This hilarious movie is one of the most quotable I’ve ever seen. Love it.
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Orange Mocha Frappuccino!
What do we do when we fall off the horse?
- ... fall off the horse?
... we... get back on!
- Sorry, Maury. I'm not a gymnast.
I'm pretty sure there's a lot more to life than being really, really, ridiculously good looking. And I plan on finding out what that is.
It's that damn Hansel! He's so hot right now!
A eugoogoolizer... one who speaks at funerals. Or did you think I was too stupid to know what a eugoogooly was?
I just thank the Lord she didn't live to see her son as a mermaid.
- Mer-man! (cough-cough) Mer-man!
You think that you're too cool for school, but I have a newsflash for you Walter Cronkite... you aren't
It's a walk-off!
I'm not an ambi-turner.
What is this? A center for ants? How can we be expected to teach children to learn how to read... if they can't even fit inside the building?
- Derek, this is just a small...
I don't wanna hear your excuses! The building has to be at least... three times bigger than this!
Male models don't think for themselves.
- That's not true!
Yes it is, Derek.
- Okay.
I felt like, "This guy's really hurting me." And it hurt.
I'm sorry I was wack
When I was in 7th grade, I was... the fat kid in my class.
- Ew!
I was... Bullemic
- ...You can read minds?
I'm sorry that good-looking people like us made you throw up and feel bad about yourself.
Based on the Spanish film, Abre los Ojos, this is the ultimate Existentialist movie.
Existentialism teaches that there are certain things in life that we must accept, but our response to our lives is up to us – we choose what is meaningful to us.
David’s big choice comes at the end of the movie – will he live a lie or risk reality?
I also like David’s idea of being a “pleasure delayer” – of putting off gratification to build anticipation so that when the time finally comes, it’s amazing. This perspective makes it easier to have patience.
My favorite thing about this movie is a quote from Sophia: “Every passing minute is another chance to turn it all around.” It’s a great reminder of the opportunities for good we all have. This is particularly true for the Christian, because God’s mercies are new every morning.
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Isn’t that what being young is about? Believing secretly that you would be the one person in the history of man who would live forever.
I know sour, which allows me to appreciate the sweet.
Most of us live our whole lives... without any real adventure to call our own.
Well, you know, I'm a pleasure delayer
You will never know the exquisite pain of the guy, who goes home alone.
Every passing minute is a another chance to turn it all around
We better watch out…
My dreams are a cruel joke. They taunt me. Even in my dreams I'm an idiot... who knows he's about to wake up to reality. If I could only avoid sleep. But I can't. I try to tell myself what to dream. I try to dream that I am flying. Something free. It never works...
This is a revolution of the mind.
You’re in fucking sad shape! Don’t fucking ever hit a girl! Hit me, but don’t fucking ever hit a girl!
You have revealed yourself to me.
Listen to me because this is the last time we’re ever going to speak… I was your friend.
I wanna wake up! Tech support! It's a nightmare! Tech support! Tech support!
You were missed, David. It was Sofia who never fully recovered. It was she who some how knew you best... and like you, she never forgot that one night where true love seemed possible.
Look at us. I'm frozen and you're dead, and I love you.
I want to live a real life... I don't want to dream any longer.
The little things... there's nothing bigger, is there?
The songs really make the movie. I love the creativity of blending popular songs around a story. And if you read the lyrics for the one original song, “Come What May,” you’ll find that the song doubles and an excellent worship song.
As if the music weren’t enough, the movie is also visually astonishing. It is a beautiful carnival ride of form and color.
As an artist, I also like all the references to the Bohemian revolution.
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The woman I loved is... dead.
I came to write about truth, beauty, freedom, and that which I believed in above all things: love.
Can't fall in love? But a life without love, that's terrible.
You're going to be bad for business. I can tell.
Come what may, I will love you until my dying day.
Never fall in love with a woman who sells herself. It always ends bad.
The greatest thing you'll ever learn is just to love and be loved in return.
Tell our story Christian, that way I'll-I'll always be with you.
Days turned into weeks, weeks turned into months. And then, one not-so-very special day, I went to my typewriter, I sat down, and I wrote our story. A story about a time, a story about a place, a story about the people. But above all things, a story about love. A love that will live forever.
One of the most under appreciated movies I’ve ever seen.
Its premise is fun. A blacklisted man gets amnesia and is mistaken as a war hero. But that simple premise leads a story with a completely moving conclusion.
When Peter realizes the truth about who he is, he has to answer to a comity about his “un-American activity” It is here that the light-hearted story dives to real depth as Peter stands up for what he believes is right. He calls out the McCarthyists and compels them to respect the Constitution because so many have died for it. Very moving.
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Do you remember me? - No, but I'll sure try.
Just a guy trying to figure things out.
Aside from the fact that this is a free country, and you can be a Communist if you want to be, leaving that aside, if you're accused falsely you have a duty as well as a right to stand up and suggest they drop dead.
I'm sorry… It occurs to me there's a bigger issue than whether or not I'm a Communist.
...Fact is, I've never been a man of great conviction. I never saw the percentage in it. And quite frankly - I suppose - I lacked the courage. See, I'm not like Luke Trimble. He had the market cornered on those things. I never met the guy, but I feel like I've gotten to know him. The thing is, I can't help wondering what he'd say if he were standing here right now. I think he'd probably tell you the America represented in this room is not the America he died defending. I think he'd say your America is bitter and cruel and small. I know his America was big. Bigger than you can imagine! With a wide-open heart! Where every person has a voice! Even if you don't like what they say-- If he were here, I wonder how you'd respond if you could explain to him what happened to his America.
…There is another Amendment I'd like to invoke. I wonder if anyone here is familiar with it. "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion… or prohibiting free exercise thereof . . . or abridging freedom of speech, or of the press . . . or of the right to petition for a redress of grievances. " The First Amendment. It's what we're about, if we'd live up to it. It's part of the contract every citizen has here. Even though the Constitution and the Bill of Rights are just pieces of paper with signatures on them they're the only contracts we have that are definitely not subject to renegotiation. Not by you, Mr. Chairman. Not by you, Mr. Clyde. Not by anyone, ever. Too many people have paid in blood. People like Luke Trimble and all the sons of Lawson, California. When you get right down to it, fellas that's all I have to say to you. -Damn right. And they deserve better than this. All you boys do.
Key Elements: Story – Characters – Lines – Message – Symbolism – Visuals – Music
My Review:
It was about time someone turned Tolkien’s books into movies – and, to my relief, they did an excellent job. Middle Earth feels real as we watch the story unfold.
It’s a hard thing to tell a fantasy story that will appeal to broad audiences of both children and adults, men and women. I think this one does the job. It is both dark and beautiful. Terrifying and affirming. Entertaining and meaningful.
The trilogy altogether is full of symbolism for the spiritual journey – reminiscent of Pilgrim’s Progress.
The ring represents sin - how even though it destroys us, we grasp onto it. And like with the ring, our only hope for salvation is for sin to be destroyed.
I also like that evil is acknowledged as an abomination, not a force in its own right. Tolkien writes how the orcs and other dark creatures were really good creatures gone bad.
And the Fellowship is an illustration of how we cannot make our spiritual journeys alone. We need friends who support us and offer their own unique strengths, as well as more experienced mentors like Gandalf.
We also need places of rest like Rivendell and Lothlorien. Places for our souls to be renourished and strengthened.
The gospel is excellently illustrated in Gandalf’s standoff with the Balrog. Ganalf sacrifices himself to ensure his companions go on to live. In the same way, Jesus faced sin and death to ensure we would live.
Of course, few movies are as visually stunning as this one – gorgeous scenery throughout.
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The world is changed. I feel it in the water. I feel it in the earth. I smell it in the air. Much that once was is lost, for none now live who remember it.
It abandoned Gollum. But then something happened that the Ring did not intend. It was picked up by the most unlikely creature imaginable. A hobbit, Bilbo Baggins, of the Shire. For the time will soon come when hobbits will shape the fortunes of all...
It's a dangerous business, Frodo, going out your door. You step onto the road, and if you don't keep your feet, there's no knowing where you might be swept off to.
"One Ring to Rule Them All. One Ring to Find Them. One Ring to Bring Them All and In The Darkness Bind Them."
It comes in pints?
…that is no trinket you carry …I can avoid being seen if I wish, but to disappear entirely, that is a rare gift.
Into the wild.
I will take the Ring to Mordor!
I think there's more to this hobbit than meets the eye.
If by my life or death I can protect you, I will. You have my sword... - ...and you have my bow... - ...and my axe. - You carry the fate of us all, little one.
Why do you fear the past? You are Isildur's heir, not Isildur himself. You are not bound to his fate.
Pity? It was pity that stayed Bilbo's hand. Many that live deserve death. Some that die deserve life. Can you give it to them, Frodo? Do not be too eager to deal out death in judgment. Even the very wise cannot see all ends. My heart tells me that Gollum has some part to play yet, for good or ill before this is over. The pity of Bilbo may rule the fate of many.
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 were also meant to have it. And that is an encouraging thought.
The Quest stands upon the edge of a knife. Stray but a little, and it will fail, to the ruin of all. Yet hope remains while the Company is true.
You shall not pass! I am a servant of the Secret Fire, wielder of the Flame of Anor. The dark fire will not avail you, Flame of Udun! Go back to the shadow. You shall not pass!
Fly, you fools.
The hearts of Men are easily corrupted…
Go back, Sam. I'm going to Mordor alone. - Of course you are. And I'm coming with you.I made a promise, Mr. Frodo. A promise. "Don't you leave him Samwise Gamgee." And I don't mean to. I don't mean to.
Key Elements: Story – Lines – Characters – Message
My Review:
I love this movie.
It’s a difficult thing to tell a story that acknowledges all the filth of life without just leaving us in the midst of it. This movie has teenage sex, homosexual prostitution, drug use, cross-generational promiscuity, lies and hatred. And then there’s the main character’s terminal illness.
But as the story develops, we see a fractured family come together. It’s rocky. It’s difficult. It’s heartbreaking. But just as the old house is torn down and a new one built, old hurts are mended and love is rekindled.
And the tone of the movie is perfect. Light-hearted but grounded in reality. My favorite scene is when they dance to Joni Mitchell in the house frame at sunset. Gorgeous.
The Gospel is also in this movie. Ironically George’s death is the force that restores the family and gives everyone a new start at life. Likewise, Jesus’ death was the force that set us free from the filth of our lives, and gave us new life.
And that life is being built by God daily – like a house.
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Build this house with me.
Well, I'll apologize for everything but today! Today I give a shit!
Sometimes things happen for a reason. Something bad to force something good.
Sam, if you were a house, you would want to be built on a rock over-looking the sea.
Hindsight. It's like foresight without a future.
You're the most beautiful woman I have ever known. …Not just physically. Even you anger's perfect.
Do I still Love you? Absolutely. There is not a doubt in my mind. Through all my mind, my ego... I was always faithful in my Love for you. That I made you doubt it, That is the great mistake of a Life full of mistakes.
Well, what you think you know doesn't necessarily have much to do with reality. I mean I hope I'm not the first one to tell you this.
No, Sam, I wasn't trying to get you to like me. I was trying to get you to love me.
- Well, congratulations, you fucking pulled it off!
You know the great thing, though, is that change can be so constant you don't even feel the difference until there is one. It can be so slow that you don't even notice that your life is better or worse, until it is. Or it can just blow you away; make you something different in an instant. It happened to me.I always thought of myself as a house. I was always what I lived in. It didn't need to be big. It didn't even need to be beautiful. It just needed to be mine. I became what I was meant to be. I built myself a life. I built myself a house.
Wow, where to start? This is one of the most interesting movies I’ve ever seen. After multiple watches, I’m still not sure what’s happening in it. But that doesn’t detract from it at all. Watching this movie is like watching someone’s dream.
It seems that Donnie is going to die. A plane engine falls through the roof and crushes him in his bed. Somehow, Donnie is sent back to a month previous to say his goodbyes and set a few things right. But this post-mortem time travel leaves him confused and disturbed. Anyway, that’s my best guess. I’ll have to watch it a few more times (but no complaints.)
There’s only one thing that really bothered me about the movie. An inspirational speaker presents a perspective on life that sees all human action as being motivated by love or by fear. To me, this idea is compelling. But the character who delivers it is opposed by Donnie and later exposed as a pedophile. I wish such an interesting idea hadn’t been given such a negative association.
But, overall, the movie is great – both thoughtful and poetic.
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28 days... 6 hours... 42 minutes... 12 seconds. That... is when the world... will end.
I can do anything I want. And so can you.
You're weird. - Sorry No, that was a compliment.
She said, "Every living creature on earth dies alone."
If the sky were to suddenly open up, there would be no law, there would be no rule. There would only be you and your memories.
They just want to see what happens when they tear the world apart. They want to change things.
I have to obey him – he saved my life.
A storm is coming, Frank says… A storm that will swallow the children… And I will deliver them from the kingdom of pain… I will deliver the children back to their doorsteps… And send the monsters back to the underground… I'll send them back to a place where no-one else can see them… Except for me… Because I am Donnie Darko.
This famous linguist once said that of all the phrases in the English language, of all the endless combinations of words in all of history, that ‘Cellar Door’ is the most beautiful.
If this world were to end, there would only be you... and him... and no one else.
What if you could go back in time, and take all those hours of pain and darkness and replace them with something better?
I promise, that one day, everything's going to be better for you.
Wake up, Donnie.
The children have to save themselves these days because the parents have no clue.
This dramatization of Stephen Ambrose’s book follows the 101st airborne Easy Company from it’s training at Curahee to the Normandy invasion to Bastogne to Hitler’s Mansion. Each episode opens and closes with footage of interviews with surviving troops from Easy Company giving the story eerie realism.
With amazing visuals and a heartbreaking narrative, this is a tour du force of war drama. Excellent in every aspect.
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“From this day to the ending of the world we in it shall be remembered. We lucky few, we band of brothers. For he who today sheds his blood with me shall be my brother.”
We're paratroopers, Lieutenant, we're supposed to be surrounded
"They got me." You believe that? You believe I said that?
Once we get into combat, the only people you can trust is yourself and the fella next to you.
That night, I thanked God for seeing me through that day of days and prayed I would make it through D plus 1. I also promised that if some way I could get home again, I would find a nice peaceful town and spend the rest of my life in peace.
You know why they volunteered? Because they knew that the man in the foxhole next to them would be the best. Not some draftee who's going to get them killed.
…What if you'd won? Don't ever put yourself in the position where you can take from these men.
Remember boys, flies cause disease, so keep yours closed!
It's called wounded, Peanut. Injured is when you fall out of a tree or something.
Maybe that's because Tertius knew there was some value to the men thinking he was the meanest, toughest sonofabitch in the whole Roman Legion.
We're all scared. You hid in that ditch because you think there's still hope. But Blithe, the only hope you have is to accept the fact that you're already dead. And the sooner you accept that, the sooner you'll be able to function as a soldier is supposed to function. Without mercy. Without compassion. Without remorse. All war depends upon it.
How do I feel about being rescued by Patton? Well I'd feel pretty peachy, except for one thing, we didn't fuckin' need to be rescued by Patton. Got that?
Hey Janovek, what ya reading? -An article. No shit. What's it about? -It's about why we're fightin' the war. Why are we fighting the war, Janovek? - It appears the Germans are bad, very bad. You don't say. The Germans are bad, huh? …Hey Frank, this guy is reading and article, that says the Germans *are bad*.
Hey this guy says he's not a Nazi. All of Germany and I haven't met one Nazi yet.
Hey, you! That's right, you stupid Kraut bastards. That's right. Say hello to Ford, and General fuckin' Motors. You stupid fascist pigs. Look at you. You have horses. What were you thinking? Dragging our asses half way around the world, interrupting our lives. For what, you ignorant, servile scum. What the fuck are we doing here?
I treasure my remark to a grandson who asked, "Grandpa, were you a hero in the war?" "No", I answered, "But I served in a company of heroes".
David is woken to life by his mother’s code-words much like Pinocchio is woken by the Blue Fairy.Teddy is his Jiminy Cricket. The Flesh Fair is Mangiafuoco’s puppet show. RougeCity is PleasureIsland.Being trapped under the sea is being trapped in Stromboli.Being the last remaining piece of humanity (or being loved by his Mommy) makes David a real boy.
This movie invites its viewers to ponder some existential questions: Would you rather know a terrible truth or believe a beautiful lie? What makes us human?
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“If a robot could genuinely love a person what responsibility does that person hold toward that Mecha in return? …It's a moral question, isn't it?”
The story tells what happens.
They made us too smart, too quick, and too many. We are suffering for the mistakes they made because when the end comes, all that will be left is us. That's why they hate us, and that is why you must stay here, with me.
Come away O human child To the waters and the wild With a fairy hand in hand For the world's more full of weeping Than you can understand.
The greatest single human gift - the ability to chase down our dreams.
