Most Rewatchable Scene
The group-confession stretch from the Larry Lester speech to Sheedy's character's admission
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- The whole movie is rewatchable and is essentially one scene, so it is more about moments.
- Nominated: Bender stealing the screw and racking up detentions with Vernon ('Eat my shorts', 'You're mine, Bender. Two months').
- Nominated: Bender versus Andrew, with 'if you weren't in school right now, I'd waste you' and the 'two hits' line, quoted for years with high school friends; the stretch is called a fight-cliche machine with unintentional comedy.
- The 'I don't want to get into this with you, man' line is a favorite, recalling kids avoiding fights by citing juvie.
- The 'can you hear this' middle-finger bit led to years of jokes in class.
- Bender's 'I'd kill you and your parents would sue me' line is quoted, and 'neo maxi zoom dweebie' is set aside for later.
- Nominated: Bender's impressions of Brian's home life and of his own father, with Nelson thought to be going for an Oscar.
- Nelson's many jackets (flannel, jean jacket, trench coat) are noted, and the time of year is debated as after Christmas or early November.
- Nominated: Bender versus Vernon, leading to the closet threat, which is called intense and seems to break Bender.
- The closet moment is a reminder these are teenagers; an adult getting serious and violent with you is jarring, like a friend's father yelling.
- The meanest line is Vernon telling the others to visit John Bender in five years.
- Cutaways and stolen glances build cross-group relationships, such as Andy laughing at the crustless-sandwich jab and then noticing Brian is hurt.
- An objection that Bender does all the talking for 40 minutes as a one-note character is redirected to the aged-worst category.
- Nominated: everyone getting high, with Anthony Michael Hall called genuinely funny, as in Sixteen Candles and Vacation.
- The pick is the stretch from the Larry Lester speech through Brian's confession, the lipstick trick, Bender railing at Claire, Brian asking if they'll still be friends, everyone turning on Claire, Brian on pressure and Sheedy's character admitting she had nothing better to do, called one of the best 15-minute stretches of any 80s movie.
- The characters switch sides repeatedly in the sequence; ad-libbing and many script drafts are mentioned.
- Estevez's Lester speech and the humiliation are praised, and the sequence features one of the film's few moving camera shots.
- Highlights include Brian not liking what he sees, the heart-dies line, Bender's harsh words to Claire and 'you don't think I understand pressure', after which another voice calls it definitely the best scene of the movie.