CINEMATIC HOLY MOMENTS: 2022

by Toby

my personal favorite moments from films to receive a 2022 U.S. release. Not all of which made my actual “Best Films of 2022” 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 2022 "Best of"

 

the first office fight **fanny pack kung fu**

- EVERYTHING EVERYWHERE 

       ALL AT ONCE (the Daniels)

Hiding amongst the tracer bullet thorn shrubs

    - VESPER  (Buozyte/Samper)

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the hellish "Clown Cafe Show" reprise (Sienna drowning in the magician's water tank, full body burn stunt, etc.) + resurrection.

   - TERRIFIER 2 (D.Leone)

Pearl's song & dance audition + inner fantasy 

    - PEARL (Ti West)

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the serendipitous ramp jump through fire & flipping of Penguin's ride (freeway pile up in torrential rain). Warner's advertising messed up revealing too much of this sequence in the main trailer/s.

- THE BATMAN [IMAX] (Reeves)

Rose locks herself in her childhood trauma house **finale showdown**

    - SMILE (Finn)

paddle rafting to the pyramid 

  - PETITE MAMAN (Sciamma)

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home invasion climax (nail gun, etc.)

    - KIMI  (Soderbergh)

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last attempt to destroy the uranimium plant + Rooster punching out behind enemy lines **final 30mins action**

  - TOP GUN: MAVERICK  

                        [IMAX] (Kosinski)

Moby Dick & the Sully parents rescue their brood from the whaling poacher ship

 - AVATAR: 

        THE WAY OF WATER 

              [IMAX 3D] (Cameron)

That batshit piggyback escape from prison 

     - RRR (S. S. Rajamouli)

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Pat first meets Douglas Trumbull in '76; then gets a tour of early I.L.M. studios-- witnesses post-production on both CLOSE ENCOUNTERS & STAR WARS

 - 5-25-77  (P. Read Johnson)

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Young Sam Fabelman Spielberg recreates the Cecil B. Demille train derailment that's haunted him with model trains

- THE FABELMANS (Spielberg)

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old lady Linda (a brilliant & brief Louise Lasser cameo) is a distraction during Wallace's pharmacy revenge

   - FUNNY PAGES (O.Kline)

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an ocean surf /beach front grave

- DECISION TO LEAVE 

                        (Park Chan-wook)

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Tenser using his new digestive organs for the first time **closing shot**

- CRIMES OF THE FUTURE 

                               (Cronenberg)

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All hail the "After Dragon"🤘

- MY FATHER'S DRAGON 

                           (Twomey)

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repeat trips to the astral afterlife

- GUILLERMO DEL TORO'S 

     PINOCCHIO (Del Toro/Gustafson)

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the cross-country cyclist

- HIT THE ROAD (P. Panahi)

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"Feral" Predator fucks up some Frenchies

   - PREY (Trachtenberg)

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the stripped-down isolated Bowie & Mercury 

"Under Pressure" vocals💔

- AFTERSUN (Charlotte Wells)

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traditional Metkayina funeral; burial at sea (absorbed into an underwater Eywa channel) 

- AVATAR:

    THE WAY OF WATER 

            [IMAX 3D] (Cameron)

Chasing sister-in-law with an axe

 - PEARL (Ti West)

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Red Bluster VS the giant crab

- THE SEA BEAST (Williams)

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Mom's camping trip silhouette dance 

- THE FABELMANS (Spielberg)

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old crazy-ass Pearl dancing in front of the van's bloody headlights

   - X (Ti West)

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encounter w/the "Mound Dweller" while retrieving the mythical Draugr sword

- THE NORTHMAN (Eggers)

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fate of the Star Lasso Experience spectators & host + the peculiar blood & rubbish rainstorm that follows @ the Haywood ranch 

**those disembodied screams-- Mary mother of God 😱**

- NOPE [IMAX] (Peele)

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also, this scene ↓

the genesis of "My Bologna"

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Toby’s Favorite Movie Moments

2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015, 2014, 2013, 2012, 2011, 2010, 2009, 2008, 2007, 2006, 2005, 2004, 2003, 2002, 2001, 2000, 1999, 1998, 1997, 1996, 1995, 1994, 1993, 1992, 1991, 1990, 1989, 1988, 1987, 1986, 1985, 1984, 1983, 1982, 1981, 1980