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funniest scenes?

posted 9 years ago by vodka_and_caviar
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it's so hard for me to single them out from my all time favorite or least favorite. they are that good.

here are mine

arnie asking how he got in the johnny cab and the johnny says "the door opened, you got in", followed by an eyeroll from the johnny.

arnie getting chased and running for his life and he tears the johnny cab out of the floor. i always laugh at "sh!t...sh!t" and the johnny cab saying "i am not familiar with that address." i love how he tosses the johnny robot in the back before taking control of the car.

arnie almost getting run over for skipping out on his fare of 18 credits.

the old bag trying to steal arnie's suitcase and cussing him out when he gets it from her, with him stopping from his running to take a bow

2 weeks!

benny's 5 kids line and him shooting kuato in the head and arnie looking over the dead kuato with benny saying "forget it man, his fortune telling days are over."

benny's death scene

does anyone have anything they wanna add?

[–] astronauticalmile 9 years ago

This movie is FULL of hilarity. One of my personal favorites is When Quaid kills the four goons in 27 seconds (yes, I bothered to time it) and he kicks Harry's arm, and Harry lets out that ridiculous scream, followed by the ultimately hilarious karate chop Quaid delivers to one of the goons right in his mustache. If you pause right at the moment of contact, the guy has the best look of surprise.

[–] etabacek 9 years ago

Benny attacking Melani with the phalic looking mining machine exclaiming 'I'm cumming for ya baby'!

Keith Moon was the greatest 'Keith Moon Style' drummer ever!!

[–] vodka_and_caviar 9 years ago

LMAO

[–] vodka_and_caviar 9 years ago

DAMN THIS PIECE OF MARTIAN JUNK!

[–] antonasmodeus 9 years ago

The fat lady's detached head:

"Get ready for a big surprise!"

BOOM!!!

[–] weeping_wounds 8 years ago

When Quaid gets to Mars and the big shoot out knocks out a glass window, you hear a woman scream "my baby!" As people fly outside.

[–] Herreken 8 years ago

Ha ha I forgot about that part!

Funniest scenes for me is whenever Benny says, "I got fiiive kids to feed!"

"See you at the party, Richter!"

DISPLAY thy breasts, my Julia!

[–] johnwest1959 8 years ago

When Cohaagen looks at the bullet riddled body of Kuato and says (referring to his mutant ravaged looks) "No wonder he stays hidden".

[–] antonasmodeus 8 years ago

The absolute funniest scene was Cohaagen's implosion. Check out the eye-popping cover of Fangoria from back in the day:

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_LN_P9uZB4ig/SlD13SuX2KI/AAAAAAAABwU/Za8iAvcZD-0/s1600-h/Fangoria+95+cover.jpg

[–] Crippler23 8 years ago

"See you at the party Richter!"

[–] FCA1975 8 years ago

All of your replies are definitely some of the many funny lines and scenes of this film. But one particularly funny scene, not only because of what is said but because of the look on the characters faces, is when Quaid is being chased down into the subway and escapes. Richter and his partner return to the cab and he is telling his partner how he wants that F'er dead. His partner replies he can't blame him, because he wouldn't want a guy like Quaid porking his old lady, to which Richter asks him if she enjoyed it, and his partner smirks and sarcastically says "no I'm pretty sure she in hated every minute of it". Freaking hilarious.

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[–] antonasmodeus 8 years ago

Ricter was definitely the funniest but most pathetic character in the movie. He was supposed to be a bad-ass yet he literally failed at every task given to him. Not to mention that Quaid got to bang his hot girlfriend. And to top it off, he ends up losing his arms.

"See you at the party, Ricter!"

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[–] ShakTwenty88 8 years ago

"Use your head your dumb bitch, hes just acting out the secret agent portion of his trip"

"What DA PHUK DID I DO WRUUNG?! TELL ME!

[–] sillyspaghetti 8 years ago

Any scene with Johnny Cab as the concept is hilarious to me! And the scene where Hauser/Quaid pulls the red sphere-bogie-tracker type thing out of his nose and says "Aiiiii!"

[–] antonasmodeus 8 years ago

Hell yeah, Johnny Cab rocked!

"Fasten your seatbelts!"

[–] Dan_Garten 8 years ago

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[–] cokefloats 8 years ago

When that lady called Quaid an @ZZ-hole for re stealing his stolen case, and then he bowed. that cracks me up like tree roots looking for water in the asphalt.

THE TRUTH ABOUT THIS MOVIE:
REKALL F@#$$D up the procedure, and now we are left with a possible reality that branched out from this mishap, and this version of Quaid's reality got made into an action movie. Little known fact: Quaid doesen't know that he is in a movie, he thinks it's all real.

[–] fiero-49251 8 years ago

It was funny how Richter thought he was running the show! Cohaagen's telling him to capture Quaid and set him back up with Laurie and he pretended he didn't hear him! Later Cohaagen asked him if he could work with him; Richter smiled and said "yes sir!" Cohaagen said something to the affect of "good or I'll cancel your arse!" That took the smile off Richter's face! ;-)

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[–] Thomas-FordJr-1 8 years ago

When Quaid gets to Mars and the big shoot out knocks out a glass window, you hear a woman scream "my baby!" As people fly outside.

That part is actually a nod to Superman II, when Zod and company are blowing their tornado like breath through the city, and people are flying everywhere. You can hear a woman scream "my baby!!!".

[–] xeriouxi 8 years ago

I always found myself with a grin whenever Arnie used "bad" language...

Classics include "fauck yeu" and "the guy is a faucking assheoul!"

[–] KentCatFan 8 years ago

"Who gives a sh!t what you believe? In thirty seconds you'll be dead, and I'll blow this place up and be home in time for Corn Flakes!"

[–] edestci 8 years ago

The suffocation in the Martian ground of Hauser and Melina, including Cohaagen's asphyxia 