- The "Day O" sequence in Beetlejuice
- "I am a leaf on the wind."
- Cary Grant in Arsenic and Old Lace
- Nicole Kidman's monologues in To Die For
- Naomi Watt's audition in Mullholand Drive
- The never-ending fist fight in They Live
- Nightcrawler storming the White House in X2
- Spike Jonze/Charlie Kaufman collaborations
- Ben Affleck and Matt Damon mocking themselves in Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back
- Fred Astaire's effortless dancing
- Steve Martin's physical comedy in All of Me
- Robert Downey Jr.'s narration in Kiss Kiss Bang Bang
- Amy Adams.
- Peter Dinklage's "dwarf" speech in Living in Oblivion
- Joan Cusack's "Barbie" speech in Addams Family Values
- Terry Gilliam's dark and twisty worlds
- Ennio Morricone's scores
- Madeline Khan
- Katherine Hepburn's "The calla lillies are in bloom again" performance in Stage Door
- Kirsten Dunst in Interview With the Vampire
- The power of the Coke bottle in The Gods Must Be Crazy
- "Wheel of Fish" in UHF
- "I drink your milkshake!"
- Jim Carrey channeling "Amok Time" in The Cable Guy
- Ed Norton in Primal Fear
- The battle on Hoth in Empire Strikes Back
- Edna Mode and the perils of capes in The Incredibles
- The toy commercial in The Specials
- Simon Pegg/Edgar Wright collaborations
- The fight scenes in Bloodsport
- Marty Feldman in Young Frankenstein
- Christoph Waltz in Inglorious Basterds
- "I want my two dollars!"
- Val Kilmer in Tombstone
- The soundtracks to Quentin Tarantino movies
- Hammy in Over the Hedge
- The zero-g fight in Inception
- The fight scenes in Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
- The structure of Memento
- Christopher Guest's mockumentaries
- Paul Rudd in Wet Hot American Summer
- Nic Cage in Vampire's Kiss
- Jean Claude Van Damme's monologue in JCVD
- Anna Kendrick
- The Coen Brothers
- The ensemble of future stars in Dazed in Confused
- The ensemble of comedy geniuses in Clue
- The alien in John Carpenter's The Thing
- Kevin Kline in A Fish Called Wanda
- "Hey Boy" sequence in American Astronaut
- The stylized worlds of Jean-Pierre Jeunet
- Ellen Burstyn in Requiem for a Dream
- The interconnectedness of Magnolia
- The alien in Slither
- All the shenanigans in Super Troopers
- The hallway fight in Oldboy
- The merging of noir and high school in Brick
- "We Both Reached for the Gun" number in Chicago
- The affectionate parody of 50s b-movies in Lost Skeleton of Cadavra
- Random musical numbers in non-musicals
- The Toon bullets in Who Framed Roger Rabbit?
- The affable spirits of the dead in An American Werewolf in London
- Fast-paced banter in screwball comedies
- Pigs as projectiles in District 9
- The dialogue-free beginning of 2001: A Space Odyssey
- "Sometimes I doubt your commitment to Sparkle Motion."
- Gollum arguing with Smeagol in Lord of the Rings
- Michael Keaton's Coca-Cola addiction in The Paper
- The affectionate parody of Blaxploitation films in Black Dynamite
- The video-game aesthetic of Scott Pilgrim vs. the World
- Colin Farrell in In Bruges
- The hologram campers in Jason X
- The anachronistic music of Moulin Rouge
- Having a largely worthless film partially redeemed by an innovative/entertaining moment or scene
- Will Ferrell in Elf
- Glenn Close in Dangerous Liaisons
- "A Town Called Malice" scene in Billy Elliot
- Lambda Lambda Lambda Rap in Revenge of the Nerds
- Puppet Dracula musical in Forgetting Sarah Marshall
- Johnny, king of the nonsense response in Airplane
- Will Ferrell and Adam Scott having the world's most uncomfortable sibling hug in Step-Brothers
- Creepy little kids in horror movies -- bonus points if twins, super bonus points if gingers
- Hobie's unreliable journal narration in The Sasquatch Gang
- The Brawndo (It's got electrolytes! [gesture]) vs. water (Like out da toilet?) debate in Idiocracy.
- The non sequitur internal monologues in The Informant
- Paul Verhoeven's Sci-Fi oeuvre
- "Ned? Ned Ryerson?"
- Game of Questions in Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead
- Audrey Hepburn and Alan Arkin's cat-and-mouse game in Wait Until Dark
- Max's nostalgia speech in Kicking and Screaming
- The robot fist fight in Eurotrip
- Bill Murray in The Man Who Knew Too Little
- The litany of insults in Roxanne
- Aaron Eckheart in Thank You For Smoking
- The rave in Groove
- Brad Pitt's accent in Snatch
- Intricate but internally consistent time travel stories
- The jerkin' subliminal messages in Josie and the Pussycats
- "I am Jack's complete lack of surprise."
- B-grade movies and below that allow me to practice my own MST3K skills
Tuesday, May 3, 2011
100 Things I Love About The Movies
Inspired by a blog post over at Siskoid's Blog of Geekery -- which was in turn inspired by similar posts elsewhere -- I've decided to come up with my own list. The following is a hodge-podge of all sorts of different things I love about the movies, mostly unironically. This is not an exhaustive list by any means, but just the first hundred things that popped into my mind over the last several days; please feel free to add your own thoughts or "You forgot"s in the comments.
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Some truly AWESOME ones in there that I wish I'd thought of. Then again, that would have made the list twice as long!
ReplyDeleteMany thanks. I tried not to do any direct repeats of the other lists I read, which is why although Magnolia and Moulin Rouge get mentioned, my first instincts for both (Aimee Mann and Tango de Roxanne) don't. I think the only direct repeat was The Cohen Brothers because, well, it's the Cohen Brothers -- I could probably do 100 Things post about them alone.
ReplyDeleteI also gave myself that limit, which makes all our lists together a huge master list with no redundancies!
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