Most satisfying scene of destruction
Paul Richardson
Oddjob squeezing the golf ball in GOLDFINGER.
The ending of BRIDGE ON THE RIVER KWAI.
CLaGuire
<G...@mosshead0.demon.co.uk> wrote:
> Which film features the most satisfying scene of destruction? Is it
> John Belushi smashing the guitar in ANIMAL HOUSE? Or perhaps the Death
> Star being blown up at the end of STAR WARS? Any others?
This happens to be one of my reasons for going to see pictures on some
fridays. I don't find Animal House to be all that satisfying, but just
about any reasonable action adventure movie has some pretty satisfying
destruction.
Guilty pleasure: if you want to see a picture where things blow up for
absolutely NO REASON, watch the first half hour of Lethal Weapon 4.
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Paul Richardson wrote
> The ending of BRIDGE ON THE RIVER KWAI.
I agree. The bridge blowing up is so satisfying because
(1) in his last second of life Col. Nicholson redeems
himself for the erroneous course of collaboration
that he had pursued long and hard for so much
of the movie;
(2) it resolves the great dramatic tension over whether
the mission to blow the bridge would succeed; and
(3) well, it was a really cool bridge, and it blew up
neat, and I'd never seen a train fall into a river
like that before.
no...@webtv.net
Apocalypse Now. The conclusion.
I love a good fireworks.
And that one was shamelessly beautiful.
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PSmith9626
The earth destroyed in " When worlds collide". Runner up: Washington trashed
with crashed flying saucers in "Earth Vs, The Flying Saucers".
penny
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Steve Oldham
attempt at his mansion. That mick did some serious damage in that scene.
Steve
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Dr. Strangelove, the capiton riding the H bomb down
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Richard Lanham
The end of Fritz Lang's _Kriemhild's Revenge_, which is part 2 of Die
Nibelungen (sp?).
Rick
Mark Brader
I like the one at the end of The Rocketeer, because of the other things
going on in addition to the, ah, main item of destruction.
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Graham
Gator - The guy accidentally crashing his speedboat through that guys
swamp house COMPLETELY destroying it.
The Driver - Ryan O'Neal destroying that orange Mercedes in a parking
lot for no apparent reason. It's not even his after all. Thanks mate.
The Boys from Brazil - A good room trashing while they look for a bug.
French Connection 2 - "You guys have got rats" (Popeye Doyle torches
this seedy hotel with a smile on his face).
DRY2K - Violin smashing.
Sweet Revenge - after spending the whole movie scrimping money to get
it, why does Stockard Channing set fire to her Ferrari at the end? It
makes no sense.
Steve Oldham
(Corvette?) with a crow bar while screaming "This is what happens when
you f*** a stranger in the ass!"
It turns out the car doesn't belong to the person he is seeking
vengeance against. The true owner isn't happy about that so he goes
nuts on Lebowski's car which is a refugee from a demolition derby
anyway.
It may not be a fun scene for car fanatics.
Steve
John Harkness
Speaking of John Goodman and the Coens, the hotel fire in Barton Fink
-- "I'll show you the life of the mind!"
John Harkness
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The elephants did it.!!
Elephant Walk.
(Elizabeth Taylor's grandfather just HAD to build his house across the
giant creatures traditional trail.)
Paul
other Sam Peckinpah films.
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> > Which film features the most satisfying scene of destruction?
>
Paul Kunkel
Mad, Mad, Mad World.
Kunkel
Man
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gas station fight in it's a mad mad mad mad world.
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any miyazaki film
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Jim Powers
GC wrote:
In "The Jerk" Steve Martin chains the axle of the crooks' car to a hose
faucet which is attached to a church, and they end up dragging half of the
church down the street.
Carrie Fisher's attempted assassination of John Belush with a bazooka in
"The Blues Brothers," which demolishes the flophouse hotel the brothers are
living in.
I dimly remember a Laurel and Hardy movie where they get into an argument
that escalates until they end up destroying a house.
Helen & Bob
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> I dimly remember a Laurel and Hardy movie where they get into an argument
> that escalates until they end up destroying a house.
Big Business. They are selling Xmas trees in July. One of the most hilarious
comedies ever filmed. Hard, Oh my side hurts laughter. There is nobody today
as funny as Stan and Babe.
Bob
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place will be Jonathan Winters ( a real funnyman ) when he destroyed the
gas station in the great madcap comedy "It's A Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad,
World, starring almost all the comedians in the 60's.
DD
putting up a radio antenna on the roof of his house with Stan's help, or
cleaning a chimney, to the "tit for tat" confrontations with Charlie
Hall and James Finlayson, or their great silent movies that involved
hundreds destroying their automobiles , or just bringing Stan home to
meet the wife and have a steak dinner, something usually got destroyed
along the way.
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> Which film features the most satisfying scene of destruction? Is it
> John Belushi smashing the guitar in ANIMAL HOUSE? Or perhaps the Death
> Star being blown up at the end of STAR WARS? Any others?
Popeye smashing up the car with his terrified passenger at his side - The
French Connection.
The kids destroying their hometown - Over the Edge.
The cafe scene (a very intense clash between rockers and mods) -
Quadrophenia.
The destruction of 'Mother's nest' - Alien
t.cruise
>
>The elephants did it.!!
>
>Elephant Walk.
>
>(Elizabeth Taylor's grandfather just HAD to build his house across the
>giant creatures traditional trail.)
It was the tyrannical father of Taylor's husband who had built the
house on the elephant path. "Elephant Walk" and "The Naked Jungle,"
both released in 1954, are two tacky adventure films. They're so
similar in their tackiness, that they're like bookends. They're also
guilty pleasures of mine, because they're so much fun to watch.
Although each had some location shooting, the bulk of the filming was
on the studios' back lots. Some of the switching from the location
shots, to the back lot shots is downright hilarious. Also, Vivien
Leigh was the original star of "Elephant Walk." She had flown to
Ceylon for the location shooting, had an affair with her co-star Peter
Finch, and then had a nervous breakdown. The studio replaced her with
Elizabeth Taylor, who did all of her scenes on the studio's back lot.
The location footage with Vivien Leigh was used. So, it's Vivien
Leigh that you're seeing in the long shots, and Elizabeth Taylor in
the closeups...
T.C.
Paul Kunkel
other nominees. A satisfying scene is not necessarily fun. It has to
satisfy my sense of justice.
First, an admittedly bad movie, "Smokey and the Bandit." It has a
scene that acts out an old joke. A truck driver is harassed, beaten,
and humiliated by a gang of bikers. He stumbles outside, climbs into
his rig, and runs over their motorcycles.
I cannot even remember the name of this second film. It is only a
foggy memory. The protagonist is a woman who visits an analyst. He
times their sessions with an alarm clock. Whenever the alarm sounds,
he abruptly puts an end to the conversation. Eventually, the woman
seizes control of her life. She bursts into the analyst's office
carrying a large hammer, destroys the clock with one blow, and leaves
without saying a word. When I think about it, I sometimes see Julie
Andrews. Or maybe it was Mary Tyler Moore, or Marsha Mason. Someone
help me with this.
Kunkel
Dan Brusca
White House in Independence Day ;)
Dan Brusca
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Laurel & Hardy were the Lords of Destruction, all right. No one has
ever done it funnier.
Thanks for your astute reminder.
no...@webtv.net
Mae West?
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Bicycle polo in the house?
I sure did love those elephants.!!
Take Back the Walk.!!
Mark Buckles
"Shane" when Alan Ladd lands a punch on the bad guy's jaw just as
the kid who is watching the fight takes a big crunching bite out of his
candy cane. That has always felt satisfying to me.
Mark Buckles
San Diego
Chris Pierson
>I'm quite surprised that no-one has yet mentioned the aliens blowing up the
>White House in Independence Day ;)
Someone did, actually. I'd say it was more impressive in the Independence
Day trailer than in the movie itself, because the trailer was actually
_good_.
I'll put in a vote for God turning an entire brigade of Nazis into goo at
the end of Raiders of the Lost Ark.
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Sawfish
>Which film features the most satisfying scene of destruction? Is it
>John Belushi smashing the guitar in ANIMAL HOUSE? Or perhaps the Death
>Star being blown up at the end of STAR WARS? Any others?
Slightly off target, but I got the *BIGGEST* kick when Alabama
Whorley(sp?) finally got the upper hand against the mafioso who was just
beating the shit out of her, and nailed him over the head with the water
closet lid. I really loved that, after all the guts she had, and the stuff
she'd been through...
Oh, well..
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> John Belushi smashing the guitar in ANIMAL HOUSE? Or perhaps the
Death
> Star being blown up at the end of STAR WARS? Any others?
>
>
The Getaway (1972). Steve McQueen shotguns to death
a police car. A Peckinpah slow motion moment was cool.
And if I'm not mistaken they used real buckshot to destroy
the police car.
Also, the greatest human mass destruction is at the end
of Peckinpah's The Wild Bunch (1969).
-JM-
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Jeffrey Davis
>
>
> I'll put in a vote for God turning an entire brigade of Nazis into goo at
> the end of Raiders of the Lost Ark.
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