What's the best final line from any movie?

[Bossy Monkey]

A poll is almost inevitable, given any traction at all. I go with, "All right, Mr. DeMille, I'm ready for my close-up." And you?

[kentauros]

1. "I have a plan.

Mein Fuhrer! I can walk!"

:D

[pokerfan]

12. "Mein Fuhrer..." was my first choice

[kentauros]

16. Your Psycho quote is an excellent one, too

:D

[pokerfan]

22. I wasn't thinking of it at the time

but the ending of 'Some Like It Hot' is pretty good.

[kentauros]

23. That's a good one, too.

I'm trying to think of the last line to 2001, though it's nowhere near the end of the movie. That alone is kind of unique :)

[Richardo]

36. Something like "Its origins - and purpose - still a total mystery"

The video commmunication as Bowman shuts down HAL.

[kentauros]

41. That sounds about right.

Plus, the last words are voiced over another scene, or perhaps Dave's face as he watches.

Still, it's what, about 20 minutes before the actual end of the movie? How often does that happen? :D

[Richardo]

43. And the first spoken lines are 20 minutes after the *start* of the movie...

The elevator operator on the space station. "Your stop Dr Floyd." or whatever she says.

I doubt any other talkie has fewer words per frame.

[JTG of the PRB]

2. "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."

From the end of the original "The Day the Earth Stood Still" which is still one of my favorite movies of all-time. I had to look up the quote because I couldn't remember the entire thing off the top of my head.

[pitohui]

3. "i was cured, all right"

altho since movies are a visual medium, i don't normally think of movies in terms of "final words" but that one was prob. about the best i've heard...

[rucky]

53. Yep.

[tammywammy]

4. "The greatest trick the Devil ever pulled was convincing the world he didn't exist.

And like that, poof. He's gone."

[Bertha Venation]

20. You got the full quote, and you got it right.

I messed it up. But damn right. Great line. Great movie.

[tammywammy]

34. I think I like it more every time I watch it.

It's just such a good movie.

[alphafemale]

47. Great Movie....possible SPOILER ALERT

I knew he was - who we was when at some point a book of matches or something is dropped and you see the guy's shoes and they aren't worn on the sides like they would be if he really walked that way all the time.

[flvegan]

5. "You're still here? It's over! Go home. Go!"

[kentauros]

11. Whatever you say, Bueller.

That's why I watch movies to the very end, whether I read all the credits or not :D

[flvegan]

13. Yup, I learned that from this movie.

[kentauros]

15. I learned it from J-Men Forever

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KPR3KrZV3Tk

Best to watch the whole movie instead of jumping to the ending credits ;)

[Xipe Totec]

6. ...for she will be my heroine for all time. And her name will be Viola.

My story starts at sea... a perilous voyage to an unknown land... a shipwreck... the wild waters roar and heave... the brave vessel is dashed all to pieces, and all the helpless souls within her drowned... all save one... a lady... whose soul is greater than the ocean... and her spirit stronger than the sea's embrace... not for her a watery end, but a new life beginning on a stranger shore. It will be a love story... for she will be my heroine for all time. And her name will be Viola.

[carlyhippy]

7. Mommie Dearest

Christopher: As usual, she has the last word. Christina: Does she?

[City of Mills]

8. You better bury Ned right.

"You better not cut up nor otherwise harm no whores, or I'll come back and kill every one of you sons of bitches."

[flvegan]

14. Eastwood at his best, methinks.

[proteus_lives]

26. "I'll see you in hell William Munny."

"Yeah."

[edbermac]

9. "Well, nobody's perfect!"

[pokerfan]

10. I'm not even gonna swat that fly...

I hope they are watching. They'll see. They'll see and they'll know and they'll say, 'Why, she wouldn't even harm a fly.’

[Dr. Strange]

17. Let there be light.

I'll let the true geeks figure out which movie it came from.

[kentauros]

18. I would say "Dark Star" but it's not the last line.

Just the last line the bomb says before blowing up ;)

I would think the last line would have something to do with Doolittle surfing into the planet's atmosphere :D

[Dr. Strange]

25. I thought the credits rolled immediately after the explosion.

At least that's what I remember back from my college days, I was fairly sober at the time.

[kentauros]

30. It's been a long time since I've seen it, too.

But Doolittle and the one that was always in the observation dome end up still being alive in the end. Doolittle surfs to his death in the atmosphere while the other one ends up taken by some alien energy beings if I remember correctly. Something about the Pleiades?

[Bertha Venation]

19. ". . . and just like that - he's gone."

The Usual Subjects. What a great movie.

[pokerfan]

21. delete - wrong place

[Amerigo Vespucci]

24. "Tom Mix wept."

:toast:

[proteus_lives]

27. Oh, I love that movie.

"Why you doing this Doc?"

"Wyatt Earp is my friend."

"Oh hell, I got lots of friends."

"I don't."

[pokerfan]

28. Roads? Where we're going we don't need roads!

[proteus_lives]

29. One of my favorites: Young Mr. Lincoln.

"No, I think I might go on a piece. Maybe to the top of that hill."

Sniff.

[blogslut]

31. "He would be in Jem's room all night,

and he would be there when Jem waked up in the morning. "

[Gormy Cuss]

32. " I never had any friends later on like the ones I had when I was twelve. Jesus, does anybody?”

from "Stand By Me"

[av8rdave]

48. I saw that movie 23 years ago and have never been able to forget that line

[kentauros]

33. "Mmmmmm!"

"Oh...Oh!...Oh, sweet mystery of life at last I've found you!"

:D

[Richardo]

35. "Forget it, Jake - it's Chinatown"

[JohnnyBoots]

37. "Louie, I think this could be the begining of a beautiful friendship..."

Casablanca.

[av8rdave]

50. Next time you are on a flight out of LAX...

On the south side of the airport, on the FedEx ramp, is a small, rather ornate, mission style cupula atop a small hanger. That is the original terminal building for Los Angeles field, and is the place where they shot the closing scene of Casablanca. You know, where Humphrey Bogart says that nobody gives a rat's ass about our little problems, etc., etc.

Good little piece of trivia.

[Initech]

38. "You know something? I think this might just be my masterpiece."

from Inglourious Basterds.

[CBGLuthier]

39. As You Wish

Followed closely by

"Nobody's Perfect"

[One_Life_To_Give]

44. +100

[Glassunion]

40. "There are times since when I’ve felt like a child born of those two fathers...

But be that as it may, those of us who did make it have an obligation to build again, to teach others what we know, and to try with what’s left of our lives to find a goodness and meaning to this life."

[Brother Buzz]

42. They do get better.

[Tuesday Afternoon]

45. "Buy her some, its worth it"

The Station Agent

[Paladin]

46. "Forget The Alamo."

From the movie "Lone Star." The end line really resonates if you're a Texan and "Remember the Alamo!" has been drilled into you all your life.....

[RandomThoughts]

52. Remmember the Alamo also requiers a good fight.

Thinking it is best actions, not just a fight for anything.

And requires bravery.

And requires willing to put yourself on the line, even if it could be hard or worse.

How many of them have faced hardships?



How many of them are anything like the people at the Alamo?

[av8rdave]

49. Fuck the bonus

[Fire Walk With Me]

51. "So vat. Beeg deel." -Buckaroo Banzai

[rucky]

54. "You met me at a very strange time in my life"

Fight Club

[kentauros]

55. "You know, they say there was a man who jumped from the forty-FIFTH floor?

But that's another story..."

The Hudsucker Proxy :7

[Rabrrrrrr]

56. "Non"