Friday Classic Conversation

This week's Classic Conversation comes from yet another fine piece of American cinema. And when I say fine piece of American cinema, I mean the absolute worst movie ever made. That's right, none other than Armageddon. Bruce Willis and Ben Affleck star in a movie that made Congo look like The Godfather. And it just so happens they bring us our dramatic scene for today's conversation. The scene is right after straws have been drawn to determine who has to detonate the nuclear bomb and save the world but die in the process. And as you remember, Affleck's character drew the short straw. So here's Bruce Willis as Harry Stamper and Ben Affleck as A.J. (who apparently has no last name).


A.J.: Tell Grace that I'll, I'll always be with her. Can you do that?


Harry Stamper: Yeah. Okay kid.
[Pulls A.J.'s air hose out and rips off his own mission badge and hands it to A.J.]
Give this to Truman! Make sure Truman gets that! Get in there!
[Pushes A.J. back into the hatch and closes the door]
It's my turn now.


A.J.: Harry! You can't do this to me! It's my job!


Harry Stamper: You go take care of my little girl now. That's your job. I always thought of you as a son. I'd be damn proud to have you marry Grace.


A.J.: [Beginning to cry] Harry!!!


Harry Stamper: You take care of yourself.
[Pushes a button sending the hatch up]
I love you.


A.J.: No wait Harry I love you! Harry don't do this! I love you! No wait a minute!


Harry Stamper: Bye son.

Now that, my friends, is what we call acting. I'll need a few minutes to gather myself after that.

Friday Classic Conversation

This week's Classic Conversation comes from what some consider the greatest movie ever made. That's right, Point Break. So without any more delay, I present Johnny Utah and Bodhi.......


Johnny Utah: Lose something, bro?

Bodhi: Special Agent Utah. I knew I could count on you.

Johnny Utah: I've been to every city in Mexico. Came across an unclaimed piece of meat in Baja, turned out to be Rosie. Guess he picked a knife fight with somebody better. Found a passport of yours in Sumatra, missed you by about a week in Fiji. But l knew you wouldn't miss a 50-year storm, Bodhi.

Bodhi: Yeah.

Johnny Utah: Too bad. You finally get your waves and it's totally closed out.

Bodhi: Just waiting for my set.

Johnny Utah: You gotta go down. You crossed the line and people trusted you and they died.

Bodhi: Yeah, it went bad, went real bad. Life sure has a sick sense of humour, doesn't it? Still surfing?

Johnny Utah: Everyday. Come on, Bodhi. It's time to go. You know you gotta go back with me.

Bodhi: (laughs) Sorry, my friend.

Johnny Utah: Come on! (Fight ensues and ends with Johnny handcuffing his wrist to Bodhi's)

Bodhi: SHlT! NO! NO!

Johnny Utah: I told them you'd go quietly.

Bodhi: NO! You know there's no way I can handle a cage, man.

Johnny Utah: I don't care. You gotta go down. It's gotta be that way.

Bodhi: OK, man. OK. I'm screwed. I'm gonna go to jail and I'll pay, and Johnny Utah gets his guy. Right? Good for you. That's real good. You're gonna be a big hero now. But look at it, Johnny. Look at it! This is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity, man. Just let me go out there, let me get one wave before you take me. One wave. Where am l gonna go, man? Cliffs on both side. l'm not gonna paddle to New Zealand! My whole life has been about this moment, Johnny. Come on, compadre.

Johnny Utah: Come on.

Bodhi: COME ON!

Johnny Utah: (long, dramatic pause after he lets Bodhi go) Vaya con Dios.

Friday Classic Conversation

This week's Classic Conversation segment comes from one of the all-time not-so-greats, The Ghost and the Darkness starring Val Kilmer and Michael Douglas.

Col. John Henry Patterson: Have you ever failed?

Charles Remington: Only at life.

And because Michael Douglas is so ridiculously over the top in this movie, I'm throwing in a bonus solo line. And probably his most ridiculous line in the whole movie.

Charles Remington: Oh, you're right. The devil has come to Tsavo. Look at me! I am the devil.

Friday Classic Conversation

Robin of Locksley: You were to use this information to get close to me and then kill me, isn't that right, Will? What are your intentions?

Will Scarlet: Well, that depends on you Locksley. I've never trusted you, that's no secret. What I wanna know is, is are you gonna finish what you started? I want to know if he's gonna turn and run like the spoiled little rich boy I always took him for.

Robin of Locksley: Did I wrong you in another life, Will Scarlett? Where does this intolerable hatred for me come from?

Will Scarlet: From knowing that... that our father loved you more than me.

Robin of Locksley: Our father?

Will Scarlet: We are brothers, Robin of Locksley. I am the son of the woman who replaced your dead mother for a time.

Robin of Locksley: It's a lie!

Will Scarlet: It was your anger that drove them apart! It's not a lie! You ruined my life! I have more reason to hate you than anyone. Yet I found myself daring to believe in you. And what I want to know brother, is will you stay with us and finish what you started?

That, my friends, is what we call acting.

Classic Conversation

Viper: I flew with your old man. VF-51, the Oriskany. You're a lot like he was. Only better... and worse. He was a natural heroic son of a bitch that one.

Maverick: So he DID do it right.

Viper: Yeah, he did all right. Is that why you fly the way you do? Trying to prove something? Yeah your old man did it right. What I'm about to tell you is classified and it could end my career. We were in the worst dogfight I could've dreamed of. There were bogeys like fireflies all over the sky. His F-4 was hit; he was wounded, but he could've made it back, instead he stayed in it; saved three planes before he bought it.

Maverick: How come I never heard that before?

Viper: Well that's not something the Navy tells families especially when the fight happened over the wrong line on some map.

Maverick: So you were there?

Viper: I was there.