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...then you'll really like this video! To celebrate 100 years of American movies, the American Film Institute picked the 100 most famous movie quotes from those 100 years. This clip is 10 minutes long, but I guarantee if you like movies, you'll want to see every quote, and you'll recognize almost all of them. You'll see a Smith & Wesson revolver or two, also! I think I've seen most of the movies the quotes came from.

Enjoy!

John

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Watched it all and I recognized each of them. Movies used to be about something, had morals and real life in them. Even left you with feelings most times. Beats hell out of zombies and such. I was looking for something really good to burn my 100th post on. Thanks.
 
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Nice compilation, but they forgot a few, such a the classic dialogue between Ned Pepper and Rooster Cogburn, where Robert Duvall tells John Wayne, "I call that brave talk for a one-eyed fat man," and Wayne responds, "Fill your hand you ***." Or how about Redford and Newman trapped on the edge of the cliff over a river filled with rapids: " I can't swim." Laughter..."Hell, the fall will probably kill you, Kid." "Oooooooooh, Sh********t!"

Add others as you deem fit.
 
Watched it all and I recognized each of them. Movies used to be about something, had morals and real life in them. Even left you with feelings most times. Beats hell out of zombies and such. I was looking for something really good to burn my 100th post on. Thanks.

For every one of those quotable movies, there were a hundred that are drek. A similar percentage of today's movies will be quotable years from now. See Sturgeon's Law . https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sturgeon's_law

FWIW I recognized all of the quotes, although there are a few that I haven't actually seen the movie that it's from (such as "All About Eve").
 
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You're LUCKY.

For every one of those quotable movies, there were a hundred that are drek. A similar percentage of today's movies will be quotable years from now. See Sturgeon's Law . https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sturgeon's_law

FWIW I recognized all of the quotes, although there are a few that I haven't actually seen the movie that it's from (such as "All About Eve").

My wife likes chick flicks. She even conned me into taking her to see "UNDER THE TUSCON SUN". I think there were only two other husbands in the theater room.:)
 
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Oh how horrible...

My wife likes chick flicks. She even conned me into taking her to see "UNDER THE TUSCON SUN". I think there were only two other husbands in the theater room.:)

You poor man. Fortunately, my wife is 'one of the guys' and hates chick ****.

The worst I've ever endured was the Australian "The Piano" where the woman is mute because she's a 'victim' and sells herself to get her piano back.
 
That was fun......

That was great fun, but I could have used another 10-20 minutes. I love this stuff and I get carried away.

"You talkin' to me?"

"ADRIANNE!!"

" Now I want you to remember that no ******* ever won a war by dying for his country. He won it by making the other poor dumb ******* die for his country."

"Make three coffins"

"The rain in Spain falls mainly on the plain"

"He was kinda funny lookin'"

"I hate snakes"

"You'll shoot your eye out"

"What's your favorite color"

"The power of Christ compels you"

"So this is what it has come to! The military has been lying to me. Everybody has been lying to me, even the SS! Our generals are just a bunch of contemptible, disloyal cowards... "

"Moses, Moses"

"Well I ain't sorry for you no more, ya crazy, psalm-singing, skinny old maid!"

"We're both trying, Don. You're trying not to drink, and I'm trying not to love you."

"Sir, there ain't no more strawberries."

"You're a wizard, Harry!" "I'm a what?"

"I can out-learn you. I can out-read you. I can out-think you. And I can out-philosophize you."

"That's right. I've killed women and children. I've killed just about everything that walks or crawled at one time or another. And I'm here to kill you, Little Bill, for what you did to Ned."

"Blondie!!!!"

"I can't escape, I have to obey it. I have to run, run... endless streets. I want to escape, to get away! And I'm pursued by ghosts. Ghosts of mothers and of those children... "

"Where does he get those wonderful toys?"

"There was me, and my three droogs."

"To infinity, and beyond!"

"You'll still be here when I get out?. "COOLER!"

"THEY'RE ALREADY HERE!"

"Klaatu Barada Nicto"

"That sex was the most fun I ever had without laughing"

"Hallo. My name is Inego Montoya"

"We spared no expense"

"Multi-pass"

"How about a nice game of chess"

"The needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few"

"Nice climate you have here. High oxygen content." "I seldom use it myself, sir. It promotes rust."

"AAAAH! THEM! THEM! THEM!"

"Do you have a license for your minkey?"

"It's the sign of the sandal!"

"What in the wide world of sports is going on here?"

"We're on a mission from God"

"Wow, what knockers" "Oh, thank you doctor"

"Why worry? Each one of us is carrying an unlicensed nuclear accelerator on his back. "

"I don't want no Fop! I'm a Dapper Dan man!"

"You gotta get 'em dip-tet boosters yearly or else they'll develop lockjaw and night vision"

"Why don't you just make ten louder and make ten be the top number and make that a little louder?" ".... These go to eleven."

"Shagadelic baby!"

“I won't be wronged, I won't be insulted, and I won't be laid a hand on. I don't do these things to other people, and I require the same from them."

"If you die, I'll kill ya!"

"When I get to likin' someone, they ain't around long." "I notice when you get to DISlikin' someone they ain't around for long neither."

"Do you want the padre?" "No, thank you. I'm a pagan."
" And you?" "What's a pagan?" "Well... it's somebody who doesn't believe there's a divine being dispensing justice to mankind." "I'm a pagan, too."

"Everybody gets dead. It was his turn."

"And we got him a marble headstone. It had his name on it, and underneath, we had them put, "In the Fullness of His Years." Is that all right with you?" "I'll settle for that. I'm not on the slab." "Well, what do you figure yours is going to read?" "Shot Dead," probably."

"Come out and fight! It is a good day to die!"

"You boys know what makes this bird go up? FUNDING makes this bird go up." "He's right. No bucks, no Buck Rogers."

"General Stuart... your mission was to free this army from the enemy cavalry and report any movement by the enemy's main body. That mission was not fulfilled."

"Mr. Christian!"

"Now listen to me, all of you. You are all condemned men. We keep you alive to serve this ship. So row well, and live."

"Will no one rid me of this meddlesome priest?"

"Are you afraid to die, Spartacus?" "No more than I was to be born."

"More accurately the other way round. Trusting in god and praying for radar. But the essential arithmetic is that our young men will have to shoot down their young men at the rate of four to one, if we're to keep pace at all."

"Everything will be done quietly and calmly. There must be no alarm and no panic. I will give the word when the boats are to loaded with the women and children. Carry on, please." "Captain! Aren't you exaggerating the danger?" "I'm afraid not."

"I tell you there's nothing on the judge." "Jack, there's something on everybody. Man is conceived in sin and born in corruption."

" Hi, Princess!" "It talks!" "Yeah, it's getting him to shut up that's the trick!"

"They've shot the Czar. And all his family." "Oh, that's a savage deed. What's it for?" "It's to show there's no going back."

"Meat's meat and man's gotta eat!"

" Is this necessary? "Yes. You know what you guys look like? "What?" "Like a couple of guys who just blew off somebody's head!"

"I don't know, but it's been said, I love scaring kids in bed!"

"Hey! There's a Cyclops!" "Can't be. It's got two eyes." "Must be a "bicycle-ops" then."

"That was Mozart. That! That giggling dirty-minded creature I had just seen, crawling on the floor."

"Really? Worst film you ever saw. Well, my next one will be better. Hello? Hello?"

"Somewhere out there is a lady who I think will never be a nun. Auf Wiedersehen, darling."

"He has his father's eyes."

“How come I know so much? What the hell is going on around here? Who the hell are you people?”

“Teacher says, every time a bell rings an angel gets his wings.”

"They made us all train for this day. "To be fearless and proud and alone. To need no one, just sacrifice. All for the Fatherland." Oh God, all just empty words. It's not the way they said it was, is it? I just want someone to be with. The only thing I feel is afraid."

" Let me explain something to you. Um, I am not "Mr. Lebowski". You're Mr. Lebowski. I'm the Dude. So that's what you call me. You know, that or, uh, His Dudeness, or uh, Duder, or El Duderino if you're not into the whole brevity thing."
 
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I found a site with 25 of the best Duke quotes. I didn't write down five of them since those were said when being interviewed for an article. If anyone wants them? lemme know.
 
Only one Duke quote in that list, that's an atrocity!!!!

Anyone remember, 'That'll Be The Day'' just for starters.

''Mine's Taller''.

Etc.
 
I'll try anything....

I am a movie addict and it is not just classic movies. As long as the movie is not boring or full of politically correct lies and deceptions, I will watch it at least once. Some I watch many times.

I wanted to include quotes from 'Trainspotting' and 'Eraserhead' but I didn't want to be to obscure.
 
I wanted to include quotes from 'Trainspotting' and 'Eraserhead' but I didn't want to be to obscure.

Eraserhead seemed really bizarre to me, and I am not certain to this day that I understood that one, or why so many people liked it. it is not one I have any desire to watch again.
 
Liberty Valance's the toughest man south of the Picketwire..........next to me.

Ya' speak pretty good American.....for a Comanche.

Well now pardon me all to he!!.

Get off them horses I don't favor looking up to the likes of you.


The lack of The Duke leaves this selection of 100 Greatest Movie Quotes tainted.
 
I apologise but I will make up for it....

Liberty Valance's the toughest man south of the Picketwire..........next to me.

Ya' speak pretty good American.....for a Comanche.

Well now pardon me all to he!!.

Get off them horses I don't favor looking up to the likes of you.


The lack of The Duke leaves this selection of 100 Greatest Movie Quotes tainted.


I hope you two had a good time, 'cause Hap paid the check.

" Holy smokes, Cookie, you call that soup?" "No, sir. That's dishwater." "Well, uh... right, carry on."

"You gotta learn right and you gotta learn fast. And any man that doesn't want to cooperate, I'll make him wish he had never been born."

"I feel this Tartar woman is for me, and my blood says, take her."

"Can't a man have a drink around this town in peace? "No one's bothering you, Doniphon" *You* are."

"This is probably the first marriage I've ever seen that started out with a spanking! "

"Truly this man was the son of God."

"Damn your murderin' hides! Meet your maker! "
 
There have been some fine movies made in more recent years, as well as a lot of brain-dead garbage. "The Shawshank Redemption". "Drivng Miss Daisy". "Cocoon". "Unforgiven". "Doubt". "Charlie Wilson's War". "The Full Monty". "Schindler's List". "Julie And Julia". Lots more.

Unfortunately what sells these days seems to be explosions, massive CGI special effects, and corny superhero chsracters.
 
I took my son to see 'Transformers'

There have been some fine movies made in more recent years, as well as a lot of brain-dead garbage. "The Shawshank Redemption". "Drivng Miss Daisy". "Cocoon". "Unforgiven". "Doubt". "Charlie Wilson's War". "The Full Monty". "Schindler's List". "Julie And Julia". Lots more.

Unfortunately what sells these days seems to be explosions, massive CGI special effects, and corny superhero chsracters.

Some superhero characters are ok, I liked "Iron Man" and "Batman" (the first one)

CGI - not nearly as much fun as creative props and techniques. 'Bruce' in Jaws looked real and it was a mechanical shark. Now they would CGI in the shark. CGI effects are just too easy. They have no soul and often that is the 'why' of the movie in the first place. "Let's do this because we can CGI great special effects".

Over reliance on explosions - Just plain bad and unimaginative movie making.

3D movies used to be unwatchable to me. The new 3D is somehow much easier to watch, but I haven't seen one 3D movie that I liked. I think they concentrate on the 'immature' market for the 3D, CGI and explosions.

LOL, that should be part or the rating system. This picture is rated 'I' for 'immature'. It may contain content which may not be suitable for adults."

Reliance on explosions...... bad movie making.
 

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