# best/worst montages **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [March 18, 2007, 3:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-worst-montages/396403 "2007-03-18T03:37:48Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![MaxTheVool](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/9fc29f/32.png) [@MaxTheVool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MaxTheVool)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2007, 3:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-worst-montages/396403/1 "2007-03-18T03:37:48Z")
Everyone loves a montage, except for the part where everyone hates a montage. So what are some of your favorite montages from movies/TV? And some of your least favorite? **Best** : **Titanic** - as the orchestra plays “Nearer my God to Thee”, we see how various of the people around the ship are dealing with imminent death, including the Irish mother telling her children a story, and the old rich couple cuddling in bed as the water rushes over them **Worst** : Various episodes of **Lost** have had ridiculously corny montages, in which the music swells and the people on the island, always well-lit and well-groomed in their cutely rustic but not actually threatening surroundings, enjoy each other’s company, and revel in the newfound emotional growth they’ve experienced yada yada yada. Maybe it’s not that they’re so awful, as that they were so frequent for a while. ---
**Author:** ![Fern\_Forest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/71c47a/32.png) [@Fern\_Forest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fern_Forest)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2007, 3:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-worst-montages/396403/2 "2007-03-18T03:41:08Z")
Really good: The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad “I Love L.A.” ---
**Author:** ![Eltanin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Eltanin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eltanin)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2007, 3:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-worst-montages/396403/3 "2007-03-18T03:51:11Z")
School of Rock: a training montage, which is what a montage should be in good '80s film tradition. Great Ramones song (“My Brain Is Hanging Upside Down (Bonzo Goes to Bitburg)”), cool clips of Angus Young et al., kids getting better at their instruments - it’s all there. ---
**Author:** ![Carnick](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Carnick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Carnick)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2007, 4:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-worst-montages/396403/4 "2007-03-18T04:01:45Z")
Worst: Any episode of Scrubs. ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2007, 4:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-worst-montages/396403/5 "2007-03-18T04:05:17Z")
One of the funniest and most self-referential is in _Team America: World Police_, in which one of the puppet characters is training hard, learning to be a badass commando, to the tune of “You’ve Gotta Have a Montage!” ---
**Author:** ![Pixiesnix](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/898d66/32.png) [@Pixiesnix](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pixiesnix)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2007, 4:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-worst-montages/396403/6 "2007-03-18T04:05:18Z")
For me, the grandaddy of them all is the karate tournament montage from _The Karate Kid_. Good use of shots, plus a wonderfully cheesy '80’s soundtrack. :Walks away softly singing, “You’re the best…around…no one’s gonna ever keep you down…”: ---
**Author:** ![freakstasy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/c57346/32.png) [@freakstasy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/freakstasy)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2007, 4:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-worst-montages/396403/7 "2007-03-18T04:06:52Z")
The dream sequences in The Big Lebowski. Do these count? ---
**Author:** ![descamisado](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e480ec/32.png) [@descamisado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/descamisado)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2007, 4:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-worst-montages/396403/8 "2007-03-18T04:22:23Z")
Not a movie, but close enough: the “TMC Remembers” montage on Turner Movie Classics for the celebrities who died in 2006 was awsome. I think TMC took it down but it’s out there somewhere (Youtube, maybe?). ---
**Author:** ![neorxnawange](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/f4b2a3/32.png) [@neorxnawange](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/neorxnawange)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2007, 4:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-worst-montages/396403/9 "2007-03-18T04:28:17Z")
Best: Training montage from Rocky - “getting strong now” - starts out barely able to climb the steps, ends up running up the stairs triumphantly. What was the first film with a montage set to music? ---
**Author:** ![Dr.Rieux](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/aeb1de/32.png) [@Dr.Rieux](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr.Rieux)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2007, 7:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-worst-montages/396403/10 "2007-03-18T07:14:01Z")
Best: the “Hallelujah” scene in **Shrek**. ---
**Author:** ![Battle\_Pope](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4bbf92/32.png) [@Battle\_Pope](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Battle_Pope)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2007, 7:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-worst-montages/396403/11 "2007-03-18T07:40:16Z")
Best: the montage from the first episode of the **Children of Dune** mini-series. Moves the story along and wraps up several characters’ fates, all set to an amazing piece of music: ‘Inama Nushif’ ---
**Author:** ![Carnick](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Carnick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Carnick)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2007, 7:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-worst-montages/396403/12 "2007-03-18T07:42:22Z")
Oh, just remembered the best one ever. The end of Six Feet Under. ---
**Author:** ![Red\_Barchetta](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/da6949/32.png) [@Red\_Barchetta](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Red_Barchetta)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2007, 7:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-worst-montages/396403/13 "2007-03-18T07:53:31Z")
[QUOTE=Dr. Rieux] Best: the “Hallelujah” scene in **Shrek**. [/QUOTE] Yeah, that’s a good one, especially with all of the allusions between fades. ---
**Author:** ![Shecky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/85e7bf/32.png) [@Shecky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shecky)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2007, 1:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-worst-montages/396403/14 "2007-03-18T13:17:10Z")
> [@](#): > > Oh, just remembered the best one ever. > > The end of Six Feet Under. I just watched it. The only six minutes in TV history that made me get teary eyed. I hate HBO. ---
**Author:** ![SmartAleq](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smartaleq/32/163_2.png) [@SmartAleq](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SmartAleq)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2007, 1:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-worst-montages/396403/15 "2007-03-18T13:48:21Z")
For some reason I’ve always been partial to the frat house remodeling scene from “Revenge of the Nerds,” along with the talent show segment which almost counts as a montage as well. ---
**Author:** ![capybara](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/capybara/32/202_2.png) [@capybara](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/capybara)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2007, 2:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-worst-montages/396403/16 "2007-03-18T14:55:25Z")
No nerds have come in with Potyemkin’s Odessa Steps yet? Come on! Geek up, people! ---
**Author:** ![asterion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/4da419/32.png) [@asterion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/asterion)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2007, 3:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-worst-montages/396403/17 "2007-03-18T15:02:29Z")
[QUOTE=Elendil’s Heir] One of the funniest and most self-referential is in _Team America: World Police_, in which one of the puppet characters is training hard, learning to be a badass commando, to the tune of “You’ve Gotta Have a Montage!” [/QUOTE] I haven’t seen Team America, but did they just take the montage song from the South Park episode “Asspen” and use it in the movie? ---
**Author:** ![RandMcnally](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/b782af/32.png) [@RandMcnally](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RandMcnally)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2007, 5:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-worst-montages/396403/18 "2007-03-18T17:31:32Z")
[QUOTE=asterion] I haven’t seen Team America, but did they just take the montage song from the South Park episode “Asspen” and use it in the movie? [/QUOTE] Pretty much. ---
**Author:** ![jsc1953](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/5daacb/32.png) [@jsc1953](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jsc1953)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2007, 5:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-worst-montages/396403/19 "2007-03-18T17:35:27Z")
Duh…how about **The Godfather**? Baptism and whacking the 5 Families, with Bach in the background? ---
**Author:** ![Least\_Original\_User\_Name\_Ever](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e480ec/32.png) [@Least\_Original\_User\_Name\_Ever](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Least_Original_User_Name_Ever)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2007, 6:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-worst-montages/396403/20 "2007-03-18T18:18:49Z")
[QUOTE=RandMcnally] Pretty much. [/QUOTE] Always fade out in a montaaage…If you fade out real slow, it seems like more time has passed in a montaaaaage… [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-worst-montages/396403.md?page=2)