Thanks to my witty and über clever pal John from The Droid You’re Looking For, I’m inspired to join the fun in putting together this post. He’s passionate about movies so much that there’s already a second edition of the 100 things he loves about the movies! Something this joyful and fun should be shared, so I’ve invited two of FC’s contributors Ted and Vince to join in and list a myriad of stuff we love about the world of cinema. So here goes:
[Ted’s list in blue, Vince’s in green and Ruth’s in purple]
- “Bond, James Bond”
- Ennio Morricone
- “As God is my witness, I’ll never be hungry again.”
- The rain scenes in Jane Austen’s movies
- “Henry Jones Jr., Indiana is the name of the dog” – Henry Jones Sr.
- Alejandro Jodorowsky
- “And I felt His voice take the sword out of my hand.”
- “More human than human is our moto.” – Dr. Terell
- Monica Vitti swimming in the Mediterranean in L’Avventura
- John Barry’s theme songs (especially this one)
- “I’m the Dude man!”
- Blade Runner‘s ‘tears in the rain’ monologue
- Big Hollywood movies filmed with IMAX cameras
- Superman catching Lois falling from a chopper
- Yves Montand driving off a cliff with a smile on his face in Wages of Fear
- Spanish Buzz
- “You’re one ugly mother******!”
- “What we do in life echoes in eternity”
- Hitchcock cameos
- Audrey Hepburn’s smile
- Mature actors who get better with age (i.e. Helen Mirren)
- “Warriors – come out to playaayy… Warriors – come out to playaayy…”
- Gerard James Butler
- The big battle scene in 13 Assassins
- Wolfman Jack in American Graffiti
- Marion Cottilard’s singing in Nine
- Roy Scheider rear-ending a parked semi at 100mph in the Seven Ups
- Timothy Dalton’s Bond
- Peter Coyote in Bitter Moon
- Keanu Reeves in The Matrix
- “Snake Plissken, I thought you were dead.”
- The tantalizingly s-l-o-w doorway kiss in Dear Frankie
- John Williams and Hans Zimmer
- Marlene Dietrich to Hank Quinlan (Orson Welles): “Better lay off those candy bars.”
- Heath Ledger in Ten Things I Hate About You
- “I’m Batman!” from both the 1989 and 2005 version
- Claudia Cardinale
- Alan Rickman’s voice
- “I’ll be back.”
- Period dramas’ men 😀
- Robert Blake’s giant cell phone in Lost Highway
- Rufus Sewell in Tristan + Isolde
- “Yippee-ki-yay, mother******!”
- Cathy Moriarty in White of the Eye
- David Duchovny & Minnie Driver in Return to Me
- Frank Booth: “F#$% this Heineken sh&%! Pabst Blue Ribbon!!”
- “That’s thirty minutes away. I’ll be there in ten.”
- “Why do we fall, sir? So we might learn to pick ourselves up.”
- Alan Alda in To Kill a Clown
- The colors of Zhang Yimou’s films
- Any scene involving tumbler/batmobile/batpod in Christopher Nolan’s Batman flicks
- Emmanuelle Beart in Manon of the Spring
- The finale of The Passion of the Christ
- Steven Seagal’s weird fighting style in his films
- Butch Cassidy to Sundance Kid: “Who are those guys?!”
- Sundance Kid to Butch Cassidy: “Who are those guys?!”
- Cate Blanchett
- The opening scene of The Transporter
- Ennio Morricone’s theme for The Man with No Name Trilogy
- Disney Princess movies
- “Do you feel lucky, well do you punk!?”
… - Monica Vitti swimming in the Mediterranean in L’Avventura
- Sam Peckinpah kick started the bloody shoot’em up in Hollywood in The Wild Bunch
- The visual feast of Tarsem’s The Fall
- Lillian Gish with her Winchester in Night of the Hunter
- Aragorn’s sheer charisma in the Lord of the Rings …
- … and the amazing ensemble-cast of the Peter Jackson’s trilogy
- Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey
- Roy Scheider rear-ending a parked semi at 100mph in the Seven Ups
- Gregory Peck & Audrey Hepburn in Roman Holiday
- Inspiring historical-based movies, i.e. Amazing Grace
- Louise Brooks in Pandora’s Box
- Christian Bale’s romantic side in The New World
- John Woo’s action scenes in The Killer, Hard Boil and Face/Off
- The witty repartee between Bond & Vesper in Casino Royale
- Jane Fonda’s astro-striptease in the intro to Barbarella
- British actors
- The epic car chase in The Bourne Supremacy
… - Sense & Sensibility‘s brilliant screenplay
- Clint Eastwood
- The Jesus scene in Ben-Hur
- Marlene Dietrich to Hank Quinlan (Orson Welles): “Better lay off those candy bars.”
- The Iceland scenery in Beowulf & Grendel
- Hearing big explosions and machine guns roar in digital sound at a big theater
- The ‘Phantom leads Christine to his lair’ scene in Phantom of the Opera
- Bobby Peru’s teeth in Wild at Heart
- The musical segments of Moulin Rouge
- David Lean’s wide shots in Lawrence of Arabia and Ryan’s Daughter, filmed in 65 mm
- Creative movie title sequences
- Max Schreck as the rat-like Nosferatu
- Russell Crowe’s performance in The Insider
- David Lynch
- Gabriel Byrne as D’Artagnan
- Movie soundtracks
- Saw The Empire Strikes Back on the big screen and in digital sound back in 1997
- Hugo Weaving’s masked performance as V
- The fight scene in the original Drunken Master
- The chariot race scene in Ben-Hur
- M. Emmet Walsh
- Movie blogs 😀
Well, that’s all folks. Thoughts on any of our picks? Also feel free to share your own list of things you love about the movies in the comments.
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Ruth: I’m surprised, where is Gerard Butler?? 😛
Ted: The car chase in The Bourne Supremacy is definitely the best in the Bourne trilogy!
Vince: Love that chase in the desert in Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid.
23. Gerard James Butler
There Castor…You knew he wouldn’t get missed off 🙂
@ Castor, you’re not paying enough attention, dude… I even have his photo all kissy-kissy 😀
@ Custard, very astute of you matey! I’m not ashamed to admit it, LOVE Gerry… been a fan of his for the past 6 years!
Wow I went over the list like 4 times!! I guess it was late ahah
No biggie, Castor, I tried to sneak him in on my list but no way I’d leave him out 😉
Oh yeah I love that car chase in Bourne 2, I wonder where the big car chase will take place in The Bourne Legacy.
Hey Ted, I actually watched that scene again last night and I knew I had to post the clip here. Spectacularly relentless… LOVE Karl Urban and Bourne is the franchise that make me like Damon, too.
Yeah The Bourne franchise is definitely one of my favorites, I’m a little skeptical about Renner taking over the franchise since he’s officially being offer the lead role in The Bourne Legacy. It seems a lot of people in Hollywood is assuming that M:I-4 will be a big hit and apparently Renner will have the same amount of screen time as Cruise in the film.
I won’t be watching the Bourne franchise now that Renner is cast. I was just saying the same thing at Castor’s blog, I think it’s silly to call it that and not have the Jason Bourne character. I wish they’d just stop at the trilogy and just come up with something else entirely. As for Mission, I think that franchise’s overstayed their welcome for me.
It’s kind of funny the studio said they don’t want to have any of the new Bourne films be related to the books yet they named the new movie The Bourne Legacy, which the exact same name of the fourth book. I’m looking forward to it though, I think Tony Gilroy can deliver a good spy flick.
I’m also looking forward to M:I 4 too, Brad Bird’s first live action film and they’re giving him time to make sure the finished film is as good as it could be. The previous M:I films were released in the summer season and this new one opens in December. M:I-3 was rushed into production because they delayed it so many times after Fincher left the project.
Well, I’ll ask you what you think of it, but I don’t know enough about that director to entice me, either.
As for M:I 4, I might check it out as I’m curious to see how Brad Bird tackles it.
Tony Gilroy wrote the screenplay for the first three Bourne films and when Greenglass decided to not return to direct this fourth one, Universal offered Gilroy to direct it. His first film was Michael Clayton (great film), his last one was Duplicity (I was very disappointed by it). Hopefully he can deliver this new Bourne flick.
Thanks Castor. I’ve been trying to get Ruthie to see Butch Cassidy. I will succeed soon.
Ruth, you must see Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, you will love it! 🙂
I will Castor & Vince, it’s really not hard to convince me w/ hunks like Redford and Newman, ahah.
Great List Flixers!! This is one I would never try and do myself. I haven’t got the knowledge or memory to complete it.
It would go like this…
1) the film with the woman with the hair
2) The music in the film on motorbike…you know the one?
And so on, not a pretty sight I am sure you will agree.
This list how ever is very well put together. Thanks for sharing.
I love the way you have separated the contributors out into colours, but lets be honest Ruth, we all would guess your ones….:-) hehehe The Romantic in you shines through.
C
Thank you, Custard! I’ve got great help from my friends, all I had to do is come up w/ 50 😀 He..he.. I was considering putting #23 in blue/green, but I think people would know it’d be a mistake, ahah. Glad the romantic side of me came out, I have to balance the more macho stuff from Ted and Vince, right?
Great list! And with so many different choices, probably, because three people were involved in its creation.
Thanks Lesya… I love your list as well. We both share our love for GWTW 😀
57 is off course my favourite 🙂
Who is Alejandro Jodorowsky? You mentioned him twice.
HAve you hear yesterday that Lynch is making a new film?
Dez,
Alejandro Jodorowsky is director of cult films in the 70s. He’s the first director who tried to bring Dune to the big screen but couldn’t. His films are similar to David Lynch’s if you’re interested in seeing them.
Thanks for the info, Ted, Vince told me about him a while ago, I wasn’t familiar with him before that. Here’s more info on him: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alejandro_Jodorowsky
Ooops my bad, I accidentally put his name there twice. I’ve swapped it with another item that I think we both like, Dezzy. See if you can pick it out of the list 😀
Great call on Alejandro Jodorowsky Vince, I should’ve included him on my directors list a while back. I still don’t know what El Topo was about but it was quite a movie.
I got a HUGE grin on my face when I saw Jodorowsky on there. Great job, folks!
No smile for any from my list, John? 😦
I got a smile from the whole list : )
For instance, I’ve never seen a Zhang Yimou film but that image is breath-taking. And I loooove seeing “The Fall” getting attention. That’s such a wonderful and underrated movie.
I’m surprised you haven’t seen a Yimou film, John. I think you’d like ‘Dagger’ and Hero w/ Jet Li. I have yet to see ‘Curse of the Golden Flower’ but I can’t wait to see his upcoming w/ Christian Bale, 13 Women of Nanjing.
‘Hero’ is one that keeps rising and falling in my Netflix queue, kind of like “Chariots of Fire”. I’ll check it out soon for sure.
Oh I hope you’ll see Chariots of Fire soon, that’s one of my favorite sports-themed movies that’s so much more than just running to Vangelis’ score 🙂
You should check out Holy Mountain. Holy *&^%! John has seen that one.
You know what the first thing is that springs to mind? Robert Downey, Jr.’s scenes in the Iron Man movies where he is in his workshop working and interacting with the robots.
I. Love. Those. Scenes.
Also Emma Thompson.
Also anytime Russell Crowe uses a sword.
Also … ok. Maybe I should do one myself. Except I never even finished the “Cinematic ABCs” post. 😀
Oh yes, RDJ in his workshop in Iron Man is delightful indeed, no qualms from me there 🙂 Ahah, Russ w/ the sword, good one, same applies for GB too… I know you’re just ok w/ The Insider, but I really respect his performance in that movie even though it’s not his best look.
I’d LOVE to see your Cinematic Alphabet list. It’s much easier to do as you just have to collect 26 photos.
Proof positive that I just really like Russell Crowe: I even think he’s hot in The Insider. AND Body of Lies. Yeah. I have a problem. 🙂
I think Russ looks good even when he’s not in his svelte self, he’s got great eyes and smile that I notice most 🙂
A list like this wouldn’t be complete without Gerry and Rufus, glad to see they both got in. And especially with the parts and scenes mentioned. And the Dear Frankie kiss? WOW! Let’s just say it’s one of the best ever ;-O
Why of course, Becky. I knew I had to put a picture from one of GB’s movies, and the DF one just sprang to mind. It’s the simplest kiss that’s the most romantic…
It’s impossible not to spot GB there 😉
I also see some GB related list there.
I like that number 19…I will also put Stephen King Cameo in it.
He..he.. as you would w/ Cillian right? 😉
As for cameo, I also get a kick out of seeing Stan Lee in a bunch of his Marvel movies.
Ooh, love the idea for this one, Ruth. This must have taken you ages to come up with! 😀
And sure enough, there’s men in period dramas.
I have to give credit to John from TDYLF for the idea, and actually I only had to come up w/ 50 as my two guest bloggers provide the rest 🙂 I’d love to see something like this at CZ, Rich, I’m guessing there’ll be a lot of zombies, ahah.
some are mentioned twice (Vince’s entries – green) Why?
Just making sure you’re paying attention John 😀 He..he..no, it’s just a simple mistake on my part. It’s been fixed now, thanks for letting me know.
Just stumbled upon this, it is a great post! I did one of my own, a few weeks ago, but it was nowhere near as diverse and richly knowledgeable as the contributions by the three people here. Fantastic. My favourites are #88 and #94… oh, and #92, but anyone who reads my blog knows that #92 is always, ALWAYS, gonna be on my list. 🙂
Hi there Magnolia, welcome to FC and thank you for your kind comment! I have to give credits to my wonderful contributors who are much more of a cinephile than your humble blogger here, that’s why this list is rich and diverse 😀