The actor: Frank Oz The character: Yoda The film: Star Wars: The Last Jedi The quote: “Luke, we are what they grow beyond.” Putting thoughts about The Last Jedi on the Internet is sort of like going to Chernobyl without one of those protective suits. Anyway, The Last Jedi, everybody. I’ve read through Shelby Foote’s… Read More Top 100 American Movie Quotes of the 21st Century: #81
The actor: Aaron Eckhart The character: Harvey Dent The film: The Dark Knight The quote: “You either die a hero or you live long enough to see yourself become the villain.” The line is giftwrapped, the meaning painfully obvious even to anyone who’s never picked up a Batman comic or, perhaps more relevantly, to the… Read More Top 100 American Movie Quotes of the 21st Century: #82
The actor: Adam Arkin The character: Don Milgram The film: A Serious Man The quote: “What, did he tell you about the goy’s teeth.” I wish there were still key changes in pop music. This article provides a pretty good overview about how and why they’ve been phased out of popular music, and I understand… Read More Top 100 American Movie Quotes of the 21st Century: #83
The actor: Eric Bana The character: Avner The film: Munich The quote: “Every man we’ve killed has been replaced by worse!” A person’s judgment of the best Disney movie they’ve ever seen and the best Spielberg movie they’ve ever seen are both largely dictated by how old they were when they saw it. It’s the… Read More Top 100 American Movie Quotes of the 21st Century: #84
The actor: Christopher Mintz-Plasse The character: Fogell The film: Superbad The quote: “I am McLovin.” First Verse Put your eyes on my ID, And I’ll tell you who I be: A Hawaiian who’s thirsting for brew. And when I get away, I’ll say, “Seth! Evan! Hey! I’ve been ‘McLovin’ for you!” Verse 2 They’ll send… Read More Top 100 American Movie Quotes of the 21st Century: #85
The actor: Philip Seymour Hoffman The character: Lancaster Dodd The film: The Master The quote: “Close your eyes. From now on you are not to blink. If you blink we go back to the start.” There are three categories of great lines from The Master. The first is a small category. It’s lines from skeptics… Read More Top 100 American Movie Quotes of the 21st Century: #86
The actor: James Franco The character: Cowboy The film: The Ballad of Buster Scruggs The quote: “First time?” I have The Ballad of Buster Scruggs as a top-10 Coen Brothers film, which is to say that it’s in the top half. As far as I can tell, this is not a terribly popular opinion. I… Read More Top 100 American Movie Quotes of the 21st Century: #87
The actor: Samuel L. Jackson The character: Lucius Best / Frozone The film: The Incredibles The quote: “Where’s my super suit?” The first animated movie on this list and, hold onto your butts, the only animated movie on this list. No Shrek, no Frozen, no Finding Nemo. All of them made the shortlist but none… Read More Top 100 American Movie Quotes of the 21st Century: #88
The actor: Johnny Depp The character: Captain Jack Sparrow The film: Pirates of the Caribbean: Curse of the Black Pearl The quote: “But why is the rum gone?” There are multiple movies on this list which have two entries, like I’ve hinted elsewhere. However, there are no characters with more than one line represented. This… Read More Top 100 American Movie Quotes of the 21st Century: #89
The actor: Chadwick Boseman The character: T’Challa The film: Black Panther The quote: “Wakanda forever!” Wonderland, Narnia, Shangri-La, Oz, Brigadoon, the Wizarding World, Atlantis. One accesses these fantasy places from a place in the real world, as we know it. A rabbit hole or a wardrobe, a plane crash or a tornado, a train platform… Read More Top 100 American Movie Quotes of the 21st Century: #90
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