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rwx ([personal profile] rwx) wrote2006-07-28 04:23 pm

movie quotes thing

Sixteen movie quotes I'm fond of (either the movie or the quote itself). See if you can identify the movie.




#1: [livejournal.com profile] dawn_guy, guessed Alien, it's Alien3, close enough.
We commit these bodies to the void with a glad heart. For within each seed, there is a promise of a flower, and within each death, no matter how small, there is always a new life. A new beginning.

#2: [livejournal.com profile] tanjent, Dark City.
When was the last time you remember doing something during the day?

#3: [livejournal.com profile] anavolena, North by Northwest
Something wrong with your eyes?
Yes, they're sensitive to questions.

#4: I'm not really into headbanging.
Are you into any kind of banging?

#5: [livejournal.com profile] safetybitch, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are dead.
All your life you live so close to truth it becomes a permanent blur in the corner of your eye. And when something nudges it into outline, it's like being ambushed by a grotesque.

#6: [livejournal.com profile] marc17, Fight Club.
you are now firing a gun at your 'imaginary friend' near 400 GALLONS OF NITROGLYCERINE!

#7: [livejournal.com profile] bbcaddict, True Romance.
I always said, if I had to fuck a guy... I mean had to, if my life depended on it... I'd fuck Elvis.

#8: What little I knew about seial killers I learned in a university library. The only thing I knew for certain was that people didn't kill each other in libraries.

#9: The probe? Where does the probe go?

#10: [livejournal.com profile] tanjent
Oh, oh is this like a, is this like a pirate operation?
Do I look like a pirate to you?

#11: [livejournal.com profile] marc17, Apocalypse Now.
Everyone gets everything he wants. I wanted a mission, and for my sins, they gave me one. Brought it up to me like room service. It was a real choice mission, and when it was over, I never wanted another.


#12: [livejournal.com profile] anavolena, Time Bandits.
If I were creating the world I wouldn't mess about with butterflies and daffodils. I would have started with lasers, eight o'clock, Day One!

#13: [livejournal.com profile] safetybitch, Playing God.
In any case I guess I learned that if you are in the business of saving lives you had better start with your own. And, of course, always call 911.

#14: [livejournal.com profile] rimrunner, Drunken Master.
What does it mean when there's a picture of a skull?

#15: [livejournal.com profile] dawn_guy
A gun is a tool, Marion, no better or no worse than any other tool, an axe, a shovel or anything. A gun is as good or as bad as the man using it. Remember that.

#16: [livejournal.com profile] rimrunner, A Clockwork Orange.
No time for the ol' in-out, love. I've just come to read the meter!

[identity profile] rimrunner.livejournal.com 2006-07-28 11:24 pm (UTC)(link)
Shit, I only recognize #16. It's A Clockwork Orange.

[identity profile] rwx.livejournal.com 2006-07-28 11:41 pm (UTC)(link)
yes!

[identity profile] rwx.livejournal.com 2006-07-28 11:52 pm (UTC)(link)
I am shocked that you didn't get #14.

[identity profile] rimrunner.livejournal.com 2006-07-28 11:59 pm (UTC)(link)
I can't believe that I didn't get #5! What's wrong with me?

Oh, and 14 is Drunken Master.

[identity profile] rwx.livejournal.com 2006-07-29 12:48 am (UTC)(link)
I picked a quote from that movie that neither you nor i ever say intentionally.

[identity profile] marc17.livejournal.com 2006-07-28 11:29 pm (UTC)(link)
6 - Fight Club

11 - Apocalypse Now

12 - Dogma (?)

[identity profile] rwx.livejournal.com 2006-07-28 11:41 pm (UTC)(link)
6,11: yes
12: no.

[identity profile] safetybitch.livejournal.com 2006-07-28 11:47 pm (UTC)(link)
#5 Guildenstern :)
#13 Playing God (I hated that movie)
#16 I know someone already got it, but this was my favourite movie for ages. I saw it 56 times one semester. Mostly to scare the hell out of the four catholic sorority girls I was sharing a condo with. It worked.

[identity profile] rwx.livejournal.com 2006-07-28 11:51 pm (UTC)(link)
Right on both. Playing God isn't one of my favorite movies per se, but it is one of the ones I paraphrase most often. Not great, but eminently quotable.

[identity profile] safetybitch.livejournal.com 2006-07-28 11:55 pm (UTC)(link)
When I was first accepted to Simon's Rock, the Dean of students told me (during my initial interview) that I would have to watch Heathers to really understood the school. Now I have a similar movie that I think applies to EMS. It's becoming one of my all-time favourites.

"I realised that my training was useful in less than ten percent of the calls, and saving lives was rarer than that. After a while, I grew to understand that my role was less about saving lives than about bearing witness. I was a grief mop. It was enough that I simply turned up."

:)

[identity profile] rwx.livejournal.com 2006-07-29 12:41 am (UTC)(link)
Hah. I should have included that movie. A number of people have described me as being like the main character in that movie.

[identity profile] safetybitch.livejournal.com 2006-07-29 12:48 am (UTC)(link)
*grin* He's certainly been a role model for me...

[identity profile] tanjent.livejournal.com 2006-07-28 11:50 pm (UTC)(link)
#2 - dark city

[identity profile] rwx.livejournal.com 2006-07-28 11:52 pm (UTC)(link)
yes!

[identity profile] bbcaddict.livejournal.com 2006-07-29 12:10 am (UTC)(link)
#7 True Romance

[identity profile] rwx.livejournal.com 2006-07-29 12:45 am (UTC)(link)
yes!

[identity profile] bbcaddict.livejournal.com 2006-07-29 12:11 am (UTC)(link)
#15 Raiders of the Lost Ark?

[identity profile] rwx.livejournal.com 2006-07-29 12:45 am (UTC)(link)
no, but that's the only other movie I can think of with a character with that name in it.

[identity profile] anavolena.livejournal.com 2006-07-29 12:19 am (UTC)(link)
#3 is north by northwest
#12 is time bandits

[identity profile] rwx.livejournal.com 2006-07-29 12:45 am (UTC)(link)
Yes to both!

[identity profile] nitouche.livejournal.com 2006-07-29 04:35 am (UTC)(link)
Is #1 Silent Running?

[identity profile] rwx.livejournal.com 2006-07-29 04:48 am (UTC)(link)
nope.

[identity profile] dawn-guy.livejournal.com 2006-07-29 01:30 pm (UTC)(link)
Nobody's picked Shane (15) yet?

I expect I'll "of course" when someone gets #1, which feels like Alien but I don't think that could be it given the size of the Nostromo's crew and the prevalence of plurals.

[identity profile] rwx.livejournal.com 2006-07-29 10:35 pm (UTC)(link)
i'll give it to you, it's Alien^3.

[identity profile] denshi.livejournal.com 2006-07-29 10:32 pm (UTC)(link)
#10: Reality Bites

[identity profile] rwx.livejournal.com 2006-07-29 10:34 pm (UTC)(link)
yes!
ext_8707: Taken in front of Carnegie Hall (solar eclipse)

[identity profile] ronebofh.livejournal.com 2006-07-30 03:42 pm (UTC)(link)
I'm gonna guess #4 is Wayne's World, even though i've not actually seen the movie.

[identity profile] ziptie.livejournal.com 2006-07-31 05:14 am (UTC)(link)
I was thinking The Breakfast Club.