Favourite Movie Quotes

[Mikey]

I was just reminded of a great Yul Brynner quote from a little-known Western called Invitation to a Gunfighter -

"I'm the man with a gun - you're a drunk."

[colmquinn]

"Never rub another mans rhubarb"

Joker in Batman (Michael Keaton one)

[Mikey]

I was flipping through channels this morning, and paused to inject myself while the awful movie Street Fighter was on, just in time to hear this - it was being announced over a PA in a black-market bazaar:

"Armored personnel carriers, surplus from Iraqi army, five speeds - two froward, three reverse."

[Captain Seafort]

Michael Caine, The Italian Job -

"You were only supposed to blow the bloody doors off!"

[Mikey]

What an utterly amazing movie. Even including Charlize Theron (yum!) didn't atone for remaking that one.

[Enkidu]

I was flipping through channels this morning, and paused to inject myself while the awful movie Street Fighter was on, just in time to hear this - it was being announced over a PA in a black-market bazaar:

"Armored personnel carriers, surplus from Iraqi army, five speeds - two froward, three reverse."

That is, I think, a version of a 60+ year old joke about Italian tanks in the western desert campaign of the Second World War, 'cept in that case it was one forward and four reverse.
Jim Davidson, a right wing British comic whose act was old fashioned even before he was born, was still using it, (admittedly in a forces entertainment gig, where he stuck very much to the old school) when he was last on TV four or five years ago.

[Mikey]

Thank you for assisting me to give credit where it is due. I guess it's similar to the joke my uncle told me from when he served during WWII - "French army rifles for sale - only dropped once."

[Enkidu]

I'd not heard the French Army rifle joke until the second Iraq War, when the news showed the bumper stickers and tee-shirts during the "Freedom Fries" period. I wondered if it was of a similar vintage.

[Mikey]

I would guess that it probably comes from sometime soon after WWI.

[Blackstar the Chakat]

Motormouth Maybelle: [to Seaweed and Penny] Oh, so this is love?
[pauses, then smiles]
Motormouth Maybelle: Well, love is a gift, a lot of people don't remember that. So, you two better brace yourselves for a whole lotta ugly comin' at you from a neverending parade of stupid.
Penny Pingleton: [deadpans] So, you've met my mom?

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Penny Pingleton: Seaweed? Shhh, don't let her hear you!
Seaweed: What happened to you?
Penny Pingleton: [sighs] She's punishing me for harboring a fugitive without her permission. What are you doing?
Seaweed: I'm here to rescue the fair maiden, baby.
Penny Pingleton: Oh, Seaweed, you do care! I was afraid the colors of our skin would keep us apart.
Seaweed: No... but these knots might.
[still trying to untie her]
Seaweed: Was your mom in the Navy?

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Teacher: Oh, and Mr. Larkin, perhaps you'd like to share with the rest of the class, Patrick Henry's immortal last words?
Link Larkin: Kiss my ass?

[Mikey]

Blackstar - I don't know if you're referring to the original, or the new version with John Travolta. Can't say much for that one, but the first was great.

[Blackstar the Chakat]

I've only seen the new one. I didn't know there was an earlier movie version until I looked at it's Wikipedia article. Before I read that I thought it was based on the musical.

[Thorin]

"Ash nazg durbatulûk, ash nazg gimbatul, ash nazg thrakatulûk, agh burzum-ishi krimpatul."

AKA

"One Ring to rule them all, One Ring to find them, One Ring to bring them all and in the darkness bind them."

[Sionnach Glic]

Good one, but was that line spoken in the tongue of Mordor in the film?

[Captain Seafort]

I think it was, by Sauron in the five minute history of the rings at the start of FotR.