Interesting Movie Clips

One of the most striking moments of any movie is a sudden appearance of one of the main characters.  Often, their entrances are not particularly extraordinary but there are some that are well-executed and memorable. Jaws is a movie about a shark attack but a full view of the shark itself was not provided until more than an hour into the film.  In this scene, Police Chief Brody had the task of throwing bloody meat overboard to bait the shark.  As he tosses the meat chunks into the water, a monstrous great white shark rises out and nearly bites his hand off.  This occurs about an hour and twenty minutes from the start of the movie and is truly a spine-tingling moment.

Any fan of the disaster film genre can’t miss on The Poseidon Adventure, which is noted by the Master of Disaster producer Irwin Allen as a quintessential disaster film, along with Grand Hotel. The Poseidon Adventure is set on New Year’s Eve and is about the chip’s capsizing from a huge tidal wave. The creation of an upside-down world inside the ship is one of its most exciting scenes as ten survivors struggle to get out of the bottom and get to the “top” of the ship. This film was nominated for eight Academy Awards, and received an Honorary Award for Best Visual Effects.

Spinal Tap is a satire of rockumentaries and is Rob Reiner’s directoral debut film.  Famed for containing some of the best song and dance moments in film, it has lots of heavy metal songs performed by the band Spinal Tap, each with its own distracting problems like when a huge 18-inch Stonehength monolith comes crashing down and destroys the atmosphere of the song number.  Other musical scenes to watch out for are the lyrics of the song Big Bottom and a risque performance of Sex Farm in a rigid military base venue.

The classic Disney animated movie Lion King contains many magical moments kids will remember well into adulthood, and one of them is the cruel death of Mufasa after he rescues his young son Simba from a herd of stampeding wildebeasts (which was caused by his scheming, power-hungry brother Scar and his posse of hyenas).  Because of the stampede, Mufasa nearly falls of a cliff and hangs on by a paw, and when he called out to Scar for help, Scar pushed him instead while sarcastically proclaiming, “Long live the king!”  Mufasa falls to his death and Simba tries to awaken is father in vain.  When he realized that his father was dead, he sheds a few tears and snuggles up to his body.

Doctor Zhivago is a beautiful film well worth watching, but two scenes stand out among the rest.  First is the surgion Dr. Yuri Zhivago’s final goodbye to his lover, Lara Antipova who was escaping execution.  His sad last gaze at her from a second story window is a scene that will bring tears to anyone’s eyes.  The next memorable scene is the death of the aging Dr. Zhivago himself.  When he saw Lara by chance walking among people in a crowded street in Russia, he chased after her and suddenly got a heart attack from the strain and effort as he tried to call her attention.  Oblivious, Lara walks on and he collapses and dies.

Nicolas Roeg’s Don’t Look Now is a stunning film that starts off with the tragic drowning of the red raincoated Baxter daughter. Her grieving parents John Baxter (Donald Sutherland) and his wife Laura (Julie Christie) go on a vacation in Venice in an attempt to recover from their daughter’s sudden death. However, this movie is most well known for its controversial love-making scene in the middle of the movie. Rumor says that Donald Sutherland and Julia Christie were actually doing the sex act itself while they were filming. The shocking conclusion is also a scene that should not be missed.

Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery is the first film of a series of racy James Bond spoofs, a comedy filled with verbal and visual gags. Mike Myers is a 60′s spy who was cryogenically frozen and then unfrozen in the 1990′s to battle the villainous Dr. Evil (also played by Myers). International Man of Mystery is well known for its hilarious comedy scenes that depict Dr. Evil’s bizarre relationship with his cloned son Scott Evil – the scene where he continually shushes Scott as well as the cheekily inappropriate Family Counseling speech Dr. Evil gave to Scott’s therapist.