What Are Your Favourite Movie Quotes?

[Simon The Hunter]

The Italian Job

You’re only supposed to blow the bloody doors off!

<also the punchline to one of my favourite jokes. And if you haven’t heard my Michael Caine impression… you’re lucky.>

Haha, I love this quote and have an equally unimpressive impression

Empire Strikes Back - "Laugh it up Fuzzball"

Star Wars - "You may fire when ready" - I use this when someone else is in control of the TV remote.

Serenity - "I aim to misbehave"

Ace Ventura - "I don't smoke, it's a disgusting habit" - usually said when eating something that's making a mess.

 

[payn]

 

[Lanefan]

Quotes often heard at the game table, from both movie and TV:

"Why do I feel like we've picked up another pathetic lifeform?" - originally from Phantom Menace (Obi-Wan), now heard whenever the party rescues a prisoner or acquires another NPC.

"Wipe them out. All of them." - Phantom Menace again (Palpatine), now often heard as a party battle-cry.

"We're losing droids, fast!" - Revenge of the Sith originally (Obi-Wan again), often heard when the PCs and-or their summoned allies start to drop.

"I'm going to eat every f-----g chicken in the room." - Game of Thrones originally (Gregor Clegane), a favourite tough-guy warrior quote when starting a battle.

"What I told you was true - from a certain point of view." - Return of the Jedi originally (Obi-wan, yet again!), usually said now by the DM (i.e., me) trying to bail his way out of an error in description or narration.

"I think we're going to need a bigger boat." - Jaws originally (I forget which character), now heard in gleeful tones whenever a party finds a big treasure haul.

"Do pay attention, double-O seven." - James Bond originally (Q), now heard whenever a player zones out for a minute and-or a character fails to notice something blindingly obvious.

 

[Ryujin]

 

[jdrakeh]

It;s a TV quote, but this tops my list of all-time favorite quotes:

"Don’t you ever try that again, that’s how people get store bought teeth." ~ Joe Mannix

 

[Clint_L]

Suddenly, Obi-Wan wasn't  lying when he said Darth Vader murdered Luke's father. "From a certain point of view" isn't the equivocation of a manipulative old man. He isn't trying to trick Luke into killing his own father.

I think using words in a way that you know will be misinterpreted to mean a very specific thing ("your father is physically dead and another person, Darth Vader, killed him") is pretty much lying. The only conclusion Luke could have drawn was untrue. That's a lie.

Using words that are intentionally misleading in the context they are given is lying. Kenobi is lying to Luke, and his later "from a certain perspective" is just gaslighting. Luke should have answered, "Well obviously not from anyone's perspective except yours and his, Liar McLiarson."

If Kenobi didn't want to lie, it would have been easy enough to just say, "Your father was my best friend but after he turned to the Dark Side that part of him effectively died and he became Darth Vader." So he is clearly trying to deceive Luke.

Or, more likely, Lucas hadn't decided on that plot twist yet, or maybe had it in the back of his mind but didn't know there would be a sequel, and just kept the dialogue simple, leading to the awkward retcon later. Awkward retcons are a Star Wars speciality - they made a whole movie to try to prove that Lucas didn't use the word "parsec" wrong in the first one.

So my read on the scene is that it wasn't originally written as a lie, but it awkwardly became one after Empire was released.