Comic and certified geekHal Sparkswho seems to be playing essentially himself.
It is a pretty good one.
In one memorable elevator encounter, Ellen pushes all of Jonathan’s buttons.
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18.Top Gun
Elevator flirting didn’t start withMeredith and Derek.
Glad we got that straight?
Now get your bony ass out of my sight!"
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Tess' victory is ours.
Suck it, Katherine.
Other times, they have a go at create a little suspense.
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For 37 seconds, she tries to reach the hands of shark wrangler, played byThomas Jane.
Then, she disappears.
15.Speed(1994)
Everyone knew about the bus.
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Bob, what button did you push?")
That was a tension-filled surprise.
(“My shoe!")
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A good start to a great action film that EW gave an A. M.B.
Worse still, Roger is with his mother.
That Hitchcock and his mother issues.
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12.
S.G.
12.
Did we mention hot?
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But don’t underestimate those extraterrestrial noggins.
Was it worth the boiled bunny, dude?
7.Grey’s Anatomy(2009)
Romance, thy name is, er, elevator.
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At least it is onGrey’s Anatomy.
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6.Inception(2010)
How do you drop someone in zero gravity?
However, that’s still not the best elevator scene in the movie.
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Happy Holidays, indeed.
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3.L.A.
Law(1991)
It was the fall heard ‘round the pop-culture universe.
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Back in the days before TV spoilers were an internet inevitability, NBC’sL.A.
They can only go up and down.
They can’t go any higher than the top floor.
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I’m getting bored just talking about it.
Buy your kids a copy ofCharlie and the Great Glass Elevator.
Beware: may cause imaginations to wander.
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1.The Shining(1980)
This movie contains maybe the mostterrifying single shot in movie history.
(Most definitely thefreakiest trailer ever.)
Blood slowly seeps through an elevator, splashing across a corridor, moving inexorably toward the camera.
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Later parodied brilliantly byThe Simpsons: “That’s strange.
The blood usually gets off on thesecondfloor.”
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