View From the Bushes

It was nice to see that my critique of the third Harry Potter movie generated so many comments, even if most of them were negative. Perhaps I've missed my calling as a movie critic. One of the things I really enjoy about movies is the good quotes that are generated, particularly one-liners. I was watching Commando the other day, which for me contains the greatest examples of Schwartzenneger one-liners. My favorite is when he's holding the guy upside down over the edge of a cliff and he asks him, "Do you remember when I said that I would kill you last?" "Yeah, yeah you did." "I lied."

Then when he walks back to the car and the girl she asks him, "What did you do with him?" To which Arnold replies, "I let him go." Classic! Another great movie for quotes is Real Genius. As a sidenote, to my eternal delight the other day when I let my wife pick the movie to watch that's the one she picked. Later she told me that she might not have if she'd know I was going to recite all the dialogue right along with the movie...

On that note I'll end with some memorable dialogue from that movie:

Mitch: Did you know there's a guy living in our closet?
Chris Knight: You've seen him too?
Mitch: Who is he?
Chris Knight: Hollyfeld.
Mitch: Why does he keep going into our closet?
Chris Knight: Why do you keep going into our closet?
Mitch: To get my clothes - but that's not why he goes in there.
Chris Knight: Of course not, he's twice your size - your clothes would never fit him.
Mitch: Yeah...
Chris Knight: Think before you ask these questions, Mitch. Twenty points higher than me? Thinks a big guy like that can wear his clothes?

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Ross