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We recently discussed our fave casino flicks, which turned into a more specific convo between us about awesome poker scenes.  This age-old card game has been featured in many flicks, and it often turns into a scintillating scene.

Ocean's 11 (2001)

This scene stuck out for us because it featured some celebs at the time, and we also enjoyed the irony that the biggest celebs in the room were actually supposed to be the nobodys. What's also amusing, watching this now, is that the poker students were young hot stars at the time, and now... well... where are they? Although, I maintain to this day, Barry Watson is haawwwt.

And for the boys, there's strippers in the background of this scene too, so enjoy.

I Love You Man (2009)

This scene from I Love you, Man is just the bestest. Poor Peter is trying to make friends in his sweet non-threatening way (Stones or Beatles?) and is so brutally shot down by the d-bags at the table who don't even want him there. Sweetypie Peter is even congratulating others on their great hands, unbeknownst to him that he's creamed them. He even sincerely apologizes for beating them. How could you not fall in love with this character? This is also followed up by the priceless projectile vomit scene.

A cameo by Jay Chandrasekhar also makes me giddy.

How to Lose a Guy in Ten Days (2003)

Kate Hudson is a great commedianne and this scene is a perfect example. Benny is trying to have poker night with the guys and in comes conniving Andie to muck it all up and embarrass the bejesus outta him.

How do you ruin poker night? Easy. Take away the greasy food (and insert cucumber sammiches), snuff out the cigars, blow his nose like a 4 year old, announce people's cards, and throw a hissy fit. Check, check, and check. She nails it. Or blows it, however you wanna look at it.

What else is great, looking back on this '03 gem, is getting to see Thomas Lennon before we knew how freakin' awesomely hilarious he is.

Maverick (1994)

You can't mention poker without talking about this game in its hayday when people got shot routinely during games. This is one hell of a poker tournament, with some greats like James Coburn and Alfred Molina. I'd be intimidated, that's for sure. Hell, Coburn's voice alone would be enough to make me fold.

This is the kind of scenario that almost never happens, but this movie sure was good at making the game exciting.

Scintillating Scene: Ferris Bueller's Day Off

Adam, our Cin-Ob Supreme, wanted something from FBDO (1986). And we're not just gonna give him something... we're gonna give him IT. THE THING. THE BE ALL END ALL, BEST OF THE B.. oops caps lock.

This scene is like... ughh... best scene ever. Wasn't that eloquent of me? Eff you, I'm trying here. It's the scene that you kinda forget is coming, but when you see the parade you go "Yesssssss...." deep inside. Or sometimes out loud, if you're like me...

I had/have a giant crush on Matt-Brod in this movie. It's the character I love, really. He's charming, funny, unusually articulate and silver-tongued (thanks synonym.com) for a high school kid. And oh boy, did my pre-teen hormones ever go mental when he got up there and sang this tune. In fact, I was weirdly attracted to him during his warm-up number, Danke Schoen. Is that weird? I don't care. I wanted to be Ferris Bueller, and I wanted to be with Ferris Bueller. I wanted to sniff and snuggle up to that vest, but I also wanted to wear that vest. Very few characters accomplish this sensation in viewers, and that's why, my friends, Ferris will go down in history.

Interesting tid-bit for ya - a lot of the dancing extras were just there for the parade (which was actually happening that day in Chicago) and John Hughes was just like "look at that jigging construction worker! Film that!" So now you can watch and know deep in your heart that what you're seeing is genuine. Mostly.

Scintillating Scene: Role Models

Jane Lynch is a comedic genius. No doots aboot it.

Here she is in a highly hilarious moment in which she reminices about her drug-filled past. And the guys are totally confused by her. I guess that's one way of intimidating people - mention hard drugs then proceed to make no sense at all. People will think you have a few screws loose.

Regardless, I don't know how Paul Rudd and Stiffler Seann William Scott kept straight faces throughout this bit.

Scintillating Scene: The Grudge

Here's a Scintillating Scene a.k.a. Fill My Pants With Liquid BM Scene. Excuse my vulgarity, it's just that my bowels let go every time I watch this movie. You all wanted to know that, I know.

So here it is folks, the clip Ang just talked me out of finishing. At the 2 minute mark my computer made a sound and my heart rate accelerated so quickly I had to take my pulse. Then at the 5:00 mark Angie turned to me and asked: "Do you like what you're doing to yourself right now? You really want to be watching that before you go to bed?". Good call Ang. YouTube is officially closed.

Scintillating Scene: Wet Hot American Summer

Chantale and Angie here wishing you all a very Happy Paul Rudd Day!

This is one of our favie flicks - It's a 2001 comedy that most peeps haven't even heard of. So many great comedians, so many hilarious, brilliant moments, amazing writing, and of course, Paul Rudd! Now Paul usually plays the real loveable 'nice guys' in most of his films. Not this time. Paul plays Andy, a total d-bag, a-hole loser.

Watch Andy lose his temper and act like a super-dick in this hilarious scene from Wet Hot American Summer (2001).

Scintillating Scene: Grace Of My Heart

I told ya I'd be bringing you the magnificant musical numbahs from Grace Of My Heart (1996) one by one, so here's the next one.

What you see here is songwriter Denise, our heroine, finally attempting to record her own songs. Matt Dillon plays a record producer who is hearing the song for the first time. This scene is emotionally charged (see the movie to understand why) and the song is absolutely beautiful. Important to note that the real-life brains behind this tune are none other than Elvis Costello and Burt Bacharach. How can you go wrong?

This diddy's on my iPod, and usually on repeat.

Scintillating Scene: Grace Of My Heart

We told you long ago about the Sublime Soundtrack of Grace Of My Heart, but at the time there were no YouTube vids available to support our thesis of the film's awesomeness.

Well now there are! And we'll bring them to you one by one.

Here's the amazing original tune, Born To Love That Boy. Ok, so the message of the song is pathetic, misogenystic, and just wrong, but BOY is it catchy! DOO WOP SHOOP SHOOP LOVE IT!

Scintillating Scene: They Shoot Horses, Don't They?

I just re-watched the Matt Damon cowboy flick All The Pretty Horses (2000), so when Bob, our Cin-Ob Supreme of the week, told me he wanted to see something from a movie called They Shoot Horses, Don't They? I was all GAASSSP!

Then I did my research like a good little blogger. And this movie is now added to the list of ones I'm hunting for on DVD, because it sounds sooooo good. On the assumption that a lot of you don't know this movie either, here's a synops.

The lives of a disparate group of contestants intertwine in an inhumanely grueling dance marathon. [IMDB]

Wowza! Inhumane dancing? I'm in. 

When Bob mentioned this title I was expecting cowboys, or horse races, maybe some mafia guys putting out hits on people, or whatever they call 'em. Well wasn't I surprised when the first Google result was a disco ball image.

So watch this scene to get a taste of this 1969 movie, and give me your thoughts. Have you seen it before? If not, are you intrigued now like I am? Aaaaannd GO!

Scintillating Scene: Gentlemen Prefer Blondes

Wow, Karen. Great choice! As Cin-Ob Supreme of the week, you've done us proud.

Karen wanted to see this iconic performance from Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (1953). This is the number by which we all know Miss Marilyn Monroe, and we've seen tributes to it many times, ie Madonna, as Karen pointed out to us, and of course Nicole Kidman sang a version of this lil' diddy in Moulin Rouge (2001).

Scintillating Scene: The Ring

What is the matter with you Noah? You see that well pop up on your screen and you get the hell outta there. You don't stick around to see how long that bitch will take to crawl out of the well to get through your television.

If this movie didn't make you caca in your pants, I seriously don't know what's wrong with you. You need to get your head checked. I, on the other hand, need to get my undies checked.

Scintillating Scene: 500 Days of Summer

I need to just get this out. This is one of the BEST movies I've seen in a long time. Maybe it's just me, but I can't believe more people aren't talking about this recent GEM!!

Here's a super adorable love scene... oh, no wait... this is the scene where the word 'penis' is screamed over and over. Fabulous.

If you haven't checked this movie out, please do so now. And make sure your ears are open for the experience as the story is accompanied by a fantastic soundtrack!

Scintillating Scene: Big Fish

Angie, I'm doin' this one for you baby. I just have a feeling you could use a little McGreggy today!

Edward Bloom (Ewan McGregor) is a young man in love. (Yes Angie, he's in love with the wrong woman, we know).. However unrealistic, this scene is so much fun to watch! In real life this type of behaviour would be classified as 'stalking' and 'creepy', but in the context of this fantastical movie, it's completely adorable and swoon-worthy!

There's a Ferocious Fight towards the end, though very one-sided, but overall this scene is supremely scintillating! Anyone else love this movie as much as we did?

Scintillating Scene: Nine

Chantale: Let's watch Nine, we haven't seen it yet.

Angie: Sure. Beeee Italian!

Chantale: I don't like Kate Hudson in this role, it doesn't seem to suit her.

40 minutes later...

Chantale: Damnit, I hate being proven wrong. Ok, so Kate has the best song in the whole damn film, and the funnest scene to watch.

Angie: You would be wise to reserve judgment on such things until you can make an informed decision.

Chantale: Shut up, Obi-Wan.

Angie: Let's go-go dance!

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Skip to 1:20 to get past the chatting for the musical number.

Scintillating Scene: Return of the Jedi

I picked something slightly controversial for this Scintillating Scene. And no, not because the singing alien-chick-thing is technically topless, but because hard core Star Wars fans tend to think the re-mastering of the original films was blasphemous (and the CGI in the prequel trilogy was crapped all over too).

Granted, I loved the multitude of muppets, guys in rubber masks, and stop motion Tauntauns in the OG as much as anyone, but I feel kinda bad for Lucas. I mean, really, he was trying to do it better. He was trying to heighten the experience with new technology, and make the films more accurate to how he had originally imagined them. GEEZ, I mean come on! He was limited to puppets and crap technology of the 80s! He wanted better than that! GAWD EVERYONE STOP POOPING ON LUCAS AND CGI!

[End rant.]

Anyways, I present you with the CGI version of the Max Rebo Band's performance in Return of the Jedi (1983). Not only was the song rewritten, but the puppets were replaced with CGI characters, and a whole new performer was added to the number.

Another interesting tidbit - the quick clip of Boba Fett flirting with the ladiens (ladies + aliens) was another addition to the revamped version.

How do you feel about the newer, edited editions of Star Wars? Be honest, I promise I won't yell at you.

Scintillating Scene: Drop Dead Fred

This might be the shortest clip we've ever featured on our site! This short, but sweet tidbit comes by request from Rebecca Joy of Profound: Random Otherwise Delightful after her glorious win in our latest installment of WHO AM I?

You wanted cobwebs girl, you got 'em! This is also one of our (and Rebecca's) favie moments of the UBER-Cult Classic, Drop Dead Fred (1991)!

Scintillating Scene: Muppet Treasure Island

This is a roll-call we wish we were present for! We loooove our Muppets! Espeeecially in pirate garb.

This movie is fantastic. Look - we'll prove it with math. Undeniable, scientific, infallable math.

Kermit + Tim Curry + wooden legs + eye patches + shiver me timbers + poop decks + Davy Jones's locker + doubloons + Jolly Roger + lads, lass, lassies + scurvy... no wait, scratch that last one... = Muppet Treasure Island (1996) yummy, wonderful movie goodness!

Scintillating Scene: A League of Their Own

This post goes out to Cin-Ob Karen... who told me yesterday she couldn't get this damn song from A League of Their Own (1992) out of her head. The cure? Listening to it. Or that could possibly make it worse. Whatever, it's enjoyable.

Scintillating Scene: The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie

Written by Cin-Ob Supreme Christina from Christina in Wonderland...

For the record, I've never seen a cartoon singing a song in a movie that moved me quite like Spongebob Squarepants's rock anthem "I'm A Goofy Goober."

Say what you want, but that song is kick @$$ and rightly so.

Did you know that the melody of it is just Twisted Sister's "I Wanna Rock"? Did you?

If you didn't, then now you do. And this is only one of the things that makes this movie one of my favorites of all time.

Not to mention the fact that it features The Hasselhoff in what might be the funniest moment of narcissitic humor ever.

They diasbled embedding, but I'm serious. Go here and watch the clip! There will be no regrets. I promise.

Scintillating Scene: Land of the Lost

Land of the Lost (2009) was widely regarded as a piece of caca, to the max. But once again we found ourselves enjoying something that nobody else did. Our perception was that the film was SUPPOSED to be bad... and cheesey... with rubber alien costumes,fake looking sets, and completely ludicrous plot. And although Will Ferrell played a fool once again, his character wasn't a complete moron... he did lots of SCIENCE! With tachions and space/time travel.

Anyways, this was a stand-out scene for us. Oh Danny McBride... you hold a special place in our Cin-Ob hearts. You see? All it takes to garner a crush from CinemaObsessed.com is a sense of humour. We found ourselves crushing on a character that was supposed to be a complete trailer trash moron. Whatevs, he was funny.

Do YoU BeLiEvE iN LiFe AfTeR LoOooOoOVe?!?!

Scintillating Scene: The Rocky Horror Picture Show

Stephanie, snagging the Cin-Ob Supreme title for the second time, has chosen very wisely for her post of choice today. She specifically requested some sweet transvestite action. How could we refuse? We cherish this cult favie film and absolutely adore the gender bending song and dance. Or if you're naive lil' Brad, some "folk dancing." Yeah right.


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