"It's not true. Some of us have great stories, pretty stories that take place at lakes, with boats and friends, and noodle salad. Just...no one in this car." lol
Sure, but there is a guy named Jack Nicholson in the back seat of the car, he doesn't need to talk, his body langage alone is above everything, masterclass !!! Huge Helen Hun's fan here though.
I laughed so hard at Jack's character when I saw this at the theater when I was 17....I didn't realize at the time, that I would turn into him eventually.
Man. These supposedly sensitive and caring characters can't seem to understand the guy in the backseat is screaming in pain the only way he knows how. He doesn't cry and he doesn't tell sappy stories but he went through the same horror of an abusive father the other fella went through and nobody gives a damn. Really realistic writing and good acting all around.
Bitter experience has led me to conclude that a man who displays his vulnerbilities is regarded as weak and a man who doesnt is called insensitive. Those who are first to proclaim their compassion should be the last to be trusted. Redemption and consolation often comes from the corner where it is least expected and from the person who was least throught to be a friend, not because of who we are or because of our hurt or our need but because of who they are and that they cannot live without doing the right thing, simply because its right.
The guy in the backseat locked his feelings up. It is the hearing of the stories that starts opening his heart to the realization that other people are suffering too! Thought I would try to help you understand the context of the movie.
I think Jack’s statement was spot on. Lots of people I meet didn’t have any traumatic upbringing or scenarios in their childhood/adolescence. For lots of people life was just good
@@ratholin what an ignorant comment... You're saying that is a matter of resilience, that everyone has had the exact same form of experience, uh? No difference if you grow up in a country in war vs a country in peace time? No difference if you grow up in an abusive household vs a family with caring parents? No difference if you have a house or if you haven't? Life isn't the same for everyone. And I am sorry that you feel this way because it makes me think you might have absorbed a lot of trauma and you are holding it in... but it's not fair that you blame other people like the one who made the comment or myself, who can't overcome our traumatic experiences because they're is just too much. I'm sorry, I usually don't engage in this kind of conversations, but your comment was a good excuse for me to vent, since I am fighting against that precise introjection that our society has incepted in all of us. In case you don't know, it's called ableism.
@@TheHexeract they kinda did, yeah, read the comment I was responding to. It's ableist to say that people "use trauma as an excuse", or to imply that people who can't overcome their trauma are failures.
He knows he won. The original comment is making a joke that this one action is the reason he won the Oscar. Therefore, he already knows he won it, so what are the point of these replies.
Jack's jealous body language as he watches Helen tap kiss Greg is so good. And the little ONWARD hand gesture he does at the end...punctuated the moment
I agree with him. It bugs me that other people have it better. Not because I prefer more people to suffer, but because it reminds me of what it could have been and isn't. 🥺
But that's the subtext that's played here. They know it is true to some extent. They say no but their body language and defensive delivery gives it away.
@@husseinandout3867 I had this problem as a teenager, long before social media, growing up as an ugly little runt, while my best friend was being offered modeling contracts and drowning in female attention. I know that being envious is a flaw in my character, but everything that I tried to do to find some other kind of happiness in life has always been out of reach, and I just don't know how to cope with having absolutely nothing that I wanted in life.
Every line, vocal tone, mannerisms, body language, gestures from every body part , pulls of emotions, silences is why he is one of the best, if not the best actor.
Everyone always talks about Jack and Helen's performance but I think Greg kinnear gets over shadowed, Jack and Helen each earned their Oscar's but Greg always seems to be forgotten. He held his own in this film.
I made pasta salad this weekend and my boyfriend called it noodle salad. I knew I had heard that somewhere and thought it was Jack. So I googled Jack Nicholson and noodle salad. Proved to my BF I wasn't crazy.
I really love this scene. The others get the pain and he knows they feel the same pain of trauma he feels, but they don't want to admit it and Melvin has developed to the point where he can say it rather than obscuring his true emotions.
People who were abused often perpetuate the cycle against others. Often, but not always. It depends on the person and how they deal with it. Becoming mean and abusive oneself is obviously an unhealthy way to deal with it. But Jack's character grows over the course of the story, and it shows that someone can break that cycle if they work on healthier ways as adults to process what happened to them as kids.
@@GoodmanMIke59 probably when he mentions that "his father used to hit him in the hands with a yardstick, everytime he messed up playing the piano"... not in this specific clip, but in the scene altogether...
@@jcmat9917 lol...that is why the others couldn't take him seriously. Because his most traumatic experience is being hit when making a mistake in the piano. Melvin was not abused at all.
Ha ha, Jack has got his number. That is one of the worst places to be. In the company of someone who no matter what you say and others may think of you, there is that one person who can see right through you to the point of you hating them because you know they are right.
The dialogue in this movie is brilliant. Jack's delivery, of course, is necessary to wring out all of the greatness. My other favorite is, "how do you write women so well?" "I think of a man and take away reason and accountability"
Man Jack Nicholson is an amazing actor, you cand see that he is moved and hurt about what happened to Simon and can barely keep it together. You can see and feel that he has his own luggages of pain to carry, but he acts different in compare to Simon, in truth deep down they are the same and you can see their characters development towards the end of the movie when they start to grow on each other. Amazing movie !
This is the sort of a movie that you can watch to enjoy and laugh or to ponder life and maybe even to learn a thing or two, I wish they would make more movies like this one, I haven't seen or heard about one in recent years.
I might be mistaken but Here I go: During Jack's noodle monologue, for a brief moment Helen hunt believes him and she knows that there is some true in his words, but being who she is, she doesn't want to accepted therefore she denied. Her smile while telling "I don't think so" is to forced.
Yeah you're right. Both Hunt and Kinnear played it as though they knew it was true and their denial of it at the end of the scene is half-assed on purpose.
I think what Jack meant by other people “having good lives” means that the rest of us, who had traumatic lives, can look at these people “having good lives” and be inspired and learn by example. It’s like an indirect way of saying “look for what good there in any situation otherwise it’ll eat you up”
" Lakes, Boats, And Friends & Noodle Salad!!! LOL 🤣🤣🤣 This Is Something Extremely Extraordinary". (Only Mr. Jack Nicholson)😂😂😂 This Movie Is Quite Sesnseful, Charming And Compelling!!!♥️
It's not just you. It's the intent of the scene. They disagree with him outloud but look at their defensive body language and delivery. They knew it was in part true.
What makes it actually bad is we expect too much from people who we call close to us, that's what leads to a father abusing his son. A wife leaving her husband. It's like a disease, we want everything to be perfect and when it's not we see the noodle salad crowd and get pissed. Truth is the noodle salad crowd accept how things are, that's what keeps their minds free to enjoy life.
I, personally, believe that the vast majority of us have BOTH-many of us have these “terrible stories to get over,” TOGETHER with “great stories, pretty stories…good times, noodle salad.” Life isn’t always one-sided. Correct me if I’m wrong, but wasn’t that the point of the Simon & Garfunkel song, “Always Look At the Bright Side of Your Life?”
As I write this, I am sitting here eating noodle salad while offshore in my sailboat. I am having a GREAT time right now and very happy you're all pissed that I'm having it good...
It's painful truth that seldomly gets out there, specially in movies. So many had easy, comfortable lives with no problems, no pain, no suffering. I know a few. Usually attractive women, but that's not always the case.
@@stephenraynes2148 A few do, due to circumstances that may take place in their lives. But the majority of attractive women won life's lottery. Life's gonna be easy and comfortable for them. And you know it.
@@ricarleite Well you're not 100% wrong. Studies have shown the benefit of being attractive (male or female) in terms of employment, wage earning, relationships etc) but also attractive men and women aren't immune from grief, mental illness, relationship breakdowns, or illness, chronic or otherwise.
@@stephenraynes2148 I am not saying they are immune. I am just saying that, statistically, being an attractive woman gives you a better chance of having a happy life, with little troubles or problems. The order in life lottery is attractive women first (being born a woman and attractive being the most lucky element of ones life), followed by attractive man, then unattractive man and finally unattractive woman.
Jack Nicholson. 0:06 One flip of an eyebrow and the shades go on.
How epic is this guy?
I thought I was the only one who noticed that--wanna start a club?
Pfft, I do that shit all the time...
Everybody noticed it.
Mikael Ulibarri he is the coolest, best actor ever!
EPIC
"It's not true. Some of us have great stories, pretty stories that take place at lakes, with boats and friends, and noodle salad. Just...no one in this car." lol
Great line 😆
I think that’s most people’s lives. I mean the “no one in this car” 😆 But there ARE some, he is right. Hahaha
One of my favorite scenes... so much truth being spilled on this scene
@That Girl great scene...
😆
I hope that everyone appreciates how great an actress Helen Hunt is.
I do. Great work
Her face puts me to sleep.
@@therealwilfreddierkes9980 what a gift she has.
Sure, but there is a guy named Jack Nicholson in the back seat of the car, he doesn't need to talk, his body langage alone is above everything, masterclass !!!
Huge Helen Hun's fan here though.
She won an oscar for it. 🎉
I laughed so hard at Jack's character when I saw this at the theater when I was 17....I didn't realize at the time, that I would turn into him eventually.
if he wasn’t acting the world would be a better place,we don’t need them
@@bidensucsbigdickskalmadrin6877 he’s the greatest actor of all time.
It does happen.
Jack would be a lot more fun at a picnic .
Happened to me as well.
Man. These supposedly sensitive and caring characters can't seem to understand the guy in the backseat is screaming in pain the only way he knows how. He doesn't cry and he doesn't tell sappy stories but he went through the same horror of an abusive father the other fella went through and nobody gives a damn. Really realistic writing and good acting all around.
Well said.
Always thought that.
Well, Carol and Simón consider Melvin a piece of crap, that why they didnt care.
Bitter experience has led me to conclude that a man who displays his vulnerbilities is regarded as weak and a man who doesnt is called insensitive. Those who are first to proclaim their compassion should be the last to be trusted. Redemption and consolation often comes from the corner where it is least expected and from the person who was least throught to be a friend, not because of who we are or because of our hurt or our need but because of who they are and that they cannot live without doing the right thing, simply because its right.
The guy in the backseat locked his feelings up. It is the hearing of the stories that starts opening his heart to the realization that other people are suffering too! Thought I would try to help you understand the context of the movie.
I think Jack’s statement was spot on. Lots of people I meet didn’t have any traumatic upbringing or scenarios in their childhood/adolescence. For lots of people life was just good
or they managed to absorb their trauma instead of making it an excuse to fail for the rest of their lives.
@@ratholin what an ignorant comment... You're saying that is a matter of resilience, that everyone has had the exact same form of experience, uh? No difference if you grow up in a country in war vs a country in peace time? No difference if you grow up in an abusive household vs a family with caring parents? No difference if you have a house or if you haven't?
Life isn't the same for everyone. And I am sorry that you feel this way because it makes me think you might have absorbed a lot of trauma and you are holding it in... but it's not fair that you blame other people like the one who made the comment or myself, who can't overcome our traumatic experiences because they're is just too much.
I'm sorry, I usually don't engage in this kind of conversations, but your comment was a good excuse for me to vent, since I am fighting against that precise introjection that our society has incepted in all of us. In case you don't know, it's called ableism.
sure some of us dont have traumatic experiences, but most certainly life is not always just happy and "noodle salad"
@@LluviaSelenita no one said that
@@TheHexeract they kinda did, yeah, read the comment I was responding to. It's ableist to say that people "use trauma as an excuse", or to imply that people who can't overcome their trauma are failures.
"good times, noodle salad"
0:07 Jack Nicholson deserved the Oscar just for this 😂😂
He Actually Received An Academy Award For This Movie. (Best Actor)😃😃😃
You know he win the Oscar right
He knows he won. The original comment is making a joke that this one action is the reason he won the Oscar. Therefore, he already knows he won it, so what are the point of these replies.
Jack's jealous body language as he watches Helen tap kiss Greg is so good.
And the little ONWARD hand gesture he does at the end...punctuated the moment
He's like, how dare you?
I agree with him. It bugs me that other people have it better. Not because I prefer more people to suffer, but because it reminds me of what it could have been and isn't. 🥺
But that's the subtext that's played here. They know it is true to some extent. They say no but their body language and defensive delivery gives it away.
Yeah...
This film is an absolute masterpiece
One of my all time favs
this is nearly a perfect movie, I agree.
The only blemish here is the obvious lack of sexual chemistry between Nicholson and Hunt.
not really
I just LOVE Jack Nicholson!
Greg Kinnear should have won an Oscar for this
no, Robin Williams beat him to it.
@@sumanabhattacharjee2119Tough competition that year
bangerang.
No shame in losing to Robin Williams.
I mean, Greg did deserve the Oscar, but so did Robin Williams.
Kinnear is pretty amazing and unexpected in this picture. Superior performance.
"What makes it so hard is not that you had it bad, but you're that pissed that so many others had it good."
Gospel right there.
Aged well with the creation of social media lol
Amen
o yeah. Same here!
Absolute Bravo!!!💯👏🏿👏🏿
@@husseinandout3867 I had this problem as a teenager, long before social media, growing up as an ugly little runt, while my best friend was being offered modeling contracts and drowning in female attention. I know that being envious is a flaw in my character, but everything that I tried to do to find some other kind of happiness in life has always been out of reach, and I just don't know how to cope with having absolutely nothing that I wanted in life.
love it when jack drops the glasses.
Every passing year I’m becoming more and more Melvin.
Best line from any movie I have ever seen. He nails it.
iconic scene
What I like is how mean he seems yet how observant he is of every word.
This has to be one of my favorite scenes in all of movie history. Ha!
me to
All of movie history?
@@cristianhcm1914 Right!!!😂😂😂
Every line, vocal tone, mannerisms, body language, gestures from every body part , pulls of emotions, silences is why he is one of the best, if not the best actor.
I would go with Tracey....
Ask Angelica!
Best scene ever with the most clever dialogue...good times and noodle salad!
Every once in a while someone will say something so simple and true that will save someone years of therapy. Good job Jack!
That's the point of life good times noodle salad live simple the key to life
Another wad of sweaty money out of his hand lmao
He is 101% right
Lakes Boats, friends and noddel salad, just no one in this car 😄💀
"....................just no one in this car............"
lololololol my fave part 😂
Everyone always talks about Jack and Helen's performance but I think Greg kinnear gets over shadowed, Jack and Helen each earned their Oscar's but Greg always seems to be forgotten.
He held his own in this film.
Absolutely. He is an amazing actor. Possibly in my top 5 along with Nicholson.
I made pasta salad this weekend and my boyfriend called it noodle salad. I knew I had heard that somewhere and thought it was Jack. So I googled Jack Nicholson and noodle salad. Proved to my BF I wasn't crazy.
Plot twist: Your boyfriend is actually a mannequin.
Great your bf has u as gf
"you're piss not because you had it bad, but because there are many that had it good" He is right about that.
I really love this scene. The others get the pain and he knows they feel the same pain of trauma he feels, but they don't want to admit it and Melvin has developed to the point where he can say it rather than obscuring his true emotions.
1:26 Truer words were never spoken
The final line in this clip is brilliant. 🤣
I like it to its funny
It took me years to realize that Jack's character was abused by his father as well and this was his way of dealing with it.
People who were abused often perpetuate the cycle against others.
Often, but not always. It depends on the person and how they deal with it. Becoming mean and abusive oneself is obviously an unhealthy way to deal with it. But Jack's character grows over the course of the story, and it shows that someone can break that cycle if they work on healthier ways as adults to process what happened to them as kids.
Where in the movie does Melvin indicate abuse?
@@GoodmanMIke59 probably when he mentions that "his father used to hit him in the hands with a yardstick, everytime he messed up playing the piano"... not in this specific clip, but in the scene altogether...
@@jcmat9917 that hardly ranks up there with being beaten to a pulp....
@@jcmat9917 lol...that is why the others couldn't take him seriously. Because his most traumatic experience is being hit when making a mistake in the piano. Melvin was not abused at all.
That’s what I want on my headstone:
Good times, noodle salad.
Ha ha, Jack has got his number. That is one of the worst places to be. In the company of someone who no matter what you say and others may think of you, there is that one person who can see right through you to the point of you hating them because you know they are right.
The dialogue in this movie is brilliant. Jack's delivery, of course, is necessary to wring out all of the greatness. My other favorite is, "how do you write women so well?" "I think of a man and take away reason and accountability"
Omg Jack is my obsession
In this movie, particularly in the entire road trip sequence, mine too.
Nicholson is brilliant in this
"Anyone who's interested in what Melvin has to say, raise your hand!"
"Just no one in this car" - Lol
the thing is Jack's character isn't too far from who he really is
How do you know?
@@JimmyFranceable he doesn't
But to be to able to hone that using a rigid script takes talent.
I LOVE GREG KINNEAR
Fact was he was telling them the truth and they knew but are too self righteous to admit it. Lol
Man Jack Nicholson is an amazing actor, you cand see that he is moved and hurt about what happened to Simon and can barely keep it together. You can see and feel that he has his own luggages of pain to carry, but he acts different in compare to Simon, in truth deep down they are the same and you can see their characters development towards the end of the movie when they start to grow on each other. Amazing movie !
Noodle salad! 🤣 I remember my family having that in the summers at picnics when I was a kid!
This is the sort of a movie that you can watch to enjoy and laugh or to ponder life and maybe even to learn a thing or two, I wish they would make more movies like this one, I haven't seen or heard about one in recent years.
I often quote this line when someone says 'Good times'
It just falls out right?
He right though😄
Boats and friends and noodle salad.
😅
I forget how much I love this movie!
Nicholson. The best. What a face.
you're that pissed that so many others had it good.... :o
My dad and I love quoting Jack's line about "good times, noodle salad", though my dad admits that I do a much better impression of Jack than he does.
Just no one in this car 😂😂😂😂
The definition of Based.
I heard that Jack Nicholson and Bryan Robson are best friends.
Good times,noodle salad
My father gave me a big sweaty bowl of noodle salad.
I live my life by that quote......... i love noodle salad and sweaty money you cant any better then that
The sunglasses falling into place by themselves is so J. Nicholson.
'Pissed that so many others had it good' 😂😅
JACK IS THE BEST
Jack's eyes, oh boy. ❤️👍
Victim versus survivor mentality.
Greg should’ve got the best supporting actor Oscar
It's ironic that Jack's character ALSO has had a fairly unhappy past as well....
+colderbeer
Both have deep childhood wounds caused by their father yet Carol shows sympathy for Simon and disdain for
Melvin.
It's not, he's just stating that it's the past and you move on and just try to have food times and remember those times instead.
I might be mistaken but Here I go: During Jack's noodle monologue, for a brief moment Helen hunt believes him and she knows that there is some true in his words, but being who she is, she doesn't want to accepted therefore she denied.
Her smile while telling "I don't think so" is to forced.
Yeah you're right. Both Hunt and Kinnear played it as though they knew it was true and their denial of it at the end of the scene is half-assed on purpose.
Carol! all u do is make me feel bad about myself! 😠 Melvin talking to his doctor in the office.......HELP! 😊👍💜
Seriously, Nicholson could read the friggin' alphabet and make it sound cool.
If you pause it at 0.28 his eyebrows and his laugh lines form a perfect letter X across his face
It's not about being pissed at other people. I just hate it when happy people complain about problems when many others have it much worse.
I’m the one in the back of the car!!!
I think what Jack meant by other people “having good lives” means that the rest of us, who had traumatic lives, can look at these people “having good lives” and be inspired and learn by example. It’s like an indirect way of saying “look for what good there in any situation otherwise it’ll eat you up”
" Lakes, Boats, And Friends & Noodle Salad!!! LOL 🤣🤣🤣 This Is Something Extremely Extraordinary". (Only Mr. Jack Nicholson)😂😂😂
This Movie Is Quite Sesnseful, Charming And Compelling!!!♥️
The older I get, the more I understand the message behind this scene
No one in this car 😂
Is it just me, or was Melvin so right?
he was right.
He was right.
It's not just you. It's the intent of the scene. They disagree with him outloud but look at their defensive body language and delivery. They knew it was in part true.
They should make a part 2 of this movie
Does anyone else consider what Simon's mom did as a form of grooming and abuse?
100%.
Good times!! Noodle Salad!!
What makes it actually bad is we expect too much from people who we call close to us, that's what leads to a father abusing his son. A wife leaving her husband. It's like a disease, we want everything to be perfect and when it's not we see the noodle salad crowd and get pissed. Truth is the noodle salad crowd accept how things are, that's what keeps their minds free to enjoy life.
Wow. That makes a lot of sense. I have always said myself, that the key to happiness is lowering your expectations.
BS
IMO this is complimentary to the "You can do your homework IN THE BOAT!" scene from The Breakfast Club
What makes it so hard is not that you had it bad but that you’re that pissed that so many had it good
He tells the truth..but you can't handle the truth!!
I, personally, believe that the vast majority of us have BOTH-many of us have these “terrible stories to get over,” TOGETHER with “great stories, pretty stories…good times, noodle salad.” Life isn’t always one-sided.
Correct me if I’m wrong, but wasn’t that the point of the Simon & Garfunkel song, “Always Look At the Bright Side of Your Life?”
Good times and noodle salad lol
so true melvin was right about everything
so ahead of his time
Sums me up pretty well
Love this scene so sad
Not it at all, huh? Lol
Hilarious!! 🤣🤣🤣🤣
As I write this, I am sitting here eating noodle salad while offshore in my sailboat.
I am having a GREAT time right now and very happy you're all pissed that I'm having it good...
I am happy for you, stay well. Never, ever envious.
not it at all...
Life changes for everyone!
+Lindsey Burns and good times noodle salad!
Jeffrey Ingraham
I am down for some noodle salad.
This movie and the departed were his last two great movies
Envy is one of the deadliest sins.
So is Wrath.
I love this bit!
Anger management before it was made
It's painful truth that seldomly gets out there, specially in movies. So many had easy, comfortable lives with no problems, no pain, no suffering. I know a few. Usually attractive women, but that's not always the case.
Attractive women don't suffer? Wow.
@@stephenraynes2148 A few do, due to circumstances that may take place in their lives. But the majority of attractive women won life's lottery. Life's gonna be easy and comfortable for them. And you know it.
@@ricarleite Well you're not 100% wrong. Studies have shown the benefit of being attractive (male or female) in terms of employment, wage earning, relationships etc) but also attractive men and women aren't immune from grief, mental illness, relationship breakdowns, or illness, chronic or otherwise.
@@stephenraynes2148 I am not saying they are immune. I am just saying that, statistically, being an attractive woman gives you a better chance of having a happy life, with little troubles or problems. The order in life lottery is attractive women first (being born a woman and attractive being the most lucky element of ones life), followed by attractive man, then unattractive man and finally unattractive woman.
They don't know Jac.. but Jac knows them..lol I like Jack 👍. I like this sceen his best work real life...
Deal with it
👍
being bitter is hard.