13. Mike Leaves A Message Or Two, Or Three, Or... - Swingers
Before proving his manhood by directing Iron Man, Jon Favreau was portraying the ultimate sap looking for love in the trendy dives and hangouts of Los Angeles in the film Swingers. One night whilst out with the boys, Mike (Favreau) musters enough courage and charm to coax a phone number off of a girl, Nikki (Brooke Langton). Later that same night - as he sits alone in his flat, bored and lonely - he decides to call her. Since it's already late at night, he gets her voice machine and leaves a quick, slightly awkward message. However, the voice machine cuts him off before he can dish out his complete phone number so, naturally, he calls and gets her machine once again. Everything quickly spirals downward from there. He ends up leaving a total of six messages in the span of less than three minutes. By the last message, he's telling her machine that things between them aren't going to work out and that: "It's not you, it's me." Mike's cringe-worthy monologue descends into "complete nightmare: when Nikki actually picks up the phone and Mike realizes she has been listening the whole time. She promptly tells him to never call her again and poor Mike is left holding the phone with nothing but a dial tone and a pair of inverted testicles. Ugh.