Baldwin, see post 61. I don’t know for sure that’s the one, but …
No worries, Larry. We’re all in the same boat with that quote. 
Oooh, yeah that’s creepy- “There is no medicine for what I have.” :eek:
And then that fucking empty teacup on it’s side…
Steve Buscemi is pretty versatile, really. His characters are almost always slightly excentric or off-beat, but still with a lot of variation. Compare Con Air to Reservoir Dogs or Ghost World, for example.
Funny lookin’ guy.
We’re gonna need a bigger boat.
Uh-huh. In what way?
Just generally.
It’s worth noting that this scene is accurate, and not made up for dramatic purposes. Every reentering capsule is out of radio contact for a while because of the brick of superheated air its pushing; Apollo 13 had a longer blackout than any other Apollo mission, probably because it came into the atmosphere at a slightly shallower angle than they usually did.
See ya’ll bring up Glengarry Glen Ross and I don’t even think that’s the scene that saves the movie. It would be a LOT less enjoyable without Alec Baldwin’s “Coffee is for closers”.
That’s a good one, but that scene sets up the movie. The Lemmon/Spacey scene makes it.
knew this was one way ticket but you know i had to come
love you wife
Gung Ho. Throughout the film, we keep seeing American culture clashing with Japanese culture, American work ethic with Japanese work ethic, American social mores with Japanese social mores, and so forth. Finally, late in the film, Michael Keaton (foreman) fights with Gedde Watanabe (plant manager). Their guys pull them apart, and from across the room, Keaton yells, “Hey, if you guys are so great, how come you lost the Big One?!”
Watanabe has no answer, but the look on his face speaks volumes.
Zombieing this thread to wonder aloud… Put the phone call mini-monologue on the cutting room floor… is Taken a bomb instead of a hit?
Well, as a man named Harry married to a woman named Sally (really), I would think there’s only one scene in the movie “…when Harry met Sally” that people remember and quote to us when they first hear our names.
What, no “Leave her alone, you bitch!”?
I’ll help this zombie along with a pair of mid-movie scenes. Both of the films are awesome all around but these scenes really make the film. the first because is says so much about the characters in the scene and the second because it’s such an unexpected revelation.
-Little Bill telling W.W. Beauchamp the truth about English Bob and that night at the Blue Bottle Saloon in Unforgiven.
-The Father watching the videotape from his late daughter in The Sixth Sense.
How funny, I was thinking of this very movie as I read down the thread, but actually for a completely different scene: the one at the end. Sometimes my wife and I borrow an exact quote from George Clooney in that scene…
Tombstone was the first movie that came to mind. (Copying and pasting the quote for accuracy and effect) The crescendo on this scene is enormous. Always gives me chills.
Wyatt Earp: All right, Clanton… you called down the thunder, well now you’ve got it! You see that?
[pulls open his coat, revealing a badge]
Wyatt Earp: It says United States Marshal!
Ike Clanton: [terrified, pleading] Wyatt, please, I…
Wyatt Earp: [referring to Stilwell, laying dead] Take a good look at him, Ike… 'cause that’s how you’re gonna end up!
[shoves Ike down roughly with his boot]
Wyatt Earp: The Cowboys are finished, you understand? I see a red sash, I kill the man wearin’ it!
[lets Ike up to run for his life]
Wyatt Earp: So run, you cur… RUN! Tell all the other curs the law’s comin’!
[shouts]
Wyatt Earp: You tell 'em I’M coming… and hell’s coming with me, you hear?..
[louder]
Wyatt Earp: Hell’s coming with me!
I think the best part of that scene gets underappreciated. Robert Shaw gets to tell the story and he makes the most of it. But it was Richard Dreyfuss who set it up.
Remember that the three of them had been drinking and telling jokes. Then Quint mentions his Indianapolis tattoo. Hooper suddenly drops all his laughing and asks “You were on the Indianapolis?”
Quint hasn’t told his story yet. But from Hooper’s reaction to the mere mention of the name, we know it’s going to be bad.
A great but sorely underappreciated movie. Easily one of my favourites.
The scene you describe is very impressive indeed but the one that haunts me is Harker’s arrival at the Castle. Whole rooms engulfed in ominous darkness. A couple of awkward sentences. Silence. Wolves howling in the distance. Silence. Creepy clock striking midnight. Silence.
Then, Harker accidentally cuts himself with a knife. The look on Nosferatu’s face… you can see the struggle between his immense hunger and the desperate necessity of trying to keep himself together. He looks the other way but is overcome by his lust for blood.
It’s at 6:40 in this excerpt but the whole scene is worth watching even if it’s in German without subtitles:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hVTNFUfogTY
Klaus Kinski was an amazing actor.