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Dead Calm

Very cool Australian horror movie. With a cast of just 3 (Sam Neil, Nicole Kidman and Billy Zane) - along with a 30 second scene of other people in 'discovered footage' - I think it was brilliantly paced and built up. The intensity that Billy Zane put into his role definitely made this movie

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There will Be Blood

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Magnolia

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Punch Drunk Love


The Master

TheIrishGrover

Some great choices there. Another pair of amazingly visual directors in Del Toro and Paul Thomas Anderson. Del Toro's prestige films like Pan's Labyrinth (And this year's The Shape of Water - Can't wait) get all the mainstream kudos but the design in Hellboy 2 is simply amazing - all the better for the fact that so much was physical effects:


And Doug Jones is the best prosthetics actor in the business

New Home

Anyone remembers Tim Curry in "Legend"?

Here's Darkness.

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Reservoir Dogs

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The 1989 Batman. This is the scene where the Joker first sees his new face and goes round the twist

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Little Shop of Horrors

Dr Orin Scrivello (Steve Martin) is possibly the only movie dentist creepier than Dr Szell

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All The Presidents Men

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Hot Fuzz has so many hilarious shots.

TheIrishGrover

While the Batman movies had descended to Jim Carey's Riddler and Tommy Lee Jones's maniacal Two-Face and...... cars driving up walls, the superb animated series released a movie. Ironically, while the movies were descending into camp and cartoon characters the cartoon series on TV and in the movie delved into the inner workings of Batman and Gotham City.
How stable is a man who dresses up as a bat and fights crime? How damaged is he? How responsible is he for the villains that he fights? How do the cops feel about a vigilante on their streets? The villains were amazingly portrayed (The Animated series turned Mr Freeze from a minor, generic bad guy to a tragic lost good man.) The Joker was terrifying. always an inch from exploding. Ledger's joker owes a lot more to the animated series's Joker than Nicholson's 90's camp. It investigated how Batman's obsessive nature poisoned his relationships.
The Mask of the Phantasm showed a character similarly traumatized to Batman but took a different path.
The animation was a little clunky compared to Disney films of the time or the clean 2D digital animation we see today but this shot is amazing: The Joker, completely at her mercy and completely insane and OK with what she chooses to deal out. This joker was as far removed as you could get from Nicholson and it would be 25 years before you saw something similar.

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Clint Eastwood & Shirley MacLaine in 'Two Mules For Sister Sara'

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more Clint, from the dark and strange High Plains Drifter

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RichT wrote: »

When any one mentions 'scary Films' I always think of Don't Look Now and this scene always jumps into my mind.

Only saw that a few years back, and that ending caught me so off guard it made me jump like I haven't since!

I'll throw in the amazingly bleak visuals in Children of Men.

Billy86

And the absurdly lush and colourful City of God.

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Sylvester Stallone playing in goal. 'Escape to Victory'

SEPT 23 1989

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When Harry Met Sally

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Totoro



Toy Story 2

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A couple from the Incredible Shrinking Man

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Shoot em up

This movie is a guilty pleasure, I absolutely love it! It's a (violent) action comedy, of sorts.

The unnamed hero (Clive Owen) has just been in a shootout with villain Hertz (Paul Giamatti) and his men on the roof of the 'Faulk Truck & Tool' building. The hero, using what can only be described as video game physics obliterates most of the gang and escapes.

Rooftop shootout

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Gary Cooper & Grace Kelly - 'High Noon'

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The shootout in "Heat". I must admit, when I saw Heat first in the cinema I was a little disappointed. The build up was all about DeNiro and Pacino finally meeting on screen. IT was all about that diner scene. While the scene was cool, it was short, and I really didn't pay as much attention as I should have to everything else.

After subsequent viewings I realised what a classic it is. Each of the main characters is brilliantly drawn: DeNiro's relationship with Amy Brenneman seemed genuine and realistic; Pacino's relationship with his estranged family, especially a young Natalie Portman. All the other characters had their own lives: Especially Kilmer and Ashley Judd (which, shockingly, I totally ignored the first time I saw)

So, I won't post the classic Diner scene (Although it could go up) but I will post something from the shootout. Famously (Although maybe not accurately) it's used as a demonstration to military personnel in the US on how to fight an urban battle when surrounded on two sides.

Clareman

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Shoot em up
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Reminds me of the keyboard from Wanted

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Christopher Lee as Lord Summerisle in the Wicker Man

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The audience audibly gasped when they saw Rambo's small waist.

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An American Werewolf in London