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  • #31
    Re: Best line(s) of dialogue used in a film...

    You're right. That can ruin great dialogue.

    "I want you to hit me on the nose as hard as you can."

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    • #32
      Re: Best line(s) of dialogue used in a film...

      Yeah, but some "great" lines are still pretty much "on the nose" ...

      I'd suggest that there is at least one run of dialogue that belongs in BOTH the "best" and "worst" dialogue threads: the inspirational rant delivered to the leaders of the world's nations at the end of TEAM AMERICA: WORLD POLICE.

      It's not the usual moronic 'it's so bad it's good' claim ... it's so ingenius you cannot know if it's bad or good.


      TEAM AMERICA ... Rent it for the puppet sex ... but cherish it always for the dialogue!
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      "As human beings, our greatness lies not so much in being able to remake the world -
      that is the myth of the atomic age - as in being able to remake ourselves."
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      • #33
        Re: Best line(s) of dialogue used in a film...

        No debate. I won't do the whole bit but The Outlaw Josey Wales:

        "Dying ain't much of a living, boy!"
        A lovely being, scarcely formed or moulded,
        A rose with all its sweetest leaves yet folded.

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        • #34
          Re: Best line(s) of dialogue used in a film...

          There were so many great lines from this film, but here's one exchange:

          Jack Burton: What's in the flask, Egg? Magic potion?
          Egg Shen: Yeah.
          Jack Burton: Thought so, good. What do we do, drink it?
          Egg Shen: Yeah!
          Jack Burton: Good, thought so.
          Screenwriting is like stripping. You don't just dump your clothes on the floor. You tease as you go. And then you get screwed in a back room for money. - Craig Mazin

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          • #35
            Re: Best line(s) of dialogue used in a film...

            Return of the Living Dead: "You mean the movie lied!?"
            "Forget it, Jake. It's Hollywood."

            My YouTube channel.

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            • #36
              Re: Best line(s) of dialogue used in a film...

              Originally posted by Signal30
              Return of the Living Dead: "You mean the movie lied!?"
              I'm not afraid to admit that I absolutely love that entire movie.

              I'll add this one from Planes Trains and Automobiles...

              "She may be short and skinny, but she's strong. Her first baby...came out sideways. She didn't scream or nothin'."

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              • #37
                Re: Best line(s) of dialogue used in a film...

                Since someone's already done Josey Wales, I'll chip in with:

                "I suppose you expect me to talk."
                "No Mr Bond, I expect you to die."
                Craft maximises talent

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                • #38
                  Re: Best line(s) of dialogue used in a film...

                  But you could have still used:

                  WALES - Looks like we won't be seeing that squaw again. Pity, I was just gettin' to like her. But then its always like that.

                  LONE WATIE - Always like what?

                  WALES - Just when I start gettin' to like someone they ain't around for long.

                  LONE WATIE - I have noticed that when you start getting to dislike somebody they're not around for long either.


                  Or even:

                  TERRIL - He's an easy man to track this Josey Wales; leaves dead men wherever he goes.
                  A lovely being, scarcely formed or moulded,
                  A rose with all its sweetest leaves yet folded.

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                  • #39
                    Re: Best line(s) of dialogue used in a film...

                    The Outlaw Josey Wales is a great for lines.

                    I like the part that ends with:

                    LONE WATIE
                    What about the fourth man?

                    JOSEY
                    I didn't pay him no mind. You were there.

                    (long pause)

                    LONE WATIE
                    I could have missed.

                    Censorship reflects a society's lack of confidence in itself.
                    It is a hallmark of an authoritarian regime.
                    -- Potter Stewart

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                    • #40
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                      MELVIN
                      (furiously)
                      It was better than this... Look,
                      you, I'm very intelligent. If
                      you're going to give me advice or
                      conversation or consolation or
                      hope, you got to be better than
                      you're doing. If you can't be at
                      least momentarily interesting than
                      shut the hell up. I'm drowning
                      and you're describing water.
                      Felicitations, malefactors! I am endeavoring to misappropriate the formulary for the preparation of saleable screenplays. WHO WILL JOIN ME!

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                      • #41
                        Re: Best line(s) of dialogue used in a film...

                        God, pretty much every other line from AS GOOD AS IT GETS. Cream of the crop:

                        Melvin Udall: Never, never, interrupt me, okay? Not if there's a fire, not even if you hear the sound of a thud from my home and one week later there's a smell coming from there that can only be a decaying human body and you have to hold a hanky to your face because the stench is so thick that you think you're going to faint. Even then, don't come knocking. Or, if it's election night, and you're excited and you wanna celebrate because some fudgepacker that you date has been elected the first queer president of the United States and he's going to have you down to Camp David, and you want someone to share the moment with. Even then, don't knock. Not on this door. Not for ANY reason. Do you get me, sweetheart?
                        Simon Bishop: [clears his throat] Uhm, yes. It's not a... subtle point that you're making.
                        Melvin Udall: Okay then.
                        [Shuts door in Simon's face]
                        ---
                        Melvin Udall: I've got a really great compliment for you, and it's true.
                        Carol Connelly: I'm so afraid you're about to say something awful.
                        Melvin Udall: Don't be pessimistic, it's not your style. Okay, here I go: Clearly, a mistake. I've got this, what - ailment? My doctor, a shrink that I used to go to all the time, he says that in fifty or sixty percent of the cases, a pill really helps. I *hate* pills, very dangerous thing, pills. Hate. I'm using the word "hate" here, about pills. Hate. My compliment is, that night when you came over and told me that you would never... well, you were there, you know what you said. Well, my compliment to you is, the next morning, I started taking the pills.
                        Carol Connelly: I don't quite get how that's a compliment for me.
                        Melvin Udall: You make me want to be a better man.
                        Carol Connelly: ...That's maybe the best compliment of my life.
                        Melvin Udall: Well, maybe I overshot a little, because I was aiming at just enough to keep you from walking out.
                        ----
                        Melvin Udall: How can you diagnose someone with an obsessive compulsive disorder, then act like I have some choice about barging in here?


                        Pretty similar case with THE APARTMENT too.

                        The blonde: Do you mean you bring other dames up here?
                        Kirkeby: Certainly not! I'm a happily married man.
                        ---
                        C.C. Baxter: Ya know, I used to live like Robinson Crusoe. I mean shipwrecked among 8 million people. And then one day I saw a footprint in the sand and there you were.
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                        • #42
                          Re: Best line(s) of dialogue used in a film...

                          "When you have to shoot, shoot. Don't talk."



                          "Jim, this man's a Klingon."



                          "Did you bring a horse for me?"
                          "Looks like we're one horse shy."
                          "You brought two too many."

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                          • #43
                            Re: Best line(s) of dialogue used in a film...

                            Originally posted by Mstjohn
                            "Did you bring a horse for me?"
                            "Looks like we're one horse shy."
                            "You brought two too many."
                            A lot of good ones in Once Upon A Time In The West.


                            "I told you only to scare them."
                            "People scare better when they're dyin'."

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