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"That would be the one German word you pronounce perfectly."

Michael York, Cabaret
 
"That's got to be the best pirate I've ever seen."

"So it would seem."

Pirates of the Caribbean
 
No one would have believed, in the middle of the 20th century, that human affairs were being watched keenly and closely by intelligences greater than man's. Yet, across the gulf of space on the planet Mars, intellects vast and cool and unsympathetic regarded our Earth with envious eyes, slowly and surely drawing their plans against us. Mars is more than 140 million miles from the sun, and for centuries it has been in the last stages of exhaustion.
 
MillieDynamite said:
No one would have believed, in the middle of the 20th century, that human affairs were being watched keenly and closely by intelligences greater than man's. Yet, across the gulf of space on the planet Mars, intellects vast and cool and unsympathetic regarded our Earth with envious eyes, slowly and surely drawing their plans against us. Mars is more than 140 million miles from the sun, and for centuries it has been in the last stages of exhaustion.
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This has to be the 1953 version with Gene Barry, I guess? Those Martians did a great job of blowing up Los Angeles City Hall. In the 2005 version, it's the Bayonne Bridge. I wonder if starting the Tom Cruise film in New Jersey is a nod to the Orson Welles 1938 radio show, or a pure coincidence?

 
"Do you have any other hobbies?"

(Groucho Marx when he meets a man with 11 children. Don't know the movie title anymore.)
 
"You America-haters bore me to tears, Ms. Barham. I've dealt with Europeans all my life. I know all about us parvenus from the States who come over here and race around your old cathedral towns with our cameras and Coca-Cola bottles... Brawl in your pubs, paw at your women, and act like we own the world. We overtip, we talk too loud, we think we can buy anything with a Hershey bar. I've had Germans and Italians tell me how politically disingenuous we are, and perhaps so. But we haven't managed a Hitler or a Mussolini yet. I've had Frenchmen call me a savage because I only took half an hour for lunch. Hell, Ms. Barham, the only reason the French take two hours for lunch is because the service in their restaurants is lousy. The most tedious lot are you British. We crass Americans didn't introduce war into your little island. This war, Ms. Barham to which we Americans are so insensitive, is the result of 2,000 years of European greed, barbarism, superstition, and stupidity. Don't blame it on our Coca-Cola bottles. Europe was a going brothel long before we came to town."
 
Why, yes, yes, it is, one of them.
gunhilltrain said:
This has to be the 1953 version with Gene Barry, I guess? Those Martians did a great job of blowing up Los Angeles City Hall. In the 2005 version, it's the Bayonne Bridge. I wonder if starting the Tom Cruise film in New Jersey is a nod to the Orson Welles 1938 radio show, or a pure coincidence?

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"You can always count on a dishonest man to be dishonest. It's the honest ones you need to watch out for. Because you never know when they'll so something incredibly stupid!" Captain Jack Sparrow

Only closely followed by

"Why's the rum gone!" Captain Jack Sparrow
 
DreamingOfMyEx said:
"You America-haters bore me to tears, Ms. Barham. I've dealt with Europeans all my life. I know all about us parvenus from the States who come over here and race around your old cathedral towns with our cameras and Coca-Cola bottles... Brawl in your pubs, paw at your women, and act like we own the world. We overtip, we talk too loud, we think we can buy anything with a Hershey bar. I've had Germans and Italians tell me how politically disingenuous we are, and perhaps so. But we haven't managed a Hitler or a Mussolini yet. I've had Frenchmen call me a savage because I only took half an hour for lunch. Hell, Ms. Barham, the only reason the French take two hours for lunch is because the service in their restaurants is lousy. The most tedious lot are you British. We crass Americans didn't introduce war into your little island. This war, Ms. Barham to which we Americans are so insensitive, is the result of 2,000 years of European greed, barbarism, superstition, and stupidity. Don't blame it on our Coca-Cola bottles. Europe was a going brothel long before we came to town."
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James Garner to Julie Andrews in The Americanization of Emily (1964). They sure "meet cute," don't they? Ah, I don't believe the word "Ms." had been invented yet. He was saying, "Miss."

 
I'm not always in top form when multitasking, or when I'm tired. This was a copy and paste job which I should have looked over more closely. thanks for catching that.

I didn't much care for the movie, but I've always loved that speech.
 
"It's supposed to be hard. If it wasn't hard, everyone would do it. The hard is what makes it great."

A League of Their Own.
 
“After a while you learn to ignore the names people call you and just trust who you are.” - Shrek
 
"Well, ah, David says something landed in the field out back. It doesn't make sense, but he seems so convinced."

Invaders from Mars, 1953. Super low-budget, but it was the creepiest movie I ever saw as a kid. Since I saw it on a black-and-white television, some of the low production values were not as obvious. It's fairly well-written anyway, and it introduces the plot slowly but surely. One of the weirdest aspects was the Martian "leader," enclosed in a glass globe inside the underground spaceship. It never spoke, but communicated telepathically to its minions.

Maybe it was more effective because it wasn't a prop, but played but an actress named Luce Potter. For years, she got letters from people who said how scared they were as kids. I know I had trouble going to bed that night.

https://imgur.com/G0amOx4
 
MillieDynamite said:
No one would have believed, in the middle of the 20th century, that human affairs were being watched keenly and closely by intelligences greater than man's. Yet, across the gulf of space on the planet Mars, intellects vast and cool and unsympathetic regarded our Earth with envious eyes, slowly and surely drawing their plans against us. Mars is more than 140 million miles from the sun, and for centuries it has been in the last stages of exhaustion.
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I believe that was taken from the book, changed slightly to fit the movie's setting.

The opening to "The Haunting" (1963) is great too, paraphrased from the Shirley Jackson book.

"and whatever walked there, walked alone."

 
Abbafan said:
I believe that was taken from the book, changed slightly to fit the movie's setting.

The opening to "The Haunting" (1963) is great too, paraphrased from the Shirley Jackson book.

"and whatever walked there, walked alone."

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Yes, in the novel it is at the beginning and then again at the end.

SPOILER ALERT!!! You have been warned!!!






At the end of the movie, with Julie Harris narrating, I think it is now Eleanor who is walking there alone.

The 1999 version was terrible, with a lot of new but unnecessary aspects added. Jan de Bont should stick to movies about tornadoes and speeding buses.
 
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gunhilltrain said:
Yes, in the novel it is at the beginning and then again at the end.

SPOILER ALERT!!! You have been warned!!!






At the end of the movie, with Julie Harris narrating, I think it is now Eleanor who is walking there alone.

The 1999 version was terrible, with a lot of new but unnecessary aspects added. Jan de Bont should stick to movies about tornadoes and speeding buses.
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Totally agree. DaBont approached horror the same way he did action movies. Just turned it into a flashy spectacle.

The Haunting '63 is one of the best psychological, atmospheric horror movies I've seen. It really gets under your skin.
 
“Baby, you’d better get me back to that hotel. You got me hotter than Georgia asphalt.”
 
I don't know who you are. I don't know what you want. If you are looking for ransom, I can tell you I don't have money. But what I do have are a very particular set of skills, skills I have acquired over a very long career. Skills that make me a nightmare for people like you. If you let my daughter go now, that'll be the end of it. I will not look for you, I will not pursue you. But if you don't, I will look for you, I will find you, and I will kill you.
 
Emilymcplugger said:
I don't know who you are. I don't know what you want. If you are looking for ransom, I can tell you I don't have money. But what I do have are a very particular set of skills, skills I have acquired over a very long career. Skills that make me a nightmare for people like you. If you let my daughter go now, that'll be the end of it. I will not look for you, I will not pursue you. But if you don't, I will look for you, I will find you, and I will kill you.
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And by God he did. Such a great scene.
 
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