Saturday, June 28, 2008

Favourite movie SCENES.

Everybody makes a list of their favourite movies, but have you ever stopped to wonder what your favourite movies SCENES are? Well, here are mine:

1. The running gun battle in Heat. Seriously, not many shootouts get as gritty and realistic as this one. Not so much for the thousands of bullets being fired, but more so for the deathly silence between salvos with only the sound of breathing being heard. I don't even think there is any background music playing either.

2. Death Star trench run in Star Wars. Despite being made before I was born (yes, by a good 2 years even!) the death star trench run has you right in that cockpit with Luke.

3. The trashed Ferrari in Ferris Bueller's Day Off. Never, in any movie I have seen, is the word 'shit' so eloquently spoken as when after the Ferrari gets knocked off its axle stands and careers out of the window into the forest below.

4. The shotgun under the newspaper in Terminator 2. The scene, where Arnie walks into the building with a newspaper, then, in slow motion, whilst walking with intent through the hallway, the newspaper falls off, revealing the 12-gauge shotgun underneath. Classic cinema.

5.The "I Just Sharted" scene in Along Came Polly: Despite the fact that this movie just is not funny, the scene where Phillip Seymour Hoffman tells Ben Stiller that they need to leave the party because he just 'sharted' is simply one of the funniest moments in cinema.

6. Arnie having breakfast in Pumping Iron: A lesson in how to fully psyche out an opponent. Arnie, sitting having breakfast with Louie Ferrigno, his main rival, on the morning of competing at the Mr Olympia, and telling him how is he going to feel when he holds up the trophy. Confidence with a capital C. Oh, and then questioning Louie on his choice of food for breakfast, sowing even more doubt in his mind. Poor Louie.

7. Private Pyle wigging out in Full Metal Jacket: Yeah, when he shoots the drill instructor in the toilet. You might think yourself an enlightened person, and think "oh no, vengeance is never an answer to anything", but after watching Pyle get continuously harassed and berated by the drill sergeant over the course of one agonising hour, even fricken Ghandi would be calling for some sort of vengeance to be served. And when he gets it, you can hear that little voice in your head go "yeah, take that you evil S.O.B.!"

8. The "My Sharona" scene in Reality Bites. Haven't we all wanted to have a boogy at the local 7-11??

9. After John Cusack's character in Grosse Pointe Blank kills that guy in the school corridor and sits down and says to himself "This is me breathing." Seriously, if you lie in bed at night, and say that to yourself, you get a weird sense of self-realisation.

10. When Steven Segal shoots the arch villain in Under Siege 2. Despite this movie being, well, a bit below par, the scene where Segal shoots the arch villian and his laptop to foil their attempts at global sabotage is just a guilty pleasure to watch.

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