Scott Steiner’s shoot on Ric Flair on Nitro is still one of the rawest pipe bombs in wrestling.
He wasn’t playing a character there, he was done with the politics and said exactly how he felt.
NO COUNTRY FOR OLD MEN turns 19 today
Coen brothers made the bold decision to almost entirely eliminate the musical score. There are only around 16 minutes of music in the entire film, forcing the sound of footsteps, wind & distant gunfire to do the work.
Ending Goldberg’s 173-match streak with a cattle prod and Kevin Nash’s Jackknife was one of WCW’s most self-destructive booking decisions.
They killed the hottest thing they had for a short-term pop.
Ashley Judd’s silent warning to Val Kilmer in HEAT (1995) is beautiful. One tiny hand gesture tells Chris the police are onto him. No dialogue, just an entire relationship playing out in a few seconds. Brilliant.
The finale of the brilliant historical sitcom Blackadder left many of us in tears. It remains just as powerful today, and so it should. Lest we forget.
Daniel Puder getting legitimately worked over by Chris Benoit, Eddie Guerrero, and especially Hardcore Holly in the 2005 Royal Rumble is one of the clearest examples of old-school locker room hazing in WWE history.
One of the most brilliant moments in Casino (1995) is how Martin Scorsese abruptly kills off Joe Pesci's character while he's still narrating the story. Nicky doesn't even get to finish his sentence.
Eddie Murphy improvised his dialogue in the 'Super Cops' scene from BEVERLY HILLS COP (1984). Judge Reinhold pinched his thigh through his pocket to avoid breaking character.