3x3: best swimming pool scenes

Movies
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Having been recently subjected to a truly awful example of a swimming pool scene, we got to thinking about how many great pool scenes there are in movies. Thus, this 3x3 about our favorite pool scenes, which discussion launches at the 1:37 mark of the Qt3 Movie Podcast of Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy.

Tom Chick
3. Hesher: throwing junk into the pool
2. Burnt Offerings: father and son horseplay in the pool gets a little out of hand

  1. Let the Right One In: enough said

Kelly Wand
3. Let the Right One In: enough said again
2. The Human Centipede (First Sequence): Dr. Laser’s magical pool cover

  1. They Came from Within aka Shivers: don’t want to spoil it

Dingus
3. The Descendants: dad gives his daughter bad news
2. Rushmore: Ronny and Donny’s birthday party, Herman Blume, golf balls

  1. Let the Right One In: seriously? real original guys

So what are your favorite swimming pool scenes? Hopefully you’re smarter than we are and can think of something other than your favorite movie from 2008.

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Cat People, the Val Lewton original.

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Cocoon
Fast Times at Ridgemont High
It’s a Wonderful Life

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The Swimmer

Caddyshack

Sunset Boulevard

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Good one.

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First one that came to my mind.

Kids: The sound it makes.

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Fast Times and Wild Things. Is there something sexier than a woman climbing a pool ladder? I think not.

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The remake wasn’t too bad, either. Annette O’Toole looked fine.

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  1. Fast Times at Ridgemont High, and by extension every scene from every 80s movie with a hot chick climbing out of a pool
    2. Caddyshack
    1. Poltergeist

Honorable Mention: Altered States

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Caddyshack

“Spaulding! NO!”

Boogie Nights, starting at 2:30 is one of my favorite tracking shots, as well as a perfect intersection of music and film.

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To echo: Good one. My wife and I just watched this (rewatch for me) because TCMHD was going nuts with the Tournier/Lewton pics during Halloween. Goddamn that movie is still awesome, and that pool scene is fucking incredible.

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The Graduate.

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The Faculty.

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Excellent picks so far. No one said Showgirls? Good.

I AM A GOLDEN GOD from Almost Famous.

Getting a Mogwai wet at the pool in Gremlins, although i may be conflating it with A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors.

Unbreakable, because swimming pool covers were Bruce Willis’ Kryptonite.

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Fast Times At Ridgemont High was the first in my mind, too.

I want to say Cocoon because I remember a swimming pool scene but I don’t REALLY remember the details all that well. And I can’t think of any others.

OH! The “Nihalist” scene, Big Lebowski.

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Christmas Vacation Clark imaging the innocent fun of having the pool in the backyard before it turns not-so-innocent.

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That was in Christmas Vacation?

I remember the pool scene from plain, old Vacation, definitely.

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What? No love for Sexy Beast? With the boulder in the pool?

I would link a picture, but the actor is wearing such a tight yellow speedo, you can tell his religion.

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History of the World Part I-
“We flattened their fingers, we branded their buns!
Nothing is working! Send in the nuns!”

Only one I could think of that wasn’t already mentioned, but my other two were Caddy Shack and Fast Times

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People have already named mine, but anyway.

  1. Fast Times at Ridgemont High
  2. Unbreakable
  3. Let the Right One In

Honorable mentions:

Cocoon, because the swimming pool is a central focus of the movie.
Wild Things. Goddamn.
Does the moon pool in The Abyss count?