The Long Kiss Goodnight (1996): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TF7PMrV_ak4 INT. BASEMENT OF OLD MILL - THE PRESENT Here. Now. She breaks the surface. Gasping for breath. SHRIEKS, a sound ripped from her by the PAIN, the COLD -- By her ruptured sanity. She hangs there. Drenched. Half frozen. DAEDALUS can't help it. A chill dances up his spine, watching... She is not afraid. She is not whimpering. She is looking directly AT HIM. With a sick smile. CHARLY Daedalus... Make you a deal... Let me go now...? I'll leave you the use of your legs... Bargain, trust me... Daedalus struggles to recover his poise. DAEDALUS How did you find me? Who knows about this place, WHO HAVE YOU TOLD? Charly's eyes bore into his: CHARLY I let you touch me, cowboy... I think I need a bath. Daedalus stabs the red button. THE BIG WHEEL TURNS... Into the water goes Charly. Going down for the third time. UNDER THE WATER - HELL - SAME Here we are again, in the world of silence and blinding PAIN. Despair and madness but now there's something else -- Now there's RAGE. It takes losing most of the FLESH from her right wrist... But she frees the hand. WRENCHES it loose. The water turns soupy red around it. GROPES, blindly. Fingers NUMB, so fucking cold -- Breath, running out. No air. NO TIME. She darts her right hand forward. Toward the obscenely bobbing CORPSE of Nathan. Does something grotesque, jams her hand DOWN THE CORPSE'S PANTS -- Hideaway gun, it's right where he said, right beside Mr. Wally. PSP-25. Semi-auto, steel jackets. She waits. Rage inside her. Death in her hands. MEANWHILE, BACK ON THE SURFACE The wheel CREAKS. Groans. The terrorist in the western boots watches her emerge, face first -- She comes up firing. The first slug takes him in the knee. Blows it to scraps. He collapses, howling. She shifts aim. THE RED BUTTON. No hesitation. BLAM-! Hits it DEAD ON. Stops the wheel. Incredible. Doesn't blink. Unties her captive hand. BLOWS TO SPLINTERS the wood surrounding her feet. Leaps to solid ground, as ANOTHER ANGLE Daedalus looks up from his prone position. In agony. A vision from Hell approaches: A fiendish blue-skinned woman in a sodden nightgown. Blood leaking from one wrist. She has risen, REBORN, from the icy waters. DAEDALUS Samantha... Please...! CHARLY Who's Samantha?

The most criminally underrated action movie from that period and Shane Black's 2nd best piece, imho. This scene is pretty good, wisecrackery wise: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lx-Ui_Ontqg Mitch Henessey: We jumped out of a building. Nathan: Yes, it was very exciting. Tomorrow we go to the zoo. Charlie: You're Waldman. Nathan: No, I'm the Hill Brothers bean buyer. Who else would I be? Hang on. If you want me to talk in front of him, you may be asked... to kill him later. It works for me. Your call. [Nathan hands his gun to Charlie, then pulls out a second] Mitch: Jesus, old man, how many of those you got? Nathan: Three. One shoulder, one hip and one down here, right next to Mr. Wally, where most patdowns never reveal it, as even the most hardened federal agent is often reluctant to feel up another man's groin. Any other questions? Mitch: Yeah. What's the weather like on your planet?

Not sure if this counts as an action movie. It's rumored that John Milius and not Francis Ford Coppola wrote this line. Does anyone know for sure? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AJXKVOxqkWM [Outmaneuvering Rommel] Patton: [referring to Rommel's book, 'Infantry Attacks' or 'Infanterie greift an'] Rommel... you magnificent bastard, *I read your book*!

That scene is definitely one of the best scenes of the movie. Brian Cox is a phenomenal actor. And I agree. This movie is way too underrated.

BUTCH CASSIDY AND THE SUNDANCE KID (1969) written by William Goldman, directed by George Roy Hill Butch Cassidy: [to Sundance] Kid, the next time I say, "Let's go someplace like Bolivia," let's GO someplace like Bolivia. Funny dialogue, but what also makes it memorable is subtext - both know there won't be a next time. Couldn't find this scene online, here's the trailer... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X41Ylp02NRs

I think Patton actually said it, so no credit for Coppola or Milius.

Def, it's one of the misattributed quotes found here: http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/George_S._Patton, and was in fact written. Just goes to show how good an actor George C Scott was, that we confuse the movie Patton and the real Patton.