Archive for the GREAT SCENES Category

Great Scenes… Mission: Impossible

Posted in GREAT SCENES with tags , , , , on July 27, 2009 by Justin Michaels

missionimpossibleborderYour mission, should you choose to accept it, is to watch this brilliant sequence from the first Mission: Impossible movie. And no, it’s not the bit where Tom Cruise suspends from a ceiling and catches a bead of sweat. It’s even better than that. Continue reading

Great Scenes… Planes, Trains and Automobiles

Posted in GREAT SCENES with tags , , , , , , on July 13, 2009 by Justin Michaels

planestrainsborderOn paper, it’s just two guys meeting someone and putting their case on the back of a truck. On screen it is pure comedy gold. John Candy, Steve Martin and Dylan Baker – I salute you… Continue reading

Great Scenes… The Princess Bride

Posted in GREAT SCENES with tags , , , , , , on June 24, 2009 by Justin Michaels

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Inconceivable. All you have to do is utter that one word and any movie fan worth his iocane powder will think of the great intellect Vizzini, played by the brilliant Wallace Shawn in The Princess Bride. Here he goes up against the Man In Black (Cary Elwes) in a battle of wits to find out who is right… and who is dead. Continue reading

Great Scenes… Midnight Run

Posted in GREAT SCENES with tags , , , , , on June 16, 2009 by Justin Michaels

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All you need for one of the best comedy scenes ever is a pencil, a few $20 bills and some fine improvisation from Charles Grodin. Continue reading

Great Scenes… Witness

Posted in GREAT SCENES with tags , , , , , on May 26, 2009 by Ross McG

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In the first of a new series here at RVR, we are gonna pick our favourite scenes from our favourite movies. Let’s kick things off with a nice thick dollop of Harrison Ford, as he romances Kelly McGillis to the sounds of Greg Chapman (not Sam Cooke) in Witness. Sit back and enjoy… Continue reading