Greatest "Ordinary" Movie Quote

[AndyC]

Just thought of a really great line from the Simpsons, and it is such a minor joke. It was the episode with the bible stories, when Homer works the unicorn to death and God/Flanders says "My unicorn! Aw, Gary, what've they done to ya?"

It's supposed to be a joke, obviously, but it's so subtle. I just find it really clever. I mean, they've given a magical animal a really ordinary name, but just uncommon enough to be weird. Call him Bill or Joe and it would be a ho-hum joke, but the way it was done just leaves you going "Gary?" I love that line.

[Yaddo 42]

Anytime James Coburn uses "God damn" in a film. He got a lot of milage out of that word.

"37!" - Randall in Clerks

"Everything I ever told you is a lie! Including that." - Bedazzled (1967)

"Right on the button!"
"So long Scarface."
"Look at me, Joe College with a touch of bursitis" - all from "Sabrina" (1953)

"It'll never work. Any actor who could play the part would get better offers." - Castle Keep

"Well, nobody likes to leave home, Jim. "
" You listen! It's no worse than a bad cold!"
"I always feel silly on one of these things." - all from Pocket Money

"And I'll tell you that was for Albert!!!" - The Shootist. Actually I have tons of Richard Boone lines I love and try to use for no good reason.

"f**k off, I'm beautiful." - Sexy Beast

"Well, smile you stupid bastards. We won, didn't we." - The Italian Job (1969)

"Never play 'Lady of Spain' again!"
"Yeah, well, you're a goalie, you're supposed to be like that."
"All I can get."
"Why don't you call a massage parlor?" - and about a thousand more from Slap Shot.

"Boys, last month it was a sheep. And it was still warm. When am I gonna get some cash money?"
"Hell, make it $400 and throw yourself in there too!"
"I used to sell hot combs on the TV."
"We thought you boys'd like to know what poor planning felt like." - all from Rancho Deluxe

Guess I've been storing them up while I was away again.

[Dr. Kobb]

Master Blaster said: I just watched that last night. I'm pretty low brow so when that conversation came up in the bar followed by the vomiting scene I laughed so hard for so long my stomach hurt.





That vomit scene was a scream!  They had the sounds down pat on that.  I can now go to my grave able to say I've seen a puppet puke!  

Too bad I had just sat down with a plate of food while that was going on...



Post Edited (06-10-05 10:42)

[Yaddo 42]

Does an Arthur Dent made of yarn puking up yarn count? Then "Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" has a puking puppet as well. Not the same effect as in "Team America", but anyway.....

[SaintMort]

In countless movies, when they're beating someone up and "and this one's for yadda yadda... AND THIS LAST ONE IS FOR ME!" (person dies)

Actually this one is more annoying and predictable then orginary or great.

[Master Blaster]

"And this one's for Jesus!"

                   - Orgasmo

[Mr_Vindictive]

Put that coffee down!

-Glengarry Glen Ross

[Dr. Kobb]

Yaddo 42 wrote:

> Does an Arthur Dent made of yarn puking up yarn count? Then
> "Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" has a puking puppet as well.
> Not the same effect as in "Team America", but anyway.....

Yeesh.  Not meaning to hijack the quotes thread or anything, but I got to thinking, and I'm pretty sure there's puking puppets in "Meet The Feebles" and "Superstar: The Karen Carpenter Story", too!  

It's just...I mean...who'd have ever thought there'd be so many puking puppet movies out there!?!

[The Burgomaster]

"On second thought, I'll RUN through the Valley of the Shadow of Death . . . you get out of the valley more quickly that way." - - Woody Allen in LOVE & DEATH

"Rock and Roll has gone down hill ever since Buddy Holly died." - - Paul LeMat in AMERICAN GRAFFITI

"Leave the kid alone." - - Tony Ganios in THE WANDERERS

"Why don't you try sticking your head up your ass.  See if it fits." - - Al Pacino in SCARFACE

"Go get your fu**ing shine box." - - Frank Vincent in GOODFELLAS

[Dr. Kobb]

"Eddie!  Warm me up!  Let's get greasy.  Ha Ha!"

"What a day for tubin', huh?

"Ah.  Well done.  Y'know, sometimes I wonder about the karmic implications of these acts.  I can no more take credit for the good we've done here tonight than if that Great Pilot in the Sky'd blessed each one of them with a bolt of lightening through their hearts."

---All the above from the classic Motel Hell.

[AndyC]

Just remembered this one. The original Longest Yard is an old favourite of mine, and the ads for the remake brought this to mind.

It's when Paul and Caretaker are talking by the fence, and Unger, the creepy little snitch, asks to be manager of the team. Caretaker tells him to get lost and Unger says "F**k off."

Those two words were so full of venom. Unger was just sort of a creepy little loser up to that point, but out of nowhere comes this line that pulls back the cowardly, weasely exterior and shows us the violently disturbed individual underneath. Then he's immediately back to sucking up. Just insane.

Unger had another line earlier in that scene that was filled with subtle menace: "I really want people to like me **but they never do**

Unger was a great character. Just so utterly repulsive. Haven't seen the remake, so I don't know how the character was handled. I know his equivalent in the British remake, Mean Machine, was pretty crappy.

[lester1/2jr]

"Holy s**t!.. Fart contest!!!"--King frat (awesome animal house rip off)

[SaintMort]

PULL THE STRINGS!

[h.p. Love]

I also like this part from Office Space: (from memory)

"Every day I'm more miserable than the day before; which means that every day you see me is the worst day of my life."

The best way of summing up a crap job I've ever heard.

[odinn7]

"It's my last one...it's a jelly."