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Huh? I think you misheard “young.”…
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Huh. IMDb.com backs you up. All these years, and I thought he said “yeah,” as in, “I feel pretty good, considering.”
A line I’ll admit I’ve never really understood:
“Mama always said, 'Life is like a box of chawk-lits, you never know what you’re gonna git.”
Mama Gump must have eaten some chocolates I’m not familiar with. Even when I’ve bought big sampler boxes there was some type of ‘map’ or labels on them.
In the movie version of RENT during the song “America/What You Own” Mark, standing on a rooftop, scream-sings
“Alexi-Mark
Call me a hypocrite
I need to finish my
Own film Your Eyes
I quit!”
Okay… it wouldn’t have been such a stupid line if he’d been- as he was in the play- on a phone, or if Alexi had been within earshot. Having him say it from the top of a building… unless Alexi (Sarah Silverman) was standing behind a support beam where you couldn’t see her, it was just kind of stupid.
[QUOTE=Sampiro]
A line I’ll admit I’ve never really understood:
“Mama always said, 'Life is like a box of chawk-lits, you never know what you’re gonna git.”
Mama Gump must have eaten some chocolates I’m not familiar with. Even when I’ve bought big sampler boxes there was some type of ‘map’ or labels on them.
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Much as I hate to defend that god awful movie in any way, I have come across plenty of boxes of chocolate with no map in the lid or anywhere else in the box. And I don’t even like chocolate that much.
[QUOTE=Bosstone]
Ooh! Ooh! Mine!
“Do you know what happens to a toad when it’s struck by lightning? The same thing that happens to everything else.” – Storm, X-Men
Poor Halle. She tried to deliver the line as cool and badassed as possible, but there’s no saving it. It’s the stupidest line I’ve ever had the misfortune to hear in a movie.
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Joss Whedon can complain all he wants to about Halle “not saying the line the right way.” It’s still a lame, lame, lame wisecrack…and it’s completely out of character for Storm.
Storm was a major character in the X-Men comic book for 25 years before the movie came out and had a clearly defined personality. She ALWAYS spoke in lofty, vaunted tones. Her catchphrases were “By the Goddess!” and “Lords of the Earth and Air!” This is simply NOT a character who makes off-handed, smirky Buffy-like one-liners.
[Quote=speed]
Jack: I have to warn you, I’ve heard relationships based on intense experiences never work.
Annie: OK. We’ll have to base it on sex then.
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oh snap! Buuuurn!
[QUOTE=Steve MB]
Yes, it is. It’s basic physics that you get less useful energy feeding food to a human and tapping his energy than you’d get by just burning the food directly. What makes the stupidity absolutely unforgiveable is that it would take about ten seconds to think of something that does make sense (the Matrix uses some of the processing power of all those human brains).
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It’s basic physics that you get less useful energy feeding corn to a cow and tapping her energy than you get by just eating the corn directly, yet people continue to eat steak. The humans in the Matrix are steak. As Agent Smith said in one of the sequels (don’t ask me which one), the machines can survive on standard fusion power (i.e., corn) alone, but they really, really like steak.
[QUOTE=Terminus Est]
The humans in the Matrix are steak.
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I would totally eat Trinity.
[QUOTE=Elendil’s Heir]
Huh. IMDb.com backs you up. All these years, and I thought he said “yeah,” as in, “I feel pretty good, considering.”
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A subplot of that movie was that Kirk was feeling old. He was giving the Enterprise to a bunch of young trainees, he was having a birthday that he was sad about, he just became a desk jockey, and he met his grown son. Being that the purpose of the Genesis device was sort of a rebirth of matter, there’s a theme here. Kicking the shit out of a mad space Sikh is like Viagra.
[QUOTE=Terminus Est]
It’s basic physics that you get less useful energy feeding corn to a cow and tapping her energy than you get by just eating the corn directly, yet people continue to eat steak. The humans in the Matrix are steak. As Agent Smith said in one of the sequels (don’t ask me which one), the machines can survive on standard fusion power (i.e., corn) alone, but they really, really like steak.
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But energy IS just energy. You’d lose far less energy artifically converting it into a form that “tastes good”, such as via transformers, than you’d do by feeding it to humans and eating the energy of their brainwaves (probably much less than 1% of the energy you put in, whereas most built-to-purpose energy conditioners probably lose far less than 50% of input energy.)
Whereas animals have a complete set of essential amino acids in their proteins that plants do not, which is why we like to eat varied foodstuffs (craving animals for their protein, tolerating plants because its a good everyday source of calories, loving sweets cause of their solid pack of calories, tending toward a mixture of them all because it will round out your vitamin intake.)
[QUOTE=robardin]
I quite like Independence Day. Sure the plot has several large holes barely covered over with Saran Wrap (“Luckily for us, I’ve determined that these aliens who communicate telepathically and whose radio signals I only decoded until 24 hours ago, somehow use TCP/IP networking and MacOS so I can upload and execute this here virus from my notebook”), but as a shoot-em-up action movie, it’s terrific. So help me, I even the President’s morale-stirring speech cobbled together from Henry V, Dylan Thomas and other sources. Not to mention having an alien abductee who’s been anally probed deliver the first knockout punch as he says, “Hello, boys! Remember me? I’m baa-a-ck!”
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Independence Day has such great lines. And some don’t even have any words. I especially love the one where Randy Quaid says that he’s going to do his best and get payback on the aliens who kidnapped him ten years ago. Then Adam Baldwin looks at him like he’s completely nuts. Mere hours after Adam Baldwin shot an alien in the head because it was trying to telepathically make the President’s brain explode.
[QUOTE=robardin]
Plus, most boxes of assorted chocolates come with a little map just so you do know what you’re getting. Gaaah!
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Little maps in boxes of chocolate did not become commonplace until well after Forrest Gump came out. It’s my personal belief that some executive at Russel Stover’s really hates that line and did everything in his power to make people think it’s stupid.
I love the 1939 film The Wizard of Oz. But this line, near the end, bothers me:
“If I ever go looking for my heart’s desire again, I won’t look any further than my own back yard. Because if it isn’t there, I never really lost it to begin with!”
It seem to me that if it is there in your back yard, you never really lost it. If it isn’t there, then it’s someplace else, and you have really lost it. Maybe Dorothy was just confused because of that bump on her head.
Ran across this little gem hile looking for somethhing else:
“You know, when I’m sitting here with you, I don’t even think about the slime people.”
- The Slime People, 1962
[QUOTE=pravnik]
“You know, sitting here next to you, I don’t even think about the slime people.”
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That would make a great pickup line. Right up there with “You don’t sweat much, for a fat girl.”
[QUOTE=pinkfreud]
That would make a great pickup line. Right up there with “You don’t sweat much, for a fat girl.”
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I’m going to try it when I get home tonight.
It’s cheating to nominate anything written by Ed Wood, but these are deathless in my opinion.
-Plan 9 from Outer Space
Heh.
“Visits? That would indicate visitors!”
- More Plan 9
Let’s see, I can’t remember the exact quote from Volcano, but everyone is covered in gray ash and one of the little kids says, “Look, daddy, everybody looks the same.” Never has a more non-satirical on-the-nose line been written in a movie.
In Armegeddon I think Billy Bob Thornton as the President turns around dramatically and says, “Get me the world’s best driller.” Because what, are they internationally ranked or something?
And from Notting Hill, “After all… I’m just a girl, standing in front of a boy, asking him to love her.”
[QUOTE=Ludovic]
But energy IS just energy. You’d lose far less energy artifically converting it into a form that “tastes good”, such as via transformers, than you’d do by feeding it to humans and eating the energy of their brainwaves (probably much less than 1% of the energy you put in, whereas most built-to-purpose energy conditioners probably lose far less than 50% of input energy.)
Whereas animals have a complete set of essential amino acids in their proteins that plants do not, which is why we like to eat varied foodstuffs (craving animals for their protein, tolerating plants because its a good everyday source of calories, loving sweets cause of their solid pack of calories, tending toward a mixture of them all because it will round out your vitamin intake.)
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But it’s really, really good steak!
[QUOTE=Cisco]
A clever way to delude yourself into stomaching that scene (wish I would’ve thought of it), but I really don’t think Lucas is that nuanced.
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Which is odd, since he co-wrote American Graffiti, which has some great, naturalistic dialogue.
[QUOTE=silverfish]
According to Joss Whedon, who wrote that line, it was supposed to be delivered off-hand, not cool and badass at all, which I think would have worked better. cite
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But why didn’t the director, you know, direct her? Did he not know how the line was supposed to be delivered either? Did anyone talk to Wheedon at any point?
It’s not as bad as my Chronicles of Riddick line, but I forgot to mention the worst line in the movie Blade.
[Blade kills the main villain]
Blade: Some motherfuckers always tryin’ to ice skate uphill!
It doesn’t even fit the tone of the movie.