# The best last line of a movie **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [April 5, 2000, 1:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-best-last-line-of-a-movie/15653 "2000-04-05T01:00:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![DooWahDiddy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e9bcb4/32.png) [@DooWahDiddy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DooWahDiddy)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2000, 1:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-best-last-line-of-a-movie/15653/1 "2000-04-05T01:00:00Z")
Sorry if it’s been done before; I’m a relative newbie here. I’ll start: Hannah and Her Sisters, Woody Allen. He’s kissing his wife of one year, and she says, “Mickey?” “Yeah?” “I’m pregnant.” Ahhhh I love that. He’s really surprised, then they kiss again, and then fade out… Anyone else? ---
**Author:** ![Spoke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a88e57/32.png) [@Spoke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoke)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2000, 1:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-best-last-line-of-a-movie/15653/2 "2000-04-05T01:05:00Z")
Narrator: “He lives now, only in my memory…” **The Road Warrior** ---
**Author:** ![Catrandom](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/7bcc69/32.png) [@Catrandom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Catrandom)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2000, 1:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-best-last-line-of-a-movie/15653/3 "2000-04-05T01:05:00Z")
Oooh, I get to get in early and state the obvious. “This could be the beginning of a beautiful friendship.” Catrandom ---
**Author:** ![Typo\_Negative](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/typo_negative/32/484_2.png) [@Typo\_Negative](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Typo_Negative)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2000, 1:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-best-last-line-of-a-movie/15653/4 "2000-04-05T01:13:00Z")
I hope I get this one right. I remember it as “I am haunted by waters.” from ‘A river runs through it’ ---
**Author:** ![Spoke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a88e57/32.png) [@Spoke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoke)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2000, 1:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-best-last-line-of-a-movie/15653/5 "2000-04-05T01:17:00Z")
Mattie: “You’re too old and too fat to be jumping horses.” Rooster Cogburn: “Well…Come see a fat old man some time!” (Doffs hat, spurs horse, and jumps a fence as he rides away.) **True Grit** ---
**Author:** ![Surgoshan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e95f7d/32.png) [@Surgoshan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Surgoshan)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2000, 1:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-best-last-line-of-a-movie/15653/6 "2000-04-05T01:20:00Z")
From Army of Darkness “Name’s Ash, housewares” “Good? Bad? I’m the guy with the gun.” “Hail to the king, baby.” “That’s just what they call ‘pillow talk’, baby.” “Sister, you got real ugly” “All right, your primitive screwheads, listen up! This… is my BOOMSTICK. Double barreled Remington. Walnut stock, cobalt blue steel barrel. And a hair trigger. Retails about 199. That’s right. Shop smart. Shop S-Mart. YOU GOT THAT?” Ah, what a film! * * * I sold my soul to Satan for a dollar. I got it in the mail. ---
**Author:** ![Coldfire](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a587f6/32.png) [@Coldfire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Coldfire)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2000, 9:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-best-last-line-of-a-movie/15653/7 "2000-04-05T09:11:00Z")
_“I never did have better friends than the friends I had when I was 12. Hell, does anyone?”_ **Stand by me** ---
**Author:** ![yosemite](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/3ab097/32.png) [@yosemite](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/yosemite)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2000, 9:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-best-last-line-of-a-movie/15653/8 "2000-04-05T09:49:00Z")
“So what. Big deal” From _Buckaroo Banzai_. Said by one of the Good Aliens. In response to Buckaroo’s delight and amazement that the heroine has been revived from apparent death by these Good Aliens. Bizarre and great film. John Lithgow was a particular highlight. * * * * * * Polydactyl Cats Unlimited “A Cat Cannot Have Too Many Toes” ---
**Author:** ![as\_u\_wish](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/6f9a4e/32.png) [@as\_u\_wish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/as_u_wish)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2000, 10:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-best-last-line-of-a-movie/15653/9 "2000-04-05T10:19:00Z")
Grandpa says “As you wish” when his grandson asks him to re-read the story tomorrow. From Princess Bride * * * inconceivable? i don’t think that word means what you think it does ---
**Author:** ![Babar714](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/779978/32.png) [@Babar714](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Babar714)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2000, 10:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-best-last-line-of-a-movie/15653/10 "2000-04-05T10:37:00Z")
“I thought Chrismas only came once a year.” 007: The World is Not Enough ---
**Author:** ![ultress](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/7c8e57/32.png) [@ultress](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ultress)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2000, 11:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-best-last-line-of-a-movie/15653/11 "2000-04-05T11:31:00Z")
Well not the last lines exactly, but the last lines for Rhett: “Frankly my dear, I don’t give a damn.” * * * \*\* _Sigh_. So many men, so few who can afford me \*\* _Original by Wally_ _I’ve learned that if someone says something unkind about me, I must live so that no one will believe it._ ---
**Author:** ![Globe-trotter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/cab0a1/32.png) [@Globe-trotter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Globe-trotter)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2000, 11:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-best-last-line-of-a-movie/15653/12 "2000-04-05T11:33:00Z")
From “The Silence of the Lambs” : I really wish we could chat longer, but I’m having an old friend for dinner. ---
**Author:** ![Wendell\_Wagner](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/8491ac/32.png) [@Wendell\_Wagner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wendell_Wagner)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2000, 11:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-best-last-line-of-a-movie/15653/13 "2000-04-05T11:44:00Z")
“Forget it, Jake, it’s Chinatown.” From (obviously) _Chinatown_ ---
**Author:** ![Bucky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/5f8ce5/32.png) [@Bucky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bucky)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2000, 12:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-best-last-line-of-a-movie/15653/14 "2000-04-05T12:20:00Z")
I don’t remember the exact last lines, but as Talphie is falling asleep in “A christmas Story,” he cradles his new BB gun in his arms and thinks that it is “the greatest gift I had ever received, or ever WOULD receive” and then some stuff about shooting ducks on the wing and hip-shots. (The memory is a-fadin’, kiddies.) SHOULD be the last line–“the rest is silence.” Bucky ---
**Author:** ![Koxinga](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/4af34b/32.png) [@Koxinga](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Koxinga)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2000, 12:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-best-last-line-of-a-movie/15653/15 "2000-04-05T12:24:00Z")
“What?!”–_Birdie_ ---
**Author:** ![Daniel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/3ec8ea/32.png) [@Daniel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Daniel)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2000, 12:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-best-last-line-of-a-movie/15653/16 "2000-04-05T12:25:00Z")
“Where do you think we’ll end up?” “Away from the things of man, my love. Away from the things of man.” **Joe vs The Volcano** * * * Mayor of [Snerdville](http://fathom.org/snerdville), the home of Mortimer Snerd “I’m just too much for human existence – I should be animated.” –Wayne Knight ---
**Author:** ![plnnr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/7ea924/32.png) [@plnnr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/plnnr)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2000, 12:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-best-last-line-of-a-movie/15653/17 "2000-04-05T12:33:00Z")
“Sorry, wrong number.” From the film “Sorry, Wrong Number” starring Barbara Stanwyck and Burt Lancaster. ---
**Author:** ![malaka](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ecc23a/32.png) [@malaka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/malaka)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2000, 1:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-best-last-line-of-a-movie/15653/18 "2000-04-05T13:13:00Z")
From A Clockwork Orange: Alex: I was cured all right. ---
**Author:** ![Shagrath\_Borgir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/46a35a/32.png) [@Shagrath\_Borgir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shagrath_Borgir)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2000, 1:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-best-last-line-of-a-movie/15653/19 "2000-04-05T13:45:00Z")
Nicole Kidman: “There is something very important that we need to do as soon as possible…” Tom Cruise: “What’s that?” Nicole Kidman: “Fuck.” **Eyes Wide Shut** * * * “Through twilight, darkness and moonrise My scarlet tears will run As stolen blood and whispered love Of fantasies undone” ---
**Author:** ![Biggirl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biggirl/32/3294_2.png) [@Biggirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biggirl)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2000, 2:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-best-last-line-of-a-movie/15653/20 "2000-04-05T14:00:00Z")
Ultress, the actual last line form Gone With The Wind is pretty good too. Scarlet: I won’t worry about it now, I’ll worry about it tomorrow. Tomorrow’s another day. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-best-last-line-of-a-movie/15653.md?page=2)