rdbrewer -- Sunday, April 17, 2005 -- 02:43:54 PM --
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The ship is sinking. People are screaming, falling to their deaths. Jack and Rose make it to the railing. Rose says, "Jack, this is where we first met!" --Titanic
Sejarez -- Sunday, April 17, 2005 -- 04:00:06 PM --
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Hand-built by robots
Daughter of wicked queen/witch betrays her for love and switches to the good guys side.
Queen/witch:"I must despise you now!"
It's so bad that I have stolen it for my own despising.
Jeter -- Sunday, April 17, 2005 -- 08:23:57 PM --
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And so it was that later...
as the miller told his tale
that her face, at first just ghostly,
turned a whiter shade of pale....
Rhett Butler: I don't give a darn.
The Boston version.
(Deleted message originally posted by ShelbyD on Monday, April 18, 2005 -- 12:06:08 AM.)
GregD -- Monday, April 18, 2005 -- 12:07:27 AM --
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Let not mankind bogart love.
"Nobody puts Baby in the corner." - Dirty Dancing
VanPear -- Monday, April 18, 2005 -- 07:39:40 AM --
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"All I care about is me and my guitar and you." -Some Kind of Wonderful
(was it "guitar"? now I can't remember)
Marcasite -- Monday, April 18, 2005 -- 08:17:37 AM --
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"No Springsteen is leaving this house!" -- Judd Nelson, St. Elmo's Fire
Babylon Sister -- Monday, April 18, 2005 -- 08:49:23 AM --
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It was drums, Van.
"Chrissy, bring me the big knife!" - Nicolas Cage, Moonstruck.
Scarface Claw -- Monday, April 18, 2005 -- 09:28:00 AM --
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Loads of class and all of it third.
"Is it raining? I didn't notice." - Andie McDowall, Four Weddings And a Funeral
Frank Black -- Monday, April 18, 2005 -- 11:02:54 AM --
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Come over to the dark side. . . .we have cookies.
"Come on, Big D, flyyyyyyyy. . .", The Hunt for Red October.
VanPear -- Monday, April 18, 2005 -- 11:32:35 AM --
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DRUMS! How could I have forgotten such a key point?
Stinkerbelle -- Monday, April 18, 2005 -- 12:11:24 PM --
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"Was that cannon fire, or is it my heart pounding?" - Casablanca
Ellie -- Monday, April 18, 2005 -- 12:23:06 PM --
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"I'd like that" every woman ever responding to the request for a date/coffee/marriage. Who the hell SAYS that?
SarahLiz -- Monday, April 18, 2005 -- 02:14:06 PM --
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Don't Panic.
"Vaya con dios." - Keanu, Point Break
Anna Trueblood -- Monday, April 18, 2005 -- 02:27:29 PM --
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"I'm just a girl, standing in front of a boy, asking him to love her."
Echolalia -- Monday, April 18, 2005 -- 02:44:27 PM --
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The guy who hypnotized me also sings backup vocals on my new record. They’re out of tune, but effective. -- Hawksley Workman
Oh. Thank you, Anna. I had almost forgotten.
I'm fond of the really bad lines from Prince movies. This one is more the delivery than the words, but:
Prince: "Making it - is that what turns you on?"
Appolonia, chipper: "It'd be nice."
Appolonia, suddenly husky and dramatic: "It's all I dream about."
Appolonia, now made of wood and overenunciating like a madwoman: "And you? What do you dream about?"
And from Graffiti Bridge, after Prince has saved whatsername from a date-rape situation, carried her unconscious over his shoulder to his lair, and when she woke up, refused to speak but made her play a bad game of Hangman in which the solution is "mine":
Whatsername, pointing heavenward: "No, baby. His."
Nicholas Kronos -- Monday, April 18, 2005 -- 02:58:04 PM --
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"If you want more of something, subsidize it; if you want less of something, tax it." Ronald Reagan
"Want me to take my clothes off?"
Joe Don Baker as Mitchell.
rdbrewer -- Monday, April 18, 2005 -- 03:28:04 PM --
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Haughty bad guy, Mr. Bigshot, head of EvilCorp, in a limo talking to a familiar about the good guy (paraphrasing the familiar):
FAMILIAR: Graduated magna com laude. He has Ph.D's in physics and chemistry. He's in our research and technology department. He designs . . .
MR. BIGSHOT: <arrogant, gruff> He's a coffee boy.
--Octopus
You know, a coffee boy--coffee fetching for important people in large corporations. Not a waterboy, an errand boy, or a delivery boy--a coffee boy. So don't ask him for water and don't ask him to go get you something.
Or maybe he drinks a lot of coffee... because that's, um, what R&D types do... a lot... of... drink a lot of coffee... all the time.
???
Mogget -- Monday, April 18, 2005 -- 07:19:42 PM --
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Pretty much all of Sin City qualifies for this thread, but a couple in particular stood out (imagine them in raspy voiceover):
"She smells like angels ought to smell." (so good they had to say it twice)
"The Valkyrie at my side is laughing with the pure bloodthirsty joy of the slaughter!"
"My warrior woman. My Valkyrie. You'll always be mine, always and never. Never. The Fire, baby. It'll burn us both. It'll kill us both. there's no place in this world for our kind of fire."
Bethany F. -- Monday, April 18, 2005 -- 11:38:51 PM --
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MOTHER: Don't you remember? We do NOT use ADJECTIVES!
OK, I was watching "Raising Helen" the other night and in the middle of the movie John Corbett delivers the line, "Yes, I'm a man of God, but I'm a sexy man of God." Ew, ick, ew, ick.
Ellie -- Tuesday, April 19, 2005 -- 09:03:58 AM --
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*perks up her ears*
what? huh? where?
Nicholas Kronos -- Tuesday, April 19, 2005 -- 09:06:13 AM --
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"If you want more of something, subsidize it; if you want less of something, tax it." Ronald Reagan
"You realize, once we cut it off, it won't grow back! I mean, it isn't like hair, or fingernails, or toenails, you know!"
John Carradine to Rex Reed, Myra Breckinridge.
Allie -- Tuesday, April 19, 2005 -- 09:47:23 AM --
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Not that descript
"You had me at hello!"
Jerry Maguire
dohdee -- Tuesday, April 19, 2005 -- 09:47:39 AM --
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"I know it was dead because I like poked it with a stick." Crispin Glover in River's Edge.
Nicholas Kronos -- Tuesday, April 19, 2005 -- 10:02:08 AM --
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"If you want more of something, subsidize it; if you want less of something, tax it." Ronald Reagan
"We'll always be freaks and we'll never be like other people. And you'll never be a freak because you're like, too perfect."
Jane to Angela, American Beauty
Lizzie T. -- Tuesday, April 19, 2005 -- 10:23:08 AM --
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Oh, for crying out loud.
Joe Don Baker as Mitchell.
One of my favorite movies ever.
"The shield! The shield is the second marker!"
Harrison Ford as Indiana Jones as the narrator, Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
Promqueen -- Tuesday, April 19, 2005 -- 11:46:26 AM --
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"Oh, babe, I miss you so much it hurts."
Tom Hanks in Sleepless in Seattle.
I brought up a little bile just typing that.
Nicholas Kronos -- Tuesday, April 19, 2005 -- 11:54:28 AM --
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"If you want more of something, subsidize it; if you want less of something, tax it." Ronald Reagan
"Love means never having to say you're sorry," Ali McGraw, Love Story.
Sara Murphy -- Tuesday, April 19, 2005 -- 12:11:25 PM --
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I caught that, Ellie.
(Not a movie line, but an actual comment.)
wombat -- Tuesday, April 19, 2005 -- 03:12:24 PM --
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TROGDOR - The Burninator!
Mongolian General: Conan, what is good in life?
Conan: To cwush de enemy, to see dem dwiven before you, and to hear de lamentation of de women!
Arnold Schwarzenegger in Conan the Barbarian.
Lila Jones -- Tuesday, April 19, 2005 -- 04:22:35 PM --
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SO OFF-TOPIC. That is one of the best lines ever.
Raskolnikov -- Tuesday, April 19, 2005 -- 04:55:22 PM --
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Yeah, I love that line. Not that I want to dump on wombat, as it is good to see him again.
rdbrewer -- Wednesday, April 20, 2005 -- 12:03:20 AM --
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Yes, and it's "leaohmentation."
Alice CK -- Wednesday, April 20, 2005 -- 12:17:36 AM --
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the glass in the toilet is quite a pretty blue
To cwush de enemy, to see dem dwiven before you, and to hear de lamentation of de women!
" . . . and so fort and so on and tings of dis nature." </that guy on SNL who does the Ahnuld impersonation>
Medium Head Boy -- Wednesday, April 20, 2005 -- 12:49:33 PM --
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Most Arnold-y goodness (though this is spoken to, instead of by, him):
"Hi, Freeze. I'm Batman."
rtb -- Wednesday, April 20, 2005 -- 01:24:32 PM --
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Same Same But Better
Rats, I got beaten to every one I was thinking of! To the unbearable "Is it raining? I hadn't noticed" I would like to add "Comes a point when you're so wet you can't get any wetter." ACK.
Raskolnikov -- Wednesday, April 20, 2005 -- 02:18:11 PM --
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I think it is too easy to just quote from really bad movies like Batman and Robin, or Plan 9. I like the notion of bad lines in good movies (or at least films generally regarded as good), where the writers should know better.
The Cannons line from Casablanca is a great example.
Others:
"I see you", from Titanic.
From Gladiator: "My name is Gladiator". "Are you not entertained". "It vexes me. I'm terribly vexed."
Psycho: The entire Psychologist's monologue.
Matrix: "You think that's air you're breathing?" "You hear that Mr. Anderson? That is the sound of inevitability."
wombat -- Wednesday, April 20, 2005 -- 02:20:35 PM --
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TROGDOR - The Burninator!
Yeah, I love that line. Not that I want to dump on wombat, as it is good to see him again.
I believe you may have me confused with the other wombat - the one who posted on the Mote. I'm not a he. But, hi!
dissonance -- Wednesday, April 20, 2005 -- 03:51:27 PM --
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I don't do catfights. I do choreography.
Storm: Do you know what happens to a toad when it gets struck by lightning?
*zaps Toad with lightning*
Storm: The same thing that happens to everything else.
Auuuuuuuugh. The flat delivery! The weird accent! The hideous fright wig! Awful, awful, awful.
Nicholas Kronos -- Wednesday, April 20, 2005 -- 04:25:05 PM --
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"If you want more of something, subsidize it; if you want less of something, tax it." Ronald Reagan
(Partly inspired by devillishious's beach story)
Bobby (which translates in French as Ludovic):
I’ll be real honest with ya...I’d like to fuck you and tear you open like a paycheck envelope...
Will you be honest with me - would you like me to do it?...Just a simple yes or no...
From Wild at Heart.
This after Bobby's four-star opening line:
You gotta smell in this room of puke... You been pukin’ in here, little girl? Huh?... You sick?... Pregnant?
