Author Topic: Great Scenes in Not-Quite-Great Films  (Read 10781 times)

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Re: Great Scenes in Not-Quite-Great Films
« Reply #10 on: May 02, 2014, 06:19:41 PM »
Bing Crosby and Bob Hope riffing on the Paramount lot in Variety Girl.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yxq-n-ChpL4

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Re: Great Scenes in Not-Quite-Great Films
« Reply #11 on: May 02, 2014, 06:29:38 PM »
Good ending. :)

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Re: Great Scenes in Not-Quite-Great Films
« Reply #12 on: May 02, 2014, 07:10:54 PM »
The two best cameos from the otherwise really bad It's a Great Feeling.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3fxGqTkMoSg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qzjeqEEarGw

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Re: Great Scenes in Not-Quite-Great Films
« Reply #13 on: May 04, 2014, 08:55:50 PM »
The beginning of what proves to be a really lousy direct-to-video movie from 1990, but Jeff Goldblum provides what may be one of my favorite, humorous and unsettling, cinematic renderings of the devil ("I'm only interested in the trophy.")

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8UbFes5UuZk
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Re: Great Scenes in Not-Quite-Great Films
« Reply #14 on: May 04, 2014, 09:47:21 PM »
That's a hard film to find. I was working in a video store when it came out. The film is weak but it's one of my Top Jeff Goldblum performances.

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Re: Great Scenes in Not-Quite-Great Films
« Reply #15 on: May 12, 2014, 06:31:24 AM »
I thought that the opening photo montage of the four guys cutting right to a shot of the three guys at a funeral was a brilliant, subtly meaningful opening to John Cassavetes's "Husbands", but, aside from the basketball scene, I thought the movie lost steam immediately after it.

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Re: Great Scenes in Not-Quite-Great Films
« Reply #16 on: May 12, 2014, 09:41:15 AM »
Sometimes poor action movies have a single action scene that is classic:

The mountain climbing scene in Mission Impossible 2;
the airplane scene in Goldeneye.
The water wheel scene in Pirates 2
The wedding in the midst of a fight in Pirates 3

The same with comedies:
Bob Barker in Happy Gilmore

And musicals:
Earth Wind and Fire in Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
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Re: Great Scenes in Not-Quite-Great Films
« Reply #17 on: May 12, 2014, 10:09:06 AM »
The opening scene in Cliffhanger.

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Re: Great Scenes in Not-Quite-Great Films
« Reply #18 on: May 12, 2014, 04:02:13 PM »
What's so cool about Zatoichi? Just watch this 30-second clip I bookmarked from Zatoichi's Revenge.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B-kqOASNAT8#t=34m024s

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Re: Great Scenes in Not-Quite-Great Films
« Reply #19 on: May 12, 2014, 04:08:03 PM »
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5vEgZM5x0ik

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