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Best and Worst Movie Moments
Posted by Jon Whitney on 10 July 2010 - 9:08am.
fun best and worst this month, may I propose;
This was the moment when I realised a film I had been excitedly anticipating for months just, well, couldn't be taken seriously
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How about the best and worst of Richard Curtis
Can't find YouTube clip in English for this, but the best scene in one of Mr Curtis's films is in Love Actually, when Emma Thompson opens her Christmas present and realises he husband has been having an affair. Her despair and fury and how she gathers herself together to put on a happy front for the children is absolutely heartbreaking.
The worst of course is the: "Is it still raining, I hadn't noticed," line from the awful Andi McDowell in Four Weddings and a Funeral, delivered with all the panache of a dead cod.
Quite right
That Emma Thompson bit had me with something in my eye. That is acting of the highest order, to get that much from the simple act of straightening the duvet.
As for your worst. Andi McDowell is awful but surely someone must have noticed at the time how dreadful it was. Not only is it a clunking line, it's delivered terribly (as you said) and it's badly dubbed. Shoddy work all round.
It's bad
It's bad, but Don Cheadle's attempt at an English accent in Oceans 11 has to be the worst one for me.
...off the top of my head...
Worst - Johnny Depp dancing in the awful, awful Alice in Wonderland
Best - has to be Kubrick - I've always loved the opening aerial landscape sequence of The Shining which really sets the scene. Like Barry Lyndon, though, any still from this film has the composition of a classic painting. The landscape sequence was so good, they even "sampled" it in Blade Runner (possibly a means of recouping costs)...
From one of the many Bruce Willis Stinkers ........
Worst: Armageddon (1998): About-to-Pop-his-Clogs Bruce saying goodbye to a tearful daughter, Liv Tyler via a bank of video screens. The only time I’ve bin told off in a cinema for laughing.
Best (ish): Deer Hunter (1978): First Russian Roulette scene. Not a film I would seek out to watch really, but I can remember this scene being like a punch in the gut when I first saw it.
Worst
the whole of The Sound of Music.
Best at the moment is this scene from Blazing Saddles which must have been somewhat improvised judging by Cleavon Little's reaction.
You might well be right
.. but the worst of 'corpsing' is that you know something funny is on its way - Gene Wilder was so funny in those days...
I'm a sucker for 'The Right Stuff'
Chuck Yeager (with 2 broken ribs) breaks the sound barrier in the X-1.
On the ground, they hear the sonic boom, but don't know what it is. He's crashed! Someone mutters: "Bought the farm."
Glenys Yeager (Barbara Hershey, gorgeous as ever) looks at the floor.
Then: "Better make a note there - somethin's wrong with the old Mach meter, gone clean off the scale..."
Cue music, cheers, tears. Corny? Of course. But still brilliant.
Worst moment? Any given scene from the first 20 minutes of "V For Vendetta". (I've no idea about the rest of the film, because I'd switched off in disgust by then.)
0:50 to 2:40
Withnail and I has so many best moments - but this is my fave