Great Movie Sequences

Sometimes, only one scene is enough to make us feel "Yes! This is it! This made the movie for me!" So, I'm just going to share a couple of scenes that made me feel that way.

First up, Kick-Ass

Hit-Girl Rescue Scene: This scene is just simply amazing to watch and it clicked with the inner geek in me when I saw that First-Person-Shooter mode. Then the whole scene gets a much serious tone when Big-Daddy is set on fire. The part with Hit-Girl using the strobe-light and gunning all the bad guys in slo-mo was surprisingly emotional and incredible. Plus, John Murphy's score was used appropriately and hit all the right notes in this scene.

The Social Network

Rowing Competition Scene:

I've read about this scene online and many said it was done very well. So when when I went to see this movie and this scene came up, I sat up with expectations. It just blew me away. The use of lenses was very clever and I have never seen a water-sport competition filmed this way before. It has beautiful cinematography, great editing/close-ups and the additional of Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross' cover of this classical piece of music made this scene hauntingly amazing. And the last few music notes portrayed the Winklevoss' twins dismay and frustration very well when they lost. If you haven't seen this movie, go see it now while it's still on.

I'm going to rate The Social Network a 9/10... Scripts rarely outshine and this script was execptionally well written. Very unlikable movie though, because there's no one you're really rooting for. Maybe except for Eduardo Saverin...