3x3: favorite movie montages

Movies
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We talk about our favorite movie montages at the 2:22 mark–yes you read that right–of the Qt3 Movie Podcast of the best of 2011.

Tom Chick
3. Requiem for a Dream: the heroin sequences
2. Jaws: building the shark cage

  1. Sorcerer: putting together the trucks (Tangerine Dream): sweat, grease, fire, metal, rain

Kelly Wand
3. Wet Hot American Summer: where they visit the city
2. Cool as Ice: them wandering through these corridors of lumber

  1. Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle: married to a bag of weed

Dingus
3. Funny People: Ira helping George while he’s sick
2. World’s Greatest Dad: Lance finds his son (Akron/Family: Don’t Be Afraid It’s Only Love)

  1. Rushmore: you are forgiven (The Who: A Quick One, While He’s Away)

Now you all get in here. What are your favorite movie montages?

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The Muppet Movie - Moving right along!
Rocky - The definition of movie montage
October Sky - Building the launch site & testing rockets

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The montage scene in ‘Summer of Sam’ during which Adrien Brody plays guitar while The Who’s ‘Baba O’Riley’ is on the soundtrack and a bunch of other stuff happens. It’s mostly the music that I love about that sequence though.

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Team America - “There’s Gonna Be A Montage”

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Where’s the love for the “Raindrops Keep Falling on my Head” sequence from Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid?

Okay, so it stuck out like a sore thumb. So what?

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I get a kick out of any movie that references it’s doing or about to do a montage for some reason. That 4th wall breaking always cracks me up.

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Goodfellas, layla and a body count.

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Up - Carl and Ellie’s life and marriage

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Rules of Attraction link nsfw

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Raiders of the Lost Ark: the Pan Am Flying Clipper flying across the map.
Toy Story 2: Jessie’s back-story, vocals by Sara McLachlan.
Grand Prix: 1966, directed by John Frankenheimer. The opening title sequence designed by Saul Bass showing the cars lining up on the starting grid.

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The Naked Gun - I’m into something good

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I knew I forgot something…

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Hey look, a threesome w/Newman and Redford and Whatsherface is – oh wait.

1870s Bacharach still pwnz though.

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Well, the best montages were the weekly A Team inventions. But I guess that’s TV, so – oh wait! A Team movie!

I love it when a plan comes together.

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I do love Drebin and was gonna choose this but when I rewatched it, it didn’t hold up as well as I remembered, except for the mustard and the movie theater. The opening credits rule, but then I gotta listen to Tom and Dingus upbraid me for mixing credit sequences with montages…Actually, them upbraiding me might make a cool montage…

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Just replace my whole dumbass list with this.

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Up, poignant enough I have trouble coming up with anything even in the same league.

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No way, Kelly. The Wet Hot America Summer one is easily the best. It invalidates everything else in this thread.

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Ah, I’ve got a good one: Black Dynamite, the first date montage.

H.

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Yeah, I agree. The one in Team America is probably the best, but there’s a good one of these in The Muppets too.