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Best SF movie line

POSTED BY: ASARIAN
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Saturday, October 24, 2009 1:04 PM

ASARIAN



What do you consider the best damn movie/series line or short dialogue in all of SF history? I'll start off with one of my personal favs from Battlestar Galactica:

Boomer: "How do you know you can trust me?"
Adama: "I don't. That's what trust is."


--
"Mei-mei, everything I have is right here." -- Simon Tam

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Saturday, October 24, 2009 1:40 PM

CHRISISALL


You DO NOT know what you started here, A.

"Half of writing history is hiding the truth." - Serenity

"They can be a great people, Kal-El; they wish to be." - Superman

"Love is for poets." - Highlander

"Fiery the angels fell. Deep thunder rolled around their shores… burning with the fires of Orc." - Blade Runner

"There is no spoon." - The Matrix

"Dr. Chandra, will I dream?" - 2010

"Double dumass on YOU!" - Star Trek IV


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Saturday, October 24, 2009 1:56 PM

RIVERLOVE


Soylent Green is people.

Monsters John, monsters from the id.


Sci-fi spoofs:

Quivering Venusian blubbercups! I've never seen such an immoral display. - Captain Butt, Galaxina

Why didn't someone tell me my ass was so big! - President Scroob, Spaceballs

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Saturday, October 24, 2009 2:09 PM

CHRISISALL


"Somebody said 'alien', she thought they said 'illegal alien' and signed up!" - Aliens


The laughing Chrisisall

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Saturday, October 24, 2009 2:20 PM

KWICKO

"We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false." -- William Casey, Reagan's presidential campaign manager & CIA Director (from first staff meeting in 1981)


"Open the pod bay doors, HAL." - 2001: A Space Odyssey

"You Maniacs! You blew it up! Ah, damn you! God damn you all to hell!" - Planet of the Apes

"Take your stinking paws off me, you damned dirty ape!" - Planet of the Apes

"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." - Blade Runner

"It's a cookbook! To Serve Man is a COOKBOOK!" - The Twilight Zone

Mike

Let the wild rumpus start!

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Saturday, October 24, 2009 2:25 PM

RALLEM


Pez, "Prepare to die, Earth scum. Prepare to die, Earth scum." I'm gonna make sure they carve that on your tombstone!"



[trying to explain to Captain Bipto that their invasion has failed]
Giggywig: Let me sum up the entire situation in a nutshell: there are five of us, and four billion of them. They have Strategic Air Command, nuclear powered submarines, and John Wayne. We have this.
[holds up a small rifle]
Captain Bipto: Is it loaded?
[points the rifle at Bipto]
Giggywig: Let's find out!



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Saturday, October 24, 2009 2:50 PM

CHRISISALL


"Get away from her you BITCH!!" - Aliens

"I want more life, Fucker." - Blade Runner

"Just don't ever forget!" - Superman II (Donner Cut)

"Love keeps her in the air." - guess

"Nothing is trivial." - The Crow

"Hail to the King, baby." - Army Of Darkness

"Ahnal nathrack oothvas bethod, dothneeahl deenvay." - Excalibur

"*You wouldn't like me when I'm hungry.*" - Incredible Hulk




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Saturday, October 24, 2009 3:28 PM

ASARIAN


Good ones, Mr. C. :) Oh, another one, from The Incredibles:

Elastigirl: "Everyone's special."
Dash: "That's just another way of saying no one is."


--
"Mei-mei, everything I have is right here." -- Simon Tam

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Saturday, October 24, 2009 3:47 PM

FREMDFIRMA



"Toldja that was comin..."
-Riddick - Dark Fury

-F

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Saturday, October 24, 2009 3:59 PM

ASARIAN


Quote:

Originally posted by Fremdfirma:

"Toldja that was comin..."
-Riddick - Dark Fury

-F



"If you can't keep up, don't step up--you'll just die." -- Riddick


--
"Mei-mei, everything I have is right here." -- Simon Tam

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Saturday, October 24, 2009 4:02 PM

PEACEKEEPER

Keeping order in every verse


Quote:

Originally posted by Fremdfirma:

"Toldja that was comin..."
-Riddick - Dark Fury

-F

"Did not know who was fuckin with!!"(Riddick--Pitch Black)

"I absolutely believe in God,and I absolutely hate the fucker!!"(Riddick-Pitch Black)



Peacekeeper---keeping order in every verse!!!

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Saturday, October 24, 2009 4:14 PM

CYBERSNARK


Whole bunch of them right over here.



-----
We applied the cortical electrodes but were unable to get a neural reaction from either patient.

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Saturday, October 24, 2009 4:49 PM

PEULSAR5

We sniff the air, we don't kiss the dirt.


"No. I am your father."

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Saturday, October 24, 2009 4:57 PM

CHRISISALL


"That's fuckin' insulting." - Riddick


The laughing Chrisisall

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Saturday, October 24, 2009 4:59 PM

FREELANCERTEX


This is more of a convo than a line, but I still love it:

"What's it look like?"
"Looks clear."
*creatures fly over head, everyone ducks*
"You said 'clear'!"
"I said it *looks* clear!"
"What's it look like now?"
*pause* "Looks clear." --Pitch Black

I love Italian. *looks at Spock* And so do you. --Star Trek IV

"Time is an illusion; lunch time, doubly so." --Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

"Do you want to run this ship?"
"Yes."
"Well...you can't.." --duh

"Just because our governments are behaving like asses doesn't mean *we* have to." --2010: The Year We Make Contact

"You know what the first rule of flying is... Love. You can know all the math in the Verse, but you take a ship in the air and you don't love, she'll shake you out just as sure as the turnin' of worlds. Love keeps her in the air when she oughta fall down, tells you she hurtin' 'fore she keels, makes her home." --duh again :)





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Saturday, October 24, 2009 5:41 PM

PEULSAR5

We sniff the air, we don't kiss the dirt.


"KAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHNNNNN!!!!!!!"

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Saturday, October 24, 2009 7:38 PM

FREELANCERTEX


Ah, so many good lines in that film :P some quoted from other works, but still, the way Khan says them just makes them so enjoyable :P

"To the last, I will grapple with thee... from Hell's heart, I stab at thee! For hate's sake, I spit my last breath at thee!"

"Are you out of your Vulcan mind?"

"He tasks me. He tasks me and I shall have him! I'll chase him 'round the moons of Nibia and 'round the Antares Maelstrom and 'round Perdition's flames before I give him up!"

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


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Saturday, October 24, 2009 7:40 PM

PEACEKEEPER

Keeping order in every verse


"Ray,next time somebody asks you if you are a God--say YES!!"(Ghostbusters)

"Oh no, you are NOT shooting that grain shit at me!!" (Independance Day)

"You are one UGLY muthafucker!!" (Predator)

Peacekeeper---keeping order in every verse!!!

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Saturday, October 24, 2009 7:56 PM

SINGATE


"Wake up. Time to die." Blade Runner

"If you only knew the power of the dark side!" The Empire Stirkes Back

"The Emperor is not as forgiving as I am." Return of the Jedi

"I guess it's not a good day to be a bad guy." The Crow

"I'm not arresting you anymore." Robocop

"You wanted to know what made us human, you were looking in the wrong place." Dark City

Kirk: "My God Bones what have I done."
McCoy: "What you always do, what you had to." Star Trek III

_________________________________________________

We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far.

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Saturday, October 24, 2009 9:26 PM

FREMDFIRMA



Actually Vin Diesels best "lines" as Riddick are all non-verbal.

Lessee..

When he puts the little spam can key on the rock, and looks up, patiently waiting...

When he comes out of Imams back room after cleaning the clocks of half a dozen New Helion militia, and just kinda stares at the one holding a knife on Imam...

That little shrug after sending one of the mercs headfirst into a light fixture on the way down to the Crematoria prison office...


It's also really the only way you get any kind of look at his better side.

Eye to eye with the dog-beast.
How his demeanor and intentions change when Ziza confronts him.
And when the one lady merc who kinda liked him asked him if he was gonna kill her now.

Diesel manages to convey whole paragraphs with just his body language, which is what makes him so good at that part.

-F

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Saturday, October 24, 2009 10:02 PM

NEWOLDBROWNCOAT


Quote:

Originally posted by rallem:
Pez, "Prepare to die, Earth scum. Prepare to die, Earth scum." I'm gonna make sure they carve that on your tombstone!"



[trying to explain to Captain Bipto that their invasion has failed]
Giggywig: Let me sum up the entire situation in a nutshell: there are five of us, and four billion of them. They have Strategic Air Command, nuclear powered submarines, and John Wayne. We have this.
[holds up a small rifle]
Captain Bipto: Is it loaded?
[points the rifle at Bipto]
Giggywig: Let's find out!




Right on, Spaced Invaders, one of the worst, funniest sci-fi movies ever made. a personal fave, guilty pleasure movie. Gotta dig it out , it's a Halloween movie. I was gonna post " Prepare to die, Earth scum!" myself.

How 'bout: "We're toast. In your case , a whole loaf of toast."

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Saturday, October 24, 2009 11:30 PM

HUGHFF


Quote:

Originally posted by Kwicko:
"It's a cookbook! To Serve Man is a COOKBOOK!" - The Twilight Zone


Originally a classic short story in Galaxy circa 1950.

I'll throw in:
"Gravity is a harsh mistress." The Tick
(ok, it's tv not film and it's superhero not sf but it's sooooo close.)

"I heard you were dead." Escape from New York

"You licked his ass." Demolition Man

and the appalling
"Your first abortion." District Nine

www.cpfc.org - my life

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Sunday, October 25, 2009 12:54 AM

HIXIE129


Curiosity is not a sin.

In dreams, we enter a world that's entirely our own.

YOU FOUL, LOATHSOME, EVIL LITTLE COCKROACH!

Repeat after me, "Riddikulus."

"The wand chooses the wizard"




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Sunday, October 25, 2009 12:55 AM

MUTT999


"There's never a cop around when you need one." - The Omega Man

"I can't lie to you about your chances, but... you have my sympathies." - Alien

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Sunday, October 25, 2009 3:32 AM

THESOMNAMBULIST


"I was continuing to shrink, to become... what? The infinitesimal? What was I? Still a human being? Or was I the man of the future? If there were other bursts of radiation, other clouds drifting across seas and continents, would other beings follow me into this vast new world? So close - the infinitesimal and the infinite. But suddenly, I knew they were really the two ends of the same concept. The unbelievably small and the unbelievably vast eventually meet - like the closing of a gigantic circle. I looked up, as if somehow I would grasp the heavens. The universe, worlds beyond number, God's silver tapestry spread across the night. And in that moment, I knew the answer to the riddle of the infinite. I had thought in terms of man's own limited dimension. I had presumed upon nature. That existence begins and ends in man's conception, not nature's. And I felt my body dwindling, melting, becoming nothing. My fears melted away. And in their place came acceptance. All this vast majesty of creation, it had to mean something. And then I meant something, too. Yes, smaller than the smallest, I meant something, too. To God, there is no zero. I still exist!"

SCOTT CAREY FROM - The Incredible Shrinking Man


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Sunday, October 25, 2009 3:41 AM

CHRISISALL


Yeah, make almost weepy just readin' that.

"Quick impression for you: Caw! Caw! Bang! Fuck, I'm dead!" - The Crow


The laughing Chrisisall

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Sunday, October 25, 2009 3:43 AM

ASARIAN


Quote:

Originally posted by hughff:
"I heard you were dead." Escape from New York


In the same vein, Alien IV:

Distephano: "I thought you were dead?!"
Ripley: "Yeah, I get that a lot."


--
"Mei-mei, everything I have is right here." -- Simon Tam

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Sunday, October 25, 2009 3:49 AM

CHRISISALL


"I thought you'd be taller."


The Snake Chrisisall

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Sunday, October 25, 2009 3:54 AM

ZZETTA13


Don’t know if this qualities as science fiction, more like fiction/fiction.

The line goes something like this;

“ Robinhood….why do you steal from the rich?”


“ Why? Because the poor have no money!!”

From “Time Bandits” I think.

One of those- you’re an idiot for asking kind of moments. Makes me smile just to think about it

Z

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Sunday, October 25, 2009 3:56 AM

CHRISISALL


"Is that gasoline I smell?" - The Crow


The laughing Chrisisall

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Sunday, October 25, 2009 9:31 AM

SPACEANJL


"You wanna go, little man?"

"Only if it's someplace with candlelight..."

(Cos someone already did Roy Batty)

Gort! Klaatu barada nikto!

(Because somebody has to)


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Sunday, October 25, 2009 10:14 AM

RALLEM


Robin Hood: And you're a robber too. How long have you been a robber?

Strutter: Four foot one.

Robin Hood: Good lord! Jolly good. Four foot one? Well that-that-that is-is- a long time, isn't it?



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Sunday, October 25, 2009 11:21 AM

ZZETTA13



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Sunday, October 25, 2009 11:23 AM

ZZETTA13




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Sunday, October 25, 2009 11:25 AM

ZZETTA13




Rallem

I guess You-Tube doesn't play here anymore?

Z

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Sunday, October 25, 2009 11:46 AM

RALLEM



Youtube works just fine for me and that is the reason I gave up my television service.



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Sunday, October 25, 2009 11:48 AM

OPPYH


Quote:

Originally posted by chrisisall:

"Love is for poets." - Highlander




Nice one!


"The forbidden zone was once a paradise. You're breed made a desert of it ages ago"
Dr. Zaius

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Sunday, October 25, 2009 11:55 AM

LWAVES


"They mostly come out at night. Mostly." - Aliens

"I have seen things you people wouldn't believe...." (etc, etc) - Blade Runner

"I'm sorry Dave, I'm afraid I can't do that." - 2001

"Who's the more foolish, the fool or the one who follows him." - Star Wars

"This is my boomstick." - Army Of Darkness





"I don't believe in suicide, but if you'd like to try it it might cheer me up to watch."

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Sunday, October 25, 2009 12:44 PM

ASARIAN


Quote:

Originally posted by lwaves:
"They mostly come out at night. Mostly." - Aliens


Ah, my dearheart Newt! This brings back fond memories. I think I should go see this flic now again.

"They're all dead, okay!? Can I go now?" - Newt


--
"Mei-mei, everything I have is right here." -- Simon Tam

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Sunday, October 25, 2009 12:52 PM

CHRISISALL


Quote:

Originally posted by lwaves:

"This is my boomstick." - Army Of Darkness


Also:
"Yeah yeah yeah getthefuckouttamyface."



The laughing Chrisisall

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Sunday, October 25, 2009 6:24 PM

PEULSAR5

We sniff the air, we don't kiss the dirt.


"Do, or do not. There is no try."--Yoda

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Sunday, October 25, 2009 8:57 PM

JEWELSTAITEFAN


Well that's just great, why don't we put her in charge!! - Aliens.

"Bill me." - Lt Ripley, Aliens.

It's not a line, but the ship scraping against the spacedock as it departs. - Galaxy Quest.

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Monday, October 26, 2009 2:26 AM

THESOMNAMBULIST


Originally posted by chrisisall:
Quote:

Yeah, make almost weepy just readin' that.


Don't it just...

From Invasion Of The Body Snatchers (1956) :-

Becky: I don't want to live in a world without love or grief or beauty, I'd rather die.

and later

Dr. Miles J. Bennell:They're here already! You're next! You're next, You're next...!

From The Day The Earth Stood Still (1951)

Klaatu: "Now, we do not pretend to have achieved perfection, but we do have a system, and it works. I came here to give you these facts. It is no concern of ours how you run your own planet, but if you threaten to extend your violence, this Earth of yours will be reduced to a burned-out cinder. Your choice is simple: join us and live in peace, or pursue your present course and face obliteration. We shall be waiting for your answer. The decision rests with you.




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Monday, October 26, 2009 3:37 AM

PIZMOBEACH

... fully loaded, safety off...


Quote:

Originally posted by Cybersnark:
Whole bunch of them right over here.





What a grt vid, thx!

And what a great trove of movie lines - you guys have great ears for them (grabs pen and paper and starts cribbing).

"Well as a rule I say girlfolk ain't to be trusted."

Jayne is a one-liner machine.

Scifi movie music + Firefly dialogue clips, 24 hours a day - http://www.scifiradio.com

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Monday, October 26, 2009 3:54 AM

JONGSSTRAW


"Naga! Oomay mah luke!" - Deena, World Without End


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Tuesday, October 27, 2009 11:14 PM

JEWELSTAITEFAN


Let's blow him!! - Demolition Man.

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Wednesday, October 28, 2009 10:15 AM

CHRISISALL


"Monsters, John... monsters from the id..." - Forbidden Planet


The laughing Chrisisall

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Wednesday, October 28, 2009 10:33 AM

RIVERLOVE


Quote:

Originally posted by chrisisall:
"Monsters, John... monsters from the id..." - Forbidden Planet


The laughing Chrisisall


I posted that at the top of the page. Thanks for the nod of brilliance.

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Wednesday, October 28, 2009 5:24 PM

CALHOUN


Its already been said but I reckon the all time best/most evocative sci fi line is Ripleys "Get away from her YOU BITCH!" in Aliens.

I always really feel the sentiment in that line when I watch Aliens.

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Wednesday, October 28, 2009 5:38 PM

EVILDINOSAUR


"By Grapthar's Hammer, what a savings." -Galaxy Quest

"Haha, mine is an evil laugh."

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