So I'm watching Celine Dion sing what is perhaps the cheesiest song ever, My Heart Will Go On, on Dancing with the Stars. And I started thinking about that scene in Titanic with Rose and Jack (that was his name, right?) where they're standing on the bow of the boat. You know the scene... you can pretend that you didn't like that movie, but that scene is one of the most memorable (and mocked!) scenes in cinema history. "I'm king of the world!" Great when Jack said it. Not so great when James Cameron said it at the Oscars later.
Anyway, I began to remember scenes in other movies--no matter how cornball they may seem years later--that have somehow become part of pop culture. Those little lines and phrases, initially written by writers now on strike, that somehow become bigger than the movie itself.
Here's my short list of memorable movie quotes:
• "Frankly my dear, I don't give a damn." ~ Gone With the Wind
• "Toto, I've got a feeling we're not in Kansas anymore." and "There's no place like home." ~ Wizard of Oz
• "No more wire hangers!" ~ Mommy Dearest
• "Here's looking at you, kid." ~ Casablanca
• "Go ahead. Make my day." ~ Sudden Impact
• "ET phone home." ~ ET
• "I'll be back." ~ The Terminator
• "If you build it, they will come." ~ Field of Dreams
• "Stella!" ~ A Streetcar Named Desire
• "Mama always said life is like a box of chocolates. You never know what you're gonna get." ~ Forest Gump
• "I see dead people." ~The Sixth Sense
• "You've got to ask yourself one question: 'Do I feel lucky?' Well, do ya, punk?" ~ Dirty Harry
• "There's no crying in baseball." ~A League of Their Own
• "You had me at hello." ~ Jerry McGuire
• "Yo, Adrian." ~ Rocky
• "I feel the need, the need for speed!" ~ Top Gun
• "Nobody puts Baby in a corner." ~ Dirty Dancing
• "You make me want to be a better man." ~ As Good as It Gets
• "I can't believe I gave my panties to a geek." and "No more yankie my wankie. The Donger need food." ~ Sixteen Candles
• "I'm sorry that people are so jealous of me... but I can't help it that I'm so popular." ~ Mean Girls
Now it's your turn. Which ones have I forgotten? Post your comments with additions!
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You asked for it:
All I need are some tasty waves, a cool buzz, and I'm fine. (Jeff Spicoli)
That was my skull! I'm so wasted!
(Jeff Spicoli)
Hey, Bud, let's party! (Jeff Spicoli)
All from the best movie of all time: Fast Times at Ridgemont High
(My Dads favorite movie)
Tony Montana: Say hello to my little friend! (Scarface)
Andy Dufresne: Get busy living, or get busy dying. (The Shawshank Redemption)
What we got here is... failure to communicate.(Cool Hand Luke)
Maximus: My name is Gladiator. (Gladiator) Yeah I know, "thats what she said"
And last but not least (I could go on with this for days)
Borat- Great! When I uh, buy my wife, at the start she was uh, cook good, her vazhïn work well, and she strong on plow. But after three years when she was fifteen, then she become weak, her voice become deep: BORAT BORAT, eh, she receive hair on chest, and vazhïn hang like sleeve of wizard.
CLASSIC!!!
Oh, I love me some Borat. I don't know this Lonnie, but he always posts funny things before I do. I do have some additions, though.
"You're gonna need a bigger boat."- Jaws
"Luke, I am your father."- Star Wars
"Show me the money!"- Jerry McGuire
"Schwing!"- Wayne's World
"I'll have what she's having."- When Harry Met Sally
"I'm walkin' here! I'm walkin' here!"- Midnight Cowboy
And my personal favorite and is featured on my voicemail.... "Hello, gorgeous!"- Funny Girl
How 'bout a recent one...
"Just put it on my tab"...(Dan in Real Life)
I think I'll say that the next time I get pulled over and see how quickly I can spend a night in the "clink"...
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