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Author:  joeranger [ Fri Jun 20, 2008 12:00 am ]
Post subject:  Great dialog in SciFi movies
I saw an interview of Carrie Fisher discussing the original SW script; saying "Who talks like this?"
With that said, every once in a while there is good dialog in SciFi. I don't mean great quotes like "We're on an express elevator to hell" or "I thought they smelled bad...on the outside"

SO I was watching Indy 3 to get ready for Indy 4, and I was reminded of one of my favorite scenes.

"The hell you will. He's got a two day head start on you which is more than he needs. He's got friends in every village from here to the Sudan, he speaks a dozen different languages and knows every local custom. He'll blend in. Disappear! You'll never see him again. With any luck he has the Grail already."

It ranks up there with the interrogation room scene in the original Terminator with the psychologist and Reese.

There are lots of great scenes in scifi and tons of sound bytes and quotes.

Any other memorable writing sticks out to you marines?
Author:  SGM Baldwin [ Fri Jun 20, 2008 2:00 am ]
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1.21 Jigawatts!
Author:  Chryse [ Fri Jun 20, 2008 2:11 am ]
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"The needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few... or the one."
Author:  Cooter Davis [ Fri Jun 20, 2008 2:42 am ]
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"Greetings, Starfighter. You have been recruited by the Star League to defend the Frontier against Xur and the Kodan armada"
Author:  SSgt Burton [ Fri Jun 20, 2008 3:32 am ]
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I have a whole list of favourite lines from my favourite movies. Most of them are one liners like Arnie's "I'll be back".

But here are two monologues that stand out for me:


"I know I'm human. And if you were all these things, then you'd just attack me right now, so some of you are still human. This thing doesn't want to show itself, it wants to hide inside an imitation. It'll fight if it has to, but it's vulnerable out in the open. If it takes us over, then it has no more enemies, nobody left to kill it. And then it's won."

The Thing (1982)


"(You think you’re) A soldier?! No Goddammit, I’m a soldier! With the career goal of all soldiers: I want to stay alive in situations where it ain't all that easy to do! But you my friend, you’re a death lover! I know the species: 17 years old and some son of a bitch has put you in love with death! Somebody sold you on the idea that dying for a cause is oh so romantic; well that is the worst kind of all the kinds of BULLSHIT there is!! Dying is only one thing: bad! Don’t find that out! Please!"

Taps (Sorry this one wasn't sci-fi but a great quote none the less :wink: )



Of course none of these compare to...



"Press the button my friend, send me back into time."

:wink: :)
Author:  Cooter Davis [ Fri Jun 20, 2008 4:19 am ]
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"This. No This."
"That or nothing!"

Dialog between Scotty and Chekov from Startrek III
Author:  Tarim-rex [ Fri Jun 20, 2008 4:46 am ]
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"Then you die, she dies,
everybody dies."

"Norl knew what he was doing.
And for a gorilla his English was not bad."
Author:  Doc [ Fri Jun 20, 2008 5:02 am ]
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Just tell me you love me you pussy...
Stealth

Make it SO...
TNG..

There be whales...
ST 4

Somebody wake up Hicks

I also like "Fire at Will"
but who is Will and what the hell did he do that everyone is firing at him???
Author:  falken108 [ Fri Jun 20, 2008 5:41 am ]
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STERN.........:evil:
He's nuthin but a low down, double dealing, back stabbing, perverted worm.
Hangin's too good for im.
Burnins too good for im.
He should be torn into little bitsy pieces and buried alive.
I'll kill him.
KILL !!!

I think I got that right
Found this after posting...
http://youtube.com/watch?v=XRn2uXD9O4I
Author:  Divine_Ambrosia [ Fri Jun 20, 2008 4:06 pm ]
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Favorite writing ever not quite sci-fi though....

Carlos: So, what, were they psychos, or...
Seth: Did they look like psychos? Is that what they looked like? They were vampires. Psychos do not explode when sunlight hits them, I don't give a fuck how crazy they are!



Kate: Where are you taking us?
Richie: Mexico.
Kate: What's in Mexico?
Richie: Mexicans.

And one more:

Seth: So, what's the deal with you two, you a couple of fags?
Jacob: He's my son.
Seth: Yeah, how'd that happen? You don't look Japanese.
Jacob: Neither does he. He looks Chinese.
Seth: Oh, well pardon me all to hell.



Gotta love the dialouge in From Dusk til' Dawn.

Hehehe!
Author:  Cpl. Lipni [ Fri Jun 20, 2008 7:26 pm ]
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Also not sci-fi, but I have always loved the scene in 'Kingdom of Heaven' when the main character says:
"God will understand. If he does not, then he is not God, and we have nothing to fear."

As for sci-fi, I lke the simple: "I am your father!"
Author:  Eagle [ Fri Jun 20, 2008 9:33 pm ]
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From Dark Star (O'Bannon / Carpenter - (Alien's Daddy....))

Bomb #20: Intriguing. I wish I had more time to discuss this matter.
Doolittle: Why don't you have more time? :shock:
Bomb #20: Because I must detonate in 75 seconds.
Author:  Doc [ Sat Jun 21, 2008 7:36 am ]
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Eagle wrote:
 
From Dark Star (O'Bannon / Carpenter - (Alien's Daddy....))

Bomb #20: Intriguing. I wish I had more time to discuss this matter.
Doolittle: Why don't you have more time? :shock:
Bomb #20: Because I must detonate in 75 seconds.


Oh man.. I want that movie on DVD.. What a classic
Author:  Cooter Davis [ Sat Jun 21, 2008 5:27 pm ]
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" Two men enter, one man leaves!"
Author:  companyman [ Tue Jun 24, 2008 9:16 pm ]
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"I laugh in the face of danger, then hide 'til it goes away!"

Xander, Buffy the Vampire Slayer


"It's weird and pissed-off whatever it is!"

Palmer, The Thing


And of course -

"Lock S-foils in attack positions!"
Author:  TS826 [ Tue Jun 24, 2008 9:34 pm ]
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" Let me put it this way, Mr.Amor...
The 9000 series is the most reliable computer ever made.
No 9000 computer has ever made a mistake or distorted information.
We are all, by any practical definition of the words, foolproof and incapable of error."
Author:  Pug50 [ Tue Jun 24, 2008 10:00 pm ]
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Quote:
...
Ash: You still don't understand what you're dealing with, do you? Perfect organism. Its structural perfection is matched only by its hostility.
Lambert: You admire it.
Ash: I admire its purity. A survivor... unclouded by conscience, remorse, or delusions of morality.
...


Obvious, sorry! :xeno:
Author:  companyman [ Wed Jun 25, 2008 12:03 am ]
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OMG can't believe I left out one of my favourite sci-fi exchanges.

"This is Ambassador Delenn of the Minbari. Babylon 5 is under our protection. Withdraw, or be destroyed!"

"Negative, we have authority here. Do not force us to engage your ship."

"Why not? Only one human captain has ever survived battle with the Minbari Fleet. He is behind me. You are in front of me. If you value your lives, be somewhere else!"
Author:  Stuntman Mike [ Wed Jun 25, 2008 12:21 am ]
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"It flies like a truck."

"Good. What is a truck?"

-The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai across the eighth dimension
Author:  SSgt Burton [ Wed Jun 25, 2008 12:28 am ]
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"From Hell's heart... I stab at thee!"

"For hate's sake... I spit my last breath--- at thee!!"




(Gotta be my all time favourite movie :wink: )
Author:  sixty [ Wed Jun 25, 2008 9:10 am ]
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"I WILL KILL HIM!"

;)
Author:  Glenn [ Wed Jun 25, 2008 6:48 pm ]
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The best line from the remake of The Thing......

You got to be FU##ING kidding.....

:lol:
Author:  Cooter Davis [ Wed Jun 25, 2008 6:58 pm ]
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Leelo Dallas Multipass.
Author:  Cooter Davis [ Wed Jun 25, 2008 9:39 pm ]
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Dr Ray Stantz: Everything was fine with our system until the power grid was shut off by dickless here.
Walter Peck: They caused an explosion!
Mayor: Is this true?
Dr. Peter Venkman: Yes it's true.
[pause]
Dr. Peter Venkman: This man has no dick
Author:  dcarty [ Wed Jun 25, 2008 10:47 pm ]
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"By Grabthar's Hammer, you shall be AVENGED!!!"

And my absolute favorite line from that same movie:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R2kHvCQ2Q6Q

So many great lines spring to mind.

"I am monitored to respond to the name Robbie." and "I never use it myself. It promotes rust".

"Gort! Klaatu barada nikto."

"Get your stinking paws off me you damned dirty ape!!!"

"I've seen things you humans wouldn't believe. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I've watched C-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhauser Gate. All those moments will be lost in time like...tears in rain."

I could go on like this all day--lol!

Cheers,

Dave
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