The actor: George Clooney The character: Ulysses Everett McGill The film: O Brother, Where Art Thou? The line: “Damn, we’re in a tight spot!” Like “The way of the future,” one of those repeated lines that just gets better and better the more you hear it. You get it three times in that scene where… Read More Top 100 American Movie Quotes of the 21st Century: #11
The actor: Tommy Lee Jones The character: Ed Tom Bell The film: No Country for Old Men The line: “But I don’t want to push my chips forward and go out and meet something I don’t understand. A man would have to put his soul at hazard.” Theoden, at the end of his rope and… Read More Top 100 American Movie Quotes of the 21st Century: #12
The actor: Til Schweiger The character: Hugo Stiglitz The film: Inglourious Basterds The line: “Say auf wiedersehen to your Nazi balls!” There are four movies in Quentin Tarantino’s career where it looked like he was going to shift into a new gear that might go on to define his career. The first was Jackie Brown,… Read More Top 100 American Movie Quotes of the 21st Century: #13
The actor: Daniel Day-Lewis The character: Reynolds Woodcock The film: Phantom Thread The line: “Kiss me, my girl, before I’m sick.” “Baby, you are gonna miss that plane” is the most romantic thing anyone’s said in an American movie this century. In a few posts we’ll get to the line which I find the tenderest… Read More Top 100 American Movie Quotes of the 21st Century: #14
The actor: Ed Harris The character: Richard Brown The film: The Hours The line: “But I still have to face the hours, don’t I? I mean the hours after the party, and the hours after that.” The Hours is not a film which I think is “aging well,” which is a phrase that I hope… Read More Top 100 American Movie Quotes of the 21st Century: #15
The actor: Danny Glover The character: Langston The film: Sorry to Bother You The line: “Hey, young blood. Let me give you a tip: use your white voice.“ Not the Will Smith white voice, Langston goes on to say. It needs to be whiter than that. Boots Riley’s Sorry to Bother You, befitting the work… Read More Top 100 American Movie Quotes of the 21st Century: #16
The actor: Julie Delpy The character: Celine The film: Before Sunset The line: “Baby, you are gonna miss that plane.” I’m sure there must be multiple flaws in Before Sunset, but I’ll only admit to one. It’s the last line of the film. Jesse, a little sheepishly, a little thrilled, says “I know.” Maybe this… Read More Top 100 American Movie Quotes of the 21st Century: #17
The actor: Samuel L. Jackson The character: Neville Flynn The film: Snakes on a Plane The line: “Enough is enough! I have had it with these motherfucking snakes on this motherfucking plane!” Disappointment has to be a relatively common feeling for a moviegoer who primarily watches new releases. The best evidence I’ve got for this… Read More Top 100 American Movie Quotes of the 21st Century: #18
The actor: Javier Bardem The character: Anton Chigurh The film: No Country for Old Men The line: “What’s the most you ever lost on a coin toss?” I maintain that No Country for Old Men is significantly less bleak than people want to believe it is. What matters in this movie, much more than Anton… Read More Top 100 American Movie Quotes of the 21st Century: #19
The actor: Craig Robinson The character: Nick Webber The film: Hot Tub Time Machine The line: “It must be some kind of hot tub time machine.” Hot Tub Time Machine, in the grand scheme of (fog machine turns on, someone starts playing a harp) Cinema, is not all that much better than The Room. I’m… Read More Top 100 American Movie Quotes of the 21st Century: #20
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