My wife, Jade- the only REAL Burnt™ absinthe- the only REAL Burnt™ absinthe- the only REAL Burnt™ absinthe, and I have been talking about the best single scenes from movies. My all time favorite so far is from Jaws. When Quint tells the story of the USS Indianapolis and his time in the water. He does a monologue for a good 2 or 3 minutes, there is nothing else, no action, yet the scene never gets old.

Edit: My wife’s name is Jade- the only REAL Burnt™ absinthe- the only REAL Burnt™ absinthe, she is neither absinthe, nor burnt. Hah!

Hooper (Richard Dreyfuss): You were on the Indianapolis?
Brody (Roy Scheider): What happened?
Quint: Japanese submarine slammed two torpedoes into our side, chief. It was comin' back, from the island of Tinian Delady, just delivered the bomb. The Hiroshima bomb.

Eleven hundred men went into the water. Vessel went down in twelve minutes. Didn't see the first shark for about a half an hour. Tiger. Thirteen footer. You know, you know that when you're in the water, chief? You tell by lookin' from the dorsal to the tail. Well, we didn't know.

`Cause our bomb mission had been so secret, no distress signal had been sent. Huh huh. They didn't even list us overdue for a week.

Very first light, chief. The sharks come cruisin'. So we formed ourselves into tight groups. You know it's... kinda like `ol squares in battle like a, you see on a calendar, like the battle of Waterloo. And the idea was, the shark would go for nearest man and then he'd start poundin' and hollerin' and screamin' and sometimes the shark would go away.
Sometimes he wouldn't go away. Sometimes that shark, he looks right into you. Right into your eyes. You know the thing about a shark, he's got...lifeless eyes, black eyes, like a doll's eye. When he comes at ya, doesn't seem to be livin'. Until he bites ya and those black eyes roll over white. And then, ah then you hear that terrible high pitch screamin' and the ocean turns red and spite of all the poundin' and the hollerin' they all come in and rip you to pieces.

Y'know by the end of that first dawn, lost a hundred men! I don't know how many sharks, maybe a thousand! I don't know how many men, they averaged six an hour. On Thursday mornin' chief, I bumped into a friend of mine, Herbie Robinson from Cleveland. Baseball player, bosom's mate. I thought he was asleep, reached over to wake him up. Bobbed up and down in the water, just like a kinda top. Up ended. Well... he'd been bitten in half below the waist.

Noon the fifth day, Mr. Hooper, a Lockheed Ventura saw us, he swung in low and he saw us. He'd a young pilot, a lot younger than Mr. Hooper, anyway he saw us and come in low. And three hours later a big fat PBY comes down and start to pick us up. You know that was the time I was most frightened? Waitin' for my turn. I'll never put on a lifejacket again. So, eleven hundred men went in the water, three hundred and sixteen men come out, the sharks ttook the rest, June the 29, 1945. Anyway, we delivered the bomb.

Jennifer Connolly - ass to ass.

Too many words.

Sorry, mang.

Ouch.

What movie?

I actually prefer the few minutes leading up to that scene, Snake.

Requiem For a Dream.

And I agree wholeheartedly.

WOWZERS!

There I made it a bit more readable rimmy.

Thanks.

Now I can put my eyeballs back in their sockets.

The tatoos/scars exchange?

I agree thats a good one, I see it as build up for the story though.

Interesting fact (to me anyway): No one could quite write that scene the way they thought it should be. Finnaly Robert Shaw said he would take a shot at writing it. It was his version that they did, and he did it in two takes, one as he was drunk (untill apparantly he was too drunk to focus) and the other the next day sober. They use bits of both takes in the movie.

Yeah, that's the one.

I had to think about my favorite movie scenes.
One of my all-time favorites is in How to Kill Your Neighbor's Dog.
There's a grate exchange between Daniel Stern and Kenneth Branagh at an LA costume party.

Although I'm sure this means nothing to any of you since I know no one else who has seen that film.

Exorcist 3, helicopter passes over the church. That's the scene.

The last 20 minutes of Scarface.

I could watch that everyday and not get tired of it.

DG

Mainstream yea,
but the beach landing in Saving Private Ryan is pretty good.

jodie foster on the pinball machine.

The dinner scene in "Eraserhead."

Divine, Dog Xit.

the forest fire in Bambi

Photo booth scene from Buffalo '66.

gwenyth's head in a box in seven.

The "like a spring rain" scene from Bloodsucking Pharaohs in Pittsburgh.



Yes, Netflix has it if you don't have a REAL video store in your town.

Incest scene at the end of The Cement Garden.

yeah, the ones in flowers in the attic & color purple are hot too.

Kevin Spacey walking away at the end of Usual Suspects.

The Knife throwing sequence in Gangs of New York where Daniel Day Lewis throws knives at Cameron Diaz.

The last fight in Raging Bull.

The bigwheel scene in the Shining where Danny meets the twins.

The scene in Goodfellas where the camera follows them through the back door of the restaurant.

Jim Carrey leaving the beach house at the end of Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind.

The bourbon scene in Leaving Las Vegas.

The crossing the street scene in Toy Story 2.

Uma Thurman punching out of the coffin in Kill Bill 2.

The end of the Bicycle Thief.

Harry Caul ripping up his apartment in The Conversation.

Ed Norton getting his face smashed up by Barry Pepper in the 25th Hour.

Jake Gyllenhaal & Jena Malone walking down the stairs after making out while "Under the Milky Way" is playing in Donnie Darko.

"I came" at the end of Happiness.

Kim Novak falling off the bell tower at the end of Vertigo.

The "my name is Dick!" dinner scene in Rules of Attraction.

The forest scene in Miller's Crossing.

The masturbation scene in Mulholland Drive.

The masturbation scene in Wong Kar Wai's "Fallen Angels".

Zissou's team storming the beach in The Life Aquatic.

Anthony Hopkins finding the Elephant Man for the first time in The Elephant Man.

And last but not least, Jodie Foster in the basement in the dark with Buffalo Bill behind her in Silence of the Lambs.

good call on "i came" and "my name is dick".

I laughed so hard in the "My name is Dick!" scene I nearly puked.

same here.

the few short scenes with him are unforgettable.

"DRUNK!"

IIIIIIM DRUNK!

Britt Ekland’s ritual dance in “The Wicker Man”.

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Looky here (NOT work-safe).

I’ll have to watch that tonight.

burn burn like a wicker cabinet

I forgot a few.

--The Private Pyle bathroom scene in Full Metal Jacket

--The guy getting his head crushed with a fire extinguisher in Irreversible

--The kitten saying "my owner put me in a bag and threw me in the river" in Babe: Pig in the City

--Elizabeth Pena dirty dancing with the demon in Jacob's Ladder

--The babysitter hanging herself in The Omen "Damian, look up here! It's all for you, Damian!"

--Haley Joel Osment getting stabbed to death in "Pay it Forward"

Bridget Fonda getting shot in Jackie Brown.
Although I would have preferred to actually see her head explode.

I hate Bridget Fonda and I have no idea why.

Briget Fonda getting done in the by DiNero.

I really like her, and Im guessing that scene is why.

Every character she's ever played has been someone I'd have to beat to death on principle.

pretty much.

but i'd still hit it.

Double ditto.

You'd hit anything, you sorry fucker.

Triple that ditto.

not true.

there's not enough money or booze to make me fuck you.

oh, wait, you said hit.

rimmy, can i borrow your wrath(th)?

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ass-whomp the asswhomp.

A few more...


Sonny Corleone gunned down at the toll booth The Godfather. "Look what they did to my boy."

The "unveiling" of Dirk Diggler in Boogie Nights. Heather Graham's unveiling, too.

Helicopters attacking the beach in Apocalypse Now. Da da...da da da daaaa da

Michael Madsen torturing the cop in Reservoir Dogs while dancing to Stuck in the Middle with You.

That kid running really fast in The Incredibles.

From The Blues Brothers, "It's a hundred and six miles to Chicago, we've got a full tank of gas, half a pack of cigarettes, it's dark, and we're wearing sunglasses."
"Hit it."

Aliens blowing shit up in Independence Day. It was cool in '96 at least.

Sharon Stone's leg cross in Basic Instinct.

Bronson Pinchot pulled over with uncut coke all over his face in True Romance.

Highway chase at the end of The Road Warrior.

Marisa Tomei's courtroom appearance in My Cousin Vinny. " 'Cause Chevy didn't make a 327 in '55, the 327 didn't come out till '63. And it wasn't offered in the Bel Air with a four-barrel carb till '64. However, in 1964, the correct ignition timing would be four degrees before top-dead-center."

John Belushi smashing that dude's guitar in Animal House.

Leo's frozen corpse sinking to the bottom of the Atlantic in Titanic.


And, of course, Christopher Walken's monologue in Pulp Fiction.
"...He'd be damned if any slopes were gonna put their greasy little yellow hands on his boy's birthright. So he hid it, in the only place he could hide something: his ass. Five long years he wore this watch up his ass. Before he died, of Dysentery, he gave me the watch. I hid this uncomfortable hunk of metal up my ass two years. After seven years, I was sent home to my family.
And now, little man, I give the watch to you."