Favorite movie moment?

[SallyMander]

This is mine... :loveya:

"Why shouldn't I work for the N.S.A.? That's a tough one, but I'll give it a shot.

Say I'm working at N.S.A. Somebody puts a code on my desk, something nobody else can break. So I take a shot at it and maybe I break it. And I'm real happy with myself, 'cause I did my job well. But maybe that code was the location of some rebel army in North Africa or the Middle East. Once they have that location, they bomb the village where the rebels were hiding and fifteen hundred people I never met, never had a problem with get killed. Now the politicians are sayin', "Send in the marines to secure the area" 'cause they don't give a shit. It won't be their kid over there, gettin' shot. Just like it wasn't them when their number was called, 'cause they were pullin' a tour in the National Guard. It'll be some guy from Southie takin' shrapnel in the ass. And he comes home to find that the plant he used to work at got exported to the country he just got back from. And the guy who put the shrapnel in his ass got his old job, 'cause he'll work for fifteen cents a day and no bathroom breaks. Meanwhile, he realizes the only reason he was over there in the first place was so we could install a government that would sell us oil at a good price. And of course the oil companies used the little skirmish over there to scare up domestic oil prices. A cute little ancillary benefit for them, but it ain't helping my buddy at two-fifty a gallon. They're takin' their sweet time bringin' the oil back, and maybe even took the liberty of hiring an alcoholic skipper who likes to drink martinis and play slalom with the icebergs, and it ain't too long 'til he hits one, spills the oil and kills all the sea life in the North Atlantic. So now my buddy's out of work and he can't afford to drive, so he's walking to his fucking job interviews, which sucks 'cause the shrapnel in his ass is givin' him chronic hemorrhoids. And meanwhile he's starvin' 'cause every time he tries to get a bite to eat the only blue plate special they're servin' is North Atlantic scrod with Quaker State.

So what do I think? I'm holdin' out for somethin' better. I figure forget it, while I'm at it, why not just shoot my buddy, take his job and give it to his sworn enemy, hike up gas prices, bomb a village, club a baby seal, hit the hash pipe and join the National Guard? I could be elected president."


GOOD WILL HUNTING, 1997, in case you're living under a rock ;)

[ghostsofgiants]

1. Good scene.

But my favourite has to be this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JG7znh49a44

[XemaSab]

3. Not half as cool as the scene with the videotape.

That has to be the most shit-eatingly scary scene of all time.

[krispos42]

21. Sufficiently intrigued to put it in my NetFlix queue n/t

[lost-in-nj]

2. OH there you are Peter.....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BvxolmUOxP4&feature=related

HOOK

and this

the BEST ENDING OF A MOVIE EVER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Powder

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IYDb5IGY7IA


I could not find the instrumental.....
it is actually better than this........

omg


lost

[Richardo]

4. Mine really IS a moment...

The 3-million-year jump cut in 2001: A Space Odyssey.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WrdCC9ZHhwY

[ghostsofgiants]

7. That's a match cut not a jump cut.

:P

[Richardo]

8. :oP

:D

[ghostsofgiants]

9. I'm a film nerd, what can I say? Haha.

[Richardo]

10. The wiki article I lifted it from even calls it a match cut

:eyes: So much for my reading comprehension.

[ghostsofgiants]

12. Haha!

Jump cuts are supposed to eschew continuity while match cuts create continuity, such as in that 2001 scene.

[Capn Sunshine]

5. The End of "The Ususal Suspects " was the first thing that came to mind

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZJ9x2i2imk8

[CaliforniaPeggy]

6. My dear SallyMander!

My favorite movie scene?

The ending of "The Shawshank Redemption"!

It gives me chills just thinking about it....

A wonderful movie, if you've never seen it!

:hi:

[Omphaloskepsis]

11. Office Space fax machine scene..

http://blistersandscabs.imeem.com/video/RZiwsATu/office_space_rage_against_the_fax_machine_comedy_video/

[ghostsofgiants]

13. Fuck yes.

I remember when GirlinContempt had a clip from that as an animated GIF in her signature and people would always freak out thinking it was someone beating up another person, haha. Good times.

I love Samir's dancing at the end. The windmill cracks me up every time.

[Omphaloskepsis]

16. I remember that too.

I was outraged at the outrage.

[ghostsofgiants]

18. I was thoroughly amused at the outrage.

I've had people get upset about my signatures too, it's hilarious.

[fizzgig]

24. shit yeah

there's a printer at work that i swear i'm going to do that to when i leave this job

[Omphaloskepsis]

25. Have a blessed day..

God will fix your printer.. Or god doesn't want your printer to work. You win either way..

Crap, I can't find my smokes. Fuck. Hey, god, were did you leave my cigarette's?

[Inchworm]

14. and when it comes to a relationship- I'm 100%

If I'm with you.. I'm with you.. I dont want anyone else...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S1aPwGFNJSs

Once again... 2am and I'm all schmoopie...

[JVS]

15. Fargin War

[billyskank]

17. The "bean scene" in Blazing Saddles.

[ghostsofgiants]

20. That's probably my least favourite scene in that movie.

Though it's still pretty damn funny scene, haha.

[billyskank]

22. I must have killed more people than Cecil B. DeMille.

[pokerfan]

19. My favorite scene from GWH

Regret:
http://www.youtube.com/v/jg_9FQk6UnA&rel=1

And here's the NSA interview (which is also great):
http://www.youtube.com/v/sdzdgm_pfRM&rel=1

Another great scene where Will shows up some jerk in a Harvard bar:
http://www.youtube.com/v/ymsHLkB8u3s&rel=1

Great film.

[krispos42]

23. "Jaws"... the USS Indianapolis monologue by Quint

Great movie, and I have an interest in both World War Two and the Navy.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=USnM-ee06pg&feature=related

[tainted_chimp]

26. Christopher Walken - dancing and stripping

from-- Pennies From Heaven -- (1981)


http://youtube.com/watch?v=Y7rseCwM9mU&feature=related

[GalleryGod]

27. My Hero, General Hal Moore speaking to Sgt. Major Basil Plumley

my other real-life,Hero..

MOORE: "I wonder what Custer felt like when he realized he'd led his men into a slaughter ??"

PLUMLEY: " Sir...Custer was a pus-sy; you ain't !"






WE Were Soldiers Once...And Young.*


:patriot: Some of us watched it; some of us lived it.

[taterguy]

28. Susan Sarandon spilling wine on her blouse hanging out with Catherine Denuve in the Hunger

One of many movie moments that are my favorite

[momophile]

31. oops! guess I'll have to take this off! nt

[LanternWaste]

29. One of the last scenes of Schindler's List.

One of the last scenes of Schindler's List. Oskar's guilt overwhelms him and he begins to lament that he didn't do enough. Chokes me up every time.

[terrya]

30. I do like the "I"m as mad as hell and I'm not going to take it anymore" scene from "Network"

[Turbineguy]

32. The Great Race

when Professor Fate (disguised as a cowpoke) says "Not Yet!"

[Enrique]

33. the Stones listening to "Wild horses" in "Gimme Shelter"

sitting aroun the studio in Muscle Shoals listening to the recording they just finished.