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Your Favorite Visually Amazing "blink-and-you-may-miss it" Quick Scenes?

Not a whole lengthy scene, but a pretty quick, memorable, well-filmed awesome scene, which is a second or a couple seconds long - maybe a "turn your head you would miss it" scene. Sometimes the most amazing filmmaking is captured very quickly and it stays with you forever:

1. RETURN OF THE KING - Witch King standing up after falling off his creature that just got its head cut off.

2. MATRIX - helicopter gatlin gun bullet shells falling in slo-mo

3. TRUE LIES - airplane rising up next to building as terrorist surprisingly sees it through his binoculars

4. GLADIATOR - metal face mask getting knocked to the side in the Maximus vs Gaul one-on-one fight.

5. FULL METAL JACKET - sniper woman turning around in slo-mo to face Mathew Modine in movie climax

6. BATTLE ROYALE - girl reaches for her own neck after realizing she was just imagining herself jogging and not being part of the sick battle royale game.

7. BIG LEBOWSKI - Jeff Bridge's spazzing reaction after Nihilist throws weasel into tub

8. REQUIEM FOR A DREAM - any of those camera-mounted on the actor quick cut scenes.

Which memorable ones do you love?
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Re: Your Favorite Visually Amazing "blink-and-you-may-miss it" Quick Scenes?

I think I've mentioned this one before but my all-time favorite "blink and you miss it" moment is:
Jaws When a yellow barrel flies passed Brody and it comes so close to hitting him in the face that it knocks his glasses off.

A couple other faves:
The Bourne Identity When Bourne is escaping the embassy and he rips the floor plan sign off the wall to find his way out.

Payback Mel Gibson putting in a mouth guard just before he crashes his car.
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Re: Your Favorite Visually Amazing "blink-and-you-may-miss it" Quick Scenes?

Originally Posted by GoldenJCJ
I think I've mentioned this one before but my all-time favorite "blink and you miss it" moment is:
Jaws When a yellow barrel flies passed Brody and it comes so close to hitting him in the face that it knocks his glasses off.
I would include the second shot of the shooting star as it passes over the Orca in the night sky.
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Re: Your Favorite Visually Amazing "blink-and-you-may-miss it" Quick Scenes?

Originally Posted by GoldenJCJ
I think I've mentioned this one before but my all-time favorite "blink and you miss it" moment is:
Jaws When a yellow barrel flies passed Brody and it comes so close to hitting him in the face that it knocks his glasses off.
Your response was made all the more pefect with the avatar switch to Roy Scheider
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Re: Your Favorite Visually Amazing "blink-and-you-may-miss it" Quick Scenes?

Yoda throwing his lightsabre into a clone trooper in Revenge of the Sith. I missed it the first couple of viewings.
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Re: Your Favorite Visually Amazing "blink-and-you-may-miss it" Quick Scenes?

My favorite has always been Christopher Reeve as Clark Kent half-heartedly raising his hand in the Daily Planet conference room when Perry White asked "What's his favorite baseball/football team?"
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Re: Your Favorite Visually Amazing "blink-and-you-may-miss it" Quick Scenes?

Jaws - Zoom in shot on Chief Brody's face durning the Alex Kintner attack.
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Re: Your Favorite Visually Amazing "blink-and-you-may-miss it" Quick Scenes?

Zoom in shot in This is Spinal Tap which shows David St Hubbins and Nigel Tufnel both have cancre sores on their lips (implying they both slept with the same groupie). Still cracks me up to this day.

Oh and the short scene with Billy Crystal and Dana Carvey in the same film. "Come on move, mime is money"

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Re: Your Favorite Visually Amazing "blink-and-you-may-miss it" Quick Scenes?

When the Waco Kid shows the new sheriff(who is a ****** btw) how fast his draw is.
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the royal tenenbaums is full of them
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Re: Your Favorite Visually Amazing "blink-and-you-may-miss it" Quick Scenes?

The opening shot of Jerry sleeping in his room from Three O'Clock High is great, and really sets the stylistic tone for the remainder of the film. I also love the smallest smile in the world from Buddy at the end.

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the royal tenenbaums is full of them
A lot of movies are. I don't think that was the question.
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The Good, The Bad & The Ugly

not really a scene, but a shot. Tuco and Blondie are walking along when they encounter some Union soldiers.
then the camera pans right with no edit, revealing a huge Union encampment with hundreds of soldiers

every time i see that shot, i think about the time it must have took to set it up with all the extras
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Re: Your Favorite Visually Amazing "blink-and-you-may-miss it" Quick Scenes?

Peter Sellers breaking the fourth wall in A Shot in the Dark. Gets me every time.
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The Fight Club penis
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Let the Right One In -- when it briefly shows her as an old woman
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Han shooting first
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300 - Thousands of arrows blotting out the sun.
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From Dr. Strangelove:

Tracy Reed as the centerfold in Major 'King' Kong's issue of Playboy. (She's seen later as Miss Scott with General 'Buck' Turgidson.)

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Re: Your Favorite Visually Amazing "blink-and-you-may-miss it" Quick Scenes?

Han shooting first. Then second. Then first again.
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Memento. Not really "visually amazing" but...

Spoiler:
The quick edits in the flashbacks where Sammy becomes Lenny. It's not even a "blink and you'll miss it. It's a "wait, did I just see what I thought I saw?"
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The Life Aquatic: when Bill Murray pulls a gun on Cate Blanchett. I cracked up.
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Re: Your Favorite Visually Amazing "blink-and-you-may-miss it" Quick Scenes?

Dazed & Confused when the guys are entering the bar

"Here comes the story of the hurricane..."


love it
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When Mr. Fox eats his breakfast in Fantastic Mr. Fox.
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Re: Your Favorite Visually Amazing "blink-and-you-may-miss it" Quick Scenes?

Originally Posted by Groucho
Peter Sellers breaking the fourth wall in A Shot in the Dark. Gets me every time.
There's a shot in Trading Places where Eddie Murphy breaks the fourth wall to give the audience a WTF? look when the Dukes are talking down to him. That shot cracks me up every time I see it.

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