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Re: Societal compulsion to quote movies
« Reply #675 on: March 31, 2012, 08:06:47 PM »
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Re: Societal compulsion to quote movies
« Reply #676 on: April 01, 2012, 02:55:29 PM »
An NPR interview of Willem Dafoe, aired this morning, makes it appears that Dafoe recited the "makes me feel like riverdancing" line in "To Live and Die In L.A." as well as "Boondock Saints."  a brief search has failed to confirm this.  Anyone seen both flicks?  Did NPR goof?
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Re: Societal compulsion to quote movies
« Reply #677 on: April 01, 2012, 05:09:18 PM »
An NPR interview of Willem Dafoe, aired this morning, makes it appears that Dafoe recited the "makes me feel like riverdancing" line in "To Live and Die In L.A." as well as "Boondock Saints."  a brief search has failed to confirm this.  Anyone seen both flicks?  Did NPR goof?

I can confirm he used it in Boondock Saints.  Don't know about the other one.
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Re: Societal compulsion to quote movies
« Reply #678 on: April 01, 2012, 06:21:39 PM »
Sorry I did not make that clearer:  I have Boondock Saints, have never seen To Live And Die In L.A.  The clip in the NPR interview does not have the accent and snideness I think I remember from BS and I am a week away from checking the DVD.
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Re: Societal compulsion to quote movies
« Reply #679 on: April 02, 2012, 01:11:53 PM »
An NPR interview of Willem Dafoe, aired this morning, makes it appears that Dafoe recited the "makes me feel like riverdancing" line in "To Live and Die In L.A." as well as "Boondock Saints."  a brief search has failed to confirm this.  Anyone seen both flicks?  Did NPR goof?

He may or may not have used the line in both movies, but NPR definitely used the Boondock Saints clip there.
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Re: Societal compulsion to quote movies
« Reply #680 on: April 02, 2012, 07:30:51 PM »
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Re: Societal compulsion to quote movies
« Reply #681 on: April 03, 2012, 09:31:14 PM »
And you know Steve, you get the feeling that Billy Chapel isn't pitching against left handers, he isn't pitching against pinch hitters, he isn't pitching against the Yankees. He's pitching against time. He's pitching against the future, against age, and even when you think about his career, against ending. And tonight I think he might be able to use that aching old arm one more time to push the sun back up in the sky and give us one more day of summer.
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Re: Societal compulsion to quote movies
« Reply #682 on: April 03, 2012, 09:50:41 PM »
Vin Scully was without question the best baseball announcer, ever.  The lines above actual sound like his sort of craftsmanship.  We will not see his like again.
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Re: Societal compulsion to quote movies
« Reply #683 on: June 12, 2012, 09:22:24 AM »
Puny god.
I wish the Ring had never come to me. I wish none of this had happened.

So do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given to us. There are other forces at work in this world, Frodo, besides the will of evil. Bilbo was meant to find the Ring. In which case, you also were meant to have it. And that is an encouraging thought

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Re: Societal compulsion to quote movies
« Reply #684 on: June 12, 2012, 09:37:21 AM »
"Hey, is that a bazooka?"
"That... is a heat seeking ground to air rocket launcher, from Syria. You can't afford that."

Okay, where from? Google only points me back to here.
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Re: Societal compulsion to quote movies
« Reply #685 on: June 12, 2012, 12:36:21 PM »
Puny god.

I remember this line.  It came immediately after the single most unexpectedly hilarious thing I have seen in a movie in years.
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Re: Societal compulsion to quote movies
« Reply #686 on: June 13, 2012, 12:43:47 AM »
Heywood leads the league in most offensive categories, including nose hair. When this guy sneezes, he looks like a party favor.
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Re: Societal compulsion to quote movies
« Reply #687 on: June 13, 2012, 02:40:43 AM »
That's my secret, I'm always angry.
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Re: Societal compulsion to quote movies
« Reply #688 on: June 13, 2012, 10:50:16 AM »
Puny god.

The theater roared when that comment was made.  :rofl:
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Re: Societal compulsion to quote movies
« Reply #689 on: June 13, 2012, 11:58:56 AM »
That's my secret, I'm always angry.

This quote struck me on so many levels....
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Re: Societal compulsion to quote movies
« Reply #690 on: June 13, 2012, 02:08:32 PM »
Okay, where from? Google only points me back to here.

"Bazooka" is from The Dark Knight.  Don't know where the "rocket launcher from Syria" line is from.
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Re: Societal compulsion to quote movies
« Reply #691 on: June 13, 2012, 02:29:46 PM »
"I try to get out but they keep sucking me back in!"
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Re: Societal compulsion to quote movies
« Reply #692 on: July 01, 2012, 06:17:25 AM »
You give out hope like it was candy in your pocket.
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Re: Societal compulsion to quote movies
« Reply #693 on: July 01, 2012, 06:41:06 AM »
"The woman is allowed to speak, but arrest anyone who listens."

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Re: Societal compulsion to quote movies
« Reply #694 on: July 01, 2012, 12:36:29 PM »
I bet those cops have got "SCMODS".
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Re: Societal compulsion to quote movies
« Reply #695 on: July 01, 2012, 07:20:06 PM »
I bet those cops have got "SCMODS".

Scmods?
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Re: Societal compulsion to quote movies
« Reply #696 on: July 01, 2012, 08:10:29 PM »
State-county-municipal-offender-data-system.    ;)

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Re: Societal compulsion to quote movies
« Reply #697 on: July 02, 2012, 02:16:29 AM »
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Re: Societal compulsion to quote movies
« Reply #698 on: July 07, 2012, 11:05:38 AM »
Lt. - "Good Lord, what was that thing?!"
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Re: Societal compulsion to quote movies
« Reply #699 on: July 07, 2012, 05:01:24 PM »
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