What your film cool moment/scenes you like about?

[ThryllSeekyr]

No, I'm very excited by my own messages.

[TordelBack]

Years latyer I finally releised why liked thsi film so much. I think it was the way it sold Amaerica, without actualley selling America. You would this quaint ;looking town sprawled in one of the hills of Californa. Surrounded by idyllic forests with giant, oaks and redwood trees.

Blimey, TS, you put your finger on it there.  As a kid, I was mesmerised by the setting of ET too, the strange new suburbia, the idea that there could be coyotes in the back yard, that Elliot could just cycle up the road and be lost in a vast redwood forest, the idea that kids could order a pizza delivery (!), this foreign strangeness added to the amazingly real details from my own life (Greedo, Hammerhead and Dungeons and Dragons) was at least as intriguing as the arrival of an alien.  

Other than the silly recent CGI-ing, my only real beef with ET is when I express (or am suspected to harbour) carnal interest in the adult Drew Barrymore, whereupon my better half will hold up one wavering finger and intone "Gerrrrtie".  Yeuchh.

[Goaty]

yeah TS, every time i try read any of your messages, i nearly fell sleep!

[Richmond Clements]

Thought of another one just now.

The end of RotK, after Arragon in crowned and he says to the Hobbitses, 'My friends, you bow to no-one'- fills me up every single time.

[ThryllSeekyr]

Retropectively that scene always had me wondering if Aragorn should of thought that 'Your Hobbits always look like bowing to me, yet I now realise your just all very short.'

[TordelBack]

Ah poor Viggo, I wonder did he realise when he said that that it would be the last good line he would ever get?

[Goaty]

Whatchoo talkin' bout, TordelBack?

[TordelBack]

Well, okay, I haven't seen History of Violence, but Hidalgo saw me nodding off, and I can't help thinking Aragorn is Mortensen's equivalent of Crowe's Maximus.  

[chris_askham]

The battle between Kaneda's gang and the Clowns in Akira has to be one of the most adrenalin-charged sequences in any film, animated or otherwise.

[Goaty]

Viggo's next film Eastern Promises looks really eerie for Viggo's Character!

[johnnystress]

Crowe was great as Hando too

Speaking of great movie moments:

Nice middle class guy listening to Bizets Pearl Fishers turns around to be greeted by...

Link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QcyUQNNZs7A" target="_blank">"We came to wreck everything , and ruin your life.

[vzzbux]

The first 20 mins of Saving Ryan's Privates, my eyes were glued to the screen. Awesome piece of cinematic history. This is the only film I have been to the cinema twice to see.



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[Funt Solo]

::"Aragorn is Mortensen's equivalent of Crowe's Maximus."

Jack Aubrey, shurely?

[Floyd-the-k]

Wils, your memory of Mad Max is accurate.  Other good bits from that flick include:

Fat Cop: Fer Christ's sake move over, I'm driving!
Skinny Cop (nervously moving over) "You're a blasphemer. I don't have to work with a blasphemer"
  (because it's so odd, so inconsquential in the middle of a frenzied chase scene)

and of course the scene where Max sees the last of the V8s in the Melbourne Univeristy underground car park.

Goose: You've seen it Max. And you're still asking questions?
Max revs the bejesus out of the engine, then turns it off
Max: When do we go for a ride?


Oh and the scen in Wings of Desire where the angel reads Nick Cave's mind.

Nick Cave (thinks) I'm not gonna tell you about a girl. I'm not gonna tell you about a girl.
(sings) I wanna tell you 'bout a girl.... (beginning of 'From Her To Eternity'

[adeh20]

What about the bit from Mad Max 2, where the guy goes to catch the feral kids boomerang... "I Got, I Got urk!"