CINEMATIC HOLY MOMENTS: 2002

by Toby

[re-upload from the now defunct thewanderingimage.tumblr.com] 

 my personal favorite moments from films to receive a 2002 U.S. release. Not all of which made my actual “Best Films of 2002” list, but at least had incredible segments that stayed with me since first viewing. Scenes that I’m sure I’ll want to re-visit again and again.

+ = was actually featured on Toby's 2002 "Best of"

Preston's first stroboscopic gun-kata blitz

  - EQUILIBRIUM (Wimmer)

Battle arena on Geonosis

  **adventure scenario worthy of Edgar Rice Burroughs**

- STAR WARS: EPISODE II 

    ATTACK OF THE CLONES (Lucas)

Asuka vs. all those mass-produced EVAs -

THE END OF EVANGELION 

       (Hideaki Anno, Kazuya Tsurumaki)

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Shaolin Soccer vs. Team Puma

- SHAOLIN SOCCER 

       [Director's cut] (Chow)

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Smeagol’s tormented shot-reverse-shot argument w/Gollum 

- LORD OF THE RINGS: 

THE TWO TOWERS (Jackson)

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A corridor of lasers. “One” & his team attempt to dodge the Hive’s high-tech security system 

- RESIDENT EVIL 

        (Paul W.S. Anderson)

Reaper infected vampires in the sewer 

   - BLADE II (del Toro)

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fight w/pre-crime police throughout automated car factory. **sonic shotgun ftw**

- MINORITY REPORT (Spielberg)

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train station goodbyes that close the picture 

- FAR FROM HEAVEN 

                        (Haynes)

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The river spirit is set free after a bath

- SPIRITED AWAY (Miyazaki)

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The “solar surfing” sequence that kick-starts the present day 

- TREASURE PLANET 

            (Clements/Musker)

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the epic "Coming Summer 2063" epilogue 

- JACKASS THE MOVIE 

                                (Jonze/Tremaine)

Szpilman climbs the ghetto wall & discovers Warsaw’s ruins. **crane shot**

- THE PIANIST (Polanski)

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The trolley car accident

   - FRIDA (Taymor)

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Flying Snow & Moon’s autumn forest battle 

   - HERO (Zhang Yimou)

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Found-footage at a child’s birthday

   - SIGNS (Shyamalan)

Amsterdam & The Butcher’s climactic final street fight.. One of Thelma’s most well edited sequences 

- GANGS OF NEW YORK 

                         (Scorsese)

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A tommy gun drops silhouettes in the rain. **sound fx replaced by isolated score**

- ROAD TO PERDITION 

                        (Mendes)

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Reunion sequence in Hawaii. The kiss in the hotel archway. **cue Shelley Duvall’s "He Needs Me"**

- PUNCH-DRUNK LOVE 

                   (Paul Thomas Anderson)

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The cursed dragon Haku changes back into his true form mid flight

- SPIRITED AWAY (Miyazaki)

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The Cannes Film Festival heist 

- FEMME FATALE (De Palma)

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"Everybody runs." 

The entire alleyway jetpack set-piece..

- MINORITY REPORT (Spielberg)

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also;

these unnecessary flashbacks in KUNG POW: ENTER THE FIST

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