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probably because you’re watching it on a telly,
Nah. It's a technically brilliant, groundbreaking film and I can still appreciate that, the problem is that its technical brilliance distracts from the fact that the plot is abject twaddle. Once the then-revolutionary tech becomes mainstream it loses its USP somewhat.
^^
‘It’s a JAVELIN!!!’
‘Dehn’t be silly’
Two incredibly powerful and utterly contrasting scenes from a couple of films set just a few years apart.
The ending of Black Hawk Down as they walk out of town.
*That* Ronin chase scene.
Blues Brothers.
the fight between that guy & Cusack by the school lockers is probably my favourite screen fight of all time! Brutal, brilliant choreography & dare I say it (never actually been in a fight to the death) seems very realistic! Also I love that when it’s over, he is visibly exhausted (most movie fights end with the hero not even out of breath and running straight off to do something else 😃)
The pair of them know what they doing and the other guy in the scene is Benny Urquidez
From Wiki.
Cusack trained in kickboxing under former world kickboxing champion Benny Urquidez for over twenty years. He began training under Urquidez in preparation for his role in Say Anything... and holds the rank of a level six black belt in Urquidez's Ukidokan Kickboxing system
I’m glad that The Matrix is getting so much love. It hasn’t aged all that well but it was massively groundbreaking at the time. I came out of the cinema thinking it was the most amazing thing I’d ever seen. Then later you start thinking about it and realise that it doesn’t make a jot of sense.
Why doesn't it make sense? explain.
I must be the only one who thinks The Matrix is utter pants. Fancy special effects do not a film make.
Depends how deep you want to go down the rabbit hole. Its packed with clever little references to philosophy, religioun and symbolism.
The scene in The Good, The Bad and The Ugly when Tuco and Blondie are dressed in stolen confederate uniforms. They see soldiers ride towards them and are trying to work out if they are from the north or south. Tuco says it’s ok as they are wearing grey, so they stand in the road till the troop arrives.
As they stand there the soldiers draw up and pat themselves down. Clouds of dust fly off, revealing Union uniforms.
… but really just about any scene from that movie, from the opening to the end.
I missed this before I posted my impossible selection. I totally agree, so so many scenes from The Good, The Bad and The Ugly. From the very beginning where three mean looking guys turn up looking for someone and Tuco shoots them off screen and jumps out of a window, gun in one hand, chicken leg in the other. To the very end in the grave yard. Most of them include Tuco.
“Who the hell is that? One bastard goes in, another one comes out.“
Another film full of great scenes is Butch Cassidy and The Sundance Kid
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=w9KBOhPXhds
This from the Incredibles. No other superhero film can touch it! 😀
Bugger me! Someone else remembers Diva. Great film.
I love it. Took me a while before got around to seeing it (flatmate had raved about it for ages). DVD copy - check.
See also Death in a French Garden - the scene cuts in that are inventive. Great music. The copies floating around aren't quite as explicit as I recall it though!
The joke at the end of La Haine.
The surfing scene in Apocalypse Now.
“He’s not Jesus he’s just a fella” from whistle down the wind.
Just bought a copy of Butch Cassidy to further my kid's education during lockdown.
Another classic scene, especially where Kelly, Odd Ball and Big Joe approach the Tiger, itself a parody of other Clint Eastwood movies.
Donald Sutherland steals every scene in the movie just with his eye movements.
Also,
"Spring Chicken to Shitehawk in five minutes."
...and this. Brutal and NSFW or small kids.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i5KBHrmlE0E
Having had a proper think, the end of the original Wicker Man has to be in there.
A Few Good Men - You Cant Handle The Truth!
Oh, I forgot this one. Can I have a fourth? Johnny's rant to Brian about the future in Naked. One of the most intense performances ever
That "Fury" clip is such nonsense though
Tense nonsense.
The crane chase in Terminator 2 was amazing when I first saw it at the cinema.
Some scenes are so classic to have almost become clichés.. but it's only cos they are brilliant, eg:
Deniro - "You lookin at me?"
Mr Blonde + "Stuck in the Middle With You"
The blood testing and the "spider" alien in The Thing
Why doesn’t [The Matrix] make sense? explain.
Humans would make shit batteries. You'd probably get more energy from burning them. Plus, why bother, where are all the animals?
Why is it necessary for the Matrix to exist at all? The machines could just strap us in, why do we need to be tricked? This might've been explained, it's a while since I've watched it; but again, where are all the animals? You wouldn't need an elaborate Matrix savanna for plugged-in elephants, cows wouldn't need the Mootrix.
Why aren't the real world bodies totally atrophied? And why are liberated bodies conveniently flushed away rather than just killed?
The Matrix and real world are supposed to be separate unless you die. So why do Neo et al they physically react when Smith is beating the snot out of them?
Who's operator when Cypher's in the Matrix double-crossing them?
Etc, etc.
Humans would make shit batteries. You’d probably get more energy from burning them. Plus, why bother, where are all the animals?
Why is it necessary for the Matrix to exist at all? The machines could just strap us in, why do we need to be tricked? This might’ve been explained, it’s a while since I’ve watched it; but again, where are all the animals? You wouldn’t need an elaborate Matrix savanna for plugged-in elephants, cows wouldn’t need the Mootrix.
Why aren’t the real world bodies totally atrophied? And why are liberated bodies conveniently flushed away rather than just killed?
The Matrix and real world are supposed to be separate unless you die. So why do Neo et al they physically react when Smith is beating the snot out of them?
Who’s operator when Cypher’s in the Matrix double-crossing them?
Etc, etc.
The movie is much more than the baseline "story" though. That story is just a vehicle to convey deeper philosophical, religious and social concepts and that is why the movie is so popular and well regarded.
Why doesn’t [The Matrix] make sense? explain.
Why doesn't Neo kill Morpheus with the Gatling gun?
Siti (or whatever her name is)?
How does Zion exist at all?
The Path of the One makes no sense
this is true and perhaps anyone looking at the story/plot completely literally is missing the whole point, although I'm not sure most "holes" can't be explained?The movie is much more than the baseline “story” though. That story is just a vehicle to convey deeper philosophical, religious and social concepts and that is why the movie is so popular and well regarded.
Possibly all the animals are dead? Scorched sky and all that. but...Humans would make shit batteries. You’d probably get more energy from burning them. Plus, why bother, where are all the animals?
I don't think the machines [I]necessarily[/I] want to kill all humans... this isn't The Terminator... they just want not to be killed BY humans. The whole war was one of self-defence, from the machines' perspective. So possibly the matrix is a way of keeping humanity placid.Why is it necessary for the Matrix to exist at all? The machines could just strap us in, why do we need to be tricked?
their brains are plugged into a computer. I'm sure it could fire off enough microsimulation of the muscles to stop them totally wasting away. Next.Why aren’t the real world bodies totally atrophied?
same reason people sometimes physically react when they're dreaming? Come on, have you even thought about these? 😂The Matrix and real world are supposed to be separate unless you die. So why do Neo et al they physically react when Smith is beating the snot out of them?
What happens in the matrix isn't real. Neo can control the matrix with his mind. So what he does in the matrix does not have to follow the "rules" of real life. How can that possibly have escaped you 😂Why doesn’t Neo kill Morpheus with the Gatling gun?
The movie is much more than the baseline “story” though. That story is just a vehicle to convey deeper philosophical, religious and social concepts and that is why the movie is so popular and well regarded.
Sure it is. I think it's a great film. I just think that the plot - the "as presented" plot rather than any potential subtexts - doesn't make a lot of sense.
same reason people sometimes physically react when they’re dreaming? Come on, have you even thought about these? 😂
I don't recall ever waking up from a dream coughing up blood.
There's a whole load of these where the film self-contradicts its own rules. It seems arbitrary and inconsistent as to what can / can't injure the protagonists or when the system can or can't use its abilities.
Christ, deep diving into the plot holes of science fiction films! That's a whole other thread.
And a really boring one.
The break up scene from 'Blue is the Warmest Colour'.
It left me utterly exhausted, as did the entire film.
In no particular order:
Kellys Heroes where Oddballs Sherman is hunting the Tigers in the town. Absolutely brilliant.
Inglorious Basterds (could just pick any of it) but the cinema when they're pretending to be Italian movie directors through to them blowing the place up. Brad Pitt's and Taratino's finest film I reckon. Could have easily chosen any number of clips from that film including the bar, the opening scene, the bit in the woods, the "features" clip and subsequent breaking out of Stiglitz. Going to watch that tonight I think...
Captain Phillips - towards the end where the 3 US Navy ships conduct the plan to kill the pirates. Another favourite film.
That story is just a vehicle to convey
deepershallow philosophical, religious and socialconceptsnonsense and that is why the movie is so popular and well regarded.
It was a pretty amazing action movie though BITD.
The Italian Job (the proper one) - the whole Mini Cooper escape sequence up to the credit roll.
Pulp Fiction, when Vincent and Lance are outraged at Vincent’s car getting keyed (“no trial, no jury, straight to execution!”). Whilst weighing out a big bag of heroin. (In fact most of Travolta’s scenes in the Mia Wallace part of the story.)
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas - opening scene in the Red Shark driving through the desert.
4 lions is another film with many great scenes (although the film lacks something as a complete work IMO)
The break up scene from ‘Blue is the Warmest Colour’.
Spoiler alert! I do intend to watch it that far one of these days 🤪
Given current times..
Top Gun-opening sequence, still get the chills
Saw that in Leicester Square when it first came out and had a couple of hours to kill, brilliant opening sequence. Goosebumps still. Captures the perceived magic of carrier ops, well, mine anyway.
My three would be the above, Saving Private Ryan beach, and the Bonnie Situation.
I’m enjoying the clips in this thread, keep them coming.
Another film with a lot of great scenes is Little Big Man.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=wx0zC22C4RM
@zilog6128 as you're providing an answer to every plot hole in the matrix, riddle me this. Towards the final scene of the last movie, Neo and the chick (can't recall her name sorry) are heading in a ship thingy towards the centre of the matrix when they briefly rise above the layer covering the earth into blue sky and sun (so therefore obviously still well within the atmosphere) why didn't the machines just harness the sun for electricity, like floating big balloons or airships covered in PV. Made creating minuscule amounts of electricity from brain waves or whatever seem a daft idea when the clean atmosphere and sun was just a mile or three above. Shirley they could have still enslaved humankind and harnessed electricity without going to ludicrous lengths?.
(Edited/shortened version of scene)
So very, very difficult to pick out a scene from a film if the film is one you’ve enjoyed from beginning to end, but I’ll mention three, each film I saw in the cinema at the time they were released, so no spoilers before seeing them.
Alien chest burster - literally, what the **** just happened!
Raiders Of The Lost Ark - Indy/ swordsman the whole cinema cheered as one.
Pan’s Labyrinth - when the officer beats the man to death with the bottle. Such cold brutality showing the monsters are us. I’ve only seen the film once,I can’t watch it again.
A couple of other mentions, 2001, A Space Odyssey - I went to the cinema on my own to watch it in 1967, came out knowing that cinema could never be the same for me after that. I was 14.
A Clockwork Orange - again, I went on my own, I’d never seen anything like it, the casual cruelty of the characters and the violence were a shock. I was 17.
Both were when they’d just been released, so zero knowledge of what they were about.
Bugger me! Someone else remembers Diva. Great film.
I love Diva to bits, saw it in the cinema, got a VHS copy, then a DVD, and I’ve got the soundtrack album!
Watched it not so long ago, my g/f had never heard of it. The aria from La Wally is a favourite piece of music.
Still can't beat this clip out of The Shining for impact (gory warning, obvs)
The scene building up to 'all work and no play makes Jack...' is a masterpiece as well.
last movie? 🤔 sorry, no idea what you're talking about 😂@zilog6128 as you’re providing an answer to every plot hole in the matrix, riddle me this. Towards the final scene of the last movie,
last movie?
Did anyone make it past the huge piss-up dance scene in Zion in the second one without deciding it wasn't worth the effort? 🙂
As far as the first one goes, I managed the necessary suspension of disbelief to enjoy it for what it was. You can probably pick substantial holes in just about any sci-fi/time travel movie.
second one? 🤔 no, you've lost me 😃Did anyone make it past the huge piss-up dance scene in Zion in the second one
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Given current times..
I've seen that before, but it's a great showcase of just how good an actor Charlie Chaplain was.
@spectabilis as a kid I was a huge fan of the Buster Keyton reruns they used to air, I haven't seen that one before and it's ace. Thanks for posting.
And bonus ball Trainspotting has probably the best opening and introduction to any film ever.
Its got some really great scenes - Worst Toilet in Scotland, It's Shite Being Scottish, Spud waking up with more than just a hangover.
Just been reminded of this one....