{"id":284,"date":"2005-06-30T18:26:32","date_gmt":"2005-06-30T18:26:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/?p=284"},"modified":"2005-06-30T18:26:32","modified_gmt":"2005-06-30T18:26:32","slug":"bennions_most_memorable_movie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/2005\/06\/30\/bennions_most_memorable_movie\/","title":{"rendered":"Bennion&#8217;s Most Memorable Movie Quotes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>No list-by-committee like the AFI&#8217;s Top 100 Whatevers is going to completely reflect any one person&#8217;s individual tastes. Given that this here blog-thingie lets me write about any damn thing I want to, I thought I&#8217;d supplement the <a title=\"AFI\u2019s Top 100 Movie Quotes\" href=\"http:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/2005\/06\/afis_top_100_movie_quotes\/\">previous entry<\/a> with some of my own personal favorite movie quotes that didn&#8217;t make the &#8220;official&#8221; list. I present them in no particular order&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><br \/>\nFrom <i>Star Wars<\/i> (this whole movie is a memorable quote for me, but, for the sake of my three loyal readers, I&#8217;ll restrain myself to just a few):<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>&#8220;I find your lack of faith disturbing.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;Help me, Obi-Wan Kenobi. You&#8217;re my only hope&#8230;&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;You don&#8217;t need to see his identification.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;Sorry about the mess.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;No reward is worth this.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;You came in that thing? You&#8217;re braver than I thought.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;Sometimes I amaze even myself.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;Almost there&#8230;&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;The Force is strong in this one.&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>From <i>The Empire Strikes Back<\/i>:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>&#8220;Laugh it up, fuzzball.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;Do. Or do not. There is no try.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;My hands are dirty, too. What are you afraid of?&#8221;<br \/>\n(Actually, this entire scene between Han and Leia is really great and memorable, but this particular line makes me smile.)<\/li>\n<li>Leia: &#8220;I love you!&#8221;<br \/>\nHan: &#8220;I know.&#8221;<br \/>\n(Hey, if the AFI is going to allow two-character exchanges, then I figure I can, too&#8230;)<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;I am your father.&#8221;<br \/>\n(That one&#8217;s pretty obvious and overexposed, but this is a list of <i>memorable<\/i> lines, after all, and I don&#8217;t think there&#8217;s more memorable one in the last twenty-five years of film history. Certainly not anywhere in the entire six-part <i>Star Wars<\/i> saga.)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>From <i>Return of the Jedi<\/i>:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Han: &#8220;Luke! How we doing?&#8221;<br \/>\nLuke: &#8220;Same as always.&#8221;<br \/>\nHan: &#8220;That bad, huh?&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>From <i>Raiders of the Lost Ark<\/i>:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>&#8220;I don&#8217;t know, I&#8217;m making this up as I go.&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>From <i>Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade<\/i> (another great &#8220;quote movie&#8221;):<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>&#8220;You lost today, kid. That doesn&#8217;t mean you gotta like it.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;Ah, Venice.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;It tells me that goose-stepping morons like you should try reading books instead of burning them!&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;Dad, I <i>was<\/i> the next man.&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>From <i>Batman<\/i> (1989 version):<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>&#8220;Where does he get those wonderful toys?&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>From <i>Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid<\/i>:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>&#8220;Think you used enough dynamite there, Butch?&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>Sundance: &#8220;What are you doing?&#8221;<br \/>\nButch: &#8220;Stealing your woman.&#8221;<br \/>\nSundance: &#8220;Take her.&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>From <i>Ocean&#8217;s 11<\/i> (2000 version):<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>&#8220;You&#8217;re in or you&#8217;re out, right now.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;Ten oughta do it, you think? You think we need one more? You think we need one more. Alright, we&#8217;ll get one more.&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>From <i>Star Trek II: The Wrath of Kahn<\/i>:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>&#8220;I have been and always shall be your friend.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;I shall leave you as you left me&#8230; as you left <i>her<\/i>&#8230; in the heart of a dead planet&#8230; buried alive. Buried alive.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.khaaan.com\/\">&#8220;Khhhhhaaaaaaannnnn!&#8221;<\/a><\/li>\n<li>&#8220;From hell&#8217;s heart, I stab at thee. For hate&#8217;s sake, I spit my last breath at thee&#8230;&#8221;<br \/>\n(Yeah, I know it&#8217;s actually from <i>Moby Dick<\/i>, but I love Ricardo Montalban&#8217;s reading of it.)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>From <i>Star Trek III: The Search for Spock<\/i>:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Sulu: &#8220;The word, Admiral?&#8221;<br \/>\nKirk: &#8220;The word is no. I am therefore going anyway.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;Don&#8217;t call me &#8216;Tiny.'&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>Kirk: &#8220;The <i>Kobayashi Maru<\/i> has set sail for the promised land.&#8221;<br \/>\nMcCoy: &#8220;You&#8217;re taking me to the promised land?&#8221;<br \/>\nKirk: &#8220;What are friends for?&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>Kirk: &#8220;My God, Bones&#8230; what have I done?&#8221;<br \/>\nMcCoy: &#8220;What you had to do. What you always do. Turn death into a fighting chance for life.&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>From <i>Casablanca<\/i> (another highly quotable film, this one is already heavily represented on the AFI&#8217;s list, but here are my favorite bits):<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>&#8220;I have often speculated why you don&#8217;t return to America. Did you abscond with the church fuinds? Did you run off with a senator&#8217;s wife? I like to think you killed a man. It&#8217;s the romantic in me.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>Renault: &#8220;What in heaven&#8217;s name brought you to Casablanca?&#8221;<br \/>\nRick: &#8220;My health. I came to Casablanca for the waters.&#8221;<br \/>\nReneault: &#8220;Waters? What waters? We&#8217;re in the desert.&#8221;<br \/>\nRick: &#8220;I was misinformed.&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>From <i>The Untouchables<\/i>:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>&#8220;You want to get Capone? Here&#8217;s how you get Capone: when one of his pulls a knife, you pull a gun. He sends one of yours to the hospital, you send one of to the <i>morgue<\/i>. That&#8217;s the Chicago way.&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>From <i>Bull Durham<\/i>:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>&#8220;The rose goes in the front, Big Guy.&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>From <i>Conan the Barbarian<\/i>:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Some guy: &#8220;Conan, what is best in life?&#8221;<br \/>\nConan: &#8220;To drive your enemies before you, to crush them, and to hear the lamentations of their women.&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>From <i>The Sword and the Sorcerer<\/i>:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>&#8220;Well, then, let&#8217;s be off. We&#8217;ve a battle in the offing&#8230; kingdoms to save, and women to love!&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I could go on doing this all afternoon, but I don&#8217;t want to wear out my welcome, so I&#8217;ll wrap this up for now with a few lines from perhaps the most quotable movie of all time, <i>Army of Darkness<\/i>:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>&#8220;Hail to the king, baby!&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;Gimme some sugar, baby!&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;Lady, you got real ugly&#8230;&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;Groovy.&#8221;<br \/>\nAnd who could forget this amazing little gem of the screenwriter&#8217;s craft:<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;Alright, listen up, you primitive screwheads: <i>this<\/i> is my <i>boomstick<\/i>!&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>No list-by-committee like the AFI&#8217;s Top 100 Whatevers is going to completely reflect any one person&#8217;s individual tastes. Given that this here blog-thingie lets me write about any damn thing I want to, I thought I&#8217;d supplement the previous entry with some of my own personal favorite movie quotes that didn&#8217;t make the &#8220;official&#8221; list. 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