BO.com top 100 movie lines of all time: May the force be with you, number 1

[baumer]

60 To infinity, and beyond! Toy Story 1995

 

Screenplay was written by Joss Whedon and Andrew Stanton and two others.  This is Pixar's first full length feature film.  This was the beginning of one of the best runs for any studio in entertainment history.  In it, toys and dolls and other children's toys come to life when their young owner is not around.  To infinity and beyond is so memorable simply because it's more than a line, more than a feeling, it's legend.  John Lasseter directed and has gone on to be one of the most notable directors working today.

 

[baumer]

I wanted to get down to 50 tonight but that might have to wait.....sorry, have to take a time out here.

[Plain Old Tele]

59. Of all the gin joints in all the towns in all the world, she walks into mine. —Casablanca (1942)

 

Yet another all-time great from CASABLANCA, which is one of those rare movies where practically every single line is worth quoting. What’s amazing is that the script was constantly being written and re-written by a whole handful of screenwriters, up to the last minute and even past when shooting started. The now-famous Epstein brothers re-wrote the first script (written by Aeneas MacKenzie and Wally Kline), but when they ran into trouble, Warners commissioned another page-one rewrite by Howard Koch. The Epsteins finished theirs three days before shooting started; Koch didn’t finish his until two weeks into production. Another couple of writers (Casey Robinson and Lenore Coffee) were asked to critique both versions, and they liked them both, so they were combined and Robinson stayed on to do a polish on the romantic scenes. And yet for all that the CASABLANCA screenplay is considered one of the best ever. In 2006 the WGA voted it the best screenplay of all time.

 

[Plain Old Tele]

58. I see dead people. —The Sixth Sense (1999)

 

This simple sentence was everywhere in the fall of 1999. M. Night Shyamalan’s creepy little thriller flew under the radar of most entertainment periodicals before it was released, but it grossed a respectable $26m its opening weekend and got insane word of mouth from that point on, in large part to Shyamalan’s clever writing and smooth, assured direction. Haley Joel Osmont’s little declaration to Bruce Willis was a brilliant synopsis of the story; it’s rare to have a line of dialogue so perfectly capture the log line for a movie. It was also voted the 100th greatest movie line by Premiere magazine in 2007 and was #44 on AFI’s list of best lines ever.

 

[MrPink]

After the whole M Night shebang in the Best directors thread, I find it amusing Tele is the one presenting M Night's most famous line he's ever written.

[baumer]

Yes, it is rather amusing that he is writing the praises of SS.

[baumer]

But Tele has so much more classic film knowledge than I do so I'm glad he's doing this stretch of films.  

[Plain Old Tele]

57. They call me Mr.Tibbs! —In the Heat of the Night (1967)

 

IN THE HEAT OF THE NIGHT was a breakthrough for African-Americans in Hollywood films. It was the first major movie to feature a black protagonist who physically fought back against a white man, and it completely stunned audiences when it was released. It was hugely successful (winning five Academy Awards including Best Picture) and spawned two sequels, including one literally named after this quote. This famous line, spoken by Sidney Poitier as the black detective investigating a murder in a southern racist town, was voted #16 all-time by the AFI.

 

[Plain Old Tele]

56. Fasten your seatbelts, it’s gonna be a bumpy night. —All about Eve (1950)

 

This is one of the more famously misquoted movie lines; people usually say “it’s going to be a bumpy ride.” But that one word makes the actual quote much more salacious and zesty. The movie stars Bette Davis and Anne Baxter, and it’s a scathing, sardonic look at Broadway and life at the theatre. The movie was a huge success and nominated for 14 Academy Awards (that total wasn’t matched until TITANIC tied it in ’97), and won six. Joseph Manciewicz' first choice to play Margot Channing was Claudette Colbert, but she had to drop out of the production after she got injured. Then Bette Davis was cast and made the role iconic.

 

[Films]

60 To infinity, and beyond! Toy Story 1995

 

Screenplay was written by Joss Whedon and Andrew Stanton and two others.  This is Pixar's first full length feature film.  This was the beginning of one of the best runs for any studio in entertainment history.  In it, toys and dolls and other children's toys come to life when their young owner is not around.  To infinity and beyond is so memorable simply because it's more than a line, more than a feeling, it's legend.  John Lasseter directed and has gone on to be one of the most notable directors working today.

 

YES. THIS IS IN MY TOP 5 FAVOURITE LINES OF ALLTIME

[baumer]

55 Life moves pretty fast. If you don't stop and look around once in a while. you could miss it. Ferris Bueller's Day Off 1986

 

The 80's are generally considered to be a decade that belonged to Steven Spielberg and maybe even George Lucas.  Their films don't need to be named, we all know what they are.  But John Hughes ruled the 80's in a different platform or genre.  He had no equal when it came to listening to teenagers and letting us know what's on their mind.  Starting in 1984 with Sixteen Candles and culminating in 1987 with Some Kind of Wonderful, John Hughes wrote 6 of the most iconic and relevant films about teenagers that North America and perhaps the world, had seen.  Ferris Bueller's Day Off was his most financially successful film and not only did Hughes write it, but he produced and directed.  This was a film about one teen's struggle to take it easy.  He was taking the day off school and taking his best friend and girlfriend along for the ride.  He utters the line twice in the film.  And truer words have never been spoken for obvious reasons.  This is true whether you are a teen in high school  or an adult with a mortgage or rent.

 

[baumer]

54. No. Try not. Do. Or do not. There is no try. Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back 1980

 

This is another of the classic misquoted lines.  Many people forget the Try Not.  However it is that you remember it, this line might be the defining line of Yoda.  George Lucas of course wrote the story but it was Lawrence Kasdan and Leigh Brackett who wrote the screenplay and perhaps some of the iconic lines in the film.  Star Wars is so famous that I don't really need to tell you about the scene but I will anyway.  When Luke sees his X-wing fighter sink further in to the bog, he tells Yoda that moving rocks is one thing but something this big is completely different.  Yoda tells him it's not different.  Only in his mind is it different.  Luke says he's he'll give it a try.  And then BOOM! Yoda has gone on to be one of the most quoted characters in film history.  He is the embodiment mind over matter and there are many other lines that you could quote from him.  This one however, is the one that made our list.

 

[baumer]

53) I am big, it’s the pictures that got small Sunset Blvd. 1950

 

Some might see the film differently than I do but to me it's just as much a film about Hollywood being so full of itself that no matter how far these false Gods rise, they will fall back to Earth and once they do, there is no going back to the heights you were once at.  This was an actress so famous that a Maharajah flew in from India to beg for one of her silk stockings, just so he could hang himself with it.  Norma Desmond, as played Gloria Swanson, is so bitter at being forgotten about that she is now seen as just another once famous face in the crowd.  For a cynical film about Hollywood to be written this early in its existence, is, to some, a minor miracle.  Writers Billy Wilder and Charles Brackett were well ahead of their time and it really wouldn't be until about 40 years later that we would see something else that even tried to emulate what this film had to say (The Player).  

 

[chasmmi]

57. They call me Mr.Tibbs! —In the Heat of the Night (1967)

 

IN THE HEAT OF THE NIGHT was a breakthrough for African-Americans in Hollywood films. It was the first major movie to feature a black protagonist who physically fought back against a white man, and it completely stunned audiences when it was released. It was hugely successful (winning five Academy Awards including Best Picture) and spawned two sequels, including one literally named after this quote. This famous line, spoken by Sidney Poitier as the black detective investigating a murder in a southern racist town, was voted #16 all-time by the AFI.

 

Yeah but is it delivered as well in that film as it is by Pumba in the Lion King?

[75Live]

52) Houston, we have a problem - Apollo 13 (1995)

 

Apollo 13 is based on the real life events of the space mission Apollo 13 in which 3 astronauts were stuck in space after a malfunction on the way to the moon.  This one quote sets the whole movie into overdrive of what transpired to get these 3 men home.  Apollo 13 was nominated for 9 Academy Awards including Best Picture and Best Adapted Screenplay.  After a screening of the movie, one of the comment cards said that it was a typical Hollywood ending and the astronauts could never have survived.  I would say after reading that, this quote fits pretty well with that person's historical knowledge

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lTSVOnhLtCs&feature=youtu.be&t=11s

 

[75Live]

51) I ate his liver with some fava beans and a nice Chianti - Silence of the Lambs (1991)

 

The Silence of the Lambs based on the book of the same name was released in 1991 and gave us one of movie history's best villains.  Hopkins was at his creepy best and won for being in the film for barely more than 16 minutes.  Who can blame them when most people still quote this line to this very day. At the Oscars, Silence of the Lambs became the third film to win Academy Awards in all the top five categories: Best Picture, Best Actor, Best Actress, Best Director, and Best Writing (Adapted Screenplay).  There are criticisms of his pronunciation of the work Chianti, but Hopkins has explained that he said it that way on purpose to tease Starling about her southern accent

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iVlkZVAw8Gc

[75Live]

That is all I have time to do which takes us to the end of the first half of the 100 movie quotes of all time  The top 50 is to come

Edited February 12, 2014 by 75live

[rukaio101]

51) I ate his liver with some fava beans and a nice Chianti - Silence of the Lambs (1991)

 

The Silence of the Lambs based on the book of the same name was released in 1991 and gave us one of movie history's best villains.  Hopkins was at his creepy best and won for being in the film for barely more than 16 minutes.  Who can blame them when most people still quote this line to this very day. At the Oscars, Silence of the Lambs became the third film to win Academy Awards in all the top five categories: Best Picture, Best Actor, Best Actress, Best Director, and Best Writing (Adapted Screenplay).  There are criticisms of his pronunciation of the work Chianti, but Hopkins has explained that he said it that way on purpose to tease Starling about her southern accent

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iVlkZVAw8Gc

No 'ffhffhffhffh' at the end of that?

[baumer]

50 Badges?  We ain't got no badges.  We don't need no badges.  I don't have to show you any stinking badges.  Treasure of the Sierra Madre 1948

 

Another of the all time misquoted lines, it is nonetheless one of the greatest.  It was voted as the 36th best movie line of all time by the AFI.  John Huston won the Oscar for best direction and best screenplay and as a side note his father won for best supporting actor which is the first and to my knowledge, the only time a father son combo has won Oscars on the same film for acting and directing or any kind of acting awards.  The line itself was famous for years after the film came out but gained even more popularity when it was parodied in Mel Brooks' film Blazing Saddles.  

 

 

[baumer]

49 I'm not bad. I'm just drawn that way Who Framed Roger Rabbit 1988

 

When Who Framed Roger Rabbit came out, one of the trade magazines said the film would be known for it's three S's.  Spielberg, success and sex.  Roger Rabbit was a Disney film but was released under the Touchstone pictures name because Disney boss Michael Eisner felt it was too sexual to be known as a Disney film.  Jeffrey Price and Peter Seaman wrote the screenplay and Robert Zemekis directed the film which was about cartoons living and inhabiting the real world.  The famous line is uttered by Kathleen Turner who played the sexy cartoon, Jessica Rabbit.  The embodies the tone and texture to the film.  Roger Rabbit originally had a budget of 30 million dollars.  When it went past 40 million, Eisner wanted to pull the plug but Jeffrey Katzenberg pleaded with him to keep it going.  The budget finally leveled out at 70 million dollars, which was one of the most expensive films at the time. 

 

Edited February 16, 2014 by winter baumer