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This is a great scene from Star Trek II where Chekov and Terrell beam down to Ceti Alpha VI--err, I mean Ceti Alpha V--and Chekov suddenly realizes that he's come across Kirk's old nemesis Khan.
The entire Ceti Alpha V scene was so well done from front to end. You have a feeling of uneasiness turning quickly to dread, conveyed well in Chekov's panic, turning quickly to horror as you see Khan's crew standing outside silently, waiting for them. And then you have Khan slowly reveal himself. Plus James Horner's foreboding score.
Art_from_Ark
(27,247 posts)It doesn't get much better than this
Saboburns
(2,807 posts)[link:John Hurt monologue (the proposition)|
Tom Ripley
(4,945 posts)Callmecrazy
(3,065 posts)The Sicilian scene from True Romance
Chilling
Ino
(3,366 posts)Also the Gandolfini/Arquette fight in that movie was pretty intense.
Callmecrazy
(3,065 posts)geardaddy
(24,931 posts)NightWatcher
(39,343 posts)It was loud and gritty, just the way that shootouts are in real life. There's nothing glorifying about the scene as it attempts to show what really happens in an urban shootout. Innocents are hit, guns jam, and there's confusion. There are no silver bullet magic shots.
Callmecrazy
(3,065 posts)panader0
(25,816 posts)progressoid
(49,990 posts)The overuse of rapid cuts and the shaky camera today drives me nuts.
rug
(82,333 posts)CBGLuthier
(12,723 posts)About the day he learned about the n word
kwassa
(23,340 posts)Nobody knows this film!
full of hysterical satires on American life in the '60s.
including gun nuts in the meet the Quantrills clip.
frogmarch
(12,153 posts)lame54
(35,290 posts)WinkyDink
(51,311 posts)orleans
(34,051 posts)and for the kid in us all....
and who could forget this fun chase scene?
orleans
(34,051 posts)from world's greatest dad
& the food fight from fried green tomatoes
charlie and algernon
(13,447 posts)progressoid
(49,990 posts)JimDandy
(7,318 posts)charlie and algernon
(13,447 posts)Paulie
(8,462 posts)CBHagman
(16,984 posts)Thank you for posting. Now I'll have to put the movie in my Netflix queue.
cemaphonic
(4,138 posts)Not posting because of spoilers, but those are some amazingly tense scenes.
Even though the rest of the movie is kinda so-so, the minecart scene from Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom has got to be one of the best action sequences ever filmed.
progressoid
(49,990 posts)The library scene from Wings of Desire:
There are a bunch in Lawrence of Arabia too.
Arugula Latte
(50,566 posts)Xyzse
(8,217 posts)Needless to say, it shrank inwards and I couldn't find it till the next day.
Yavin4
(35,439 posts)Heath made the Joker feel real to me. This scene is only 10 seconds long, but it's genius.
UglyGreed
(7,661 posts)the other night for the first time and what a rollercoaster ride of human emotions.
Crash (I) (2004)
112 min - Drama - 6 May 2005 (USA)
7.9
Ratings: 7.9/10 from 320,327 users Metascore: 69/100
Reviews: 1,599 user | 287 critic | 36 from Metacritic.com
Los Angeles citizens with vastly separate lives collide in interweaving stories of race, loss and redemption.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0375679/
geardaddy
(24,931 posts)jakeXT
(10,575 posts)Take Mikhail Kalatozov's 1964 masterpiece I Am Cuba, whose rooftop party (the whole thing is great, but the quoted sequence starts around 2:30) was paid tribute in Boogie Nights (oddly enough, also from 2:30 on):
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Young Anderson's films were drunk with movement, and frequent and exuberant use of the Steadicam (though, it should be noted, I Am Cuba was made in 1964, about fifteen years before the invention of the Steadicam). Boogie Nights is a prime example, from the aforementioned pool party to the opening sequence, and its resemblance to Goodfellas' legendary Copacabana long-take. (The Boogie Nights sequence below also makes use of another Scorsese device, namely the slow-motion closeup, seen to great effect in other scenes in Goodfellas, and, famously, in Raging Bull.)
http://nofilmschool.com/2014/01/the-evolution-of-p-t-andersons-film-style
Enrique
(27,461 posts)i've watched it a million times, this is the first time i noticed the rimshot after "I'm a union delegate"
El Supremo
(20,365 posts)PassingFair
(22,434 posts)Joe Shlabotnik
(5,604 posts)Is that a pledge pin?!
Food fight!
Shout!!
The Otter defense
0.0
Lets take the cheese
Cut the cake