Unlikely small moments in films you like

First Rocky - you spend the whole movie hating Apollo and cheering for Rocky. Then in the 14th round of a lethal battle between the two, Creed knocks Rocky down and thinks he finally knocked him out. Then with his hands raised, he turns back around to see Rocky getting back up. A second later Rocky gathers himself and tells Creed to come back and keep fighting. There is a moment where he dips his head down and is in total disbelief that he can't get the knockout. And for a moment, despite him being the antagonist for the whole film, you sympathize with him. He's not a bad guy, he's just a passionate competitor who wanted it just as bad a Rocky. Carl Weathers sold that moment really well.

Well if we’re talking Bourne Identity, I liked the bit when he tells Marie the really complicated way to get the information he needs, and she just asks the guy behind the desk for it and Bourne was like “huh, that works too”

The first Captain America movie where he’s chasing a HYDRA agent who throws a kid in the water, but the kid says “I can swim” so Cap can focus back on the chase.

I really like to watch what others (the extras) are doing behind the main characters. Even in TV commercials. There are too many unlikely small moments to mention. It adds a whole new level of entertainment to a show

The bit in the old Pet Semetary where the guy rolls out of bed and absolutely beans himself on the corner of the bedside table

In “North by Northwest”, Cary Grant is being followed by the bad guys. He gets into a taxi and says “I’m being followed. Can you do something about it?” The driver just cooly says “Yes I can.”

In Willy Wonka, the Gene Wilder movie, when he sits down and eats the daffodil. It looks so good to me for some reason and I love the little face he makes.

In The Fifth Element when Bruce Willis takes the gun away from that guy that has been standing at his door all night, the crook starts dancing for no apparent reason. I mean it could be a (yeah you got me) dance, and it is a goofy partial comedy movie. But for some weird reason every time I watch it I ask myself why.

In the new Knives Out (Wake up dead man), there's a brilliant scene where the main character, a priest, takes the time to console a random person who's really struggling emotionally. It's a small moment that comes out of nowhere and doesn't serve the plot at all, but it's the scene that makes the movie to me. Possibly my favorite scene in all three movies, actually.

My two favorite John Hurt scenes. In one, he's a broken shell of a man, sitting in front of his callous oncologist. Doesn't so much as twitch as he's told he's perfectly well now, free to leave and live his life, bye, leave, go, hmm? And he's just...  Second scene, his lieutenant calls him in to give him an undercover job, because he's gay. Which Hurt suddenly realized *everyone knows*. Its every horror men faced in the 1970s hitting him in seconds, and it's all in his eyes. 

I have two. One is LA Confidential when Capt. Smith name drops Rollo Tomassi not knowing Vincennes set that up. Exley wanting to react, but not is amazing. Two is Parker Posey in Waiting for Guffman grilling a single wing talking about how there’ll always be a home for her at Dairy Queen.

In Mr and Mrs Smith - Brad Pitt’s character has to crash at his coworkers place (Played by Vince Vaughn). He ends up being given the couch to sleep and pulls a blanket up to get cozy just to smell it, get disgusted and toss it away from him much like anyone would do in that situation.

In Contact, after Jodie Foster gives her testimony about her experience in the machine, she’s out in the lobby or whatever and no one pays her any attention. She would likely be the most famous and sought out person on Earth at that point

Better Off Dead has the tiniest little throwaway gag that is way, way funnier than it has any right to be. Lane and Monique are outside of the dance, having just met and shaking hands vigorously. Ricky comes running out from the dance to find Monique, while carrying a singular red helium balloon. As he approaches, he accidentally lets go of the balloon. As he does so, he turns back to the balloon to retrieve it, does this pathetic little hop that had no chance of helping him get it, before returning to the task of catching Monique. It's been decades since I first saw it, and to this day, whenever I see a balloon leave its owner, I do the same, sad little hop.

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Murder On The Orient Express (1974 version) has a pretty sad one. When Poirot publicly announces >!Pierre's!< motive for the murder of Mr Ratchett and >!Pierre!< instantly starts crying, Poirot offers him nothing but his own sympathy even if he doesn't say so.

Irene Adler mugging the muggers in Sherlock Holmes (2009) it was a little too smooth; and she just waltzed away without consequences, while they stood there staring dumbly at her. I think the two of them could have easily taken her down, in real life, if they have been real tough guy muggers.

It’s not that silly.  I once tipped a grocery man the equivalent of $1 in my country and he got greatly upset. The concept of tipping was unknown to him and, despite his dogshit pay, he was content with his salary. At the time the common tip for this job was around $0.15 or $1 of our currency. 

There's one in this TV movie called Sparkling Cyanide. For context, Sandra has overheard her new husband Stephan, an aspiring politician running for state governor of Califormia, arguing with another woman called Rosemary... and discovers that they were having a *lover's* quarrel where Rosemary tried to blackmail Stephan by threatening to tell Sandra about their affair. So she knows her husband has cheated on her but hasn't let on that she knows. Well, when Rosemary collapses dead out of nowhere due to her champagne glass being spiked with cyanide, the first thing Sandra does when Rosemary is pronounced dead is turn suspiciously to glare at her own husband.

Meet Joe black Brad Pitt character meets a female Doctor and says it would be awkward if she gave him a physical. She says why.? Because I like you so much.why.? Because I like you so much. Dugan is a great teaching baddie!uch