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Best movie escapes

Film, TV & DVD » Best movie escapes (Posts 1 to 28 of 28)

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      CommentAuthorAnthony
    • CommentTimeAug 10th 2008
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    The Bond movies do it darn well, but what other awesome ways have our action heroes got out of sticky situations?

    One of my favourites has to be MI3 - Tom Cruise is handcuffed to a chair, electrocuted, and then forced to tell Phillip Seymour Hoffman where some top-secret-uber-weaponry is. I won't get into all the details here, but in the end he manages to escape by biting a guy on the hand, grabbing a biro out of the guys pocket before knocking him out, and using the cartridge to free himself from the handcuffs. Awesome! biggrin
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    • CommentAuthorTimmer
    • CommentTimeAug 11th 2008
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    Best movie escapes?

    ME! Dashing for the pub whenever a Michael Bay movie comes on!
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      CommentAuthorRalph Kruhm
    • CommentTimeAug 11th 2008 edited
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    "Get away from her, you bitch!"
    - Ellen Ripley in Aliens

    Never again I cheered that way while being stuck in a full theatre.
    I have a plan.
    • CommentAuthorDon
    • CommentTimeAug 11th 2008
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    Not sure if it qualifies (as it's no action-packed escape), but my favourite always will be THE SHAWSHANK REDEMPTION:

    When the Warden finds the bible in his safe after Andy escapes and finds the message Andy left for him.

    "Dear Warden, You were right. Salvation lies within."

    Afterwards in flashbacks Tim Robbins is shown slowly climbing through the sewers and then standing in the pouring rain. Brillant imagery, great storytelling. One of my all-time favourites.
    • CommentAuthorTimmer
    • CommentTimeAug 11th 2008
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    Don wrote
    Not sure if it qualifies (as it's no action-packed escape), but my favourite always will be THE SHAWSHANK REDEMPTION:

    When the Warden finds the bible in his safe after Andy escapes and finds the message Andy left for him.

    "Dear Warden, You were right. Salvation lies within."

    Afterwards in flashbacks Tim Robbins is shown slowly climbing through the sewers and then standing in the pouring rain. Brillant imagery, great storytelling. One of my all-time favourites.


    No argument from me, it's brilliant! cool beer
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      CommentAuthorSteven
    • CommentTimeAug 11th 2008
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    Doesn't have to be 'action packed' to be classified as a movie escape. An escape is an escape regardless of how many explosions it happens to get through! Shawshank is indeed one of the best.
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    Agreed. Shawshank is pure genius.

    That said, my Aliens quote is probably a great entry, not a great exit.

    The best exit I can think of for now...

    "Come with me if you want to live!"
    Chose your favourite version by yourself...
    I have a plan.
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      CommentAuthorErik Woods
    • CommentTimeAug 11th 2008
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    I will enter the "Escape From The Idol Temple" from Raiders of the Lost Ark. Crumbing walls, poison arrows, a swing across a never ending gorge, stone wall closing, metal spikes and a giant rolling boulder. On top of that, minutes later Indy must run a good mile from Hovitos, swing from a vine into the water, swim to the MOVING plane all the while having poison darts shot at him. Is there REALLY any better escape than that?

    -Erik-
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    • CommentAuthorTimmer
    • CommentTimeAug 11th 2008
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    Erik Woods wrote
    I will enter the "Escape From The Idol Temple" from Raiders of the Lost Ark. Crumbing walls, poison arrows, a swing across a never ending gorge, stone wall closing, metal spikes and a giant rolling boulder. On top of that, minutes later Indy must run a good mile from Hovitos, swing from a vine into the water, swim to the MOVING plane all the while having poison darts shot at him. Is there REALLY any better escape than that?

    -Erik-


    Depends if we're talking realism or not!? wink

    Great escapes?

    THE GREAT ESCAPE


    Obvious but brilliant! punk
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    The finale of THE ISLAND coupled with Jablonsky's gorgeous but heavily unoriginal "My name is Lincoln"
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      CommentAuthorSteven
    • CommentTimeAug 11th 2008 edited
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    The escape from the giant space worm in The Empire Strikes Back. punk
    A painter paints pictures on canvas. But musicians paint their pictures on silence | Leopold Stokowski
    • CommentAuthorTimmer
    • CommentTimeAug 11th 2008
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    Steven wrote
    The escape from the giant space worm in The Empire Strikes Back. punk


    Yeeeaaaaahhhh! I like dat one! beer

    I've never seen Escape To Witch Mountain, any good escapes in that? cheesy wink
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    The Millenium Falcon attaching itself to a Star Destroyer to escape it.
    I have a plan.
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      CommentAuthorErik Woods
    • CommentTimeAug 11th 2008
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    Timmer wrote
    Erik Woods wrote
    I will enter the "Escape From The Idol Temple" from Raiders of the Lost Ark. Crumbing walls, poison arrows, a swing across a never ending gorge, stone wall closing, metal spikes and a giant rolling boulder. On top of that, minutes later Indy must run a good mile from Hovitos, swing from a vine into the water, swim to the MOVING plane all the while having poison darts shot at him. Is there REALLY any better escape than that?

    -Erik-


    Depends if we're talking realism or not!? wink


    Aaaah... but when you saw it for the first time did it not look realistic to you?

    -Erik-
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    • CommentAuthorTimmer
    • CommentTimeAug 11th 2008
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    Erik Woods wrote
    Timmer wrote
    Erik Woods wrote
    I will enter the "Escape From The Idol Temple" from Raiders of the Lost Ark. Crumbing walls, poison arrows, a swing across a never ending gorge, stone wall closing, metal spikes and a giant rolling boulder. On top of that, minutes later Indy must run a good mile from Hovitos, swing from a vine into the water, swim to the MOVING plane all the while having poison darts shot at him. Is there REALLY any better escape than that?

    -Erik-


    Depends if we're talking realism or not!? wink


    Aaaah... but when you saw it for the first time did it not look realistic to you?

    -Erik-


    You know what I meant smile

    Yeah, I said it before, Raiders blew me away when I first saw it......on it's original release. cool
    • CommentAuthorPanthera
    • CommentTimeAug 13th 2008
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    Not really a good guy escaping, but I thought Tai Lung's escape in Kung Fu Panda was good, and so is the music that accompanies it.
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    Where Eagles Dare.

    Cable car. Enough said.
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      CommentAuthormoonie
    • CommentTimeAug 13th 2008
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    franz_conrad wrote
    Where Eagles Dare.

    Cable car. Enough said.



    Best Movie Ever!! Score too!!!


    sd smile
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      CommentAuthormoonie
    • CommentTimeAug 13th 2008
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    The Escape from the Cloud city from Empire Strikes Back. Music too.



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      CommentAuthorMartijn
    • CommentTimeAug 13th 2008
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    HYPERSPACE!

    Good, GOOD call, Steve!
    Just your friendly neighbourhood disturbance in the Force.
    • CommentAuthorTimmer
    • CommentTimeAug 13th 2008
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    De Niro, Walken etc escaping Viet Cong captors during a nail biting sequence of Russian roulette in The Deer Hunter.
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    From CAPRICORN ONE, the 'breakout' and airplane escape scenes are very well done with a combination of intercutting and Goldsmith's music.
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      CommentAuthormoonie
    • CommentTimeAug 14th 2008
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    This isnt a escape per say but I loved the ending of Cap one, Spoiler below.....



    when the main astronaut (can't think of his name to save me) comes running in at his own funeral.


    sd smile
    Goldsmith Rules!!
    • CommentAuthorTimmer
    • CommentTimeAug 14th 2008 edited
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    moonie wrote
    This isnt a escape per say but I loved the ending of Cap one, Spoiler below.....



    when the main astronaut (can't think of his name to save me) comes running in at his own funeral.


    sd smile


    Col. Charles Brubaker played by James Brolin smile
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    Terminator 2: The whole John Connor chased by the T-1000 in his truck in the canals scene culminating in the heroic rescue by the T-101. Wouldn't want to escape any other way than that!

    And how about the nick-of-time escape from the exploding Death Star at the end of Return of the Jedi?? punk
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      CommentAuthorThor
    • CommentTimeSep 3rd 2008
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    Always loved Clint Eastwood's escape sequences in ESCAPE FROM ALCATRAZ. A childhood favourite.
    • CommentAuthorTimmer
    • CommentTimeSep 4th 2008
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    Thor wrote
    Always loved Clint Eastwood's escape sequences in ESCAPE FROM ALCATRAZ. A childhood favourite.


    Based on a true story too....not sure how accurately it adheres to it?
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      CommentAuthoromaha
    • CommentTimeSep 4th 2008
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    The Great Escape
    Raiders- Idol Temple
    Air Force one
    -Gt I am the master of my fate: I am the captain of my soul.
 
 

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