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Good quote.

AFI top 100 movie quotes, #39:
"If you build it, he will come.", Shoeless Joe Jackson (Ray Liotta), Field of Dreams

Good quote.

AFI top 100 movie quotes, #38:
"Today, I consider myself the luckiest man on the face of the Earth.", Lou Gehrig (Gary Cooper), The Pride of the Yankees

Yes, okay. Let's take something an actual human said in the real prime material plane and ascribe it to a movie actor in a movie.

Eliahad wrote: ↑Mon Feb 07, 2022 2:39 pm Yes, okay. Let's take something an actual human said in the real prime material plane and ascribe it to a movie actor in a movie.

Yeah- I agree. This is like having one of the quotes be from Romeo and Juliet. That's dumb. It might be a famous quote. But it's not famous for the movie.

AFI top 100 movie quotes, #37:
"December 7, 1941. A date which will live in infamy", Franklin Delano Roosevelt (Jon Voight), Pearl Harbor

Oh come ON!

All they had to say was, "memorable lines."

Yeah, I get it. Uh. What are you doing? Did Tahlvin have to go home sick or something?

I keed I keed, just joking, just a joke, for fun! anyways,

AFI top 100 movie quotes, #37:
"It wasn't me it was the one armed man" - Joe Mask (Jim Carrey), The Mask

That's not even from the movie that actually said that line! That line is from The Fugitive!

Pete's playing with us.

AFI top 100 movie quotes, #37:
"I'll be back!", The Terminator (Arnold Schwarzenegger), The Terminator

No, I actually agree with poorpete on this one. Obviously, Jim Carrey should dominate the list from here on out.

But I accept Schwarzenegger. It's a testament to the quote's power that everyone still quotes it in his voice.

Tahlvin wrote: ↑Mon Feb 07, 2022 9:40 am AFI top 100 movie quotes, #40:
"Mama always said life was like a box of chocolates. You never know what you're gonna get."

This has always enraged me. Not only is it uttered in this absurd accent, but you know damn well what you're going to get: some kind of chocolate.

Also I hate the whole movie. Hate it. I can't say honestly out loud what I think is wrong with it. Ye olde freedom of speech is going by the wayside day by day over here.

AFI top 100 movie quotes, #36:
"Badges? We ain't got no badges! We don't need no badges! I don't have to show you any stinking badges!", Gold Hat (Alfonso Bedoya), The Treasure of the Sierra Madre

Phoebe wrote: ↑Mon Feb 07, 2022 4:14 pm

Tahlvin wrote: ↑Mon Feb 07, 2022 9:40 am AFI top 100 movie quotes, #40:
"Mama always said life was like a box of chocolates. You never know what you're gonna get."

This has always enraged me. Not only is it uttered in this absurd accent, but you know damn well what you're going to get: some kind of chocolate.

Also I hate the whole movie. Hate it. I can't say honestly out loud what I think is wrong with it. Ye olde freedom of speech is going by the wayside day by day over here.

In the book version, Forrest fucks an orangutan. The book is pure National Lampoon style farce without the emotional Oscar-bait added to the movie. If you think that makes the book better, you're surprisingly wrong.

My objection is that its the "Magic Autistic Man." I'm sick of this trope and how it minimizes what autism is. And while we're here: Fuck you, The Good Doctor.

Then in that case, the book is definitely better. He's not so much autistic in the book as he is a general Phillip J Fry style hapless idiot (but slightly meaner).

AFI top 100 movie quotes, #35:
"You're gonna need a bigger boat.", Martin Brody (Roy Scheider), Jaws

Great quote.

And it was an ad lib.

AFI top 100 movie quotes, #34:
"You know how to whistle, don't you, Steve? You just put your lips together and blow.", Marie "Slim" Browning (Lauren Bacall), To Have and Have Not

The list is getting better. This one still has some heft, but I'm sure it's already vanishingly obscure for Millennials and Gen Z.

AFI top 100 movie quotes, #33:
"I'll have what she's having.", Customer (Estelle Reiner), When Harry Met Sally...

Still quotable, but this has a shelf life.

AFI top 100 movie quotes, #32:
"Round up the usual suspects.", Capt. Louis Renault (Claude Rains), Casablanca

Wow, so they really are going with the 10% Casablanca approach, and have finally gotten to one of the significant Quotables. I like this one the most but imagine they still have at least one or two more from Casablanca unless I missed it earlier in the thread.

AFI top 100 movie quotes, #31:
"After all, tomorrow is another day!", Scarlett O'Hara (Vivien Leigh), Gone with the Wind

I mean now they're just stating facts. What's next, George Washington was the first president?

Actually, this former confederate may have a hard time with that one.

AFI top 100 movie quotes, #30:
"I want to be alone.", Grusinskaya (Greta Garbo), Grand Hotel

Gonna give high praise to this one, as I knew it even before seeing the film, it being referenced so much. If people are asked to imitate Garbo, and it's rare now, but if they do, they'd give this quote. And two decades after seeing the film, it's all I remember. And also, it works outside the context of the film, who hasn't felt this way?

AFI top 100 movie quotes, #29:
"You can't handle the truth!", Col. Nathan R. Jessup (Jack Nicholson), A Few Good Men

Good quote.

Same. Haven't seen this film but culturally ubiquitous.

AFI top 100 movie quotes, #28:
"Play it, Sam. Play 'As Time Goes By.'", Ilsa Lund (Ingrid Bergman), Casablanca

Iconic, yet I don't think I've ever used it or heard anyone use it outside its context.

Agreed.

That said, watched a 30 Rock yesterday and it referenced Casablanca

At least we'll always have Dr. Kaplan's recovery room.
It was our Paris.

AFI top 100 movie quotes, #27:
"I'm walkin' here! I'm walkin' here!", "Ratso" Rizzo (Dustin Hoffman), Midnight Cowboy

Still use it.

AFI top 100 movie quotes, #26:
"Why don't you come up sometime and see me?", Lady Lou (Mae West), She Done Him Wrong

Sure?

AFI top 100 movie quotes, #25:
"Show me the money!", Rod Tidwell (Cuba Gooding Jr.), Jerry Maguire

Yup. Checks out. Still waiting for the third.

My kids don't know "Show me the money." And I don't feel like it's some egregious gap in their cultural education. Jerry Maguire just isn't that must-see kind of "oh my god you've NEVER seen Jerry Maguire" experience. It's super quotable for people who've seen it--great big meme factory of the late 90's. But I think "you had me at hello" is the only one with real staying power, and even then, like a lot of old ones on this list, kids will know it and know it's a famous movie quote but not have any idea where it came from.

I'm not saying they were wrong to put it on the list, because anyone who cares enough to look at this list definitely knows the line, but I don't think it would make the list 10 or 20 years from now.

Tough, who knows! A great list is one that is well-thought out, spurs conversation, but also is one that is a snapshot of a time. And this time is 2005. So happy Mae West still gets acknowledgement, but a snapshot from 2022 might be quite different.

Kyle wrote: ↑Thu Feb 10, 2022 7:19 am Yup. Checks out. Still waiting for the third.

The list will probably feel incomplete me.

Yuck yuck!

AFI top 100 movie quotes, #24:
"I am big! It's the pictures that got small.", Norma Desmond (Gloria Swanson), Sunset Boulevard

Watched a few months ago, for first time in decades, and really appreciated it a lot more this time. Tough with a film where so many characters are so awful to each other, but this time the humanity in each shone through. Hurt people hurt, the film.

AFI top 100 movie quotes, #23:
"There's no place like home.", Dorothy Gale (Judy Garland), The Wizard of Oz