“If I was to sink my teeth into your eye right now, would you be able to stop me before I blinded you?” – Shutter Island
No movies, but occasionally a game:
"In this waking nightmare, where all dreams come true…
You searched for control, a way to pull through.
When you were in love, you left him in tears,
To smother your furies, and banish your fears…
But in darkness they came.
Through stormy black seas they raided these shores…Do you still hear his screams?
And now… that you’re home… he’s so far away…
They’ve taken his soul…To these gods you cannot pray…
They can break you, but not your promise.
Even death won’t keep you apart.
Through this darkness you will find him.
In your sword still beats - a heart."- The Darkness, Hellblade: Senua’s Sacrifice
That’s right. I’ve killed women and children. I’ve killed just about everything that walks or crawled at one time or another. And I’m here to kill you, Little Bill, for what you did to Ned. – Will Munny, Unforgiven
“Russian warship, go fuck yourself”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_warship,_go_fuck_yourself
In the 1981 film Excalibur, adapted from “Le Morte d’Arthur” by Sir Thomas Malory.
When after years and years lost to an evil spell, King Arthur is free and strong and purposeful once more, he pays Queen Guinevere a visit, at the convent where she had retreated from the world and had become a nun.
In her chamber, Guinevere reaches under her bed and produces what seems like a miracle: Excalibur itself, which Arthur had regarded as utterly lost. As Arthur takes and wields Excalibur in a mixture of disbelief and delight, Guinevere whispers happily, “I kept it”.
Then Arthur reels off these parting words, which I shall try to reconstruct from pure memory:
I have often dreamt, that in the hereafter of our lives,
when I am just a man, and owe no more to the future,
you will come to me, and claim me yours,
and know that I am your husband. It is a dream I have…Then Arthur turns, wielding Excalibur, and leaves, en route to fulfill his destiny for one final time.
“How are you doing this Vincent? How have you done any of this?”
“You wanna know how I did it? This is how I did it Anton. I never saved anything for the swim back.”
-Gattaca
‘Is nice’ - Borat
“All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain.” — Roy Batty, Blade Runner (1982)
Not a movie, but the series Cosmos.
“We are a way for the universe to know itself.” -Carl Sagan
If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe
~ Carl Sagan.
Also brilliant…😀
“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 Tannhäuser Gate. All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain. Time to die.”
-Blade Runner (1982)
We cross our bridges when we come to them and burn them behind us, with nothing to show for our progress except a memory of the smell of smoke, and a presumption that once our eyes watered.
~ Tom Stoppard
Not a movie, but Andor had so many good ones. And I mean a lot, too many for a single post. My favorite though is Namek’s Manifesto:
"There will be times when the struggle seems impossible. I know this already. Alone, unsure, dwarfed by the scale of the enemy.
Remember this. Freedom is a pure idea. It occurs spontaneously and without instruction. Random acts of insurrection are occurring constantly throughout the galaxy. There are whole armies, battalions that have no idea that they’ve already enlisted in the cause.
Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.
And then remember this: the Imperial need for control is so desperate because it is so unnatural. Tyranny requires constant effort. It breaks, it leaks. Authority is brittle. Oppression is the mask of fear.
Remember that. And know this, the day will come when all these skirmishes and battles, these moments of defiance, will have flooded the banks of the Empire’s authority and then there will be one too many. One single thing will break the siege.
Remember this. Try."
I was absolutely flabbergasted when I saw this in Andor.
Do you think God stays in heaven because he too lives in fear of what he’s created?
- Spy Kids 2
I am the walrus
Donny, The Big Lebowski
Is this the Steve Buscemi quotes part of the thread? Because if it’s not it should be.
I mean, that time when God did come down from Heaven we nailed Him to a cross and crucified Him in a horrendous manner…
Kaneda… What do you see?
– Searle, Sunshine (2007)
spoiler
The movie is about a crew flying a starship to our Sun, which is rapidly dying because of a Q-Ball – some thing that I’m sure was proven to exist but that strips away protons from atoms. They’re on a mission to detonate an essentially experimental bomb there hoping it would be enough to get rid of the Q-Ball and essentially restart the nuclear fusion process, saving humanity.
As the mission is getting closer to the star, we see Searle in the observation room, toning down the filter to see the sun like he would never be able to on Earth. The safeguard protocols only allow him to see 3.1% of its true power given the distance, and not for long. His experience is almost ecstatic, spiritual. Next scene is him talking to his crewmates about the experience, recommending it.
The quote is what he asks his captain during an emergency repair, his skin showing signs of too much exposure to the sun, even through the filter.
He asks his captain, who had to stay behind during an EVA emergency repair, what does he see, as the ship is slowly turning to face the sun again, about to burn the captain to death.
This such a “call of the void” moment, although about something so clearly opposite of a void. A man slowly getting more and more obsessed with something so incomprehensible, getting so close to it, so far away from anything familiar. So obsessed that it’s what he’s pulled to ask from another man about to get properly obliterated.
"Sons of Gondor, of Rohan. My brothers.
I see it in your eyes, the same fear that would take the heart of me.
A day may come, when the courage of men fails. Where we forsake our friends, and abandon all bonds of fellowship.
But it is not this day.
An hour of wolves and shattered shields, when the age of men comes crashing down, but it is not this day. This day we fight!
By all that you hold dear on this good earth, I bid you stand! Men of the West!"
Arise, arise, Riders of Théoden! spear shall be shaken, shield shall be splintered, a sword-day, a red day, ere the sun rises! Ride now, ride now, ride! Ride for ruin and the world’s ending!
Death! Death! Death!
Another banger, though admittedly a bit more bleak than Aragon’s hype speech.
I am a leaf on the wind…
…watch how I soar.came to find a firefly quote. man watching the series so many lines get me.
Right from the start, even:
Take my love, take my land,
Take me where I cannot stand.
I don’t care, I’m still free,
You can’t take the sky from me.
You stop that I cannot cry here
