Favorite movie scene, 2020

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No bull, thankfully, just squirrels (a few buddies of mine) who laughed like the woodchucks in the Geico commercial when I took the tumble.
 
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AFAIK, both Randolph Mantooth and Kevin Tighe are still living and support firefighters across the U.S.
 
That was one of my brother’s favorite movies. Me, I can’t stand The Godfather series.
 
That song is the favorite of a fellow I know from high school. I used to have the original record until someone (not me!) threw it out while cleaning out the house.
 

I adore The Lord of the Rings Trilogy, both books and films. This scene in the third and last movie, The Return of the King, never fails to make me emotional.
 
That line in The Blues Brothers, when the Mystery Woman (Carrie Fisher) is revealed as the bride that Jake left standing at the altar, years earlier. Jake is on his knees in the sewer, face to face with his ex-fiancee pointing a machine gun at him: “It wasn’t my fault. I ran out of gas. I had a flat tire. I didn’t have any money for the cab fare. My tux didn’t come back from the cleaners …”

 
In memory of Olivia de Havilland, here’s the scene from “Hush, Hush, Sweet Charlotte” where Bette Davis finally figures out that Olivia and Joseph Cotten have been playing all kinds of dirty tricks including blackmail, murdering her friend, and trying to drive her crazy, and are planning to commit her to an insane asylum the next day. Go Bette!

 
cjsm93 said:
I adore The Lord of the Rings Trilogy, both books and films. This scene in the third and last movie, The Return of the King, never fails to make me emotional.
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I have a poster depicting that scene in my living room.
 
One of my favorite scenes is in Star Wars: A New Hope, when the Death Star is approaching the moon where the rebel base is, and you can practically see the late Peter Cushing drumming his fingers as he waits 15 or 20 minutes for the clear shot.

“…If only there were not this planet interposed between my planet-destroying battle station and its target…”

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Your post just brought to mind to following question - why didn’t the empire just blow the planet to dust? That would have allowed the empire a clear shot AND the debris from the planet would have caused damage to the moon and to the rebels…
 
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Your post just brought to mind to following question - why didn’t the empire just blow the planet to dust? That would have allowed the empire a clear shot AND the debris from the planet would have caused damage to the moon and to the rebels…
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The planet Yavin was a gas giant (like Jupiter or Saturn). It would have required considerably more firepower to destroy it, as opposed to the small moon, Yavin IV, where the Rebel Base was located.
 
Ah, thanks for that. I hadn’t heard about the geology of the planet.
 
That’s awesome! It must be beautiful to have on your wall. I have a map of Middle Earth hung up lol.
 
There is a movie (it’s in Arabic) about St. Charbel, and the scene where he dies.
 
The speech to his grown son in Rocky Balboa.

“It’s not about how hard you hit but about how hard you get guy and keep moving forward.”


Rocky Jr. Is played by the guy who is Jack Pearson in This Is Us.
 
I think that was brilliant casting. They both have the “mouth thing.”
 
Actually, Fredy, I too asked that question years ago.

I never thought of the “gas giant” explanation.

I always thought it could be explained thus: The Death Star was “orbiting the planet [Yavin] at maximum velocity,” as an off-screen voice announced. The planet’s destruction would mess with the DS’s own orbit, and debris generated by destroying the planet would interfere with DS’s use of its prime weapon later against Yavin IV.

We will leave unaddressed that DS could have de facto destroyed Yavin IV indirectly by in fact blowing up the planet Yavin IV orbits.

These are important conundrums, Fredy!
 
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