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If you’re reading this you are undoubtedly a movie lover. You likely have a list somewhere of your favorite movies. You can probably make a pretty accurate guess at how many times you’ve watched your favorite movies. But what if you were forced to watch just one movie on repeat for the rest of your life! That is the question we tackle in this month featured list post…
Review by Logan
I’m not a big fan of most Christmas movies. I know that probably makes me a heretic or monster or whatever, but in my experience, Christmas movies have often ridden on the coattails of the holiday, relying on emotional identification to carry what is otherwise a lackluster plot. Such is the case with many Christmas movies. However, every once in a while, one shines through with a story that is so terrific, so extraordinary, so heartwarming, that I not only enjoy it, but it even makes THE LIST, my inventory of must see films.
It’s a Wonderful Life is one of those movies.
A lot of us movie bloggers started our movie buffness at a young age, watching whatever our parents would let us watch. The guys here at LTBM got to thinking about that a bit… what were some of our favorite movies as children? We have an interesting age range for a list like this. Continue Reading
One of the great tests of your movie buffness is the ability to endlessly quote movies. I have a couple buddies who, I have no doubt, if we all three took off and drove from one coast to the other, could spend the entire trip quoting lines from movies. If you’ve ever found yourself in specific situations in life which trigger a movie quote in your mind, and it’s everything you can do to keep from saying it aloud, then you have likely reached the “movie buff” status. We all have our favorites, here are some of our favorites…
From the 1973 musical Godspell, “Prepare ye the way of The Lord”
From It’s a Wonderful Life, “You don’t like coconut? What’s wrong with you? Don’t you know where coconuts come from?”
From 1987’s Batman, simply stated… “I’m Batman”
Rallying the troops in Braveheart, “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!”
A glimpse of regret from Lord of the Rings: Fellowship of the Ring. Frodo: “I wish the ring had never come to me. I wish none of this had happened.” Gandalf: “So do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given to us.”
Han giving us a little comedic relief in Star Wars: A New Hope, “Uh, we had a slight weapons malfunction, but uh… everything’s perfectly all right now. We’re fine. We’re all fine here now, thank you. How are you?”
Another from William Wallace in Braveheart, “Every man dies, but not every man really lives.”
From Anchorman, out of the intellectual mind of Brian Fantana, “They’ve done studies, you know. Sixty percent of the time, it works every time.”
And who can forget this from The Goonies, “GOONIES NEVER SAY DIE!”
Re-think your reality, from The Matrix, “You think that’s air you’re breathing now?”
Once again, William Wallace in Braveheart (seeing a pattern yet?), “There’s a difference between us. You think the people of this country exist to provide you with position. I think your position exists to provide those people with freedom. And I go to make sure that they have it.”
I challenge you to read this completely through without getting tripped up. From V for Vendetta, “Voilà! In view, a humble vaudevillian veteran, cast vicariously as both victim and villain by the vicissitudes of Fate. This visage, no mere veneer of vanity, is a vestige of the vox populi, now vacant, vanished. However, this valorous visitation of a by-gone vexation, stands vivified and has vowed to vanquish these venal and virulent vermin vanguarding vice and vouchsafing the violently vicious and voracious violation of volition. The only verdict is vengeance; a vendetta, held as a votive, not in vain, for the value and veracity of such shall one day vindicate the vigilant and the virtuous. Verily, this vichyssoise of verbiage veers most verbose, so let me simply add that it’s my very good honor to meet you and you may call me V.”
From perhaps one of the best comedies ever, Dumb and Dumber, “Hey, I guess they’re right. Senior citizens, although old and dangerous behind the wheel, can still serve a purpose. I’ll be right back … don’t you go dyin’ on me!”
“You’re neither. You’re an errand boy sent by grocery clerks to collect a bill.” – Marlon Brando, Apocalypse Now. He is responding to Martin Sheen’s character, Captain Willard, who has been sent to “terminate” the command of Brando’s character, Col. Kurtz. Kurtz asks if Willard thinks himself to be an assassin. Willard says no, and that he is a soldier. This quote is Kurtz’s reply.
“You must pay for everything in this world, one way and another. There is nothing free except the grace of God.” – Hailee Steinfeld, True Grit (2010)
So, what are some of your favorite movie quotes?
