Hello, readers.  Here is a nonsensical list of movies I like that have phone booth moments in them.  The movie, Phone Booth does not make the list because it sucks.  Too bad only period piece movies have phone booths anymore.  My mom also wanted me to include, Hopscotch, with Walter Matthau, but I never even heard of it.  However, after looking it up I need to watch it.  Enjoy, tell me what you think or how there is no point to this list and I am an idiot.   

9.  La Bamba.  Good movie about the short and successful life of Ricardo Valenzuela, better known as Ritchie Valens.  Most of you all know Valens' fate, boarded a plane in a snow storm with Buddy Holly and the Big Bopper.  They didn't survive but their music and mythos have.  But do you recall the scene where Ritchie is wooing the girl he likes, Donna, over the phone with a song he wrote just for her?  O, Donna became a smash hit and helped propel Ritchie Valens to rock 'n roll superstardom.   

8.  Commando.  Schwarzenegger is awesome and so are all his movies.  In this one, Ah-nuld, is Matrix, an ex-Special Forces guy looking for his daughter after his old buddies tried to persuade him to join a nefarious scheme in a made up country.  Matrix has a kick-ass shopping mall fight with about two dozen rent-a-cops during a pivotal scene, but my favorite moment is when Matrix picks the phone booth up and flips it over his shoulder so that Sully can't complete a call.  Genius.  

7.  Superman II.  Zod, Ursa, and Non wreak breathy havoc on NYC after the citizens think Supes is dead.  Fun phone booth scene when a booth gets blown over and goes cruising down the sidewalk with the guy still in it.  I apologize for the clip, I could only find it en espanol.  

6.  Anchorman.  Will Ferrell is "in a glass case of emotion," a.k.a. a phone booth, after his dog, Baxter is punted off a bridge in Anchorman.  Not a pivotal scene, much like the rest of this list, but the movie cracks me up.  Psst, sequel coming, too.

5.  Die Hard 3.  Samuel L. Jackson, the man who made more movies during the '90s than any other actor, save maybe for Ron Jeremy, joins Bruce Willis' Det. McClane in a pretty good Die Hard sequel.  In this 1995 movie, bad guy Jeremy Irons sends McClane and new best buddy, Zeus (Jackson) on a wild goose chase.  There are a few phone booth moments for McClane and Zeus as they race around NYC answering stupid riddles.  The best one is when McClane and Zeus are slow to answer a riddle and think a bomb is going to go off.  After they dive to the ground a guy hands Zeus a dollar and says, "Welcome to New York."  Jackson has another phone booth moment in Changing Lanes.  

4.  Terminator 2.  "Your foster parents are dead," proclaims Arnold's cyborg from the future to teenage John Conner after they make a phone booth call home.  T-2 raised the special effects bar in 1992 that lasted until 99's Matrix introduced us to "bullet-vision."  Schwarzenegger may or may not be in May's Terminator: Salvation (starring Christian Bale) but he still owns the role.   

3.  Superman.  My second favorite Superman movie is the first one that introduced us to Christopher Reeve as the Man of Steel.  It still holds up today and the special effects are actually better than Superman IV which was made eight years later.  This funny phone booth moment finds Clark desperately searching for a place to change when he happens upon an open-faced phone booth.  It poked fun at the mythos of Superman and made for a dramatic change into Superman in the next scene.  Hey, if Superman is faster than a speeding bullet, why can't he just change out in the open?  

2.  Rain Man.   Best Picture winner in 1988 teamed Tom Cruise and Dustin Hoffman together in a story that places two completely different people together, but they happen to be related and years apart.  Cruise finds out he has a much older, autistic brother, who just happens to be worth a lot of money.  The movie is about how love and brotherhood can overcome greed.  The classic phone booth moment occurs when Cruise is on the phone while Hoffman stands right next to him in the booth.  In the movie Cruise reacts after Hoffman passes gas.  This wasn't scripted and director Barry Levinson wisely kept it in the movie.  

1.  Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure.  This movie is not a favorite of mine, but it is a classic.  It stars a pre-fame Keanu Reeves and a "what happened to that guy" Alex Winter as two burn-out high schoolers on the verge of failing their senior project.  Just when all hope seems to be lost a mysterious dude, Roofus (played by the late-great George Carlin), shows up in a time-traveling phone booth.  You know the rest, and yes, unfortunately that phone booth dialed up a superstar career for Reeves.