much more impressive to movie nerds than other people. Sometimes appreciating why a scene is SOOOO awesome requires at least a cursory understanding of the craft of movie making, but if appreciating that a scene is awesome forces you to be aware of the film-making process, most people aren't going to get it. This scene is slow-paced and plodding, even by 70's kung fu standards. Because of the way my brain has been trained by modern cinema, rather than thinking "holy crap, they're doing all this in one take", when they didn't cut as he went up the stairs, my first thought was "What the hell is going on? I can't see anything from this angle".

My Brother is an extra in this scene (tall white guy #2, the asshole that runs by and looks at the camera at one part) and he told me they only filmed it twice, which makes it more impressive. The first time they got part way through, then when that guy gets thrown over the balcony and smashes that pagoda thing it didn't break right, he got fucked up and they had to do it again.

 

[jerrrry]

Similar to the Swordfish scene is Katie Holmes near the end of The Gift...I don't remember anything about the plot of the movie, but I remember one scene...It's made funnier because they reference it in Harold and Kumar.

 

[NeoAC]

Is it just me, or did that Protector fight scene just look like one long version of that test at the police academy? Don't hit the lady! Don't hit the guy in the suit! Hit the dudes in leather! Bang Bang Bang!

Still very entertaining though.

 

[maninahat]

I hated that sequence in 2001. It was such a waste of time for anyone who wasn't high out of their minds.

Same could be said for most scenes of the damn movie. Why do we need to see ten minutes of space ships floating around to the Blue Danube waltz? Couldn't they have established as much in 20 seconds?

 

[maninahat]

Oh, yeah, who could forget this memorable scene from the house of wax remake?

 

[Sovvolf]

The new Predators film is full of these... Sort of a mash up between seeing a Predator on Predator fight or the Sword duel with the Predator.

Very cool list, but...


The Protector (one-take fight): This is much more impressive to movie nerds than other people. Sometimes appreciating why a scene is SOOOO awesome requires at least a cursory understanding of the craft of movie making, but if appreciating that a scene is awesome forces you to be aware of the film-making process, most people aren't going to get it. This scene is slow-paced and plodding, even by 70's kung fu standards. Because of the way my brain has been trained by modern cinema, rather than thinking "holy crap, they're doing all this in one take", when they didn't cut as he went up the stairs, my first thought was "What the hell is going on? I can't see anything from this angle".

Try watching that as a film student, amateur director and a martial artist (who also studies Muay Thai (or Muy Thai as Bob spells it)) that scene has been put on my top ten for best ever scenes filmed... I watched that and I almost drooled. Takes more talent than people would realise to pull that off, not just having the camera in the perfect positions at the perfect time. No, the choreography, the timing of the actors had to be perfect in order to pull that off, not one goof, not one mistake... missing a move or anything... Had to be perfect and it was.

Though sadly, to my friends who aren't media savvy... They don't really see the big deal.

 

[Museli]

"Do you expect me to talk?"

"No, Mr. Bond! I expect you to die."

 

[godbrain]

Just a couple of secondary suggestions:

Exorcist III - "the hallway scene" I love the film, but know a lot of people hate it. But, I also know that most of the people that don't like it admit that the "hallway scene" is one of the best moments in any horror film.

Nemisis - "getting out of the hotel room" - at the time, it was a jaw-dropping sequence in a terrible terrible movie. So, good that Matrix lifted it wholesale.

 

[TaboriHK]

Same could be said for most scenes of the damn movie. Why do we need to see ten minutes of space ships floating around to the Blue Danube waltz? Couldn't they have established as much in 20 seconds?

I liked that. The movie was slow pace-wise but the shots are so brilliantly realized that they stand the test of time fantastically.

 

[reeper4444]

One part of a movie I always remember is in Aliens. For me there are so many memorable moments but the one I remember above all is when the marines are falling back to the APC and an alien puts it's head through the door. Then someone shoves a shotgun in it's mouth and blows a hole in the back of it's head. I couldn't help but burst out laughing