Nerd Pride Radio

The community will vote by posting for the movie quote that they think is the best. I will leave voting open for a few days. When voting closes, the thread will be locked and the winning movie will move on. In the event of a tie, I will break the tie.

The movie quotes:
The Godfather- "I'm gonna make him an offer he can't refuse." Don Vito Corleone
Cool Hand Luke- "What we've got here is failure to communicate." Captain

Cool Hand Luke- "What we've got here is failure to communicate." Captain

Cool Hand Luke- "What we've got here is failure to communicate." Captain

The Godfather- "I'm gonna make him an offer he can't refuse." Don Vito Corleone

The Godfather- "I'm gonna make him an offer he can't refuse." Don Vito Corleone

The Godfather- "I'm gonna make him an offer he can't refuse." Don Vito Corleone

Dang good competition... Fantastic pair in the finals... Can't say it's easy to choose...

But... he made me an offer, ya know?

In the AFI list, this is #2 vs #11. Man, even they liked their evil-but-witty characters.

http://www.afi.com/100years/quotes.aspx

The Godfather- "I'm gonna make him an offer he can't refuse." Don Vito Corleone

You declare a winner?

I think he might be under pressure by, you know... a certain someone... to leave the voting open until there's one more vote to change the current outcome... Capisce?

I don't really want to vote for my own entry, ya know? They're equally good, though I use the Cool Hand Luke one in conversation a lot more. All the time, really. But the other one is iconic; defines extortion for generations.

As a tangential reflection, the one thing I have been shocked by in my professional career is the amount of extortion that is taken for granted as a normal part of doing business, though usually thank god without the threat of actual violence as the lever. This amazes me and I think it might be another reason we need all the women to be in charge of everything. Not that women can't be excellent extortionists - the best, even! - but that maybe it annoys us more as a way of doing business and if we were in power we would put a stop to it as a norm.

I would also like to work with people who actually bring the content of business they want to accomplish into meetings before deciding anything, and have a meeting in order to decide what to do next. Instead The Way of the world is that the business is transacted behind the scenes without anyone having an ability to do anything about it and then all of a sudden it comes to the surface, either a done deal or requiring combat. I don't want to have combat. I don't want to have subterfuge. I want to rest easy and not think about things until the moment when we are all going to sit down and openly, honestly think about things together. Why is this so hard? What we have here is failure to communicate.

Then vote for Godfather and leave it up to the God Kyle to deem the winner

That too is an unacceptable solution. Fine I'm voting for Cool Hand Luke.

Not sure if I am allowed to vote since I am just now getting into this thread, but if I am I will vote for Cool Hand Luke's quote...and if not...I will vote for Cool Hand Luke's quote

Cool Hand Luke- "What we've got here is failure to communicate." Captain

4 to 8.

Quick Pete, call 5 more people, but make sure you pay them first.