ĭirector Andy Muschietti was handed both a layup and an incredible burden with It’s introductory sewer scene, an image so closely tied to Stephen King’s classic horror tome, it was right there on the book jacket. Wright already gave the trick a try in the music video for Mint Royale’s “Blue Song,” but that was just a dry run to this ecstatic prologue-a sequence that shifts gears from Elgort’s dorky-cool lip-sync routine to a hair-pin chase, featuring balletic 180-degree drifts and a game of three car Monte, all precisely cut to the tempo of “Bellbottoms.” Baby Driver never tops this perfect, irresistible syncing of vehicular mayhem to jukebox jangle, but that’s okay: Every other scene this year ate its dust, too. It’s a heist sequence that unfolds in real time, without dialogue, and from the perspective of Ansel Elgort’s tinnitus-afflicted getaway driver, who cues up and boogies to the garage-rock swagger of The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion while his associates knock off a bank. The first six minutes of Baby Driver are pure bliss, neatly establishing the basic premise of Edgar Wright’s rollicking genre pastiche, while also functioning as a stand-alone blast of rubber-on-road, needle-on-vinyl movie magic. But there’s also something to be said for a great opening scene-the kind that instantly, forcefully captures the audience’s imagination. Club’s annual search for the best scene of the year (see: the final minutes of Whiplash or Phoenix, which we singled out in 20, respectively), and that’s because they carry the full, cumulative power of everything leading up to them.
Scene of the year Opening getaway, Baby DriverĮndings sometimes get the edge in The A.V. And as always, beware of plot reveals-although we stuck the climactic scenes at the end, there will be spoilers throughout. (Even Justice League came through with a few inspired minutes.) Everyone had their own transcendent experiences in a darkened auditorium this year consider the list below more of a mixtape of favorite moments than a consensus hierarchy (though just about everyone agreed on the awesomeness of the scene we’ve chosen as 2017’s finest). But we had to draw the line somewhere, and 25 seemed like the right number, even if it meant leaving out other memorable morsels, cut from good and bad films alike. All of the above moments-and a couple dozen more besides-would have made fine additions to our unranked list of the best movie scenes of 2017. Soldiers sitting like ducks on a beach as a German fighter plane dives menacingly out of the sky. Saoirse Ronan defiantly rolling out of a moving vehicle. Ryan Gosling slugging it out with Harrison Ford in a ballroom of holograms.
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