# What movie scenes will you stop and watch at 3AM? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [June 3, 2005, 2:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movie-scenes-will-you-stop-and-watch-at-3am/306720 "2005-06-03T14:28:28Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Omniscient](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/omniscient/32/3290_2.png) [@Omniscient](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Omniscient)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2005, 6:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movie-scenes-will-you-stop-and-watch-at-3am/306720/21 "2005-06-03T18:06:20Z")
For me it the Baseball Scene at the end of **Naked Gun**. _Hey, it’s Enrico Pallazo!_ Pretty much anything from **Old School**. The Hot tub/“Scotty doesn’t know” scene from **Eurotrip** In **Gladiator** : The initial battle and the _“What we do in life echoes in eternity.”_ quote and the Carthage battle sequence in the Colluseum. _“My name is Maximus Decimus Meridius, Commander of the Armies of the North, General of the Felix Legions, loyal servant to the true emperor, Marcus Aurelius. Father to a murdered son, husband to a murdered wife. And I will have my vengeance, in this life or the next.”_ The dog fight sequence from **Iron Eagles** when he pops in the rock tape. The rap scene from **Revenge of the Nerds II** Great thread… ---
**Author:** ![Omniscient](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/omniscient/32/3290_2.png) [@Omniscient](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Omniscient)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2005, 6:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movie-scenes-will-you-stop-and-watch-at-3am/306720/22 "2005-06-03T18:08:25Z")
> [@Mullinator](#): > > Let’s just say you had to go get a drink of water at 3AM. You stumble back to bed, decide to flip on the TV to find something to fall asleep to, and you come across a movie. It’s a movie you have watched before and it’s at a scene you love. Who cares if it’s the middle of the night, you’re hung over, you have to get up in one hour for work. You are watching that scene through it’s conclusion. > > Some of mine: > **Field of Dreams** - near the end when Moonlight Graham steps off of the field, helps the choking girl, then disappears in the corn field. > **Hoosiers** - The final game. > **Bloodsport** - Van Damme’s final battle against Chong Li (that actor was 50 years old!). > **The Warriors** - It’s all about the Baseball Furies. > **The Dirty Dozen** - The final attack on the snooty Germans. > **Heat** - De Niro and Pacino in the diner. By the way, you so stole this list from Bill Simmons. Heh. ---
**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2005, 6:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movie-scenes-will-you-stop-and-watch-at-3am/306720/23 "2005-06-03T18:10:59Z")
**Citizen Kane** Any scene. ---
**Author:** ![UrbanChic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/9dc877/32.png) [@UrbanChic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UrbanChic)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2005, 6:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movie-scenes-will-you-stop-and-watch-at-3am/306720/24 "2005-06-03T18:11:58Z")
> [@Omniscient](#): > > The Hot tub/“Scotty doesn’t know” scene from **Eurotrip**. You, too, huh? That song’s been stuck in my head for a week and a half now. ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2005, 6:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movie-scenes-will-you-stop-and-watch-at-3am/306720/25 "2005-06-03T18:23:14Z")
_The Big Sleep_ When Marlowe (Bogart) shoots Canino four times in the stomach. ---
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2005, 6:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movie-scenes-will-you-stop-and-watch-at-3am/306720/26 "2005-06-03T18:29:33Z")
**True Romance:** The Dennis Hopper/Christopher Walken scene. Top of my list. ---
**Author:** ![ouryL](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ouryl/32/6067_2.png) [@ouryL](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ouryL)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2005, 6:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movie-scenes-will-you-stop-and-watch-at-3am/306720/27 "2005-06-03T18:31:35Z")
Shadowzone Nothing catches my attention more than a movie featuring men turned inside-out or without skin such as in “The Hollow Man”! ---
**Author:** ![Kythereia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e8c25b/32.png) [@Kythereia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kythereia)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2005, 6:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movie-scenes-will-you-stop-and-watch-at-3am/306720/28 "2005-06-03T18:37:28Z")
The bathtub scene from Dark City. 😉 Any scene from The Princess Bride. ---
**Author:** ![ouryL](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ouryl/32/6067_2.png) [@ouryL](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ouryL)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2005, 6:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movie-scenes-will-you-stop-and-watch-at-3am/306720/29 "2005-06-03T18:40:31Z")
The Beetlejuice scene (appoximately 51 minutes into the movie) “Come Mister Tally man, tally me bananas” 😛 Chitty Chitty Bang Bang(appoximately 121 minutes into the movie) “What do you see, you people looking at me. I’m just a doll on a music box that’s wound by a key” ---
**Author:** ![Clothahump](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/51bf81/32.png) [@Clothahump](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Clothahump)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2005, 6:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movie-scenes-will-you-stop-and-watch-at-3am/306720/30 "2005-06-03T18:40:49Z")
**Starman** - there are two scenes that will really get me. Karen Allen in her underwear and the ending when the aliens arrive. **Field of Dreams** - James Earl Jones’ speech about baseball. **Big Fish** - I cried like a baby during this movie. I obviously still have unresolved issues with my dad and this movie is therapy. Any Jackie Chan movie. ---
**Author:** ![Gfactor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/9de053/32.png) [@Gfactor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gfactor)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2005, 6:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movie-scenes-will-you-stop-and-watch-at-3am/306720/31 "2005-06-03T18:41:57Z")
> [@Zeldar](#): > > **True Romance:** The Dennis Hopper/Christopher Walken scene. Top of my list. That’s awesome. I also like the Kevin Spacey rant about people who pretend to know what they’re doing in **Big Kahuna** , and the Alec Baldwin “coffee is for closers” speech in **Glengarry Glen Ross**. For nostalgic reasons, I’ll always watch **Rambo: First Blood II** up to the part where Co Bao yells, “You made it Rambo!” (long story). ---
**Author:** ![parthenokinesis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/cc9497/32.png) [@parthenokinesis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/parthenokinesis)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2005, 6:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movie-scenes-will-you-stop-and-watch-at-3am/306720/32 "2005-06-03T18:52:10Z")
> [@Zeldar](#): > > **True Romance:** The Dennis Hopper/Christopher Walken scene. Top of my list. Most intense scene ever. Also gotta include fight scene between Patrica Arquette and James Gandolphini (sp?) from same movie. ---
**Author:** ![Khadaji](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Khadaji](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Khadaji)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2005, 6:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movie-scenes-will-you-stop-and-watch-at-3am/306720/33 "2005-06-03T18:55:41Z")
**Miracle on 34th St. The original** At the end of the trial when the defense saves the day. ---
**Author:** ![Strinka](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/strinka/32/512_2.png) [@Strinka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Strinka)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2005, 6:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movie-scenes-will-you-stop-and-watch-at-3am/306720/34 "2005-06-03T18:57:42Z")
**Lord of the Rings** : Any battle scene ---
**Author:** ![Mississippienne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d2c977/32.png) [@Mississippienne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mississippienne)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2005, 7:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movie-scenes-will-you-stop-and-watch-at-3am/306720/35 "2005-06-03T19:04:50Z")
Tom Hanks playing “Chopsticks” on the giant keyboard in **Big**. The T-Rex attack from the original **Jurassic Park**. When Chihiro races across the pipe in **Spirited Away**. Mystique infiltrating Stryker’s base in **X2**. The scene in **Parting Glances** when Steve Buscemi asks his friend if he’s ever been in love. “Once,” his friend admits. Buscemi then says cynically, “And then he died, right?” and his friend replies, “No, he’s right here” and points to him. The New Years Eve kiss in **Strange Days**. The shower kiss in **Midnight Express**. Tetsuo going ape-shit in **Akira**. ---
**Author:** ![Pullet](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/edb3f5/32.png) [@Pullet](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pullet)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2005, 7:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movie-scenes-will-you-stop-and-watch-at-3am/306720/36 "2005-06-03T19:10:10Z")
Any scene from **Serenity**. It won’t be out until September, but I saw a prescreening. So good. ---
**Author:** ![Ethilrist](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ethilrist/32/4604_2.png) [@Ethilrist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ethilrist)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2005, 7:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movie-scenes-will-you-stop-and-watch-at-3am/306720/37 "2005-06-03T19:13:13Z")
> [@Mississippienne](#): > > Mystique infiltrating Stryker’s base in **X2**. Oh, yeah. Any scene were Rebecca Romijn-Stamos is wandering around on screen wearing an ounce and a half of blue paint and a handful of plastic scales. ---
**Author:** ![Man\_With\_a\_Cat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/cab0a1/32.png) [@Man\_With\_a\_Cat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Man_With_a_Cat)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2005, 7:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movie-scenes-will-you-stop-and-watch-at-3am/306720/38 "2005-06-03T19:17:59Z")
Forgot this one. The Teri Hatcher/Charlize Theron fight scene. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Man\_With\_a\_Cat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/cab0a1/32.png) [@Man\_With\_a\_Cat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Man_With_a_Cat)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2005, 7:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movie-scenes-will-you-stop-and-watch-at-3am/306720/39 "2005-06-03T19:19:22Z")
Asswipe, how about mentioning the movie. **Two Days in the Valley** dork ---
**Author:** ![Ethilrist](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ethilrist/32/4604_2.png) [@Ethilrist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ethilrist)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2005, 7:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movie-scenes-will-you-stop-and-watch-at-3am/306720/40 "2005-06-03T19:33:33Z")
Well, to be fair, any fight scene involving either lady would probably do. For them both to be on-screen at the same time getting all sweaty and violent, well, who needs sleep? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movie-scenes-will-you-stop-and-watch-at-3am/306720.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movie-scenes-will-you-stop-and-watch-at-3am/306720.md?page=3)