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Not sure I agree with many of these. GGR should be #1 or #2. Baldwin's rant in Malice is easily top 5. Gotta believe Fight Club has a place in the top 10 too. Pacino in Heat too....."She's got a HUGE ASS!".

Honestly, #10 and #5 are the only ones that deserve to be on that list.

Nahh, I like #4 and #1, but #10 is about as good as any rant gets.

The "Boiler Room" scene is great, and one of our favorite movies

I like the one given by Chevy Chase near the end of Christmas Vacation. "Where's the Tylenol!?"

Not sure if they qualify as rants but I always liked Agent Smith's two speeches, one to a drugged Morpheus in the 1st Matrix movie and one to Neo in the 3rd:

"Why, Mr. Anderson? Why do you do it? Why get up? Why keep fighting? Do you believe you're fighting for something? For more than your survival? Can you tell me what it is? Do you even know? Is it freedom? Or truth? Perhaps peace? Yes? No? Could it be for love? Illusions, Mr. Anderson. Vagaries of perception. The temporary constructs of a feeble human intellect trying desperately to justify an existence that is without meaning or purpose. And all of them as artificial as the Matrix itself, although only a human mind could invent something as insipid as love. You must be able to see it, Mr. Anderson. You must know it by now. You can't win. It's pointless to keep fighting. Why, Mr. Anderson? Why? Why do you persist?"

He is one of my all-time favorite bad guys.

AjK wrote:...I always liked Agent Smith...

He is one of my all-time favorite bad guys.

Bad guys?

I thought he was the hero!

It was a really tragic story, though, what with those terrorists beating him up and all.

Taxi Driver and Glengarry Glen Ross are the only films on the list I've seen (in their entirety). I don't care: Alec Baldwin's rant in GGR is easily my #1 pick. His moment of glory is all the more remarkable when you think of the great scenes nearly everyone else had in that film - Al Pacino, Ed Harris, Jack Lemmon, Alan Arkin. Maybe the best male cast I've seen in any movie.

AjK, I agree, that speech was a fine one by Smith in Matrix Revolutions. Thanks for quoting it! It's just too bad I couldn't appreciate it better at the time, as I was too busy being sickened by that movie as a whole when I first saw it.

matrixman wrote:AjK, I agree, that speech was a fine one by Smith in Matrix Revolutions. Thanks for quoting it! It's just too bad I couldn't appreciate it better at the time, as I was too busy being sickened by that movie as a whole when I first saw it.

If folks 'round here will indulge me an off-topic post...

I seem to be one of the few who didn't mind Matrix Revolutions. Granted it is a relatively impossible task for the sequels to measure up against the first one, but I thought it stood on its own merits. There were some weak spots but some really interesting aspects and implications. I will have to check the The Waymeet Flicks back catalog for a more appropriate thread for discussion on this. Plus now I am gonna have to have a marathon session of all three movies this weekend. Better load up on the popcorn and the odd raisinette...

Anyway, whether you call him a bad guy or a good guy (maybe a good bad guy but certainly not a bad good guy ) I really loved Agent Smith and his rants/dialogue. His quirky unique delivery was excellent. The cracking his neck, straightening his suit, taking off his glasses ... all nice touches. Excellent casting, IMO. But I am sure I don't need to tell MM any of this.

That's all right, tell me anyway. Agent Smith is certainly one of my favorite movie villains, right up there with the likes of Darth Vader and Khan. Hugo Weaving showed up at the right time, and made Smith into something really special.

Another rant from the Matrix films I ought to mention is the Architect's convoluted lecture to Neo in Matrix Reloaded. I have to admire it for its unapologetic denseness. If you actually understood everything he said the first time around, well then, you scare me, okay?

Did your weekend marathon include the Animatrix? That was a brilliant piece of work. Its evocative, haunting stories were exactly the kind I liked, that made the Matrix universe so fascinating and full of possibilities. The "proper" sequels failed to stir me the way the Animatrix or the original film did, though Reloaded had its moments. But Revolutions bludgeoned me - I was drained and depressed coming out of it.

(I know there's a thread for Revolutions buried in the back, but I just can't be bothered to resurrect it. You go first. )

There is only one rant worthy of mention, everything else pales next to it........ Jack Nicholson in the church, in the Witches of Eastwick!

That is an awfully good one Finn.

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I had a funny feeling that you might approve of that particular choice!

Sharon Stone's last few scenes in Casino.

matrixman wrote: Did your weekend marathon include the Animatrix? That was a brilliant piece of work. Its evocative, haunting stories were exactly the kind I liked, that made the Matrix universe so fascinating and full of possibilities. The "proper" sequels failed to stir me the way the Animatrix or the original film did, though Reloaded had its moments.

Yeah, I have to admit, the Animatrix was something special. My least favorite was the one most lifelike looking. If I was to rewatch, I'd skip that one and absorb the rest of the them again. Just wonderful and intriguing stories and concepts.

You must mean "Final Flight of the Osiris." By itself I thought it was a nicely done CG action piece. But I agree, it was the least interesting of the stories, and it happens to be the one that most obviously ties into events in the sequels.

finn wrote:There is only one rant worthy of mention, everything else pales next to it........ Jack Nicholson in the church, in the Witches of Eastwick!

Wow, I forgot about that one. 'Twas very good indeed.

matrixman wrote:Another rant from the Matrix films I ought to mention is the Architect's convoluted lecture to Neo in Matrix Reloaded. I have to admire it for its unapologetic denseness. If you actually understood everything he said the first time around, well then, you scare me, okay?

I completely agree with you across the board on that one. I loved the Architect's calm casual response to Neo's threatening "... if I were you I would hope we don't meet again" statement at the end.

matrixman wrote:Did your weekend marathon include the Animatrix?

It did not. I am also embarrassed to say that I have not watched The Animatrix despite owning it as part of the complete DVD box set. Hey, what can I say. I haven't made it through everything in my metal suitcase DVD set of Blade Runner either. Sigh...

matrixman wrote:(I know there's a thread for Revolutions buried in the back, but I just can't be bothered to resurrect it. You go first. )

I looked quickly but didn't find it. I am sure I will try again asap...

Another that comes to mind is also Jack.... "You can't handle the truth!"

I go for either #4 or #2 (#4 was absolutely one of the funniest )

yet I think they missed Al Pacino in "The Devil's Advocate" and Sylvester Stallone in "First Bood".

and here's another one. It includes a few we discussed.