Movie catchphrases

[Guest]

Some UK cinema group came up with this list. I didn't know no. 7, and haven't seen no. 9 but do know the phrase. I'm surprized Casablanca's "This could be the start of a beautiful friendship" didn't make it. How about you, any special phrases that have stayed with you? - Perdita

TOP TEN FILM CATCHPHRASES

1. "You talkin' to me?" - Taxi Driver (1976)
2. "The name's Bond, James Bond" - Dr No (1962)
3. "What's it all about?" - Alfie (1966)
4. "Frankly my dear, I don't give a damn" - Gone with the Wind (1939)
5. "We're gonna need a bigger boat" - Jaws (1975)
6. "No one puts baby in the corner" - Dirty Dancing (1987)
7. "You're only supposed to blow the bloody doors off!" - The Italian Job (1969)
8. "May the force be with you" - Star Wars (1977)
9. "Show me the money!" - Jerry Maguire (1996)
10. "Yeah baby, yeah!" - Austin Powers (1997)

 

[cloudy]

Without really thinking of it, a couple phrases come to mind, although they may not be quite as mainstream as those listed above:

"But, does it go to eleven?" ~ This is Spinal Tap

"He must be a king. He hasn't got shit all over him."

"She's got huge......tracts of land."

"Now you see the violence inherent in the system."

"Let me face the peril."
"No, it's too perilous."

"A spanking! A spanking! And after the spankings, the oral sex."

~ Monty Python's Quest for the Holy Grail (There's tons more, but those are the ones my son and I are always passing back and forth)

 

[cheerful_deviant]

TOP TEN FILM CATCHPHRASES

6. "No one puts baby in the corner" - Dirty Dancing (1987)

7. "You're only supposed to blow the bloody doors off!" - The Italian Job (1969)

Not to sure that these two belong on the list.

5. "We're gonna need a bigger boat" - Jaws (1975)

But this one is priceless. Loved that line first time I saw this movie.

 

[oggbashan]

"A Handbag?" - Dame Edith Evans in the film of The Importance of Being Earnest.

"Feeling lucky, punk?" Clint Eastwood in Dirty Harry.

"You ain't heard nothin' yet" - The Jazz Singer.

Og

 

[cheerful_deviant]

"She's got huge......tracts of land."

"Run away! Run away!"~ More Holy Grail

 

[oggbashan]

"Elementary, my dear Watson." Basil Rathbone as Sherlock Holmes (never said in the books).

"You dirty rat!" - James Cagney.

Og

 

[Guest]

Some UK cinema group came up with this list. I didn't know no. 7, and haven't seen no. 9 but do know the phrase. I'm surprized Casablanca's "This could be the start of a beautiful friendship" didn't make it. How about you, any special phrases that have stayed with you? - Perdita

TOP TEN FILM CATCHPHRASES


7. "You're only supposed to blow the bloody doors off!" - The Italian Job (1969)

Better, might have been :

"Think ya used enough dynamite there, Butch?" - Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969)

and my favorites ...

"You had me at hello." - Jerry McGuire

"I'll make him an offer he can't refuse."
"Luca Brazzi sleeps with the fishes."
"Act like a man!"
All from the Godfather

 

[TheEarl]

Some UK cinema group came up with this list. I didn't know no. 7, and haven't seen no. 9 but do know the phrase.

TOP TEN FILM CATCHPHRASES

7. "You're only supposed to blow the bloody doors off!" - The Italian Job (1969)

You don't know 'The Italian Job'? That's appalling! It's one of the great films of the 60s! Would have been just as big a case for "Hang on lads. I've got an idea." Iconic lines both.

Deviant - Go and stand in the corner and think about what you said. Evil person.


"Throw forth the Holy Hand-Grenade, and thine enemy, being naughty in my sight, shalt snuff it." - Monty Python and The Quest For The Holy Grail.

"Do I smell gasoline?" - The Crow

"No ticket" - Dogma (Any Kevin Smith fans in the crowd?"

The Earl

 

[Guest]

Dracula: "I never drink. . . wine."

 

[Belegon]

The Star Wars one that comes to my mind is actually,

"I've got a bad feeling about this."

anything about Jedi or the Force is just too focused to be as fun.

The "No Ticket" bit from Dogma was actually an Indiana Jones reference, wasn't it? I have to pull that out and watch it again. Lot's of great stuff in any Kevin Smith movie. BTW, if you have not seen "Jersey Girl", you should. Not a Jay and Silent Bob film, but his best since "Chasing Amy" (which is in my top ten.)

 

[Guest]

Got to thinking more, had to look some up, but these should ring some bells (well, some are for older bells ). - Perdita

"Well, here's another nice mess you've gotten me into!" (This makes me laugh as I type it.)

"We'll always have Paris."

"Is it safe?"

"I'm NOT gonna be ignored, Dan."

"Ah, then it's a gift." (This one always makes me teary-eyed.)

"Say hello to my little friend." (pronounced leetle)

"I guess that was your accomplice in the wood chipper?"

"What are you talking about, HAL?"

"I never knew it could be like this."

"It's alive! It's alive!"

 

[Guest]

"There's no place like home." Dorothy

"Ooooh, matron!" Kenneth Williams

Of your original list, Perdita, I especially love number 7. Like Earl, I can't believe you haven't seen that film. It's a cult classic, Michael Caine at his best.

Lou

 

[fogbank]

Some of my favorites.

"Keyser Soze! KEYSER SOZE!!" -- The Usual Suspects

"In reflecting upon the people whom I have come upon in my travels, I cannot help but think of the people who have come upon me." -- Hedwig and the Angry Inch

"It's like, how much more black could this be? and the answer is none. None more black. " -- Spinal Tap

 

[Guest]

Of your original list, Perdita, I especially love number 7. Like Earl, I can't believe you haven't seen that film. It's a cult classic, Michael Caine at his best.

I know, I know. It's been on my list(s) for years. What to see, what to read, who to fuck. Life is so hard. P.

 

[Guest]

I know, I know. It's been on my list(s) for years. What to see, what to read, who to fuck. Life is so hard. P.

I know exactly how you feel, P. I myself have to come to such decisions, almost daily.

Lou

 

[Guest]

A selection brought to you courtesy of Fat Bastard (Austin Powers, The Spy Who Shagged Me.) Not for the easily offended...

"Baby: the other-other white meat."

"Get in ma belly!"

"I've got a turtle heed poking out."

"I want ma baby-back, baby-back, baby-back riiibs."

"Chicken?"

Lou

 

[Guest]

"No!" - Marcel Marceau in "Silent Movie"

From Young Frankenstein :

"Hallo. Vould you like a roll in ze hay? " - Inga
"I am Frau Blücher." - [i[horses whinny nervously[/i] - Frau Blucher.

From Blazing Saddles :
"Our town is turning into shit. Amen. "

"I'm tired of men always coming and going, going and coming and always too soon. " - Lily Von Shtupp

"We have to save our phoney baloney jobs." - Hedley Lamarr



"Snakes. Why'd it have to be snakes? " - Indiana Jones

"A boy's best friend is his mother. " - Norman Bates

"How would you like it if you had balls in your ears? " - Linda in Deep Throat

 

[Guest]

How could we forget ARNIE?

"I'll be back."

And all the rest.

Another classic!!! "Heeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeere's Johnny!" Jack Nicholson - The Shining

Ooh, and... "They're back." Little Girl in Poltergeist

Lou - somebody stop me!

P.S. Gotta add some classics from E.T.

"I'll be right here."

"Ouch!"

 

[Guest]

"This one time, at band camp..."

 

[Belegon]

Casablanca has multiple lines that spring to me, but I freely admit to being biased.

in addition to "Paris" and "Friendship"...

"Of all the gin joints in all the world..."

"Round up the usual suspects"

"That the troubles of two little people don't add up to a hill of beans in this world"

"I am shocked...SHOCKED...to find out that there is gambling going on here!
"Your winnings sir"
"Oh, thank you very much"

and of course the greatest line to never actually appear in the movie...

"Play it again, Sam."

 

[Guest]

Ok, final one from me (I promise):

"The path of the righteous man is beset on all sides by the inequities of the selfish and the tyranny of evil men. Blessed is he who in the name of charity and goodwill shepherds the weak through the valley of darkness, for he is truly his brother's keeper and the finder of lost children. And I will strike down upon thee with great vengence and furious anger those who attempt to poison my brothers. And you will know my name is the lord, when I lay my vengence down upon thee." Samuel L Jackson, Pulp Fiction

Lou

 

[Guest]

"This one time, at band camp..."

Thank you for remembering that gem.

 

[Guest]

 

[oggbashan]

"Is this the end of Rico?"

Og

 

[Rumple Foreskin]

Some UK cinema group came up with this list. I didn't know no. 7, and haven't seen no. 9 but do know the phrase. I'm surprized Casablanca's "This could be the start of a beautiful friendship" didn't make it. How about you, any special phrases that have stayed with you? - Perdita

TOP TEN FILM CATCHPHRASES

1. "You talkin' to me?" - Taxi Driver (1976)
2. "The name's Bond, James Bond" - Dr No (1962)
3. "What's it all about?" - Alfie (1966)
4. "Frankly my dear, I don't give a damn" - Gone with the Wind (1939)
5. "We're gonna need a bigger boat" - Jaws (1975)
6. "No one puts baby in the corner" - Dirty Dancing (1987)
7. "You're only supposed to blow the bloody doors off!" - The Italian Job (1969)
8. "May the force be with you" - Star Wars (1977)
9. "Show me the money!" - Jerry Maguire (1996)
10. "Yeah baby, yeah!" - Austin Powers (1997)

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If by "top" the clowns who dreamed up that list meant most used, then they weren't firing on all cylinders. My definition would be phrases that almost immediately became cliche's in everyday conversation. Based solely on what I've heard, that would exclude 3, 5. 6, 7.

Most of the really good ones have already been taken by the Lit brain-trust. As Perdita pointed out, the list's exclusion of any line from Casablanca makes it a candidate for the top ten stupid lists list. Here are just a few from Casablanca.

"Of all the gin joints and all the towns in the world-she walks into mine."

"Here's looking at you, kid."

"We'll always have Paris."

I'm shocked - shocked - to find gambling is going on in here!

"Louis-I think this is the beginning of a beautiful friendship."

And my personal, non-Casablanca favorite:

What we have here is...failure to communicate - Cool Hand Luke

Rumple Foreskin