Day 120: Wait for the DVD
This is by no means a comprehensive list. I just did it off the top of my head. Please throw in your moments in the comments.
- Superman Returns - I slag on this film because Superman never punches anything, but he saves the shit out of that plane AND manages to make baseball interesting in one fell swoop.
- Hulk - The last fight is dumb as hell and cerebral (apparently) at the same time, but when he goes ape shit on the tanks and helicopters in the middle of the movie, oh baby. When he walks around the tank, menacingly patting the tank’s cannon in his hands like a club, it’s actually a Hulk movie for six seconds.
- Daredevil - The fight with Bullseye in the church plays out like a Daredevil versus Bullseye fight should: super senses coming into play; Bulls using different objects in the environment in his own unique and scary way, and both men out for blood. I’ll take a lot of shit over this movie, but when Bullseye kicks through the stain glass and catches the glass, it’s awesome. The effects of him catching the glass are kind of goofy, but it’s totally a Bullseye moment.
- Spider-man 3 - When Spidey has to maneuver through falling debris to do a mid-air rescue of Gwen Stacy is incredible. It’s an exciting and beautiful moment in a film crammed to the ceiling with stupid.
- First Strike - There’s some stuff about spies and whatever, and later he fights a shark in a pirate ship, that is not even remotely as cool as it sounds, but in the middle of the movie, he fights off a bunch of dudes with a ladder. A LADDER. Those are used for building, not hurting, and yet, here we are. Jackie Chan is the fucking man.
- Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom - Dude, that opening. Indy gets poisoned, so what’s plan A when one gets poisoned? Throw a flaming sword into a man’s chest. There’s a maniac cackling while firing a Tommy gun, a rolling gong shield, and Dr. Jones looking dapper as hell in a tux. Then we move onto an annoying love interest and a sidekick that singlehandedly set back the Asian cultural movement a good ten years.
- Batman Returns - Tim Burton had a boner for the villains and couldn’t give two shits about Batman. I know lots of people like him, but he directed a pair of shitty Batman movies. He let established actors get away with murder, by chewing scenery, and let a lot of silly characters get through the filter. However, the introduction of Batman to the second movie involves Bruce Wayne, handsome, charming, billionaire, sitting alone, in the dark, staring at nothing, just waiting for the chance to go out and be Batman. The walls light up, the Bat Signal cuts into the dark sky. He looks up. For ten seconds, there’s Batman.
Weird, they’re all genre movies. Surprising no one, it turns out that I’m more observant of geek stuff than mainstream film.
Matt