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You know, I left pirategasm because of all the real person fic going on there. Lately I've checked back to see if the release of the DVD had sparked some good, old fashioned POTC fanfic, and I find this thread: http://www.livejournal.com/community/pirategasm/364605.html

Interesting thread about Jack's various scars, to be sure. On the other hand, I see a few people sort of wistfully going, "torture. Got to be torture. Sounds like torture to me. (Please let it be torture.)" Okay, a bit more subtle than that. But it seems that bandgeek thinks, "Hmm ... torture is sexy."

While I vomit all over my nice silky PJ pants.

Dude, I can get on board with h/c. Oh, bet on it. But torture is ugly, gratuitous torture makes me gag, and torture treated blithely in stories? Bring on that squick.

Is it just me, or does the phrase "torture is sexy" disturb anyone else?

(Of course, seeing "absurd" spelled "ubsurd" disturbs me, too, but that's just one of my things.)

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You know, I left pirategasm because of all the real person fic going on there. Lately I've checked back to see if the release of the DVD had sparked some good, old fashioned POTC fanfic, and I find this thread: http://www.livejournal.com/community/pirategasm/364605.html

Interesting thread about Jack's various scars, to be sure. On the other hand, I see a few people sort of wistfully going, "torture. Got to be torture. Sounds like torture to me. (Please let it be torture.)" Okay, a bit more subtle than that. But it seems that bandgeek thinks, "Hmm ... torture is sexy."

While I vomit all over my nice silky PJ pants.

Dude, I can get on board with h/c. Oh, bet on it. But torture is ugly, gratuitous torture makes me gag, and torture treated blithely in stories? Bring on that squick.

Is it just me, or does the phrase "torture is sexy" disturb anyone else?

(Of course, seeing "absurd" spelled "ubsurd" disturbs me, too, but that's just one of my things.)

The movies. The wonderful, wonderful movies. :)

Pretty much everyone who likes Star Wars gets that shiver when Luke finds out that Vader is his dad, but I get a bigger shiver when Luke almost gives in to his hatred for the Emperor and skirts the dark side of the Force. I get a shiver when he lets himself fall down that air shaft after Vader tells him the truth, and it pissed me off that the later versions of the VHS added the sound of him screaming as he fell. Luke didn't scream. He was a Jedi, he knew what he was doing.

And most people go nuts when Indiana Jones shoots the bad guy instead of fighting him or when he's running from the boulder. Or when Hannibal Lecter tells Clarice that he's having an old friend for dinner. My best part of Silence Of The Lambs, though, was the backlit, crucified and skinned officer that Lecter left on display after his escape from the cell. That scene taught me the meaning of cinematography.

So, that in mind, what are some of your best movie moments? I'm not talking about the most famous or the most obvious, either, unless those happen to be the same. Why were they your favorites? What do you remember about them? Do you relate to those scenes or do they just turn you some kind of on? Is it a subtle thing that maybe no one else thinks about, or is it a grand scene?

Or maybe you just have favorite quotes, a kickass line from a movie that means a lot to you or that rings true or that you just remember often for some reason. And why? Was it the delivery, or the words, or the cadence, or what?

Please, share!

Here are some of mine. Spoilers probably for all of them; I'll try to cut tag the major ones.


( The entire ending to Quills, but mostly Joaquin Phoenix screaming through the window, 'God damn you, Abbe! A quill!' )

( The entire last 60 seconds or so of The Usual Suspects. )

Jim Carrey touching the 'sky' in The Truman Show.

I had no idea until I saw this movie that Jim Carrey could act. He was so good through the whole thing, but his face when he touches the "sky" is amazing; he doesn't say a word, and he doesn't have to.

In The Matrix, Neo realizing that he doesn't have to dodge bullets.
( Also Agent Smith's 'I hate this place' speech. )

In Lilo and Stitch, Stitch asks Lilo if he can surf with her by gesturing with awesomely animated hands. Also, Nani singing "Aloha 'Oe." I still cry at that part.

In Fargo, I get such a kick out of Marge talking to the two hookers. "Oh ya? Is that useful to ya?" "Yaaaaah." ( But what really gets me going is the very last scene. )

The wonderful Pirates Of The Caribbean has loads of priceless movie moments, so it's hard for me to choose just one. But Jack Sparrow telling Elizabeth the truth about how he got off the island the first time does stick with me. As I've said before, Jack's totally exposed in this scene. (Unfortunately, the best scene in the movie was cut and only released on DVD, and it's when Jack shows Elizabeth his scars.) Barbossa's "I'm disinlcined to acquiesce to your request," is pure malevolent snark, and his entire "this is Aztec gold" speech is great, because Geoffrey Rush is a mad genius, but I have two Barbossa moments that I love even better than those. ( The first is when he tells Elizabeth, 'For too long I've been parched of thirst and unable to quench it'... )

In The Shining, well...the whole movie is scary, but my best, most scariest part was when Jack looks into the hotel room and sees the two men from the costume party, in their creepyass animal suits with the plastic eyes. It's very brief, but you know, that gave me nightmares for months. Oh, hell, I still have nightmares over that, and animal suits still give me the creeps.

( The end of Shallow Grave. )

In The Godfather, when Michael gets his with the thunderbolt. ( And the very subtle line, 'I'm with you now,' which he says to his father in the hospital. )

The entire ending to the Rurouni Kenshin movie. Kenshin animated in fire!


Monty Python and the Holy Grail is the movie I've seen more than any other movie in my life. Last count, I'd seen it 149 times. That was back in '89. I lost count sometime that summer. And the Castle Anthrax scene still gets me going. ;)


In Mononoke Hime, San is about to stab Ashitaka, and he tells her, "You're beautiful." That just kills me. You have to see it to get why.


At the end of Arsenic and Old Lace, when the cop is getting a description of Peter Lorre's character as Peter Lorre is standing right in front of him. Then he shakes his hand and lets him go. It's hilarious. Also, the whole fight over who gets to sleep on the window seat. That still slays me everytime I see it.


I think Christopher Walken is brilliant in anything he does, and it'd take me nigh on forever to go into all of his movies that I've loved. But most often I fall in love with his delivery. Mostly I loved ( Gabriel from The Prophecy. )

And Johnny from The Dead Zone. Admittedly, my favorite part of that movie is most people's favorite part: "The ice is gonna break!" With the cane and the smashing the vase and all. ^_^ Of course, in Suicide Kings he stole the movie while taped to a chair, too. But I digress.

I'm sure I'll think of many more of those shivery movie moments, but off the top of my head, those are my favorites.

So what are some of yours?

The movies. The wonderful, wonderful movies. :)

Pretty much everyone who likes Star Wars gets that shiver when Luke finds out that Vader is his dad, but I get a bigger shiver when Luke almost gives in to his hatred for the Emperor and skirts the dark side of the Force. I get a shiver when he lets himself fall down that air shaft after Vader tells him the truth, and it pissed me off that the later versions of the VHS added the sound of him screaming as he fell. Luke didn't scream. He was a Jedi, he knew what he was doing.

And most people go nuts when Indiana Jones shoots the bad guy instead of fighting him or when he's running from the boulder. Or when Hannibal Lecter tells Clarice that he's having an old friend for dinner. My best part of Silence Of The Lambs, though, was the backlit, crucified and skinned officer that Lecter left on display after his escape from the cell. That scene taught me the meaning of cinematography.

So, that in mind, what are some of your best movie moments? I'm not talking about the most famous or the most obvious, either, unless those happen to be the same. Why were they your favorites? What do you remember about them? Do you relate to those scenes or do they just turn you some kind of on? Is it a subtle thing that maybe no one else thinks about, or is it a grand scene?

Or maybe you just have favorite quotes, a kickass line from a movie that means a lot to you or that rings true or that you just remember often for some reason. And why? Was it the delivery, or the words, or the cadence, or what?

Please, share!

Here are some of mine. Spoilers probably for all of them; I'll try to cut tag the major ones.


( The entire ending to Quills, but mostly Joaquin Phoenix screaming through the window, 'God damn you, Abbe! A quill!' )

( The entire last 60 seconds or so of The Usual Suspects. )

Jim Carrey touching the 'sky' in The Truman Show.

I had no idea until I saw this movie that Jim Carrey could act. He was so good through the whole thing, but his face when he touches the "sky" is amazing; he doesn't say a word, and he doesn't have to.

In The Matrix, Neo realizing that he doesn't have to dodge bullets.
( Also Agent Smith's 'I hate this place' speech. )

In Lilo and Stitch, Stitch asks Lilo if he can surf with her by gesturing with awesomely animated hands. Also, Nani singing "Aloha 'Oe." I still cry at that part.

In Fargo, I get such a kick out of Marge talking to the two hookers. "Oh ya? Is that useful to ya?" "Yaaaaah." ( But what really gets me going is the very last scene. )

The wonderful Pirates Of The Caribbean has loads of priceless movie moments, so it's hard for me to choose just one. But Jack Sparrow telling Elizabeth the truth about how he got off the island the first time does stick with me. As I've said before, Jack's totally exposed in this scene. (Unfortunately, the best scene in the movie was cut and only released on DVD, and it's when Jack shows Elizabeth his scars.) Barbossa's "I'm disinlcined to acquiesce to your request," is pure malevolent snark, and his entire "this is Aztec gold" speech is great, because Geoffrey Rush is a mad genius, but I have two Barbossa moments that I love even better than those. ( The first is when he tells Elizabeth, 'For too long I've been parched of thirst and unable to quench it'... )

In The Shining, well...the whole movie is scary, but my best, most scariest part was when Jack looks into the hotel room and sees the two men from the costume party, in their creepyass animal suits with the plastic eyes. It's very brief, but you know, that gave me nightmares for months. Oh, hell, I still have nightmares over that, and animal suits still give me the creeps.

( The end of Shallow Grave. )

In The Godfather, when Michael gets his with the thunderbolt. ( And the very subtle line, 'I'm with you now,' which he says to his father in the hospital. )

The entire ending to the Rurouni Kenshin movie. Kenshin animated in fire!


Monty Python and the Holy Grail is the movie I've seen more than any other movie in my life. Last count, I'd seen it 149 times. That was back in '89. I lost count sometime that summer. And the Castle Anthrax scene still gets me going. ;)


In Mononoke Hime, San is about to stab Ashitaka, and he tells her, "You're beautiful." That just kills me. You have to see it to get why.


At the end of Arsenic and Old Lace, when the cop is getting a description of Peter Lorre's character as Peter Lorre is standing right in front of him. Then he shakes his hand and lets him go. It's hilarious. Also, the whole fight over who gets to sleep on the window seat. That still slays me everytime I see it.


I think Christopher Walken is brilliant in anything he does, and it'd take me nigh on forever to go into all of his movies that I've loved. But most often I fall in love with his delivery. Mostly I loved ( Gabriel from The Prophecy. )

And Johnny from The Dead Zone. Admittedly, my favorite part of that movie is most people's favorite part: "The ice is gonna break!" With the cane and the smashing the vase and all. ^_^ Of course, in Suicide Kings he stole the movie while taped to a chair, too. But I digress.

I'm sure I'll think of many more of those shivery movie moments, but off the top of my head, those are my favorites.

So what are some of yours?