Most Rewatchable Scene
The toilet scene
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- Some action movies are best joined 25 minutes in, like 48 hours or Die Hard, but this one should be joined from the opening credits.
- The opening car chase shows Gibson running, placing him as the Usain Bold of actors in a final against Robert Patrick after Tom Cruise's semifinal loss; John David Washington, Snipes and Eddie Murphy are also named as good runners.
- Station scenes are loved: the cops betting and the bet called off over the station wagon, and the rubbers gag.
- The straitjacket shoulder-dislocation bet is a terrible example for impressionable teens, shows his athleticism and pain tolerance, and is Chekhov's shoulder dislocation because it returns when he is almost drowned.
- The psychiatrist popping up is like Jimmy Cricket; if Riggs endures that pain for a bet, imagine what he will endure for something righteous.
- The chili scene is not the most rewatchable but is really important for the Riggs character and why the movie is special.
- Pesci arrives, followed by an evil 80s room-service guy with a mullet who is obviously a South African villain.
- The pool drop is a great 80s stunt that ups the ante on the first movie's pool shootout.
- The house-bust car chase and surfboard are among about four scenes with a beginning, middle, end and money shot.
- The original trailer was just the toilet scene, and it worked.
- The toilet bomb is one of the great action premises; he sat 12 to 18 hours, the smell is never addressed, and he noticed the bomb when reaching for toilet paper.
- A complaint follows that this was going to be the speaker's most rewatchable scene and the romance is being taken out of it.
- 'Guys like you don't die on toilets' is called one of the better lines, and Riggs refuses to leave.
- The unspoken 'I love you' between the partners, said with the eyes, reminds a host of his dad; Shane Black 'just got it' and the leads play like a symphony.
- The escape is ludicrous but set up so it seems possible; in reality they would have concussions and hearing issues, which was flagged as a nitpick.
- Gibson breaking into the office ('it's the master race'), shooting the fish tank and 'pick them up with your hands' are loved.
- Gibson's trailer getting shot up is a great action scene, and during the escape he asks what she is doing Saturday.
- The underwater image of the dead girlfriend sticks in the brain like the head in Jaws.
- Riggs yanks the stilt house down, a great pickup-truck ad; per a Premiere November 1989 breakdown it cost $500,000 and used a replica house.
- The Gibson versus 'Adolf' fight and Glover's diplomatic immunity revocation close it out; one host has about 12 scenes.
- Added: the drop cloth scene.
- Added: 'They fuck you at the drive-thru', so good it was brought back with cell phones; it made one host averse to drive-thrus.
- The toilet scene is named for most rewatchable, partly because it also has so many nitpicks.