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Mates,Last evening, I was trying to make any kind of sense of Mike Myer's "Cat in the Hat". I say Mike Myers' as I think he shapes whatever character there is and I would rather not remember who the director was. And I say 'any kind of sense' as I can't imagine what committee of the Damned wrote and produced this.
But, as I was enjoying the movie that much, I heard a great line, a memorable movie line. Whichever Baldwin it is is driving his fashionable 2001 Thunderbird (well, everyone else is doomed to lime green Ford Foci) and looks over at the passenger seat where his dog has urinated on his lunch. If that is a strange scenario, then what Whichever Baldwin says is strangely wonderful, "I don't know why you pissed on my taco!" Suddenly I absolved the movie as it was I who was missing the deep existential angst of it- so true to the books. And this after I firmly dismissed the whole thing as a sham pastiche of wildly flatulent adolescent demographically contrived waste of time aspiring to Tim Burton.
I have very high expectation when anyone messes with Dr. Suess or A.A. Milne. Or Shakespeare.
Yes, "I don't know why you pissed on my taco!" just encapsulates the difficulty of life in this Cosmos doesn't it?
So this cosmically significant line arises as a precious gem out of shite! This got me to thinking of memorable movie lines generally. I am an anti-intellectual and go from the specific to the general.
How about a couple more:
"If you wanted to be an astronaut, you never shoulda married a stripper!" >"Independence Day"
Bus Driver: "Maybe they do and maybe they don't."
John Warne (Clark Gable): "This is a 'maybe they DO'". >"It Happened One Night""You're very talkative.": Comrade Nina Ivanovna Yakushova (Greta Garbo) >"Ninotchka"
Groucho Marx: "If I was standing any closer, I'd be standing in back of you!"
"Hey, don't knock masturbation. It's sex with someone I love." Alvy Singer (Woody Allen) >"Annie Hall"
Thomas Dunson (John Wayne): "I don't like quitters!" SHOOTS TWO HIRED COWBOYS DEAD/ > Red River
"It's because I haven't got a brain."*** Scarecrow (Ray Bolger) >Wizard of Oz
*** With that honesty he will end up in high office.
Dorothy (Judy Garland): [Saw Prof. marvels' Big sign that he performed for all the crowned heads of Europe.] "I want to travel with you and see the crowned heads of Europe"
Professor Marvel (Frank Morgan): "Do you know any?" "Oh,. the thing." >Wizard of OzWicked Witch of the North (Margeret Hamilton): "I'll get you, my pretty! And your little dog too!" > W of O
Harold the Blindman (Gene Hackman): "wait! Come back! I was going to make espresso!" > Young Frankenstein
Luna Schlosser (Diane Keaton): "So, what's it like being asleep for two hundred years?"
Miles Monroe (Woody Allen): It's like a weekend in Beverly Hills." >SleeperIt's late. Off to Beverly Hills!
Cheers,
Bambi B
Follow Ups:
Val Kilmer "Tombstone"
Richard Boone to Paul Newman
Karl Spackler is my hero.
YECH
Rockin' Roll High School
Dr. Strangelove.
Maj. T.J. 'King' Kong (Slim Pickens) > Said while checking the contents of the survival packs in the B-52 while flying into Russia to drop the big one.
said "...in Dallas..." but it was changed due to the then recent Kennedy assasination.
"...feel it tickling. Tell me Mum, when your little girl is on the slab, where will it tickle you?"From Silence of the Lambs.
From Spiderman movie. Sure, except he’s flunking school, can’t pay the rent and can’t allow himself to express his true feelings for Mary Jane. What’s kind of Super hero that allows himself to be degraded. I supposed Superman would be another pretty face beside a train.
" Yeah, but I still like a piece of pu**y once in a while. Ain't nothing like a piece of pu**y, except maybe the Indy 500. "
"If you need me, just whistle. You know how to whistle, don't you? You just put your lips together and blow."Bacall and Bogie sizziled. Few screen pair had more screen chemistry.
at the end of The Big Sleep.
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Arnold's famous line in Predator.
blues brothersSays a cop as they're blasting through the mall
chasing the bros.
Of course there's "We're on a mission from god"
Still a classic scene.Tosh
"I think this place is restricted Wang, so don't tell them you're Jewish"
Even been parodied in Toy Story 2. Might not be high brow (much as I'd like to think of something pithy and convoluted), but how high was *your* brow when you first heard it?
Big J.
"In Italy for thirty years under the Borgias they had warfare, terror, murder and bloodshed - they produced Michelangelo, 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."Hmmm. This thread could get political but DON'T GO THERE! Just enjoy another pithy quote from a real cad.
Big J.
Form Spike Lee's much overlooked "She's Gotta Have It"."Made for less than $30,000, Lee's first feature posed him as a mid-80s rival to Woody Allen, nearly equaling him in the psychological authenticity of his characters and perhaps bettering him in grace and virtuosity and sheer creative glee."
-- Peter Keough, CHICAGO READER
Big J.
"YEAH! KILLER BOOTS MAAN!"
My Fair Lady.
..in the same line of what Walter Burns (Adolphe Menjou in the original version, Walter Matthau in Wilder´s) of "The Front Page", who gave lectures on The Ethics of Journalism...Regards
BF
From "The Sure Thing" Always liked that line
"We'll always have Paris.""Here's looking at you, kid."
"Round up the usual suspects."
"Play it once, Sam. For old times' sake." (NOT "Play it again, Sam.")
"I came to Casablanca for the waters.""What waters? There are no waters in Casablanca."
"I was misinforemed."
"Of all the gin joints in all the towns in all the world, she walks into mine.""Louis, I think this is the beginning of a beautiful friendship."
"If he ever gets a word in, it'll be a major Italian victory."
"How extravagant you are, throwing away women like that. Some day they may be scarce."
"Are you one of those people who cannot imagine the Germans in their beloved Paris?"
"It's not particularly my beloved Paris."
"Can you imagine us in London?"
"When you get there, ask me!"
"Hmmh! Diplomatist!"
"How about New York?"
"Well there are certain sections of New York, Major, that I wouldn't advise you to try to invade."There are dozens more!
"I'm shocked, shocked..."
Withnail and I
Withnails "Accident Black Spots" raveGrins
Love that line by Henry Fonda in 'Once upon a Time in the West'.
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nt
Used in about 98% of B-grade and below movies. Often multiple repeats which really sends me into fits of ecstasy (plus a solid foundation for a drinking game):"Shut the fuck up!"
"NO, YOU shut the fuck up!"
ad nauseum
( huh? )
Colonel Saito from "Bridge On The River Kwai"
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"I HATE the British! They have no shame!"
There's a stench of death about you...
You carry in your pack like the plague.
nt
"Go ahead, make my day..."I think the screenwriter invented that line.
Music is Emotion
. . spoken by Harry at a crime scene where the victim has been shot in the groin.
==========(Mark B. James - a.k.a. "Brewthunda")
I also love the exchange between Clint and Hackman in 'Unforgiven', Hackman is lying there on the floor shot, and he mumbles, 'I don't deserve to die like this, I was building a house...' Clint looks at him coldly and says, 'deserving got nutten to do with it'...and blows him away.
O'Toole is using a toilet in the women's room. Selma Diamond looks over and says: Hey, this is for women only!O'Toole (busy using the facility): So is this madam but I must run water through it from time to time.
great underrated movie
The line for popcorn was very long, the line in the men's room a bit less long.
