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post anything from a movie that moved you, or left an impact. I dont know. Im horrible at intros so ill just post the speech from armeggeddon

“I address you tonight, not as the President of the United States, not as a Leader of a Country, but as a citizen of humanity. We are faced with the very gravest of challenges, the bible calls this day Armageddon.

The end of all things, and yet for the first time in the history of the Planet, a species has the technology to prevent it’s own extinction. All of you praying with us need to know that everything that can be done to prevent this disaster is being called into service. The human thirst for excellence, knowledge, every step up the ladder of science, every adventurous reach into space all of our combined modern techologies and imaginations, even the wars we fought have provided us the tools to wage this terrible battle.

Through all the chaos that is our history, through all of the wrong and the discord, through all of the pain and suffering, through all of our time. There is one thing that has nursed our souls and elevated our species above its orgins and that is our courage. Dreams! Of an entire Planet are focused tonight on those fourteen brave souls travelling into the heavens and may we all citizens all oversee these events through.

Godspeed and good luck to you”. - US President.

From The Great Dictator:

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 men, white. We all want to help one another. Human beings are like that. We want to live by each others' happiness, not by each other's misery. We don't want to hate and despise one another. In this world there' s room for everyone and the good 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, liberty will never perish. Soldiers! Don't give yourselves to brutes. Men who despise you, 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 like cattle, use you 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, the unloved and the unnatural. Soldiers! Don't fight for slavery! Fight for liberty!

In the seventeenth chapter of St. 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! You, the people, have the power, the power to create machines, the power to create happiness! You, the people, have the power to make this life free and beautiful, to make this life a wonderful adventure. Then in the name of democracy, let us 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 youth a future and old age a security. By the promise of these things, brutes have risen to power. But they lie! They do not fulfill their promise. They never will! Dictators free themselves but they enslave the people! Now let us fight to fulfill that promise! Let us fight to free the world! To do away with national barriers! To 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! --

Hannah, can you hear me? Wherever you are, look up, Hannah! 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 kindlier world, where men will rise above their hate, their greed and brutality. Look up, Hannah! 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, the glorious future that belongs to you, to me, and to all of us. Look up, Hannah! Look up!

The speech at the end of the movie version of A Time to Kill.

Sam Jackson's line "Yes they deserve to die, and I hope they burn in hell!" was pretty awesome too.

Totally unrealistic ending, but the defense attornies closing speech was really nice.

American Splendor
My name is Harvey Pekar - that's an unusual name - Harvey Pekar. 1960 was the year I got my first apartment and my first phone book. Now imagine my surprise when I looked up my name and saw that in addition to me, another Harvey Pekar was listed. Now I was listed as "Harvey L. Pekar", my middle name is Lawrence, and he was listed as "Harvey Pekar" therefore his was a - was a pure listing. Then in the '70s, I noticed that a third Harvey Pekar was listed in the phone book, now this filled me with curiousity. How can there be three people with such an unusual name in the world, let alone in one city? Then one day, a person I work with, expressed her sympathy with me, concerning what she thought, was the death of my father, and she pointed out an obituary notice in the newspaper for a man named Harvey Pekar. And one of his sons was named Harvey. And these were the other Harvey Pekar's. And six months later, Harvey Pekar Jr. died. And although I've met neither man, I was filled with sadness, 'what were they like?', I thought, it seemed that our lives had been linked in some indefineable way. But the story does not end there, for two years later, another 'Harvey Pekar' appeared in the phone book. Who are these people? Where do they come from? What do they do? What's in a name? Who is "Harvey Pekar"?

Not originally from a movie, but there have been film versions...

This day is called the feast of Crispian:
He that outlives this day, and comes safe home,
Will stand a tip-toe when the day is named,
And rouse him at the name of Crispian.
He that shall live this day, and see old age,
Will yearly on the vigil feast his neighbours,
And say 'To-morrow is Saint Crispian:'
Then will he strip his sleeve and show his scars.
And say 'These wounds I had on Crispin's day.'
Old men forget: yet all shall be forgot,
But he'll remember with advantages
What feats he did that day: then shall our names.
Familiar in his mouth as household words
Harry the king, Bedford and Exeter,
Warwick and Talbot, Salisbury and Gloucester,
Be in their flowing cups freshly remember'd.
This story shall the good man teach his son;
And Crispin Crispian shall ne'er go by,
From this day to the ending of the world,
But we in it shall be remember'd;
We few, we happy few, we band of brothers;
For he to-day that sheds his blood with me
Shall be my brother; be he ne'er so vile,
This day shall gentle his condition:
And gentlemen in England now a-bed
Shall think themselves accursed they were not here,
And hold their manhoods cheap whiles any speaks
That fought with us upon Saint Crispin's day
-Shakespeare's Henry V

Ladies and gentlemen, I'll be brief. The issue here is not whether we broke a few rules, or took a few liberties with our female party guests - we did.

But you can't hold a whole fraternity responsible for the behavior of a few, sick twisted individuals. For if you do, then shouldn't we blame the whole fraternity system? And if the whole fraternity system is guilty, then isn't this an indictment of our educational institutions in general? I put it to you, Greg - isn't this an indictment of our entire American society? Well, you can do whatever you want to us, but we're not going to sit here and listen to you badmouth the United States of America. Gentlemen!

Now that's a speech. :D

"Don't get out of the boat. Don't get out of the boat. Kurtz got out of the boat. Kurtz split from the whole fucking program."

and of course: "My name is Indigo Montoya. You killed my father. Prepare to die"

and let's not forget the most moving speech of all time: "Do the truffle shuffle!"

American Splendor

Haven't seen the movie, but that sounds pretty uninspiring. :p

For me, it would have to be Walter's eulogy for Donnie, from Lebowski. Very moving.

Not originally from a movie, but there have been film versions...


-Shakespeare's Henry V
Well, no duh. That's only the greatest motivational speech ever written.

Second to that, I'd have to go with these:

Colonel Tom Edwards: Why is it so important that you want to contact the governments of our earth?

Eros: Because of death. Because all you of Earth are idiots.

Jeff Trent: Now you just hold on, Buster.

Eros: No, you hold on. First was your firecracker, a harmless explosive. Then your hand grenade: you began to kill your own people, a few at a time. Then the bomb. Then a larger bomb: many people are killed at one time. Then your scientists stumbled upon the atom bomb, split the atom. Then the hydrogen bomb, where you actually explode the air itself. Now you can arrange the total destruction of the entire universe served by our sun: The only explosion left is the Solaranite.

Colonel Tom Edwards: Why, there's no such thing.

...

Colonel Tom Edwards: You speak of Solaranite. But just what is it?

Eros: Take a can of your gasoline. Say this can of gasoline is the sun. Now, you spread a thin line of it to a ball, representing the earth. Now, the gasoline represents the sunlight, the sun particles. Here we saturate the ball with the gasoline, the sunlight. Then we put a flame to the ball. The flame will speedily travel around the earth, back along the line of gasoline to the can, or the sun itself. It will explode this source and spread to every place that gasoline, our sunlight, touches. Explode the sunlight here, gentlemen, you explode the universe. Explode the sunlight here and a chain reaction will occur direct to the sun itself and to all the planets that sunlight touches, to every planet in the universe. This is why you must be stopped. This is why any means must be used to stop you. In a friendly manner or as (it seems) you want it.

Lieutenant John Harper: He's mad.

Plan 9 From Outer Space, Ed Wood

That's called going from the sublime to the ridiculous. ;)

"Don't get out of the boat. Don't get out of the boat. Kurtz got out of the boat. Kurtz split from the whole fucking program."

Not what I'd call a speech, but rather a misquote.

Never get out of the boat. Absolutely goddamn right. Unless you were goin' all the way. Kurtz got off the boat. He split from the whole fuckin' program.

Haven't seen the movie, but that sounds pretty uninspiring. :p


It's a very introspective movie about a very introspective man. You have to have a certain degree of curiosity about self for it to do anything for you.

Well, no duh. That's only the greatest motivational speech ever written.

Second to that, I'd have to go with these:



Plan 9 From Outer Space, Ed Wood

That's called going from the sublime to the ridiculous. ;)
Wonder when Hollywood is going to do a remake of Planet 9?
They've scrapped the barrel and remade damn near every other movie out there!
I, for one, would trot along to see it.

Not what I'd call a speech, but rather a misquote.
pedant.

For the irony.

"You smell that? Do you smell that? Napalm, son. Nothing else in the world smells like that. I love the smell of napalm in the morning. You know, one time we had a hill bombed, for twelve hours. When it was all over I walked up. We didn't find one of 'em, not one stinkin' dink body. The smell, you know that gasoline smell, the whole hill. Smelled like... victory. Someday this war's gonna end... "

This is from an author not a film:
It was written by Pearl S. Buck, author of "The Small Woman" and lots of other novels in the 1940's:
Only the brave should teach - the men and women whose integrity can not be shaken, whose minds are enlightened enough to understand the high calling of the teacher, whose hearts are unshakeably loyal to the young; whatever the interests of those who are in power.
There is no hope for our world unless we can educate a different kind of man and woman. I put the teacher higher than any other person today in world society, in responsibility and opportunity.

Only those who love the young should teach. Teaching is not a way to make a livelihood. The livelihood is incidental. Teaching is a vocation. It is a sacred as priesthood; as innate as a desire; as inseparable as the genius which compels a great artist. If a teacher has not the concern of humanity, the love for living creatures, the vision of the priest and of the artist, they must not teach. Teachers who hate to teach can only have pupils who hate to learn.

Great and true teachers think of the child, dream of the child, see visions, not of themselves but in the flowering of the child into adulthood. They think of the child first and always, not of themselves.

It takes courage to be a teacher, and it takes unalterable love for the child.

Only the brave should teach.

This is from a movie - Gettysburg! It's Colonel Chamberlain's speech to the 20th Maine mutineers who, in the movie, decided to fight under his command following this speech and his humane treatment of them. The mathematics in his introduction( in bold italics) always makes my eyes water:

Chamberlain: This regiment was formed last summer in Maine. There were a thousand of us then. There are less than three hundred of us now. All of us volunteered to fight for the union, just as you did. Some came mainly because we were bored at home -- thought this looked like it might be fun. Some came because we were ashamed not to. Many of us came because it was the right thing to do. And all of us have seen men die.

This is a different kind of army. If you look back through history, you will see men fighting for pay, for women, for some other kind of loot. They fight for land, power, because a king leads them or -- or just because they like killing. But we are here for something new. This has not happened much in the history of the world. We are an army out to set other men free.

America should be free ground -- all of it. Not divided by a line between slave state and free -- all the way, from here to the Pacific Ocean. No man has to bow. No man born to royalty. Here, we judge you by what you do, not by who your father was. Here, you can be something. Here, is the place to build a home.

But it's not the land. There's always more land.

It's the idea that we all have value -- you and me.



What we're fighting for, in the end, we're fighting for each other.

Sorry, I didn't mean to preach. You, you go ahead. You talk for awhile. If you -- If you choose to join us, you want your muskets back, you can have 'em. Nothing more will be said by anybody anywhere. If you choose not to join us, well you can come along under guard, and when this is all over I will do what I can to see you get a fair treatment. But for now, we're moving out.

Gentlemen, I think if we lose this fight, we lose the war. So if you choose to join us, I'll be personally very grateful.

I really thought the single speech by the, up to that point, mute Rabbi in God On Trial was incredibly moving. Especially when taken in context with the rest of the movie, it kind of shocks and then moves you.

This speech has got to be Hugo Weaving's best line in the entire Matrix Trilogy. The way he delivers it is just full of awesomeness!

Why, Mr. Anderson? Why do you do it? Why get up? Why keep fighting? Do you believe you're fighting for something? For more than your survival? Can you tell me what it is? Do you even know? Is it freedom? Or truth? Perhaps peace? Yes? No? Could it be for love? Illusions, Mr. Anderson. Vagaries of perception. The temporary constructs of a feeble human intellect trying desperately to justify an existence that is without meaning or purpose. And all of them as artificial as the Matrix itself, although only a human mind could invent something as insipid as love. You must be able to see it, Mr. Anderson. You must know it by now. You can't win. It's pointless to keep fighting. Why, Mr. Anderson? Why? Why do you persist?

From Kingdom of Heaven

I put no stock in religion. By the word religion I have seen the lunacy of fanatics of every denomination be called the will of god. I have seen too much religion in the eyes of too many murderers. Holiness is in right action, and courage on behalf of those who cannot defend themselves, and goodness. What god desires is here [points to head] and here [points to heart] and what you decide to do every day, you will be a good man - or not.

This is from a movie - Gettysburg! It's Colonel Chamberlain's speech to the 20th Maine mutineers who, in the movie, decided to fight under his command following this speech and his humane treatment of them. The mathematics in his introduction( in bold italics) always makes my eyes water:

You probably know it already, but that speech is taken verbatim from The Killer Angels. I haven't seen the movie, but if it's as good as the book, I'm in, if it ever plays on t.v.

You probably know it already, but that speech is taken verbatim from The Killer Angels. I haven't seen the movie, but if it's as good as the book, I'm in, if it ever plays on t.v.

It's dirt cheap on DVD (I got it double-packaged with Gods and Generals for only $12), but be warned, it's a loooong movie.

"He hid that uncomfortable hunk of metal in the only place he knew the gooks wouldn't find it, his ass."

Act 1, Scene 3, Hamlet:

Yet here, Laertes! aboard, aboard, for shame!
The wind sits in the shoulder of your sail,
And you are stay'd for. There; my blessing with thee!
And these few precepts in thy memory
See thou character. Give thy thoughts no tongue,
Nor any unproportioned thought his act.
Be thou familiar, but by no means vulgar.
Those friends thou hast, and their adoption tried,
Grapple them to thy soul with hoops of steel;
But do not dull thy palm with entertainment
Of each new-hatch'd, unfledged comrade. Beware
Of entrance to a quarrel, but being in,
Bear't that the opposed may beware of thee.
Give every man thy ear, but few thy voice;
Take each man's censure, but reserve thy judgment.
Costly thy habit as thy purse can buy,
But not express'd in fancy; rich, not gaudy;
For the apparel oft proclaims the man,
And they in France of the best rank and station
Are of a most select and generous chief in that.
Neither a borrower nor a lender be;
For loan oft loses both itself and friend,
And borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry.
This above all: to thine ownself be true,
And it must follow, as the night the day,
Thou canst not then be false to any man.
Farewell: my blessing season this in thee!

"I'll bee baaaack." :D

I can't stand speeches in movies.
When one comes up, I tend to switch channels, or, if in the cinema, turn my attention to throwing popcorn at whoever is unlucky enough to be sitting next to me.

From Kingdom of Heaven
One of the worst films about the Middle Ages by far. The Knights Hospitallier were pretty religious types, as were all of the main characters in the film. It fails and dies in a fire because it tries to impose modern-day values which are inappropriate for the time.

Also of note for this crime against history is A Man for all Seasons, which, whilst a good watch, completely ignores the fact that Thomas More's "conscience" back then is not what we'd call a conscience nowadays.

Only one ever has

I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I watched C-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhauser gate. All those moments will be lost in time... like tears in rain... Time to die.

Only one ever has

Finest in any sci-fi film, and Rutger Hauer's CMOA.

Act 1, Scene 3, Hamlet:


You're not allowed to mention the Bard. That's cheating.

and of course: "My name is Indigo Montoya. You killed my father. Prepare to die"

Not really a speech, but indeed a memorable line

Mine is the braveheart one, made even better 'cause I can do the Mel MacGibb accent.

"William Wallace: And if this is your army, why does it go?

Veteran: We didn't come here to fight for them!

Young Soldier: Home! The English are too many!

William Wallace: Sons of Scotland! I am William Wallace.

Young Soldier: William Wallace is seven feet tall!

William Wallace: Yes, I've heard. Kills men by the hundreds. And if HE were here, he'd consume the English with fireballs from his eyes, and bolts of lightning from his arse.

William Wallace: I *am* William Wallace! And I see a whole army of my countrymen, here in defiance of tyranny. You've come to fight as free men... and free men you are. What will you do with that freedom? Will you fight?

Veteran: Fight? Against that? No! We will run. And we will live.

William Wallace: Aye, fight and you may die. Run, and you'll live... at least a while. And dying in your beds, many years from now, would you be willin' to trade ALL the days, from this day to that, for one chance, just one chance, to come back here and tell our enemies that they may take our lives, but they'll never take... OUR FREEDOM!

William Wallace: Alba gu bra!
["Scotland forever!"]"

I love this line too

William Wallace: Before we let you leave, your commander must cross that field, present himself before this army, put his head between his legs, and kiss his own arse.

may take our lives, but they'll never take... OUR FREEDOM!
This always seemed an odd line to me. If you're dead, your freedom is sort of gone.

"Don't get out of the boat. Don't get out of the boat. Kurtz got out of the boat. Kurtz split from the whole fucking program."

and of course: "My name is Indigo Montoya. You killed my father. Prepare to die"

and let's not forget the most moving speech of all time: "Do the truffle shuffle!"

Inigo Montoya, not Indigo Montoya. You should be ashamed.

The Egg Salad speech from "Mystery Men".

Shoveler: (indicates the bowl of egg salad he's been mixing) This is
egg salad. It's loaded with cholesterol. The wife won't even let me
touch it. Hardly seems to matter now, 'cause chances are we're
already dead. Amazing is gone. There's no use waiting for the
cavalry, because as of this moment, the cavalry is us.

Invisible Boy: Well yeah but, I don't wanna get frakulated.

Bowler: Psychofrakulated.

Invisible Boy: We still get frakulated.

Shoveler: This is our fight, whether we like it or not. Just we few.
We're not your classic superheroes. We're not the favorites. We're
the other guys. We're the guys nobody ever bets on. But I'll tell you
what I think. (to Bowler) I think you and that ball of yours have an
appointment that you gotta keep. (to Invisible Boy) Invisible Boy, I
think it's time you were seen. (to Sphinx) Sphinx, you have trained
us well. (to Heller) And Dr. Heller, you might just have given us the
edge we need. (to Spleen) And Spleen. I don't wanna stand behind
you. But I'll fight beside you with pride. (to Raja) Jeff. You've got
a rare and beautiful gift. The city needs you tonight. (to Furious)
And Roy, in all the years I've known you, I've never seen you walk
away from a fight. Why you lifted a city bus once, man. I think
you've got what it takes to handle Casanova. (to everyone) We're
all in over our heads and we know it. But if we take on this fight,
those of us who survive it will forever after show our scars with
pride and say, "That's right. I was there. I fought the good fight."
So what do you say? Do we all gather together, and go kick some
Casanova butt? Or do I eat this sandwich?

You probably know it already, but that speech is taken verbatim from The Killer Angels. I haven't seen the movie, but if it's as good as the book, I'm in, if it ever plays on t.v.

It's an inspiring movie - but long. It's a must for Civil War buffs and anyone who wants to know something about what Americans went through during that War.

I've always admired the Abolitionist sentiment (sorry to any sons of the South reading this!)

Now that's a speech. :D

Here here! *raises guinness bottle*

From LOTR: The Return of the King:

Aragorn: Hold your ground, hold your ground! Sons of Gondor, of Rohan, my brothers! I see in your eyes the same fear that would take the heart of me. A day may come when the courage of men fails, when we forsake our friends and break all bonds of fellowship, but it is not this day. An hour of woes and shattered shields, when the age of men comes crashing down! But it is not this day! This day we fight! By all that you hold dear on this good Earth, I bid you stand, Men of the West!

I think of this scene from Citizen Kane a lot. I don't know if Citizen Kane deserves to be called the best movie of all time but I really like this scene:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ULoh336SNNI

If truffle shuffle counts, I think this should count as a speech.

King Leonidas: Children, gather round! No retreat, no surrender; that is Spartan law. And by Spartan law we will stand and fight... and die. A new age has begun. An age of freedom, and all will know, that 300 Spartans gave their last breath to defend it!

Honorable mention it was more the exchange:

Daxos: I see I was wrong to expect Sparta's commitment to at least match our own.
King Leonidas: Doesn't it?
[points to Arcadian soldier behind Daxos]
King Leonidas: You there, what is your profession?
Free Greek-Potter: I am a potter... sir.
King Leonidas: [points to another soldier] And you, Arcadian, what is your profession?
Free Greek-Sculptor: Sculptor, sir.
King Leonidas: Sculptor.
[turns to a third soldier]
King Leonidas: You?
Free Greek-Blacksmith: Blacksmith.
King Leonidas: [turns back shouting] Spartans! What is your profession?
Spartans: HA-OOH! HA-OOH! HA-OOH!
King Leonidas: [turning to Daxos] You see, old friend? I brought more soldiers than you did

This always seemed an odd line to me. If you're dead, your freedom is sort of gone.

Bonus points for noticing that spark of nonsense in the raging inferno that is 'Braveheart'.

300 had dialogue? All I remember is some chiseled men screaming Sparta over and over...

From LOTR: The Return of the King:

Aragorn: Hold your ground, hold your ground! Sons of Gondor, of Rohan, my brothers! I see in your eyes the same fear that would take the heart of me. A day may come when the courage of men fails, when we forsake our friends and break all bonds of fellowship, but it is not this day. An hour of woes and shattered shields, when the age of men comes crashing down! But it is not this day! This day we fight! By all that you hold dear on this good Earth, I bid you stand, Men of the West!

Good choice! Watching the orcs approach Helmsdeep was impressive as well.

From LOTR: The Return of the King:

Aragorn: Hold your ground, hold your ground! Sons of Gondor, of Rohan, my brothers! I see in your eyes the same fear that would take the heart of me. A day may come when the courage of men fails, when we forsake our friends and break all bonds of fellowship, but it is not this day. An hour of woes and shattered shields, when the age of men comes crashing down! But it is not this day! This day we fight! By all that you hold dear on this good Earth, I bid you stand, Men of the West!

A good one, but if we're going with LOTR battle-speeches, Theoden's speech before the Rohirrim charge into the Pelennor Fields is the one that really gets me. :)

For the last couple of months, Senator Rumson has suggested that being president of this country was, to a certain extent, about character, and although I have not been willing to engage in his attacks on me, I've been here three years and three days, and I can tell you without hesitation: Being President of this country is entirely about character. For the record: yes, I am a card-carrying member of the ACLU. But the more important question is why aren't you, Bob?

Now, this is an organization whose sole purpose is to defend the Bill of Rights, so it naturally begs the question: Why would a senator, his party's most powerful spokesman and a candidate for President, choose to reject upholding the Constitution? If you can answer that question, folks, then you're smarter than I am, because I didn't understand it until a few hours ago.

America isn't easy. America is advanced citizenship. You gotta want it bad, 'cause it's gonna put up a fight. It's gonna say "You want free speech? Let's see you acknowledge a man whose words make your blood boil, who's standing center stage and advocating at the top of his lungs that which you would spend a lifetime opposing at the top of yours. You want to claim this land as the land of the free? Then the symbol of your country can't just be a flag; the symbol also has to be one of its citizens exercising his right to burn that flag in protest. Show me that, defend that, celebrate that in your classrooms. Then, you can stand up and sing about the "land of the free".

I've known Bob Rumson for years, and I've been operating under the assumption that the reason Bob devotes so much time and energy to shouting at the rain was that he simply didn't get it. Well, I was wrong. Bob's problem isn't that he doesn't get it. Bob's problem is that he can't sell it! We have serious problems to solve, and we need serious people to solve them. And whatever your particular problem is, I promise you, Bob Rumson is not the least bit interested in solving it. He is interested in two things and two things only: making you afraid of it and telling you who's to blame for it. That, ladies and gentlemen, is how you win elections. You gather a group of middle-aged, middle-class, middle-income voters who remember with longing an easier time, and you talk to them about family and American values and character. And wave an old photo of the President's girlfriend and you scream about patriotism and you tell them, she's to blame for their lot in life, and you go on television and you call her a whore.

Sydney Ellen Wade has done nothing to you, Bob. She has done nothing but put herself through school, represent the interests of public school teachers, and lobby for the safety of our natural resources. You want a character debate, Bob? You better stick with me, 'cause Sydney Ellen Wade is way out of your league.

This is a time for serious people, Bob, and your 15 minutes are up. My name is Andrew Shepherd, and I AM the President.

300 had dialogue? All I remember is some chiseled men screaming Sparta over and over...

It was in the extras on the DVD, I think.

"There is an idea of a Patrick Bateman, some kind of abstraction, but there is no real me, only an entity, something illusory, and though I can hide my cold gaze and you can shake my hand and feel flesh gripping yours and maybe you can even sense our lifestyles are probably comparable: I simply am not there. I have all the characteristics of a human being: flesh, blood, skin, hair; but not a single, clear, identifiable emotion, except for greed and disgust. Something horrible is happening inside of me and I don't know why. My nightly bloodlust has overflown into my days. I feel lethal, on the verge of frenzy. I think my mask of sanity is about to slip."

It was in the extras on the DVD, I think.

Just ordered it from amazon. http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51SH3ZEFDSL._AA260_.jpg

Oh, and I can't believe I didn't think of this one the instant I saw this topic:

"To begin with, this case should never have come to trial. The state has not produced one iota of medical evidence that the crime Tom Robinson is charged with ever took place... It has relied instead upon the testimony of two witnesses, whose evidence has not only been called into serious question on cross-examination, but has been flatly contradicted by the defendant. Now, there is circumstantial evidence to indicate that Mayella Ewell was beaten - savagely, by someone who led exclusively with his left. And Tom Robinson now sits before you having taken the oath with the only good hand he possesses...his right. I have nothing but pity in my heart for the chief witness for the State. She is the victim of cruel poverty and ignorance. But my pity does not extend so far as to her putting a man's life at stake, which she has done in an effort to get rid of her own guilt. Now I say "guilt," gentlemen, because it was guilt that motivated her. She's committed no crime - she has merely broken a rigid and time-honored code of our society, a code so severe that whoever breaks it is hounded from our midst as unfit to live with. She must destroy the evidence of her offense. But what was the evidence of her offense? Tom Robinson, a human being. She must put Tom Robinson away from her. Tom Robinson was to her a daily reminder of what she did. Now, what did she do? She tempted a Negro. She was white, and she tempted a Negro. She did something that, in our society, is unspeakable. She kissed a black man. Not an old uncle, but a strong, young Negro man. No code mattered to her before she broke it, but it came crashing down on her afterwards. The witnesses for the State, with the exception of the sheriff of Maycomb County, have presented themselves to you gentlemen, to this court, in the cynical confidence that their testimony would not be doubted, confident that you gentlemen would go along with them on the assumption, the evil assumption that all Negroes lie, all Negroes are basically immoral beings, all Negro men are not to be trusted around our women. An assumption that one associates with minds of their caliber, and which is, in itself, gentlemen, a lie, which I do not need to point out to you. And so, a quiet, humble, respectable Negro, who has had the unmitigated temerity to feel sorry for a white woman, has had to put his word against two white people's! The defendant is not guilty - but somebody in this courtroom is. Now, gentlemen, in this country, our courts are the great levelers. In our courts, all men are created equal. I'm no idealist to believe firmly in the integrity of our courts and of our jury system - that's no ideal to me. That is a living, working reality! Now I am confident that you gentlemen will review, without passion, the evidence that you have heard, come to a decision and restore this man to his family. In the name of God, do your duty. In the name of God, believe...Tom Robinson."

Journalist: M. Ben M'Hidi, don't you think it's a bit cowardly to use women's baskets and handbags to carry explosive devices that kill so many innocent people?

Ben M'Hidi: And doesn't it seem to you even more cowardly to drop napalm bombs on defenseless villages, so that there are a thousand times more innocent victims? Of course, if we had your airplanes it would be a lot easier for us. Give us your bombers, and you can have our baskets.

-The Battle of Algiers



Ray: Jesus, Ken, I'm trying to talk about...

Ken: I know what you're trying to talk about.

Ray: I killed a little boy. You keep bringing up the fucking lollipop man.

Ken: You didn't mean to kill a little boy.

Ray: I know I didn't mean to... but because of the choices I made, and the course that I put into action, that little boy isn't here anymore, and he'll never be here again.

[pause]

Ray: I mean here in the world, not here in Belgium. Well he'll never be here in Belgium either, will he? I mean, he might've wanted to come here when he got older. Don't know why. And that's all because of me. He's dead because of me. And I'm trying to... been trying to get me head around it, but I can't. I will have always have killed that little boy. That ain't ever going away. Ever. Unless... maybe I go away.

Ken: Don't even think like that.


-In Bruges



Ray: There's a Christmas tree somewhere in London with a bunch of presents underneath it that'll never be opened. And I thought, if I survive all of this, I'd go to that house, apologize to the mother there, and accept whatever punishment she chose for me. Prison... death... didn't matter. Because at least in prison and at least in death, you know, I wouldn't be in fuckin' Bruges. But then, like a flash, it came to me. And I realized, fuck man, maybe that's what hell is: the entire rest of eternity spent in fuckin' Bruges. And I really really hoped I wouldn't die. I really really hoped I wouldn't die.

-In Bruges


Vicar: We, in this quiet corner of England, have suffered the loss of friends very dear to us - some close to this church: George West, choir boy; James Bellard, station master and bell ringer and a proud winner, only one hour before his death, of the Belding Cup for his beautiful Miniver rose; and our hearts go out in sympathy to the two families who share the cruel loss of a young girl who was married at this altar only two weeks ago. The homes of many of us have been destroyed, and the lives of young and old have been taken. There is scarcely a household that hasn't been struck to the heart. And why? Surely you must have asked yourself this question. Why in all conscience should these be the ones to suffer? Children, old people, a young girl at the height of her loveliness. Why these? Are these our soldiers? Are these our fighters? Why should they be sacrificed? I shall tell you why. Because this is not only a war of soldiers in uniform. It is a war of the people, of all the people, and it must be fought not only on the battlefield, but in the cities and in the villages, in the factories and on the farms, in the home, and in the heart of every man, woman, and child who loves freedom! Well, we have buried our dead, but we shall not forget them. Instead they will inspire us with an unbreakable determination to free ourselves and those who come after us from the tyranny and terror that threaten to strike us down. This is the people's war! It is our war! We are the fighters! Fight it then! Fight it with all that is in us, and may God defend the right.

-Mrs Miniver (1942)

Oh, and I can't believe I didn't think of this one the instant I saw this topic:


Poli...please get out of my brain. That is precisely the speech that popped into my head when I saw this topic.

Poli...please get out of my brain. That is precisely the speech that popped into my head when I saw this topic.

It's a hell of a speech. :)

"There is an idea of a Patrick Bateman, some kind of abstraction, but there is no real me, only an entity, something illusory, and though I can hide my cold gaze and you can shake my hand and feel flesh gripping yours and maybe you can even sense our lifestyles are probably comparable: I simply am not there. I have all the characteristics of a human being: flesh, blood, skin, hair; but not a single, clear, identifiable emotion, except for greed and disgust. Something horrible is happening inside of me and I don't know why. My nightly bloodlust has overflown into my days. I feel lethal, on the verge of frenzy. I think my mask of sanity is about to slip."
The irony here is killing me so much. I'm almost afraid to point it out, for fear that it might suddenly change its form.

I can't stand speeches in movies.
When one comes up, I tend to switch channels, or, if in the cinema, turn my attention to throwing popcorn at whoever is unlucky enough to be sitting next to me.
Then you miss a lot. You've missed the entire points of movies like "Mr. Smith Goes to Washington," "Sullivan's Travels," "The Grapes of Wrath," "From Hell," "Five Days in May," "The Manchurian Candidate," etc, etc, etc. But at least now I know never to seek or credit your opinion about any art, since you clearly don't feel the need to actually look or listen to it.

One of the worst films about the Middle Ages by far. The Knights Hospitallier were pretty religious types, as were all of the main characters in the film. It fails and dies in a fire because it tries to impose modern-day values which are inappropriate for the time.

Also of note for this crime against history is A Man for all Seasons, which, whilst a good watch, completely ignores the fact that Thomas More's "conscience" back then is not what we'd call a conscience nowadays.
Right, because we all know that every single film about a historical character is supposed to be taken as a documentary. It couldn't possibly be that "A Man For All Seasons," which is based on a play, is about something other than the persons in it. Just like "The Lion in Winter" is a bad documentary, not a well-acted play. And "The Crucible" is an abomination because it is not an accurate documentary account of the witch trials, but is in fact an allegory about the anti-communist Red Scare. :rolleyes:

I know that most children over the age of 5 can actually tell the difference between fact and fiction, but sometimes I wonder if some adults can.

From LOTR: The Return of the King:

Aragorn: Hold your ground, hold your ground! Sons of Gondor, of Rohan, my brothers! I see in your eyes the same fear that would take the heart of me. A day may come when the courage of men fails, when we forsake our friends and break all bonds of fellowship, but it is not this day. An hour of woes and shattered shields, when the age of men comes crashing down! But it is not this day! This day we fight! By all that you hold dear on this good Earth, I bid you stand, Men of the West!


Shoveler: This is our fight, whether we like it or not. Just we few.
We're not your classic superheroes. We're not the favorites. We're
the other guys. We're the guys nobody ever bets on. But I'll tell you
what I think. (to Bowler) I think you and that ball of yours have an
appointment that you gotta keep. (to Invisible Boy) Invisible Boy, I
think it's time you were seen. (to Sphinx) Sphinx, you have trained
us well. (to Heller) And Dr. Heller, you might just have given us the
edge we need. (to Spleen) And Spleen. I don't wanna stand behind
you. But I'll fight beside you with pride. (to Raja) Jeff. You've got
a rare and beautiful gift. The city needs you tonight. (to Furious)
And Roy, in all the years I've known you, I've never seen you walk
away from a fight. Why you lifted a city bus once, man. I think
you've got what it takes to handle Casanova. (to everyone) We're
all in over our heads and we know it. But if we take on this fight,
those of us who survive it will forever after show our scars with
pride and say, "That's right. I was there. I fought the good fight."
So what do you say? Do we all gather together, and go kick some
Casanova butt? Or do I eat this sandwich?
Two sad immitations of the St. Crispin speech.

Trask: Mr. Sims, you are a cover-up artist and you are a liar.

Slade: But not a snitch.

Trask: Excuse me?

Slade: No, I don't think I will.

Trask: Mr. Slade.

Slade: This is such a crock of shit.

Trask: Please watch your language, Mr. Slade. You are in the Baird School not a barracks. Mr. Sims, I will give you one final opportunity to speak up.

Slade: Mr. Sims doesn't want it. He doesn't need to labeled: "Still worthy of being a 'Baird Man.'" What the hell is that? What is your motto here? "Boys, inform on your classmates, save your hide" -- anything short of that we're gonna burn you at the stake? Well, gentlemen, when the shit hits the fan some guys run and some guys stay. Here's Charlie facing the fire; and there's George hidin' in big Daddy's pocket. And what are you doin'? You're gonna reward George and destroy Charlie.

Trask: Are you finished, Mr. Slade?

Slade: No, I'm just gettin' warmed up. I don't know who went to this place, William Howard Taft, William Jennings Bryan, William Tell -- whoever. Their spirit is dead -- if they ever had one -- it's gone. You're building a rat ship here. A vessel for sea goin' snitches. And if you think your preparing these minnows for manhood you better think again. Because I say you are killing the very spirit this institution proclaims it instills! What a sham. What kind of a show are you guys puttin' on here today. I mean, the only class in this act is sittin' next to me. And I'm here to tell ya this boy's soul is intact. It's non-negotiable. You know how I know? Someone here -- and I'm not gonna say who -- offered to buy it. Only Charlie here wasn't sellin'.

Trask: Sir, you are out of order!

Slade: Outta order? I'll show you outta order! You don't know what outta order is, Mr. Trask! I'd show you but I'm too old; I'm too tired; I'm too fuckin' blind. If I were the man I was five years ago I'd take a FLAME-THROWER to this place! Outta order. Who the hell you think you're talkin' to? I've been around, you know? There was a time I could see. And I have seen boys like these, younger than these, their arms torn out, their legs ripped off. But there isn't nothin' like the sight of an amputated spirit; there is no prosthetic for that. You think you're merely sendin' this splendid foot-soldier back home to Oregon with his tail between his legs, but I say you are executin' his SOUL!! And why?! Because he's not a Baird man! Baird men, ya hurt this boy, you're going to be Baird Bums, the lot of ya. And Harry, Jimmy, Trent, wherever you are out there, FUCK YOU too!

Mr. Trask: Stand down, Mr. Slade!

Slade: I'm not finished! As I came in here, I heard those words, "cradle of leadership." Well, when the bow breaks, the cradle will fall. And it has fallen here; it has fallen. Makers of men; creators of leaders; be careful what kind of leaders you're producin' here. I don't know if Charlie's silence here today is right or wrong.

I'm not a judge or jury. But I can tell you this: he won't sell anybody out to buy his future!! And that, my friends, is called integrity! That's called courage! Now that's the stuff leaders should be made of. Now I have come to the crossroads in my life. I always knew what the right path was. Without exception, I knew. But I never took it. You know why? It was too damn hard. Now here's Charlie. He's come to the crossroads. He has chosen a path. It's the right path. It's a path made of principle -- that leads to character. Let him continue on his journey.

You hold this boy's future in your hands, committee. It's a valuable future. Believe me. Don't destroy it! Protect it. Embrace it. It's gonna make ya proud one day -- I promise you.

Two sad immitations of the St. Crispin speech.

Heh, you might say that about LOTR, but the Mystery Men speech is a very obvious parody of it. :)

*snip* Oh come on now, you know how I love me some Pacino...quit getting me all hot and bothered.

Optimus Prime: Ultra Magnus, it is to you, old friend, I shall pass the matrix of leadership as it was passed to me.
Ultra Magnus: But Prime, I'm - I'm just a soldier. I - I'm not worthy.
Optimus Prime: Nor was I. But one day, an Autobot shall rise from our ranks, and use the power of the matrix to light our darkest hour.
Optimus Prime: Until that day, till all are one.

While not amazing, every time I hear it, it strike a chord in me.

The President: Good morning. In less than an hour, aircraft from here will join others from around the world. And you will be launching the largest aerial battle in this history of mankind.

Mankind -- that word should have new meaning for all of us today.

We can't be consumed by our petty differences anymore.

We will be united in our common interests.

Perhaps its fate that today is the 4th of July, and you will once again be fighting for our freedom, not from tyranny, oppression, or persecution -- but from annihilation.

We're fighting for our right to live, to exist.

And should we win the day, the 4th of July will no longer be known as an American holiday, but as the day when the world declared in one voice:

"We will not go quietly into the night!

We will not vanish without a fight!

We're going to live on!

We're going to survive!"

Today, we celebrate our Independence Day!

Somebody already mentioned Henry V, and Robert Duvall's bit from Apocalypse Now and Jimmy Stewart in Mr. Smith Goes To Washington. One of my favorites was Harrison Ford's speech from Air Force One

" As you know, three weeks ago American Special Forces, in cooperation with the Russian Republican Army, secured the arrest of Turkmenistan's self- proclaimed dictator, General Ivan Stravanavitch, whose brutal sadistic reign had given new meaning to the word horror. I am proud to say our operation was a success. And now, yesterday's biggest threat to world peace... today awaits trial for crimes against humanity. What we did here was important. We finally pulled our heads out of the sand, we finally stood up to the brutality and said "We've had enough. Every time we ignore these atrocities--the rapes, the death squads, the genocides- every time we negotiate with these, these thugs to keep them out of our country and away from our families, every time we do this we legitimize terror. Terror is not a legitimate system of government. And to those who commit the atrocities I say, we will no longer tolerate, we will no longer negotiate, and we will no longer be afraid. It's your turn to be afraid."

That, and Dilios's speech at then end of 300:
"Remember us." As simple an order as a king can give. "Remember why we died." For he didn't wish tribute or song. No monuments, no poems of war and valour. His wish was simple: "Remember us," he said to me. That was his hope. Should any free soul come across that place, in all the countless centuries yet to be, may all our voices whisper to you from the ageless stones: Go tell the Spartans, passer-by, that here, by Spartan law, we lie. So my king died, and my brothers died, barely a year ago. Long I pondered my king's cryptic talk of victory. Time has proven him wise, for from free Greek to free Greek the word was spread that bold Leonidas and his 300, so far from home, laid down their lives, not just for Sparta, but for all Greece and the promise this country holds. Now, here on this ragged patch of earth called Plataea, Xerxes' hordes face obliteration! Just there, the barbarians huddle, sheer terror gripping tight their hearts with icy fingers, knowing full well what merciless horrors they suffered at the swords and spears of 300. Yet they stare now across the plain at 10,000 Spartans commanding 30,000 free Greeks! Haroo! The enemy outnumber us a paltry three to one; good odds for any Greek. This day we rescue a world from mysticism and tyranny, and usher in a future brighter than anything we could imagine. Give thanks, men! To Leonidas, and the brave 300! To victory!

Another one of my favorite quotes.


Agent Smith: I'd like to share a revelation that I've had during my time here. It came to me when I tried to classify your species and I realized that you're not actually mammals. Every mammal on this planet instinctively develops a natural equilibrium with the surrounding environment but you humans do not. You move to an area and you multiply and multiply until every natural resource is consumed and the only way you can survive is to spread to another area. There is another organism on this planet that follows the same pattern. Do you know what it is? A virus. Human beings are a disease, a cancer of this planet. You're a plague and we are the cure.

Heh, you might say that about LOTR, but the Mystery Men speech is a very obvious parody of it. :)
True enough. Okay, one decent parody and one sad attempt. ;)

You've missed the entire points of movies like "Mr. Smith Goes to Washington," "Sullivan's Travels," "The Grapes of Wrath," "From Hell," "Five Days in May,"
You mean "Seven Days in May", or is there a different movie with a similar title?

Seven Days in May had some good lines, like "The US government is balanced on the tippy-top of the Washington Monument, ready to fall off and shatter in a million pieces."

'that speech' from Blade Runner. The sandwich speech from Mystery Men. Both good.

There's nothing in ID4 worth watching or listening to... pukefest.

Kurt Russell's speech as Wyatt Earp in Tombstone:

"All right, Clanton. You called down the thunder. Well, now you got it. You see that? It says, 'United States Marshal.' Take a good look at him, Ike, 'cause that's how you're gonna end up. The Cowboys are finished. You understand me? I see a red sash, I kill the man wearin' it. So run, you cur. Run! Tell all the other curs the law is comin'! You tell 'em I'm comin'! And hell's comin' with me, you hear? Hell's comin' with me!"

Another one of my favorite quotes.


Agent Smith: I'd like to share a revelation that I've had during my time here. It came to me when I tried to classify your species and I realized that you're not actually mammals. Every mammal on this planet instinctively develops a natural equilibrium with the surrounding environment but you humans do not. You move to an area and you multiply and multiply until every natural resource is consumed and the only way you can survive is to spread to another area. There is another organism on this planet that follows the same pattern. Do you know what it is? A virus. Human beings are a disease, a cancer of this planet. You're a plague and we are the cure.

This one has always annoyed me. Until an organism reaches the environments carry capacity, it will multiply exponentionally. The only thing that differentiates humans from other mammals and their "natural equlibrium" is that humans haven't reached their environment's carry capacity.

The irony here is killing me so much. I'm almost afraid to point it out, for fear that it might suddenly change its form.

Irony? I 'empathise' massively with Patrick Bateman. Also, I'm incredibly drunk (especially about the part regarding "I am not there"), therefore can't engage you in an argument. Sorry.

I am a shell. I am not really there in engagements with other people. I wear a mask. People are boring, I look down on them. Humans are below me, I look down on them with disdain. I am something vacant, empty. In some ways that is terrifying, in other ways liberating. I love it, it makes me feel alive. So few things do.

I'm afraid I'm not quite as eloquent as Ellis, but if I were, I'd describe how invigorating my perspective is. You would feel enormous jealousy. I am insane by so many traditional standards, but inside my own head I am god.

Humans are below me.....

Re: This and the Agent Smith "Humanity is a virus" speech; BIOLOGY DOES NOT WORK THAT WAY!
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Irony? I 'empathise' massively with Patrick Bateman. Also, I'm incredibly drunk (especially about the part regarding "I am not there"), therefore can't engage you in an argument. Sorry.
The irony is that Patrick Bateman isn't who you apparently think he is. He's just a nobody with an violent and erotically charged imagination that he can't seem to control. A loser who gets off on watching porno and slasher movies while getting carried away in omnipotent revenge fantasies.
The movie especially makes it clear that Bateman is just a pathetic, lonely businessman. Possibly a schizoid.

What do you think of farmers? You think they're saints? Hah! They're foxy beasts! They say, "We've got no rice, we've no wheat. We've got nothing!" But they have! They have everything! Dig under the floors! Or search the barns! You'll find plenty! Beans, salt, rice, sake! Look in the valleys, they've got hidden warehouses! They pose as saints but are full of lies! If they smell a battle, they hunt the defeated! They're nothing but stingy, greedy, blubbering, foxy, and mean! God damn it all! But then who made them such beasts? You did! You samurai did it! You burn their villages! Destroy their farms! Steal their food! Force them to labour! Take their women! And kill them if they resist! So what should farmers do?

- Kikuchiyo, Seven Samurai



Tommy, you can't do this! You don't bump guys! You're not like those animals back there. It's not right, Tom! They can't make us do this. It's the wrong situation, they can't make us different people than we are. We're not muscle, Tom. I... I... I... never killed anybody. I used a little information for a chisel, that's all. It's my nature, Tom! I... I... I... can't help it, somebody gives me an angle, I play it. I don't deserve to die for that. Do you think I do? I'm... I'm... I'm just a grifter, Tom. I'm... I'm... I'm... I'm... I'm an nobody! But I'll tell you what, I never crossed a friend, Tom. I never killed anybody, I never crossed a friend, nor you, I'll bet. We're not like those animals! This is not us! Th... th... this is some hop dream! It's a dream, Tommy! I'm praying to you! I can't die! I can't die... out here in the woods, like a dumb animal! In the woods, LIKE A DUMB ANIMAL! Like a dumb animal! I can't... I can't... I CAN'T DIE OUT HERE IN THE WOODS!... like a dumb animal. I can't... die! I'm praying to you! Look in your heart! I'm praying to you! Look in your heart! I'm praying to you! Look in your heart! I'm praying to you! Look in your heart... I'm praying to you! Look in your heart. I'm praying to you... look in your heart... look in your heart! You can't kill me... look in your heart.

- Bernie Bernbaum, Miller's Crossing



You're not the chosen brother, Eli. It was Paul who was chosen. You see, he found me and told me about your land. You're just a fool...

I did what your brother couldn't. I broke you and I beat you. It was Paul who told me about you. He's the prophet. He's the smart one. He knew what was there and he found me to take it out of the ground, and you know what the funny thing is? Listen... listen... listen... I paid him ten thousand dollars, cash in hand, just like that. He has his own company now. A prosperous little business. Three wells producing. Five thousand dollars a week.

Stop crying, you sniveling ass! Stop your nonsense. You're just the afterbirth, Eli. You slithered out of your mother's filth. They should have put you in a glass jar on a mantlepiece. Where were you when Paul was suckling at your mother's teat? Where were you? Who was nursing you, poor Eli- one of Bandy's sows? That land has been had. Nothing you can do about it. It's gone. It's had. You lose.

DRAINAIIIIIIIGE! Drainage, Eli, you boy. Drained dry. I'm so sorry.

Here... if you have a milkshake, and I have a milkshake, and I have a straw. There it is, that's a straw, you see? You watching?. And my straw reaches acroooooooss the room, and starts to drink your milkshake... I. DRINK. YOUR. MILKSHAKE!

I drink it up!

Did you think your song and dance and your superstition would help you, Eli? I am the Third Revelation! I am who the LORD has CHOSEN!
- Daniel Plainview, There Will Be Blood

best speach evar (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MsmybQKpmTw)

Adm. James T. Kirk from Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan:

"Of my friend, I can only say this: of all the souls I have encountered in my travels, his was the most ... human."

And if Wallace were here, he'd consume the English, with bolts of lightning from his eyes, and balls of fire from his arse!

"The journey doesn't end here. Death is just another path, one we all must take. The grey rain-curtain of this world rolls back, and all turns to silver glass. And then you see it...

White shores... and beyond, a far green country under a swift sunrise."
LoTR:RoTK

Irony? I 'empathise' massively with Patrick Bateman. Also, I'm incredibly drunk (especially about the part regarding "I am not there"), therefore can't engage you in an argument. Sorry.

I am a shell. I am not really there in engagements with other people. I wear a mask. People are boring, I look down on them. Humans are below me, I look down on them with disdain. I am something vacant, empty. In some ways that is terrifying, in other ways liberating. I love it, it makes me feel alive. So few things do.

I'm afraid I'm not quite as eloquent as Ellis, but if I were, I'd describe how invigorating my perspective is. You would feel enormous jealousy. I am insane by so many traditional standards, but inside my own head I am god.

Don't presume to know what I think. I'm not nearly as empathetic as I like to think, but I still cherish those moments when I come to understand another human being emotionally. Not fully of course, that would take a lifetime. But the little things, why this person feels so strongly about that issue, why another person felt hurt by that one action, why we can view the same exact thing through entirely different perspectives. Even beyond the scholarly, it's each laugh I share with a friend, each moment of comfort I provide to a loved one in grief. Even the occasional moments of anger between friends over perceived slights.

To me at least, regardless of any euphoric feelings that the kind of detachment you describe would cause, the things you describe would terrify me throughout and liberate nothing from me.

Oh, and also (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xfGJ1TXWngw):
It's SHITE being Scottish! We're the lowest of the low. The scum of the fucking Earth! The most wretched, miserable, servile, pathetic trash that was ever shat into civilization. Some people hate the English; I don't. They're just wankers. We, on the other hand, are colonized by wankers. Can't even find a decent culture to get colonized by. We're ruled by effete arseholes. It's a shite state of affairs to be in, Tommy, and all the fresh air in the world won't make any fucking difference!

Renton - Trainspotting

It’s like in the great stories, Mr. Frodo. The ones that really mattered. Full of darkness and danger they were. And sometimes you didn’t want to know the end. Because how could the end be happy. How could the world go back to the way it was when so much bad had happened. Those were the stories that stayed with you. That meant something. Even if you were too small to understand why. . .Folk in those stories had lots of chances of turning back only they didn’t. Because they were holding on to something. . .There’s some good in this world, Mr. Frodo. And it’s worth fighting for.

I love this one so much. Sam, who has every reason to give up right then and there, musters up this iron-willed resolve to endure anything and everything that befalls them because he believes, because he knows that even though it's impossible to imagine recovering from all of it, that people are stronger than that.

I also love how his speech is played while we are shown that Middle-Earth's finally resolved itself to commit fully to battle, and have managed to shift the tide of the war for the first time.

Oh, and he also melts Mr. "I'm gonna derail the plot" Movie!Faramir's heart of defiance. Which is another plus.

Inigo Montoya, not Indigo Montoya. You should be ashamed.
I am. terribly ashamed. I realised it after posting and hope no-one would notice my dreadful error.
I'm sorry.
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*SNIP*

AWWW I wanted to post that! :)

OK, not from a movie, but from TV (specifically, the Buffy the Vampire Slayer episode, "Bring On The Night"):

BUFFY: You're right. We don't know how to fight it. We don't know when it'll come. We can't run, can't hide, can't pretend it's not the end, 'cause it is. Something's always been there to try and destroy the world. We've beaten them back, but we're not dealing with them anymore. We're dealing with the reason they exist. Evil. The strongest. The First.

GILES: Buffy, I—I-I know you're tired.

BUFFY: I'm beyond tired. I'm beyond scared. I'm standing on the mouth of hell, and it is gonna swallow me whole. And it'll choke on me. We're not ready? They're not ready. They think we're gonna wait for the end to come, like we always do. I'm done waiting. They want an apocalypse? Oh, we'll give 'em one. Anyone else who wants to run, do it now. 'Cause we just became an army. We just declared war. From now on, we won't just face our worst fears, we will seek them out. We will find them, and cut out their hearts one by one, until The First shows itself for what it really is. And I'll kill it myself. There is only one thing on this earth more powerful than evil, and that's us. Any questions?

Irony? I 'empathise' massively with Patrick Bateman. Also, I'm incredibly drunk (especially about the part regarding "I am not there"), therefore can't engage you in an argument. Sorry.

I am a shell. I am not really there in engagements with other people. I wear a mask. People are boring, I look down on them. Humans are below me, I look down on them with disdain. I am something vacant, empty. In some ways that is terrifying, in other ways liberating. I love it, it makes me feel alive. So few things do.

I'm afraid I'm not quite as eloquent as Ellis, but if I were, I'd describe how invigorating my perspective is. You would feel enormous jealousy. I am insane by so many traditional standards, but inside my own head I am god.

In summary: I am EMO, hear me whine!

The entire 10 minute Boot Camp sequence in FMJ. Cracks me up every time. Best comedy scene ever.


Back to moving bits of cinema, the scene in 'The Elephant Man' when Merrick is introduced to Dr Treves wife in his house. He is so curious by the surroundings, asking them about everything and asks if this is normal decor in a house. When asked why, he tells her that he has never before been in a house.
It's such a sad moment, as it drives home just how dreadful his life was, yet how nobly he suffered through it.

That, and this exchange:
John Merrick: [after seeing pictures of Dr. Treves' family] Would you care to see my mother?
Dr. Frederick Treves: [surprised] Your mother? Yes please.
[John pulls out a small portrait]
Mrs. Treves: Oh but she's... Mr. Merrick, she's beautiful!
John Merrick: Oh, she had the face of an angel!
[sadly]
John Merrick: I must have been a great disappointment to her.
Mrs. Treves: No, Mr. Merrick, no. No son as loving as you could ever be a disappointment.
John Merrick: If only I could find her, so she could see me with such lovely friends here now; perhaps she could love me as I am. I've tried so hard to be good.

Always strikes a cord.

Oh, and I can't believe I didn't think of this one the instant I saw this topic:

It was interesting how the logical disconnects were painted among the teachers in that book. "Oh, we're not racists because we just hate negros, and they're not really human. The Nazis are racists because they hate Jews, and they're human. Somehow."

Then you realize the same logical disconnect has never really gone away. It just changed targets.

One of the worst films about the Middle Ages by far. The Knights Hospitallier were pretty religious types, as were all of the main characters in the film. It fails and dies in a fire because it tries to impose modern-day values which are inappropriate for the time.

What Muravyets said, while also noting that the movie makes it pretty clear that all those with "modern-day values" are jaded because the war they joined is not being fought for the reasons that they went to war in the first place...

...that and it is supposed to be somewhat of a metaphor for modern issues.

...go find the Directors Cut, turn you inner-critic down from a 10 to a 7, and enjoy.

...since I mentioned it in the Super Hero film thread..

-- From Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles

Splinter: Raphael, come sit by me.
Raphael: Couldn't this wait 'til morning?
Splinter: You will listen now. my Master Yoshi's first rule was "Possess the right thinking." Only then can one recieve the gifts of strength, knowledge, and peace. I have tried to channel your anger, Raphael, but more remains. Anger clouds the mind. Turned inward it is an unconquerable enemy. You are unique among your brothers, for you choose to face this enemy alone. But as you face it, do not forget them, and do not forget me. I am here, my son.

-- From Firefly (not a movie, but I don't care)

Tracey: Uh, okay. Uh, recording. Hi, I guess. This is a message for Zoe, and for Malcolm Reynolds. And I really hope you all are the ones listening to it. I'll spare you the boring details. I've fallen in with untrustworthy folk. Makin' a bunch of bad calls. All that matters is… I expect to be shuffled off. And you two are the only people I trust to get me where I'm going, which is home. I'd like my body to be with my folks on St. Albans. We got the family plot there, and my Mom and Dad, well, they deserve to know I died. You know, it's funny. We went to the war never lookin' to come back, but it's… it's the real world I couldn't survive. You two carried me through that war. Now I need you to carry me just a little bit further… if you can. Tell my folks I wanted to do right by them, and that I'm at peace, and all. Uh… When you can't run anymore, you crawl, and when you can't do that, well… Yeah, you know the rest. Thanks, b-both of you. Oh, yeah, and, uh… make sure my eyes is closed, will ya?

You can despise us.
You can disown us, you can even try to close us down,
but you will never break us. Because we are Police Officers.
We are brothers and we are
Un- Bloody Breakable

Gene Hunt, Ashes to Ashes.

I've... Seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I watched C-Beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhauser gate. All those... Moments will be lost... In time like... Tears in the rain... Time... To die...

Blade Runner

I have seen the future and it doesn't work.

The speech at the end of Boondock Saints:

"We do not ask for your poor or your hungry. We do not want your tired and sick. It is your corrupt we claim. It is your evil, who will be sought by us. With every breath we shall hunt them down. Each day we will spill their blood till it rains down from the skies. Do not kill, do not rape, do not steal. These are principles which every man of every faith can embrace. These are not polite suggestions. They are codes of behavior and those that ignore them will pay the dearest cost. There are varying degrees of evil. We urge you lesser forms of filth not to push the bounds and cross over into true corruption...into our domain. For if you do, there will come the day when you look behind you and see we three. And on that day you will reap it. And we will send you to whatever God you wish."

nice bit of Dialogue from Princess BridePrince Humperdinck: First things first, to the death.
Westley: No. To the pain.
Prince Humperdinck: I don't think I'm quite familiar with that phrase.
Westley: I'll explain and I'll use small words so that you'll be sure to understand, you warthog faced buffoon.
Prince Humperdinck: That may be the first time in my life a man has dared insult me.
Westley: It won't be the last. To the pain means the first thing you will lose will be your feet below the ankles. Then your hands at the wrists. Next your nose.
Prince Humperdinck: And then my tongue I suppose, I killed you too quickly the last time. A mistake I don't mean to duplicate tonight.
Westley: I wasn't finished. The next thing you will lose will be your left eye followed by your right.
Prince Humperdinck: And then my ears, I understand let's get on with it.
Westley: WRONG. Your ears you keep and I'll tell you why. So that every shriek of every child at seeing your hideousness will be yours to cherish. Every babe that weeps at your approach, every woman who cries out, "Dear God! What is that thing," will echo in your perfect ears. That is what to the pain means. It means I leave you in anguish, wallowing in freakish misery forever.
Prince Humperdinck: I think your bluffing.
Westley: It's possible, Pig, I might be bluffing. It's conceivable, you miserable, vomitous mass, that I'm only lying here because I lack the strength to stand. But, then again... perhaps I have the strength after all.
[slowly rises and points sword directly at the prince]
Westley: DROP... YOUR... SWORD!
[mouth hanging open, drops sword to floor]

and maybe not moving, but certainly thought provoking
Ah, experience has conditioned you into thinking that all hearts are red and all spades are black because their shapes are similar. It's easier for your mind to interpret them based on that past experience instead of being open to the idea they could be different. We see what we expect to see, not necessarily what's really there. Children who have never played cards always pass this test. Makes you wonder how many other things are right in front of you - sights, sounds, smells that you can't experience because you've been conditioned not to. The good news is, if we do the test again, you'll pass. Once you're aware that there can be black hearts and red spades you'll be able to perceive them. Our brain's wiring is like the interstate highway system. It's easier to go from one well-traveled place to another. But the places in between, off the highway, even though they're there, most people zip right past them.


and...
Well, he was an historian. About a hundred years ago he came up with a theory about the frontier. He said the frontier was a safety valve for civilization, a place for people to go to keep from goin' mad. So, whenever there were folks who couldn't fit in with the way things were, nuts, and malcontents, and extremists, they'd pack up and head for the frontier. That's how America got started - all the crackpots and troublemakers in Europe packed up and went to a frontier which became the Thirteen Colonies. When some people couldn't fit in with that, they moved farther west, which is why all the nuts eventually ended up in California. Turner died in 1932, so he wasn't around long enough to see what happened to the world when we ran out of frontier. Some people say we have the frontier of the mind, and they go off and explore the wonderful world of alcohol and drugs, but that's no frontier. It's just another way for us to fool ourselves. And we've created this phony frontier with computers, which allows people to, you know, think they've escaped. A frontier with access fees?

there are others from the movie Interstate 60, but I gotta dig out my dvd for more...

Oh, and I can't believe I didn't think of this one the instant I saw this topic:

*To Kill A Mockingbird* snip

Oh, I did like that one.

The whole movie was awesome but here are few good ones. Pulp Fiction.


Jules: There's a passage I got memorized. Ezekiel 25:17. 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 good will, shepherds the weak through the valley of the darkness. For he is truly his brother's keeper and the finder of lost children. And I will strike down upon thee with great vengeance and furious anger those who attempt to poison and destroy my brothers. And you will know I am the Lord when I lay my vengeance upon you. I been sayin' that shit for years. And if you ever heard it, it meant your ass. I never really questioned what it meant. I thought it was just a cold-blooded thing to say to a motherfucker before you popped a cap in his ass. But I saw some shit this mornin' made me think twice. Now I'm thinkin': it could mean you're the evil man. And I'm the righteous man. And Mr. 9mm here, he's the shepherd protecting my righteous ass in the valley of darkness. Or it could be you're the righteous man and I'm the shepherd and it's the world that's evil and selfish. I'd like that. But that shit ain't the truth. The truth is you're the weak. And I'm the tyranny of evil men. But I'm tryin', Ringo. I'm tryin' real hard to be a shepherd.


Jules: This was Divine Intervention! You know what "divine intervention" is?
Vincent: Yeah, I think so. That means God came down from Heaven and stopped the bullets.
Jules: Yeah, man, that's what it means. That's exactly what it means! God came down from Heaven and stopped the bullets.
Vincent: I think we should be going now.
Jules: Don't do that! Don't you fucking do that! Don't blow this shit off! What just happened was a fucking miracle!
Vincent: Chill the fuck out, Jules, this shit happens.
Jules: Wrong! Wrong, this shit doesn't just happen.
Vincent: Do you wanna continue this theological discussion in the car, or at the jailhouse with the cops?
Jules: We should be fuckin' dead now, my friend! We just witnessed a miracle, and I want you to fucking acknowledge it!
Vincent: Okay man, it was a miracle, can we leave now?



Jules: I want you to go in that bag, and find my wallet.
Pumpkin: Which one is it?
Jules: It's the one that says Bad Motherf**er

Im guessing most of these have been mentioned before and some aren't the most creative or are more of a quote than a speech...

Sons of Gondor, of Rohan. My brothers. I see in your eyes the same fear that would take the heart of me! A day may come, when the courage of men fails, when we forsake our friends and break all bonds of Fellowship, but it is not this day! An hour of wolves and shattered shields when the age of men comes crashing down! But it is not this day! This day we fight! By all that you hold dear on this good earth, I bid you, stand, men of the West!Aragorn

"Forth! Down fear of darkness! Arise! Arise, Riders of Théoden! Spears shall be shaken, shields shall be splintered! A sword day... a red day... and the sun rises! Ride now... Ride now... Ride! Ride for ruin and the world's ending! Death!"
- King Theoden


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sWa_PqcbhSs
- Gandalf

The best moments in reading are when you come across something - a thought, a feeling, a way of looking at things - that you'd thought special, particular to you. And here it is, set down by someone else, a person you've never met, maybe even someone long dead. And it's as if a hand has come out, and taken yours.
- the history boys

It's not "lest we forget", it's "lest we remember". That's what all this is about - the memorials, the Cenotaph, the two minutes' silence. Because there is no better way if forgetting something than by commemorating it.
-The history boys

I also have a soft spot for this:


Rick: We'll always have Paris. We didn't have, we, we lost it until you came to Casablanca. We got it back last night.
Ilsa: When I said I would never leave you.
Rick: And you never will. But I've got a job to do, too. Where I'm going, you can't follow. What I've got to do, you can't be any part of. Ilsa, I'm no good at being noble, but it doesn't take much to see that the problems of three little people don't amount to a hill of beans in this crazy world. Someday you'll understand that. Now, now... Here's looking at you kid.

Most of the ones I thought of have been taken already but I have a couple gems to share:


Did the defendant (Baltar) make mistakes? Sure. He did. Serious mistakes. But did he actually commit any crimes? Did he commit treason? No.

I mean, it was an impossible situation. When the Cylons arrived, what could he possibly do? What could anyone have done? (looks at the courtroom audience) I mean, ask yourself, what would you have done? (looks at the judges) What would you have done?

If he had refused to surrender, the Cylons would have probably nuked the planet right then and there. So did he appear to cooperate with the Cylons? Sure. So did hundreds of others. What's the difference between him and them?

The President issued a blanket pardon. They were all forgiven, no questions asked. Colonel Tigh. Colonel Tigh used suicide bombers, killed dozens of people. Forgiven. Lt. Agathon and Chief Tyrol. They murdered an officer on the Pegasus. Forgiven. The Admiral. The Admiral instituted a military coup d'etat against the President. Forgiven.

And me? Well, where do I begin? I shot down a civilian passenger ship, the Olympic Carrier. Over a thousand people on board. Forgiven. I raised my weapon to a superior officer, committed an act of mutiny. Forgiven. And then on the very day when Baltar surrendered to those Cylons, I as commander of Pegasus jumped away. I left everybody on that planet alone, undefended for months. I even tried to persuade the Admiral never to return, to abandon you all there for good. If I'd had my way, nobody would have made it off that planet. I'm the coward. I'm the traitor. I'm forgiven. I'd say we're very forgiving of mistakes.

We make our own laws now, our own justice. And we've been pretty creative in finding ways to let people off the hook for everything from theft to murder. And we've had to be, because... because we're not a civilization anymore. We are a gang, and we're on the run, and we have to fight to survive. We have to break rules. We have to bend laws. We have to improvise. But not this time, no. Not this time. Not for Gaius Baltar.

(to Baltar) No, you... you have to die, you have to die because, well, because we don't like you very much. Because you're arrogant. Because you're weak. Because you're a coward, and we the mob, we want to throw you out the airlock, because you didn't stand up to the Cylons and get yourself killed in the process. That's justice now. You should have been killed back on New Caprica, but since you had the temerity to live, we're going to execute you now. That's justice.

-Lee Adama "Crossroads, Part 2"

Are we on? This is...this is the President. I have just been informed that the midrange military bases at Beta Durani and Proxima 3 have fallen to the Minbari advance. We have lost contact with Io and must presume they have fallen to an advance force. Intelligence believes the Minbari intend to bypass Mars and hit Earth directly. They say the attack could come at any time. We have...we have continued to broadcast our surrender and a plea for mercy. They have not responded. We can only conclude that we stand at the twilight of the human race. To buy time for more evacuation transports to leave Earth, we ask for the support of every ship capable of fighting to take part in a last defense of our home world. We will not lie to you: survival is not a possibility. Those who enter the battle will never come back. But for every ten minutes we can delay the enemy advance, several hundred more civilians may be able to escape to neutral territory. Though Earth may fall, the human race must have a chance to continue elsewhere. No greater sacrifice has ever been asked of a people. But I ask you now to step forward one last time, one last battle to hold the line against the night. God go with you all.

-Earth Alliance President "Babylon 5:In the Beginning"


Three weeks from now, I will be harvesting my crops. Imagine where you will be, and it will be so. Hold the line! Stay with me! If you find yourself alone, riding in the green fields with the sun on your face, do not be troubled. For you are in Elysium, and you're already dead! Brothers, what we do in life... echoes in eternity.

-General Maximus Decimus Meridius "Gladiator"

More dialogue than speeches, but still -- from A Christmas Carol, 1951:

Jacob Marley: It is required of every man that the spirit within him should walk abroad among his fellow men! If it goes not forth in life, it is condemned to do so after death! It is doomed to wander through the world! Oh, woe is me! And witness what it cannot share but MIGHT HAVE SHARED on Earth and turned to happiness!

In life, my spirit never rose beyond the limits of our money-changing hole! Now I am doomed to wander without rest or peace, incessant torture and remorse!

Ebenezer: But it was only that you were a good man of business, Jacob!

Jacob Marley: BUSINESS? Mankind was my business! Their common welfare was my business!

Spirit of Christmas Present: My time with you is at an end, Ebenezer Scrooge. Will you profit from what I've shown you of the good in most men's hearts?

Ebenezer: I don't know, how can I promise!

Spirit of Christmas Present: If it's too hard a lesson for you to learn, then learn this lesson!
[opens his robe, revealing two starving children]

Ebenezer: [shocked] Spirit, are these yours?

Spirit of Christmas Present: They are Man's. They cling to me for protection from their fetters. This boy is Ignorance, this girl is Want. Beware them both, but most of all, beware this boy!

Ebenezer: But have they no refuge, no resource?

Spirit of Christmas Present: [quoting Scrooge] Are there no prisons? Are there no workhouses?

Queen Gertrude (Glen Close) speaks of Ophelia's (Helena Bonham Carter) death:

There is a willow grows askant the brook
There on the pendant boughs her coronet weeds
Clam'bring to hang, an envious sliver broke,
When down her weedy trophies and herself
Fell in the weeping brook. Her clothes spread wide,
And mermaid-like a while they bore her up
WHich time she chanted old lauds
As one incapable of her own distress...

Act 5, Scene 7, line 190
"Hamlet"

The whole movie[Pulp Fiction] was awesome

Truer words were never spoken.

The best movie ever, Charlie Wilson's War. Nothing more glorious than watching the downfall of Communism with a side of some top-notch acting. ;)
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The defeat and break up of the Soviet empire, culminating in the crumbing of the Berlin wall, is one of the great events of world history. There were many heros in this battle, but to Charlie Wilson must go this special recognition. Just thirteen years ago the Soviet army appeared to be invincible. But Charlie, undeterred, engineered a lethal body blow that weakened the communist empire. Without Charlie, history would be hugely, and sadly different. And so for the first time a civilian is being given our highest recognition; that of honored colleague. Ladies and gentlemen of the clandestine services, congressman Charles Wilson.

Charlie Wilson: Do you drink, Mr. Avrakotos?
Gust Avrakotos: Oh God yes.
Charlie Wilson: Well, then, should we try some of this scotch, or is it going to release Sarin gas?
Gust Avrakotos: Well, I don't think so, but do me a favor and open it over there
[points away from him]


Charlie Wilson: You're no James Bond.
Gust Avrakotos: You're no Thomas Jefferson, either. Let's call it even


Charlie Wilson: You mean to tell me that the U.S. strategy in Afghanistan is to have the Afghans keep walking into machine gun fire 'til the Russians run out of bullets?
Gust Avrakotos: That's Harold Holt's strategy, not U.S. strategy.
Charlie Wilson: What is U.S. strategy?
Gust Avrakotos: Most strictly speaking, we don't have one. But we're working on it.
Charlie Wilson: Who's 'we'?
Gust Avrakotos: Me and three other guys.


Joanne Herring: Charlie, I want you to defeat the Soviet Union, and end the Cold War.
Charlie Wilson: O-K!


Charlie Wilson: I cannot just call up a judge and tell him what to do.
Larry Liddle: Why?
Charlie Wilson: Well cause it’s against... a shitload of really good laws Garry...

George C. Scott's opening address to the troops in Patton. Especially the line, "Americans love a winner and will not tolerate a loser." Words to re-learn and live by.

Then you miss a lot. You've missed the entire points of movies like "Mr. Smith Goes to Washington," "Sullivan's Travels," "The Grapes of Wrath," "From Hell," "Five Days in May," "The Manchurian Candidate," etc, etc, etc. But at least now I know never to seek or credit your opinion about any art, since you clearly don't feel the need to actually look or listen to it.


I've never seen any of those, and since I've got a good idea of their respective plots I know that I wouldn't want to watch them to begin with.

How you make the leap to deduct from my aversion to over-acted and cheesy monologues in films that I've no appreciation for art whatsoever is a bit beyond me, but do please yourself.

pfft, moving pictures...nothing but a fad I say.

I've never seen any of those, and since I've got a good idea of their respective plots I know that I wouldn't want to watch them to begin with.

How you make the leap to deduct from my aversion to over-acted and cheesy monologues in films that I've no appreciation for art whatsoever is a bit beyond me, but do please yourself.
The fact that you have never seen movies that you lump into the group containing "over-acted" and "cheesy" monologues is strong evidence that you are arguing from a position of ignorance. You have not seen the movies, so how can you possibly know that they are not good or that they contain things you wouldn't like? You make affirmative statements based on zero knowledge or experience, and you defend your choice to do that, to make statements that are founded in ignorance of the subject. That does not speak well for your judgment. Therefore, I would be inclined to believe that opinions you express are not informed, and I would tend to reject your opinions, advice, or critiques of anything artistic, on the grounds that there is a likelihood that you have not seen the thing in question and don't really know what you are talking about.

To say that you personally do not like certain kinds of movies in general and choose to avoid them, is fine. But to say they are "cheesy" or "over-acted" or similar bad things, when in fact you don't know anything about them is what I take exception to.

I've never seen any of those, and since I've got a good idea of their respective plots I know that I wouldn't want to watch them to begin with.

How you make the leap to deduct from my aversion to over-acted and cheesy monologues in films that I've no appreciation for art whatsoever is a bit beyond me, but do please yourself.

You are a troglodyte :p

"I apologize...for not being entirely honest with you. I apologize for not revealing my true feelings. I apologize, sir, for not telling you sooner that you're a degenerate, sadistic old man. And you can go to hell before I apologize to you now or ever again."

-Colonel Dax.

Corporal Paris to Private Farol: "See that cockroach? Tomorrow morning, we'll be dead and it'll be alive. It'll have more contact with my wife and child than I will. I'll be nothing, and it'll be alive."

Ferol *kills cockroach with a slap*: "Now you got the edge on him."

Quotes from Paths of Glory.

The end of Sands of Iwo Jima with John Wayne, one of the greatest movies ever made. He's been killed trying to take Mt. Suribachi, and his Marines are reading a letter to his son that he never got to finish.

"Dear son, I guess none of my letters have reached you. I thought I'd try again as I'm feeling that this may be the last time I can write you. For a long time I've wanted to tell you many things. Now that you're a big boy, I will. If we'd been together even for a while, I could've explained many things much better than writing them. You've gotta take care of your mother, and love her and make her happy. Never hurt her or anyone as I did. Always do what your heart tells you is right. Maybe someone will write you some day and tell you about me. I want you to be like me in some things, but not like me in others. When you grow older and get to know more about me, you'll see I've failed...in many ways. This isn't what I wanted but things just turned out that way. If there was only more time I...

PFC Conway: Guess he never finished it. I'll finish it for him.
Random Marine: There she goes. (Flag goes up)
PFC Conway: All right, saddle up! Let's get back in the war!

Forgot about it the first time, but this is a good one:

A story: A man fires a rifle for many years, and he goes to war. And afterward he turns the rifle in at the armory, and he believes he's finished with the rifle. But no matter what else he might do with his hands, love a woman, build a house, change his son's diaper; his hands remember the rifle.
Don't know why so many people hate Jarhead. Also this:

It's impossible for words to describe what is necessary to those who do not know what horror means. Horror. Horror has a face... and you must make a friend of horror. Horror and moral terror are your friends. If they are not then they are enemies to be feared. They are truly enemies. I remember when I was with Special Forces. Seems a thousand centuries ago. We went into a camp to inoculate the children. We left the camp after we had inoculated the children for Polio, and this old man came running after us and he was crying. He couldn't see. We went back there and they had come and hacked off every inoculated arm. There they were in a pile. A pile of little arms. And I remember... I... I... I cried. I wept like some grandmother. I wanted to tear my teeth out. I didn't know what I wanted to do. And I want to remember it. I never want to forget it. I never want to forget.

The fact that you have never seen movies that you lump into the group containing "over-acted" and "cheesy" monologues is strong evidence that you are arguing from a position of ignorance. You have not seen the movies, so how can you possibly know that they are not good or that they contain things you wouldn't like? You make affirmative statements based on zero knowledge or experience, and you defend your choice to do that, to make statements that are founded in ignorance of the subject. That does not speak well for your judgment. Therefore, I would be inclined to believe that opinions you express are not informed, and I would tend to reject your opinions, advice, or critiques of anything artistic, on the grounds that there is a likelihood that you have not seen the thing in question and don't really know what you are talking about.

To say that you personally do not like certain kinds of movies in general and choose to avoid them, is fine. But to say they are "cheesy" or "over-acted" or similar bad things, when in fact you don't know anything about them is what I take exception to.

Who says I don't know anything about them?
The fact that I haven't seen them doesn't mean that I'm ignorant as to their content, their plot, or their general message.

I've been working in a library for years and was responsible for the video/DVD sections, among other things. I added some of the films you listed there (The Grapes of Wrath I actually added both in German and in English) to the stock of the library, due to their cultural influence and social context.
That doesn't mean that I like them, and it most certainly doesn't mean that I find them anything but cheesy and overacted. However, if you were say, a teacher looking for a film to help your students get a better understanding of the ecologic disasters brought on by mankind and the devastating effects on people's lives, I would most certainly recommend this film. That doesn't mean that I think it's any less cheesy or over-acted, I just recognise that it will be perceived differently by different people.

But, do go ahead assuming I've no clue what I'm talking about. After all, that's such an informed assumption.

Who says I don't know anything about them?
The fact that I haven't seen them doesn't mean that I'm ignorant as to their content, their plot, or their general message.

I've been working in a library for years and was responsible for the video/DVD sections, among other things. I added some of the films you listed there (The Grapes of Wrath I actually added both in German and in English) to the stock of the library, due to their cultural influence and social context.
That doesn't mean that I like them, and it most certainly doesn't mean that I find them anything but cheesy and overacted. However, if you were say, a teacher looking for a film to help your students get a better understanding of the ecologic disasters brought on by mankind and the devastating effects on people's lives, I would most certainly recommend this film. That doesn't mean that I think it's any less cheesy or over-acted, I just recognise that it will be perceived differently by different people.

But, do go ahead assuming I've no clue what I'm talking about. After all, that's such an informed assumption.

How can you assert that a movie is over-acted if you haven't seen it?

i have to say the clips i'm seeing on youtube about something called cj7 'move' me very much. i didn't grow up with roaches, and my dad made a little better living, and my mom didn't die when i was a year old, although HIS mom DID.

but that kid, man i am SO there, and that little alien whatsits is so, it would take a long list of words to put it how it makes me feel.

not to mention the whole context of the story. i think if i saw the whole thing in a movie house it would be too much of an emo overload. just seeing those clips is kind of personally intense.

my own fantasies when i was that age were so parallel, and driven by so many of so similar contexts.

i have to say the clips i'm seeing on youtube about something called cj7 'move' me very much. i didn't grow up with roaches, and my dad made a little better living, and my mom didn't die when i was a year old, although HIS mom DID.

but that kid, man i am SO there, and that little alien whatsits is so, it would take a long list of words to put it how it makes me feel.

not to mention the whole context of the story. i think if i saw the whole thing in a movie house it would be too much of an emo overload. just seeing those clips is kind of personally intense.

my own fantasies when i was that age were so parallel, and driven by so many of so similar contexts.

It's actually a pretty good movie - kind of funny in the same way something like "Shaolin Soccer" was (so, surreal humour infused into the anrrative), but making serious points at the same time. It is a little dark, especially since it seems to be aimed at being kid-friendly, but it was pretty okay.

Brassed Off; basiclly, this bloke is standing in the Albert Hall after winning a music contest with his miners band, who have recently been put out of work by Maggy Snatcher.

Because over the last ten years, this bloody government has systematically destroyed an entire industry. OUR industry. And not just our industry - our communities, our homes, our lives. All in the name of "progress". And for a few lousy bob. I'll tell you something else you might not know, as well. A fortnight ago, this band's pit were closed - another thousand men lost their jobs. And that's not all they lost. Most of them lost the will to win a while ago. A few of them even lost the will to fight. But when it comes to losing the will to live, to breathe, the point is - if this lot were seals or whales, you'd all be up in bloody arms. But their not, are they, no, no they're not. They're just ordinary common-or-garden honest, decent human beings. And not one of them with an ounce of bloody hope left. Oh aye, they can knock out a bloody good tune. But what the fuck does that matter? And now I'm going to take my boys out onto the town. Thank you.