What were your favorite moments or lines in the movies when you just knew something fun was gonna happen?
My pick for lines would have to be most anything said by Ash of Evil Dead. He’s got some of the best tough-guy lines ever.
“This…is my BOOMSTICK!!”
“Come get some!”
“Yo, she-bitch. Let’s go.”
“Lady, I’m afraid I’m gonna have to ask you to leave the store.” And so many more!
My favorite scene would be in Ghostbusters when the Marshmellow Man has just made his apperance. The footsteps, the roaring, the screaming people…wonderful.
Both The Phantom Menace and Attack of the Clones, neither of which are flawless movies, have amazing moments of this sort. Namely, when Darth Maul shows up in the doorway, and whips out the double-bladed light-sabre, and they all take off their cloaks, and you just KNOW that there’s gonna be an asskicking, and then when Yoda shows up to confront Dooku.
Superman II, when he returns to the trucker diner and kicks that guy’s ass.
“Oh - I’ve been…working out.”
Others:
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[li]“I’m your huckleberry.”[/li][li]The scene in Absence of Malice where Wilford Brimley walks in and hands everyone their asses.[/li][li]The scene in Dirty Harry when Scorpio has kidnapped the school bus and he sees Callahan standing on that bridge.[/li][li]“Play La Marseillaise!!” (I love that scene, gives me chills every time)[/li][/ul]
Ash-wise, my favorite woohoo! moment in Army of Darkness happens after our hero has been thrown into The Pit. He’s running around terrified, then the Wise Man appears. “Strange one! Strange one!!” and tosses down Ash’s chainsaw. Ash leaps up, right arm extended, and his stump connects to it with a wonderful clunk sound.
The theater very nearly had a standing ovation. The second-best scene was the first appearance of the steam-powered Deathmobile. “Say hello to the twenty-first century!”
Much more grim, but still sort of a woohoo moment, happened in Insomnia, when Pacino’s character agony of indecision finally ends, and the next scene is of him, gun in hand, moving down the hall towards William’s apartment.
In “Death to Smoochy” right near the end - Ed Norton’s character takes two shots to the padded rhino horn [back - and to the left] at an ice show for children. As he’s lying on the ice, the truth to the story becomes known, and he reaches under this sock, pulls out a pistol, and waving it above his head in one purple paw while trembling with rage, screams: “BUUUURKE!”
Yes, yes, yes! I pass that bridge every couple of months (it’s at Larkspur Landing, Marin County, California, about 10 miles north of San Francisco). As you are driving north, you get the same view that the camera shows us, from the point of view of Scorpio driving the school bus.
I cannot see the bridge without an accompanying image of Clint Eastwood standing on it, the Magnum .44 in his hand. At that point, you just know Scorpio’s a goner. He probably knows it too.
The wonderful., sublime opening scene from Butch Cassidy. As soon as the other guy says, “… I can’t see how you’re cheating”. At that split second, you know whatever happens next it’s going to be good.
Pulp Fiction has quite a few of these moments. When the Bruce Willis character is happily driving along, stops at the lights, and then he and Marcellus see each other at the same time…
Dooku–I loved that line. We live in Tucson, and just went to Tombstone a few weeks ago. After that, we had to rent the movie to see how closely it matched up. Val Kilmer was in rare form in that movie.
By the way, it was strange seeing a movie that was supposed to be just east of Tucson (in Tombstone), and was actually filmed just west of Tucson (at Old Tucson Studios.)
Guys, can we use the SPOILER tag if we’re going to talk about recent movies please?! :mad:
Antonius Block, I live in SF, a stone’s throw from Kezar Stadium, in fact. When my friends come to visit, they always want to go over there and recreate the scene when Clint steps on Scorpio’s injured ankle. It’s also impossible for me to go up to Mt. Davidson w/o laying at the bottom of the cross and looking up.
I’ll go ahead and add these classics:
“YA-HOO!!! You’re all clear kid, so let’s blow this thing and go home!”
“The force is with you, young Skywalker…[inhale…exhale]…but you are not a Jedi yet!”
…See I’ll never accept the line being “I’m YOUR huckleberry.” Mainly because it makes NO sense.
In my mind and in the mind of everyone else I know it is “I’m HERE Huckleberry.”
Since Ringo is looking around for Wyatt in the clearing. Thinking Earp’s a coward and knowing full well he is faster than him, Ringo looks pretty damn cocksure. Until Doc steps out.
The term “huckleberry” seems like a put down. Similar to Priestly’s effeminate “Sister-boy” character.
Can someone explain to me why Doc would say he is RINGO’S huckleberry?
Anyway… The final match in Diggstown with James Woods.
Thumbs down baby! That scene made everyone in the theater cheer.
“Huckleberry” was commonly used in the 1800’s in conjunction with “persimmon” as a small unit of measure. “I’m a huckleberry over your persimmon” meant “I’m just a bit better than you.” As a result, “huckleberry” came to denote idiomatically two things. First, it denoted a small unit of measure, a “tad,” as it were, and a person who was a huckleberry could be a small, unimportant person–usually expressed ironically in mock self-depreciation. The second and more common usage came to mean, in the words of the “Dictionary of American Slang: Second Supplemented Edition” (Crowell, 1975):
"A man; specif., the exact kind of man needed for a particular purpose. 1936: “Well, I’m your huckleberry, Mr. Haney.” Tully, “Bruiser,” 37. Since 1880, archaic.
So, when Ringo says “Isn’t anyone here man enough to play for blood?” Doc Holliday’s answer “I’m your huckleberry” means “I’m just the man you’re looking for.”
Mace Windu in Attack of the Clones: “This party’s over!”
William Wallace on horseback in Braveheart, “surrendering” after Murron’s execution, when we first see his hand close on the flail hidden under the plaid on his back as the English soldier reaches for the horse’s reins.
Worf in First Contact: “Assimilate this!”
And, of course, every one that’s been mentioned before this.
Will Munny: I’ve killed just about anything that walked or crawled at one time or another. And I’m here to kill you, Little Bill, for what you did to Ned.
It’s also impossible for me to go up to Mt. Davidson w/o laying at the bottom of the cross and looking up. 