# Just the good part
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-the-good-part/652102
**Category:** Cafe Society
**Created:** [March 5, 2013, 5:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-the-good-part/652102 "2013-03-05T17:58:13Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@DCnDC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DCnDC)
#### Post date: [March 5, 2013, 5:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-the-good-part/652102/1 "2013-03-05T17:58:13Z")
Pick a movie. Any movie. Or maybe a TV series, if you like. New, old, good movie, bad movie, doesn’t matter.
Tell me about just the good part, the **best** part, be it a single line, a whole scene, an action sequence, a dialogue exchange, whatever it is you consider to be the best part of the movie.
Examples:
_Titanic_ - I’ve not actually ever seen this movie, but I have seen clips and if I had to guess, I would have to imagine the best part of this movie is when the boat sinks.
_The Hot Spot_ - when Jennifer Connelly is topless at the waterin’ hole (duh!).
_The Karate Kid_ - the entire training section of the movie (Wax on, wax off!).
_Bullitt_ - the chase scene (again, duh!).
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### Author:  [@ministryman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ministryman)
#### Post date: [March 5, 2013, 7:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-the-good-part/652102/2 "2013-03-05T19:04:32Z")
\*Se7en \*- WHEN Gwyneth Paltrow loses her head. It gets funnier and funnier every time I see it.
_Red -_ Bruce Willis firing at Karl Urban while the car he is in is still in motion.
_Red -_ John Malkovich wasting a CIA/NSA agent.
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### Author:  [@QuickSilver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/QuickSilver)
#### Post date: [March 5, 2013, 7:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-the-good-part/652102/3 "2013-03-05T19:44:06Z")
Boondock Saints:
- jumping off the roof with the toilet
- coming through the ceiling shooting
- cotterizing wounds with iron
(so many others)
Layer Cake:
- Daniel Craig at construction site
Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels:
- ALL OF IT
Snatch:
- Scene at gypsy camp
Rock’n’Rolla:
- Lowered into tank tied to a chair
Ice Harvest:
- dropping trunk into frozen lake
Eastern Promises:
- sauna scene
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### Author:  [@muldoonthief](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/muldoonthief)
#### Post date: [March 5, 2013, 8:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-the-good-part/652102/4 "2013-03-05T20:09:12Z")
Goodfellas (discounting the fact that the good part is essentially from the first line to the final line)
- the entire sequence from when Henry first starts getting paranoid about the helicopters, until the cop puts a gun to his head and arrests him.
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### Author:  [@GrandWino](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GrandWino)
#### Post date: [March 5, 2013, 8:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-the-good-part/652102/5 "2013-03-05T20:23:45Z")
> [@DCnDC](#):
>
> _Titanic_ - I’ve not actually ever seen this movie, but I have seen clips and if I had to guess, I would have to imagine the best part of this movie is when the boat sinks.
Incorrect. The answer we were looking for is “Kate Winslet naked.”
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### Author:  [@DCnDC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DCnDC)
#### Post date: [March 5, 2013, 8:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-the-good-part/652102/6 "2013-03-05T20:25:25Z")
> [@Bob Ducca](#):
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> Incorrect. The answer we were looking for is “Kate Winslet naked.”
Touché.
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### Author:  [@Smeghead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smeghead)
#### Post date: [March 5, 2013, 8:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-the-good-part/652102/7 "2013-03-05T20:25:30Z")
Equilibrium: the end. The final climactic fight scene, from the interview with the lie detector sort of thingy up to the end credits, was fantastic.
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### Author:  [@fiddlesticks](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fiddlesticks)
#### Post date: [March 5, 2013, 8:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-the-good-part/652102/8 "2013-03-05T20:53:40Z")
_The Sopranos_: When Tony kills the rat informant in the first season episode _College_.
_Six Feet Under_: The last five minutes of the last episode. Geez, it’s very dusty in here…
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### Author:  [@ministryman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ministryman)
#### Post date: [March 5, 2013, 9:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-the-good-part/652102/9 "2013-03-05T21:35:55Z")
> [@DCnDC](#):
>
> Touché.
Me Touchee too…😃
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### Author:  [@etv78](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/etv78)
#### Post date: [March 5, 2013, 9:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-the-good-part/652102/10 "2013-03-05T21:51:12Z")
_Criminal Minds_:
Reid: Hotch I was a 12 year old in a Las Vegas high school, you kick like a 9-year-old girl.
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### Author:  [@Sauron](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sauron)
#### Post date: [March 5, 2013, 9:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-the-good-part/652102/11 "2013-03-05T21:54:31Z")
\*Casino Royale \*(the latest one) - the opening chase sequence. That nine minutes lets you know the James Bond franchise has just been rebooted.
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### Author:  [@Morbo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morbo)
#### Post date: [March 5, 2013, 10:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-the-good-part/652102/12 "2013-03-05T22:05:39Z")
_Constantine_: Peter Stormare’s scene as the devil.
_Absence of Malice_: the scene where Wilford Brimley shows up and lays down the law on everyone
_Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon_: the scene at the bar when whatshername has the Green Dragon and kicks the crap out of everybody
_The Italian Job_: [This](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jYXR_f_EoJI&feature=player_detailpage#t=45s) scene - Seth Green pretends to be Handsome Rob
_Casino Royale_: “How was the lamb?” “Skewered. One sympathizes.”
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### Author:  [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)
#### Post date: [March 5, 2013, 10:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-the-good-part/652102/13 "2013-03-05T22:07:37Z")
“You shall not pass!”
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### Author:  [@ExTank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ExTank)
#### Post date: [March 5, 2013, 10:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-the-good-part/652102/14 "2013-03-05T22:19:11Z")
_Firefly_ - [Darn.](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NPRlHwwVIug)
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### Author:  [@Ethilrist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ethilrist)
#### Post date: [March 5, 2013, 10:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-the-good-part/652102/15 "2013-03-05T22:22:05Z")
At the end of Cinderella, after her clumsy step-sister has broken the glass slipper… “But your Excellency… I have the _other_ glass slipper.”
At the end of LadyHawke, when Michelle Pfeiffer walks up to the bishop who cursed her and hands him her jesses.
In The Incredibles, when the kids realize that they are true superheroes–Dash running on water, Violet standing behind her forcefield and laughing at the guy with the machine gun…
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### Author:  [@fiddlesticks](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fiddlesticks)
#### Post date: [March 5, 2013, 10:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-the-good-part/652102/16 "2013-03-05T22:23:32Z")
Fargo: “We’re not a bank, Jerry…”
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### Author:  [@Athena](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Athena)
#### Post date: [March 6, 2013, 12:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-the-good-part/652102/17 "2013-03-06T00:33:27Z")
From Dusk Till Dawn [Salma Hayek’s dance](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UYxxgvA8rlM). And I’m a straight chick!
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### Author:  [@DCnDC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DCnDC)
#### Post date: [March 6, 2013, 4:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-the-good-part/652102/18 "2013-03-06T04:10:23Z")
_No Country for Old Men_ - “Call it, friend-o.”
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### Author:  [@gigi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gigi)
#### Post date: [March 6, 2013, 5:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-the-good-part/652102/19 "2013-03-06T05:03:23Z")
“Is anyone here a marine biologist?”
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### Author:  [@Becky2844](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Becky2844)
#### Post date: [March 6, 2013, 5:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-the-good-part/652102/20 "2013-03-06T05:21:22Z")
In _Winter’s Bone_, Jennifer Lawrence’s character is showing her little brother how to clean a squirrel. She sticks her thumb into the slit cut in the squirrel’s belly and starts thumbing out the “lights.” (Innards.) Her brother asks her, “Do we eat that?”
As the intestines drop to the ground she says, “Not yet.”
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