The 10 Best Movie Scenes Of 2016 (So Far)

8) Everybody Wants Some!! – High Telepathy

There’s nothing in Richard Linklater’s Everybody Wants Some!! that sums up the film’s bittersweet comic vibe quite as well as its telepathy scene. Well, ‘telepathy’ is a little strong: the jocks that make an attempt at a group mind-reading – while monumentally high – in Willoughby’s (Wyatt Russell) bedroom aren’t even so much as in the same ball park telepathically.

Like the film on the whole, the scene is about the hilarious interaction between the ensemble cast (“What am I thinking about?” “Having a tail.” “I was thinking about sharks.” “Sharks have tails”) and the nostalgic atmosphere Linklater conjures up, as Pink Floyd’s melancholy rocker “Fearless” soundtracks the laidback, weed-infused shenanigans.

7) Deadpool – Angel Of The Morning

Could there have been a more perfect opening scene for Tim Miller’s Deadpool? Could the character and his story’s unusual (at least for the superhero genre on film) tone have gotten a better introduction? It hardly seems likely. The opening credits for Deadpool have a car full of brawling bad guys careering through the air down a New York highway, in slo-mo, as Juice Newton’s “Angel of the Morning” plays on the soundtrack. It’s irony turned up to 11.

We see that each villain in the car has been dispatched by Ryan Reynolds’ titular antihero in various amusing ways – violently wedgied or burned with a car cigarette lighter. Even the credits themselves are cheekily subversive, and written from the perspective of Wade Wilson, listing Ryan Reynolds as “God’s perfect idiot” and director Miller as an “overpaid tool.”