Most Rewatchable Scene
You Should Be Dancing solo; opening credits
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- The opening credits are indelible and endlessly parodied; most people have only seen the first minute.
- In the opening Tony carries a paint can, stacks two pizza slices and eats them at once, and hits on two women, blocking one from passing in a point-of-view shot; the music makes the scene.
- Travolta gives a one-of-one unicorn performance; no actor of the last 50 years could pull off the opening walk, with only a young Mario Lopez or a young Pacino floated.
- Magic Mike and Channing Tatum are named the closest current-era equivalent for driving women crazy.
- The first disco sequence brings Disco Inferno, an "I love to watch you dance" cameo by a Saturday Night Live alum, and the Night Fever group line dance.
- Tony popping out of his bedroom in his underwear doing "Al Pacino, Attica" for his grandmother is a funny, real moment rooted in 1977.
- The first coffee scene, where Tony is called a cliche on his way to no place, is praised as well written and well acted.
- The Father Frank Jr. disco visit includes the Fran Drescher cameo, and she is called the best-looking girl in the club.
- In the You Should Be Dancing scene Travolta takes over the floor; he threatened to quit unless it was shot wide instead of in close-ups, and it plays like a sports movie.
- The solo scene is called one of the five most iconic scenes of the 1970s and announced in advance as this participant's category winner.
- The first Brooklyn Bridge scene was filmed about 600 feet up with few safety precautions.
- The dance contest is enjoyable because it is infuriating, with Caesar and Maria excelling; the other view is that the final dance is underwhelming compared with the solo scene.
- The You Should Be Dancing scene is picked as most rewatchable.
- The opening scene with the credits is the other pick, accepted as fair.