Posted on 12/07/2001 9:52:32 PM PST by Mad Dawgg
What is your Nomination for the most Memorable Movie Lines (Dialouge) ever?
There are some real classics and there are some Classic Misnomers ("Frankly Scarlet, I don't give a damn." comes to mind as one of the misnomers!)
List your favorites and lets see what tickles the fancy of Freepers who enjoy a Good (or Bad) Movie!
"I coulda been a contender"---On the Waterfront
"I've always depended on the kindness of strangers."---A Streetcar Named Desire
"The horror. The horror."---Apocalypse Now
That movie has so many one liners in it.
"Now what's this about Satan Claus"?
"You a bounty hunter?"
"A man's got to do somethin' for a livin' these days."
"Dyin' ain't much of a livin', boy."
"By the way, you son looks like a fa**ot. He'll probably have someone's **** in his **** before he can say Jack Robinson" - Slapshot!
Of course, Al Pacino's "Peace with Inches" speech is already a cinematic classic.
Madeline Kahn as Lili Von Shtupp singing the classic "I'm Tired"...
"tired of being admired...tired of love uninspired...let's face it, I'm pooped!"
I'm gonna take my snit and go home.
Every Friday we get these things. Who wins? But more to the point, what sorta stuff do they get? Do they get stuff? I never know if I win 'cause I never get any stuff.
Quint: Japanese submarine slammed two torpedoes into our side, Chief. We was comin' back from the island of Tinny and Delailie, we'd just delivered the bomb. The Hiroshima bomb.
Eleven hundred men went into the water. Vessel went down in twelve minutes. Didn't see the first shark for about a half hour. Tiger. Thirteen footer. You know how you know that in the water, Chief? You can tell by lookin' from the dorsal to the tail.
What we didn't know, was that our bomb mission was so secret, no distress signal had been sent. They didn't even list us overdue for a week.
Very first light, Chief, sharks come cruisin', so we formed ourselves into tight groups. It was sorta like you see in the calendars, you know the squares in the old calendars like the Battle o' Waterloo and the idea was the shark come to the nearest man, that man he starts poundin' and hollerin' and sometimes that shark he go away... but sometimes he wouldn't go away.
Sometimes that shark looks right at ya. Right into your eyes. And the thing about a shark is he's got lifeless eyes. Black eyes. Like a doll's eyes. When he comes at ya, he doesn't even seem to be livin'... 'til he bites ya, and those black eyes roll over white and then... ah then you hear that terrible high-pitched screamin'.
The ocean turns red, and despite all your poundin' and your hollerin' those sharks come in and... they rip you to pieces.
You know by the end of that first dawn, lost a hundred men. I don't know how many sharks, maybe a thousand. I do know how many men, they averaged six an hour.
Thursday mornin', Chief, I bumped into a friend of mine, Herbie Robinson from Cleveland. Baseball player. Bosun's mate. I thought he was asleep, Reached over to wake him up. He bobbed up, down in the water, he was like a kinda top. Upended. Well, he'd been bitten in half below the waist.
Noon the fifth day a Lockheed Ventura swung in low and he spotted us, a young pilot, lot younger than Mr. Hooper here, anyway he spotted us and a few hours later a big ol' fat PBY come down and start to pick us up. You know that was the time I was most frightened? Waitin' for my turn. I'll never put on a lifejacket again.
So, eleven hundred men went into the water. Three hundred and sixteen men come out, the sharks took the rest, June the twenty-ninth, nineteen-forty five. Anyway, we delivered the bomb.
Jake: Your fault, my fault, nobody's fault, I'm gonna blow your head off. No matter who gets killed, no matter who gets shot, I'm gonna blow your head off.
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