We continue our five-part series of posts on the decade in movies (Take 1 here, Take 2 here, Take 3 here) with another 20 or so of our favorite scenes and moments. Plus, Addison Engelking reveals his alternative list of 25 favorite films of the decade.
MOMENTS:
“Knights of Columbus!” “Great Odin’s raven!” “By the beard of Zeus!” — stentorian non-sequiturs in ANCHORMAN: THE LEGEND OF RON BURGUNDY. (CH)
William Wilberforce ponders a spider web, AMAZING GRACE. (AE)
A comic-book action scene goes Sam Raimi with a series of double-second vignettes of horror as Doc Ock (Alfred Molina) attacks a surgery room, and a surgeon fights back with a chainsaw, in SPIDER-MAN 2. (GA)
“I’m the Invincible Sword Goddess,” young fighter Jen Yu (Zhang Ziyi) says, mocking pretentious martial arts monikers as she mows through a patriarchal maze of slovenly, self-important male opponents in CROUCHING TIGER, HIDDEN DRAGON. (CH)
Teen warrior, Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon:
