Best Scenes of the Year: 2005

  1. Please Hammer, Don't Hurt 'Em, from Oldboy
  2. Freebird, from The Devil's Rejects
  3. An Afternoon of Basketball & Chess, from Funny Ha Ha
  4. The First Tripod Attack, from War of the Worlds
  5. Let Me Entertain You, from King Kong
  6. Kong Knows How to Juggle, Too, from King Kong
  7. Midnight Rider, from The Devil's Rejects
  8. Elevator, from Caché [I know the popular choice is "Majid's Final Cut", but, as impressive as it was, I was afflicted with the dreaded "Mike D'Angelo/Sixth Sense alienation effect".]
  9. Killing Me Softly With Their Song, from Kung Fu Hustle
  10. What do you do for a living?, from Red Eye
  11. What They Did To Kong Was Wrong -- A Big Wrong, A Big "W", from King Kong
  12. ))<>((, from Me and You and Everyone We Know
  13. Dora (Suspect #2), from Broken Flowers
  14. The Birth and Death of a Sperm Whale, from The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
  15. Never Hit a Pitcher, from Bad News Bears
  16. You Too Can Simulate "Bullet-Time" At Home - Here's How!, from Mindhunters
  17. Kelly Clarkson!, from The 40 Year Old Virgin
  18. A Bad Nut, from Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
  19. Opening Credits, from Sahara

"I never thanked you."
"And you'll never have to."

Did you see Wedding Crashers? the Shout montage is the best scene of the year.

Haven't seen that yet, and probably won't until the DVD release -- which'll be, what, four months from now?