Thursday, June 18, 2009

A little help from the gallery

So, this discussion at lunch today should be opened to the crowd. Best non (or minimal) dialogue scene in a movie? Here's my vote:

Posted by T.J. at 1:57 PM

11 comments:

rob said...

the invention of music scene from 'caveman' is pretty good:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=tYBNoFcvcWI

also, the street gunfight scene from 'heat' is awesome, though not sure it qualifies.

2:32 PM, June 18, 2009
T.J. said...

rob, that Heat scene may fall into the same category as the "landing at Normandy" scene from Saving Private Ryan...sure, great scene, and virtually no dialogue, but not exactly what I was going for here.

2:34 PM, June 18, 2009
rob said...

how 'bout you post some rules, then, jerkoff?

2:41 PM, June 18, 2009
T.J. said...

Yeah, cause we're always such sticklers for these things here at G:TB HQ...

2:42 PM, June 18, 2009
Geoff said...

How about the sex scene in the original Terminator?

3:04 PM, June 18, 2009
TR said...

What about the single-shot opening of Boogie Nights? The camera zooms in on the outside of the club from afar, follows Burt Reynolds and Julianne Moore in, moves around Roller Girl, winds its way through the club and lands on Eddie Adams from Torrance.

Honorable mentions: a similar single-shot sequence in The Player that is bad-ass, the opening sequence of Wall-E (not joking) and the scenes in Castaway where Hanks is stumbling around trying to figure out what the F is happening.

3:31 PM, June 18, 2009
rob said...

because i know you care, w&m's out of conference hoops opponents:

uconn, harvard, norfolk state, navy, radford, manhattan, ohio

4:24 PM, June 18, 2009
TR said...

Know where the Tribe-Jaspers battle is gonna be played?

4:54 PM, June 18, 2009
rob said...

nope. will effort an answer.

4:57 PM, June 18, 2009
zman said...

Some mountain biker thinks she's Nate Newton. Or TJ.

http://tinyurl.com/n49jb8

If TJ ever decides to become a rapper, he should call himself DJ Toil. Just my unsolicited $0.02.

12:16 AM, June 19, 2009
Whitney said...

Late to the party, but the slow-mo walking scene from Reservoir Dogs comes to mind.

10:28 AM, June 21, 2009

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