Square Eyes

We all have favourite films, but what about those flawed films which have great moments, but the rest is rubbish? This thread is for celebrating your favourite moments in film!



Lars von Trier's Dancer In The Dark (starring Bjork) isn't an easy watch and it's not perfect by a long way, but there are some awesome moments. My favourite is the final scene - 107 steps - but if I posted that it'd ruin the ending for those of you who haven't seen it yet. So here's I've Seen It All. The premise is that Bjork is slowly going blind and an operation can stop it but she's saving all her money so her son can have the operation as it's a hereditory condition. Here she tries to make the best of it singing about how she's seen everything she needs to see:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=62pLY5zFTtc

Sutti's big hair wrote:Lars von Trier's Dancer In The Dark (starring Bjork) isn't an easy watch and it's not perfect by a long way, but there are some awesome moments. My favourite is the final scene - 107 steps - but if I posted that it'd ruin the ending for those of you who haven't seen it yet. So here's I've Seen It All. The premise is that Bjork is slowly going blind and an operation can stop it but she's saving all her money so her son can have the operation as it's a hereditory condition. Here she tries to make the best of it singing about how she's seen everything she needs to see:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=62pLY5zFTtc

That was great! Nice scenery too. I've never actually seen that film.

Monty Python's The Meaning of Life is a patchy film, and generally not anywhere near up to their usual high standard - apart from one or two moments, including the spectacular Every Sperm Is Sacred song and dance number. Apparently they used up most of the film's budget on this one bit!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9DkqU-uWojc

Hughesy wrote:Monty Python's The Meaning of Life is a patchy film, and generally not anywhere near up to their usual high standard - apart from one or two moments, including the spectacular Every Sperm Is Sacred song and dance number. Apparently they used up most of the film's budget on this one bit!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9DkqU-uWojc

Worth every penny!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ifHuX3xuCwg

This is my favourite bit of Last Of The Mohicans - where Jodhi May steps off the cliff and Russell Means takes revenge on Wes Studi. And I think there's only one word spoken during the six and a half minute clip. Awesome! That's how to use your score properly.

(It's age protected because of the death and violence and limb severing and things... but it's not gratuitous, promise!)

Oh, and the opening to Secretary. Brilliant! Rest of the film isn't as good but I think this is my favourite opening to any film. That rumbling bass, the sashaying, the curiosity!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=28W3d3brIf0

I found a whole video with some of my favorite bits from the Lethal Weapon movies.

Warning contains an awful lot of the 'F' word

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V0uA63nUzWM

The whole of Wit is great, although quite distressing, but a simple shot like this just lets an actress as good as Emma Thompson show exactly what she can do playing a professor who is dying of cancer.

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This is how to make an entrance! The Rocky Horror Picture Show seems to be a love it or loathe it type of film, but you'll certainly never forget your first glimspe of Tim Curry as Frank N Furter!

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Funnily enough I've just reached the part of Michael Palin's Diaries where he's appearing in a 1975 Stephen Frears-directed film of Three Men In A Boat which also stars Stephen Moore....and Tim Curry! Funny but I'd never even heard of that version before.

Here's a great musical montage of highlights from The Station Agent, which I've just been enthusing about in the Last film you watched thread. If this doesn't make you want to seek out this film, nothing will.

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Wasn't there another thread about favourite moments in films?

Maybe it was on the "old Square Eyes" ...anyway...I remember Avid mentioning the running through the trees bit from Dead Poets Society and saying he couldn't find it...didn't look very hard (it's about a minute into this clip)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mjmtyP7la80

This isn't actually a film clip per se, but it felt like this was the best place for it. It's Spinal Tap's Nigel Tufnel giving his thoughts on Stonehenge in an interview with the National Geographic channel.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HMofDWzfA6A

(the interview is split into 5 parts, each lasting less than two minutes, but they're are all on You Tube, and they're all well worth seeking out!)