While it might be a chore to extract
whole scenes from the film due to the fact that most are very funny, many of the characters and sub-stories are superfluous, and could have easily been worked into a future Apatow comedy if need be.
Not exact matches
His fateful encounter with Voldemort and his snake, witnessed
from behind a frosted glass door, is perhaps the best
scene in the
whole film.
But the horrible
filming of the dance
scene, the movement
from 1st to 3rd person camera often and irritatingly, just failed on a
whole for me.
Not long after our intrepid heroes» arrival in Hollywood, there's a big showdown including most of the characters
from the
film, and this single
scene probably packs in as much madcap insanity as the
whole running time of Meet the Feebles.
While the main event of the
film certainly did happen, as well as some of the
scenes (some of them, excerpted
from the documentary, are shown during the end credits), the
film as a
whole does tend to traverse familiar territory as far as feel - good sports
films go, especially with the final game where all of the loose ends comfortably fall into place.
That's our convoluted way of saying that The A.V. Club looked both high and low for the best
scenes of 2015, culling
from a
whole spectrum of
films — some likely to appear on this week's best - movies - of - the - year list, others unlikely to appear on any such list, and at least one certain to get called out in our public shaming of the year's worst movies.
Often during the calendar - straddling list - making frenzy of «top ten season» a
scene or a line of dialogue or even a
whole film will refuse to dislodge itself
from any internal conversation you may have with oneself about the year.
That's why, every year, The A.V. Club finds room not just to count down our favorite
whole films but also to highlight the strongest standout, stand - alone
scenes — some of them pulled
from those aforementioned best movies of the year (which we'll unveil later this month), others most definitely not.
Catching on that traditional animated movies» days may be numbered and cashing in on the public's fascination with the CG process the
whole scene looks positively crowded this year: 2004 sees the release of four entirely digital
films - Shrek 2 and Shark Tale
from DreamWorks, The Polar Express
from Warner Bros., and of course The Incredibles.
The disc presents
scene - specific commentary by
film professor and Melville expert Ginette Vincendeau, who talks over three extended sequences
from film in what is more audio essay than commentary, offering an overview of the
film in the context of Melville's career and discussing the major themes and stylistic qualities of the
film as a
whole.
This is the same big action
scene teased in the first photo
from the
film, though now that we have a full trailer there's obviously a
whole bunch of thrilling action to see.
The
scene in Age of Innocence, with Michelle on the dock looking out at the water while Day Lewis watches her
from afar is my favourite in the
whole film, such gorgeous cinematography.
It's not necessarily an economical
film, as there are
whole scenes which have nothing to do with the main story, such as the meeting between McDormand and Steve Park, the lonely friend
from the past that tries to have an affair with her.
Oscar - winner Octavia Spencer («The Help») is a throwaway casting choice as Amity Johanna (who has more of a role in the novels), and Oscar - nominated Naomi Watts has barely ten lines in the
whole film (though she is gifted with the closing
scene of the
film — a
scene that was drastically changed
from the book).
On second thought, the single best
film from the Bromance Era, for both dick jokes and genuine pathos, is 2007's Superbad, which brings us back to Seth Rogen, as actor, coscreenwriter (alongside Evan Goldberg), and thus coarchitect of the «Jonah Hill can't stop drawing dicks»
scene, which nowadays has a
whole lot to answer for.
It also helps that each story stage is based on a segment on the
film and builds on them, adding more sections and areas not seen in the movie to lengthen the
whole experience, and includes
scenes straight
from the motion picture.