# Little lines in movies that you love or saved the movie for you. **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [February 24, 2006, 1:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/little-lines-in-movies-that-you-love-or-saved-the-movie-for-you/345917 "2006-02-24T13:10:34Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2006, 8:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/little-lines-in-movies-that-you-love-or-saved-the-movie-for-you/345917/21 "2006-02-24T20:08:25Z")
From _Titan AE:_ PREED: Hmm! An intelligent guard! Didn’t see **that** one coming! ---
**Author:** ![Godfrey\_Daniels](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Godfrey\_Daniels](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Godfrey_Daniels)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2006, 8:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/little-lines-in-movies-that-you-love-or-saved-the-movie-for-you/345917/22 "2006-02-24T20:40:40Z")
“that’s Happer…h-a-p…eh, p-p-e-r…” ---
**Author:** ![Godfrey\_Daniels](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Godfrey\_Daniels](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Godfrey_Daniels)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2006, 8:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/little-lines-in-movies-that-you-love-or-saved-the-movie-for-you/345917/23 "2006-02-24T20:43:31Z")
> [@Godfrey Daniels](#): > > “that’s Happer…h-a-p…eh, p-p-e-r…” uh, that was from _Local Hero_ also from the same movie… "and there’s two g’s in _bugger off!_ " ---
**Author:** ![ddgryphon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/8c91f0/32.png) [@ddgryphon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ddgryphon)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2006, 8:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/little-lines-in-movies-that-you-love-or-saved-the-movie-for-you/345917/24 "2006-02-24T20:45:23Z")
“The Cowboy Way” Apart from a scene with a nursing calf and a guy stripped naked from the waist down, while tied to a fence, I remember almost nothing of this movie. I don’t know why Kefer S. and Woody H. were cowboys in New York. I do remember as they get to NYC they park the truck and prepare to go in somewhere. One looks to the other and says, “Hey, waitaminute, this is New York, we better lock the truck up.” (or words to that effect) at which point they both turn to their doors, put their hands through the open windows and lock the truck before walking off. Memorably funny, because it was such a Monty Python kind of moment in a “Realish” comedy. ---
**Author:** ![Snooooopy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ee7513/32.png) [@Snooooopy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snooooopy)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2006, 8:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/little-lines-in-movies-that-you-love-or-saved-the-movie-for-you/345917/25 "2006-02-24T20:57:34Z")
There’s a great line in _Selena_ during the scene where Selena and her boyfriend, Chris, are planning to get married in defiance of her father. In the midst of all of the high drama, Chris just can’t think of the word “bridesmaids” – the best he can do is a clumsy description of women in different-colored dresses. I thought it was a great “guy” moment. ---
**Author:** ![Sage\_Rat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sage_rat/32/399_2.png) [@Sage\_Rat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sage_Rat)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2006, 9:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/little-lines-in-movies-that-you-love-or-saved-the-movie-for-you/345917/26 "2006-02-24T21:00:55Z")
_The Long Kiss Goodnight_ is an excellent film; you just need to realise that it’s like a Quentin Tarantino film, where 90% of the point is to just revel in the bad-assness of the characters. The only difference being that TLKG _also_ has a story, and that distracted most people too much methinks. I really want to see _Kiss Kiss Bang Bang_. ---
**Author:** ![Bomzaway](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e480ec/32.png) [@Bomzaway](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bomzaway)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2006, 9:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/little-lines-in-movies-that-you-love-or-saved-the-movie-for-you/345917/27 "2006-02-24T21:11:53Z")
Although I really liked the latest **King King,** the attraction wasn’t necessarily the dialog. However, I did like one part where Jack Black tells his assistant, “Remember, failure is always momentary.” But a not long aftwerwards, Naomi Watts’ character tells JB, “Success never lasts.” Or something like that. Blacks’ character recognized the coincidence after Watts’ says her line and the ironic look on his face was pretty funny. ---
**Author:** ![Scarlett67](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scarlett67/32/7387_2.png) [@Scarlett67](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scarlett67)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2006, 10:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/little-lines-in-movies-that-you-love-or-saved-the-movie-for-you/345917/28 "2006-02-24T22:29:01Z")
The only good line in the Michael Keaton bomb _Multiplicity,_ which is basically a ripoff of any number of _Calvin & Hobbes_ storylines: Michael has been making copies of himself. One day he leaves the clones alone at home and returns to find an extra one, who’s a little . . . off. Pressed for an explanation, the clones respond: “Well, you know how sometimes when you make a copy of a copy and it’s not quite as **sharp** as the original?” Only funny thing in the whole mess. ---
**Author:** ![Ephemera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8baadc/32.png) [@Ephemera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ephemera)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2006, 10:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/little-lines-in-movies-that-you-love-or-saved-the-movie-for-you/345917/29 "2006-02-24T22:44:02Z")
> [@Otanx](#): > > All of the Monty Python quotes in **Sliding Doors** , but the best one is the one at the very end of the movie. Got to _love_ a movie where the last words spoken are a Monty Python quote. I like the movie anyway, but that made it one of my favorites. Huh. I loved \*Sliding Doors \*(and John Hannah, especially) but being not the least bit interested in Monty Python, it seems I missed on quite a bit. > [@ddgryphon](#): > > “The Cowboy Way” Apart from a scene with a nursing calf and a guy stripped naked from the waist down, while tied to a fence, I remember almost nothing of this movie. I don’t know why Kefer S. and Woody H. were cowboys in New York. This movie is actually something of a guilty favorite (just lacking in guilt. Is there a phrase for that? Anyway, I just love Woody Harrelson.) and they were in New York to try to find the kidnapped daughter of their friend and mentor. ---
**Author:** ![Marlitharn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/779978/32.png) [@Marlitharn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marlitharn)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2006, 12:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/little-lines-in-movies-that-you-love-or-saved-the-movie-for-you/345917/30 "2006-02-25T00:28:53Z")
I watched _Cursed_ with Christina Ricci the other day. Okay movie, nothing special, but the “Yay, go gay!” line cracked me up. ---
**Author:** ![CandidGamera](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/candidgamera/32/2878_2.png) [@CandidGamera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CandidGamera)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2006, 2:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/little-lines-in-movies-that-you-love-or-saved-the-movie-for-you/345917/31 "2006-02-25T02:00:13Z")
I can think of plenty of movies where their only real merit lies in their dialogue, but it’s usually the dialogue as a whole, not one single great line. So I’ll have to warp the OP’s intent. The Boondock Saints - dialogue sparkles from start to finish, but the one line that slays me every time involves the delivery of a Mushmouth impersonation through in Irish brogue. Equilibrium - solid little action movie. Christian Bale outdoes himself, though, when he delivers the chillingly perfect line : “No. Not without incident.” My pick for the Ghostbusters line would be “When someone asks you, if you are a God, you say YES!” ---
**Author:** ![Paul\_in\_Qatar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ccd318/32.png) [@Paul\_in\_Qatar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Paul_in_Qatar)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2006, 2:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/little-lines-in-movies-that-you-love-or-saved-the-movie-for-you/345917/32 "2006-02-25T02:28:00Z")
I hope someone out there can give me the real dialogue from _Citizen Kane_. I only half-remember it. Reporter: Thanks for meeting with me. Chairman of the Board: I’m the Chairman of the Board, I have lots of free time. … Chairman of the Board: Memory? Let me tell you about memory. The first time I came to New York, I was on the ferry, it was pulling in. Another was pulling out. There was a girl, a beautiful girl. She was buttoning her glove. She never saw me. We never spoke. I don’t know her name. There is not a single day in my life when I don’t think of her. ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2006, 2:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/little-lines-in-movies-that-you-love-or-saved-the-movie-for-you/345917/33 "2006-02-25T02:53:19Z")
> [@Kizarvexius](#): > > **Sage Rat** , you beat me to it. _The Long Kiss Goodnight_ was a fairly lame movie, but that particular snippet of dialog was its redemption. I’m personally more fond of: Mitch: And another thing; did you always curse this much? When we first met, you were all “oh, phooey, I burned the darn muffins.” Now you walk into a bar, five minutes later sailors come running out. What up with that? Samantha: What are you, a Mormon? Mitch: Yeah, that’s right, I’m a Mormon. That’s why I just drank three vodka tonics and smoked half a pack of Newport. ---
**Author:** ![Digital\_Stimulus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/aeb1de/32.png) [@Digital\_Stimulus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Digital_Stimulus)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2006, 3:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/little-lines-in-movies-that-you-love-or-saved-the-movie-for-you/345917/34 "2006-02-25T03:13:23Z")
A favorite excerpt from the movie [Trust](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0103130/) (note – while this is one of my favorite movies, if you ever rent it, you need to get past the first half hour. Not that it’s bad, but the characters pissed me off enough that I almost had to turn if off; but it’s necessary for their evolution): Matthew: Why don’t you wear your glasses? Maria: They make me look stupid. Matthew: How do you mean? Maria: You know, brainy, like a librarian. Matthew: I _like_ librarians. I have to say that I think _The Long Kiss Goodnight_ was a tremendous flick! It starts off so normal, just a pleasant, mild-mannered housewife in a pleasant, mild-mannered town, and progressively descends into a level of unbelievable (and wondrous) absurdity that left my mouth agape. Oh, and _Rosencrantz and Guidenstern Are Dead_ just has too many fantastically quotable lines to even make an attempt at picking just one. ---
**Author:** ![Shirley\_Ujest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/45deac/32.png) [@Shirley\_Ujest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shirley_Ujest)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2006, 3:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/little-lines-in-movies-that-you-love-or-saved-the-movie-for-you/345917/35 "2006-02-25T03:27:42Z")
I could probably start a Spongebob Appreciation Thread, but until then, my favorite line du jour of his, in an episode where he and Patrick are selling chocolate bars to become entrepreneurs and brain storming ways to sell the bars: Patrick: I know! Let’s Get Naked! Spongebob: No. Let’s save that when we sell real estate. GOLD! A tossaway line in **The Lion in Winter** by Peter O’Toole commenting on his profile : My finest angle. It’s on all the coins. ---
**Author:** ![Evil\_Captor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/f17d59/32.png) [@Evil\_Captor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Evil_Captor)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2006, 4:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/little-lines-in-movies-that-you-love-or-saved-the-movie-for-you/345917/36 "2006-02-25T04:15:48Z")
Warning: Bondage content! The Easily Squicked should run shreiking in horror and terror at once! There’s a good but not great hentai called “Dragon Pink” that has a brilliantly subtle little line. In one scene, the hero, Santa, is planning to capture a monster. To that end, he leads his fellow adventurers to a clearing. Then he leaps on his cat slavegirl Pink, strips off her clothes and ties her hands behind her back while their companions look on. And Pink says: “It’s too early.” We’re given no other clues about the sort of things that go on around their campfire each night, but now we know what goes on each night, and that it goes on in front of, or maybe with, their companions. Nice bit. ---
**Author:** ![interface2x](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/c0e974/32.png) [@interface2x](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/interface2x)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2006, 4:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/little-lines-in-movies-that-you-love-or-saved-the-movie-for-you/345917/37 "2006-02-25T04:36:06Z")
> [@tanstaafl](#): > > Mine’s from _The Last Starfighter_ My dad says that his theory of life is illustrated in a single exchange of lines in that movie. I can’t remember the exact wording, but it’s something like this: “It’s just the two of us against their entire army? It’ll be a slaughter?” “That’s the spirit!” ---
**Author:** ![Bomzaway](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e480ec/32.png) [@Bomzaway](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bomzaway)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2006, 6:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/little-lines-in-movies-that-you-love-or-saved-the-movie-for-you/345917/38 "2006-02-25T06:53:55Z")
My favorite line from _The Last Starfighter_ are (cut from IMDb): Lord Kril: Damage report! Kodan Officer: Guidance system out. Auxiliary steering out. Lord Kril: Divert! Divert! Kodan Officer: She won’t answer the helm! We’re locked into the moon’s gravitational pull. What do we do? [sound of Lord Kril’s eyepiece swinging over left eye] Lord Kril: We die. ---
**Author:** ![Bernard\_Marx](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4491bb/32.png) [@Bernard\_Marx](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bernard_Marx)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2006, 7:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/little-lines-in-movies-that-you-love-or-saved-the-movie-for-you/345917/39 "2006-02-25T07:15:44Z")
From _State and Main_; both lines delivered by William H. Macy: “Who designed these costumes? It looks like Edith Head puked, and that puke designed these costumes.” “Oh, I’m sorry. Why don’t you sue me in the World Court.” (It’s the earnest, deadpan delivery of this one that makes it so great.) ---
**Author:** ![marque\_elf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/71c47a/32.png) [@marque\_elf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/marque_elf)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2006, 7:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/little-lines-in-movies-that-you-love-or-saved-the-movie-for-you/345917/40 "2006-02-25T07:23:51Z")
Once, while watching one of those gloriously dumb dubbed Japanese monster movies from the 1960s, I’m not sure which one, I heard in a crowd scene where a bunch of men building a road are being sent home because of the imminent monster, a small barely audible voice from the back of the crowd as it breaks up, saying to no one in particular: “Don’t take any wooden nickels.” Talk about Theater of the Absurd. 😃 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/little-lines-in-movies-that-you-love-or-saved-the-movie-for-you/345917.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/little-lines-in-movies-that-you-love-or-saved-the-movie-for-you/345917.md?page=3)