http://www.idkfa.com/v3 idkfa: syndicated http://www.idkfa.com/v3/v_thread.php?thread_id=191&msg_id=1473 The Abyss is a pretty awesome movie... although I wouldn't recommend the special edition. It is so heavy handed and corny with it's message, whereas in the original it is subtle. Oh James Cameron. Scrotor@idkfa.com (Scrotor) Indiscernible from Magic Sat, 18 Dec 2010 18:47:44 -0900 http://idkfa.com/v3/v_thread.php?thread_id=191&msg_id=1473 http://www.idkfa.com/v3/v_thread.php?thread_id=191&msg_id=1469 I think I'm a sucker for scenes for people/robots being brought back from certain death. More of my favorite scenes from "The Abyss." A husband and wife are trapped in a underwater vehicle, miles under water at the bottom of the ocean. Their vehicle is damaged. Water is trickling in, slowly filling up the cabin. The husband has a diving suit. The wife does not. Before the air goes out completely, the wife tells the husband that he's the better swimmer, and that if he can swim fast enough, she should be able to survive drowning and severe hypothermia, provided she can be resuscitated. The husband has to watch his wife freeze in the icy water and then suffocate, then swim a couple of hundred yards to the safety, only then to fight in an attempt to bring his wife back to life. Part 1: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-fjS0ocT4FM Part 2: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Q60x_5WOqk This scene is the embodiment of absolute desperation. kaiden@idkfa.com (kaiden) Indiscernible from Magic Sat, 18 Dec 2010 04:43:37 -0900 http://idkfa.com/v3/v_thread.php?thread_id=191&msg_id=1469 http://www.idkfa.com/v3/v_thread.php?thread_id=191&msg_id=1099 Well. I'll just continue to share my own. (spoiler alert) End scene from Wall-E: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3HIwzZMqufg We've spent the entire movie getting to know Wall-E. He's supposedly the last of the robots still trying to clean up on Earth. He works hard during the day, and goes home to an empty work truck at night and repeatedly watches Hello Dolly. We've seen him escape certain death multiple times, get launched into space, save the day, and fall in love. However, at this point it's the end of his hero's arc. In trying to get the plant to the holographic scanner, he was shocked by the evil autopilot, thrown down a garbage shoot, compacted into a trash ball, and then further crushed irreparably in trying to stop the scanner from turning off before Eve could insert the plant. As the Axiom ship warps into Earth orbit and lands, Wall-E is shown to be dead. As the Axiom lands, Eve frantically departs the ship, carrying Wall-E back to his truck. She quickly replaces his broken parts, piece by piece, and shoots a hole in the ceiling to shine light on his solar panels. The audience waits a moment, and sees and hears the hopeful sound of the battery charging and Wall-E's systems booting up. There are two brilliant parts about the rest of the scene. The first is what the artists did to Wall-E's eyes after being rebuilt. They are "blank," or at least, blank compared to what his eyes were previously. They stare out, lifeless. Which, to me, is an amazing artistic feat: to show a robot that is full of life, and to show the same robot that is devoid of life. Eve tries to repeatedly call Wall-E's name, trying to get him to snap out of it. At one point, he starts to crush his prized possessions into small trash-cubes. He doesn't try to talk. He doesn't even recognize Eve. It is a fate worse than death. Eve tries to play the tape recorder that previously held Wall-E's favorite clips from kaiden@idkfa.com (kaiden) Indiscernible from Magic Fri, 22 Oct 2010 15:42:39 -0800 http://idkfa.com/v3/v_thread.php?thread_id=191&msg_id=1099 http://www.idkfa.com/v3/v_thread.php?thread_id=191&msg_id=196 Talking about how they make smoking and drinking in movies and TV so cool. I thought in the case of "Unforgiven," it looked cool, was awesome character development, and a critical plot device, all within two or three swigs. kaiden@idkfa.com (kaiden) Indiscernible from Magic Tue, 17 Aug 2010 17:58:43 -0800 http://idkfa.com/v3/v_thread.php?thread_id=191&msg_id=196 http://www.idkfa.com/v3/v_thread.php?thread_id=191&msg_id=195 Awesome yes. But what about your lunch made you think of this scene exactly? MrFood@idkfa.com (MrFood) Indiscernible from Magic Tue, 17 Aug 2010 17:56:23 -0800 http://idkfa.com/v3/v_thread.php?thread_id=191&msg_id=195 http://www.idkfa.com/v3/v_thread.php?thread_id=191&msg_id=191 I was reminded today at lunch of this scene in "Unforgiven": http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5SO5VO2ixWY#t=1m0s One of my favorites. Anybody else have a favorite scene to share? Note: Above I "deep-linked" the Youtube video to skip to 1 minute, 0 seconds into the clip. To make more sense of what's going on, skip to the beginning of the clip. kaiden@idkfa.com (kaiden) Indiscernible from Magic Tue, 17 Aug 2010 16:52:05 -0800 http://idkfa.com/v3/v_thread.php?thread_id=191&msg_id=191