Best Press Conference by a US President: President Andrew Shepherd in The American President
Best entry of a hero from a stomach: Men in Black
Best cheesy smiles: Pretty much the entire rest of the cast of Airplane! when the stewardess was singing.
Best surprise death: Deep Blue Sea
It’s disqualified for not being a movie, but I think this is the best one.
I think *Police Academy *has that beat. Much less explicit, maybe, but also much funnier.
Best depiction of Tea Party Paranoia:
Biehn as Kyle Reese, or Lietenant Hiram Coffey, or Cpl. Dwayne Hicks.
Best Presidential mea culpa speech: Dave.
Best Presidential inspirational speech: Armageddon.
[The best lead-in to a shootout ever:
In Bruges. “Don’t be stupid! This is the shootout!”](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B0jq8p6Sjjs)
I just watched this one tonight, and it needs to be nominated:
Best passing-of-time sequence: Notting Hill, where Hugh Grant walks down the street through three seasons.
I don’t know if it’s the best flash forward, but certainly the longest is when the bone that the pre-human tosses in the air in 2001: A Space Odyssey morphs into the space station.
Best jump-out-of-your-seat scene: Jaws (divers under boat)
Best shocking-moment-of-horror scene: 1) When a Stranger Calls; 2) Schindler’s List (raining ash)
I think I’ve thought of the Best Flash Forward: Mr. Thatcher’s words “Merry Christmas,” then “… and a very Happy New Year” 20 years later in Citizen Kane.
Nah. The breakfast montage in Citizen Kane.
Best plea to a dying man to help redeem a wicked life: Ava Gardner in the 1946 version of “The Killers.” “Kitty is innocent, say it, Kitty is innocent!”
Best expression of disappointment over not having got the food he wanted: Orson Welles in “Touch of Evil,” “Oh, didn’t you bring me any…jelly donuts?”
Best and most stylish trick rifle shot: Yves Montand in “The Red Circle [Le cercle rouge].”
Most successful plastic surgery job in the movies: Bogart in “Dark Passage.”
ETA: best car chase scene: “Gone in 60 Seconds” (the real one, not that Angelina Jolie bullshit)
One more:
Worst use of a whorehouse: Joe Don Baker in “Charley Varrick”
Best response to “do you expect me to talk?” - Auric Goldfinger, GOLDFINGER.
Best use of a whorehouse: Neil Patrick Harris in Harold and Kumar escape from Guantanamo Bay
No buts! No buts! I’m going to a whorehouse and I’m gonna get my fuck on! If you two don’t want to get your dicks wet, that’s fine with me!
Best opening sequence: G I Joe: The Movie. (This is the animated one, folks, not the recent live-action flick.)
The category of best uninterrupted shot is one that is dear to my heart. I will agree that the top two are probably Touch of Evil and The Player (in that order IMHO). Larry McConkey’s incredible steadicam from Goodfellas is also amazing.
Another Steadicam shot which blows my mind comes from a movie I’ve never seen. The amount of choreography required to pull off the shot- hard to believe. Most fights are shot hand-held with a cut every two seconds, but here is a multi-story fight in a four minute uninterrupted take. Totally worth checking out.
Finally, in a slightly more reality based vane, Claude LeLouch’s incredible 1976 filmC’etait un Rendezvous still gives me chills every time I see it. Watch and be amazed!!