Favorite movie quote

I haven't watched that movie but now I plan to.

There are several movie quotes that moved me. It's hard to rank them. The most entertaining were from Pulp Fiction (SLJ and Christopher Waltz). The most intense, the one that kept me thinking would be from the movie Apocalypse Now.

Colonel Kurtz: I watched..a snail..crawl along the edge of a straight razor. That's my dream; that's my nightmare. Crawling, slithering, along the edge of a straight razor... and surviving.

I have porn induced ADHD, that makes it hard to sustain concentration. But that lil recording, the voice that said it, got me rapt for the whole 3hr runtime. The last two parts were a lil disappointing, but the first 2hrs were pure bliss.

I didn't understand it at first but now I have some ideas

 

I loved all SLJ dialogues in that movie. My two fav would be the one you mentioned and the "The path of the righteous man....."( the whole scene, from big kahuna to that)

That monolog from Christopher Walken ending with this.... " He knew if the gooks ever saw the watch it’d be confiscated, taken away. The way your dad looked at it, that watch was your birthright. He’d be damned if any slopes were gonna put their greasy yellow hands on his boy’s birthright. So he hid it in the one place he knew he could hide something. His ass. Five long years, he wore this watch up his ass. Then he died of dysentery, he gave me the watch. I hid this uncomfortable hunk of metal up my ass two years. Then, after seven years, I was sent home to my family. And now, little man, I give the watch to you."....was epic.

 

Nothing ever ends. - Watchmen, although I prefer the comic to the movie.

It's the fuckin Catalina wine mixer! - Step Brothers

 

The Lord of the Rings: Fellowship of the Ring

Frodo: I wish none of this had happened.
Gandalf: So do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given to us.

 

Kung-fu Panda, first movie:
Master Oogway: “So why are you upset?”
Po: “I probably sucked today more than anyone in the history of kung-fu, more than anyone in the history of china, in the history of sucking!”
Oogway: “Probably.”
Po: “And The Five, man, you should have seen them, they totally hate me.”
Oogway: “Totally.”
Po: “How’s Shifu ever going to turn me into The Dragon Warrior? I mean, I’m not like The Five, I don’t have any claws, no wings, no venom- even Mantis has those “thingies”. Maybe I should just quit and go back to making noodles.”
Oogway: “Quit, don’t quit. Noodles, don’t noodles. You are too concerned with what was and what will be. There is a saying: ‘Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, but today is a gift’. That is why it’s called the present.”

 

Arnie: "Get to da choppa"

 

Samuel L. Jackson in Pulp Fiction

"English, motherfucker!! Do you speak it!?"

 

There's 3 ways of doing things, the right way the wrong way and the way I do it - Ace Rothstein, Casino

What happened to the soldiers at Thermopylae?
-Death to the last man
- - The Last Samurai

I went up to that white devil boss and I said "Yo bossman! you gots to pay me, you gots to pay me with paper!"
- Ron Burgundy, Anchorman 2

 

Chariots of Fire:

Harold Abrahams: If I can't win, I won't run.
Sybil Gordon: If you won't run, you can't win.

 

Were you able to watch that movie a second time? I watched it once all the way through back in the 80’s and I swore I’d never watch it again. Much too powerful and brutal. And from what I’ve heard that movie is still a far cry from the brutality and inhumanity that went on during that war.

Anyhow, it certainly had lots of powerful quotes and scenes. I still remember how calmly Kurtz talked about the VietCong cutting off the limbs of the children and how that inspired him to be more brutal himself.

 

I have watched that movie(the 200min redux version) several times. One of my favorites. The first time I didn't understand much. Watched again after a year, loved it. I have no idea how the real war was. But yeah, the movie is too powerful and brutal, but it grew on me. I like intense stuff, so it could be just me.(Edit: That boat scene, where they gun those vietnamese without reason, and steal that puppy, was the most disturbing part for me)

Kurtz did not talk about that calmly imo, he was still deeply disturbed by it(he looks up and puts a finger near his lips in that monolog). He is not a sane person. Although kurtz was way more stoic, his body language while talking to Capt. Willard when he explains all that shit, the "horror", was creepy; kinda like watching Norman Bates talk about his mother. He described how he wept when he first saw those little inoculated limbs lying around, then how the thought struck him like a diamond in the forehead. He was a man of superior intellect, tight principles and moral fibre, but what he saw in vietnam broke him.

They hacked off those arms as a resistance to american power, they were in a war with that country so they won't tolerate their aid(or pity). Not that they didn't love those children but they did what they felt necessary; their violence was dispassionate, this was kurtz's diamond. Hence, all the talk about befriending "horror" and "moral terror".

This movie is about that person's existential angst. 80 percent of the runtime is dedicated to showing what made him like that. If you don't mind movies like Prisoners, True Detective or even Clockwork Orange ; Apocalypse Now shouldn't be too much.

I am not good at explaining myself, had difficulty gathering my thoughts around it. Linking this review by ebert, it elucidates some of my thoughts better than I wrote. https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/great-movie-apocalypse-now-1979

 

Thanks for the correction. As I said I only watched it once back in the 80's and my recollection isn't so good.

I have been reading a lot about that war and listening to first hand accounts. I grew up during the last part of the war and my parents, particularly my father, did all he could to keep me from listening to the news about it. He'd shoo me off to my room often times when he was watching the news.

My dad was in the Navy during Korea and Vietnam but was a clerical worker and never went to Korea or Vietnam. He did process people to and from those two places. I also grew up around lots of Korea and Vietnam War vets. So I'm interested in learning about both wars. I don't take too much stock in the movies about them. From what I've read they tone things down quite a bit.

Anyhow, thanks again for your input!

 

I thought the Americans believed the Vietnamese in the boat were reaching for weapons.

 

They never reached for anything. The lady got anxious when he approached a particular box and tried to prevent him from checking it. No thoughts, just two adolescent guys with machine guns.

 

What did you think about the surfing scene? I didn’t realize ‘til this year that surfing during the Vietnam War was a legit thing. It was part of the rest and relaxation program. Soldiers on brief leave could choose to go to South Vietnam and surf. There was a very good display about it in the Surfing Museum in Oceanside, CA.

 

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Well, I didn't knew it was legit, even the playboy thingy. It was pretty hilarious in a way. But when I think about it, it was frightening.

Quoting from ebert's review

"The helicopter attack on a Vietnam village, led by Col. Kilgore (Robert Duvall), whose choppers use loudspeakers at top volume to play Wagner's "Ride of the Valkyries" as they swoop down on a yard full of schoolchildren. Duvall won an Oscar nomination for his performance and its unforgettable line, "I love the smell of napalm in the morning." His emptiness is frightening: A surfing fanatic, he agrees to the attack only to liberate a beach said to offer great waves ("Charlie don't surf")."

The Killgore guy was awesome. I do not understand him a bit. He argues with his soldiers and about to offer water to an enemy who's holding his innards with a bowl, one of his goons come in and inform him of some famous surfer dude. He just stands up and leaves, forgetting everything ,the guy is left alone. Such people are.... in real life(can't find the proper word) , but fun to watch in fiction. He squats there, talking about surfing and his feelings about napalm as there is a small blast nearby, unlike the rest he doesn't even flinch. Clears the whole are, the school, the vegetation, calls a napalm strike just so he could watch him surf, but the blast kills the waves. Then they run off stealing his surfboard, he chases them helicopters and loudspeakers.... was hilarious af.


Adding on the boat scene(ebert)

" There is also the sequence where the patrol boat stops a small fishing boat with a family on board. A little girl makes a sudden dash, and the jumpy machine-gunner (a young Laurence Fishburne) opens fire, wiping out the entire family. It turns out the girl was running for her puppy. The mother is not quite dead. The boat chief (Albert Hall) wants to take her for medical treatment. Willard puts a bullet into her; nothing can delay his mission. He and "Chief" are the only two seasoned military men on the boat"

 

OMG! I had forgotten about that part with killing the mother. If I remember correctly didn’t Willard have to aim the gun at the boat crew to get them to keep going after the murder?

Maybe I’ll watch the movie again someday. Just so hard to watch. I love comedy, keeps me sane.