Love how Colonel Nicholson realizes at the end that his fanaticism for building a better bridge than the Japanese could build was, in fact, aiding the enemy and his last action on earth is to undo all that he had done.
The best of all of the Batman movies, in no small part because of Heath Ledger’s singular interpretation of The Joker, but also because it delivers the true meaning of Batman’s character: not a hero, but a rogue vigilante who fights crime.
Last line: “Let’s live here! We’ll rent to start.” As if Phil didn’t already know enough about the town to be willing to actually buy a house.
Next up:
Best opening scene of a movie
Star Wars: A New Hope
Tatooine is revealed against a magnificent view of deep space, and then those two starships come swooping in low overhead, blasting away at each other. Wow!
Yes, lots of James Bond films open immediately with an action scene but I think Daniel Craig’s introduction to the role with this chase scene was iconic. One of the best chases in film history.
People tend to forget (well, I did, anyway) that the opening scene is a group of pre-humanoids scrabbling around and then finding the obelisk. When the ape-man threw the bone into the air and it turned into a spaceship, 18-year-old me was completely blown away. 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) - From Bone to Satellite Scene (1/6) | Movieclips
We see a bomb planted in a car, and the bomber runs away. A man and a woman come along, get into the car, and the camera follows them as they drive through a town and then across the Mexican border, and then the bomb blows up–all done in one continuous, elaborately choreographed, three-and-half-minute shot.