Funniest scene - Invasion U.S.A. (1985) Discussion

[–] wheels128 18 years ago

Trying to pick the funniest scene in Invasion U.S.A. is quite hard. The contenders:

[minor spoilers, obviously]

- The drug dealer/prostitute deaths
- The gratuitous blowing up of six houses
- "Not today Rostov. It's time to die."
- "If you come back in here, I'm gonna hit you with so many rights, you're gonna beg for a left."
- "He said... to tell you... it's time to die!" *spit*
- "Did you lose this?"
- "Didn't work, huh? Now it will!"

All classic moments.

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[–] ryannaughton1138-1 18 years ago

Another one has to be When the grenade launchers on the M16s fire they never have to relode!

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[–] wheels128 18 years ago

Any weapon, that is.

Six rockets in a launcher. At least 130 clips in each Uzi. Brilliant!

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[–] Impossible-Prince 18 years ago

My votes for funniest scenes.

- Rostov slamming the coke head chick's head into the table, forcing her coke straw into her nostril. Rostov then continuing to throw her OUT THE WINDOW!!! HAHAHA!

- the line, "I dunno John Eagle". It seems so poorly placed and for some reason I just find it hilarious.

- Rostov and his henchman shooting rockets at suburban homes.

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[–] ericburkemper 18 years ago

The fact that less then 30 terrorists thought they could somehow take on an entire combined battalion of US Marines and US Army complete with attack helicopters, tanks, and heavy machine gunners when the terrorists themselves only had light weapons and were completely surronded.

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[–] Blacktrack 18 years ago

Rostov shooting everybody in the crouch.

Its time to die!

Why were kids singing "row row row your boat"?

When they shot those kids on the beach

Racist Chuck Norris!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eqlKbmKGLIk

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[–] [email protected] 15 years ago

They sang "Row Row Row Your Boat because they did in Dirty Harry????

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[–] wheels128 18 years ago

Less than 30? I counted about 100...

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[–] ericburkemper 18 years ago

I'm talking about the guys in the courtyard, not the guys in the building.

Even then, they only had AK-47's, honestly did you see how many tanks there were? They should have surrendered outright.

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[–] wheels128 18 years ago

Ahh, ok. I could defend this film further, but really that entire scene was just an excuse to up the body count and kill things.

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[–] wheels128 18 years ago

Drago gets shot in both nuts, and you see Lynch punch the table at the same time as the chick is snorting, and it cuts immediately to her nose bleeding profusely.

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[–] wheels128 18 years ago

Oh geez, they cut the great scene:

"How can this be? There is only one way this could be. You talked to him. What did he say. What did he say!"
"He said... to tell you... it's time to die." *spit*
*bang bang*

Brilliant.

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[–] matthew-brown1 17 years ago

HI I have just watched it on dvd here in the UK and it is uncut

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[–] briandeadman49 18 years ago

great eighties action flick. i saw this in the old times square back in the day. the funniest scene is the coke whore scene and when he shoots rostov withe the rocket launcher at the end. they dont make moviesw like this anymore every action movie is a crappy pg-13 bore fest.

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[–] Woodyanders 18 years ago

For me the funniest scene was when the terrorists try to blow up the school bus full of kids singing "Row, Row, Row Your Boat." The scene with the girl having the cokespoon rammed up her nose and then tossed out the window is likewise priceless. Billy Drago being blasted below the built is absolutely hilarious! And you gotta love the sequence where Richard Lynch blows up six suburban houses with the same rocket launcher without ever reloading it even once.

"Warren Oates died for our sins"

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[–] nenpo 18 years ago

The fact that Chuck Norris has the same expression on his face throughout the whole movie is hilarious. When the police SWAT team breaks into his hotel room he just lays there with a look on his face like "is that all ya got?"

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[–] negativec07 16 years ago

The bodybuilder washing the car in the pink vest. I don't care how hard you are - you cannot pull of wearing a tight pink vest without looking camp

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[–] mayhaps 15 years ago

I will add:

- black guys dressed like 19th century British explorers guarding a mansion in Rostoff's nightmare
- his extended snarl at the end

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[–] jmrintn 18 years ago

My favorite scene was when Chuck power kicks that 300 lbs. thug through the wall like nothing. I laugh my ass off everytime I see that, and picture myself doing that to people I dont like.

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[–] aceofspades70 17 years ago

Hell yeah, you do mean the part where he says, "You're beginning to irritate me." *BAM*

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[–] elliotsnutzhanglolo 10 years ago

I counted a hundred!!! Hahahahahaha

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[–] atf_819 18 years ago

i liked the scene in the mall when the terrorist leaves his package, and the random mall patron picks it up and annoyingly tries to get his attention. Overeacting-acting at its finest!

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[–] matthew-brown1 17 years ago

Also there is another scene where Rostov gets kicked in the nose at the end of the film and there is no blood on him.

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[–] sripley-2 17 years ago

I love the part where after the reporter throws the garbage can lid at chuck, he say's"I better leave before you really get mad" ... classic, I love this movie!

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[–] rpow029 17 years ago

the best part is when chuck is just driving down the street and all these people just start coming out of woodwork and abusing him and i have no idea why. although it is hard to go past "didnt work, huh?" - i mean who carries around a spare explosives plunger?

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[–] captainramius 17 years ago

i liked the scene in the mall when the terrorist leaves his package, and the random mall patron picks it up and annoyingly tries to get his attention. Overeacting-acting at its finest!

LMAO I came on here just now to make the same point. If I saw someone actualy running from an abandoned package I would not pick it up and chase him. I'd run faster and pass him n the way out the door

"I'll bet you never smelled a real school bus before"

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[–] zpzjones 17 years ago

you had no idea why? because everything was becoming unglued. By that point in the movie cops couldn't be trusted, remember the phonies shooting up the latinos? The point was that terrorism was turning Americans against one another in the case of this scene Chuck was a newbie to the neighborhood and all of those human puke didnt know him, that's why they came out at him when he drove by.

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[–] zpzjones 17 years ago

my funniest scene and/or scenes have been mentioned here many times. Certainly the Latina snorting coke getting that metal straw up her nose then squealing like a stuck pig, Rostov emptying 3 bullets into Tomas's nuts when 1 wouldve been sufficient, the black hotel manager pygmie guy with that crap look on his face after hearing Rostov's gunfire and then goes back to steal the drug money before the cops arrive, Rostov just for the shear fact of murdering four people including the Latina in a record 30 seconds he doesn't care about the money or the cocaine he wants to kill - love it, the dumb blonde woman who gets grabbed by the hair by one of the terrorist after the chase through the mall, Chuck surviving the chase through the mall without getting killed or cut to high heaven after crashing through the glass entrance. And so on and so on.

This movie is priceless. Keep in mind Rostov gets off on killing. His mouth waters at the fact of blowing up the neighborhood houses at Christmas time, he takes the rocket launcher from Nikko and does the job himself. In his mind Rostov must maintain a high & efficient killing count. That's all he lives for and of course to kill Hunter.

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[–] waldosanmiguel 17 years ago

Being a latino, no scene is funnier than the one with the cuban washing his car outside a whorehouse. He is washing his ride and a guy runs over his bucket with his soap water and rag. He starts cursing him out like he had killed his mama. I'll translate for my american friends.

"Que coño carajos te pasa maricón?"-What the damn f uck is the matter fag got?"

"Donde aprendiste a manejar comemierda"-"Where did you learn to drive, sh!teater?"

"Botale el cubo a tu padre, hijoe'puta!"-"Spill the bucket on your father, son of a bitch!"

Guy goes up to get the guy, Chuck has him under torture interrogation with a knife and a grenade, Cuban doesn't care, Chuck pushes him out of the room. Cuban brings big lug to tangle, gets kicked, goes down, cuban flees. Guy that is tortured throws grenade out the window and into the Cuban's washed car. BOOM!! car is toast, Cuban almost cries and says:

"Me cago en su madre, coño!"-"I sh!t on his mother, damn it!"

One of my top 5 favorite comedy scenes, cause of the language too, you know.

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[–] dngynbdy 17 years ago

I remember some of those lines! HAHAHAHAHA!!! I had a cousin translate some of them and even he couldn't make it through one without hitting the floor laughing. Yes, the scene with the Cuban was a classic!

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