Edgar Wright's 10 Coolest Movie Moments
Scott Pilgrim director chats cinematic cool
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The Black Hole (1979)
Edgar says: "Disney's answer to Star Wars is derided in some quarters for its cutesy robots and odd pace, but there are some incredibly cool things about it that have stayed with me since childhood.
"The vector graphic opening sequence, the miniature work and matte painting, badass robot Maximillian and John Barry's much underrated doomy score.
"But the coolest thing about is also the weirdest, namely the bizarre denouement where our heroes go to heaven and the baddies go to a Hieronymus Bosch hell.
"This incredibly dark ending to a kids movie belies the script original genesis as a knock off of 2001 not Lucas' space opera.
"Seeing Maximillan Schell trapped in his own robot creation like some space age iron maiden as the flames of hell lap at them is a fantastic 'what the hell were they thinking' climatic moment for a supposed family film."
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KerrAvon
Jul 6th 2010, 20:13
Love the Black Hole
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namedropper
Jul 6th 2010, 20:25
Where did you pick up some of these clips from? Blimey!
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Hadouken76
Jul 7th 2010, 0:43
Wow half of these are really obscure, i never sat through The Black Hole cos it looked so cheesy..but dayum that endings really bizarre
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lump516
Jul 8th 2010, 23:01
BEYOND THE VALLEY OF THE DOLLS is hardly my favorite movie, but it had some killer songs on the soundtrack, a lot of them co-written by Stu Philips (who also scored the film) and sung by a very talented singer and actress named Lynn Carey, who dubbed Dolly Read's singing (Carey was also a killer comic actress who played the role of Tuesday Weld's high-school rival in LORD LOVE A DUCK). As for SWEET CHARITY, all of the musical numbers were pretty cool-- the score, by Cy Coleman and Dorothy Fields, was marvelous, and Bob Fosse, who had been working in films as a performer and choreographer since the early 1950's probably knew more about staging dance for films better than anybody. And the movie as a whole is funny and touching and has a sensational cast--Shirley MacLaine was not as good a dancer as some of her colleagues, but she was a rock-solid actress. For that matter, so were Chita Rivera and Paula Kelly, who played her dance-hall friends. AND they were great dancers.
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