"This is madness! This! Is! SPARTAA!" (300)
With an almighty whoop, Gerald Butler's warrior king Leonidas kicks the visiting Persian ambassador down a well, a brilliantly OTT scene that has been relentlessly parodied in the media ever since. Our favourite version is Leonidas at the fish and chip shop: "I asked for ketchup! This! Is! Tartaaar!"Read the review.
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Death By Falling Masonry (Hot Fuzz)
In a pleasing tribute to The Omen, Adam Buxton's local news reporter takes a chunk of church full in the face, obliterating his whole head. You can't quite believe you're really seeing it. But you really are.Read the review.
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"McLovin?" (Superbad)
Fogell (Christopher Mintz-Plasse) has acquired himself a fake ID card, for the purpose of buying booze. Unfortunately, he has chosen to masquerade as a Hawaiian organ donor named McLovin. His friends are horrified, but amazingly enough, the ID holds up. "McLovin?" says Bill Hader's dopey cop. "That's a cool name".Read the review.
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The Heat Shield (Sunshine)
It might have fallen apart at the end, but Danny Boyle's sci-fi shocker still delivered some classic scenes. Best of the bunch was a perilous trip outside to repair the Icarus 2's vital heat shield. Shot largely from within the astronauts' bulky suits, it was a masterclass in nerve-shredding suspense.Read the review.
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Spider-Pig! (The Simpsons Movie)
All together now: "Spider-Pig/Spider-Pig/Does whatever a Spider-Pig does/Can he swing/From a web? /No he can't/He's a pig/Look out!/He is the Spider-Pig!"Read the review.
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The Best Possible Taste (Ratatouille)
As jaded food critic Anton Ego tastes the ratatouille created by rodent chef Remy, he is catapulted back to the hazy sunshine of his childhood. Not many animators can make you laugh, bring a tear to your eye and chuck in a reference to Proust at the same time, but Ratatouille is a film that hits the bullseye with astonishing frequency.
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Beowulf Vs Grendel (Beowulf)
It should have been brilliant: the ultimate melding of ancient poetry and bleeding edge 3D technology. Unfortunately, someone decided that Beowulf should be butt naked for his pivotal scrap with the monstrous Grendel. Now, clearly we can't have our hero's wobbly bits flapping about the place in 3D, so they've been obscured with cunningly placed candlesticks, courgettes and so on. The result is an eye-watering Austin Powers-style farce, and one of the funniest things you'll see all year.
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Battle In Tangiers (The Bourne Ultimatum)
After a suspenseful rooftop chase, superspy Jason Bourne crashes through a window and beats the stuffing out of his opponent with nothing but a book. Now that's cool.
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Written byPaul Arendt
