Great Scenes from 2013

[Watashi]

Like always, spoiler if necessary.

Frozen - "Let it Go"
Leviathan - Seagulls
Inside Llewyn Davis - "The Death of Queen Jane"
Before Midnight - Hotel Fight
The Lone Ranger - William Tell Overture
Stoker - Piano Sex

[Henry Gale]

Spring Breakers - "Everytime"
12 Years A Slave - Hanging
Captain Phillips - Medical exam
The Wolf Of Wall Street - Lemmon sequence
Gravity - Radio conversation
The Desolation Of Smaug - Barrel battle
The Place Beyond The Pines - Opening shot
Prince Avalanche - Lance's weekend
Iron Man 3 - Storming Mandarin's lair
Behind The Candelabra - The ending
Only God Forgives - "Wanna fight?"
Catching Fire - District 11
About Time - One last visit
This Is The End - Porno mag fight
The World's End - The bookends and the big bar fights
Her - That two hour bit in the middle.

And really compelling parts of films I didn't like overall:

The Conjuring - Clap game
Fruitvale Station - The subway ride
The Wolverine - Opening dreams
Evil Dead - The possession and finale sequences

[Dead & Messed Up]

Frozen - "Let it Go"
Before Midnight - Hotel Fight
The Lone Ranger - William Tell Overture
Stoker - Piano Sex


12 Years A Slave - Hanging
Gravity - Radio conversation
The Conjuring - Clap game
Evil Dead - The possession and finale sequences

Much yes to these.

Pacific Rim - The Otachi Fight
VHS 2 - Birth and Escape ("Safe Haven")
This Is the End - Michael Cera in the Bathroom
Gravity - Opening Crash
12 Years a Slave - Whipping
Monsters University - Mike Learns the Truth
Man of Steel - Learning How to Fly

[Izzy Black]

Bastards - Opening
Gravity - Opening
Sparrows Dance - The dance
Spring Breakers - "Everytime"
Upstream Color - Opening
The Grandmaster - Train fight
Blue is the Warmest Color - First Kiss
Inside Llewyn Davis - Dad
12 Years A Slave - Patesy's lashing
American Hustle - "Live and Let Die"
The Wolf of Wall Street - Paralysis
Nobody's Daughter Haewon - Ending

[Boner M]

Bastards - Opening
Gravity - Opening
Spring Breakers - "Everytime"
Upstream Color - Opening
The Wolf of Wall Street - Paralysis


Captain Phillips - Medical exam


Leviathan - Seagulls
Inside Llewyn Davis - The Death of Queen Jane
^These, and...

Like Someone in Love - voicemails from grandma
Stray Dogs - cabbage
Enough Said - the first date
Before Midnight - time machine speech
Her - sex surrogate
Bastards - reckless driving
The Spectacular Now - first kiss
Gimme the Loot - the condom discussion
All is Lost - ending
The Bling Ring - long zoom on the house during the raid
Drug War - hotel/impersonations scene, final shootout

[ledfloyd]

Hmm... I'm just going through my list and I'm hard pressed to single out a scene from my favorite film To the Wonder, but here are the rest, many already mentioned:

Before Midnight - Hotel fight
Blue is the Warmest Color - First kiss
Like Somone in Love - Voicemails (This also has one of those opening shots that locks you right in, letting you know you're in good hands)
Frances Ha - Dinner party
The World's End - Bathroom fight, Simon Pegg trying to drink a beer fight
12 Years a Slave - Hanging
The Act of Killing - Anwar watches his film
The Lone Ranger - Both train scenes
Gravity - The opening shot
Drug War - Final shootout
The Grandmaster - Train station fight
Night Across the Street - James Bond homage
Passion - Split screen ballet
The Bling Ring - One-shot robbery at night
Post Tenebras Lux - Opening

[Yxklyx]

...
Post Tenebras Lux - Opening

Yes!

[ledfloyd]

Yes!

Disclaimer: I did not care for the rest of the film.

[Spinal]

For me, the standout scene in Spring Breakers is the one shot from the getaway car.

[Dukefrukem]

For me, the standout scene in Spring Breakers is the one shot from the getaway car.

:frustrated:

[Ezee E]

For me, the standout scene in Spring Breakers is the one shot from the getaway car.

I don't remember that one.

[Spinal]

This was not the reaction I was expecting. :|

[Bosco B Thug]

#1 is definitely Like Someone In Love taxi drive.

I have a hard time remembering scenes. I wish I could pick out scenes from Laurence Anyways or Frances Ha. Computer Chess has some great little vignette moments, too, that I just can't recall.

Some that I've liked:

The World's End - Final face-off with aliens
A Touch of Sin - Ending
Carrie - Hargensen's death; Vampire Weekend-set facsimile of De Palma prom preparation montage sequence
Oz the Great and Powerful - Wicked Witch terrorizes town square
The Lords of Salem - Full-blown Ken Russell climax
Larry Fessenden's Beneath - Moving the boat
Before Midnight - Lunch scene

[Henry Gale]

This was not the reaction I was expecting. :|

Nah, don't worry, it's great. I did almost forget about it though since it's so early on in it and we see it so differently later on.

For those that don't remember, it's the long shot of the diner hold-up from Rachel Korine's point of view outside in the car. It is excellent.

[Ezee E]

Nah, don't worry, it's great. I did almost forget about it though since it's so early on in it and we see it so differently later on.

For those that don't remember, it's the long shot of the diner hold-up from Rachel Korine's point of view outside in the car. It is excellent.

Ohhh... I would've just thought that as the Diner Heist. Yes, probably the best scene in the movie.

I'm wanting it to show up on Netflix again for a rewatch.

[number8]

I can probably pick a bunch from Spring Breakers alone. Aside from the two already mentioned, I'd add Franco and Hudgen's final conversation.

[eternity]

The diner robbery, the Everytime sequence, the "look at mah shit!" scene, the scene where Alien tries to convince Faith to stay ...

There's a reason it's my favorite of the year.

[Bosco B Thug]

I was partial to the scenes with Rachel Korine acting the drunk ho. Also, the climax, though apparently it's divisive.

[eternity]

I was partial to the scenes with Rachel Korine acting the drunk ho. Also, the climax, though apparently it's divisive.

Oh yeah, "you can't have this pussy" is also worthy of distinction.

[Winston*]

Haven't seen Spring Breakers so can't answer.

[Ezee E]

"The Dark Corner of the Room" - The Conjuring
"Dinner" - August: Osage County
"Lather up" - Starred Up
"Rosario fully..." - Trance
"That weapon though" - The Counselor
"Bradley Cooper breaks bad" - Place Beyond the Pines

[Derek]

Haven't seen Spring Breakers so can't answer.

Just make something up. It'd still frustrate Duke.

As for scenes not mentioned yet, the gun-blowjob scene was pretty spectacular.

[Henry Gale]

This thread basically urged me to re-watch it last night.

When Shane Carruth talks about Upstream Color being an exploration of his curiosity of being able to achieve something with narrative similar to that of music, where you can go back to something over and over and absorb things different ways, I feel like Korine did that exact thing. Just Spring Breakers is like an insane mixtape or one of those season/demographic specific compilation CD's brought to life.

It was like going back to a great album I only listened to once (just under a year ago), then going back to it all I could say to myself was, "Oh, whoa! I totally forgot about that [song/scene]!"


As for scenes not mentioned yet, the gun-blowjob scene was pretty spectacular.

This was the deep cut I forgot about most. That and the swagged-out "hip" preacher at the beginning.

[Winston*]

Just make something up. It'd still frustrate Duke.

The David Morse cameo in the snorkel scene was pretty cool.

[Derek]

The David Morse cameo in the snorkel scene was pretty cool.

Name 5 living actors better than and as tall as David Morse.

Trick question: you can't.

[Winston*]

Name 5 living actors better than and as tall as David Morse.

Trick question: you can't.

Watched an hour of The Green Mile the other night so I've got Morse on the mind.

[eternity]

The Bling Ring - "Drop it drop it low girl"
The Counselor - "She fucked my car"
The Dirties - Final scene
Nebraska - Scene in Woody's childhood home
Iron Man 3 - Mandarin reveal
The Spectacular Now - Bar scene with Sutter's father
You're Next - Dinner table scene
White House Down - Rose garden chase

[Ezee E]

Was Kyle Chandler anything special in Broken City? You could almost make a case for every scene of his this year.

[number8]

Name 5 living actors better than and as tall as David Morse.

Trick question: you can't.

Jeff Goldblum.

[Raiders]

Max von Sydow
Tim Robbins
Donald Sutherland
Stellan Skarsgaard
Liam Neeson

I don't actually have any scenes to contribute.

[Lazlo]

One I haven't seen mentioned that brought me a ton of joy was the ship-to-ship jump in Star Trek Into Darkness.

[Winston*]

One I haven't seen mentioned that brought me a ton of joy was the ship-to-ship jump in Star Trek Into Darkness.

Simon Pegg running across that hanger is easily the scene of that movie for me.