I'm looking to gather some of the best scenes (for me).

Post #303,050 by crazy 1/26/09 8:16:59 AM Reply	I'm looking to gather some of the best scenes (for me). They should have some action, movement, emotion, and twists. Flashy explosion, midevil jousting, complex car chases, ancient battles, space battles, they all qualify. Can't have too much thought behind them, but emotional crescendos are the core moments, no matter what the surrounding action. As an example, the 2nd to last action scene for Babylon AD (a Vin Diesel flick) where they are about to release the missile up to the point of the explosion and his death is an absolute winner. So, tell me what you think are the best.
Post #303,051 by malraux 1/26/09 8:23:46 AM Reply	Lobby scene in The Matrix One of the best IMO. Regards, -scott Welcome to Rivendell, Mr. Anderson.
Post #303,054 by crazy 1/26/09 8:37:21 AM Reply	Yes! Thanks. Keep them coming. I've learned a meditation technique that gives me a few minutes of living in the scene. Not watching. Experiencing. Think about it. And send me new experiences.
Post #303,064 by malraux 1/26/09 9:42:35 AM Reply	More: Any of the battles from Lord of the Rings, but especially the last one. Alien attacks in Alien II. The first 30 minutes or so of Saving Private Ryan, although be careful if you're immersing yourself: that scene is over-powering even without Jedi mind tricks. Regards, -scott Welcome to Rivendell, Mr. Anderson.
Post #303,074 by boxley 1/26/09 11:49:26 AM Reply	Apocolyse Now the "never get out of the boat" scene
Post #303,081 by crazy 1/26/09 12:37:44 PM Reply	Thanks And yeah, too much death, destruction, and despair is proably not the best idea for the sitiation. On the other hand, it is only for a few minutes, and I've come to realize all life experiences that I can feel, I will. In person, or in mind. I recently spent a harrowing month, watching my girlfriend's sister die. And I came out of it far better than I went in. So it's worth it.
Post #303,056 by boxley 1/26/09 8:38:25 AM Reply	last 5 minutes of "state of grace"
Post #303,095 by boxley 1/26/09 5:33:30 PM Reply	also final fight scenes from bloodsport
Post #303,057 by mvitale 1/26/09 9:06:08 AM Reply	Re: I'm looking to gather some of the best scenes (for me). Sorta like The Matrix (which Scott already mentioned), the movie Equilibrium has some similar scenes. The final space battle scene in Star Trek VI : The Undiscovered Country. Aside from the fact that it's got Christopher Plummer quoting the Bard and going face-to-face with his good RL buddy Shatner, it's got some decent action as well. Though it might be a bit brainy for what you're looking for. -Mike "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." - Benjamin Franklin, 1759 Historical Review of Pennsylvania
Post #303,058 by folkert 1/26/09 9:06:26 AM Reply	My first reaction Hell in the Pacific, starring Lee Marvin and Toshirô Mifune (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0063056/) In the last scene when they find an old battle ground (after struggling against the sea) and they can get more "civilized" (shaved, cleaned up) and find things like Saki, a LIFE magazine and Chocolate Wafers. Its a real cruncher. Not what you were asking for, but man the whole movie is a missed Gem!
Post #303,076 by pwhysall 1/26/09 11:57:43 AM Reply	Final gunfight in Equilibrium.
Post #303,286 by crazy 1/29/09 11:45:51 PM Reply	That was a great movie Wow. Just saw it. Thanks. Didn't experience yet, I wanted to fully grok it 1st. Sometimes I feel I live in that world.
Post #303,296 by mvitale 1/30/09 8:32:26 AM Reply	Was not! I watched it, but I felt like I was watching an amalgam of The Matrix, 1984, Brave New World, and Fahrenheit 451. There wasn't a single new idea in that entire movie. Granted, if all you were looking for is this uber-experience, it will serve its purpose. But to call it a good movie? I disagree, sir. -Mike "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." - Benjamin Franklin, 1759 Historical Review of Pennsylvania
Post #303,356 by crazy 1/30/09 7:13:36 PM Reply	Bullshit Great movie. Whole thing, simple as that. Something to rewatch with friends and lovers. Great movie.
Post #303,359 by drook 1/30/09 7:18:39 PM Reply	Saw a review that makes sense Said this movie was the reason he didn't count derivativeness against movies. Just because the critic has seen every "important" movie ever made, and most of the popular ones in the past 15 years, doesn't mean the typical movie-goer has seen them all. -- Drew
Post #303,086 by jake123 1/26/09 2:21:59 PM Reply	Assault on the Death Star from the original Star Wars. You know... the one they made with models, not CGI.
Post #303,087 by Ashton 1/26/09 2:33:28 PM Reply	In the original 'The Thing' (James Arness, IIRC) -- the seconds of silence leading up to the Thing's vegetable-FIST coming through a door ... (everyone in audience twitched on That) several other suspense scenes. Probably several scenes in any movie with Toshiro Mifune. Shogun (series) -- several, but for poignancy: death of female lead, Mariko (the Lovely Yôko Shimada); Earthquake scene wherein Blackthorne saves (Lord) Toronaga. Blackthorne attemps seppuku - Really Meaning It ... All Action.. {sigh} but much more. Probably scenes in Chushingura, I don't recall. Was it Vanishing Point? .... cross-US car chase, culminating in a macho Maxi-car hi-speed encounter with a pair of bulldozer blades, across the road. Hard to do a funnel sort on this er, exact theme.. maybe more will surface. For a closer, there's always ... *Well.. Do Ya, PUNK ?!?*
Post #303,091 by Silverlock 1/26/09 3:23:48 PM Reply	The first 5 minutes of Raiders of the Lost Ark Chase scene from Bullitt Chase scene from Ronin Final fight scene from Blade Runner Sleeping in park and Embassy scene from Bourne Identity Pretty much every fight scene in Desperado Stealing diapers scene from Raising Arizona Road Warrior. Can't pick any one scene. Caught in the apartment scene from The Professional Fight scene between Ripley and Momma in Aliens.
Post #304,856 by lincoln 2/28/09 11:47:45 AM Reply	Re: The first 5 minutes of Raiders of the Lost Ark Chase scene from Bullitt A close second to this would be the chase scene in "The French Connection". Also in a car theme: the attack on the gasoline tanker driven by Mel Gibson in "The Road Warrior"; a good 15 minutes of great action. "Chicago to my mind was the only place to be. ... I above all liked the city because it was filled with people all a-bustle, and the clatter of hooves and carriages, and with delivery wagons and drays and peddlers and the boom and clank of freight trains. And when those black clouds came sailing in from the west, pouring thunderstorms upon us so that you couldn't hear the cries or curses of humankind, I liked that best of all. Chicago could stand up to the worst God had to offer. I understood why it was built--a place for trade, of course, with railroads and ships and so on, but mostly to give all of us a magnitude of defiance that is not provided by one house on the plains. And the plains is where those storms come from." -- E.L. Doctorow
Post #303,098 by Another Scott 1/26/09 7:48:53 PM Reply	Some more. I'm sorry I can't be very specific about particular scenes, but there are intense sections (but not usually involving explosions, etc.) in these movies: Traffic Deliverance Jaws Shackleton Monanieba (Repentance) Tora Tora Tora Special Bulletin The Manchurian Candidate (the original) HTH a little. Cheers, Scott. (Who hopes you don't go overboard with this immersion stuff. :-)
Post #303,104 by crazy 1/26/09 8:35:00 PM Reply	Thanks And I changed my mind. There are some experiences I don't need, at least from your list. Wow. I'll focus on the happy bouncy futuristic fight scenes for a bit, and then see where my mood takes me. All: Thanks for the suggestions. It should keep me busy for a while. But if you think of any more happy bouncy futuristic fight scenes, toss them out. Not that I wouldn't take any additional suggestions of course.
Post #303,108 by drook 1/26/09 9:12:59 PM Reply	River going berserker (Firefly) There's the one in the movie and at least one other from the series. Most of Blade (the first one), but especially the opening Bloodbath scene More Snipes: Demolition Man or Passenger 57 -- Drew
Post #303,102 by boxley 1/26/09 8:25:25 PM Reply	for a few dollars more and good bad ugly ending scenes fist full of dynamite rod steiger talking about revolution as well as the scene in the cave
Post #303,107 by rcareaga 1/26/09 9:04:21 PM Reply	will your meditation technique work with an idyll? There must come a point at which car crashes, explosions, space battles, gunplay and swordsmanship sate the sensibility. If your technique works as you describe it, let me suggest the waterhole sequence in Walkabout. It begins not quite 58 minutes into the Criterion DVD, and features a nekkid 17 year-old Jenny Agutter (and about as fine a specimen of nekkid 17 year-old Jenny Agutter as you'll ever see, I might add) splashing about in a rocky pool somewhere in the arse-end of Australian nowhere. Before the scene's three minutes have run you also see a young abo doing some very credible lizard-fu and kangaroo-fu (there's your violence, if you must have it), but the director will keep cutting back to lithe, lovely Jenny A gliding through the coppery water, with a string section bearing John Barry's creamy score along. "Experience" the scene? Provided your meditation delivers what you describe, you will emerge with a keener understanding of the Houseman verse that concludes the film: Into my heart and air that kills from yon far country blows. What are those blue remembered hills, what spires, what farms are those? That is the land of lost content: I see it shining plain! The happy highways where I went and cannot come again. cordially,
Post #303,116 by crazy 1/26/09 10:23:27 PM Reply	Too long I can only achieve this state for about 5 minutes, at least at this point. I did discuss that type of scene, though, a few minutes ago. There are a couple of calm, spacy scenes in the Animatrix that I'll queue up.
Post #303,120 by rcareaga 1/26/09 10:47:28 PM Reply	what part of "three minutes" was unclear?
Post #303,136 by crazy 1/27/09 11:55:20 AM Reply	All of it, obviously Thanks
Post #303,125 by Ashton 1/27/09 4:10:16 AM Reply	Certainly works with mine.. Also once transcribed that bitterest-of-sweet epitaphs, delivered with such aching musicality. (But we had also to have eyes rubbed in what 'civil'ization had wreaked; the tiny apartment kitchen, the cigarette in ashtray, the suited-narcissist consort / the raw liver! unappetizingly slopped into some bowl.) Oh Cruel Director. Ah Jenny, Jenny -- Quo Vadis, lass? Yes, time to revisit that nubile vision. _________________________________________________________________ FIRST POST! via Safari (+ modem-ugh) ... hours after arrival of iMac One Possessed of a screen that shall do justice to a replay of it all. But this bitchin techno pales against any recap of the above.
Post #303,127 by Meerkat 1/27/09 6:44:02 AM Reply	Polite note.. Just in case you happen to pop in to Australia one day (and please, do!), wanted to let you know that 'abo' is a really offensive term, up there with the "n-word" as I believe they call it in your part of the world. And to my shame I still haven't seen Walkabout in its entirety! They said I was gullible ... and I believed them
Post #303,111 by static 1/26/09 9:40:37 PM Reply	How scared would you like to be? :-) Try episode 10, "Blink", from the new Doctor Who, season 3. It's been described as perhaps one of the best "hide-behind-the-sofa" episodes in a very long time. Otherwise, the car chase scene in Ronin is good. There's also a fight sequence at the end of Van Helsing that is nicely over the top. And, IIRC, one in Hellboy, too. And all the Pierce Brosnan Bond films have several hi-energy action sequences. Wade. "Ah -- I take it the doorbell doesn't work?"
Post #303,117 by crazy 1/26/09 10:25:30 PM Reply	Not very I saw Jaws in AS's post and realised I didn't want to go there. or Deliverance. And I'm not a horror fan in general.
Post #303,114 by a6l6e6x 1/26/09 10:10:00 PM Reply	The shower scene in "Psycho". At least the first time it is seen. Alex
Post #303,118 by crazy 1/26/09 10:26:14 PM Reply	No thanks Pure suspense with lousy shrieking music and then a bunch of blood isn't for me.
Post #303,119 by mvitale 1/26/09 10:33:10 PM Reply	Not blood. It's chocolate. Seriously. -Mike "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." - Benjamin Franklin, 1759 Historical Review of Pennsylvania

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