Favorite movie scene

Thanks for reminding me of "It's a Gift." One of the funniest freaking movies of all time.

The grocery store scene with the blind Mr. Muckle and Baby Leroy is side-splitting. So, for that matter, is the scene of Fields trying to catch some zzzz's on the back porch and all the interruptions. Bowling ball included.

And BTW, it's Bisson-ay, not Bisson-ette!

 

Best scene from 'White Heat':

Cody Jarrett: [while eating a chicken leg, Jarrett speaks to Parker in the trunk of the sedan] How ya doin', Parker?
Roy Parker: It's stuffy in here, I need some air.
Cody Jarrett: Oh, stuffy, huh? I'll give ya a litte air.
[pulls a gun from his pants and shoots four times into the trunk]

 

"Seen the new Playboy?"

 

Animal House: "Thank You God!"

Poltergeist: "You ONLY MOVED THE TOMBSTONES!!!!!"

Silver Streak: "I CAN'T BE BLACK!!!!"

 

Saw it last night...
The deadpan on John Vernon's face when Tim Matheson's golf ball comes through the window and breaks the water decanter on his desk in Animal House.

 

I watched it for the first time in about a year over the weekend . . . it's still one of the two great
movie comedies of the post-Vietnam era (with the South Park movie being the other). And
AH has it all over the South Park in terms of the origination of classic lines. "Eric Stratton, rush
chairman, damn glad to meet you" is ever-useful.

 

"That was Eric Stratton, rush chairman. He was damn glad to meet you."

I've probably mentioned this before, but "Animal House" was shot at the University of Oregon, my alma mater, and I worked in TV news in Eugene for 5 years after graduation. I once shot an interview with the university president in his office. About midway through the interview I looked around and realized that it really was Dean Wormer's office. I was standing on the exact spot where the horse keeled over and died.

 

ALVY'S FATHER
Let 'im drop dead! Who needs his
business?!

ALVY'S MOTHER
His wife has diabetes!

ALVY'S FATHER
Di-diabetes? Is that any excuse?
Diabetes?

 

From the same movie, but I was always a big fan of the scene when Mickey shows up at Rocky's apartment and tries to sell himself as his trainer, after tossing him aside earlier in the movie. Decent mix of emotion and a little bit of humor, when Rocky comes out of the bathroom after thinking Mick left (he came back in because he forgot his hat), only to see him still there, so he went back into the bathroom. Then, Rocky starts yelling and punching the wall, mad because Mickey didn't give him the time of day when he needed him . . . then after nearly punching a hole in the wall, realizes he needed him and runs out to grab him. To me, that summed up Rocky's character best . . . strong but simple, driven but needy. Without that character development throughout the first movie (which made it painfully slow at times), the series suffers, IMO.

 

So I just got done watching the extended editions of the Lord of the Rings (three movies, 13.5 hours over four days) and, god, I love this freaking movie.
Got me thinking about my favorite movie scene of all-time (and when I searched for a thread I found this.)
After MUCH thought and debate, I have decided that this is my favorite scene in any movie I've ever seen.


Ever. No exaggeration. The fight between Eowyn and the Witch King gets me on the edge of my seat EVERY single time I see it and, I know this sounds corny, but every time the exchange above happens, I want to stand and scream like my team just won the freaking Super Bowl. I love this movie and this scene is the best scene I've ever seen. I could watch it a million times.

Witch King: "You fool! No man can kill me!"
{Merry stabs him, Eowyn takes her helmet off)
Eowyn: "I am no man!!!!"

Me: F*****KKKKKK YEAH!!!!!!!!!!

 

Actually, at the end of the epic 14th round in the original Rocky, when Rocky pulls himself up by the ropes and tells Apollo, "C'mon!", according to the book, Apollo bows his head and slumps his shoulders, not because he knows he's in trouble, but because he doesn't want to hit Rocky anymore.

 

I never thought Apollo felt he was in trouble, it was just a feeling of resignation and disbelief: "I can't beat this guy no matter what I do; he won't stay down."