Let’s just say you had to go get a drink of water at 3AM. You stumble back to bed, decide to flip on the TV to find something to fall asleep to, and you come across a movie. It’s a movie you have watched before and it’s at a scene you love. Who cares if it’s the middle of the night, you’re hung over, you have to get up in one hour for work. You are watching that scene through it’s conclusion.
Some of mine: Field of Dreams - near the end when Moonlight Graham steps off of the field, helps the choking girl, then disappears in the corn field. Hoosiers - The final game. Bloodsport - Van Damme’s final battle against Chong Li (that actor was 50 years old!). The Warriors - It’s all about the Baseball Furies. The Dirty Dozen - The final attack on the snooty Germans. Heat - De Niro and Pacino in the diner.
My current one is in The Shawshank Redemption – you know the one, the big payoff scene. (To say more would be a spoiler for those who haven’t seen it.)
Transformers: The Movie - The scene where Hot Rod is battling Galvatron and he grabs the Matrix. Optimus Prime’s voice in the scene always gives me goosebumps.
Bladerunner
When Roy pays a visit to Tyrell.
“The light that burns twice as bright burns half as long - and you have burned so very, very brightly, Roy.”
The scene in Pulp Fiction where Vincent accidently shoots the guy in the backseat of the car. When they are yelling at each other during the cleanup I always dissolve in a puddle of laughter.
“YOU’RE about to go off? Why am I back here on brain detail? I’m back here picking up itty bitty pieces of skull!”
I came here specifically to post that movie and two scenes. The one silenus (bastard!) posted and the one in which Holden spills his guts to Allysa in the rain. I’m such a sap.
I’m a huge sucker for Happy Dress Movies, as in, anything set in Victorian England or late 1800s/early 1900s. Love that stuff. Any Jane Austen adaptation will do, or PBS’s Anne of Green Gables… stuff like that.
I just caught the last half of Jackie Brown yesterday. I love that movie. I get up about 3:30 everyday anyway, so I try to catch Indies while I get ready for work.
Count me in as another who loves this scene. And the look on Ray’s face when he realizes Graham can’t go back. “Oh my God, you can’t go back, I’m so sorry…”
Actually the whole last segment is good. When Ray’s BIL finally sees the players “Do* not* sell this farm Ray”, or when Ray asks his father for a catch. When the camera pulls away at the very end and you see the long line of carlights stretching into the darkness.
Well since I have most of these on DVD I wouldn’t miss sleep over them, but if I had no dvds.
Rocky Horror The Time Warp Moulin Rouge Roxanne Star Wars Attack on Death Star Lawrence of Arabia Almost any part of this film.
Any Western gunfight involving Clint Eastwood.
Any good Japanese sword fight.
OK…confession time. One time, many, many years ago, my girlfriend and I were getting down to business with the TV on in the background. Midnight Movie showing McClintock!
I…ummmm…stopped everything so I could watch the mud pit fight scene. :eek:
Luckily, my girlfriend had never seen the movie, and enjoyed the scene. We then resumed…but she teased me about my priorities for the rest of our relationship!
Some movies I actually did stop to watch (for the first time) early in the morning because I was caught by the scenes: Manhunter – the Michael Mann Hannibal Lecter flick. I think I was captivated by one of the proto-CSI scenes (I’m convinced William Petersen giot that series on the air so he could keep playing Will Graham). The movie never let up after that.
Dr. Strangelove – Hooked me right at the beginning.
Enemy From Space (AKA {b}Quatermass 2**) – Again, hooked at the start, with a car driving madly away to save a stricken man.
Judge Dee in The Monastery Murders – the opening splash stating that Dee was a historical character from T’ang dynasty China immediately told you that it would be something strange and interesting.
Pulp Fiction - The dorm room scene where Samuel L. Jackson quotes scripture then starts killing people. The Fifth Element - The opera scene cutting back and forth between Leelu fighting the evil monkey looking dudes and the singing, then right to the violence in the opera hall. Top Gun - Any scene they’re flying and shooting. Caddyshack - Chevy Chase and Bill Murray pretending they don’t hate each other in real life, when Chevy goes to Murray’s dump. Local Hero - “Did you cook my rabbit?”
