I liked the scene where the well-to-do German citizens from the nearby town are forced to bury the bodies in the camp. In particular, there’s one plump banker-looking guy in a furlined suit who’s weeping uncontrollably as he’s hauling around these emaciated corpses. You can see in his face the utter, total defeat of Germany, not only in military terms, but in moral terms: not only has his nation lost the war, but he’s just realized that his nation deserved to lose the war. That they’ve been the villains all along.
Brian Blessed cracking the third guy across the face after he pulls off his chain of office was the best part of that scene.
My room mate hates Babylon 5 (I can’t figure out why), but he LOVES that scene. Just something irresistably charming about the goofy little fat guy coming out on top, especially against the smooth charming asshole.
They changed captains in the second season. He grew a beard at the end of the fourth season. You haven’t really narrowed down the time frame in which you stopped watching the show, there.
I obviously did not watch regularly. Particularly annoying were the security guy being a drunk and shaving his head; the boxing show and the metamorphosis whats-her-name went through. Perhaps I should have paid attention.
Hey, all key elements of the show, actually, at least key elements of the characters.
Well, TKO (boxing episode) wasn’t key anything, it was just fun.
Incidentally, the Captain didn’t get a beard until the 4th season of the show, around the same time we got the third or fourth (depending on if you count Ivonova during Season 4) commander of Babylon 5
A very young Beau Bridges pitted against two drunk thugs ( Tony Mussante and 1st timer Charlie Sheen ) in a kinda obscure movie called The Incident. Tony and Charlie terrorize people on a subway train and when it finally involves a little girl ( whose father is played by Ed McMahon ) Beau, who’s left arm is in a cast, takes on knife-wielding Tony and in a great scene, after being stuck in the gut, smacks his cast across Tony’s face knocking him out.
To me, that was just so. . . right.
Anyone else ever see this movie?
There was an episode of Law and Order where this bad guy murdered several people while escaping to Canada, which has a law against extraditing people to countries for crimes that they could get the death penalty for. One of the ADAs from New York says that adhering to this policy could potentially turn Canada into a haven for murderers and such on the run from the law in the US, to which the bad guy’s attorney replies that they can’t make legal decisions based on pure conjecture.
All through this, of course, the main bad guy has this smug smile, and even freely admits to killing each of the people he did, in front of both sets of attorneys and a Canadian judge presiding over the extradition hearing.
So the New York prosecutors change their request. Instead of requesting that the guy be extradited for murder, they ask that he be extradited on a charge of grand theft auto, because he stole a car during his escape to Canada. The Judge immediately approves the request, and when the defense attorney claims that the New York prosecutors will just charge him with murder and execute him once he is back in the US, the judge repeats the guy’s line about how they can’t make legal decisions based on pure conjecture.
At this point, you see the smug smile just suddenly drop from the bad guy’s face, and the next scene is him being escorted down a hallway to a holding cell where he will be handed over to the American authorities, complete with a big US flag hanging on the wall in the background.
Thank you! I saw this movie a long time ago on TV in Switzerland, but I could never remember the title or who was in it. The other people in the subway car just pretended they didn’t notice the two thugs terrorrizing everybody, and at the end, they all file out of the subway car leaving our hero lying on the floor.
I’ve been catching up on the series with onDemand cable TV, I saw the first scene with Mr Morden in B5 and remembered the glee when Vir was able to wave at Mr Morden’s severed head
I just saw Waitress for the first time. Our heroine has finally had her baby, and her irritating, disgusting, sniveling, abusive snot of a husband speaks up:
After a whole movie’s worth of Earl, that was a deeply satisfying moment.
It’s a cheesy movie, but I love the end of Sleeping With the Enemy, when the abusive husband is menacing her, and she holds him at gunpoint while calling the police. He’s still smug, no doubt thinking the police and courts aren’t going to stop him from tracking her down again and punishing her. Then he hears her say to the 911 operator, “Yes, I’ve just shot an intruder.” She gives him just enough time to digest that, then blammo!
One of my favorite scenes in Rome is Pullo’s been living happily with Gaia for a long time, never suspecting that she murdered his beloved wife and unborn child. Finally, Gaia is on her deathbed, and confesses (IIRC). Never mind that she’s hours or less away from dying anyway, Pullo slowly and deliberately strangles her.
I also really like this scene in Only the Lonely, when John Candy’s character finally stands up to his bitchy mother.
