“There’s no hurry, you see. We have All the Time in the World.”
“The horror…the horror.”
Maybe there should be a thread for great penultimate lines.
My top contender would be Hal singing “Daisy, Daisy…” a half hour before the end of 2001, disqualified for this thread only by the dumb mission recording.
Confessions Of A Dangerous Mind: “I came up with a new game show idea recently. It’s called The Old Game . You got three old guys with loaded guns onstage. They look back at their lives, see who they were, what they accomplished, how close they came to realizing their dreams. The winner is the one who doesn’t blow his brains out. He gets a refrigerator.”
Excluding the “What happened to them afterwards” setyion by the narrator, the following exchange from A Man for All Seasons (1966)
Thomas More (to executioner): Be not afraid of your office. You send me to God
Thomas Cranmer: You’re very sure of that, Sir Thomas?
More: He will not refuse one so blithe to go to him.
“Traffic was a bitch”.
“Heading, sir?”
“Out there. Thataway!”
“This is…The End”
Robert Morley at the end of Around the World in 80 Days (1956)
“[turning to address camera] Of course the operation was a success… or you wouldn’t be here.”
Creation of the Humanoids
Bridge on the River Kwai - “Madness”
“No!”
Marcel Marceau, Silent Movie
Stallone in Rambo:
"I want what they want and every other guy who came over here, and spilled his guts and gave everything he had wants: for our country to love us, as much as we love it.”
“Good luck, John.”
Good catch! I was about to point out that it’s not the final line in the film until I realized that it is the only line. First and final line.
That was my favorite response also.
“The son of a bitch stole my watch!” – The Front Page
The 1928 version had the sound of a typewriter key drown out the word “bitch,” but Walter Matthau speaks it loudly in the 1974 version.
“Rrrraaaaawwwwwrrrrr!!!” – Chewbacca in Star Wars