1/25 Most memorable movie scenes:
\_ Godfather: TOO MANY TO LIST
\_ Godfather II: TOO MANY TO LIST
\_ Pulp Fiction: TOO MANY TO LIST
\_ Reservoir Dogs: TOO MANY TO LIST
\_ Alien: Alien bursting from the guy's chest during dinner
\_ Aliens: "It's the only way to be sure."
\_ Basic Instinct: Interrogation Scene
\_ Boondock Saints: "You and your fucking rhope."
\_ Evil Dead: A tree does WHAT?!?
\_ Indiana Jones: Stealing the Golden Idol
\_ Evil Dead II: "Who's laughing now? WHO'S LAUGHING NOOOW AAAHH!"
\_ Exorcist: Head spinning
\_ Ghostbusters: "Are you a GOD?!?"
\_ Jaws: "You're going to need a bigger boat."
\_ The Lover: Holy Shit They're Actually Doing It
\_ Monty Python and the Holy Grail: "What's the airspeed...?"
\_ Network: "I'm mad as hell, and I'm not going to take it anymore!"
\_ Office Space: trashing that fax/printer whatever thing
\_ Passion of the Christ: "AAAAHHHHH!"
\_ hehe
\_ Planet of Apes: Last Scene
\_ Raiders of the Lost Ark: Stealing the Golden Idol
\_ Six-shooter versus swordsman.
\_ Terminator: "I'll be back."
\_ "It can't be reasoned with. It can't be bargained with..."
\_ Witches of Eastwick: "He did it to us ON PURPOSE!!!"
\_ Exorcist: Head spinning
\_ Clockwork Orange: Brainwashing
\_ Clockwork Orange: Singing in the Rain
\_ Dr. Strangelove: riding the bomb
\_ The Longest Day: kraut trooper looking at the fleet
\_ The Longest Day: Lesbian love scene
\_ Citizen Kane: Kane dying. Rooosebuuuud!
\_ Star Wars: That's no moon.
\_ Vader / Obi-Wan duel
\_ Luke, I am your father!
\_ 1. "Mos Eisley Space Port, a more wretched hive of scum
and villainy you will never find. We must be careful"
2. "These are not the droids you are looking for"
\_ Mulholland Drive: Lesbians in bed
\_ Best mainstream cinema lesbian sex scene Evar!
\_ Better than Gina and Jen in Bound?
\_ Casablanca: Rick & Renault walking away at the end
\_ Jurassic Park: introducing the brontosaurs
\_ Apocalypse Now: Napalm in the Morning scene.
\_ When Harry Met Sally: Faked Orgasm scene
\_ Bad Lieutenant: nun rape scene
\_ Blade Runner: Rachel's V-K test
\_ Is this to test whether I am a replicant or a lesbian Mr. Decker?
\_ Blade Runner: Rutger Hauer's ending death scene
\_ 2001: Space station docking (Blue Danube)
\_ deactivating HAL
\_ The Matrix: Lobby shootout
\_ "Are you saying I can dodge bullets?"
\_ Matrix Reloaded: Motocycle chase.
\_ Jurassic Park: the T-rex
\_ The little girl looks at the monitor with fancy GUI and says
"I know this! This is UNIX!"
\_ Blues Brothers: Car chase at the mall & at the end
\_ "We're on a mission from god."
\_ Few Good Men: You can't handle the Truth!
\_ Wrath of Khan: Spock's death
\_ "Here it comes."
\_ Khan to Kirk: "I wanted you to know who it was who had
beaten you!"
\_ Shining: Jack with the Axe
\_ Jack alone with the ghost bartender
\_ The part with Scatman Crothers coming to save the boy, running
down the hallway, then getting axed in the head, is priceless.
\_ The Birds: Trapped in a phone booth
\_ Psycho: Shower scene
\_ E.T.: Flying bike by the moon
\_ Koyanisqatsi: Abandoned buildings / demolition
\_ E.T.: Bicycling in front of the moon
\_ Koyanisqatsi: Abandoned Buildings / demolition
\_ American Beauty: Lester's sexual fantasy at halftime
\_ The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly: ending sequence in the graveyard
\_ The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly: Final sequence in the graveyard
\_ Dr. No, opening scene, "Bond, James Bond"
\_ http://www.filmsite.org/20bestspeeches.html (on the waterfront etc.)
\_ A pretty damn worthless list.
\_ Well you're stupid.
\_ Pay attention to the release dates of the movies that
made it onto the list. Is it reasonable that only 2
films from the '40s, 1 from the '50s, and 1 from the
'60s made it onto the list? Such polling lists can
only measure what the polled population has seen, which
is hardly the same thing as measuring what is "the best".
'60s made it onto the list?
\_ Yes. It's as reasonable as anything else. There's a
broader section on the site with pages and pages of
"moments". They aren't my personal best but there
were some good ones that weren't posted. So fuck off.
\_ I am dazzled by your faultless logic and analysis.
\_ Hey, I just noticed that no woman has a monolog
in the top 20.
\_ Ok try to list the best female monologues. I can't
think of any right now.
\_ Cher in the Witches of Eastwick was cool.
\_ Bette Davis had several. "Buckle up!"
\_ Obvious choice is "Sunset Blvd" "I'm ready for
my close up". Probably something Hepburn,
likely from "Keeper of The Flame". "Who's
\-Try the "it's 1185 and we're all
barbarians" speech from Lion in Winter.
Although that is a play originally.
There are plenty if you count plays. --psb
Afraid of Virginia Woolf" has some gems.
Angela Lansbury had a good speech in "The
Manchurian Candidate". Just off the top of
my head.
\_ In 'His Girl Friday' Rosalind Russell has a few
\_ "Oh, maybe just whistle. You know how to
whistle, don't you, Steve? You just put your
lips together and... blow." - Lauren Bacall
in "To Have and Have Not"
\_ Wendy Hoopes on 'Daria' (Helen/Quinn/Jane) had
a bunch of good rants
\_ Faye Dunaway in "Network". Or just "Network"
in general, which is a brilliant film.
\_ Eh, agree about the Film, but she didn't
have all that many really good monologues.
I think Peter Finch and Ned Beatty had the
monologues with any real substance.
\_ Agree that it's hard to beat Holden,
Finch, and Beatty, but I had in mind
Dunaway's negotiation with the Black
female militant.
female militant, since this thread is
about female monologues.
\_ This isn't a film historian society if you haven't
noticed.
\_ When you say "the best", it implies a range that
covers from the start of the talkies.
\_ That implies that a good chunk of people posting
here have seen/remember black & white movies.
I added "Sons of the Desert" ... happy?
\_ That list wasn't about the best scenes, just the
best monologues. A lot of old films don't have
powerful speeches and such. A lot of old films
are also boring and cheesy.
\_ A statement of "a lot of old films don't have
powerful speeches and such" is only meaningful
when you have in fact sampled extensively older
films. I suspect most "experts" have the
opposite opinion that dialogue and strong
characters have been on the decline in film.
\_ Give us some examples then. I don't know
much until the 40's and then the best ones
are pretty famous.
\_ Again, off the top of my head, "Maltese
Falcon" "I like talking to people who
like to talk" or "When somebody kills your
partner, you're supposed to something
about it". Or Bogart's great speech
about sacrifice and hope in "Sahara".
How about the "moon goddess" speech in
"The Philadelphia Story"? Or the many
examples in "Sunset Blvd"? Or the great
Gary Cooper average man speech in "Meet
John Doe", or Stewart in "Mr. Smith Goes
to Washington"?
\_ I've seen Maltese (1941). I've seen
a lot of the famous 40's flicks. For
one thing I don't remember a real
speech in Maltese. It's reasonable to
decide that a lot of later movies have
better speeches in them. I don't
personally try to rank these things
because it's impossible.
\_ There's probably something here
about extrapolating from a small
data set or even one data point.
\_ You might find it telling that most
best lists are top-heavy with older
films, and it's the rare modern
film that gets a mention.
\_ Sideways: Naked chase scene
\_ Day After Tomorrow: Americans crossing the Mexico borders.
\_ Last of the Mohicans: ending slow-mo promontory fight
\_ Day After Tomorrow: crossing the Mexico borders.
\_ Last of the Mohicans: ending slow-mo promontory scene
\_ John Carpenter's The Thing: ending scene, waiting as the fire dies
\_ Westworld: Yul Brynner goes 'rogue'
\_ Taxi Driver: "You talkin' to me?"
\_ But I'm A Cheerleader!: Lesbian love scene
\_ Requiem for a Dream: The fridge attacks Sarah Goldfarb
\_ Trainspotting: Dead baby on the ceiling
\_ nothing from Army of Darkness??
\_ This is my BOOMSTICK!
\_ Tha Passion of Joan of Arc: Joan recants her confession
\_ The Usual Suspects: Chazz Palminteri's realization scene
\_ Bladrunner: Decker giving the Voigt-Kammpf test to Rachel
\_ "Is this a test to see if I am a Replicant or a Lesbian
Mr. Decker?"
\_ Chinatown: "she's my sister...she's my daughter...she's my sister
*and* my daughter!"
\_ I'd rather say "she's my niecer...she's my daughter
\_ I'd rather say "she's my niece...she's my daughter
...she's my niece *and* my daughter!"
\_ Why, because you have the hots for your sister?
Incest kids are fine! Just have to cull the bad
ones.
\_ Yup. I want my sis badly.
\_ Wow. Uh, what race are you? Did you grow up
together?
\_ Asian. Yes.
\_ Das Boot: Scraping bottom in the strait of Gibraltar
\_ Top Gun: "Goose, she's lost it"/"I hate it when she loses that!"
"You were in a 4G inverted dive with a Mig 28?"
"Son, your ego is writing checks your body can't cash"
\_ Gandhi: "There are no coloured barristers in South Africa!"
\_ Mishima: Making a speech before a crowd of mocking soldiers
\_ Star Trek II: KHAAAAAAAAAAN!!! KHAAAAAAAAAAAAN!!!!
\_ http://www.glarkware.com/securestore/c181846p16436648.2.html
\_ Sons of the Desert: The wives confronting Stan & Ollie at the end
\_ To the Limit: The sex scene where the nude Anna Nicole Smith is
humping slowly on top of Joey Travolta. I watched the movie twice
while masturbating, and in both times I couldn't hold myself but
cum when I saw that scene.
\_ Ok I'm interested now.
\_ The Ten Commandments: "His God, Is God."
\_ The shootout scene in the store from Repo Man. |
http://csua.com/feed/