Comments on: 3D Weekend Five: Movie Moments

By: Rufus

Rufus — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 15:56:22 +0000

Matt,

This: “my brother and I had no knowledge of TV programming, we just thought if we were lucky when we turned on the TV in the basement, Planet of the Apes would be on. Whether it was the movies or TV show, it didn’t matter. When we lucked out and it was on it just reinforced our belief that the TV was some sort of Planet of the Ape Slot Machine.”

is one of the funniest things I have read in a long time!

By: Vincent Wong

Vincent Wong — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 10:07:27 +0000

5. Forrest Gump: “I never thanked you for saving my life”…

4. The Incredibles: “Mayday, mayday, India-Golf-Niner-Niner is buddy spiked! Abort, abort, there are children aboard, say again, there are children aboard this plane!”

3. The Best Years of Our Lives: [after Peggy tells her parents that they never had any trouble in their relationship]
Milly Stephenson: “We never had any trouble.” How many times have I told you I hated you and believed it in my heart? How many times have you said you were sick and tired of me; that we were all washed up? How many times have we had to fall in love all over again?

2. Rocky Balboa: That speech.

1. The Dark Knight: “Some men just want to watch the world burn.”

By: Kit

Kit — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 20:20:01 +0000

Monty Pytho and The Holy Grail: The whole movie itself is in another category!

By: bob

bob — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 19:36:08 +0000

In no particular order:

From “Miller’s Crossing,” as Gabriel Byrne looks cooly down the barrel of his pistol and asks, with a voice straight from the grave, “What heart?”

From “The Iron Giant,” as the Iron Giant flies into the sky, tilts back his head, closes his eyes, and chooses to be Superman.

From “Casablanca,” during the singing of La Marseillaise, but not the singing, only Yvonne, who moments before had been flirting with the enemy, and now, with this song, is reminded of all she has lost.

From “Gladiator,” Maximus as he turns to introduce himself: “Maximus Decimus Meridius, commander of the armies of the north, general of the Felix Legions, loyal servant to eht rue emperor, Marcus Aurelius. Father to a murdered son, husband to a murdered wife…”

From “Hero,” where Jet Li chooses to let the emperor live and, without hesitation, turns and leaves to face his fate.

By: Scott M.

Scott M. — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 15:21:21 +0000

I forgot…”LA Confidential”.Russell Crowe is giving the DA a swirly…when he yanks his head out of the toilet,the DA screams,”Get him off me,Exley!”.Guy Peerse(Exley) deadpans,”I don’t know how.”

By: Matt Helm

Matt Helm — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 02:53:13 +0000

JWH, you’re right. Now that I think of it, it was John Dall that dropped the rope in the kitchen drawer.

By: Jake Was Here

Jake Was Here — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 01:08:09 +0000

That piece of business from Rope was brilliant — as I recall, Hitch had one of the grips lying on the floor to make sure the door swung properly. But it wasn’t the maid involved in the scene — it was one of the villains, I think.

By: Jake Was Here

Jake Was Here — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 01:03:27 +0000

REAR WINDOW – Grace Kelly is investigating the apartment, and suddenly Raymond Burr appears on the other side.

NORTH BY NORTHWEST – “Funny… That plane’s dusting crops where there ain’t no crops.”

SHADOW OF A DOUBT – Joe Cotten’s rant, where you find out just how twisted he really is. “The world’s a hell! What does it matter what happens in it?”

DIAL M FOR MURDER – John Williams deliberately taking the wrong raincoat. One of the best “oh shit, I think he’s got him” moments in cinema history.

By: Jake Was Here

Jake Was Here — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 00:52:39 +0000

I can’t decide which is the greatest director of all time, Hitchcock or Akira Kurosawa. I think my top ten list would feature only their movies if I ever got around to writing it.

Another five for my list:

IKIRU – Takashi Shimura is out having coffee with his secretary, telling her for the first time that he has cancer and his days are numbered. They’re mulling over whether he has something to live for still… and suddenly the look of inspiration comes into his eyes, and he leaps joyfully from the table and rushes for the exit — as another table full of people begins singing “Happy Birthday”.

YOJIMBO – Toshiro Mifune conducting a middle-of-the-night raid all by himself, and then making an even bigger mess to make it look like it was a whole gang that came through instead of just one guy.

THE GOOD, THE BAD AND THE UGLY – “If you’re gonna shoot, shoot. Don’t talk.”

A CLOCKWORK ORANGE – “Turn it off! Turn it off! Turn it off!”

KILL BILL VOLUME TWO – The truth-serum sequence, including David Carradine’s Superman rant. (I put this here because this list frankly needs David Carradine.)

By: Matt Helm

Matt Helm — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 00:51:14 +0000

5. Pickup on South Street (1953) – Richard Widmark lives in a shack on stilts above the Hudson or East River. There’s this scene where he pulls up this crate out of the river on a rope to hide microfilm he stole and pulls a beer out of the crate. He used it as a refrigerator.
4. Rope (1948) – There one continuous shot of the maid who just went through the swinging kitchen door, dropping the piece of rope into a drawer. The thing is that it was timed perfectly where the door swings open after she goes through it, and you see her holding the string up above an open kitchen drawer and then the door swings shut for a second, and as it swings the opposite way, you see her drop it in the drawer. You’d have to see it to really appreciate it.
3. Some Came Running (1958) – The end scene where Dean Martin’s character, Bama Dillert, takes off his hat at Shirley MacLaine’s funeral, when he made a big thing throughout the movie that he never takes off his lucky hat.
2. Stagecoach (1939) – The introductory shot of The Duke was the best of its kind, where the camera zooms up to him in the coach’s path.
1. Planet of the Apes (1968) – When the apes first come on screen in the movie, on horseback in the corn field … that was the pinnacle of my childhood. In the 70s, my brother and I had no knowledge of TV programming, we just thought if we were lucky when we turned on the TV in the basement, Planet of the Apes would be on. Whether it was the movies or TV show, it didn’t matter. When we lucked out and it was on it just reinforced our belief that the TV was some sort of Planet of the Ape Slot Machine.