# The Best \[Blank\] Scene in Any Movie Is... **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [April 27, 2011, 5:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-best-blank-scene-in-any-movie-is/579919 "2011-04-27T17:51:58Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![Tom\_Scud](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/f08c70/32.png) [@Tom\_Scud](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tom_Scud)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2011, 4:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-best-blank-scene-in-any-movie-is/579919/81 "2011-04-28T16:24:38Z")
Best performance by an actor in roughly half the roles in the movie: Alec Guinness, _Kind Hearts and Coronets_ ---
**Author:** ![Hypno-Toad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b2d939/32.png) [@Hypno-Toad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hypno-Toad)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2011, 4:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-best-blank-scene-in-any-movie-is/579919/82 "2011-04-28T16:27:22Z")
Best scene to discuss the necessity of badges: The Treasure of the Sierra Madre. ---
**Author:** ![StusBlues](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/dc4da7/32.png) [@StusBlues](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/StusBlues)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2011, 4:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-best-blank-scene-in-any-movie-is/579919/83 "2011-04-28T16:34:37Z")
> [@phungi](#): > > Best uninterrupted camera shot in a movie: opening sequence of _The Player_ I haven’t seen _The Player_, but it’s tough to beat \*Touch of Evil \*in this category. ---
**Author:** ![MaxTheVool](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/9fc29f/32.png) [@MaxTheVool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MaxTheVool)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2011, 5:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-best-blank-scene-in-any-movie-is/579919/84 "2011-04-28T17:07:44Z")
Best sequence of climactic moments of awesomeness at the end of the movie: **Back to the Future** Best robot death scene: **The Iron Giant** Best montage: The beginning of **Up** ---
**Author:** ![HeyHomie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/heyhomie/32/207_2.png) [@HeyHomie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HeyHomie)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2011, 5:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-best-blank-scene-in-any-movie-is/579919/85 "2011-04-28T17:20:04Z")
**Best Heavy Petting Scene (outside of an “adult” film)**: _Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon_ ---
**Author:** ![phungi](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/phungi/32/395_2.png) [@phungi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/phungi)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2011, 5:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-best-blank-scene-in-any-movie-is/579919/86 "2011-04-28T17:20:36Z")
> [@StusBlues](#): > > I haven’t seen _The Player_, but it’s tough to beat \*Touch of Evil \*in this category. [Opening 8-minute single-shot scene from _The Player_](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0epB5Z6ijpk) ---
**Author:** ![zamboniracer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/e9a140/32.png) [@zamboniracer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zamboniracer)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2011, 5:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-best-blank-scene-in-any-movie-is/579919/87 "2011-04-28T17:32:40Z")
Best card game scene: _The Sting_ Floyd: Doyle, I KNOW I gave him four THREES. He had to make a SWITCH. We can’t let him get away with that. Doyle Lonnegan: What was I supposed to do - call him for cheating better than me, in front of the others? ---
**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2011, 5:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-best-blank-scene-in-any-movie-is/579919/88 "2011-04-28T17:33:03Z")
Best Awkward First Kiss: _Dog Fight_ Best Awkward Dinner scene, drama division: _Sid and Nancy_ Best Ridiculous Hats: _Dune_ (SyFy version) ---
**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2011, 5:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-best-blank-scene-in-any-movie-is/579919/89 "2011-04-28T17:34:07Z")
> [@zamboniracer](#): > > Best card game scene: _The Sting_ I’ll see your Sting and raise you a _House of Games_. ---
**Author:** ![zamboniracer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/e9a140/32.png) [@zamboniracer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zamboniracer)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2011, 6:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-best-blank-scene-in-any-movie-is/579919/90 "2011-04-28T18:30:18Z")
> [@tdn](#): > > I’ll see your Sting and raise you a _House of Games_. I’ll cop to being unfamiliar with House of Games. What’s so great about the card game in it? It’ll have to be pretty good to top “The Sting” though. “Always drink gin with the mark, kid. He can’t tell if you’re cutting it.” ---
**Author:** ![Morbo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/morbo/32/389_2.png) [@Morbo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morbo)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2011, 7:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-best-blank-scene-in-any-movie-is/579919/91 "2011-04-28T19:03:49Z")
> [@JohnT](#): > > But the WH in 2012 wasn’t just destroyed by a big wave or a meteor strike or terrorists or invading aliens - _it was hit by an aircraft carrier_. > > I salute any man with balls big enough to put such a preposterous shot in their movie. The USS John F. Kennedy, no less. “Ich bin ein Flugzeugträger, das Weiße Haus!” Best Crazy Nicolas Cage scene: [Not the Bees!!"](http://youtu.be/-1GadTfGFvU) ---
**Author:** ![Lemur866](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lemur866/32/434_2.png) [@Lemur866](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lemur866)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2011, 7:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-best-blank-scene-in-any-movie-is/579919/92 "2011-04-28T19:26:33Z")
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**Author:** ![Lemur866](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lemur866/32/434_2.png) [@Lemur866](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lemur866)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2011, 7:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-best-blank-scene-in-any-movie-is/579919/93 "2011-04-28T19:28:20Z")
Best Movie-Stealing Performance by an Actor who appears in only one scene: Alec Baldwin in [_Glen Garry Glen Ross_](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y-AXTx4PcKI) (of course). ---
**Author:** ![Morbo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/morbo/32/389_2.png) [@Morbo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morbo)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2011, 7:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-best-blank-scene-in-any-movie-is/579919/94 "2011-04-28T19:35:18Z")
> [@Lemur866](#): > > Best Movie-Stealing Performance by an Actor who appears in only one scene: Alec Baldwin in [_Glen Garry Glen Ross_](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y-AXTx4PcKI) (of course). I’ll nominate my earlier “dressing down” candidate Wilford Brimley from _Absence Of Malice_. ---
**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2011, 7:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-best-blank-scene-in-any-movie-is/579919/95 "2011-04-28T19:48:40Z")
> [@zamboniracer](#): > > I’ll cop to being unfamiliar with House of Games. What’s so great about the card game in it? It’ll have to be pretty good to top “The Sting” though. I don’t know if I can explain it. The cinematography? The script? The acting? The acting is a little stiff, which isn’t surprising as it’s adapted from a stage play. The basic plot is that a best-selling psychologist is trying to help one of her patients with his gambling addiction. He’s in huge debt and about to get his knees broken. She goes to the House of Games to convince the debtee to tear up the debtor’s marker. He agrees if she’ll help him cheat at a card game. The card game itself is really tense. And it has Linsay Crouse and Joe Mantegna. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2011, 8:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-best-blank-scene-in-any-movie-is/579919/96 "2011-04-28T20:11:37Z")
Best scene shot from the point of view of an inanimate object: _[Lord of War](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n4jMzKxYB74)_ ---
**Author:** ![UncleRojelio](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/unclerojelio/32/3160_2.png) [@UncleRojelio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UncleRojelio)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2011, 8:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-best-blank-scene-in-any-movie-is/579919/97 "2011-04-28T20:15:22Z")
Best “I am so screwed” Realization Scene: _The Shawshank Redemption_ ---
**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2011, 8:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-best-blank-scene-in-any-movie-is/579919/98 "2011-04-28T20:48:53Z")
> [@NiceGuyJack](#): > > I see there are quite a few nominations for best sword fight, but no one has yet to mention Kill Bill. Nah, the best sword fight is in the John Ritter movie _Skin Deep_. ---
**Author:** ![Trepa\_Mayfield](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/edb3f5/32.png) [@Trepa\_Mayfield](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trepa_Mayfield)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2011, 8:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-best-blank-scene-in-any-movie-is/579919/99 "2011-04-28T20:52:41Z")
Best Good Angel/Bad Angel scene: _The Emperor’s New Groove_ ---
**Author:** ![blondebear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blondebear/32/1022_2.png) [@blondebear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blondebear)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2011, 9:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-best-blank-scene-in-any-movie-is/579919/100 "2011-04-28T21:15:39Z")
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