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Jay_Zombie: Apr 20, 2007; We're sealing the tunnel!

"We're on an express elevator to hell. Goin' down!"

This movie just has So. Many. Good. Lines.

Jay_Zombie fucked around with this message at 00:20 on Oct 27, 2019

# ? Oct 27, 2019 00:16

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# ? May 30, 2024 07:13

Jay_Zombie: Apr 20, 2007; We're sealing the tunnel!

Fister Roboto posted:

That's not even the best line in Jaws.

That honor should go to Quint's monologue about the Indiannapolis.
For me, if one of the most memorable speeches in a movie ever, expertly delivered, drunk, by a man who's haunted to his core by what he experienced and views killing this shark as retribution for what it's kind did to him and his crewmates.

�Japanese submarine slammed two torpedoes into her side, Chief. We was comin� back from the island of Tinian to Leyte. We�d just delivered the bomb. The Hiroshima bomb. Eleven hundred men went into the water. Vessel went down in 12 minutes.

Didn�t see the first shark for about a half-hour. Tiger. 13-footer. You know how you know that in the water, Chief? You can tell by lookin� from the dorsal to the tail. What we didn�t know, was that our bomb mission was so secret, no distress signal had been sent. They didn�t even list us overdue for a week. Very first light, Chief, sharks come cruisin� by, so we formed ourselves into tight groups. It was sorta like you see in the calendars, you know the infantry squares in the old calendars like the Battle of Waterloo and the idea was the shark come to the nearest man, that man he starts poundin� and hollerin� and sometimes that shark he go away� but sometimes he wouldn�t go away.

Sometimes that shark looks right at ya. Right into your eyes. And the thing about a shark is he�s got lifeless eyes. Black eyes. Like a doll�s eyes. When he comes at ya, he doesn�t even seem to be livin�� til he bites ya, and those black eyes roll over white and then� ah then you hear that terrible high-pitched screamin�. The ocean turns red, and despite all your poundin� and your hollerin� those sharks come in and� they rip you to pieces.

You know by the end of that first dawn, lost a hundred men. I don�t know how many sharks there were, maybe a thousand. I do know how many men, they averaged six an hour. Thursday mornin�, Chief, I bumped into a friend of mine, Herbie Robinson from Cleveland. Baseball player. Boson�s mate. I thought he was asleep. I reached over to wake him up. He bobbed up, down in the water, he was like a kinda top. Upended. Well, he�d been bitten in half below the waist.

At noon on the fifth day, a Lockheed Ventura swung in low and he spotted us, a young pilot, lot younger than Mr. Hooper here, anyway he spotted us and a few hours later a big ol� fat PBY come down and started to pick us up. You know that was the time I was most frightened. Waitin� for my turn. I�ll never put on a lifejacket again. So, eleven hundred men went into the water. 316 men come out, the sharks took the rest, June the 29th, 1945.

Anyway, we delivered the bomb.�

Jay_Zombie fucked around with this message at 00:30 on Oct 27, 2019

# ? Oct 27, 2019 00:28

Pennywise the Frown: May 10, 2010; Upset Trowel

SilvergunSuperman posted:

I've never really thought about quite how insanely quotable Aliens is.

I bet if we all worked together we could quote the movie line for line from beginning to end.

Jay_Zombie posted:

I'm still partial to "How do I get out of this chickenshit outfit?,
"Get away from her you BITCH!", "Stop your grinnin', and drop your linen!", "Look into my eye", "I say we take off, nuke the site from orbit. It's the only way to be sure."...

And of course, my personal favorite...
"I'm ready, man. Check it out! I am the�ultimatebadass! State of the badass art! You do�not�want to gently caress with me. Check it out! Hey, Ripley, don't worry. Me and my squad of ultimate badasses will protect you! Check it out. Independently targeting particle-beam phalanx. WHAP! Fry half a city with this puppy. We got tactical smart missiles, phase plasma pulse rifles, RPGs. We got sonic, electronic�ball-breakers!�We got nukes, we got knives, sharp sticks..."

Knock it off Hudson.

Jay_Zombie posted:

Jaws

Not only is that the best line in Jaws, but one of the best lines in cinematic history.

Someone has this as an AV and their name is Bigger Boat. Love it.

# ? Oct 27, 2019 00:42

ClamdestineBoyster: Aug 15, 2015; Can't post for 10 years!

They said �penis breath� in ET, I thought that was cooler than anything in Aliens. :shrug:

# ? Oct 27, 2019 00:49

hellotoothpaste: Dec 21, 2006; I dare you to call it a perm again..

hellotoothpaste posted:

Bout to watch the poo poo outta Aliens right now.

Falling asleep to this at midnight, or at least attempting to, was inadvisable :ohdear:

First time I ever made it through the whole way, though.

# ? Oct 27, 2019 02:12

OB-GYN Kenobi: Dec 4, 2017

Jay_Zombie posted:

That honor should go to Quint's monologue about the Indiannapolis.
For me, if one of the most memorable speeches in a movie ever, expertly delivered, drunk, by a man who's haunted to his core by what he experienced and views killing this shark as retribution for what it's kind did to him and his crewmates.

“Japanese submarine slammed two torpedoes into her side, Chief. We was comin’ back from the island of Tinian to Leyte. We’d just delivered the bomb. The Hiroshima bomb. Eleven hundred men went into the water. Vessel went down in 12 minutes.

Didn’t see the first shark for about a half-hour. Tiger. 13-footer. You know how you know that in the water, Chief? You can tell by lookin’ from the dorsal to the tail. What we didn’t know, was that our bomb mission was so secret, no distress signal had been sent. They didn’t even list us overdue for a week. Very first light, Chief, sharks come cruisin’ by, so we formed ourselves into tight groups. It was sorta like you see in the calendars, you know the infantry squares in the old calendars like the Battle of Waterloo and the idea was the shark come to the nearest man, that man he starts poundin’ and hollerin’ and sometimes that shark he go away… but sometimes he wouldn’t go away.

Sometimes that shark looks right at ya. Right into your eyes. And the thing about a shark is he’s got lifeless eyes. Black eyes. Like a doll’s eyes. When he comes at ya, he doesn’t even seem to be livin’… ’til he bites ya, and those black eyes roll over white and then… ah then you hear that terrible high-pitched screamin’. The ocean turns red, and despite all your poundin’ and your hollerin’ those sharks come in and… they rip you to pieces.

You know by the end of that first dawn, lost a hundred men. I don’t know how many sharks there were, maybe a thousand. I do know how many men, they averaged six an hour. Thursday mornin’, Chief, I bumped into a friend of mine, Herbie Robinson from Cleveland. Baseball player. Boson’s mate. I thought he was asleep. I reached over to wake him up. He bobbed up, down in the water, he was like a kinda top. Upended. Well, he’d been bitten in half below the waist.

At noon on the fifth day, a Lockheed Ventura swung in low and he spotted us, a young pilot, lot younger than Mr. Hooper here, anyway he spotted us and a few hours later a big ol’ fat PBY come down and started to pick us up. You know that was the time I was most frightened. Waitin’ for my turn. I’ll never put on a lifejacket again. So, eleven hundred men went into the water. 316 men come out, the sharks took the rest, June the 29th, 1945.

Anyway, we delivered the bomb.”

I just read every fn word of this in Quint's voice. So good.

Here's another top notch quote:
"I don't know if you've been keeping up on current events, but we just got our asses kicked pal!"

# ? Oct 27, 2019 02:27

sebmojo: Oct 23, 2010; Legit Cyberpunk

"They mostly come out at night. Mostly."

# ? Oct 27, 2019 03:45

Kuato: Feb 25, 2005; "I CAN'T BELIEVE I ATE THE WHOLE THING"; Buglord

Jay_Zombie posted:

"We're on an express elevator to hell. Goin' down!"

This movie just has So. Many. Good. Lines.

Whenever I fly and it�s a rough landing I always think of that line.

# ? Oct 27, 2019 06:32

StrangersInTheNight: Dec 31, 2007; ABSOLUTE FUCKING GUDGEON

Jay_Zombie posted:

lifeless eyes. Black eyes. Like a doll�s eyes. When he comes at ya, he doesn�t even seem to be livin�� til he bites ya, and those black eyes roll over white and then�

i always hear charlie's version first now, i'm ruined

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hLG4hXxR_UQ

# ? Oct 27, 2019 08:23

Biplane: Jul 18, 2005

Gonna drop some acid and watch Aliens later tonight :catdrugs:

# ? Oct 27, 2019 08:44

SidneyIsTheKiller: Jul 16, 2019; I did fall asleep reading a particularly erotic chapter
in my grandmother's journal.

She wrote very detailed descriptions of her experiences...

SilvergunSuperman posted:

I've never really thought about quite how insanely quotable Aliens is.

They mostly quote Aliens at night.

Mostly.

# ? Oct 27, 2019 12:36

skasion: Feb 13, 2012; Why don't you perform zazen, facing a wall?

Biplane posted:

Gonna drop some acid and watch Aliens later tonight

They�re comin outta the goddamn walls!!

# ? Oct 27, 2019 13:32

purple death ray: Jul 28, 2007; me omw 2 steal ur girl

Assholes and elbows.

# ? Oct 27, 2019 14:09

givepatajob: Apr 8, 2003; One finds that this is the best of all possible worlds.

'Herbie Robinson from Cleveland' would make a good username.

# ? Oct 27, 2019 14:14

skasion: Feb 13, 2012; Why don't you perform zazen, facing a wall?

Actual favorite Aliens line has to be Ripley losing her poo poo and yelling at the suits at her debriefing. You can just kiss all that goodbye!

# ? Oct 27, 2019 14:16

TheHoosier: Dec 30, 2004; The fuck, Graham?!

skasion posted:

They’re comin outta the goddamn walls!!

back in the day when our city's LAN center was still open, we used to play Starcraft and Serious Sam screamin this poo poo at the top of our lungs

Aliens is so fuckin good

# ? Oct 27, 2019 14:57

Samovar: Jun 4, 2011; When I want to relax, I read an essay by Engels. When I want something more serious, I read Corto Maltese.

SilvergunSuperman posted:

Also you're all fools, it's clearly
"we're in the pipe, five by five."

Coming around for a seven-zero niner.

# ? Oct 27, 2019 20:07

ruddiger: Jun 3, 2004

ClamdestineBoyster posted:

They said �penis breath� in ET, I thought that was cooler than anything in Aliens.

Even Eliot�s mom knew it was a great line.

# ? Oct 27, 2019 20:19

Young Freud: Nov 26, 2006

"Alright. We got seven canisters of CN-20. I say we roll them in there and nerve gas the whole loving nest."

I have actually used this line, when dealing with a potential bedbug infestation, followed by "nuke the site from orbit", just to be sure.

# ? Oct 27, 2019 21:05

roarpower: Jul 11, 2019; by Jeffrey of YOSPOS

Alien was a better movie. So was Terminator.

# ? Oct 28, 2019 00:46

Android Apocalypse: Apr 28, 2009; The future is
AUTOMATED
and you are
OBSOLETE; Illegal Hen

My favorite Aliens quote comes from Frost when they're told to not use their guns in fear of loving up the reactor:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i33DX9Wjd7E
Hicks has a good one in there too.

# ? Oct 28, 2019 05:58

mllaneza: Apr 28, 2007; Veteran, Bermuda Triangle Expeditionary Force, 1993-1952

"I may be synthetic, but I'm not stupid."

# ? Oct 28, 2019 06:31

SilvergunSuperman: Aug 7, 2010

It don't matter when it's Arcturian, baby!

Frost owns.

# ? Oct 28, 2019 06:34

SidneyIsTheKiller: Jul 16, 2019; I did fall asleep reading a particularly erotic chapter
in my grandmother's journal.

She wrote very detailed descriptions of her experiences...

Did IQs just drop sharply while I was away?

# ? Oct 28, 2019 08:00

THE BAR: Oct 20, 2011; You know what might look better on your nose?

# ? Oct 28, 2019 11:06

Jay_Zombie: Apr 20, 2007; We're sealing the tunnel!

I say we grease this rat gently caress sonofabitch right now.

You're dog meat, pal.

# ? Oct 28, 2019 16:52

Jay_Zombie: Apr 20, 2007; We're sealing the tunnel!

Die motherfucker!
Motherfucker!
Come on! Come on! Come and get it baby!
Come on! I don't got all day! Come on!
Come on! Come on! You bastard!
Come on, you too!
Oh, you want some of this? gently caress YOU!

# ? Oct 28, 2019 16:57

Drunken Baker: Feb 3, 2015; VODKA STYLE DRINK

Why? Why are the innocent punished? Why the sacrifice? Why the pain? There aren't any promises. Nothing certain. Only that some get called, some get saved...

No, wait. Wrong movie.

# ? Oct 28, 2019 16:57

Xenomrph: Dec 9, 2005; AvP Nerd/Fanboy/Shill

Drunken Baker posted:

Why? Why are the innocent punished? Why the sacrifice? Why the pain? There aren't any promises. Nothing certain. Only that some get called, some get saved...

No, wait. Wrong movie.

Still a great scene.

Dogburster > oxburster

# ? Oct 28, 2019 17:06