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1w ago

What's a random line from a movie that fans of it will instantly know?

Original question by @HotWheelsVroom@lemmy.ml

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Great Scott!
- what's this one from
  
  Back to the future

"My friends, you bow to no one."
Have to fight through the tears during that scene sometimes.
- I saw it in my head just reading it. Absolutely moving.
  I can't get through ::: spoiler (other scene) Sam's monologue ::: With dry eyes either. That speech has kept me going, so many times. I've even posted it in various places on Lemmy as a counter to the sheer hopelessness and defeatism (understandably) pervading a lot of threads.
  I often consider getting it wholly or partially inscribed on me.

Hasta la vista baby.

Hello there

We’re gonna need a bigger boat.
Snakes. I hate snakes.
Bring out the gimp.
Of course I know him! He’s me!
Sssssmokin’!
I understood that reference.

Life, uh, finds a way.

"It really tied the room together."
- ...and this guy peed on it !

Surely you can’t be serious. I am serious. And don’t call me Shirley.
Also same movie: Today I picked the wrong day to stop sniffing glue.

There is no spoon.

Khaaaaaaaaaaaannnnnnnnnnnnn!

Inconceivable!
- I don't think that word means what you think it means.

I love the smell of napalm in the morning

Yeah, well, you know, that's just, like, your opinion, man.
- He's crackin'.

Shut the fuck up Donny.
- I am the Walrus

The Dude Abides
- Donny, please...
- Hows the smut businesses Jackie?
  I wouldn't know Dude I deal in publishing, entertainment, political advocacy.
  Yeah, which ones Log Jammin?

Alternate challenge: Find a line of more than just a few words from Holy Grail that won't be recognized.
- Don't even need a few words, "Elderberries".
  Edited for clarity.
  
  Still doesn't work. Elderberries are synonymous with the Holy Grail, at least in places where elderberries aren't common.
- "What is your favorite color?" is the best I can do.
  
  Even this depends on diction.
  "What is your favorite color?" - School teacher.
  "WHAT- is your favorite color?" - Bridge Keeper
- "Who goes there?" and "It's only a model" could work without any more context. But I think I would go with "Oh, don't be such a baby" even with context I think lots of people won't immediately recognize this.
- She's got huge tracts of land
- My best efforts from the script, but it ultimately goes to show that you're right:
  Well, can you hang around a couple of minutes? He won't be long.
  That's enough music for now, lads. Looks like there's dirty work afoot.
  Well, this is the main hall. We're going to have all this knocked through, and made into one big living room.
- Of course it's a good idea!

I am a leaf on the wind. Watch how I soar.
- Aaaand now I'm sad.

OH HAI MARK.

This one time....at bandcamp....

That's no moon.

The name is Bond, James Bond

"We're on a mission from God."
- I hate Illinois Nazis

Are you suggesting that coconuts migrate?

Royal with cheese

"Rosebud..."
You don't even have to have ever seen the movie to know it!

I have come here to chew bubblegum and kick ass…and I’m all out of bubblegum.
Fans of said movie will obviously know it but I think more people will recognize that line than actually know the movie it comes from.
- I know both, but I still went with "Duke Nukem isn't a game" as my first thought

"Negative, I am a meat popsicle."
- “Aziz, Light!”
  
  Still yell this when walking into a dark room.
- ?
  
  The Fifth Element

I'll make him an offer he can't refuse.

42

I am sorry Dave, I cannot do that.

"I've got a bad feeling about this."
"You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means."
"Get busy livin', or get busy dyin'.'"
"Now that's a real shame when folks be throwin' away a perfectly good white boy like that."
- Go that way, real fast. If something gets in your way, turn.

Strange things are afoot at the Circle K

ITT: people think their favorite movie is more recognizable than it is
- that fans of it will instantly know
  ^It's right there in the title.

Alright you primitive screwheads, listen up: This, is my BOOMSTICK!
- Good, bad... I'm the guy with the gun.
  
  I'll bend my bow to your will, sir!

I am serious. And don’t call me Shirley.

Try not to suck any dicks on your way to the parking lot.

The greater good (the greater good)
Crusty jugglers

So you're saying there's a chance?

I’m not a witch, I'm your wife!

It’s mega-maid, sir! She’s gone from suck to blow!

They should have sent a poet.

"Klaatu barada nikto"
"Anál nathrach, orth’ bháis’s bethad, do chél dénmha"
The first one is a classic. The second one may not be as familiar but still is a great movie ;)

I am not the messias!

I’m in lesbians with you.

You must strive to find your own voice. Because the longer you wait to begin, the less likely you are to find it at all. Thoreau said, "Most men lead lives of quiet desperation." Don't be resigned to that. Break out! ::: spoiler Source Dead Poet's Society :::

Hope is a dangerous thing.
Hope can drive a man insane.

Say, would you like a chocolate covered pretzel?
Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned for SEGA.
- My claim to a brush with celebrity is that I used to know Michael Rooker, who played the guy who got pretzeled.
  
  His biggest role, however, was playing Mary Poppins.
- That kid! That kid is BACK on the ESCALATOR!
- This movie just has line after quotable line
  
  I quote that movie still IRL and no one knows what the hell I'm talking about, but I don't care

"I'll be in my bunk."
https://youtu.be/xrFaTjcNzZM
- FAIL. That's from a TV series, not a movie.
  
  What year is it
  
  Yup, you got me.

"Broke into the wrong goddamn rec-room, didn't ya??!!? Ya bastard!"
- "Well where's the goddamn golden oldie comin' from?"

That kid is back on the escalator again... I hope his pants get caught and a bloodbath in sues!
You sucked thirty six dicks? In a row?
You must've thought it was whiteboy day!
If someone asks you if your a god Ray, you say yes!
My girlfriend's a dog... She barks, she claws, she drools, she sleeps above her covers. Four feet above her covers.
Lorain, I'm your density, I mean your destiny.
Oh Stewardess, I speak jive...
I must apologize for Wimp Lo, he's an idiot. We purposely trained him wrong, as a joke.
Frau Blücher.
Get the hell out of here! Now! You Kirk lovin Spock suckers!

KHA-LI MAAA

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