# Movie quotes that can encapsulate this election year **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [October 22, 2004, 3:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-quotes-that-can-encapsulate-this-election-year/270604 "2004-10-22T15:24:40Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![AmericanMaid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e480ec/32.png) [@AmericanMaid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AmericanMaid)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2004, 3:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-quotes-that-can-encapsulate-this-election-year/270604/1 "2004-10-22T15:24:40Z")
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? ---
**Author:** ![asterion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/4da419/32.png) [@asterion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/asterion)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2004, 3:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-quotes-that-can-encapsulate-this-election-year/270604/2 "2004-10-22T15:33:53Z")
_Alien vs. Predator_’s tagline: Whoever wins, we lose. ---
**Author:** ![Max\_Torque](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e9bcb4/32.png) [@Max\_Torque](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Max_Torque)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2004, 6:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-quotes-that-can-encapsulate-this-election-year/270604/3 "2004-10-22T18:22:55Z")
Obi-Wan Kenobi: “Who’s more foolish…the fool, or the fool who follows him?” ---
**Author:** ![eno801](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/c2a13f/32.png) [@eno801](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eno801)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2004, 6:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-quotes-that-can-encapsulate-this-election-year/270604/4 "2004-10-22T18:25:42Z")
That’s it man, game over man, game over! What the fuck are we gonna do now? ---
**Author:** ![Loach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/loach/32/350_2.png) [@Loach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loach)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2004, 6:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-quotes-that-can-encapsulate-this-election-year/270604/5 "2004-10-22T18:32:37Z")
The horror, the horror… ---
**Author:** ![Hypno-Toad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b2d939/32.png) [@Hypno-Toad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hypno-Toad)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2004, 6:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-quotes-that-can-encapsulate-this-election-year/270604/6 "2004-10-22T18:40:58Z")
“Frankly, my dear, I don’t give a damn.” ---
**Author:** ![h.sapiens](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e0b2c6/32.png) [@h.sapiens](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/h.sapiens)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2004, 6:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-quotes-that-can-encapsulate-this-election-year/270604/7 "2004-10-22T18:49:00Z")
Be afraid. Be very afraid. ---
**Author:** ![vibrotronica](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/a9a28c/32.png) [@vibrotronica](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vibrotronica)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2004, 6:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-quotes-that-can-encapsulate-this-election-year/270604/8 "2004-10-22T18:51:37Z")
“It’s a big old shit sandwich, and we’ve all got to take a bite.” from _Full Metal Jacket_ ---
**Author:** ![danceswithcats](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/9e8a1a/32.png) [@danceswithcats](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/danceswithcats)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2004, 6:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-quotes-that-can-encapsulate-this-election-year/270604/9 "2004-10-22T18:59:31Z")
From Will Darnell, garage owner, in Christine: _You can’t polish a turd_. ---
**Author:** ![Phnord\_Prephect](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/df705f/32.png) [@Phnord\_Prephect](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Phnord_Prephect)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2004, 7:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-quotes-that-can-encapsulate-this-election-year/270604/10 "2004-10-22T19:19:21Z")
“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! \* ---
**Author:** ![Jonathan\_Chance](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jonathan_chance/32/701_2.png) [@Jonathan\_Chance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jonathan_Chance)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2004, 7:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-quotes-that-can-encapsulate-this-election-year/270604/11 "2004-10-22T19:21:28Z")
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?” ---
**Author:** ![Odinoneeye](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/97f17d/32.png) [@Odinoneeye](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Odinoneeye)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2004, 8:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-quotes-that-can-encapsulate-this-election-year/270604/12 "2004-10-22T20:02:23Z")
_Meatballs_ “It just doesn’t matter! it just doesn’t matter!” ---
**Author:** ![Charlie\_Tan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/charlie_tan/32/12582_2.png) [@Charlie\_Tan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Charlie_Tan)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2004, 11:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-quotes-that-can-encapsulate-this-election-year/270604/13 "2004-10-22T23:00:47Z")
“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 ---
**Author:** ![Julius\_Henry](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/8797f3/32.png) [@Julius\_Henry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Julius_Henry)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2004, 11:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-quotes-that-can-encapsulate-this-election-year/270604/14 "2004-10-22T23:12:24Z")
from _The Candidate_ “What do we do now?” ---
**Author:** ![AncientHumanoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ancienthumanoid/32/278_2.png) [@AncientHumanoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AncientHumanoid)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2004, 12:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-quotes-that-can-encapsulate-this-election-year/270604/15 "2004-10-23T00:02:55Z")
You must choose. But choose wisely. ---
**Author:** ![Cervaise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cervaise/32/16693_2.png) [@Cervaise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cervaise)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2004, 12:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-quotes-that-can-encapsulate-this-election-year/270604/16 "2004-10-23T00:39:14Z")
_“FUCK!”_ —Alien[sup]3[/sup] ---
**Author:** ![Murcielago](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/da6949/32.png) [@Murcielago](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Murcielago)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2004, 12:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-quotes-that-can-encapsulate-this-election-year/270604/17 "2004-10-23T00:47:22Z")
“One bastard goes in, another one comes out.” Tuco, _The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly_ ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_Bravo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_bravo/32/493_2.png) [@Johnny\_Bravo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_Bravo)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2004, 1:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-quotes-that-can-encapsulate-this-election-year/270604/18 "2004-10-23T01:01:22Z")
“Good, bad, I’m the guy with the gun.” ---
**Author:** ![chukhung](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e79b87/32.png) [@chukhung](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chukhung)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2004, 1:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-quotes-that-can-encapsulate-this-election-year/270604/19 "2004-10-23T01:14:09Z")
Nothing but Kubrick: From [The Killing](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0049406/)You have not yet learned that in this life you have to be like everyone else. The perfect mediocrity. No better, no worse. [Paths of Glory](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0050825/)You are an idealist–and I pity you as I would the village idiot. [Spartacus](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0054331/)In every city and province, lists of the disloyal have been compiled. Tomorrow they will learn the cost of their terrible folly–their treason. [Lolita](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0056193/)But it doesn’t matter a bit, because you’ve stopped caring anyway. [Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0057012/)We 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](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0062622/) 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 Orange](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0066921/)So 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 Jacket](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0093058/)Is that you, John Wayne? Is this me? [Eyes Wide Shut](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120663/)I have seen one or two things in my life but never, never anything like this. Couldn’t think of anything appropriate from [The Shining](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0081505/), although maybe the [expression on the movie poster](http://www.art.com/asp/sp.asp?PD=10132879&RFID=346898) would do. There _must_ be a good line from [Barry Lyndon](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0072684/), but whenever I watch that movie, I just stare rapt at all the pretty pictures and forget the dialog. ---
**Author:** ![Roadwalker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e19b73/32.png) [@Roadwalker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Roadwalker)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2004, 1:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-quotes-that-can-encapsulate-this-election-year/270604/20 "2004-10-23T01:19:18Z")
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