As the election year winds down, I am reminded by the Borg Queen’s line in Star Trek, First Contact:
“Watch your future’s end.”
or from Fight Club:
“My God. I haven’t been fucked like that since grade school.”
Any other suggestions?
Alien vs. Predator’s tagline:
Whoever wins, we lose.
Obi-Wan Kenobi: “Who’s more foolish…the fool, or the fool who follows him?”
That’s it man, game over man, game over! What the fuck are we gonna do now?
The horror, the horror…
“Frankly, my dear, I don’t give a damn.”
Be afraid. Be very afraid.
“It’s a big old shit sandwich, and we’ve all got to take a bite.”
from Full Metal Jacket
From Will Darnell, garage owner, in Christine:
You can’t polish a turd.
“These are not the droids you are looking for.”
- It was not WMDs we were looking for! *
“He can go about his business.”
- We should go about our business. *
“Move along.”
- Move along! Move along! *
One simply sums it all up…
“I’ve got a bad feeling about this…”
But a small part of me likes…
“Who’s more foolish? The fool or the fool who follows him?”
Meatballs
“It just doesn’t matter! it just doesn’t matter!”
“Holy dog shit, only queers and steers come from texas, and you don’t much look like a steer to me, so kinda narrows it down…”
FMJ
from The Candidate
“What do we do now?”
You must choose. But choose wisely.
“FUCK!”
—Alien[sup]3[/sup]
“One bastard goes in, another one comes out.”
Tuco, The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
“Good, bad, I’m the guy with the gun.”
Nothing but Kubrick:
From The KillingYou have not yet learned that in this life you have to be like everyone else. The perfect mediocrity. No better, no worse.
Paths of GloryYou are an idealist–and I pity you as I would the village idiot.
SpartacusIn every city and province, lists of the disloyal have been compiled. Tomorrow they will learn the cost of their terrible folly–their treason.
LolitaBut it doesn’t matter a bit, because you’ve stopped caring anyway.
Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the BombWe are rapidly approaching a moment of truth both for ourselves as human beings and for the life of our nation. Now, truth is not always a pleasant thing. But it is necessary now to make a choice, to choose between two admittedly regrettable, but nevertheless distinguishable, postwar environments: one where you got twenty million people killed, and the other where you got a hundred and fifty million people killed.
2001: A Space Odyssey I know I’ve made some very poor decisions recently, but I can give you my complete assurance that my work will be back to normal. I’ve still got the greatest enthusiasm and confidence in the mission.
A Clockwork OrangeSo now it was to be Georgie the General, saying what we should do and what not to do, with Dim as his mindless grinning bulldog.
Full Metal JacketIs that you, John Wayne? Is this me?
Eyes Wide ShutI have seen one or two things in my life but never, never anything like this.
Couldn’t think of anything appropriate from The Shining, although maybe the expression on the movie poster would do. There must be a good line from Barry Lyndon, but whenever I watch that movie, I just stare rapt at all the pretty pictures and forget the dialog.
“You will never find a more wretched hive of scum and villiany.”