One other great scene - Segal’s Unstoppable Killing Machine is working as a cook on the ship. He gets locked in a cooler, and yells “Get my pies out of the oven!” That, and Tommy Lee Jones.
“I can fly a helicopter!”
They really need to do a new version. Are there any decent movies of a Heinlein book?
The other great thing about Captain Ron is how Kurt Russell is wearing less clothing with each subsequent scene.
My nomination is Michael Keaton’s Multiplicity, which sucked sucked sucked. But it had one great little scene. He’s been making clones of himself, and in a scene straight out of Calvin and Hobbes, while he’s away, the clones make a clone of themselves. But the 2nd-gen clone is a little . . . off. The marble collection is incomplete. The 1st-gen clones explain: “You know how when you make a copy of a copy, and it’s not quite as sharp as the original?”
That line cracked us both the hell up, and it still does. Wouldn’t watch the whole movie again if you paid me, though.
Wasn’t that the ad copy for the movie, or something? As I recall it was that line that made me realize I didn’t ever want to see the movie, because it was essentially the whole plot.
Please, read the book. Take into account it was written at the height of the cold war, and sometimes Heinlein does not age well, but it is still a great book, way better than the movie.
People tend to dismiss kid movies, but there have been some great ones out there, which goes to demonstrate that you do not need to have blood or sex to have a good movie.
In ‘Way of the Gun’ Ryan Phillipe and Benicio del Toro are leaning against some dude’s car. They start getting yelled at by Sarah Silverman who is talking up how her boyfriend is gonna kick their asses. So the boyfriend is like, “Fuck now I have to get into a fight because my girl is talking smack.”, so he goes and gets in their faces, and she undercuts him over and over talking mad trash, so Ryan Phillipe decks her instead, because she’s the one actually trying to start shit. Sarah Silverman’s performance is great. As guilty as I feel about thinking a scene where a woman gets beaten by a man is hilarious, it’s hilarious. It’s the funniest performance by Sarah Silverman ever. It also has one of the best lines:
“Why don’t you shut that bitch up before I come over there, fuck a hole in her head and come some sense into her.”
A guilty pleasure, but Sarah Silverman was being a trash talking cunt looking to get her boyfriend jacked up.
It’s the first two minutes of the movie. You can stop it there.
“Shut that cunts mouth or I’ll come over there and fuckstart her head!”
For some reason though your version of it is cracking me up. Like a bad English to Japanese then back to English translation or something. No offense intended, honest.
Here’s the link, btw. NSFW unless you have headphones.
If Sister Act is on, I always try to flip back the channel in time to see Lauryn Hill singing “Joyful, Joyful”. Not that the whole movie sucks - that’s just the only part I am compelled to see. The rest is interesting and mildly amusing.
And then the song gets stuck in my head for long periods of time.
Like now.
I actually get stuck on what Neeson did just before that – figuring out in real time what was about to happen (possibly aided by his reading the script), and being able to suppress his emotional response in order to tell her what she absolutely needed to do:
Something like, “They’re going to grab you, and you’ll only have a few seconds, so yell out anything you can regarding what the men look like.”
Then, when she’s being dragged away, she yells something like, "Right hand, tattoo, moon!"Okay; maybe that stuff just happens in movies, but it really struck me.
I have shown this opening scene to more than 50 people. Everyone loves it. No one I have shown it to has ever seen more than another 20 minutes of the movie before they let me turn it off. I have loaned it to 3 people; none of them finished it.
Probably the best opening scene for an action movie, ever… but the whole rest of the movie sucks ass.
No, you missed a wonderfully stupid movie. Fawgawdsake!, they played twister with Death!! Now Death isn’t funny anymore now that The Family Guy has Death as a pal, but back when Death played chess with Max Von Sydow for his soul in The Seventh Seal, and it was boring but the high point of an artsy movie, this was pure gold I tells ya! Maybe I’m thinking of Totally Bogus Journey.
For my own contribution, Super Troopers was thoroughly dull and predictable except for the opening sequence, which was piss my pants funny.