Guys always get around to the fart jokes! :-)
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!
Only one better death scene....Slim Pickens and Katy Jurado in Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid. They play an older married couple who are still very much in love. There's a shoot-out and she picks up a rifle when he gets in trouble. It looks like he's ok at the end but then he sits on a log by the stream, opens his coat and we see the blood. The series of looks that these two actors exchange as they wordlessly acknowledge everything, with Dylan's "Knocking on Heaven's Door" in the background, is about the best forty seconds ever put on film.
King Kong - at that moment when the music changes and you know for sure that the planes are getting to him.
"Slim Pickens and Katy Jurado in Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid."
You see, you are making me cry just describing it. I'm not big on westerns, although hubby likes them so I see plenty of them. Never saw this one, but maybe I will one day, I'll make a point to remember it.
I'm a writer and film-maker. For me that scene is the gold-standard. (Plus I think that Katy Jurado was one of the most powerfully beautiful women ever on screen).
Ronald Reagan, "Win One For The Gipper"
Bill Clinton, "Win One For The Zipper"
ROFL!!!
John Kerry: "Win One for the Flipper"
Murtha, "Lose One For The Quitter"!
Saddam: Feed one Thru the Chipper.
Gilligan: "I was a hut bitch for the Skipper"
Guys always get around to the fart jokes! :-)
Nice!
Suzanne Somers: "I had a Queer Roomie named Jack Tripper"
Dasher: "For Pissant I wanna be a Stripper"
I still tear up when Mongo changes allegiences and agrees to help the Sheriff.
Algore: "I'd Rather Have Barney than Tipper"
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