Oops..Grendal beat me to the war room quote. The Deer Hunter. Pretty much any scene, but epecially the very end where they're all sitting at the table, and their positioning and camera angle reminds you of the Last Supper. There were probably only about 10pages of actual dialouge in the entire 3+ hour film, but it said a whole lot based on symbolism and pure cinematography. Beautiful, Beautiful piece of work. or the classic scene from Airplane with Barbara Billingsly (June Cleaver) and the two black guys.. "oh stewardess..I speak Jive"
The answering machine scene in "Swingers". The ending scene in "Unforgiven". The Stonehenge scene in "This is Spinal Tap".
Ugh. That Swingers seen is probably one of my most painful to watch movie scenes. That was one train wreck of a phone call.
I could almost do the ENTIRE Tombstone dialog. That is the best movie IN TIME OF LIFE EVER FOREVER AND EVER (not Amen). The best scene from there: The entire Curly Bill Brocious shooting the Sheriff scene is special, it's the turning point of the movie and when Wyatt gets involved, though he said he woudln't. Especially "You can't hit nothin'. You're just a drunk piano player." "I've got TWO guns... [click] [click]... one for EACH of YA." "You tell'em I'm coming...!!! And hell's coming WITH ME!!!" I could almost quote the entire Terminator 2 movie. In Terminator 2, the one I like best is the one where Sarah Kannah escapes, meeting the Terminator for the first time, with the "Stand on one leg...!" scene second. I also loved True Lies; the best scene in there is the one where Arnold picks his cuffs, Jamie Lee Curtis saves Arnold, and lastly Jamie punches Tia out. Comedy: All of Airplane, mostly the Saturday Night dance when she is imitating the sailor who's just gotten stabbed. Action: Terminator, the "Hey, why did you let me go?" "Because JU TOL' ME TO." scene. Drama: Forrest Gump - "Run FORREST!" (Forrest outruns the truck).
Garden State: the end and the scene where his friend takes him on the long journey for his going away present Finding Forrester: the end/closing credits The Incredibles: the family's escape on the island War of the Worlds: the ligthning storm/quake/first attack Road to Perdition: Michael's and Jon's conversation in the church basement and the end Moulin Rouge: Elephant Love Medley and the end before the curtain falls Love Actually: the poster board scene Spiderman 2: Spidey jumping out the window with MJ looking on Two Towers: closing monologue Return of the King: final scene Saving Private Ryan: beginning and ending assaults Enemy at the Gates: final scene Episode II: Yoda pulls out the lightsaber Episode III: Anakin/Padme/Obi Wan coversation and esuing fight Episode IV: Han is encased in carbonite Gladiator: final scene X2: Jean leaves the plane The Matrix: first fight scene
A Few Good Men: "You have to ask me nicely!" Star Trek III: The scene where they steal the Enterprise to go search for Spock Hunt for Red October: The final "battle" scene. "Look, skipper scared them out of the water!" Hoosiers: Where Gene Hackman kicks the two disrespectful youngins out of practice
The Usual Suspects- When Kujan figures out who Verbal really is. American Psycho- when all the VP's are comparing their business cards in the boardroom. Boiler Room- Affleck's speech to young trainees on first day on job "you see this smile on my face, ear to ear, baby" Garden State- ending sequence with Frou Frou music playing over
Just about every scene mentioned above, plus the Alec Baldwin pep talk in Glengarry Glen Ross You know the one, "What's my name? F*ck you, that's my name!..."
I watch way too many movies to have any permanent favorites, so here are some that made big impressions on me recently (I'm not going to give too much away - if you want to know why I like these scenes, rent the movies): Ikiru (highly recommended, BTW) - The scene in the restaurant where Wantanabe resolves to do something before he dies - The scene where Wantanabe's coworker is about to confront his superiors about who should get credit for the park Audition - The scene where Aoyama finally calls Asami back M - The scene where Becker is on "trial" Dr. Strangelove - The last scene in the War Room Five Easy Pieces - The scene where Dupea tries to order toast
That's a good one. You'll never see a scene like that in any other kind of movie, and it's hilarious.
godfather: the ending where michael was in church being a godfather to carl's son while his enemy's were getting wacked. made me think about how someone can fit conficting believes together so perfectly. glory: when the soilders almost took the fort but met a row of cannons. just sad. air force one: gary oldman's character said (paraphrasing) "I believe in god. for what i'm doing, i'm going to burn in hell. that's how much i love my country". now that's true conviction. le femme nikita: when nikita hesitated to sniped the woman politician as her handler was yelling at her to do it. under pressure people tend to obey authority, i watched the movie after seeing the Milgram Experiment (a must see documentry).
Speaking of True Lies, Tia Carrera is dancing the "Uh-oh.. TANGO..." song Por Una Cabeza from True Lies in "Dancing with the Stars". Brought memories of her and Arnold, of course.
