“32 Coolest Movie Moments”
I was going to relegate this to Saturday Hot Links, as I do now with almost all movie lists, but as soon as I saw the first moment on the list, I knew it deserved its own post. A few selections:
32 Die Hard (1988)
“Now I have a machine gun…”
A moment of perfect peak era Bruce Willis-ness, which happens without the actor ever being onscreen.
Bruce’s hideaway cop is fighting back against Hans Gruber’s Christmastime terrorist siege, downing a gunman, nabbing his shooter, and leaving this cheeky message. “Now I have a machine gun… Ho Ho Ho.”
29 The Big Lebowski (1998)
The dude abides
Pretty much by definition there are few films that reach the standard of cool set by The Big Lebowski. Pinning down a specific instance of cool can be tough, though, and many of you voted simply for the Dude’s very existence.
But for our money the moment that sums him up best is the final chat with Sam Elliott’s barfly. “Yeah, well, The Dude abides…”
22 Fight Club (1999)
A very strange time in my life
The Pixies kick the closing moments of Fight Club into goosebump-prompting life as Ed Norton’s beleaguered Jack assures Marla that “Everthing’s gonna be fine” and the city around them explodes and falls to pieces.
20 Reservoir Dogs (1992)
“Dick dick dick dick dick dick dick”
The world’s introduction to Tarantino — sharp suits, foul mouth, and a whole lot of dick in the room.
QT’s low-key camera crawls around his coffee-slurping tough guys as they throw interrogate pop culture and explore the morality of the incidental. It’s like, Seinfeld, only with swearing and guns, and it changed everything forever.
Many more where these came from here.
What are you favorite coolest movie moments?