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stevdart

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Posted: March 28, 2008 at 7:33 PM / IP Logged

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They send you here for life, and that's just what they take from you.

Red, played by Morgan Freeman, in The Shawshank Redemption? One of the greatest stories written and one of the best films, too. A reference that makes you think of prison, to be sure!

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Posted: March 28, 2008 at 8:19 PM / IP Logged

To be completely sure... That, and "The Green Mile". BOTH fantastic stories. Excellent screen adaptations, as well!

That was the longest night of his life.

Three down.

It all reminds me of something that Molière once said to Guy de Maupassant at a café in Vienna: "That's nice. You should write it down."

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haemphyst wrote:

Freeze, gopher!

No one? Really? Caddyshack right?

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I asked for a car, I got a computer. How's that for being born under a bad sign?

Ferris Bueller's Day Off, for sure.

haemphyst wrote:

They send you here for life, and that's just what they take from you.

Sounds like Shawshank Redemption to me...

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Thought I had these in the first one...

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Aw, now ain't that a shame? Folks be throwin' away a perfectly good white boy like that.

I'll Take, Better Off dead, for 800 Alex...

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Oh bliss! Bliss and heaven! Oh, it was gorgeousness and gorgeousity made flesh. It was like a bird of rarest-spun heaven metal or like silvery wine flowing in a spaceship, gravity all nonsense now. As I slooshied, I knew such lovely pictures!

And for my Grande Finale, A Clockwork Orange.

Those are the only one's I can remember, I'd say I took a decent chunk out of that list.

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Posted: April 10, 2008 at 2:26 PM / IP Logged

Well done, theetimurban! You di more by yourself than any of the OTHERS, combined! There were some pretty obscure lines in there, too!

haemphyst wrote:

Aw, now ain't that a shame? Folks be throwin' away a perfectly good white boy like that.

Better Off Dead

haemphyst wrote:

Ah, ah... Nobody says the "B" word.

Beetlejuice

haemphyst wrote:

Freeze, gopher!

Caddyshack

haemphyst wrote:

Clockwork Orange

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I once caught a fish this big. (Hint: Actor is standing in a large robotic machine, and he uses the machine to indicate how big the fish was.)

Dave

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Wonderful story, Bodie. I noticed you've stopped stuttering.

I've been giving myself shock treatments.

Up the voltage!

Real Genius

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Next thing you know they're going to find me, floating at the bottom of the Hudson.

Drowning Mona

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Me? Of course! I've been looting and pillaging up and down the coast.

Erik the Viking

haemphyst wrote:

I asked for a car, I got a computer. How's that for being born under a bad sign?

Ferris Beuller's Day Off

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Commander Powell would've named it.

Dark Star (A CULT classic, much like RHPS, which I hate!)

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But you think... You think you're an intellectual, don't you, ape?

Apes don't read philosophy.

Yes, they do, Otto, they just don't understand it.

A Fish Called Wanda

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Well, Pete, I just figured it should the the one with capacity for abstract thought. But if that ain't the consensus view, hell, let's put her to a vote!

O' Brother, Where Art Thou?

haemphyst wrote:

They send you here for life, and that's just what they take from you.

The Shawshank Redemption

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Let me tell you something, Shelly. I do what I'm hired to do. I'm...wait a second. I'm hired to watch the leads. I'm given... hold on, I'm given a policy. My job is to do that. What I'm told. That's it. You, wait a second, anybody falls below a certain mark I'm not permitted to give them the premium leads.

Glengarry Glen Ross

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That's right. When I was your age, television was called books. And this is a special book. It was the book my father used to read to me when I was sick, and I used to read it to your father. And today, I'm gonna read it to you.

The Princess Bride

For those of you that have never seen any of those movies, I highly recommend all of them. FANTASTIC examples of American Cinema!

It all reminds me of something that Molière once said to Guy de Maupassant at a café in Vienna: "That's nice. You should write it down."

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Posted: April 10, 2008 at 11:58 PM / IP Logged

What can I say? I'm a huge fan of Stanley Kubrick

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Posted: April 28, 2008 at 12:32 PM / IP Logged

Well this was a thread I thought should've gone further... So anyone that wants to play along--

1) Life doesn't care about your vision. You just gotta roll with it.

2) Get your cousin outta that clown costume! Havin' that heat stroke again. Scarin' white folks...

3) Don't clutter up a clever scheme with morality

4) After Shiloh, the South never smiled.

5) You'll find a slight squeeze on the hooter an excellent safety precaution.

6) What the hell was that you little freckle face cartoon? Did I give you permission to sneeze, Opie?

7) Oh come alive, Rachel. Please come alive! Don't be dead. You can't be dead. Come alive, Rachel!

8) If that machine can do what you say it can do, destroy it, George! Destroy it before it destroys you!

9) Ask any dope rat where their junk sprang and they'll say they scraped it from that who scored it from this who bought it off so and after four or five connections the list always ends with the Pin. But I bet you got every rat in town together and said 'show your hands' if any of them've actually seen the Pin, you'd get a crowd of full pockets.

10) First rule of leadership: everything is your fault.

joch1314

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Posted: April 28, 2008 at 12:44 PM / IP Logged

Here's a line from one of the greatest cult following movies IMHO!!

"Awww, come on! Who makes the cut is there a raffle or something...........ME!!! ME!! I'm the guy!!!! I got their names, I got their phone numbers, I know where they live, I know who they're f@#%ing!! We could kill Everyone!!!"

Props to the one who gets that!!

...half of the truth can be worse than a lie. <----Roger Russell said that..

theetimurban

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Posted: April 28, 2008 at 12:52 PM / IP Logged

The Boondock Saints

That was the easiest one ever. How's about you try answering one.

joch1314

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Posted: April 28, 2008 at 1:14 PM / IP Logged

8) If that machine can do what you say it can do, destroy it, George! Destroy it before it destroys you!

The Time Machine.... Good one...had a a hard time with that one!

10) First rule of leadership: everything is your fault.

Saw that movie 2 says ago w/ my niece! A bug's life!!

Here's another one....easy one!

Just smile and wave boys, smile and wave!

...half of the truth can be worse than a lie. <----Roger Russell said that..

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