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Everything from Monty Python and the Holy Grail. God I love that movie.

From southpark the movie:

the mole: do you have a buttfor?
guys: what's a buttfor?
the mole: why...for pooping silly.


Apocolypse Now:
Ride of the Valkyries blaring as the 1st Cav mows down the village.

Full Metal Jacket:
the first 15 minutes. here's a few lines...
"I like you, hell, I'd let you **** my sister."
"The best part of you ran out the crack of your mom's a$$ and came out as a brown stain on the mattress."

@Almost Famous: My favorite thing in the movie (althoung not a scene) is Phillip Seymor Hoffman's 'Detroit Sucks' Tee Shirt. Has ever a shirt fit a character more perfectly?

My favorite scenes:

First- a very recent one.
The Spyders scene from Minority Report.
This is the perfect scene from My favorite movie of 2002.
It is all about a group of 8 CGI Spyders, totally convincing going through a building looking for Tom Cruise. There is one tremendous shot of a floor with the Spyders going in and out of every single room, ending up in Cruise's room with the bath tub.
That scene is a triumph of set design, set decoration, costume design, cinematography, editing, directing, sound, sound editing and music.

From one of my all time favorites and best movie of 1997- L.A., Confidential:
Ed Exley and Jack Vincennes, policemen, walk into a resturaunt. They stop at a table occupied by a mobster and someone who looks like Lana Turner.
Mobster:"You want an autograph? write to MGM"
Exley:"Since when do Two-bit hoods and hookers give out autographs?"
Mobster:"What did you say to me?"
Exley:"LAPD. Sit down"
Turner:"Just who in the hell do you think you are?"
Vincennes:"Ed..."
Exley:"Take a hike honey, before I hawl your ass down town"
Mobster:"You are making a large mistake!"
Turner:"Get away from our table!"
Exley:"Shut up. A Hooker cut to look like Lana Turner is still a hooker"
Mobster:"Hey!"
Exley:"She just looks like Lana Turner"
Vincennes:"She is Lana Turner."
Exley:"What?"
Vincennes:"She is Lana Turner"
She throws her drink on Exley.

I tried to bring something from Wag the Dog, but all the great scenes in that movie have toomuch fantastic dialogue for one post.

Long post

This is probably the best oratorship in movie history. It is the opening scene from one of the best movies of all times, featuring one of the best performances of all times, and having an endlessly quotable script.

So, here it is - the opening Scene from Patton, where Patton (George C. Scott) speakes to his soldiers in front of a wall size American flag. (I'm skipping some parts)
"Now I want you to remember, that no bastard ever won a war by dying for his country. He won it by making the other poor dumb bastard die for his country. And Men, all this stuff you've heard about America not wanting to fight and wanting to stay out of the war- is a lot of horse-dung. Americans, traditionaly, love to fight. All real Americans love the sting of battle. Americans love a winner. And will not tolerate a winner. Americans play to win all the time! I wouldn't give a hootin' hell for some one who lost, and laughed. That's why America has never lost, and will never lose, a war- because the very thought of losing is hatefull to Americans.
"Now, The army- is a team. It lives, eats, sleeps, fights as a team. This individuality stuff is a bunch of crap. The rebellious bastards who wrote that stuff about individuality for the Satuday evening post, don't know anything more about real battle than they do about fornicating!
"You know, By god, I actualy pitty those poor bastard we're going up against, by god, I do. We're not just gonna shoot the bastards- we're gonna cut out their living guts and use them to grease the treds of our tanks. We're going to murder those lousy hun bastards by the bushell!
"Now, some of you boys, I know are wondering, whether or not you'll chicken out under fire. Don't worry about it. I can assure you that you will all do your duty. The Nazis are the enemy! Wade into them! Spill their blood! Shoot them in the belly! When you put your hand into a bunch of goo, that a moment before was your best freind's face- you'll know what to do
"Now, there's another thing I want you to remember. I don't want to get any messages saying that we are holding our position. We're not holding anything. Let the hun do that. We are advancing constantly and we're not interested in holding onto anything, except the enemy! We're going to hold on to him by the nose, and we're gonna kick 'em in the ass! We're gonna kick the hell out of him all the time and we're gonna go through him like crap through a goose!
"Now. There's one thing that you men will be able to say when you get home, and you may thank god for it. Thirty years from now, when you're sitting around your fireside with your grandson on your knee and he asks you, "What did you do in the great World War II," you won't have to say, "Well... I shoveled **** in Louisiana."

Now- an assortment of quotes:

Patton: "We're gonna keep fighting!! Is that CLEAR?!! We're gonna attack all night we're gonna attack the next morning!! If we're not VICTORIOUS!! Let no man come back alive!!!:

Codman: "You know General, sometimes the men don't know when you're acting."
Patton: "It's not important for them to know. It's only important for me to know."
Patton: "Rommel, you magnificent bastard! I read your book!"

[Visiting an ancient battlefield.]
Patton: "The Carthaginians defending the city were attacked by three Roman legions. The Carthaginians were proud and brave but they couldn't hold. They were massacred. Arab women stripped them of their tunics and their swords and lances. The soldiers lay naked in the sun. Two thousand years ago. I was here."

Patton: "There's only one proper way for a professional soldier to die: the last bullet of the last battle of the last war."

Patton: "For over a thousand years, Roman conquerors returning from the wars enjoyed the honor of a triumph -- a tumultuous parade. In the procession came trumpeters and musicians and strange animals from the conquered territories, together with carts laden with treasure and captured armaments. The conqueror rode in a triumphal chariot, the dazed prisoners walking in chains before him. Sometimes his children, robed in white, stood with him in the chariot, or rode the trace horses. A slave stood behind the conqueror, holding a golden crown, and whispering in his ear a warning: that all glory is fleeting."

General Omar Bradley: "There's one big difference between you and me, George. I do this job because I've been trained to do it. You do it because you LOVE it."

Patton: "I've Always felt that I was destined for some great achievement, what I don't know."
Meeks: "Yes, Sir."
Patton: "The last great opportunity of a lifetime- an ENTIRE WORLD, AT WAR, AND I'M LEFT OUT OF IT? GOD will not permit this to happen- I will be ALLOWED, to FULLFILL MY DESTINY! His will be done."

Patton: "In about fifteen minutes, we're going to start turning these boys into fanatics - razors. They'll lose their fear of the Germans. I only hope to God they never lose their fear of me."

Soldier: "Where ya goin', General?:
Patton: "Berlin! I'm going to personally shoot that paper-hangin' sonofa*****!"

Soldier Who Gets Slapped: "It's my nerves, sir. I just can't stand the shelling anymore."
Patton: "Your *nerves*? Why hell, you're just a goddamn coward!"
[slaps him]
Patton: "Shut up! I won't have a yellow bastard sitting here crying in front of these brave men who've been wounded in battle! SHUT UP!"
[slaps him again]

Patton: "I don't know why, but the image of a bullet coming straight for my nose was more horrifying than anything else."
Bradley: "Well, I can understand that, George, it's such a handsome nose."