Movie Quotes – Top10
The Hussy’s Top Ten Movie Quotes
‘You talkin’ to me?’; ‘Love means never having to say you’re sorry’; ‘Go ahead, make my day’… we’ve heard them all a million times. They are the moviegoing world’s favourite quotes and in one re-ordered, repackaged or rejigged form or another, they find their way onto the same dull lists year after year. Well, frankly, we here at the Hussy don’t give a damn, so here for your perusal are our own personal favourite movie quotes…
‘Bad day… Fuck it!’
The Usual Suspects (1994)
It can be reasonably argued that the übercool East Coast patsies of Bryan Singer’s seminal crime puzzler never truly had their fates in their own hands. But it’s when – on their enforced sabbatical to sun-baked California – twitchy trigger-man MacManus (Stephen Baldwin, below) unilaterally decides that enough’s enough and blithely plugs two of the LA underworld’s biggest hitters after rationalising that his afternoon can’t get much worse, that the net really starts to tighten…
‘We do not have time
for your damned hobbies, sir!’
Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World (2003)
The intended Galapagos Islands venturings of Paul Bettany’s nerdy, Darwin-lite man of science run afoul of Russell Crowe’s gruffly observed naval imperatives as a thirst for knowledge butts up againstthe governing principals of war, trade and conquest in this rollicking Napoleonic seafaring yarn from Aussie lubber Peter Weir.
‘Y’know what woke y’up, Lee? Y’just had yer throat cut…’
The Missouri Breaks (1976)
When cash-rich, Oscar-laden loon Marlon Brando rocks up for the role as universally feared and detested hired killer Robert E. Lee Clayton with a new gingham bonnet, an enjoyably impenitrable Irish accent and the harpoon gun that’s strapped across his majestically flabby shoulders, you know you’re in for a long day. Jack Nicholson – himself no slouch when it comes to unnecessarily gauche scene-thievery – is the unfortunate focus of the Big Man’s dire intentions and is ultimately reduced to but one choice…
‘I dunno, what are the hours..?’
This Is Spinal Tap (1984)
In the last and very least line of Rob Reiner’s enduring musical spoofumentary, lead lead guitarist of fading English metal behemoths ‘Spinal Tap’, Nigel Tufnel (Christopher Guest) reveals the full extent of his ongoing dedication to the rock’n'roll lifestyle by all but applying for a hypothetically presented job as a haberdasher during the films closing credits.
‘We get the right sort, this might work. We get some Buckaroo…’
The Hunt For Red October (1990)
Sean Connery, Stellan Skarsgard, Joss Ackland and Alec Baldwin in the same film? In a good film, yet!? Contemporaneous form in sleazy nugget ‘Miami Blues’ and parading an unimpeachable set of brass-balls through 1992’s ‘Glengarry Glen Ross’ suggested that Baldwin Major was the right sort; an increasingy lamentable succession of later shenanigans on and off screen have persuaded many that he was in fact a mere buckaroo.
‘Can I cook, or can’t I…?’
Star Trek: The Wrath of Khan (1982)
Shatner meets Shakespeare in this, the greatest of the ‘Trek’ films. Narrowly beating out Kirk’s enigmatic last, dying words from ‘Star Trek: Generations’ (1994) – ‘It was…fun… Oh, my!’ – is this little gem from his scientist ex-paramour, Caroline Marcus. Having just created a device for terraforming dead planets, one might expect something a little more stentorian, but Marcus is a hippy-chick at heart and instead couches it in the hash-brownie/homemade explosives jargon of her Haight-Ashbury days.
‘Freddy, as a younger man, I was a sculptor, a painter, and a musician. There was just one problem: I wasn’t very good. As a matter of fact, I was dreadful. I finally came to the frustrating conclusion that I had taste and style, but not talent. I knew my limitations. We all have our limitations, Freddy. Fortunately, I discovered that taste and style were commodities that people desired. Freddy, what I am saying is: know your limitations. You are a moron.’
Dirty Rotten Scoundrels (1988)
‘Nuff said
‘Detriments you call us? Detriments? Well I want to remind you that it wuz detriments like us that built this bloody Empire AND the Izzat of the bloody Raj!’
The Man Who Would Be King (1975)
Another back-of-the net for Caine, as he informs British High Command exactly what he thinks about what they think about he and his partner Sean Connery in John Huston’s Bank Holiday classic. A feckless pair of chancers, bruisers and blue-sky thinkers, they’re soon high into the Hindu Kush setting themselves up as Kings of men and Gods of repute. An epic of greed and humbled arrogance to rival Britain’s own colonial misdeeds in the Subcontinent.
‘In the annals of history people are going to be talking about three things: the discovery of fire, invention of the submarine, and the Flint, Michigan Mega Bowl.’
Semi-Pro (2008)
He might be a big-boned, gimlet-eyed assclown, but even a blind squirrel finds the odd nut, and Will Ferrell hit the mothrerlode with this righteous 2008 b-ball comedy. While not achieving the white-eyed glossolalia of trailer park ecstacy that set ‘Talladega Nights’ (2006) apart from his usual mud-juggling efforts, ‘Semi-Pro’ scores as a finely judged requiem to those amongst us whose best has ever been revealed to be just not quite good enough.
‘Gosh, you’ve really got some nice toys here…’
Blade Runner (1982)
In a line that, it could be argued, sums up the preoccupations of the entire film, Rutger Hauer’s Milton-spouting killer robot Roy Batty allows us a glimpse of the child within. With his batteries running down, Batty attempts to make contact with his maker via corporate underling JF Sebastian – who lives in a delapidated slum with an array of mechanical pals and AI gizmos. The line between human intelligence and technological ‘mimicry’ becomes impossibly blurred in this fragile scene of dependency, deceit and acquiescence.
Written by Adam Lee Davies
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