# 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:** 8
**Author:** ![Drum\_God](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/drum_god/32/44_2.png) [@Drum\_God](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Drum_God)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2011, 7:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-best-blank-scene-in-any-movie-is/579919/141 "2011-04-29T19:28:09Z")
Best Press Conference by a US President: President Andrew Shepherd in [_The American President_](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0112346/) ---
**Author:** ![cjepson](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a9adbd/32.png) [@cjepson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cjepson)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2011, 7:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-best-blank-scene-in-any-movie-is/579919/142 "2011-04-29T19:37:47Z")
> [@JayDeeX](#): > > The best entry of a villain from a stomach - Alien Best entry of a hero from a stomach: _Men in Black_ ---
**Author:** ![Haunted\_Pasta](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/94ad74/32.png) [@Haunted\_Pasta](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Haunted_Pasta)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2011, 7:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-best-blank-scene-in-any-movie-is/579919/143 "2011-04-29T19:51:44Z")
Best cheesy smiles: Pretty much the entire rest of the cast of _Airplane!_ when the stewardess was singing. ---
**Author:** ![JohnT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnt/32/15048_2.png) [@JohnT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnT)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2011, 9:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-best-blank-scene-in-any-movie-is/579919/144 "2011-04-29T21:37:21Z")
Best surprise death: _Deep Blue Sea_ ---
**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 30, 2011, 1:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-best-blank-scene-in-any-movie-is/579919/145 "2011-04-30T01:46:42Z")
> [@](#): > > Best Good Angel/Bad Angel scene: The Emperor’s New Groove > [@](#): > > No way. Animal House! “Fuck her! Fuck her brains out!” It’s disqualified for not being a movie, but I think this is the [best one](http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0435.html). ---
**Author:** ![Alessan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alessan/32/465_2.png) [@Alessan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alessan)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2011, 8:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-best-blank-scene-in-any-movie-is/579919/146 "2011-04-30T08:15:06Z")
> [@Siam\_Sam](#): > > Best Blow-Job Scene: Chloe Sevigny in _The Brown Bunny_. I think \*Police Academy \*has that beat. Much less explicit, maybe, but also much funnier. ---
**Author:** ![devilsknew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/4da419/32.png) [@devilsknew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/devilsknew)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2011, 8:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-best-blank-scene-in-any-movie-is/579919/147 "2011-04-30T08:51:25Z")
Best depiction of Tea Party Paranoia: Biehn as Kyle Reese, or Lietenant Hiram Coffey, or Cpl. Dwayne Hicks. ---
**Author:** ![Quartz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/quartz/32/267_2.png) [@Quartz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quartz)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2011, 10:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-best-blank-scene-in-any-movie-is/579919/148 "2011-04-30T10:59:26Z")
Best Presidential mea culpa speech: Dave. Best Presidential inspirational speech: Armageddon. ---
**Author:** ![Mahaloth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mahaloth/32/1079_2.png) [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2011, 12:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-best-blank-scene-in-any-movie-is/579919/149 "2011-04-30T12:19:46Z")
[The best lead-in to a shootout ever: In Bruges. “Don’t be stupid! This is the shootout!”]([http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B0jq8p6Sjjs](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B0jq8p6Sjjs)) ---
**Author:** ![Rocketeer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rocketeer/32/4437_2.png) [@Rocketeer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rocketeer)\ **Post date:** [May 1, 2011, 3:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-best-blank-scene-in-any-movie-is/579919/150 "2011-05-01T03:40:31Z")
I just watched this one tonight, and it needs to be nominated: Best passing-of-time sequence: _Notting Hill_, where Hugh Grant walks down the street through three seasons. ---
**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\ **Post date:** [May 1, 2011, 3:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-best-blank-scene-in-any-movie-is/579919/151 "2011-05-01T03:55:58Z")
I don’t know if it’s the _best_ flash forward, but certainly the longest is when the bone that the pre-human tosses in the air in _2001: A Space Odyssey_ morphs into the space station. ---
**Author:** ![bahia\_hombre](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@bahia\_hombre](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bahia_hombre)\ **Post date:** [May 1, 2011, 4:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-best-blank-scene-in-any-movie-is/579919/152 "2011-05-01T04:04:33Z")
Best jump-out-of-your-seat scene: Jaws (divers under boat) Best shocking-moment-of-horror scene: 1) When a Stranger Calls; 2) Schindler’s List (raining ash) ---
**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\ **Post date:** [May 1, 2011, 4:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-best-blank-scene-in-any-movie-is/579919/153 "2011-05-01T04:23:19Z")
> [@Siam\_Sam](#): > > I don’t know if it’s the _best_ flash forward, but certainly the longest is when the bone that the pre-human tosses in the air in _2001: A Space Odyssey_ morphs into the space station. I think I’ve thought of the _Best_ Flash Forward: Mr. Thatcher’s words “Merry Christmas,” then “… and a very Happy New Year” 20 years later in _Citizen Kane_. ---
**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:** [May 1, 2011, 4:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-best-blank-scene-in-any-movie-is/579919/154 "2011-05-01T04:44:26Z")
> [@Rocketeer](#): > > Best passing-of-time sequence: _Notting Hill_, where Hugh Grant walks down the street through three seasons. Nah. The breakfast montage in _Citizen Kane_. ---
**Author:** ![Jaledin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Jaledin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jaledin)\ **Post date:** [May 1, 2011, 5:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-best-blank-scene-in-any-movie-is/579919/155 "2011-05-01T05:06:34Z")
Best plea to a dying man to help redeem a wicked life: Ava Gardner in the 1946 version of “The Killers.” “Kitty is innocent, say it, Kitty is innocent!” Best expression of disappointment over not having got the food he wanted: Orson Welles in “Touch of Evil,” “Oh, didn’t you bring me any…jelly donuts?” Best and most stylish trick rifle shot: Yves Montand in “The Red Circle [Le cercle rouge].” Most successful plastic surgery job in the movies: Bogart in “Dark Passage.” ETA: best car chase scene: “Gone in 60 Seconds” (the real one, not that Angelina Jolie bullshit) ---
**Author:** ![Jaledin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Jaledin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jaledin)\ **Post date:** [May 1, 2011, 5:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-best-blank-scene-in-any-movie-is/579919/156 "2011-05-01T05:14:02Z")
One more: Worst use of a whorehouse: Joe Don Baker in “Charley Varrick” ---
**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:** [May 1, 2011, 9:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-best-blank-scene-in-any-movie-is/579919/157 "2011-05-01T21:11:46Z")
Best response to “do you expect me to talk?” - Auric Goldfinger, GOLDFINGER. ---
**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:** [May 1, 2011, 11:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-best-blank-scene-in-any-movie-is/579919/158 "2011-05-01T23:11:11Z")
> [@Jaledin](#): > > One more: > > Worst use of a whorehouse: Joe Don Baker in “Charley Varrick” Best use of a whorehouse: Neil Patrick Harris in _Harold and Kumar escape from Guantanamo Bay_ No buts! No buts! I’m going to a whorehouse and I’m gonna get my fuck on! If you two don’t want to get your dicks wet, that’s fine with me! ---
**Author:** ![JThunder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e95f7d/32.png) [@JThunder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JThunder)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2011, 12:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-best-blank-scene-in-any-movie-is/579919/159 "2011-05-02T00:36:56Z")
Best opening sequence: _G I Joe: The Movie_. (This is the animated one, folks, not the recent live-action flick.) ---
**Author:** ![Quint](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/76d3ee/32.png) [@Quint](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quint)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2011, 5:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-best-blank-scene-in-any-movie-is/579919/160 "2011-05-03T05:22:21Z")
> [@StusBlues](#): > > I haven’t seen _The Player_, but it’s tough to beat \*Touch of Evil \*in this category. The category of best uninterrupted shot is one that is dear to my heart. I will agree that the top two are probably **Touch of Evil** and **The Player** (in that order IMHO). Larry McConkey’s incredible steadicam from [Goodfellas](http://www.steadishots.org/shots_detail.cfm?shotID=2) is also amazing. Another Steadicam shot which blows my mind comes from a movie [I’ve never seen](http://www.steadishots.org/shots_detail.cfm?shotID=58). The amount of choreography required to pull off the shot- hard to believe. Most fights are shot hand-held with a cut every two seconds, but here is a multi-story fight in a four minute uninterrupted take. Totally worth checking out. Finally, in a slightly more reality based vane, Claude LeLouch’s incredible 1976 film[C’etait un Rendezvous](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=COyab3YQS48) still gives me chills every time I see it. Watch and be amazed!! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-best-blank-scene-in-any-movie-is/579919.md?page=7) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-best-blank-scene-in-any-movie-is/579919.md?page=9)