Monday, March 12, 2007

Movie Moments

Hundreds of movies are made per year (not counting porn or Bollywood) and I have hardly the time to keep up with the new ones seeing as my money and time are limited... plus there's too much quality of tv (do not debate me on this!). I wonder why I even spend so much time trying to burn and collect old movies. I haven't got time to watch them again! But there are puh-lenty of great movie moments that I'ld like to revisit. Perhaps I should do a collection of movie moments - sort of like a music collection.

You know how you put all the best mp3s on one CD. Most albums only have about 3 or 4 decent songs on them and many movies only have a few decent scenes. This would be my compilations of movie moments (and yes, I know that the lead up and build up is important but let's just focus on the moments for the moment.

Excluding horror movies... 'cause that's a whole other post:

  • The final Crane kick in the Karate Kid
  • The scene where the Captain joins in with his kids in a verse of Eidlevies (sound of Music)
  • When William Wallace dies while yelling FREEDOM
  • When the boy is reunited with his mother (Life is Beautiful)
  • Indiana Jones simply shoots the sword wielding bad guy
  • Obi Wan screams, "You were meant to be the chosen one"
  • Robocop blows away the bad guy and is asked his name - "Murphy"
  • Bill Murray trying to kill himself in Groundhog Day
  • The T-rex attacks the tour car in Jurassic Park
  • Ramis and Murray's banter in the recruiting office - Stripes
  • "I'm innocent!" "I don't care!" - The Fugitive
  • Street fight - Superman 2
  • Evil Dead 3 - Ash suits up and roars the chainsaw
  • Clock tower - Spiderman 2
  • Axel at strip show - Beverly Hills Cop
  • Forklift suit verses Alien queen - Aliens
  • Any scene in Sin City
  • The sword duel in The Princess Bride
  • The town meeting in Footloose
Very tempting to list mostly the final moments of a movie... those moments that lift your heart before the credits roll.

eg. When the essay is read out in The Breakfast Club or Dundee walks over the crowd's heads to get his girl...

The Breakfast Club - One of my favorite scenes is when John Bender is lecturing the rest on how belonging to a school club is rediculous and Brian timidly announces that he's in the physics club. When Bender asks him what it is that they do in the physics club, Brian replies "We study physics...and properties of physics."

2 comments:

Why I Don't Believe said...

Leia: I love you.

Han: I know.

The Empire Strikes Back

Handsome B. Wonderful said...

I love The Breakfast Club. It's a classic. And yeah, the reading of the essay is brilliant.

My current moment fav?? From the newly released, "300." I won't give the full scene away but:

Persian messenger: "This is madness!!"

King Leonidis: "THIS IS SPARTA!!!"

Another favorite is from my all time favorite movie, The Big Lebowski:

Mr. Lebowski: YOU DON'T GO OUT LOOKING FOR A JOB LOOKING LIKE THAT DO YOU?!! On a WEEK DAY?!!!

The Dude: "What day is this?? Is this a weekday???"

Then later in the same movie "The Dude" is being introduced to Mr. Lebowski's "trophy wife", "Bunny."

The Dude: Oh!! You're Bunny!!!

Bunny(wearing a skimpy bikini): "I'll suck your c*ck for a $100."