Favorite movie scene

Annie, there's a big lobster behind the refrigerator. I can't get it out. This thing's heavy. Maybe if I put a little dish of butter sauce here with a nutcracker, it will run out the other side.

 

Best scene in that wonderful movie is:
Doctor in Brooklyn: Why are you depressed, Alvy?
Alvy's Mom: Tell Dr. Flicker.
[Young Alvy sits, his head down - his mother answers for him]
Alvy's Mom: It's something he read.
Doctor in Brooklyn: Something he read, huh?
Alvy at 9: [his head still down] The universe is expanding.
Doctor in Brooklyn: The universe is expanding?
Alvy at 9: Well, the universe is everything, and if it's expanding, someday it will break apart and that would be the end of everything!
Alvy's Mom: What is that your business?
[she turns back to the doctor]
Alvy's Mom: He stopped doing his homework!
Alvy at 9: What's the point?
Alvy's Mom: What has the universe got to do with it? You're here in Brooklyn! Brooklyn is not expanding!
Doctor in Brooklyn: It won't be expanding for billions of years yet, Alvy. And we've gotta try to enjoy ourselves while we're here!

 

My other favorite scene from "Falling Down" is when the gangbangers try to kill him in a driveby, only they end up shooting some innocent people and they crash the car trying to get away. Douglas walks up to the crash site, where one guy is still alive in his own blood on the pavement. Douglas grabs the gun, looks right in the guy's eyes, and says, "You missed."

 

The scene where Douglas kills the guy in the army surplus store was well done, too. Even though he was on that evil mission, he doesn't actually kill anyone up to that point. He's still a sort of anti-hero. Then in a matter of moments he kills the Neo-Nazi, trades in his white shirt for the black combat outfit (a nice, subtle touch of symbolism) and we find out why he's really been trekking across L.A.
In that one scene he becomes the bad guy and goes from the hero of the film to the villain. It's a well-done twist "ending" that occurs with 20 or 30 minutes left in the movie.

 

See, to me that "twist" kills the movie. For the first 3/4 of the film he's Everyman, driven past the breaking point by the aggravations of everyday life in the big city. Then in the end it's like they chickened out and said "well, he's really kind of a bad man with problems at home, and he really shouldn't be picking on these poor people." I HATE the ending 20 - 30 minutes.

 

Two from Shawshank: The one where the warden commits suicide ("I'd like to think that the last thing to go through the warden's mind -- other than that bullet -- was to wonder how in the hell Andy Dufresne ever got the best of him."

And the hayfield next to the rock wall, when Red digs up Andy's tin box.

 

OK, I scanned the entire thread, thought I didn't read it word for word. With that disclosure, I'll say this: I'm stunned that Major League seems to be getting more love on this thread than Bull Durham, from which I give you this:

ANNIE
What do you believe in?

CRASH
I believe in the soul, the cock,
the pussy, the small of a woman's
back, the hanging curve ball,
high fiber, good scotch, long
foreplay, show tunes, and that
the novels of Susan Sondheim are
self-indulgent, overrated crap.
(beat)
I believe that Lee Harvey Oswald
acted alone, I believe that there
oughtta be a constitutional
amendment outlawing astro-turf
and the designated hitter, I
believe in the "sweet spot", voting
every election, soft core
pornography, chocolate chip
cookies, opening your presents on
Christmas morning rather than
Christmas eve, and I believe in
long, slow, deep, soft, wet kisses
that last for 7 days.

ANNIE
(breathless)
Oh my...

 

Obviously, given his later works, Costner was full of shit in this scene.

 

"Go on out and get some air, Fatso!"

 

It's funny how "the cock and the pussy" always gets left out when they show clips of that speech and make Crash seem like such a romantic guy.

 

A few of mine that somehow haven't been mentioned:

The scene early in "Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid," where Lurch (don't remember the character's name) challenged Butch for leader of the Hole in the Wall gang: "Rules? In a knife fight?"

The scene in Stark Trek 4, when Kirk and Spock return to the 20th century and they get on the cable car with a dude blasting headbanger rock from a boom box, until Spock shuts him up with that Vulcan shoulder move he used to knock people out. Kirk's line is classic: "Too much LDS at Berkeley."

And a sentimental favorite from a great, but not well-known film, The Great Santini: The porch scene after Santini is killed, where Blythe Danner, who played his long-suffering wife, sits her kids down and tells them, "we will cry now, today, but tomorrow at the funeral, we will not cry. He wouldn't have permitted it and neither will I."