There are times when I’m flipping through the stations that I’ll come across a movie I know well and there’s a moment that I have to watch. And I’ll leave the movie on until that moment happens. I don’t have to watch the whole movie, I’m just waiting for the moment, and once it passes I can go on with whatever else I might be doing. But I have to leave the station on that movie until I see the moment.
My top three:
3. In Casablanca, the singing of La Marseillaise.
2. Terms of Endearment, the first date, when Jack Nicholson hisses at Shirley Maclaine that she needs a lot of drinks to “kill that bug that’s up your assss.”
And
1. In The Big Lebowski, when John Turturro licks the bowling ball.
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Godfather II: "I know it was you Fredo; you broke my heart"
Also in the first Godfather when Michael goes to the empty hospital where Marlon Brandon was taken after he was shot. Great scene.
Actually, whenever The Wizard of Oz is on (even though I own it), I always have to watch the Munchkin "Ding Dong" scene just to see my favorite munchkin (who doesn't even have a solo line.) She is just past of the entire crowd (one of the tallest ones) dressed in a brownish-red dress and in two shots she is wildly waving her arms. To this day, I have no explanation why...I just have to watch her.
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That's similar to the Charlie Brown Christmas Special where I have to watch the one kid who dances by holding both arms straight in front of him and kicking his legs forward. My favourite dance.
(I think it might be Shermie, but I'll wait to have that confirmed by someone out there who knows such things.) (Looks across the street.)
...and then there's that amazing joke in The Patsy, which you people have yet to see, and which I cannot recount to you because it ruins the whole joke...what are you people waiting for???
If you people go to your graves without ever having scene this wonderfully wacky moment, I will never forgive you...Of course, now, nearly ten years later, there's been so much build-up, it probably won't be funny.
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I'd say Shermie, yes, Shermie, tho I am not across the street
the Patsy?
me, nerd? (see above)
Yes, tis indeed Shermie.
Shermie - the forgotten Peanut.
To answer the main question, there are about a hundred moments that make me keep watching, but lately I have come across the Godfather a few times and in each case I can't watch less than 1/2 an hour. Doesn't matter where - anywhere in the movie will do.
what drifted across my mind this morning (for no reason I can figure) is bruno kirby saying to robert deniro (in the carpet stealing sequence), "vito, c'mon eeen".
love that
The problem with The Patsy is I believe the infamous joke comes at the very end, so that means watching the whole thing. I don't think life is long enough for that.
Ok. It's not just me, then. The Godfather IS on constantly these days.
Bruno Kirby is in Godfather 2? I had no idea.
RIP to the great bruno kirby
am I alone in loving his wagon wheel coffee table in "when harry met sally"?
No, you most certainly are not alone.
I was going to mention the wagon wheel table in my earlier comment but I had no real context for it, so I didn't. Why, you may ask, am I suddenly thinking I need proper context for anything on this blog is beyond me.
My favorite Oscar trivia: Robert de Niro and Marlon Brando both won Oscars for playing the same character - the only time this has happened. If Eddie Murphy really was all that upset about losing last year for DREAMGIRLS, maybe he should play Don Corleone in Godfather IV - he'd be a shoe-in.
When Harry met Sally was on here just other day when I happened to be home sick, so naturally I watched it again - dear Bruno and the wagon wheel table.....
OK, I'm a Sound of Music fan (I know, sad...). There is a scene where the Mother Superior is welcoming a new nun - she leaves and Maria comes in, to be bombarded with 'Climb Every Mountain'. Maria returns to the Captain's house, wearing the same dress the new nun had been wearing in that previous scene. Is it bad continuity or is it the whole thing about nuns not owning anything once they join or whatever?
The Sound of Music? Yikes. I spend my life trying to avoid that movie,which is difficult since so many of my work friends know the whole thing by heart, or so it seems.
Don't worry, Susieq, I'm a Sound of Music fan as well...and I never noticed that dress bit. Will have to check it out...and Christopher Plummer is just so handsome in this movie. He could blow his whistle at me anytime!
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not the mention the curtain-clothes (and carol burnett's later take w/the curtain-rod-clothes)
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