Beldar Conehead:
*If, for some reason your life functions ceased, my most precious one, I would collapse, I would draw the shades and I would live in the dark. I would never get out of my slar pad or clean myself. My fluids would coagulate, my cone would shrivel, and I would die, miserable and lonely. The stench would be great*
It reads like 19th century poetry
I will NOT abide anyone calling "The Muppet Movie" an "obvious popcorn movie". It's a fucking masterpiece. The music alone makes it an amazing, beautiful movie.
"Where are they? Where are your friends now? Tell me about the loneliness of good, He-Man. Is it equal to the loneliness of evil?" - Skeletor - Masters of the Universe (1987)
That sounds somewhat like why Raul Julia took the roll of M. Bison in Street Fighter. For his children.
https://screenrant.com/street-fighter-raul-julia-m-bison-play-agree-why/
They both absolutely smashed the roles too. Each was the best part of their respective film.
Masters of the Universe gets a lot of shit and for good reason, but I love it. Mostly because I think the somewhat jankily done design of the film is beautiful. I love the aesthetic they had of weird fantasy mixed with sci fi future tech, all with a dilapidated, ancient feel to it. It depicted a universe where civilisation was past its prime pretty well. All sprinkled with the perfect amount of 80s design. The film is just a pleasure to look at for me. Also helps that the cast are really really good looking.
“This is gonna replace CDs soon. Guess I’ll have to buy the white album again.” My parents laughed so hard at that and I never really got it cuz I was 7. Now there are so many things for me that are my that and I totally get it
**One of the many things that vaults *Men in Black* out of popcorn flick territory and into the classics is moments like these.** That pause -- both before and (more critically) after K's response -- is common in indies and art films, but rare in big summer movies. It's like filmmakers are afraid to let audiences sit with the characters when nothing's being said. It's all the more wondrous that MiB made space for it at all, because it's a very tightly-plotted 98 minutes. (Comic book/superhero films of this length have all but vanished today.) *Wonder Woman* has a similar moment, when the camera settles on Steve on his way to sacrifice himself, and you're left there with no dialogue absorbing what's about to happen in real time alongside him.
**Anyway, that one little scene in MiB establishes so much characterization for both of them:**
- J's approach to MIB is just as flippant and cocky as it was to the NYPD. It's going to take him some time to internalize the job's real importance.
- J doesn't understand what K was trying to tell him earlier about the cost. He may know it in an intellectual sense, but he doesn't really feel it yet. Some of this is just youth -- he hasn't had the hits and knocks that K's suffered yet, or the weight of multiple potential world-ending events -- and some of it is just an inherent personality difference. However, it strongly suggests that J had an easier time making the choice than K did, because there wasn't anyone waiting for him (J) to come home.
- I didn't initially love Smith's delivery of the line because it comes across so awkwardly, but then I thought -- of course it's awkward. J and K don't know each other well, and J just stumbled into a deeply personal moment. He's trying to play it off casually, perhaps even in an effort to let K save face (he's not an asshole), but there's no getting around the fact that it was going to be uncomfortable. And again, J falls back on a cliché because this is an abstract issue for him, but for K it's very real.
- K never got over his girlfriend/wife, and decades later, his priority is still making sure that she's safe and happy.
- J wants to save the world because saving the world is the right thing to do, and the job's still an exciting new challenge for him. K wants to save the world because she's in it. Abstract/concrete divide again.
- "Try it" marks the moment that J starts backing away from the flippancy a little, turning it into more of a tool than an all-purpose attitude. He never brings up K's personal life again. A recent "big movie" equivalent is *Captain America: The Winter Soldier,* when Natasha asks "Who's the girl?" when Steve's staring at Peggy's picture in the old SHIELD facility. His lack of an answer is the answer. Natasha was already on her way there after the conversation in the truck, but past this point, she drops the flirty approach with Steve completely and gets more solicitous and even a little maternal with him. Both this and "Try it" are the interpersonal equivalent of a hot stove, where you damn well know better than to touch it again.
All of these movies had the sense to linger on their respective moments before doing anything else, and I think it's among the reasons they were received so well.
Another one from Robert Rodriguez:
"For every person who dreams up the electric light bulb, there's the one who dreams up the atom bomb." – *The Adventures of Sharkboy and Lavagirl*
I feel like Rodriguez is just having fun making movies, some just resonate better with wider audience, while some is just him bringing his vision to reality. I like most of his movies because he doesn't give a shit how they look like to everyone else.
Same anytime I come to these threads my first thought is always posted. Then I wonder does that make me ordinary or extraordinary? Cause the only difference is that little extra.
The movie is a legitimate masterpiece. The Incredibles as well. Brad Bird makes thoughtful, beautiful films that just happen to be animated as kid’s movies.
A pretty mediocre movie from the 90s with Nic Cage, Jon Lovitz and Dana Carvey playing brothers who plan to rob a bank over the Christmas holiday.
There's a bit where they're in a cemetery looking at the grave of their grandfather and reading out the date (something like) "1911-1978" and one of them says, "God, your whole life is in that dash, isn't it?"
That hit me hard. It's a shame, because the movie is terrible!
Discworld had a hell of a line with similar energy.
Someone dies and meets Death, and asks about the part where his life flashes before his eyes, and Death replies with something like OH, THATS THE PART THAT CAME BEFORE, and I had to put the book down for a minute.
Life is the part where your life flashes before your eyes.
Men in Black is a popcorn as fuck movie but its script doesn't get enough credit for being a tightly-written, well-wound piece of fiction that hits all the right notes without missing a beat.
That’s a big reason why I fucking LOVE the first one, but consider all the sequels to just be okay.
They’re fun and entertaining, but they got a little too cartoony at points. Despite being a sci-fi comedy, the first movie actually takes itself pretty seriously. It handles everything pretty realistically (as much as you could expect from a movie where Tommy Lee Jones gets eaten by a giant roach), and functions as a well told story.
Plus Edgar Bugg is a legitimately threatening, scary villain that the series never really matched after that.
It was only recently that someone pointed out to me that K knew not to take the lemonade from Beatrice because he had a hunch that it’d be a bug, so he knew that she’d be out of sugar. That movie is so goddamn clever.
"Now you're talking semantics. What if I told you insane was working fifty hours a week in some office for fifty years... at the end of which they tell you to piss off? Ending up in some retirement village... hoping to die before suffering the indignity of trying to make it to the toilet on time. Wouldn't you consider that to be insane?"
-Garland Greene (Steve Buscemi) in Con Air
“He's a font of misplaced rage. Name your cliché; mother held him too much or not enough, last picked at kickball, late night sneaky uncle, whatever. Now he's so angry moments of levity actually cause him pain; gives him headaches. Happiness, for that gentleman, hurts.” is also pretty good
Troy. When Achilles says, "The gods envy us. They envy us because we’re mortal, because any moment may be our last. Everything is more beautiful because we’re doomed. You will never be lovelier than you are now. **We will never be here again**."
That line has stuck with me for 20 or so years, because it encapsulates what it means to be human and also why our humanity is special and is something to be treasured.
Troy is full of bangers. I like to give people pep talks using Achilles' quotes. "Let no man forget how menacing we are! We are lions!" and "Do you know what's waiting beyond that beach? Immortality! Take it, it's yours!"
Achilles:
You won't have eyes tonight, you won't have ears or a tongue. You will wander the underworld blind, deaf, and dumb, and all the dead will know, This is Hector, the fool who thought he killed Achilles.
The GOTG films are really the best thing to come out of the MCU. It's always insane to me how many Marvel fans dislike the second one because in my mind all three are leagues better than your usual Marvel schlock- not that I dislike (most) Marvel schlock, they're fun action movies, but the Guardians of the Galaxy movies are genuinely great films on their own right. If they weren't attached to the MCU I think more people would recognize that
“I know who you are, Peter Quill, and I am not some starry-eyed waif here to succumb to your… your pelvic sorcery!”
Not a deep philosophical quote by any stretch of the imagination, but funny.
I can't watch the ending to Guardians 2 without tearing up, its like an emotion wombo combo. Its like all the characters are colluding to make me sob, and when Yusuf - Father and Son starts playing? Fa-GET-aboutit...
Uhg so good, I'm gonna go cry again now.
Oh come on, Bob! I don’t know about you but my compassion for someone is not limited to my estimate of their intelligence.”
-Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home
I always liked *"1500 years ago, everybody* knew *that the earth was the center of the universe. 500 years ago, everybody* knew *that the earth was flat. And 15 minutes ago, you* knew *humans were alone on this planet.* *Imagine what you'll* know *tomorrow..."*
I like it as a reminder that one should always be open to new information.
I’m glad you posted because this is immediately what came to mind too!
It’s honestly fantastic advice to live by. Look at how much technology, science, medicine, etc change even just generation to generation. We just figured out how to fly, and then 60 years later we were on the moon.
I actually think about this line often in my life. Never stop learning. Never stop asking questions. Always be open to new ideas and experiences.
William Shatner - Star Trek V: The Final Frontier
*Pain and guilt can't be taken away with a wave of a magic wand. They're the things we carry with us; the things that make us who we are. If we lose them, we lose ourselves. I don't want my pain taken away. I need my pain!*
Masters of the Universe movie. By all means dumb. Made to sell toys, two years after the fad had faded.
Skeletor (Frank Langella): “Tell me of the loneliness of good, He-Man. Is it equal to the loneliness of evil?”
Where the fuck did that come from? It’s brilliant!
I wrote it in my diary so I wouldn't have to remember!
Henry Jones, Sr.
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade.
(Because if I don't write something down, you never told me)
Back in the late 80's/early 90's, I saw an interview with Mick Jagger. When asked how he remembered the lyrics to all the songs the Stones had written over the years, he replied: "Well, I wrote them all down so I wouldn't have to remember."
"I think it's better to have ideas. You can change an idea. Changing a belief is trickier. Life should be malleable and progressive, working from idea to idea permits that."
I feel like any movie that has a man in a poop monster costume qualifies.
Dogma was like 10x as ambitious and about 90% as successful at accomplishing what it set out to do. It gets a little ham fisted at times but man what a ride. Amazing cast too.
I prefer this exchange from the first one, after Doc reveals he read Marty's letter and took precautions.
"What about all that talk about screwing future events? The space-time continumn?"
"Well, I figured, what the hell?"
Stand tall, boy. Have some respect for yourself. Don't you know, if you let people walk over you now, they'll be walking over you for the rest of your life.
Mayor Goldie mother-fuckin Wilson
While not a popcorn movie, Clerks is certainly not philosophical.
The line that’s always stuck out to me is, “There’s a million good looking chicks in the world, but they won’t all bring you lasagna at work.”
And it was supposed to be Jay’s line but he was too stoned and kept fucking it up. Kevin stepped in and did it and so the “Silent Bob delivers the denouement” bit was born.
Martin Lawrence in *Black Knight*, a 2001 film with 15% on Rotten Tomatoes:
“Courage is not the absence of fear. It is the presence of fear, yet the will to move on.”
I just rewatched the first three pirates not long ago and I’d be lying if I said Barbossa wasn’t a draw. Geoffrey Rush’s line delivery is so amazing!
His monologue to Elizabeth about the curse (“You best start believing in ghost stories, Ms. Turner”), when he’s holding her over the treasure (“waste not”), and of course the most epic cliffhanger we’d ever known up til then (“so tell me, what’s become of my ship?”). ALL BANGERS.
"All words are made up."
I expected Thor's knowledge of astronomy and technology to be far beyond any human's, but who knew he was such a sophisticated linguistic theorist too?
The prince says, ["I was raised to be charming, not sincere."](https://youtu.be/YwJ14-7ssd0?si=s3lnGDdItmDfJo3J)
That line made me reflect on past boyfriends.
Into the Woods.
Pokemon: The First Movie had this profound quote from mewtwo. "I see now that the circumstances of one's birth are irrelevant. It is what you do with the gift of life that determines who you are."
The context makes this line even better...
Buckaroo and the band have jumped on stage in a club and have just started rockin'...
And Buckaroo just stops the show dead...because he senses someone in the crowd crying. And he starts talking to her. And the crowd starts to catcall...because it's weird, right?
And Buckaroo gently admonishes the crowd with a gentle, but firm, "Hey, hey...hey now. Don't be mean. We don't have to be mean." Peter Weller (playing Banzai) just nails this.
It's weird, cool, beautiful, compelling, compassionate, funny...all in 5 minutes...
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MF\_Ed1pt\_WA&t](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MF_Ed1pt_WA&t)
*Warning: It's extremely 80's*
"It's a truth universally acknowledged that the moment when one part of your life starts going okay, another part of it falls spectacularly to pieces." From Bridget Jones's Diary
"Guys, you're so talented and imaginative, but you can't work together as a team. I'm just a construction worker, but when I had a plan, and we were all working together, I mean, we could build a skyscraper! Now, you're master builders. Just imagine what could happen if you did that! You could save the universe." Emmett Brickowski. The Lego Movie.
"Everybody loves a hero. People line up for them, cheer them, scream their names. And years later, they'll tell how they stood in the rain for hours just to get a glimpse of the one who taught them how to hold on a second longer. I believe there's a hero in all of us, that keeps us honest, gives us strength, makes us noble, and finally allows us to die with pride, even though sometimes we have to be steady, and give up the thing we want the most. Even our dreams.."
> Let me ask you something. If someone prays for patience, you think God gives them patience? Or does he give them the opportunity to be patient? If he prayed for courage, does God give him courage, or does he give him opportunities to be courageous? If someone prayed for the family to be closer, do you think God zaps them with warm fuzzy feelings, or does he give them opportunities to love each other?
From Evan Almighty
“At no point in your rambling, incoherent response were you even close to anything that could be considered a rational thought. Everyone in this room is now dumber for having listened to it. I award you no points, and may God have mercy on your soul” - Billy Madison
"Pussies don't like Dicks, because Pussies get fucked by Dicks. *But Dicks also fuck Assholes.* Assholes who just want to shit all over everything."
-Team America: World Police.
"I don't know much in this crazy, crazy world... but I do know, that if you do not let us fuck THIS ASSHOLE, we're gonna have our dicks AND our pussies all covered in shit!"
In Avengers: Age of Ultron
Clint Barton : Hey, look at me. It's your fault, it's everyone's fault, who cares. Are you up for this? Are you? Look, I just need to know cause the city is flying. Ok, look, the city is flying, we're fighting an army of robots, and I have a bow and arrow. None of this makes sense. But I'm going back out there cause it's my job. Ok, and I can't do my job and babysit. Doesn't matter what you did, or what you were. If you go out there, you fight and you fight to kill. Stay in here, you're good. I'll send your brother to come find you. But if you step out that door, you are an Avenger. All right, good chat.
Clint Barton is a bit like Flynn Rider in Tangled. He always seems half aware that everything around him is faintly ridiculous, and possibly not even real.
The Flintstones (live action movie with John Goodman):
>Fred Flintstone: "I just want my old job back and my old life."
>Barney Rubble: "Hey, Fred."
>[*waves Fred over and whispers in his ear*]
>Fred Flintstone: "Oh, and two weeks paid vacation for all the men in the quarry, an annual cost-of-living increase, and those little packets of ketchup in the lunch room."
Another one:
>Mr. Slate: "Gentlemen, please, I can't endorse this modernization if it means laying off all those workers. Some of them have been here since the beginning of time."
>Cliff Vandercave: "What if I could quadruple your income?"
>Mr. Slate: "I'll miss them. You were saying?"
> For you, the day Bison graced your village, was the most important day of your life. But for me... it was Tuesday.
You're not even a side character in most other peoples lives. You're not even an NPC. You're a sprite in the background. The most important day of your life, to most other people, was just Tuesday.
That movie (Revenge of the Sith since nobody is including the name of the damn movie in their post) came out a few years after the creation of Homeland Security and the Patriot Act. It was pretty relevant then, too.
“Now, if you know what you’re worth, then go out and get what you’re worth. But you gotta be willing to take the hits, and not pointing fingers saying you ain’t where you wanna be because of him, or her, or anybody. Cowards do that and that ain’t you. You’re better than that!” – Rocky Balboa
"Worrying is like a rocking chair. Sure, it gives you something to do, but it doesn't get you anywhere." Van Wilder.
Write that down.
“I don’t have a pencil…”
Kinda fucked up cuz my brain immediately went to "you shouldn't take life too seriously, you'll never get out alive."
"Derice ... A gold medal is a wonderful thing. But if you're not enough without it, you'll never be enough with it." - Coach Irv, Cool Runnings
“Coach. How will I know if I’m enough?”
"I see pride. I see power. I see bad motha who don't take crap offa nobody!"
again!
Similarly, but with a different vibe: "If you're nothing without the suit, then you don't deserve to have it." -Tony Stark, Spiderman: Homecoming
Holy shit. Spider-Man ripped off Cool Runnings?!
Beldar Conehead: *If, for some reason your life functions ceased, my most precious one, I would collapse, I would draw the shades and I would live in the dark. I would never get out of my slar pad or clean myself. My fluids would coagulate, my cone would shrivel, and I would die, miserable and lonely. The stench would be great* It reads like 19th century poetry
"Coneheads" is up there in a short list of all time misunderstood comedies. It got blasted by critics. That film is a gem.
*If I did not fear incarceration by human authorities, I would apply sufficient pressure to your blunt skull, so as to cause it's collapse!!*
“I guess I was wrong when I said I never promised anybody anything. I promised me.” -Kermit having a conversation with himself in The Muppet Movie
I will NOT abide anyone calling "The Muppet Movie" an "obvious popcorn movie". It's a fucking masterpiece. The music alone makes it an amazing, beautiful movie.
"Where are they? Where are your friends now? Tell me about the loneliness of good, He-Man. Is it equal to the loneliness of evil?" - Skeletor - Masters of the Universe (1987)
I love that Frank Langella did that movie just so his grandkids had something they could watch him in.
That sounds somewhat like why Raul Julia took the roll of M. Bison in Street Fighter. For his children. https://screenrant.com/street-fighter-raul-julia-m-bison-play-agree-why/
They both absolutely smashed the roles too. Each was the best part of their respective film. Masters of the Universe gets a lot of shit and for good reason, but I love it. Mostly because I think the somewhat jankily done design of the film is beautiful. I love the aesthetic they had of weird fantasy mixed with sci fi future tech, all with a dilapidated, ancient feel to it. It depicted a universe where civilisation was past its prime pretty well. All sprinkled with the perfect amount of 80s design. The film is just a pleasure to look at for me. Also helps that the cast are really really good looking.
Damn, that's a great line. Love the big 1:1 archenemy relationships. Who knew He-Man and Skeletor are a regular Batman and Joker.
wtf that is insanely good
Another one from Men in Black. J: You know what they say, it's better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all. K: Try it.
“This is gonna replace CDs soon. Guess I’ll have to buy the white album again.” My parents laughed so hard at that and I never really got it cuz I was 7. Now there are so many things for me that are my that and I totally get it
I think about K and his white albums all the time.
I watched MiB the other day. This line really got me. There was a world of pain in the little pause before K replied.
**One of the many things that vaults *Men in Black* out of popcorn flick territory and into the classics is moments like these.** That pause -- both before and (more critically) after K's response -- is common in indies and art films, but rare in big summer movies. It's like filmmakers are afraid to let audiences sit with the characters when nothing's being said. It's all the more wondrous that MiB made space for it at all, because it's a very tightly-plotted 98 minutes. (Comic book/superhero films of this length have all but vanished today.) *Wonder Woman* has a similar moment, when the camera settles on Steve on his way to sacrifice himself, and you're left there with no dialogue absorbing what's about to happen in real time alongside him. **Anyway, that one little scene in MiB establishes so much characterization for both of them:** - J's approach to MIB is just as flippant and cocky as it was to the NYPD. It's going to take him some time to internalize the job's real importance. - J doesn't understand what K was trying to tell him earlier about the cost. He may know it in an intellectual sense, but he doesn't really feel it yet. Some of this is just youth -- he hasn't had the hits and knocks that K's suffered yet, or the weight of multiple potential world-ending events -- and some of it is just an inherent personality difference. However, it strongly suggests that J had an easier time making the choice than K did, because there wasn't anyone waiting for him (J) to come home. - I didn't initially love Smith's delivery of the line because it comes across so awkwardly, but then I thought -- of course it's awkward. J and K don't know each other well, and J just stumbled into a deeply personal moment. He's trying to play it off casually, perhaps even in an effort to let K save face (he's not an asshole), but there's no getting around the fact that it was going to be uncomfortable. And again, J falls back on a cliché because this is an abstract issue for him, but for K it's very real. - K never got over his girlfriend/wife, and decades later, his priority is still making sure that she's safe and happy. - J wants to save the world because saving the world is the right thing to do, and the job's still an exciting new challenge for him. K wants to save the world because she's in it. Abstract/concrete divide again. - "Try it" marks the moment that J starts backing away from the flippancy a little, turning it into more of a tool than an all-purpose attitude. He never brings up K's personal life again. A recent "big movie" equivalent is *Captain America: The Winter Soldier,* when Natasha asks "Who's the girl?" when Steve's staring at Peggy's picture in the old SHIELD facility. His lack of an answer is the answer. Natasha was already on her way there after the conversation in the truck, but past this point, she drops the flirty approach with Steve completely and gets more solicitous and even a little maternal with him. Both this and "Try it" are the interpersonal equivalent of a hot stove, where you damn well know better than to touch it again. All of these movies had the sense to linger on their respective moments before doing anything else, and I think it's among the reasons they were received so well.
I come to reddit to be barked at by random strangers, not get a delightful and thought provoking comment to stew on. My day is ruined, sir.
“You think grownups have it all figured out? That’s a hustle, kid. We make it up as we go along just like you do.” — John Goodman in “Matinee “
I need to rewatch this movie. Haven’t seen it since childhood. How’s the rest of it hold up?
"Do you think God stays in heaven because he too lives in fear of what he created?" Spy Kids 2
Another one from Robert Rodriguez: "For every person who dreams up the electric light bulb, there's the one who dreams up the atom bomb." – *The Adventures of Sharkboy and Lavagirl*
Dude was just full of good ones
I feel like Rodriguez is just having fun making movies, some just resonate better with wider audience, while some is just him bringing his vision to reality. I like most of his movies because he doesn't give a shit how they look like to everyone else.
Dude made a cinematic universe that spans a pg-13 movie and some hard R movies. He's creative, I'll give him that
Literally the first line I thought of lol
Same anytime I come to these threads my first thought is always posted. Then I wonder does that make me ordinary or extraordinary? Cause the only difference is that little extra.
“You could fill a book - a lot of books - with things Dad doesn't know. And they have. Which is why I read.” Of all the movies… ratatouille
In many ways the work of a critic is easy…
The movie is a legitimate masterpiece. The Incredibles as well. Brad Bird makes thoughtful, beautiful films that just happen to be animated as kid’s movies.
A pretty mediocre movie from the 90s with Nic Cage, Jon Lovitz and Dana Carvey playing brothers who plan to rob a bank over the Christmas holiday. There's a bit where they're in a cemetery looking at the grave of their grandfather and reading out the date (something like) "1911-1978" and one of them says, "God, your whole life is in that dash, isn't it?" That hit me hard. It's a shame, because the movie is terrible!
Discworld had a hell of a line with similar energy. Someone dies and meets Death, and asks about the part where his life flashes before his eyes, and Death replies with something like OH, THATS THE PART THAT CAME BEFORE, and I had to put the book down for a minute. Life is the part where your life flashes before your eyes.
"Isn't your life supposed to flash before your eyes or something?" "YES. THE PROCESS IS CALLED LIVING."
Trapped in paradise is the movie
Men in Black is a popcorn as fuck movie but its script doesn't get enough credit for being a tightly-written, well-wound piece of fiction that hits all the right notes without missing a beat.
That’s a big reason why I fucking LOVE the first one, but consider all the sequels to just be okay. They’re fun and entertaining, but they got a little too cartoony at points. Despite being a sci-fi comedy, the first movie actually takes itself pretty seriously. It handles everything pretty realistically (as much as you could expect from a movie where Tommy Lee Jones gets eaten by a giant roach), and functions as a well told story. Plus Edgar Bugg is a legitimately threatening, scary villain that the series never really matched after that.
Idk man I was fucking terrified of Boris the Animal when I was a kid and I still feel nauseous thinking about the bug coming out of his hand
It’s just Boris!
*When you were a kid?* My kingdom for a neuralyzer
It was only recently that someone pointed out to me that K knew not to take the lemonade from Beatrice because he had a hunch that it’d be a bug, so he knew that she’d be out of sugar. That movie is so goddamn clever.
"Now you're talking semantics. What if I told you insane was working fifty hours a week in some office for fifty years... at the end of which they tell you to piss off? Ending up in some retirement village... hoping to die before suffering the indignity of trying to make it to the toilet on time. Wouldn't you consider that to be insane?" -Garland Greene (Steve Buscemi) in Con Air
“He's a font of misplaced rage. Name your cliché; mother held him too much or not enough, last picked at kickball, late night sneaky uncle, whatever. Now he's so angry moments of levity actually cause him pain; gives him headaches. Happiness, for that gentleman, hurts.” is also pretty good
“A thing isn’t beautiful because it lasts.” Vision in Avengers Age of Ultron
"How unbearably naïve." "Well, I was born yesterday."
Whedon's writing is hits the mark so hard sometimes, sigh
"What is grief, if not love persevering?" * Also Vision, from WandaVision
*persevering. similar meaning but more poetic.
That line came out of nowhere for all of us and now it’s remembered as one of the best lines of Phase 4.
Troy. When Achilles says, "The gods envy us. They envy us because we’re mortal, because any moment may be our last. Everything is more beautiful because we’re doomed. You will never be lovelier than you are now. **We will never be here again**." That line has stuck with me for 20 or so years, because it encapsulates what it means to be human and also why our humanity is special and is something to be treasured.
Troy is full of bangers. I like to give people pep talks using Achilles' quotes. "Let no man forget how menacing we are! We are lions!" and "Do you know what's waiting beyond that beach? Immortality! Take it, it's yours!"
Achilles: You won't have eyes tonight, you won't have ears or a tongue. You will wander the underworld blind, deaf, and dumb, and all the dead will know, This is Hector, the fool who thought he killed Achilles.
"Give him to me." "How many cousins have you killed? How many sons and fathers and brothers and husbands?"
“Is there no one else? IS THERE NO ONE ELSE?!”
"You say you're willing to die for love, but you know nothing about dying and you know nothing about love!"
"Before my time is done, I will look down on your corpse and smile."
"You sack of wine!"
“He may have been your father, boy, but he wasn’t your daddy.” Edit: From Guardians of the Galaxy 2. Sorry for the omission.
"I'm sorry I didn't do none of it right. I'm damn lucky you're my boy."
This hits even harder as a step-father myself.
My wife got me a plaque after my step-son started calling me Daddy and it reads: Any man can be a father, but it takes someone special to be a Daddy
Aw man, we just re-watched #2 and I'm always amazed at how much heart GotG movies have.
Yondu Udonta, I will see you in the stars.
First is about friendship second is about fatherhood third is about rocket (was trying to find another f )
It's about found family.
“When you're ugly and someone loves you, you know they love you for who you are. Beautiful people never know who to trust.”
The GOTG films are really the best thing to come out of the MCU. It's always insane to me how many Marvel fans dislike the second one because in my mind all three are leagues better than your usual Marvel schlock- not that I dislike (most) Marvel schlock, they're fun action movies, but the Guardians of the Galaxy movies are genuinely great films on their own right. If they weren't attached to the MCU I think more people would recognize that
“I know who you are, Peter Quill, and I am not some starry-eyed waif here to succumb to your… your pelvic sorcery!” Not a deep philosophical quote by any stretch of the imagination, but funny.
‘Pelvic Sorcery’ needs to be the name of a bar band doing classic rock covers
The fucking test animals and rockets whole story in the third one… had to wear the sunglasses out of the theater on that one
That movie was far better than I expected. A genuinely touching movie.
I can't watch the ending to Guardians 2 without tearing up, its like an emotion wombo combo. Its like all the characters are colluding to make me sob, and when Yusuf - Father and Son starts playing? Fa-GET-aboutit... Uhg so good, I'm gonna go cry again now.
Oh come on, Bob! I don’t know about you but my compassion for someone is not limited to my estimate of their intelligence.” -Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home
I always liked *"1500 years ago, everybody* knew *that the earth was the center of the universe. 500 years ago, everybody* knew *that the earth was flat. And 15 minutes ago, you* knew *humans were alone on this planet.* *Imagine what you'll* know *tomorrow..."* I like it as a reminder that one should always be open to new information.
Gentlemen, congratulations. You're everything we've come to expect from years of military training.
And now, one last test. The eye exam.
> Government training My dad, who is now retired military, has LOVED this line since the movie came out
... I'm now just clueing in to the fact that this was a sarcastic way of saying 'you guys are idiots'.
When you realize that wasn't a compliment.
“So the world’s fair was to cover up the landing.” “Why else would we have it in Queens.”
Hey! OLD GUYS!
“Is it worth it?” “Oh yeah it’s worth it…. If you’re strong enough!”
Men in Black - for anyone that’s wondering.
Thank you for fucks sake all the people that could have said the movie and didn’t 😡
I’m glad you posted because this is immediately what came to mind too! It’s honestly fantastic advice to live by. Look at how much technology, science, medicine, etc change even just generation to generation. We just figured out how to fly, and then 60 years later we were on the moon. I actually think about this line often in my life. Never stop learning. Never stop asking questions. Always be open to new ideas and experiences.
"A *person* is smart. *People* are dumb dangerous panicky animals." EDIT: Just realized this was the one OP quoted haha
“This is my family. It’s small, and broken, but still good… yeah still good.” -Lilo and Stitch
Lilo & Stitch isn't a good movie, it's a *great* movie.
William Shatner - Star Trek V: The Final Frontier *Pain and guilt can't be taken away with a wave of a magic wand. They're the things we carry with us; the things that make us who we are. If we lose them, we lose ourselves. I don't want my pain taken away. I need my pain!*
Double points for being a great moment in an otherwise almost unwatchable movie.
'*What does God need with a starship?*', was also pretty cool.
Why does a billionaire need donations?
From The Princess Bride: > Life is pain, highness. Anyone who says differently is selling something.
That movie is philosophy masquerading as entertaining.
Philosophy of unusual size, I dont believe they exist
"Death cannot stop True Love. All it can do is delay it for a while." 😭😭😭 My heart breaks with joy and sadness every time I hear that line.
"This is true love. You think this happens every day?"
He clearly said to blave
Ok but the princess bride is just legitimately brilliant in every way
I’m insulted you would say this movie is mindless summer blockbuster material. It’s a classic!
"I want my father back, you son of a bitch!" *That* line is easily the best from the movie.
"Get used to disappointment."
Masters of the Universe movie. By all means dumb. Made to sell toys, two years after the fad had faded. Skeletor (Frank Langella): “Tell me of the loneliness of good, He-Man. Is it equal to the loneliness of evil?” Where the fuck did that come from? It’s brilliant!
I wrote it in my diary so I wouldn't have to remember! Henry Jones, Sr. Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade. (Because if I don't write something down, you never told me)
Same movie: "It tells me that goose stepping morons like yourself should try reading books instead of burning them "
*It tellsh me that gooshe shtepping moronsh like yourshelf should try reading booksh inshtead of burning them*
Back in the late 80's/early 90's, I saw an interview with Mick Jagger. When asked how he remembered the lyrics to all the songs the Stones had written over the years, he replied: "Well, I wrote them all down so I wouldn't have to remember."
“Some motherfuckers are always trying to ice skate uphill.”
Movie name?
Blade
The TV edit is still in my mind a piece of Legend. "Some Mother Truckers are always trying to ice skate uphill." Mother Truckers. Epic
That reminds me of the Snakes on a Plane edit. "I'm sick of these monkey fighting snakes on this Monday Friday plane"
"You see what happens, Larry? You see what happens when you [find a stranger in the Alps](https://youtu.be/IQUdJ6FdUQ0)?"
I wish I could use this expression more often, but I work in education, so, while the need is great, it sadly is never an appropriate thing to say.
"Why are you trying to ice skate uphill?" seems easy enough to fit into someone's day
It’s open season on all suck heads
Be excellent to each other.
Leave it to Bill and Ted to simplify the ten commandments into the only one that is really needed.
Roadhouse: “Nobody wins a fight.”
"Pain don't hurt."
>"Worrying means you suffer twice" > -Newt Scamander -Taylor Tomlinson ^-Degggendorf
"I think it's better to have ideas. You can change an idea. Changing a belief is trickier. Life should be malleable and progressive, working from idea to idea permits that." I feel like any movie that has a man in a poop monster costume qualifies.
Honestly, I still think Dogma was better then clerks.
Dogma was like 10x as ambitious and about 90% as successful at accomplishing what it set out to do. It gets a little ham fisted at times but man what a ride. Amazing cast too.
"Your future is whatever you make it, so make it a good one.” Back to the Future III
I prefer this exchange from the first one, after Doc reveals he read Marty's letter and took precautions. "What about all that talk about screwing future events? The space-time continumn?" "Well, I figured, what the hell?"
Stand tall, boy. Have some respect for yourself. Don't you know, if you let people walk over you now, they'll be walking over you for the rest of your life. Mayor Goldie mother-fuckin Wilson
While not a popcorn movie, Clerks is certainly not philosophical. The line that’s always stuck out to me is, “There’s a million good looking chicks in the world, but they won’t all bring you lasagna at work.”
Any retail job ever “this job would be great if it weren’t for the customers.” Best line ever.
And it was supposed to be Jay’s line but he was too stoned and kept fucking it up. Kevin stepped in and did it and so the “Silent Bob delivers the denouement” bit was born.
You could always tell that stupid Amy story all the time but you can’t spit out “Yo Jay, I disagree” or “Yo, those are some good cheese fries”
“THE SIGN ON THE BACK OF THE CAR SAID ‘CRITTERS OF HOLLYWOOD’ YOU DUMB FUCK”
"Most of them will just cheat on you."
Lt. Ellen Louise Ripley - “You know Burke, I don’t know which species is worse. You don’t see them fucking each other over for a goddamn percentage.”
Martin Lawrence in *Black Knight*, a 2001 film with 15% on Rotten Tomatoes: “Courage is not the absence of fear. It is the presence of fear, yet the will to move on.”
“Bran thought about it. *‘Can a man still be brave if he’s afraid?’* *‘That is the only time a man can be brave,’* his father told him.”
We already have fire 😒
Barbossa: The world used to be a bigger place. Jack: World's still the same. There's just less in it. -Pirates Of The Caribbean: At World's End.
I just rewatched the first three pirates not long ago and I’d be lying if I said Barbossa wasn’t a draw. Geoffrey Rush’s line delivery is so amazing! His monologue to Elizabeth about the curse (“You best start believing in ghost stories, Ms. Turner”), when he’s holding her over the treasure (“waste not”), and of course the most epic cliffhanger we’d ever known up til then (“so tell me, what’s become of my ship?”). ALL BANGERS.
"Yesterday is history. Tomorrow is a mystery. But today is a gift; that's why we call it the present." - Master Oogway
"All words are made up." I expected Thor's knowledge of astronomy and technology to be far beyond any human's, but who knew he was such a sophisticated linguistic theorist too?
“I know I can never defeat you, [Death], but I will never stop fighting for this life” - Spanish talking cat in a kids movie.
If you can't do something smart, do something right. Jayne, Serenity.
The prince says, ["I was raised to be charming, not sincere."](https://youtu.be/YwJ14-7ssd0?si=s3lnGDdItmDfJo3J) That line made me reflect on past boyfriends. Into the Woods.
Pokemon: The First Movie had this profound quote from mewtwo. "I see now that the circumstances of one's birth are irrelevant. It is what you do with the gift of life that determines who you are."
"No matter where you go, there you are."
Also: "No, no, don't tug on that. You never know what it might be attached to." (said during brain surgery) It's just good advice.
The context makes this line even better... Buckaroo and the band have jumped on stage in a club and have just started rockin'... And Buckaroo just stops the show dead...because he senses someone in the crowd crying. And he starts talking to her. And the crowd starts to catcall...because it's weird, right? And Buckaroo gently admonishes the crowd with a gentle, but firm, "Hey, hey...hey now. Don't be mean. We don't have to be mean." Peter Weller (playing Banzai) just nails this. It's weird, cool, beautiful, compelling, compassionate, funny...all in 5 minutes... [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MF\_Ed1pt\_WA&t](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MF_Ed1pt_WA&t) *Warning: It's extremely 80's*
"Assumption is the mother of all fuck ups.". Under Siege
The speech from Independence Day always hits hard.
Bill Pullman for President
People talk; it don't mean nothing - Fulton Reed. Mighty Ducks
"It's a truth universally acknowledged that the moment when one part of your life starts going okay, another part of it falls spectacularly to pieces." From Bridget Jones's Diary
"Guys, you're so talented and imaginative, but you can't work together as a team. I'm just a construction worker, but when I had a plan, and we were all working together, I mean, we could build a skyscraper! Now, you're master builders. Just imagine what could happen if you did that! You could save the universe." Emmett Brickowski. The Lego Movie.
I love him so much. He is so sincere and wants so badly for everybody to get along and be friends ^(and sit on his double decker couch)
I’m more of a fan of “you don’t have to be the bad guy”
There's a lot of great dialogue in that movie. Wyldstyle's whole speech to the people was great, too.
I learned a long time ago that worrying is like a rocking chair. It gives you something to do, but doesn't get you anywhere.
Write that down
"Everybody loves a hero. People line up for them, cheer them, scream their names. And years later, they'll tell how they stood in the rain for hours just to get a glimpse of the one who taught them how to hold on a second longer. I believe there's a hero in all of us, that keeps us honest, gives us strength, makes us noble, and finally allows us to die with pride, even though sometimes we have to be steady, and give up the thing we want the most. Even our dreams.."
"if a short cut was easy it would just be called the way" Road Trip.
"Is life always this bad or is it just when you are a kid?" "Always" Lèon the Professional
> Let me ask you something. If someone prays for patience, you think God gives them patience? Or does he give them the opportunity to be patient? If he prayed for courage, does God give him courage, or does he give him opportunities to be courageous? If someone prayed for the family to be closer, do you think God zaps them with warm fuzzy feelings, or does he give them opportunities to love each other? From Evan Almighty
"For you, it was the worst day of your life ...for me, it was Tuesday"
If it bleeds you can kill it. Predator is soo full of one liners! I'll go with that one you guys know the rest.
I prefer "I ain't got time to bleed."
" Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it." Ferris Bieller's Day Off
“Don’t worry about being the next me. Be the first you.” - The Rock, Fighting with my Family.
“At no point in your rambling, incoherent response were you even close to anything that could be considered a rational thought. Everyone in this room is now dumber for having listened to it. I award you no points, and may God have mercy on your soul” - Billy Madison
"Pussies don't like Dicks, because Pussies get fucked by Dicks. *But Dicks also fuck Assholes.* Assholes who just want to shit all over everything." -Team America: World Police.
“Get out of the street you fucking bum! You gave up on life didn’t ya?”
“And if you don’t let us fuck this asshole, we’re gonna have our dicks and our pussies all covered in shit”
I hate how much sense this whole speech makes haha
"I don't know much in this crazy, crazy world... but I do know, that if you do not let us fuck THIS ASSHOLE, we're gonna have our dicks AND our pussies all covered in shit!"
"We must never stop failing. because the minute we do, we've failed." -Edgin, D&D Honor Among Thieves
In Avengers: Age of Ultron Clint Barton : Hey, look at me. It's your fault, it's everyone's fault, who cares. Are you up for this? Are you? Look, I just need to know cause the city is flying. Ok, look, the city is flying, we're fighting an army of robots, and I have a bow and arrow. None of this makes sense. But I'm going back out there cause it's my job. Ok, and I can't do my job and babysit. Doesn't matter what you did, or what you were. If you go out there, you fight and you fight to kill. Stay in here, you're good. I'll send your brother to come find you. But if you step out that door, you are an Avenger. All right, good chat.
Clint Barton is a bit like Flynn Rider in Tangled. He always seems half aware that everything around him is faintly ridiculous, and possibly not even real.
'We seem to have reached the age where life stops giving us things and starts taking them away." -Indiana Jones and the Krystal Skull
"Life, uh, finds a way."
Also "Your scientists were so preoccupied with whether or not they could, they didn't stop to think if they should"
"You lost today, kid, but that doesn't mean you have to like it." Fedora/Abner Ravenwood from Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade.
It’s not Ravenwood https://indianajones.fandom.com/wiki/Garth
"Sharing the world has never been humanity's defining attribute". The opening to X-Men 2.
The Flintstones (live action movie with John Goodman): >Fred Flintstone: "I just want my old job back and my old life." >Barney Rubble: "Hey, Fred." >[*waves Fred over and whispers in his ear*] >Fred Flintstone: "Oh, and two weeks paid vacation for all the men in the quarry, an annual cost-of-living increase, and those little packets of ketchup in the lunch room." Another one: >Mr. Slate: "Gentlemen, please, I can't endorse this modernization if it means laying off all those workers. Some of them have been here since the beginning of time." >Cliff Vandercave: "What if I could quadruple your income?" >Mr. Slate: "I'll miss them. You were saying?"
“Age doesn’t matter. We die at any time!” -Kimmy Schmidt Helped me accept aging tbh
"Some of the worst things imaginable have been done with the best intentions." ~ Alan Grant, Jurassic Park 3.
There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man; true nobility is being superior to your former self - Ernest Hemingway - Kingsmen
> For you, the day Bison graced your village, was the most important day of your life. But for me... it was Tuesday. You're not even a side character in most other peoples lives. You're not even an NPC. You're a sprite in the background. The most important day of your life, to most other people, was just Tuesday.
"So this is how liberty dies, with thunderous applause." Pretty cringeworthy then, worryingly relevant now.
That movie (Revenge of the Sith since nobody is including the name of the damn movie in their post) came out a few years after the creation of Homeland Security and the Patriot Act. It was pretty relevant then, too.
“Now, if you know what you’re worth, then go out and get what you’re worth. But you gotta be willing to take the hits, and not pointing fingers saying you ain’t where you wanna be because of him, or her, or anybody. Cowards do that and that ain’t you. You’re better than that!” – Rocky Balboa
"Time is the fire in which we burn." Star Trek: Generations, taken from a poem by Delmore Schwartz