Favorite movie lines

"You think that's a schwinn?"

"Those lousy skinheaded fucks."

"I mean I told you not to go in the house."
 
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Pinball1970 said:
"You think that's a schwinn?"
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Love that movie! Until that time I hadn't fully grasped Brad Pitt's gift for comedy.

There is also that great scene at the end with JK Simmons.

CIA Supervisor: Jesus Fucking Christ. What did we learn, Palmer?
Palmer: I don't know sir.
CIA Supervisor: I don't fucking know either. I guess we learned not to do it again. I'm fucked if I know what we did.
Palmer: Yes sir, it's hard to say.
 
...in Italy, for thirty years under the Borgias, they had warfare, terror, murder, bloodshed, but they produced Michaelangelo, Leonardo Da Vinci, and the Renaissance...In Switzerland, they had brotherly love. They had five hundred years of democracy and peace, and what did that produce? The cuckoo clock.

-- Harry Lime, The Third Man

Well, this is where you came in, back at that pool again, the one I always wanted. It's dawn now and they must have photographed me a thousand times. Then they got a couple of pruning hooks from the garden and fished me out... ever so gently. Funny, how gentle people get with you once you're dead.

-- Joe Gillis, Sunset Boulevard


Marriage is a wonderful institution... but who wants to live in an institution?

- Rufus T. Firefly, Duck Soup

You understand the dead cat? But... you... you can't really understand the physics without understanding the math. The math tells how it really works. That's the real thing; the stories I give you in class are just illustrative; they're like, fables, say, to help give you a picture. An imperfect model. I mean - even I don't understand the dead cat. The math is how it really works.

- Larry Gopnik, A Serious Man
 
"I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I watched C-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhauser gate. All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain. Time to die." - Roy Batty

"According to the map, we've only gone 4 inches."
 
From Buckaroo Banzai:

"No matter where you go, there you are."

"It flies like a truck."
"OK. Great. What is a truck?"

"The only reason for time is so that everything doesn't happen all at once."

"Why is there a watermelon there?"
"I'll tell you later."
 
Sarkus said:
"I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I watched C-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhauser gate. All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain. Time to die." - Roy Batty

"According to the map, we've only gone 4 inches."
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Hauer improvised that last part, about tears in rain. His delivery is amazing, giving those lines such emotional power - in another actor's hands they could have come across mawkish or melodramatic. Blade Runner would be a lesser movie without those lines.

The other line...Dumb and Dumber? A guilty pleasure.
 
billvon said:
Why is there a watermelon there?
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A perfect line. TAOBBATED is a trove of off the wall lines.

Another film with great off the wall lines is In Bruges. If I start selecting lines, I'll be here all night. Martin McDonagh is a screenwriting genius. Ok, hell, here's one...

"An Uzi? I'm not from South Central Los fucking Angeles. I didn't come here to shoot twenty black ten year olds in a drive-by. I want a normal gun for a normal person."

Ok, two.

"I do know a Belgium joke. What's Belgium famous for? Chocolates and child abuse, and they only invented the chocolates to get to the kids."

Well, three, since no one's stopping me.

Ken: [looking at a surreal Bosch painting] It's Judgment Day, you know?
Ray: No. What's that then?
Ken: Well, it's, you know, the final day on Earth, when mankind will be judged for the crimes they've committed and that.
Ray: Oh. And see who gets into heaven and who gets into hell and all that.
Ken: Yeah. And what's the other place?
Ray: Purgatory.
Ken: Purgatory... what's that?
Ray: Purgatory's kind of like the in-betweeny one. You weren't really shit, but you weren't all that great either. Like Tottenham.
[pause]
Ray: Do you believe in all that stuff, Ken?
Ken: About Tottenham?
 
TheVat said:
Love that movie! Until that time I hadn't fully grasped Brad Pitt's gift for comedy.

There is also that great scene at the end with JK Simmons.

CIA Supervisor: Jesus Fucking Christ. What did we learn, Palmer?
Palmer: I don't know sir.
CIA Supervisor: I don't fucking know either. I guess we learned not to do it again. I'm fucked if I know what we did.
Palmer: Yes sir, it's hard to say.
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The film had an odd feel to it. That scene as a set piece however is just great.
 
All unknown actors at the time IIRC.

Ajax, my favourite character, handsome, fantastic physique, not the brightest but fearless.

The line is delivered 1.00

My friends and I related to the film at the time because we had all been in the position of being stranded from friends, alone and having to get back home avoiding gang members.

 
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