On the other hand, Life of Pie looks pretty spectacular scene after scene, trailer after trailer, poster after poster.

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Emmerdale won best dramatic performance from a young actor or actress for Eden Taylor-Draper (Belle Dingle), and spectacular scene of the year for the house collapse.

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The spectacular scene unfolded about 7 p.m. on the north section of the four-lane Interstate 5 bridge near Mount Vernon, about 60 miles north of Seattle and 40 miles south of the Canada border.

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The city was the scene of a spectacular robbery in 2003 when thieves made off with the contents of more than 100 safes at the diamond center.

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Perhaps the most spectacular Indian conquests has been on the international beauty scene.

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Although the movie is disjointed, the filmmakers pull off some bravura sequences (the armored-car robbery at the end is spectacular), and they know how to get a scene moving and build on it with a Scorsese-like sweep.

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But while there has to be something "epic" about the scene, that doesn't necessarily mean it has to be visually spectacular.

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