# NEW! Speak to me in Movie quotes

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-speak-to-me-in-movie-quotes/914614>\
**Category:** Thread Games\
**Created:** [July 7, 2020, 1:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-speak-to-me-in-movie-quotes/914614 "2020-07-07T13:50:20Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 20\
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**Author:** ![Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/prof.pepperwinkle/32/13627_2.png) [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Prof.Pepperwinkle)\
**Post date:** [September 30, 2024, 9:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-speak-to-me-in-movie-quotes/914614/6962 "2024-09-30T21:04:17Z")

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I’ve been marked down!

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**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\
**Post date:** [September 30, 2024, 9:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-speak-to-me-in-movie-quotes/914614/6963 "2024-09-30T21:40:08Z")

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Attention, Kmart shoppers, blue light special, aisle 13.

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**Author:** ![llikewise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/llikewise/32/8522_2.png) [@llikewise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/llikewise)\
**Post date:** [September 30, 2024, 10:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-speak-to-me-in-movie-quotes/914614/6964 "2024-09-30T22:00:37Z")

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Do I understand this correctly? I’m being _marked down_? What is this? The Bargain Basement?  
[_Starts crying_] I’ve been kidnapped by Kmart!

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**Author:** ![Dendarii\_Dame](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/bbce88/32.png) [@Dendarii\_Dame](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dendarii_Dame)\
**Post date:** [October 1, 2024, 6:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-speak-to-me-in-movie-quotes/914614/6965 "2024-10-01T18:29:29Z")

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On a personal note, sir, I’d just like to add that ever since I was kidnapped by aliens ten years ago, I have been dying for some payback.

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**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\
**Post date:** [October 2, 2024, 2:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-speak-to-me-in-movie-quotes/914614/6966 "2024-10-02T02:35:54Z")

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Even in a time of intergalactic crisis, people still want to roll them bones.

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**Author:** ![Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/prof.pepperwinkle/32/13627_2.png) [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Prof.Pepperwinkle)\
**Post date:** [October 2, 2024, 1:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-speak-to-me-in-movie-quotes/914614/6967 "2024-10-02T13:59:08Z")

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I’m from Earth. Ever heard of it?

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**Author:** ![Buck\_Godot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/buck_godot/32/6573_2.png) [@Buck\_Godot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Buck_Godot)\
**Post date:** [October 2, 2024, 4:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-speak-to-me-in-movie-quotes/914614/6968 "2024-10-02T16:29:36Z")

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And yet, across the gulf of space, minds immeasurably superior to ours regarded this earth with envious eyes, and slowly and surely, they drew their plans against us.

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**Author:** ![TheTooth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/919ad9/32.png) [@TheTooth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TheTooth)\
**Post date:** [October 2, 2024, 5:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-speak-to-me-in-movie-quotes/914614/6969 "2024-10-02T17:11:29Z")

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Earth, man. What a shithole.

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**Author:** ![llikewise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/llikewise/32/8522_2.png) [@llikewise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/llikewise)\
**Post date:** [October 2, 2024, 5:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-speak-to-me-in-movie-quotes/914614/6970 "2024-10-02T17:34:53Z")

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If this is the best they’ve got around here, in six months we’ll be running this planet.

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**Author:** ![Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/prof.pepperwinkle/32/13627_2.png) [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Prof.Pepperwinkle)\
**Post date:** [October 2, 2024, 7:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-speak-to-me-in-movie-quotes/914614/6971 "2024-10-02T19:20:51Z")

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France. We’re from France.

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**Author:** ![Dendarii\_Dame](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/bbce88/32.png) [@Dendarii\_Dame](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dendarii_Dame)\
**Post date:** [October 2, 2024, 11:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-speak-to-me-in-movie-quotes/914614/6972 "2024-10-02T23:14:55Z")

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France will follow me to the stars, if I give her another victory.

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**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\
**Post date:** [October 3, 2024, 4:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-speak-to-me-in-movie-quotes/914614/6973 "2024-10-03T04:06:30Z")

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The smell, you know, the gasoline smell, the whole hill. Smelled like…victory.

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**Author:** ![Dendarii\_Dame](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/bbce88/32.png) [@Dendarii\_Dame](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dendarii_Dame)\
**Post date:** [October 3, 2024, 2:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-speak-to-me-in-movie-quotes/914614/6974 "2024-10-03T14:52:38Z")

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We are all ready to win, just as we are born knowing only life.

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**Author:** ![llikewise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/llikewise/32/8522_2.png) [@llikewise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/llikewise)\
**Post date:** [October 3, 2024, 8:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-speak-to-me-in-movie-quotes/914614/6975 "2024-10-03T20:40:56Z")

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Whoever has the most liquor to get the soldiers drunk and send them to be slaughtered, is the winner.

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**Author:** ![Dendarii\_Dame](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/bbce88/32.png) [@Dendarii\_Dame](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dendarii_Dame)\
**Post date:** [October 4, 2024, 3:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-speak-to-me-in-movie-quotes/914614/6976 "2024-10-04T15:15:07Z")

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Soldiers deserve soldiers, sir.

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**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\
**Post date:** [October 4, 2024, 3:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-speak-to-me-in-movie-quotes/914614/6977 "2024-10-04T15:23:38Z")

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We follow orders, son. We follow orders or people die. It’s that simple. Are we clear?

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**Author:** ![Dendarii\_Dame](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/bbce88/32.png) [@Dendarii\_Dame](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dendarii_Dame)\
**Post date:** [October 5, 2024, 2:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-speak-to-me-in-movie-quotes/914614/6978 "2024-10-05T14:29:40Z")

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All that I have, all that I’ve learned, everything I feel, all this and more, I bequeath to you, my son.

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**Author:** ![llikewise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/llikewise/32/8522_2.png) [@llikewise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/llikewise)\
**Post date:** [October 5, 2024, 2:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-speak-to-me-in-movie-quotes/914614/6979 "2024-10-05T14:34:01Z")

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[_reading from Joan’s will after her death_] It is my intention to make no provision herein for my son Christopher or my daughter Christina, for reasons which are well known to them.

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**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\
**Post date:** [October 5, 2024, 8:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-speak-to-me-in-movie-quotes/914614/6980 "2024-10-05T20:29:12Z")

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You get nothing! You lose! Good day, sir!

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**Author:** ![Thudlow\_Boink](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thudlow_boink/32/320_2.png) [@Thudlow\_Boink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thudlow_Boink)\
**Post date:** [October 5, 2024, 11:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-speak-to-me-in-movie-quotes/914614/6981 "2024-10-05T23:55:35Z")

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You took the box. Let’s see what’s in the box:  
Nothing! Absolutely nothing!  
Stupid! You’re so stupid!

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