SceneItAll Tournament: Round 1, Heat 80
 

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.

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Boom Ch Ka

Hmm, tough one. My votes:

#1 - Slingblade. A couple of his lines cracked me up, both the "aim to kill" one and the "which numbers do you put in" one.

#2 - Masters of the Universe. A good sleeper scene. It was better than I expected. That little midget guy with the hair band hair and hooked hand kind of freaked me out, though.

#3 - The Natural. It's a nice scene, but it wasn't quite long enough for me to appreciate what was going on.

Not inb4

Doyle Hargraves played by Dwight Yoakam in Slingblade is one of my alltime favorite characters from any movie. Same with the role John Ritter played. Their interactions were so similar to stuff I saw growing up in KCK. Highly recommend the movie to anyone that hasn't seen it, except KCNative. He should watch Blood in, Blood out...Bound by Honor. :D

That Slingblade scene is very good. That whole movie is good. I agree with Dallas Chief about Dwight Yoakam. He was wonderful in that movie.

Also, Rain Man voted for a murder scene. Is that a first?

A couple rounds ago he voted for the Bonnie and Clyde shootout/death scene.
I think the key here is that we couldn't actually see blood or brain matter. He seems to be more squeamish than anything.

The sound of the murder was kind of gruesome. But it was offset by the humor of the lines preceding the murder. So in my mental scoring system, we have...

Positives

Eccentric people
Humorous lines that are unexpected
Murder off camera
Murderer seems more likable than victim

Negatives

Weird sound of lawnmower blade chopping through skull
Implied gruesomeness

Overall, it's a win.

I was inb4 & I was like Boom Ch Ka

That all makes sense. I figured it was the lack of blood...and I knew it being off camera had to help.

Slingblade running away with this heat. I like it.

Slingblade is one of my top 10 all timers... glad to see it kickin butt.

Sling Blade is way overrated as a movie.

I've never seen Slingblade. But that probably doesn't surprise anyone.

How dare ye.

I killed Doyle Hargraves with a lawnmower blade.

There's been a few movies I've been surprised by you not seeing.

Why do they call water pills, water pills?

You and your lousy takes on, well, just about everything, can diaf.

My takes, and taste, in movies is even better than my politics.

Here's my take on Sling Blade. I actually liked it the first time I saw it. All the main actors were good. But I saw it again years later on cable, and it bugged me--I'm sick of this little mini sub-genre that exists--the dumb/mentally disabled/reeruned guy who is actually brilliant.

It's supposed to be so moving that the one who seems to be least intelligent among us is actually the smartest, the deepest, most philosophical. Carl is a dim-witted child in a man's body, yet spouts off these funny, poignant, deep thoughts about life and love. It's insulting, really.

However, Sling was 100X better than I am Sam with Sean Penn.

Some call it a slingblade, Karl calls it a kaiser blade

I can see that. Still a much better movie than he-man. And who decided that was the best scene from the natural? The natural was a good movie

Heat 80 of round 1? how many nominations were there. JFC

I never thought Karl was smart, let alone brillant. He was principled. That's different. You don't have to know a lot of information and philosophy to know in your bones how people should treat each other.

MoF, a smarter man would've figured out how to cut Doyle out of the picture without killing him and returning to jail.

LMAO @ Dallas

He wanted to go back to the nervous hospital though. The freaks inside were less frightening than the freaks outside...other than Frank anyway.

Karl?

Doyle, my bad. I relied on the post above calling him that.

But Karl is Karl Childers, Billy Bob's main character

Never have seen any of these.

Bring a hurst...

"It ain't got no gas in it."
"Ya see there Scooter, he thinks of the simplest things first"

The point is that what these "simple" people talk about and act on are more moral and pure impulses than our own.

You find it funny, poignant, and deep because "normal" people don't act on morality and emotion alone. We bend morality. We lie to ourselves and each other. We bend the rules to fit the situation and this character doesn't.

We look at ourselves as better while we behave worse...

This will have to the longest running tournament every created. This one will take months to finish

I think we just passed the halfway point of the first round.

It's going to be far and away the biggest tournament I've ever run. But in the end, it's going to be worth it. I'm really interested to see which scene takes home the prize.

Calling it now. "Well, bye." And I hate that it's gonna win.

Probably the only thing that could beat it might be a scene with boobs.

I don't want to influence anything, but based on what I've seen so far, if I had to guess, I would go with one of the following scenes:

1) The Pulp Fiction diner scene. That scene has everything: great acting, humor, gunplay, great dialogue and a Bad M*********r Wallet. Put a naked woman in that scene and Hollywood may as well shut down.

2) The Terminator "I need your clothes, your gun..." scene. I don't think it's as strong as the Pulp Fiction one, but it's got Arnie, violence (implied), and humor. It crosses the aisle to get votes for both funny and action.

3) The Pulp Fiction interrogation scene. Where they're talking with Brett and shoot the Flock of Seagulls guy. Same as above - it gets votes for humor, dialogue, acting, and violence.

I don't think we've seen the third scene yet, and there may be others lurking in the back half of Round 1 that I don't recall at the moment. But my theory is that the winner will be a multi-faceted scene like these, and not a pure comedy or pure action or pure drama.

Slingblade moves on. Mmmhmmm.