SceneItAll Tournament: Round 1, Heat 50

[Rain Man]

The rules:

In Round 1, I'm going to put up three randomly selected scenes from the nomination thread.

You'll vote for your ONE favorite scene among the three. The key here is FAVORITE. We're not talking about the 'best' or 'most powerful' or 'most meaningful'. We're talking about the scene that you most enjoy watching, however you define that.

The winners will move on. I'll also take the 10 highest-scoring second-place scenes and they'll advance as wild cards.

Some of our nominations did not include clips. This will be noted. If you find a clip, please post it and let me know so I can update it if it moves on.





Clip 3 - Swing Kids 16 Dance Club Raid - Can't find it anywhere. Disney is clamping down hard on underground Swing Kids 16 videos. If you can find it, post it. pr_capone initially nominated it.

[Baby Lee]

Originally Posted by Rain Man

Oh, I'm sure that I would enjoy the whole movie if I watched it again. And I remember loving the scene above during the movie. Watching it as a standalone, the bad guy seemed more mean that bizarre, though, and I didn't like that. I remembered him as being an eccentric lunatic, but not necessarily rude.

I don't see him as rude so much as deeply annoyed at an unexamined life.

He's no fan of the comfortably content.

[Rain Man]

Originally Posted by Baby Lee

I don't see him as rude so much as deeply annoyed at an unexamined life.

He's no fan of the comfortably content.

Wow. I'm seeing that scene in a whole new light now. He was trying to lift that store owner out of his rut.

[Simply Red]

*Meet the Fockers, man boob scene*

[BlackHelicopters]

Tombstone

[wazu]

Tombstone may win it all.

[Rain Man]

Tombstone looks derisively at the other scenes and says, "Well, bye," as it moves on.

[TimBone]

Originally Posted by Rain Man

Tombstone looks derisively at the other scenes and says, "Well, bye," as it moves on.

Very disappointing.

[Mama Hip Rockets]

I hope No Country for Old Men got enough for a wild card. It would be a travesty if that scene didn't advance.

[Rain Man]

Originally Posted by thurman merman

I hope No Country for Old Men got enough for a wild card. It would be a travesty if that scene didn't advance.

It's going to be close. Right now, my guess is that a scene will probably need to be over 35 percent to get a wild card, but it could swing a percent or two in either direction.

[Kaepernick]

Originally Posted by Flybone McTimmerson

I'm pretty annoyed that No Country is losing this one.

I can see why coin toss is losing. It is the best scene of the 3, but you have to know the context of the movie and the hit man's character. Without that, the scene is just confusing.

I was kind of confused that it was losing too, and I wasn't going to bother rewatching the scene because I know it, but after watching it, there are probably a lot of people that don't realize the guy won his life on the toss of that coin and if he said tails, he would have been murdered.

So yes, I can see why people unfamiliar with the movie aren't voting for it.

Also, a truly great scene should stand alone. You should be able to show the clip by itself out of the movie and it just "works".

If the scene can't stand on its own cut out of the movie, then it isn't a great scene.

I'm not saying "well, bye" is any better. You have to know the movie too, but I bet a lot more people here have seen it, so they know the context.

[hometeam]

2 great scenes but 'well bye' will go far on CP street cred alone.