100 Things I Love About My Favorite Movies (Part 1)

As seen at 100 Things I Love About My Favorite Movies, I'm going to rattle off, in no particular order, things I love about some of my favorite movies. This isn't a list of best movies, or greatest accomplishments (though I'd argue a few of them are), they're just things that I love, even if they're flawed in some way or other. Please note, this will probably be loaded with spoilers of all kinds. Proceed at your own risk.

The rules are:

Rather than posting your 100 favorite films (which has been done and overdone), you simply post your favorite things about movies. I dig the concept, because instead of obsessing over whether the films you put on a list are “objectively good enough” to put on said list, you simply jot down 100 moments/lines/visuals that have made a lasting impression on you or sneak their way into running gags between you and your friends.

The crowded stateroom scene from A Night at the Opera



Nitti: "I said, 'Your friend died screaming like a stuck Irish pig.' Now you think about that when I beat the rap." Because what happens next is Ness decides to handle Nitti the Chicago Way.




Indy emerges atop the sub to that swelling John Williams theme and cheers ...



... I saw this with my aunt at a cinema pub in 1981. I'd never experienced a theater full of people cheering together spontaneously in the middle of a movie before. (It probably helped that the beer was flowing. Ten years old at the time, I just cheered because it was fun.)

The fights in Fist of Legend

I would include them all but this is already going to be the biggest post ever on this site.



The mall fight in Police Story

Staying with the martial arts theme. I could do 100 Things I Love About Police Story.



Lawnmower in Dead Alive


No embed on this one. Chase the link at your peril.

Funniest/goriest movie ever?

Music and finale of The Third Man



Another great movie I could've done dozens of moments, even the opening credits.

She just walks by, leaving him standing there like a sap. So he lights a smoke. I love it.

Marlowe tells O'Shaugnessy he hopes they don't hang her by her sweet neck.

I can't find the scene on youtube, so here's a capture of O'Shaughnessy (Mary Astor) realizing her fate is sealed.

Gittes, tells guy his wife crossed her legs a little too quick ...



Charles Grodin in Midnight Run



Grodin steals this movie. He's brilliant. Watched again recently, it held up really well.

The Irene Adler moment in Zero Effect

When we find out who the blackmailer is we realize that, whatever the name of the character Kim Dickens played was, it was really "Irene Adler." Drastically under-rated movie.

Chow Yun-Fat as Li Mu Bai in Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon

Chow Yun-Fat could be in this list for a number roles, but I think CT, HD is his finest movie. One of my all-time favorites.

Chasing or being chased? Memento



The Dude



Mark Knopfler's music for Local Hero



Christopher Walken in Pulp Fiction

Bruce Willis as John McLane in Die Hard

One of the best times I ever had at the movies.

The drink/love scene in Out of Sight



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I counted 18 there. Not exactly a round number to stop at, but it's late. Two or three more posts will finish this up.

Great white shark jumps from sea (as opposed to ... what? a hot air balloon?) into research boat

Great white shark jumps from sea into research boat | World news | The Guardian: 

Terrifying leaping shark image via The Guardian

Marine researchers in South Africa had a narrow escape after a three-metre-long great white shark breached the surface of the sea and leapt into their boat, becoming trapped on deck for more than an hour.

Sorry, no hitchhikers.

Rupert Murdoch attacked (with a pie) at Parliament, appears unharmed (by the pie)

Rupert Murdoch attacked at Parliament, appears unharmed - latimes.com: 

Image via LA Times

News Corp. Chairman Rupert Murdoch endured not only verbal blows but also an attempted physical attack Tuesday during his historic appearance before a committee of the British Parliament to account for the alleged illegal activities of reporters at his newspapers accused of hacking people's cellphones.

The hearing was interrupted when it appeared that someone tried to strike Murdoch, perhaps with shaving cream.

Uh, seriously?  First, that's not going to accomplish much except make people sympathetic towards an entirely unsympathetic twat.

And, headline writers, before we call this an "attack," please tell me you also write about how baseball players getting interviewed post-game are "attacked" by teammates with what are (perhaps) shaving cream pies.  It's a pie in the face, which is far less humiliation and anguish than he deserves, not an assault.

Thome's titanic homer impresses teammate.

They still got it: Thome & Giambi launch titanic Sunday homers - Big League Stew - MLB Blog - Yahoo! Sports:

Delmon Young is appropriately awed by Thome's blast.

Thome's sixth inning three-run homer off Felipe Paulino(notes) traveled an estimated 490 feet, stunning fans seated above the right-center field scoreboard, and surpassing Thome's flagpole home run last September by 10 feet to become the longest in Target Field's short history. All you have to do is look at Delmon Young's(notes) face to know that we're not talking about your run-of-the-mill shot here.

Cadborosaurus?

Loch Ness Monster-Like Animal Filmed in Alaska : Discovery News:

via Discovery

A video from 2009 shows something mysterious moving across the surface of the sea that resembles an Alaskan version of the Loch Ness monster.

Some are claiming that the animal is a 'Cadborosaurus,' a type of reptile or lizard that got its name from Cadboro Bay, in British Columbia. They say that what's in the video is a sea serpent that dwells in the North Pacific and possibly other regions.