What your film cool moment/scenes you like about?

[Funt Solo]

Man, tk421.net - those nerds!

http://www.tk421.net/lotr/film/ttt/26.html">Their precious bandwidth.

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The Big Sleep:

Vivian: You go too far, Marlowe.

Marlowe: Those are harsh words to throw at a man, especially when he's walking out of your bedroom.

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But the best bit is:

Vivian: Speaking of horses, I like to play them myself. But I like to see them work out a little first, see if they're front-runners or come from behind, find out what their whole card is, what makes them run.

Marlowe: Find out mine?

Vivian: I think so.

Marlowe: Go ahead.

Vivian: I'd say you don't like to be rated. You like to get out in front, open up a lead, take a little breather in the backstretch, and then come home free.

Marlowe: You don't like to be rated yourself.

Vivian: I haven't met anyone yet that can do it. Any suggestions?

Marlowe: Well, I can't tell till I've seen you over a distance of ground. You've got a touch of class, but I don't know how, how far you can go.

Vivian: A lot depends on who's in the saddle.

[TordelBack]

Mmmm, Vertigo, the American Werewolf Curtain-jumping Nazis, Big Lebowski, all superb.  

I'd have to throw in some more recent favourites:

The lighting of the White Mountains beacons in Jackson's Return of the King, beautiful scenery, stirring swirling music, makes one want to thwack an orc right there and then.

The magnificent urban running battle at the end of Children of Men, a movie I cannot commend highly enough as a sustained piece of film-making, even if the plot is a bit naff.

The highway-cop'n'porn-mag sequence in Little Miss Sunshine.  

[Hoagy]

Hey you GUYS!

the goonies

[Wils]

"I know you gentlemen have been through a lot, but when you find the time, I'd rather not spend the rest of this winter TIED TO THIS FUCKING COUCH!"

The Thing is chock-a-block with fantastic lines.

"I don't know what the hell's in there, but it's weird and pissed off, whatever it is."

"They dig it up. They cart it back. It gets thawed out. Wakes up probably not in the best of moods..."

"That thing wanted to be *uuuuussss*!

[TordelBack]

Here, funt, while I love the Theoden sequence cited above, the very next bit always makes me laugh:  

Aragorn commands a troop of Elven archers (the very ones Legolas wishes for in the book, but never gets) on high ground overlooking a narrow breach in the Deeping Wall. His tactics?  "Charge!".  

Later, against all odds Theoden reaches the walls of Minas Tirith with his remaining horsemen, looks around and sees the outrageously large and somewhat impregnable Oliphaunts.  His tactics?  "Charge!".    

Later still, at the Black Gate, the Captains of the West hold a convenient hillock, encircled by the host of Mordor.  Their tactics?  "Charge!".

It's no wonder the heirs of Westernesse are all-but extinct.

[Dark Jimbo]

The entrance of the priest during Peter Jackson's Brain Dead, kung-fu kicking three biker zombies to death in a New Zealand graveyard.

'I kicked arse for the Lord!'

[Funt Solo]

It's true - all slightly foolhardly choices.  Mind you, one of the things I like about the heroic figures in the LOTR trilogy is that they're all flawed.  Theoden in particular is given to bouts of despair.  In all cases, as well, they're horribly outnumbered and (as far as they're concerned) sacrificing themselves as a delaying action.  Well, maybe not with the Oliphaunts.  That was stupid.  I mean, those things couldn't get into the city anyway, so why not just ride around for a while till they got tired?

[Hoagy]

baby ROOT!

the goonies

[Hoagy]

Turkish;- d'yer take sugar?

Bricktop;- No thankyou Turkish. (pause) I'm sweet enough.


Killer line from Snatch.

[satchmo]

The Goonies is an immortal classic.
"I don't wear a hairpiece!"

I love the scene in The Burbs where the neighbours go to The Klopek's for tea.
"you keep a HORSE in the basement?!"

Didn't know this existed until recently:

Link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6uEiSvdmxF4" target="_blank">burbs alternate ending

[Eck]

LA Confidential, when Ed Exley asks Jack Vincennes why he became a cop. Vincennes says he cant remember.

Why? Because in this one scene, every single thing Vincennes and Exley do in the film is explained, both before and after this conversation.

That is cool. In my opinion.

And the scene in The Big Lebowski when The Dude gets his head dunked into the toilet time after time.

'Obviously, you're not a golfer'.

[TordelBack]

Odd thing:  I've avoided watching LA Confidential, despite innumerable excelleny reports, because I found the book to be so gobsmackingly wonderful that I never wanted to spoil my memories of it in the slightest degree.  Anyone else read-then-seen, and care to persuade me?

[Steve Green]

Couldn't say, but I can't imagine the difference is as jarring as the Black Dahlia book and film.

Other choices - done to death but...

I'll make it a Spielberg Special

Jurassic Park.
Not the T-rex attack, but the glimpse of the dinosaurs by the lake after the reveal of the Brachiosaur.

Saving Private Ryan
The Omaha beach opening was the most intense thing I'd seen for quite a while.

Raiders of the Lost Ark
The bit when it all goes tits up after the Ark is opened

Jaws
Ben Gardner's head says hello

[Funt Solo]

Ah, Tordelback, I saw then read.

It's such a great book, you're right - but (and this is generally agreed upon) the film is a very good adaptation.  It is an adaptation, though, and (without spoilerising) does considerably alter the events of the book.  

It's a great film noir, though - and I think everyone deserves to see these excellent performances.  It's really top of their game stuff, from all the cast.

I think it manages to retain the gritty feel of the books, but doesn't descend quite as far into the murk.  I mean, those books - they're punishing stuff.  It's like all Ellroy books seem to feature a triumvarate of amoral bastards - who do you root for when everyone's a bad guy?

[vzzbux]

The end credits to the Judge Dredd film.




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