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Which, in your mind, is the best last line offered in a movie?

State the name of the film, and the line.

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My personal favourites.

Evil Dead Army of Darkness

Ash:Sure I could have been king, but I guess, in a way, I am.
(Grabs a female and brings her close)
Hail to the King baby.

Clear and Present Danger

President Bennett: The country can't afford another scandal Jack. To protect itself it won't allow the possibility of another desception that goes all the way to the top. You'll take the blame, Cutter and Ritter will take some too but it won't amount to much, they'll get a slap on the wrist and then $20,000 an hour on the lecture circuit. The rest of the blame will fall on Greer. Oh yeah you'll take him down with you. You'll destroy his reputation but that's as far as it'll go. The old plutomic two step Jack.

Jack: I'm sorry Mr. President, I don't dance.

Scary Movie 2:

Cindy: NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

or

Behind enemy lines:

The guy who is the main character: This is why they killed Stackhouse.

Some Like It Hot:

"Nobody's perfect."

Blade Runner:

Gaff: "It's too bad she won't live. But then again, who does?"

Full Metal Jacket, everyone's singing the Mickey Mouse Club song.

Everyone singing "Always Look on the Bright Side of Life" from The Life of Brian

Everyone singing "Always Look on the Bright Side of Life" from The Life of Brian

I second that.

"I'm Bryan, and so's my wife!"

I love this one. I've actually used it in conversation:
"God damn you! God damn you all to hell!" - Planet of the Apes

And this is kinda topical:
"You can tell everybody. Listen to me, Hatcher. You’ve got to tell them soylent green is people. We’ve got to stop them somehow." - Soylent Green

Solaris (American version)
"We don't have to think like that anymore."

Fight Club
"Everything is going to be alright."

Magnolia
"And to think it was all a matter of coincidence."

Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
Clementine: "Okay."
Joel: "Okay."

And one more, as a bonus. This quote was not near the end of the film, but I think it was one of the more ironic moments in cinema.

First Contact
"You're all astronauts... on... some kind of star trek."

I second that.

"I'm Bryan, and so's my wife!"
I could have also gone with "Louis, I think this is the beginning of a beautiful friendship" from Casablanca, but there's just something about a field of crucified people singing "Life's a piece of shit, when you look at it..."

Quoting Falhaar
...plutomic...

Potomac is what you mean, and it's certainly understandable, gathering from the way you spell "favourite", it's perfectly fine you didn't spell it correctly. The Potomac River borders Washington, D.C., so when it is named in such a way, it just refers to the politics of the area.

Potomac is what you mean, and it's certainly understandable, gathering from the way you spell "favourite", it's perfectly fine you didn't spell it correctly. The Potomac River borders Washington, D.C., so when it is named in such a way, it just refers to the politics of the area.

Actually, "favourite" is the UK spelling, but you are entirely right about Potomac.

Actually, "favourite" is the UK spelling, but you are entirely right about Potomac.
I'm guessing he knew that, but assumed that since the speller was British, he didn't know the spelling of Potomac.

Ahh, I'm trying to remember the last lines of Hitchhiker's Guide, but I can't...so I'm guessing it's DON'T PANIC

I'm guessing he knew that, but assumed that since the speller was British, he didn't know the spelling of Potomac.

Ahh, I'm trying to remember the last lines of Hitchhiker's Guide, but I can't...so I'm guessing it's DON'T PANIC
Actually, I think it's something like "Anybody hungry? I know a great restaurant at the end of the universe." Ford says it, I believe.

I just checked the copy, I, um, obtained, and I discovered that the final line is "Not that anyone cares what I say, but the restaurant is at the other end," and it is uttered by Marvin the Paranoid Android.

Actually, I think it's something like "Anybody hungry? I know a great restaurant at the end of the universe." Ford says it, I believe.
That restaurant is Starbucks. Actually, two Starbucks, one across the street from the other in Dallas, Texas. -- Legend by Lewis Black, I believe

Gone With the Wind:

Rhett Butler - "Frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn."

Actually, "favourite" is the UK spelling, but you are entirely right about Potomac.

Oh my god, are you kidding or actually stupid? Why would I say I understand he didn't know about an American river since I could tell he spells British?

Casablanca: This looks like the beginning of a beautiful friendship.

"Not that anyone cares what I say, but the restaurant is at the other end," - Marvin

Words to live by indeed! :D

Hear, hear!

Casablanca: This looks like the beginning of a beautiful friendship.
That was my second choice. :D

"Yippie Ka Ye, Du Schweinebacke"

Gramps: One thing about Santa Carla I never could stomach....all the damn vampires.

The Lost Boys

Gramps: One thing about Santa Carla I never could stomach....all the damn vampires.

The Lost Boys
that movie so OWNS!

Some Like It Hot:

"Nobody's perfect."
That one is really great, though you have to know what that guy is refering to.

Potomac is what you mean, and it's certainly understandable, gathering from the way you spell "favourite", it's perfectly fine you didn't spell it correctly. The Potomac River borders Washington, D.C., so when it is named in such a way, it just refers to the politics of the area. Actually, I copied and pasted that line from a movie quote site, as I couldn't remember the exact phrasing. Blame the internet.

And I'm not British, I'm Australian.

<-- Check my location.

In The good, the bad, and the ugly. Eli Wallach's caracter, Tuco runs towards a distant horse riding Blondie (Clint Eastwood) and yells at the absolute top of his lungs... "Blondie! You son of a *****"... Ennio Morricone's imortal theme song comes on... :D

Take your pick from sci-fi spoof Spaceballs.

Dark Helmet: What's the matter Colonel Sandurz? CHICKEN?

Dark Helmet: Before you die there is something you need to know about us Lone Starr.
Lone Starr: What?
Dark Helmet: I am your father's cousin's nephew's brother's former roommate.
Lone Starr: What does that make us?
Dark Helmet: Absolutely nothing.

Dark Helmet: What's the matter with this thing? What's with all that churning and bubbling? You call that a Radar Screen?
[Sandurz points to the sign on the machine]
Colonel Sandurz: No sir, we call it Mr. Coffee. Care for some?

Kayzer Souze!

"Next one through that door gets a... a... lead salad!"
-the protagonist in Fight Club

"One does not simply walk into Mordor!"
-Boromir in The Fellowship of the Ring

"Next one through that door gets a... a... lead salad!"
-the protagonist in Fight Club

"One does not simply walk into Mordor!"
-Boromir in The Fellowship of the Ring


while those are good lines, they are not LAST lines of a movie :p

while those are good lines, they are not LAST lines of a movie :pMy liver's doing overtime to clear my medication from my bloodstream. Bah, it's Falhaar's fault for using alliteration... :p

"...long ago."
-Narrator in The Land Before Time

Back to the Future
"Roads? Where we're going, we don't need roads."

The Blair Witch Project
"Mike! Mike! Miiiiiike! AAAHHH! Miiiiiike! AAAHHH! Mike!"

Plan Nine From Outer Space:
"On your way home, someone will pass you in the dark, and you'll never know it, for they will be from outer space."

or

"Can you prove it didn't happen?"

Everyone singing "Always Look on the Bright Side of Life" from The Life of BrianI think the last line heard in the song was
"incidentally, this record is on sale in the foyer... (name of director) I says, they'll never make their money back you know."

Split Second.
Harley (Rugar Hauser) Stone: Dick..... Shut up!

LotR:FotR
Not the last line in the movie, but the last line in Disk one of the Two disk set.
Pippin: Great!... so where we going?

Blazing Saddles

Bart: (disbelieving) The Waco Kid. He had the fastest hand in the West.
The Waco Kid: In the world.
Bart: Well, if you're the Kid, then show me something.
The Waco Kid: Well, maybe a couple of years ago, I could have shown you something, but today, look at that. (He holds up his right hand - and it is steady without shaking)
Bart: Steady as a rock.
The Waco Kid: Yeah, but I shoot with this hand. (His left hand shakes wildly)

That's a good line but you need the rest of it to get it if you havn't seen it

Gone With the Wind:

Rhett Butler - "Frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn."
*gasps*

eu, thats not the last line!

the last line is


"tomorrow is another day"

I have a last scene.

Dr. Strangelove
H-bombs are exploding as the song 'We'll Meet Again' plays in the background.

The Great Dictator!

Hope... I'm sorry but I don't want to be an Emperor - that's not my business - I don't want to rule or conquer anyone. I should like to help everyone if possible, Jew, gentile, black man, white. We all want to help one another, human beings are like that.

We all want to live by each other's happiness, not by each other's misery. We don't want to hate and despise one another. In this world there is room for everyone and the earth is rich and can provide for everyone.

The way of life can be free and beautiful.

But we have lost the way.

Greed has poisoned men's souls - has barricaded the world with hate; has goose-stepped us into misery and bloodshed.

We have developed speed but we have shut ourselves in: machinery that gives abundance has left us in want. Our knowledge has made us cynical, our cleverness hard and unkind. We think too much and feel too little: More than machinery we need humanity; More than cleverness we need kindness and gentleness.
Without these qualities, life will be violent and all will be lost.

The aeroplane and the radio have brought us closer together. The very nature of these inventions cries out for the goodness in men, cries out for universal brotherhood for the unity of us all. Even now my voice is reaching millions throughout the world, millions of despairing men, women and little children, victims of a system that makes men torture and imprison innocent people. To those who can hear me I say "Do not despair".

The misery that is now upon us is but the passing of greed, the bitterness of men who fear the way of human progress: the hate of men will pass and dictators die and the power they took from the people, will return to the people and so long as men die [now] liberty will never perish...

Soldiers - don't give yourselves to brutes, men who despise you and enslave you - who regiment your lives, tell you what to do, what to think and what to feel, who drill you, diet you, treat you as cattle, as cannon fodder.

Don't give yourselves to these unnatural men, machine men, with machine minds and machine hearts. You are not machines. You are not cattle. You are men. You have the love of humanity in your hearts. You don't hate - only the unloved hate. Only the unloved and the unnatural. Soldiers - don't fight for slavery, fight for liberty.

In the seventeenth chapter of Saint Luke it is written " the kingdom of God is within man " - not one man, nor a group of men - but in all men - in you, the people.

You the people have the power, the power to create machines, the power to create happiness. You the people have the power to make life free and beautiful, to make this life a wonderful adventure. Then in the name of democracy let's use that power - let us all unite. Let us fight for a new world, a decent world that will give men a chance to work, that will give you the future and old age and security. By the promise of these things, brutes have risen to power, but they lie. They do not fulfil their promise, they never will. Dictators free themselves but they enslave the people. Now let us fight to fulfil that promise. Let us fight to free the world, to do away with national barriers, do away with greed, with hate and intolerance. Let us fight for a world of reason, a world where science and progress will lead to all men's happiness.

Soldiers - in the name of democracy, let us all unite!

Look up! Look up! The clouds are lifting - the sun is breaking through. We are coming out of the darkness into the light. We are coming into a new world. A kind new world where men will rise above their hate and brutality.

The soul of man has been given wings - and at last he is beginning to fly. He is flying into the rainbow - into the light of hope - into the future, that glorious future that belongs to you, to me and to all of us. Look up. Look up.

oh last lines eh


I'm sure some one said "Pants" somewhere

Wonka: “do you know what happened to the man who got what he wanted? He lived happily ever after.”

quite funny considering teh whole damn thing is about spoiled kids getting their just desserts, quite literally

Star Wars Episode 4: A New Hope

Chewbacca: *wookie sound*

(cant spell it)

Star Wars Episode 4: A New Hope

Chewbacca: *wookie sound*

(cant spell it)It depends on which one you mean: "Roaururrghghh"? Or "Rrougrurh"? Or "Aoururough"? There are a few and they're all different, both in sound and in meaning. ;)

I have a last scene.

Dr. Strangelove
H-bombs are exploding as the song 'We'll Meet Again' plays in the background.
Mein Furher, I can walk!

lol

seriously though, the "arrrooouuuggghhhhh" one, at the end

lol

seriously though, the "arrrooouuuggghhhhh" one, at the endYeah, that's probably my favorite line in the whole hexalogy! :rolleyes:

Yeah, that's probably my favorite line in the whole hexalogy! :rolleyes:

same here

"I never had any friends later on like the ones I had when I was twelve. Jesus, does anyone?" -- typed on a computer screen by Richard Dreyfus at the end of Stand By Me

same hereI'm not too much of a SW fan...

An old man dies; a young girl lives. Sounds like a fair trade to me. - From Sin City right before Bruce Willis shoots himself.

"If they ever tell my story let them say that I walked with giants. Men rise and fall like the winter wheat, but these names will never die. Let them say I lived in the time of Hector, tamer of horses. Let them say I lived in the time of Achilles." -Odysseus (TROY)

"Soon, Marcus will take the throne, and a tide of anger and retribution will spill out into the night. Differences will be set aside. Allegiances will be made. And soon, I will become the hunted." -Selene (Underworld)

"ALL THESE WORLDS ARE YOURS, EXCEPT EUROPA. ATTEMPT NO LANDINGS THERE. ALL THESE WORLDS ARE YOURS, EXCEPT EUROPA. ATTEMPT NO LANDINGS THERE. ALL THESE WORLDS ARE YOURS, EXCEPT EUROPA. ATTEMPT NO LANDINGS THERE. ALL THESE WORLDS ARE YOURS, EXCEPT EUROPA. ATTEMPT NO LANDINGS THERE. ALL THESE WORLDS ARE YOURS, EXCEPT EUROPA. ATTEMPT NO LANDINGS THERE." Dave, through HAL (2010)

"I never had any friends later on like the ones I had when I was twelve. Jesus, does anyone?" -- typed on a computer screen by Richard Dreyfus at the end of Stand By Me


ahh...took the words right out of my mouth.

In The good, the bad, and the ugly. Eli Wallach's caracter, Tuco runs towards a distant horse riding Blondie (Clint Eastwood) and yells at the absolute top of his lungs... "Blondie! You son of a *****"... Ennio Morricone's imortal theme song comes on... :D
"Hey Blondie, do you know what you are?! You're a stinking son of a...*theme starts*"
-Tuco, Il buono, il brutto, il cattivo(The Good, the Bad and the Ugly)

and... not sure if this is the last line. Pretty sure though:

"The Dude abides. I don't know about you but I take comfort in that. It's good knowin' he's out there. The Dude. Takin' 'er easy for all us sinners. Shoosh. I sure hope he makes the finals."
-The Stranger (The Big Lebowski)

"Hey Blondie, do you know what you are?! You're a stinking son of a...*theme starts*"
-Tuco, Il buono, il brutto, il cattivo(The Good, the Bad and the Ugly)

and... not sure if this is the last line.Yup you nailed it. Sergio Leone is God! :p
Back to the Future
"Roads? Where we're going, we don't need roads."
Zemeckis! :D

American Beauty had a great ending, but I can't remember the last line in it.

Yup you nailed it. Sergio Leone is God! :p
I meant The Big Lebowski. I've watched GB and U too many times not to know half a dozen quotes and where they are in film.

Thirteenth Child
*At Grandma's funeral*

Monk: We're gathered here today to pay our respects for the poorly departed Margie Wilson. Who was minced to peices at the hands of hellspawn! Dear God, do not keep silent for the hidiously mangled body that lies here below our feet!

*fade away on grave, scene shows the main characters standing next to the grave with the Monk chanting*

Brittany: ...I'm hungry, let's go to Pizza Hut.

Two come to mind.
I don't think it was the last line, but it was close and it's a paraphrase anyway:
"House on Haunted Hill" (the remake)
"But I'm adopted".

The other is "Mars Attacks". The movie ends with Tom Jones singing "It's not Unusual" with a bunch of animals in the background, bobbing and weaving to the music.

Agent Anthony Hubbard: William Devereaux, you are under arrest for the torture and murder of Tariq Husseini, an American citizen.

[FBI agents storm the Army command post, shouting]

General William Devereaux: Is this some kind of a joke?

Agent Hubbard: You see me laughing, general?

General Devereaux: Sergeant.

[Soldiers raise their weapons at the FBI]

General Devereaux: Order your men to lower their weapons, Agent Hubbard.

Hubbard: Can't do that, General.

General Devereaux: Order your men to put down tehir weapons!

Hubbard: [over Devereaux's shouting] You have the right to remain silent. You have the right to a fair trial. You have the right not to be tortured, not to be murdered, rights that you took away from Tariq Husseini. You have those rights because of the men who came before you who wore that uniform. Because of the men and women who are standing here right now waiting for you to give them the order to fire. Give them the order, General.

General Deveroux: Do you think that I would hesitate to kill you, or every Federal Agent in this room, if I thought it was in the best interest of my country?

Hubbard: No, no, no, you wouldn't hesitate, I know that. But they might.

[motions to soldiers in room]

Hubbard: Give the order. Make murderers out of these young kids, give the order.

[Deveroux is silent]

Hubbard: Give 'em the order, General!

[pause]

General William Deveroux: [Over his shoulder] Stand down, Sergeant.

-The Siege

The classic last line is:

The Italian Job

Charlie Croker: Hang on lads, I've got a great idea...

American Beauty had a great ending, but I can't remember the last line in it.
It ends with Lesters monologue, but the true last line is "You have no idea what I'm talking about, I'm sure. Don't worry...*cut to black* You will some day.

Donnie Darko
"You're such a fuck ass"

and

Boondock Saints
"and shepards we shall be, for Thee, my Lord, for Thee, power hath descended forth from Thy hand, our feet may swiftly carry out Thy command, so we shall flow a river forth to Thee, and timming with souls shall it ever be, In Nomeni Patri Et Fili Spiritus Sancti"
then the saints blow off Papa Joes head

Star Raiders.
"Don't worry kid... I won't Die... I'm the hero remember... I'm too tough... I'm too stupid."

Ice Pirates
"well... looks like we're out of a job."

"Get some rest, Pam. You look tired."
-Jason Bourne(The Bourne Supremacy)

Not such a great line in itself, but the circumstances are great.