Kickass Movie Scene List #71: Up In the Air

I liked Up In the Air quite a bit (which is not surprising, because I'm a fan of Clooney, and I love Vera Farmiga). The leads bounce off each other well, and the script resonates with me.

Kickass Movie Scene List #72: Spartacus

Another one from a ways back. I remember seeing Spartacus on UPN back in the day, and thinking nothing of it. It's a solid flick, but the part that sticks with people is that one iconic scene regarding a bunch of folk who have apparently forgotten exactly how many Spartacuses there are.

Come, let us gaze upon the manliest tear ever shed.

Kickass Movie Scene List #73: Zero Dark Thirty

This is obviously the newest movie on the list and will also be the most recently watched movie on the list. I had said when I started the list that it was solidified, and that no new entries would be added, but would rather be interspersed throughout the list as I saw new wonderful movie scenes. Unfortunately, one of the scenes I had picked wasn't quite as great on another review as I had thought it was, so I took it out and replaced it with this.

Zero Dark Thirty is not an 'entertaining' movie, per se. There's a space between 'respectable' (which implies that I didn't actually like it) and 'entertaining' (which it is and isn't, it's hard to be entertained by a lot of the stuff on the screen, and even the coda, while intense and attention grabbing, has sobering moments that don't fall under the realm of cheap entertainment).

It's engrossing and thought provoking, and the raid in the last hour or so is every bit as good as it's been made out to be.

But that's not the scene that I picked.

Kickass Movie Scene List #74: Patton

A funny story accompanies this one. My earliest memory of this movie is that my dad really liked it. We were on a road trip to Arizona to see my grandparents, and we had stopped in a crappy motel that had cable - and Patton was playing. I've always been a night owl but for some reason this particular night, I was having none of the whole 'staying awake' thing. I complained to my dad that the movie (and scene #74 in particular) was too loud.

He responded by mentioning that this was a great movie and a great scene, and that I'd like it someday. Then he told me to try to ignore it.

I guess he was right.

Kickass Movie Scene List #75: Babe

Ah, Babe. A movie about a pig who thinks he's a sheep dog. It's a funny movie with bursts of poignancy. While I wish they would've skipped the idea to have the animals' mouths mouth out the words, there's not a whole lot of fault that I can find here.

Plus, remember that ending?