Random movie scene thread

[DanOregon]

This scene always gets me rolling.
"Mike Douglas makes me moist. Only white man who ever did that."

 

[Moderator1]

Love this from The Sting

 

[DanOregon]

Dennis Farina at his finest in Midnight Run. (NSFW-language)


My other fave from the movie.

 

[Neutral Corner]

William Goldman's screenplay describes the moment that fight is resolved. "As he finishes speaking, Butch delivers the most aesthetically exquisite kick in the balls in modern American cinema".

The screenplay is online for free at http://www.dailyscript.com/scripts/Butch_Cassidy_and_the_Sundance_Kid.pdf

It's a fabulous read, not just for the dialogue but for the descriptive language throughout. Well worth the read.

 

[Chef2]

Love this from The Sting

One of my favorite clips from one of my favorite movies.

 

[Moderator1]

Yep. The look on the dude's face when Newman laid down his hand makes the scene.

Not in that clip: WHAT WAS I SUPPOSED TO DO, CALL HIM FOR CHEATING BETTER THAN ME IN FRONT OF THE OTHERS?

 

[Chef2]

Yep. The look on the dude's face when Newman laid down his hand makes the scene.

Not in that clip: WHAT WAS I SUPPOSED TO DO, CALL HIM FOR CHEATING BETTER THAN ME IN FRONT OF THE OTHERS?

The camera panning in on the 4 jacks that coincides with the train whistle.
Just perfection.

 

[Huggy]

Yep. The look on the dude's face when Newman laid down his hand makes the scene.

Not in that clip: WHAT WAS I SUPPOSED TO DO, CALL HIM FOR CHEATING BETTER THAN ME IN FRONT OF THE OTHERS?

'Your boss is a very good card player. How does he do it?"

"He cheats."

 

[Batman]

A classic scene for any 80s kid. But the first 45-60 seconds, when "The Touch" kicks in and Optimus lays waste to the entire Decepticon army to get to Megatron, is a perfect 10 on the badassery scale.

 

[micropolitan guy]

I'm not gonna link it but the Terrance Mann "People will come Ray, people will come" scene from Field of Dreams is an all-time classic.

 

[DanielSimpsonDay]

A classic scene for any 80s kid. But the first 45-60 seconds, when "The Touch" kicks in and Optimus lays waste to the entire Decepticon army to get to Megatron, is a perfect 10 on the badassery scale.

All these years later I still can't believe they went here.

 

[Batman]

All these years later I still can't believe they went here.

That's the one people always talk about, but the deaths that always stuck with me were the earlier ones on the shuttle. Those cheap Korean animators somehow perfectly captured this horrific look of pain, confusion and fear on Prowl's face as he gets shot, his insides start melting, smoke pours out of his mouth and he realizes he's going to die (at the 34-second mark), all in about two seconds. Somebody described that to me when I was 10, before I had seen the movie, and it gave me the chills. Even seeing it now, 34 years later, it is still haunting.
Poor Ratchet gets taken down in a heroic stand that leaves holes in him. Brawn explodes. And then Ironhide ... damn.
If Optimus' last stand that I linked above is his greatest moment, the one that defines him as a badass hero, then coldly sneering, slinging out a one-liner and blowing off Ironhide's head at point blank range is Megatron's. Just so damn cold and evil. He was never a more lethal threat than in that scene.

Those were four Autobots that had been a huge part of the TV series. Characters we had grown to know and love as kids for two years at that point. And they're all brutally murdered in the first 10 minutes of the movie. Up until that point, we had seen Transformers get shot and injured, but they were always repaired. Everything was OK in the end. This scene showed they could die. It changed all of the rules.

 

[Scout]

 

[Garner]

Absolute perfection.

 

[DanielSimpsonDay]

That's the one people always talk about, but the deaths that always stuck with me were the earlier ones on the shuttle. Those cheap Korean animators somehow perfectly captured this horrific look of pain, confusion and fear on Prowl's face as he gets shot, his insides start melting, smoke pours out of his mouth and he realizes he's going to die (at the 34-second mark), all in about two seconds. Somebody described that to me when I was 10, before I had seen the movie, and it gave me the chills. Even seeing it now, 34 years later, it is still haunting.
Poor Ratchet gets taken down in a heroic stand that leaves holes in him. Brawn explodes. And then Ironhide ... damn.
If Optimus' last stand that I linked above is his greatest moment, the one that defines him as a badass hero, then coldly sneering, slinging out a one-liner and blowing off Ironhide's head at point blank range is Megatron's. Just so damn cold and evil. He was never a more lethal threat than in that scene.

Those were four Autobots that had been a huge part of the TV series. Characters we had grown to know and love as kids for two years at that point. And they're all brutally murdered in the first 10 minutes of the movie. Up until that point, we had seen Transformers get shot and injured, but they were always repaired. Everything was OK in the end. This scene showed they could die. It changed all of the rules.

You just took me way back, man. I know where my YouTube adventures are going tomorrow. Thanks for helping me remember.

 

[garrow]

Cop Land.

 

[outofplace]

That's the one people always talk about, but the deaths that always stuck with me were the earlier ones on the shuttle. Those cheap Korean animators somehow perfectly captured this horrific look of pain, confusion and fear on Prowl's face as he gets shot, his insides start melting, smoke pours out of his mouth and he realizes he's going to die (at the 34-second mark), all in about two seconds. Somebody described that to me when I was 10, before I had seen the movie, and it gave me the chills. Even seeing it now, 34 years later, it is still haunting.
Poor Ratchet gets taken down in a heroic stand that leaves holes in him. Brawn explodes. And then Ironhide ... damn.
If Optimus' last stand that I linked above is his greatest moment, the one that defines him as a badass hero, then coldly sneering, slinging out a one-liner and blowing off Ironhide's head at point blank range is Megatron's. Just so damn cold and evil. He was never a more lethal threat than in that scene.

Those were four Autobots that had been a huge part of the TV series. Characters we had grown to know and love as kids for two years at that point. And they're all brutally murdered in the first 10 minutes of the movie. Up until that point, we had seen Transformers get shot and injured, but they were always repaired. Everything was OK in the end. This scene showed they could die. It changed all of the rules.

I agree. This scene is far more jarring than the death of Optimus Prime. In hindsight, it is hard not to think it was all driven by Hasbro's desire to sell more toys. Kill off a bunch of old characters and introduce a bunch of new ones.

The did the second part of that with G.I. Joe: The Movie, too, but they stopped short on the killing. The story I've heard was that due to the backlash over killing off Optimus Prime (temporarily), they changed their plans to kill Duke and actually had him survive in the G.I. Joe movie, which came out a year later.

 

[outofplace]

How has this one not been posted yet?

 

[garrow]

Network has a lot of great scenes, obviously, but here's my favorite:

 

[Baron Scicluna]

Someone posted a clip of The Paper on another thread, and I tried to come up with a witty response using Keaton's rant, but I couldn't.

Spalding Gray is also great in this scene. I looked him up, and he had a very sad end to his life.