# Movies: Famous Last Words **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [August 16, 2005, 8:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-famous-last-words/317320 "2005-08-16T20:38:27Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![robardin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/43a26b/32.png) [@robardin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/robardin)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2005, 10:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-famous-last-words/317320/81 "2005-08-19T22:56:22Z")
Well, it’s not exactly a quote as there is no dialogue in the death scene, but for me, the incongruously beautiful chiming of the musical pocketwatch in the final showdown between Colonel Mortimer and Indio in Sergio Leone’s _For A Few Dollars More_ stands out in my mind. For that matter, I suddenly realized one day when listening to the late-90s song _Your Woman_ by Whitetown that the melody in the “hook” for the song is the same as the first part of the pocketwatch melody from _For A Few Dollars More_, just synthesized and sped up. Not sure if that was intentional or not though, as it’s only five notes. ---
**Author:** ![Ranchoth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ranchoth/32/1066_2.png) [@Ranchoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ranchoth)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2005, 9:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-famous-last-words/317320/82 "2005-08-20T09:10:03Z")
Coupla more… “I have run about as far as I care to…today, was a good day!” —Helfdane, _The 13th Warrior_ “It’s no use, V.I.N.CENT, my useful days are finished, but part of me goes with you. We’ll never be obsolete. Carry on the tradition. We’re the best.”—B.O.B., _The Black Hole_ ---
**Author:** ![parthenokinesis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/cc9497/32.png) [@parthenokinesis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/parthenokinesis)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2005, 9:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-famous-last-words/317320/83 "2005-08-20T09:52:19Z")
“Is that the best you can do, you pansies?” - Marv, _Sin City_ ---
**Author:** ![Peter\_Morris](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/peter_morris/32/359_2.png) [@Peter\_Morris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Peter_Morris)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2005, 11:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-famous-last-words/317320/84 "2005-08-20T11:04:17Z")
\*\* HAL:\*\* I’m afraid. I’m afraid, Dave. Dave, my mind is going. I can feel it. I can feel it. My mind is going. There is no question about it. I can feel it. I can feel it. I can feel it. I’m a… fraid. Good afternoon, gentlemen. I am a HAL 9000 computer. I became operational at the H.A.L. plant in Urbana, Illinois on the 12th of January 1992. My instructor was Mr. Langley, and he taught me to sing a song. If you’d like to hear it I can sing it for you. \*\* Dave Bowman:\*\* Yes, I’d like to hear it, HAL. Sing it for me. \*\* HAL:\*\* It’s called “Daisy.” Daisy, Daisy, give me your answer do. I’m half crazy all for the love of you. It won’t be a stylish marriage, I can’t afford a carriage. But you’ll look sweet upon the seat of a bicycle built for two. ---
**Author:** ![Raguleader](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/258eb7/32.png) [@Raguleader](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Raguleader)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2005, 6:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-famous-last-words/317320/85 "2005-08-21T06:25:17Z")
> [@Peter Morris](#): > > \*\* HAL:\*\* It’s called “Daisy.” Daisy, Daisy, give me your answer do. I’m half crazy all for the love of you. It won’t be a stylish marriage, I can’t afford a carriage. But you’ll look sweet upon the seat of a bicycle built for two. Had that as my shutdown sound for my computer for about a week. Only computerized last words I like more were SHODAN’s in System Shock (but alas, that’s not a movie) > [@SHODAN](#): > > Lo-lo-look at you, Hacker. A pa-pa-pathetic creature of meat and bone, panting and sweating as you ru-run through my corridors-s. H-h-how can you challenge a perfect, immortal machine? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-famous-last-words/317320.md?page=4)