Jake Gittes

Captain Phillips actually won Best Edited Feature - Drama from the ACE, and the Academy agrees with those guys quite often (this century, only three films won the ACE prize and lost the Oscar). So it might upset Gravity at the Oscars too. I wouldn't really mind it, as it's the only Oscar that Phillips stands a chance to win anyway.

76) My precious! - The Lord of the Rings Trilogy (2001-2003) It's his birthday, and he wantsss it, yesss, preciousss, our love. Thus begins the tragic, centuries-spanning story of Gollum, hopelessly seduced by the Ring. As delivered - again and again - by Andy Serkis in Peter Jackson's great trilogy, the iconic line is simultaneously sad and scary, coming from someone who's broken and beyond repair, an addict whose addiction is keeping him alive and draining life out of him at the same time. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iz-8CSa9xj8

77) Some men just want to watch the world burn. - The Dark Knight (2008) The scariest villains are the ones to whose motivations safe, easy logic doesn't apply. This is something that Michael Caine's Alfred has learned well in his lifetime, and it's something that Christian Bale's Batman is going to learn the hard way himself, because Heath Ledger's Joker, for as much as he looks like a human, actually turns out to be an unpredictable force of nature. Alfred has an effective little monologue about that in The Dark Knight, and it ends with the line that perfectly summarizes a very particular kind of evil. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=efHCdKb5UWc

And now three lines from three of the defining films of the past 15 years. 78) Welcome to the real world - The Matrix (1999) The Wachowskis got immediate attention from the critics with their twisty, entertaining directorial debut Bound, but three years and one movie later, they were responsible for a worldwide sensation. Keanu Reeves' Thomas Anderson is living a life that's perfectly ordinary - so much so that, at the corner of his mind, he begins to suspect it might not be quite real. He has no idea how true that is, and when he is finally awoken after decades of sleep, Laurence Fishburne's Morpheus greets him with those brilliantly simple five words. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PreAABChTyQ

I'll jump in again, a nice little stretch of lines right here. 79) I have always depended on the kindness of strangers - A Streetcar Named Desire (1951) Tennessee Williams adapted his own play for the screen, and in 1951, Elia Kazan made a classic film out of it. For many people, the star of the movie is Marlon Brando, who essentially introduced moviegoers to "method acting" as we know it, but when discussing his achievement, Vivien Leigh's tends to be underappreciated. Yet it's as good a candidate as any for the greatest performance ever by an actress, with Leigh perfectly embodying a complex and tragic character. This is the last line Blanche Dubois speaks in the film, and it's a heartbreaking summation of who she is and the unfortunate life she's lived. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DSTd1LuiVUs

Ron Howard being in the list at all is a joke.

I'll be leaving now, so if someone wants to take over, feel free.

86) I have had it with these motherfucking snakes on this motherfucking plane! - Snakes on a Plane (2006) Is there anything more to say? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PZ2QFmJ7h0A

87) A million dollars isn't cool. You know what's cool?.. A billion dollars. - The Social Network (2010) I actually realized only now that the whole of this line was delivered by two different characters in two different scenes, even if mere seconds apart. I don't know if it's worth taking issue with, personally I'm good with it. And besides, it's a great line; The Social Network is a film about our time, and this line does the perfect job of demonstrating the attitudes of the world that we live in today. Following Forrest Gump and The Godfather, it is the third film in this list that won the Oscar for its screenplay, which was written by Aaron Sorkin. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4e0n7vTLz1U

88) Kneel before Zod! - Superman II (1980) This is the trademark line of General Zod and definitely one of the most classic and memorable comic book movie lines in history. And it remains firmly tied to Terence Stamp, who in Superman II plays Zod as almost bored with his incredible powers and disappointed with the ease of overtaking Earth - until he comes face to face with Superman, and his rage and hunger for power over his equal instantly kick in, in glorious fashion. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fFyHTU8tg_0

89) If it bleeds, we can kill it. - Predator (1987) Damn straight. One of those lines that's iconic precisely because it's so simple and to the point. And as delivered by Arnie in his prime, it's also couldn't be more badass. Predator was written by John Thomas and Jim Thomas, who were inspired by the joke making rounds in Hollywood following the release of Rocky IV: since Rocky had run out of earthly opponents, he would have to fight an alien creature in the next movie if it were to be made. The Thomas brothers took the joke seriously, and the rest is history. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eNr0WXQ3Ho4

I'll carry the torch for a bit. 90) You see, in this world there's two kinds of people, my friend: those with loaded guns and those who dig. You dig. - The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (1966) The second line from the iconic western to make this list. This time, it's spoken near the end by Eastwood's Blondie to Eli Wallach's Tuco, as a callback to the line Tuco had said to him at the beginning: There are two kinds of people in the world, my friend: Those with a rope around the neck, and the people who have the job of doing the cutting. It's one of the last lines Eastwood says in The Man With No Name trilogy, and it only cements him further as one of the coolest characters in all cinema. The Good, the Bad and the Ugly was written by Sergio Leone, Luciano Vincenzoni, Furio Scarpelli and Agenore Incrocci.

I fucking love that line. Happy it got in since only 5 people out of 11 put it on their lists.

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While The Tree of Life left me cold, Malick easily deserves a spot in Top 30 for his first four films. I could watch Days of Heaven forever.

People change as they age. It might not turn out pleasant but it happens. In Sunset they were both also not the same as in Sunrise.

Lost Highway is awesome. See it.

I had no problem putting Nolan into the 21-50 section of my list, because for me that's where he deserves to be. Purposefully leaving him off is silly and only serves to distort the big picture of what we're doing here.

That might actually be his blandest, least involving movie. (the only one that's close is M. Butterfly). I was bored all the way through it, except when I was hating Keira Knightley and her performance. You wanna discover Cronenberg, just start with his early low-budget gross-out horror flicks (Shivers, Rabid) and just watch everything in chronological order, he's got the perfect filmography to do that with. There'll be a couple of mediocre or even bad movies on the way, but even those will have something going for them. If you're feeling adventurous you could start with his two early student films (Stereo and Crimes of the Future) but you gotta be able to handle that shit. I myself was hardly ever as infuriated with a movie as I was with Crimes of the Future.

Cronenberg is one of the all-time greats and I won't hear anything else. Videodrome, The Fly, Dead Ringers, Naked Lunch, Crash, History of Violence (just off the top of my head) - all great, audacious, extremely memorable films. The man not just deserves to be on the list, but he deserves to be like 30 spots higher.

And cinematography.

It wouldn't be entirely unprecedented, but the last movie to come out before May and get a BP nom was Fargo I think.

You also don't check your facts lol. Verbinski didn't direct POTC 4. But yeah the guy couldn't direct a bland and ordinary blockbuster to save his life, which IMO makes him valuable even if he misses as often as he hits. And when he hits, he's great. I absolutely love COTBP and Rango.

I guess at least he's not higher.

A personal favorite - Anna Karina in Godard's Vivre sa vie (My Life to Live). Though it's obviously more effective in context.