You can’t handle the truth!

We just watched A Few Good Men on TNT. Good film (not great), tarnished slightly by the taming of the language geared to the family audience. Despite this, I find it hard to think of a scene as strong and memorable as the court interchange between Cruise and Nicholson. It has to be the best scene in a movie ever, but I’m happy to take alternative suggestions.

July 27, 2005 | Filed Under Random thoughts 

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5 Responses to “You can’t handle the truth!”

  1. Steve on July 28th, 2005 00:27

    What about the scene in Teen Wolf where Scott’s dad emerges from the bathroom with the same unnaturally hairy face as his shocked son, confirming that his lupine tendencies are a result of heridity, not freakishness?

    Or the scene in The Karate Kid where Danny LaRusso attends the school fancy dress disco dressed, uber-bizarrely, as a shower unit, complete with a circular rail and concealing curtain which prevents him being identified (and consequently getting the poop beaten out of him) by bullies? You could be forgiven for thinking that dressing as a seven foot polka-dot cloth cylinder might make him more conspicuous, but oh no. Not in Hollywoodland.

    Powerful stuff.

  2. andy on July 28th, 2005 04:42

    It has to be the final scene of Raiders of The Lost Ark where the Ark is placed in a non- descript wooden crate in a non-descript warehouse with millions of other items.

  3. Shanahan on July 28th, 2005 10:22

    I liked the scene in “Once Upon a Time In America” when DeNiro finally meets James Woods at the party and despite them being blood-brothers from early childhood through their formative years, Prohibition and so on, DeNiro refuses to break and denies Woods his wish.

    I also liked when Spongebob visits dry land with Sandy Squirrel and starts to choke.

  4. ilo (joking, already....) on July 28th, 2005 14:20

    what do you mean…
    no “you had me at hello”…..?

  5. Dan on July 28th, 2005 14:59

    Ah, it appears I’ll need to do some gender breakdown analysis after the results are in, as it appears there may be a distinct difference in the POVs of boys and girls out there…

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