BEING THERE is on tv again tonight. Great movie. But there is one moment I’ve always got a kick out of.
Chance has just been picked up by the Shirley Maclaine character. There is a television in the car, so they watch it. They end up on a channel showing a music video for Cheech and Chong’s “Basketball Jones”. They watch this ridiculous (and highly stereotyped) video, and it is played out in the context of the movie. The rising chorus of the video is juxtapositioned with Chance’s entry into the halls of power.
The moment is played out in all seriousness, yet it’s still “Basketball Jones” that they are listening to. I still think it’s pretty funny.
I liked the whole movie, as silly as it was. But I think the funniest part was when the Ben Stiller character was in the bathroom “preparing” for his date, and then couldn’t find his output - but she did…and mistook it for hair gel.
The part in ‘May’ where the blind children are crawling across the broken glass. It wasn’t really shot for laughs, but I could not stop laughing, maybe it was a defense mechanism.
There’s no polite way to refer to the Dennis Hopper and Christopher Walken scene in True Romance except to say it has to be one of the pinnacles of movie power.
And Redford’s line in Butch & Sundance: “Think you used enough dynamite there, Butch?”
And in anotherwise so-so movie, the scene in the Rutger Hauer Wanted: Dead or Alive where he’s captured Gene Simmons’s character and stuffed a grenade in his mouth and walked him down to the place where the cops are waiting and after a moment’s thought he says, “Fuck the bonus” and pulls the pin on the grenade.
In “Signs” when Mel Gibson’s brother (?) gives a speech to the whole family in the car that goes something like, “All those UFO nuts are guys who can’t get girlfriends who have nothing better to do…blah, blah ect…” and he goes on discounting UFO nuts. Then the little girl asks “Why can’t they get girlfriends?”
I couldn’t stop laughing. She was just sooo cute, and her little mind got stuck at the ‘girlfriends’ part and missed the whole jist of the guy’s rant.
The Usual Suspects
Kevin Pollack, during the lineup, in a complete, straight-laced voice, “Hand me the keys, you fucking cocksucker.”
The Big Lebowski
People have broken into the Dude’s apt, smashing his stereo all to pieces and the Dude musters enough concern to say, while taking a bubble bath, mind you, “Hey, man…this is like a private residence.”
Damn near every scene in Blazing Saddles but the best moment for me (having had older brothers) is when Bart goes in the saloon and Mongo has everybody pinned against the wall** with the piano!**
In Slapshot, when the Hansons take to the ice for the first time and the organist gets a puck to the noggin!
South Park: Bigger, Longer, Uncut- the scene in the cafeteria when Mr. Mackey makes the announcement about the ban on Terrance and Phillip clothing. Priceless!
Most of my other “entertaining moments” involve rape scenes and I won’t list them here or someone may think I’m a sick-o!
Oh, damn!
Somebodys gotta go back and git a shitload of dimes!
Unforgiven
The Schofield Kid admits (after killing some guy) that he has never killed anybody before, to witch Bill Munny replies (completely dead pan): “Well, you sure killed the hell outta that guy.”
