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[Rusty Cooledge v2]

The blood pressure scene is by far the best. I couldn't even believe my eyes when I saw it for the first time. Fucking classic.

Unfortunately, it was scenes like that which led me to not take the movie seriously in any capacity, but it has been about 5 years since I last saw it.

[Alex]

Nobody does zombies as well as George Romero.

[Maynard,]

Hanstock took mine, but another favorite is the entire beginning. Everything is total anarchy. The camera is all over the place. You hear snatches of conversations. The audience is immediately stuck right into the middle of the zombie apocalypse with the characters. The first time I saw this, I couldn't get my bearings. It's an entirely different kind of identifying with the characters that movies rarely go for. You aren't identifying with their hopes and dreams or fears or because you're from the same dysfunctional family. You, like everyone in the first couple minutes, are going, "Uh...uh...uh...fuck."

We've all imagined our ideal plan for when the zombies eventually show. We know where we'd drive, who we would try and save, where to grab some canned goods and high powered rifles, etc. Everyone pictures life once we're in our fortified bunkers and things are somewhat settled down (in a post apocalyptic way). That's fine. What about that first couple of days when you aren't 100% sure society is done for? Some tv stations are still broadcasting and power hasn't been completely shut down in your area. Your spouse is only sick; he/she isn't a zombie. When do you stop panicking and start boarding up windows?

I am in full agreement about modern day movie tag lines stinking. If you look at enough movie posters, you'll realize that tag lines are so bad that movies actually need two per movie on the same poster. Can't the marketing team come up with one memorable thing to say about a movie or are they so lazy that they have to go, "Welp, if one isn't interesting, maybe the other one will be?" Dawn Of The Dead has my favorite tag line in history.

[Rusty Cooledge v2]

The worst tagline of all time goes to Saw IV for "it's a trap".

[Greg]

At the very end, Peter and Fran are cornered on the top floor by zombies. He tells Fran to get to the helicopter, but he doesn't want to go. He really doesn't. Peter is a broken man. Fran makes her way to the helicopter and Peter closes himself off in a room. Fran takes a moment to sadly glance back, knowing that Peter will be dead soon. The zombies begin to pound on Peter's door. Peter pulls out a hand gun and puts it to his wide. The zombies break in. He's gonna kill himself. It's that kind of movie. That's just the way it is.

...

Then, Peter goes "what the fuck am i doing?" and shoots a zombie instead. CUE SUPER PETER HERO MUSIC! Peter starts beating the shit out of the zombies. With his fists. He fights his way to the helicopter (the zombies are shockingly efficient with a ladder). He gets into the helicopter.

"How much fuel do we have?"

"Not much."

Peter smirks. "Alright."

[B]

E



Edward Scissorhands (1990)
Dir: Tim Burton

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0099487/

The ice dance. A scene so good with music so great Tim Burton and Danny Elfman have basically been trying to recreate it for 20 years. Edward is using his scissored hands to sculpt an enormous ice angel and Kim wanders out to dance around in the falling shavings while the camera spins around her. It's one of those scenes that achieves "magical" status without trying too hard to be magical. It's a moment of Heaven in a movie about people who don't get to be in Heaven.

That's part of what makes this so memorable. Edward is awkward and nigh-pointless to everyone he meets, but here he gets to create a situation nobody else on Earth could create. Kim feels deeply for Edward but won't let herself feel it because of the people around her, but she gets to be in that flash point of wonder and lets herself go. It's bohemianism brought crashing back down a little bit later. But when you remember Edward Scissorhands, like when you remember your own life, those few seconds of bliss mean more than a lifetime of crashing back down.

Even though Scissorhands is like the third or fourth best movie Tim Burton has ever made, holy shit Edward Scissorhands. Don't let your local goths dissuade you.

[Borkelmans]

Holy shit yes.

That scene where Vincent Price presents him with the human hands has always made me so sad, but in a visceral sort of way. Tim Burton movies always scared the shit out of me as a kid, and this scene is one of the main reasons why. It's just so... easy for him to slice through them. His dream falls in pieces on the floor and kills his creator... jeez. I still have to fight the urge to shield my eyes when I watch this part.

[Matt W]

He didn't kill his creator...he just happened to suffer a heart attack or die of old age at a very inopportune time.

And my favorite scene is the "I can't" scene, when Edward, who knows that anything he touches will be ruined, knows that he can't have the one thing in the world that he wants...and then gets it anyway. This, along with everything that ensues afterward is absolutely heartbreaking. What's worse...to pine for something and never get it, or to get it only to have it taken away from you forever?

[Greg]

Only third or fourth? I'd put it at #1, personally.

B and Borkelmans the top two moments of the film, so I'm going to go with... Edward's breaking-into-a-house outfit.

[Magnus J. Perriculum]

I was always partial to the scene where the cop fires up in the air and tells Edward to get out of here. It's such a sad scene but really kind of touching too because you can tell the cop feels for him.

Edward Scissorhands is probably my favorite Burton movie, with Ed Wood and Big Fish close behind.

[Alicia]

I pretty much agree with what everyone's saying, and the "snow" part is so awesome. Besides all the drama parts that make you really sympathetic towards Edward, there are some fun parts in the movie I like too, like when everyone wants him to cut their trees, and how all the desperate housewives want them to cut their hair. It's so hilarious when Dianne Wiest gets all excited about her haircut, and how the ladies get orgasms from their hair flying all over the place, which is filmed beautifully because in reality it's actually pretty disgusting.

OH and the waterbed scene OMG

[Rusty Cooledge v2]

I love it when he scares Winona Ryder the first time, and while she is panicking in the hallway with her mother he just speedwalks out of the bedroom for lack of a better action to take, and freaks her out again.

The movie kind of makes me mad though, because of all the unlikeable characters who at films end think Edward was a crazy monster argh you fucking morons no hes not

[webber]

I love it when he scares Winona Ryder the first time, and while she is panicking in the hallway with her mother he just speedwalks out of the bedroom for lack of a better action to take, and freaks her out again.

ahaha yes

[Whittle]

agreed @ speedwalking

[wagnike2]

Beat on the waterbed scene, so I'm going to go with all the landscapes he does for the neighborhood.

[B]

I would really appreciate you expounding upon your own feelings on the scenes, whether they've already been chosen or not.

[B]

F

Fantasia (1940)
Dir: Wilfred Motherfucking Jackson (the best director Disney ever had... dude made Cinderella, Alice in Wonderland, Peter Pan, and Lady and the Tramp. In a ROW.)

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0032455/

"Ave Maria" - Franz Schubert

The simple fact that in 1940 with nothing but art supplies and some cameras a team of animators could start with this image



and keep zooming in on it until the tiny slit opens up into this image



and then keep zooming in past the trees until you're in the clouds



while Ave Maria climaxes makes me absolutely reverent to Walt Disney, no matter how many movies about cows doing Matrix parodies his company creates during my lifetime. His pastiche of Mussorgsky's Night on Bald Mountain with Schubert with a mixing of dawn's bells and church bells is genius and Leopold Stokowski is in retrospect about as bad ass as conductor can be for making it happen. Some have called the ending an anti-climax, but I can't remember ever watching it without every part of my head making a "wow" face.

If you have not seen Fantasia, Jesus Christ, watch fucking Fantasia.

[Alicia]

Man, I haven't seen this since I was a little kid. I have been wanting to own it so I can watch it again. I'm going to have to go with my favorite as a little kid then: when the mops mop the floors by themselves!

[tmbg13]

Oh God, Ave Maria.

Dance of the Hours always made me smile because it's just hilariously frantic.

Fantasia was the 3rd feature film by Disney. I can't even fucking imagine that there were only two films(Snow White and Pinocchio) before this was released.

[Greg]

When I first saw the film as a little kid, I didn't reall pay much attention to it till halfway through the Rite of Spring segment, because holy fuck dinosaurs. I'm glad that holy fuck dinosaurs, because otherwise I might not have bothered to watch it again and thus might not have understand what the whole movie was trying to do and it might not be my favorite animated film of all time.

And even if I'm not so much holy fuck dinosaurs as I used to be, the Rite of Spring is still an awesome segment, as well as unforgiving. Jelly fish and squids eat fish while the fish "oh no!" faces, a pterodactyl gets it's head bitten off by a prehistoric gator, a t-rex kills a stegosaurus, and then they all die of thirst. Easily the most heart-pumping and exciting segment of the film.

Plus, holy fuck dinosaurs.