Scenes That I Love: Dennis Moore And His Horse Concorde

Posted on June 3, 2013 by Lisa Marie Bowman

So, what did you do on Sunday night?

Myself, I watched The Adventures of Robin Hood on TCM. There I was, watching the film and posting comments on twitter about how superior Errol Flynn’s Robin Hood was to Russell Crowe’s when suddenly I realized that a lot of very strange tweets were appearing on my timeline.

One person tweeted, “WHAT THE FUCK, GAME OF THRONES!?”

Another tweeted: “OMG! #GoT”

And my personal favorite: “no, no, no, no, no #GameOfThrones.”

Later, I discovered that these people were reacting to the Red Wedding on Game Of Thrones. I have been using twitter since 2009 and I have never before seen so much anger and sadness as I did last night after the Starks were massacred on HBO.

Don’t get me wrong. I enjoy Game Of Thrones and I DVR every episode but, at that moment, I was really happy to be watching The Adventures of Robin Hood.

Whenever I watch The Adventures of Robin Hood, I think about one of my favorite Monty Python skits, the story of Dennis Moore, the highwayman who attempts to steal from the rich and give to the poor and discovers that the redistribution of wealth isn’t as easy as he originally figured.

Or, as the Dennis Moore theme song puts it: “He steals from the poor and gives to the rich … Stupid bitch!”

In honor of The Adventures of Robin Hood, I figured why not share this classic skit? If nothing else, maybe a little absurdist comedy is just what the doctor ordered for those of you who still haven’t recovered from the Red Wedding…

Scenes I Love: The Golden Child

Posted on May 19, 2013 by Arleigh

Well, I mentioned in the previous post that one of my guilty pleasures was watching the 80’s film to Eddie Murphy’s growing egocentricism called The Golden Child. There’s one particular scene in the film that has always struck me as hilarious for some reason. It does so even more so now that Charles Dance (who plays the main villain, Sardo Numspa) has seen a resurgence in popularity as the badass Tywin Lannister, patriarch of House Lannister on HBO’s Game of Thrones.

Whether it was staring down Eddie Murphy’s Chandler Jarrell in this film or King Joffrey in Game of Thrones it’s always great to see Charles Dance get some proper due for the work he’s doing.

I just love how he plays the straight man in this scene and one could almost sense that he would find it quite satisfying to punch Murphy’s face off. If there was one a redeeming quality to The Golden Child it would be Dance’s work as Sardo Numspa.

Scenes I Love: Old Spice

Posted on May 10, 2013 by Arleigh

I think this might be the first time for “Scenes I Love” that I’ve chosen from something other than a film, tv show or video game. But then again the scene I’ve chosen this time around surpasses any attempts to shoehorn it into a particular label or genre.

The latest “Scenes I Love” comes courtesy of Old Spice. It has starring in the scene the person who I believe is not just the most interesting man in the world (sorry old Dos Equis Man), but probably the most awesome one out there. I believe him to be the human form the Almighty takes when walking amongst the humans the Almighty created was required (sorry Morgan Freeman). This scene is just awesome and why I love it. There’s nothing much else to say.

If you don’t think this to be scene as not being awesome then you just don’t have it and will never have any of it and people will know.

Scenes I Love: Jason and The Argonauts (R.I.P. Ray Harryhausen)

Posted on May 7, 2013 by Arleigh

Earlier today came news that one of the legends of cinema passed away at the age of 93. Ray Harryhausen has been such an influential figure to many of the filmmakers, authors and artists working today. His stop-motion work and films were the fuel that fired up the imaginations of uncounted kids. I am one of those kids and even decades since I first saw my first Harryhausen film I still consider some of his works all-time favorites. His fantastical work will continue to fire up the imaginations of future children to come and maybe someone from those will grow up to be the next great fantasy filmmaker, author and artist.

There are so many scenes created by Harryhausen that it would be difficult to choose one for the latest “Scenes I Love”, but I will go with the scene I love best from the very first Harryhausen film I ever saw. I speak of the now classic “Skeleton Fight” sequence which provides the climactic scene for Jason and The Argonauts.

R.I.P. Ray Harryhausen.

Scenes I Love: Singin’ In The Rain

Posted on May 6, 2013 by Arleigh

Lisa Marie were talking tonight and the conversation went from her hurting herself dancing to our love of musical films. Yeah, our minds tend to go off on such predictable tangents. Well, for us at least it makes sense I don’t know about the rest of you people.

One such musical that we both seem to agree on was our love for the Gene Kelly-directed and starred musical film classic, Singin’ In The Rain. It’s from this musical that the latest “Scenes I Love” comes from. It’s a sequence that’s become an icon of a bygone era of Hollywood. Sure, there’s been musical films even up to the last year or so, but never in the same style, extravagance and joy shown in the musical films of the Freed-era of the 50’s and the following Golden Age of the 60’s.

It’s Gene Kelly singing the signature title song while dancing in the rain. There’s not much else to say other than it’s a scene that even the most cynical and elitist film snob can’t deny for it’s utter joy.

Scenes I Love: The Final Home Run From The Natural

Posted on April 22, 2013 by Dazzling Erin

I love baseball and I love my Texas Rangers. Josh Hamilton may say that I don’t live in a “baseball town,” but I know that, whether my team is winning or losing, I will always be there cheering them on.

Baseball is known as being “America’s past time” because it’s the oldest sport to have been played in this country. Football may get more attention but baseball, with its emphasis on teamwork and personal sacrifice, is the sport the epitomizes the American ideal.

There have been some great films made about baseball. This scene that I love comes from The Natural. This is a scene that captures the glory and the magic of the game of baseball.

Scenes I Love: Gas Station Madness from It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World.

Posted on April 12, 2013 by Leonard Wilson

I found out comedian Jonathan Winters died and this scene, from the 1963 classic “It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World” came to mind. For this and many other roles, he’ll be missed. My family watched this quite a bit growing up and it always made me laugh. Enjoy.

Scenes That I Love: Eros The Alien Puts Humanity In Its Place

Posted on April 10, 2013 by Lisa Marie Bowman

Today’s scene that I love comes from Ed Wood’s classic plea for world peace, Plan 9 From Outer Space.

Scenes I Love: District 9

Posted on April 9, 2013 by Arleigh

With the release of the first trailer of Neill Blomkamp’s follow-up to his District 9 I thought it was time to look back at one of my favorite scenes from that film. In fact, I rather think this scene was and, still is, one of the greatest scenes in cinematic history.

District 9 was such a great film with so many scenes and sequences that I consider favorites. Yet, it’s one particular scene that happened very quickly that it left many audiences staring at the big-screen (or small screen) wondering if they just saw what they just saw. I’m talking about a brief sequence during the climactic fight inside District 9 as Wikus tries to provide fire and cover for Chris Johnson and his young son to make it back to the alien shuttle and get back to the mothership.

Even now just watching the clip one really has to watch it more than once to truly appreciate the insanity that went into this action-packed final reel of the film. To put it simply, District 9 and Neill Blomkamp introduced the world not just to live-action mecha action but to the Spider Jerusalem-esque weapon I have simply dubbed: “The Pig Cannon”.

Watch and be amazed.