No, later....
Posted on 12/12/2005 7:57:17 AM PST by pissant
Everyone knows by now that Pissant is not an expert, like MaximusofTexas, when it comes to movie reviews. The main problem of course is that Pissant has generally avoided anything that Hollywood has produced in the last 20 years. Fortuantely, most of the cinematic classics were made well before this self-imposed boycott started. So now, I will list the definitive "most powerful moments".
They may be sad, scary, heartwarming, patriotic, etc.
Top 7 Most Powerful Moments in Cinema History
7. The Deerhunter- Russian Roulette POW scene --The actors in the Deerhunter, particularly DeNiro and Cristopher Walken make it seem incredibly real. The intensity of that scene as POWs being forced to play Russian roulette and the subsequent escape is one for the ages.
6. Outlaw Josie Wales - Snoose on the Dead guy's head -- After a gunfight where Josie (Clint Eastwood) and his sidekick end up killing the bad guys, his young companion frets that they should at least bury the dead out of respect. Instead, Clint hocks a mouthful of tobacco juice onto a cadaver's forehead, and flatly states that "the buzzards gotta eat too"
5. Casablanca- Rick says goodbye -- Thinking that she would be staying with Rick (Humphrey Bogart) as her husband Lazlo gets on the plane to America, Bogie gives Ilsa (Ingrid) the bad news. The strength to be able to give up her love in the cause of patriotism is amazing.
4. Exorcist- The head spin -- If you grew up Catholic, you believe in the devil. And that's what makes the Exorcist SO real (plus it was based on a true story). If the head spin scene did not creep you out, nothing will.
3. The Unbearable Lightness of Being- Girls playing -- I know, not everyone's cup of tea. But seeing Thomas' wife (Juliette Binoche) meet his mistress (Lena Olin) and the two have a playful, flirtatious rendevous.....well it's powerful to me. It helps that both are very gorgeous!!
2. Patton- "the speech to the Third Army" -- This movie is near perfect all the way through, but is most powerful just listening to George C. Scott recite the (somewhat sanitized) speech to the troops. Hollywood is incapable anymore of treating our Generals and Soldiers as the heroes that they are.
1. It's a Wonderful Life - George sees the light -- The angel Clarence's hard work finally pays off. George Bailey realizes how important he is to his family, community and to God, and has a tearful reunion with his family. It chokes me up, no matter how many times I see it. Merry Christmas!
yep...you don't really see that coming though you know Quigley is unlikely to get clipped.
No, later....
I must admit that I broke out laughing when I saw that photo! Between that Sillius Sodus/Biggus Dickus scene and the scene with the crowd laughing at Pontius Pilate we have a tough choice.
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For those of you who are curious about the text of General Patton's speech, just click on the link. WARNING: contains strong language.
Well, I've gotten into this one kinda late, but here's my two cents:
The cropduster scene in North by Northwest.
Watching the clock tick to noon in High Noon.
In The Flight of the Phoenix, when Jimmy Stewart realizes that the airplane designer only works with model airplanes.
In The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance, where Jimmy Stewart’s character is riding out of town on the train, and he and his wife have this shared secret that they owe their lives and happiness to the sacrifice made by John Wayne’s character. The whole weight of the sad story of John Wayne’s unrewarded good deed and his lifetime of disappointment hang like a cloud over them, and you feel like you’re carrying the burden, too.
The Fugitive: Harrison Ford jumping off the dam. (Also, when Harrison Ford says, “I didn’t kill my wife.” And Tommy Lee Jones says, “I don’t care.” Great delivery.)
I've always been fond of the scene in "The Godfather" where Michael is explaining his plan to murder Sollozzo and Captain McCluskey to Sonny and Tom Hagen. Coppolla's slow, shadowy Close-Up is always a Must See High-Point in the film.
On a smaller scale, any or every scene in "The French Connection" that features Gene Hackman and Roy Scheider trading comments or quips. The essence of a "Partner Fim", not a "Buddy Film".
The two work off each other with grace and ease. Probably due to William Friedken having the actors ride with and accompany uniformed and plainclotes detectives throught different precincts for more than a month before shooting began.
Jack.
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1. Bells of St. Mary's: In the last scene, when Father O'Malley finnaly tells Sister Benedict why shes being sent to Arizona.. I cried buckets LOL
2. The Passion of The Christ: As Jesus carries His cross, Mary begs John to get her closer to Him. She emerges into His path just as He fall under the weight of the cross. She runs to Him, and as she does so the film cuts between this, and a similar moment when Jesus was a child and fell outside the house. While she could offer him protection then, now she is powerless; she weeps as the guards push her roughly away from her son.
3. The Exorcist: Yeah, the head spinning, vomiting and sound of her voice scared the bejesus out of me. Im pretty sure thats one reason I cant watch ANY movie that deals with demonic possession
4. From Here to Eternity: Burt Lancaster and Deborah Kerrs "beach scene"....
5 Second Hand Lions: When Robert Duvall Says "Sometimes the things that may or may not be true are the things a man needs to believe in the most. That people are basically good; that honor, courage, and virtue mean everything; that power and money, money and power mean nothing; that good always triumphs over evil; and I want you to remember this, that love... true love never dies. You remember that, boy. You remember that. Doesn't matter if it's true or not. You see, a man should believe in those things, because those are the things worth believing in."
MM
"Jaws. When Brody sees the shark for the first time, noting laconically, "You're gonna need a bigger boat"
The scene I can't get out of my mind is at the beginning of the movie, when the girl is out swimming in the dark and the shark pulls her under the water and she bobs up with that startled look on her face and then she disappears under the water.
The scene in "Terms of Endearment" when Shirley MacLaine is screaming at the nurses in the hospital "My daughter needs drugs!" "Get her some drugs".
"Last of the Mohicans" The entire movie.
"On Golden Pond" when Hepburn tells Henry Fonda "You're my knight in shining armor"
"About Schmidt" at the end, when Jack Nicholson reads the letter and starts to cry.
One that I should add to my earlier post:
In Toto, a brilliant film, probably Mankiewicz's best, Cleopatra's entry into Rome, on the giant moveable Sphinx.
"The scene in "Terms of Endearment" when Shirley MacLaine is screaming at the nurses in the hospital "My daughter needs drugs!" "Get her some drugs". "
Drats, that movie completely slipped my mind, and Im not sure how... I cried more times during that movie, than any one Ive seen.
MM
That's so funny you mentioned that. Use of the word "exponentially."
I was on a Guilani/McCain thread a couple of days ago, and a FReeper responded to me using that word.........I even had to look it up.....lol.
I'll have to check to see if it was the same person.
I don't know how to post an old comment, so I can't show it to you.
My mistake. It was on a New Orleans thread. About the rebuilding of NOLA. People were comparing it to NY after 9/11.
And it wasn't posted to me, so I can't find it.
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Me too.......
I think the poster said something like this:
You have to admit, the lost in New Orleans after Katrina, was exponentially greater than the loss to NYC after 9/11.
One entry found for exponential.
Main Entry: ex·po·nen·tial
Pronunciation: "ek-sp&-'nen-ch&l
Function: adjective
1 : of or relating to an exponent
2 : involving a variable in an exponent <10x is an exponential expression>
3 : expressible or approximately expressible by an exponential function; especially : characterized by or being an extremely rapid increase (as in size or extent) <an exponential growth rate>
- ex·po·nen·tial·ly /-'nench-(&-)lE/ adverb
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