The best scenes list is very fun.
It is!
The cruelest cut, Caché (2005)
There’s no talking about this scene without spoiling it, but also no need to. Those who haven’t seen Michael Haneke’s stunning Caché, an examination of the unnerving uses of new technology and the way old wounds linger, should see it. Those who have, know the exact moment in question, the one that sucked all the oxygen out of whatever room they were in while watching it. In a decade in which explosions got bigger and louder, Haneke delivered a silent shock that outdid them all.
I really hated
Caché,
but they're right, I know the exact moment they're talking about, and it was indeed one hell of a scene. He does get props for that one.
I prefer Fellowship of the LoTR movies.
My favorite is
The Two Towers,
so I was happy to see it there. Also,
Eternal Sunshine,
Memento,
and
Kill Bill, Vol. 1
are a few of my all-time faves (as is
Moulin Rouge,
which was down there somewhere as well). They clearly love Christopher Nolan, since
The Dark Knight
and
The Prestige
also made the list. I am fine with that since I love Christopher Nolan too. Bring on
Inception,
whatever the hell it's about!
Nice lists, nice write-ups.
Two Towers
was easily my least favourite of the three. And I probably would have picked a scene that made me cry over the Balrog scene (I finally got through all the lists), but Moria is pretty cool.
OldBoy's
hammer scene made it in! Good times, good times. That part of the movie I'll happily watch again. It's fairly easy to divorce from the parts that scar me.
P-C, Would you be able to explain why you hated Cache without giving away too much?
First of all, it was so extremely boring that I stopped the movie after the first hour and asked the Buffistas whether it was really worth continuing. I did not give a fuck about the characters, and Haneke didn't either, since they weren't even onscreen half the time. The second half had its moments, like the mentioned scene. But the shooting style, designed to mimic the look of the tapes, bugged the shit out of me. And the movie could have been a half hour shorter; it's full of random, pointless, time-wasting scenes. The eventual "payoff" is full of WTF, and at the end, I kind of wanted to punch Michael Haneke in the face.
P-C, you'll be happy to hear that our best-selling film studies authors so love that film that they fought tooth-and-nail for a still to be the cover, despite everyone here thinking it was a very, very bad idea.
I didn't hate it, but I can see why someone would.
P-C, you'll be happy to hear that our best-selling film studies authors so love that film that they fought tooth-and-nail for a still to be the cover, despite everyone here thinking it was a very, very bad idea.
Yeah, you mentioned that last year when I was watching it! Heh.
Thanks P-C. I often love movies other people hated but this doesn't sound like something I would enjoy.
Haneke doesn't make movies for people to enjoy.
Not to say that's necessarily a bad thing: it's hard to "enjoy"
4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days, but it's a great movie nonetheless, even though it uses a similar shooting style (almost no camera movement).
I watched
Slumdog Millionaire
last night and I was a little disappointed. I didn't understand why a lot of the characters behaved the way they did and Jamal's stone faced reaction to stress made it hard for me to sympathize with him. I also wonder if seeing the picknick episode of The Office first ruined the movie for me.
Oh, AV Club, sometimes you confuse the hell out of me.
the centerpiece of Park Chan-Wook’s revenge thriller bears a resemblance to a famous scene in The Simpsons that pits Sideshow Bob against a field of rakes. At first these scenes are thrilling, then they’re sickeningly sad, and finally, they become darkly funny comments on human persistence in the face of futility.
Remember how sickeningly sad it was when Sideshow Bob took a rake to the face? Yeah.
Anne Hathaway’s character in Rachel Getting Married ought to be about as likeable as Christoph Waltz in Inglourious Basterds.
Erm. You say that like... because he kind of *is*... wait, what?
