2008 in Review: Paul Clark's Favorite Movie Moments

re: 2008 in Review: Paul Clark's Favorite Movie Moments

Brandon — Mon, 29 Dec 2008 16:57:34 GMT

Nice list. Personally I'd add:

- a certain swimming pool scene in Let The Right One In

- "lock your doors. lock your doors." in Happy-Go-Lucky

- amendment poll results in Milk

- opening music-less dance in Mister Lonely

- "and all the others" final title in Profit Motive And The Whispering Wind (chokes me up)

re: 2008 in Review: Paul Clark's Favorite Movie Moments

Hallick — Sun, 28 Dec 2008 18:20:53 GMT

Burn After Reading? Really? It ends on such an abrupt note that it would have epitomized the phrase "taken away from the director and recut by the studio", if I didn't already know better. MInd you, it's a great scene that plays like the perfect adaptation of a Carl Hiaasen novel, but that last cut is the oddest duck in the 2008 (or most other years') pond. The scene doesn't so much end as just stop like it was attached randomly to an egg timer.

re: 2008 in Review: Paul Clark's Favorite Movie Moments

Paul Clark — Sat, 27 Dec 2008 16:37:47 GMT

Cameron~~

Takes all kinds, I guess. For me, the final scene really summed up what I found so compelling about SNY's worldview- that (not to get all spoilery for those who haven't seen it) a character struggles to hang on to something from life, even if it's something that doesn't rightly belong to him. And that last word just slays me.

W. Ridendus~~

D'oh! Typo noted. Will fix.

re: 2008 in Review: Paul Clark's Favorite Movie Moments

W. Ridendus — Fri, 26 Dec 2008 22:57:23 GMT

I don't know about "the director's big exist" in TROPIC THUNDER, but I loved his big exit.

And the scene in HELLBOY II where the dying tree god transforms a dirty NYC street into a blooming meadow reminded me that I wasn't in the hands of your average Hollywood hack.

re: 2008 in Review: Paul Clark's Favorite Movie Moments

Cameron — Fri, 26 Dec 2008 22:04:55 GMT

Really? The final scene of Synecdoche? I count that scene as one of my top ten all time movie-ruining scenes, since the film up to that point would have been a serious contender for my favorite film of the year, but the ending, for me at least, exposed everything wrong with the rest of the film and sent it plummeting down my top ten.