Interference's Favorite Movie Quotes, Badasses, and Other Nifty Lists - Voting Thread

[LMP]

This idea sounded more fun to do than TV Shows, that one will have to wait. This thread will work a little differently than the last two. Each entry in the category will be assigned a point value (#1 gets 5 pts, #2 gets 4 pts, etc...) and the ones with the most points will be in the final lists. Since there are so many categories, each list will be a Top 5 instead of last round’s Top 10. Here you will be voting for your 5 favorite Movie Quotes, Badasses, Female Characters, Villains, Action/Adventure Flicks, Comedies, Sci-Fi/Fantasy Flicks, Dramas, Comic Book Adaptations, Horror Flicks, Underrated Films, and Overrated Films, and Soundtracks. You can’t use the same movie twice in any of the film-centric categories, but you can in the soundtrack/character/quote-centric ones (ie: Batman in Comic Book Adaptations AND Action Flicks is a no-no, but you can do The Joker in Villains and Batman in Badasses and Danny Elfman’s score in Soundtracks.) You don’t have to submit entries to every category, although it would make the end result better.

Please submit your lists in the format listed below, it makes tallying everything up at the end so much easier:

Movie Quotes: (single lines or monologues from one character)
1. “You lose! Good day, sir!” (Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory)
2. Ezekiel 25:17 (Pulp Fiction)
3. "Discovered by the Germans in 1904, they named it San Diego, which of course in German means a whale's vagina." (Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy)
4. “I am serious, and don’t call me Shirley” (Airplane!)
5. "I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I watched C-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhauser gate. All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain. Time to die." (Blade Runner)

Badasses:
1. John McClane (Die Hard)
2. Han Solo (Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope)
3. Jules Winnfield (Pulp Fiction)
4. Snake Plissken (Escape from New York)
5. Ash Williams - Bruce Campbell (Army of Darkness)

Female Characters:
1. Ellen Ripley (Aliens)
2. Sam (Garden State)
3. Clarice Starling (The Silence of the Lambs)
4. The Bride (Kill Bill Vols. 1 and 2)
5. Penny Lane (Almost Famous)

Villains:
1. Dr. Hannibal Lecter (The Silence of the Lambs)
2. Darth Vader (Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope)
3. The Nazis (Raiders of the Lost Ark)
4. Khan (Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan)
5. Hal 9000 (2001: A Space Odyssey)

Action/Adventure Flicks:
1. Die Hard
2. Raiders of the Lost Ark
3. Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back
4. Aliens
5. Terminator 2: Judgment Day

Comedies:
1. The Big Lebowski
2. Young Frankenstein
3. This Is Spinal Tap
4. Ghostbusters
5. Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy

Sci-Fi/Fantasy Flicks:
1. Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope
2. Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan
3. 2001: A Space Odyssey
4. Blade Runner
5. Children of Men

Dramas:
1. Pulp Fiction
2. Lawrence of Arabia
3. Schindler’s List
4. A Clockwork Orange
5. The Shawshank Redemption

Comic Book Adaptations:
1. Batman Begins
2. Spider-Man 2
3. Batman
4. Sin City
5. V for Vendetta

Horror Flicks:
1. The Thing
2. The Shining
3. Jaws
4. Halloween
5. Alien

Underrated Films:
1. Munich
2. Ed Wood
3. Waiting for Guffman
4. Big Trouble in Littla China
5. Heavyweights

Overrated Films:
1. Gone with the Wind
2. Titanic
3. Chicago
4. Forrest Gump
5. The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King

Soundtracks: (Popular Music and/or Score)
1. Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope
2. Pulp Fiction
3. Rushmore
4. Purple Rain
5. Little Miss Sunshine

The voting period will end Friday, August 17th. Remember, the more people vote, the better these lists will be so please submit your lists. Have fun everyone!

 

[Lancemc]

Cool. The quotes list will take a hell of a long time to come up with though, so I'll just do the rest for now, and save that for later if that's alright with you.

Badasses
1. The Man With No Name - Clint Eastwood
2. The Terminator - Arnold Swartzenspengler
3. Sarah Connor - Linda Hamilton
4. Ellen Ripley - Sigourney Weaver
5. James Bond - Daniel Craig

Female Characters
1. Sarah Connor - Linda Hamilton
2. Mia Wallace - Uma Thurman
3. Ellen Ripley - Sigourney Weaver
4. Clarice Starling - Jodi Foster
5. Yu Shu Lien - Michelle Yeoh

Villains
1. Angel Eyes (The Good, The Bad, And The Ugly)
2. Khan (Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan)
3. Bill The Butcher (Gangs of New York)
4. Roy Batty (Blade Runner)
5. T-1000 (Terminator 2: Judgment Day)

Action/Adventure Flicks
1. The Good, The Bad, And The Ugly
2. Terminator 2: Judgment Day (Though I classify this as Sci-Fi Action, but whatever)
3. Raiders Of The Lost Ark
4. Aliens (Again, Sci-Fi Action, whatever... )
5. Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon

Comedies
1. The Big Lebowski
2. Young Frankenstein
3. Arthur
4. The 40-Year-Old Virgin
5. Caddyshack

Sci-Fi/Fantasy
1. Blade Runner
2. 2001: A Space Odyssey
3. Ster Trek II: The Wrath of Khan
4. Star Wars: Episode VI - Return of the Jedi
5. Children of Men

Dramas
1. American Beauty
2. Lawrence of Arabia
3. The Shawshank Redemption
4. Pulp Fiction
5. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind

Comic Book Adaptations
1. V for Vendetta
2. Spiderman 2
3. Batman Begins
4. Sin City
5. Batman

Horrors
1. Poltergeist
2. Alien
3. The Shining
4. Jaws
5. Halloween

Underrated
1. Arthur
2. Poltergeist
3. Robert Rodriguez' El Mariachi Trilogy (cheating?)
4. Labyrinth
5. Star Wars: Episode VI - Return of the Jedi

Overrated
1. The Godfather
2. Peter Jackson's The Lord of the Rings Trilogy
3. The Usual Suspects
4. Mulholland Drive
5. Fight Club

Soundtracks
1. The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly
2. Boogie Nights
3. Jackie Brown
4. Once Upon A Time In the West
5. Terminator 2: Judgment Day

That was a lot harder than I thought it would be.

 

[LMP]

Cool. The quotes list will take a hell of a long time to come up with though, so I'll just do the rest for now, and save that for later if that's alright with you.

That's cool.

What I meant with the "No Movie Repeat" rule was that something like Aliens could count as Action or Sci-Fi, so it's just better to pick one.

Oh, and like the last contests, you can re-submit your list any time before the end of the voting period.

Fuck, I forgot to finish the "actor" part of the character submissions. I'll fix it later I guess.

 

[waynetravis]

Quotes:
1. ''You're gonna need a bigger boat'' (Jaws)
2. ''I'll make him an offer he cant refuse'' (The Godfather)
3. ''Shaken, not stirred'' (James Bond)
4. ''A bald-headed bear!!'' (The Great Outdoors)
5. ''When you're facing a loaded gun, what's the difference?'' (The Departed)

Badasses:
1. The Terminator
2. Indiana Jones
3. Imhotep (The Mummy)
4. Doc Brown


Female Characters
1. Lara Croft (Agelina Jolie)
2. Catwoman (Michelle Phifher)
3. Ginny Barker (Catherine Zeta-Jones)


Villains
1. T-1000 (Terminator 2: Judgment Day)
2. The Headless Horseman (Sleepy Hollow)
3. Captain Barbossa (Pirates of the Caribbean)


Action/Adventure Flicks
1. Indiana Jones: Last Crusade
2. Lost World: Jurassic Park
3. Transformers


Comedies
1. Airplane!
2. Bruce Almighty
3. Gremlins
4. Blazing Saddles
5. Big Daddy

Sci-Fi/Fantasy
1. Lord of the Rings: Return of the King
2. War of the Worlds
3. King Kong
4. Signs
5. Back to the Future

Dramas
1. Saving Private Ryan
2. The Departed
3. Cast Away


Comic Book Adaptations
1. Batman Begins
2. Spider-Man
3. X-Men
4. Sin City
5. V for Vendetta

Underrated

Overrated

Soundtracks
1. Lord of the Rings
2. Jurassic Park
3. Goofy Movie
4. Tarzan


That's my list so far.
Still thinking and putting the votes in a order I'm happy with

I'll fill the rest in later.

 

[U2vertigofly]

This sounds like a good idea.

I'm going to need a lot more time for this though, maybe by Saturday. (knowing me i could probably get it done today though)

 

[ultravioletluvv]

Ok, here goes:


Movie Quotes: (single lines or monologues from one character)

1. “Joey, do you like movies about Gladiators?” (Airplane)
2. “You’ll shoot your eye out!” (A Christmas Story)
3. “All we are is dust in the wind, dude. Dust… Wind… Dude!” (Bill and Ted’s Excellent Adventure)
4. “Tell that Bitch to be cool” “Be Cool Honey Bunny!” (Pulp Fiction)
5. ”Spider Pig, Spider Pig, Does whatever a Spider-Pig does. Can he swing from a web? No he *can't*, cause he's a pig. Look out! He is the Spider-Pig!” (The Simpsons Movie)

(Honorable mention… From Airplane: “Jive Lady: Oh stewardess! I speak jive.
Randy: Oh, good.
Jive Lady: He said that he's in great pain and he wants to know if you can help him.
Randy: All right. Would you tell him to just relax and I'll be back as soon as I can with some medicine?
Jive Lady: Jus' hang loose, blood. She gonna catch ya up on da' rebound on da' med side.
Second Jive Dude: What it is, big mama? My mama no raise no dummies. I dug her rap!
Jive Lady: Cut me some slack, Jack! Chump don' want no help, chump don't GET da' help!
First Jive Dude: Say 'e can't hang, say seven up!
Jive Lady: Jive ass dude don't got no brains anyhow! Hmmph!”)


Badasses:
1. Martin Riggs (Lethal Weapon)
2. Jules Winnfield (Pulp Fiction)
3 John McClaine (Die Hard)
4. The Bride (Kill Bill)
5. Sarah Connor (Terminator 2)

Female Characters:
1. Annie Wilkes (Misery)
2. Marge The Police Chief (Fargo)
3. Alex Forest (Glenn Close in Fatal Attraction)
4. Bridget Jones (Bridget Jones’ Diary)
5. Elle Woods (Legally Blonde)

Villains:
1. Dr. Hannibal Lecter (The Silence of the Lambs)
2. Annie Wilkes (Misery)
3. Max Cady (Cape Fear)
4. Stripe (Gremlins)
5. Chucky (Childs Play)

Action/Adventure Flicks:
1. Back to the Future
2. Lethal Weapon
3. Speed
4. Die Hard
5. Lethal Weapon 2

Comedies:
1. Airplane
2. Bill and Ted’s Excellent Adventure
3. Old School
4. Office Space
5. Shrek

Sci-Fi/Fantasy Flicks:
1. E.T.
2. Close Encounters of the Third Kind
3. Terminator 2
4. Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan
5. Minority Report

Dramas:
1. Shawshank Redemption
2. Braveheart
3. Heat
4. A Beautiful Mind
5. Titanic

Comic Book Adaptations:
1. Superman 2
2. Spider-Man 2
3. Superman
4. Spiderman
5. Superman Returns

Horror Flicks:
1. American Werewolf in London
2. Cujo
3. The Shining
4. Scream
5. Psycho

Underrated Films:
1. The River’s Edge
2. Duets
3. Frequency
4. Memento
5. Freeway

Overrated Films:
1. Dances With Wolves
2. Lost In Translation
3. The Hours
4. Ray
5. In The Bedroom

Soundtracks: (Popular Music and/or Score)
1. I Am Sam
2. Purple Rain
3. Rocky IV
4. Singles
5. Pretty In Pink

 

[LMP]

thread phailing

 

[*browneyedgirl*]

This is going to take a lot of time and thought to participate.

 

[LMP]

you got a week!

it'd be great if this were some hub of discussion though.

 

[*browneyedgirl*]

Alright. You got it. In a week. I guess, I'm already quoting Bubba's momma from Forrest Gump I guess.

 

[monkeyskin]

I added in my top five male characters too.

Favorite Movie Quotes
1. "Cage goes in the water, you go in the water. Shark's in the water. Our shark." (Jaws)
2. "Gentlemen, you can't fight in here! This is the War Room." (Dr Strangelove)
3. "You know how to whistle, don't you, Steve? You just put your lips together and blow." (To Have and Have Not)
4. "They call me Mister Tibbs!" (In the Heat of the Night)
5. "I want you to get this fuck where he breathes! I want you to find this nancy-boy Eliot Ness, I want him DEAD! I want his family DEAD! I want his house burned to the GROUND! I wanna go there in the middle of the night and I wanna PISS ON HIS ASHES!" (The Untouchables)
(Honourable mentions - The "I love you / I know" exchange from Empire and "You were only supposed to blow the bloody doors off!" from The Italian Job. And "Go ahead, make my day", and "Made it, Ma! Top of the world!", and "Well, nobody's perfect.", anything that comes out of R Lee Emmy's mouth in Full Metal Jacket, crap there's too many!)

Badasses
1. Gny. Sgt. Hartman (Full Metal Jacket)
2. The Man With No Name (Dollars Trilogy)
3. Arthur 'Cody' Jarrett (White Heat)
4. Jules Winnfield (Pulp Fiction)
5. Francis Begbie (Trainspotting)
(Honourable mentions - El Mariachi from Rodriguez' trilogy and The Black Knight from Holy Grail)

Male Characters
1. Indiana Jones (Indiana Jones series)
2. The Dude (The Big Lebowski)
3. Philip Marlowe (The Big Sleep)
4. Mr Pink (Reservoir Dogs)
5. Sir Wilfrid Robarts (Witness for the Prosecution)

Female Characters
1. Clementine Kruczynski (Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind)
2. Regina Lampert (Charade)
3. Laura Hunt (Laura)
4. Margot Channing (All About Eve)
5. Susan Vance (Bringing Up Baby)

Villains
1. The Queen (Snow White and the Seven Dwarves)
2. John Doe (Se7en)
3. Mr Potter (It's a Wonderful Life)
4. Louis Mazzini (Kind Hearts and Coronets)
5. Ernst Stavro Blofeld (Bond series)

Action/Adventure Flicks
1. Raiders of the Lost Ark
2. Aliens
3. The Goonies
4. Die Hard
5. North by North West

Comedies
1. Monty Python and the Holy Grail
2. The Big Lebowski
3. Arsenic and Old Lace
4. The Naked Gun
5. Some Like It Hot

Sci-Fi/Fantasy Flicks
1. Spirited Away
2. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
3. Pan's Labyrinth
4. A Matter of Life and Death
5. Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back

Dramas
1. 12 Angry Men
2. City of God
3. Double Indemnity
4. Memento
5. Raging Bull

Comic Book Adaptations
1. Sin City
2. A History of Violence
3. Ghost World
4. Ghost in the Shell
5. American Splendour

Horror Flicks
1. The Shining
2. Pyscho
3. Alien
4. Dawn of the Dead (1978)
5. Hallowe'en

Underrated Films
1. Ed Wood
2. The King of Comedy
3. Citizen Ruth
4. The Hudsucker Proxy
5. Return of the Killer Tomatoes

Overrated Films
1. LOTR - Return of the King
2. Forrest Gump
3. Donnie Darko
4. Batman Begins
5. The Shawshank Redemption
(Honourable mention - both Kill Bills)

Soundtracks
1. Garden State
2. Cruel Intentions
3. This Is Spinal Tap
4. 2001: A Space Odyssey
5. The Fountain
(Honourable mention - The Lion King)

 

[dazzlingamy]

hrm, so many things to think about!!
I shall do it *goes off to think*

 

[LMP]

Female Characters was originally Hottest Chicks, but that's severely limiting and a little misogynistic.

 

[Lancemc]

Female Characters was originally Hottest Chicks, but that's severely limiting and a little misogynistic.

Respect the cock.

 

[LMP]

Respect the cock.

I need to see Magnolia... well any P.T. Anderson flick before There Will Be Blood.

Yes, even Punch-Drunk Love.

 

[Lancemc]

Punch-Drunk Love is his best film, easily. It's probably one of the most perfect examples I've seen of using visual and aural techniques to tell the story, outside of writing and acting. It's a damn near perfect film, and I still can't get enough of it. And I usually hate Adam Sandler.

P.T. Anderson really is one of the greats already though, and having recently watched most of his films again I've got to say he's possibly my favorite contemporary filmmaker (I can't believe I forgot to put him on my top 10 directors list ).

Hard Eight and Boogie Nights are two era-defining works in film, nearly one-upping Tarantino at his own game (if only because PT is a more "deep" filmmaker while being just as stylish). Magnolia is an extremely difficult film at first, and it really doesn't pay off until the final half hour or so. Take a great deal of patience. I personally have a few problems with that film, but it's still my second favorite PT film.

Puck-Drunk Love is #1 though, for reasons I've already stated. That's a good sign though, because his films have only been steadily getting better and better with each subsequent release. If that pattern holds true, "There Will Be Blood" should be his finest work yet. And if so, God, I can't even imagine what that film will deliver.

 

[LMP]

I almost checked out Punch-Drunk years ago because I'm such a big Sandler fan, but there's about a 5% I would've enjoyed it.

It's in the epic-ass 200 movie NetFlix list right now.

 

[No spoken words]

I am one of the few people I know of that loves Punch Drunk Love. I'm a big PT Anderson fan, the guy was just born to make movies.

LMP aka YLB, I'm going to definitely do those lists, possibly later on today, once I've left work.

 

[LMP]

Fantastic!

 

[Lancemc]

I am one of the few people I know of that loves Punch Drunk Love. I'm a big PT Anderson fan, the guy was just born to make movies.

That he was.

I absolutely adore that film. And it's really just one of the most perfectly crafted movies I've ever seen, to the point where the camera, the lighting, and the art design overshadow even the phenominal performances (Philip Seymour Hoffman at his finest, even in such a small role).

Another point about PT, is his ability to bring the most out of his actors. Throughout his 4 films, we've seen career-best performances from Hoffman, Tom Cruise, Julianne Moore, John C. Riley, and probably even Burt Reynolds.

Can you imagine what he's going to do with Daniel-Day Lewis?

 

[monkeyskin]

Punch-Drunk Love is my favourite PT Anderson film by far, although I haven't got round to catching Hard Eight on TV yet. It's definitely a less inaccessible film than Boogie Nights or Magnolia were, which is odd as it's a 90 minute comedy drama starring Adam Sandler. It's not really a film focussed on plot so much either, which I know has thrown a fair few people off, but I'm a sucker for intelligent, non-formulaic romances so just spending time with the characters was enough for me on a first viewing.

Another young director that I really, REALLY like is Alexander Payne (Citizen Ruth, Election, About Schmidt and Sideways). There's something about his completely relaxed and uncluttered style that attracts me to his films and particularly with the latter two films I can just get completely immersed in the story and performances. Although it will be interesting to see if he can still pull of the satirical jabs of his first two films now Sideways has got him lots of Hollywood attention (his Paris Je T'aime segment was more in line with his more recent two).

 

[Lancemc]

Alexander Payne is another contemporary kick-ass-er. Love his technique.

 

[LMP]

Still a few more days to vote, fellas.

 

[U2vertigofly]

What's the deadline again? I would really love to get a list in but preseason started this week so it'll be tough.

 

[LMP]

This Friday, 6/17.

 

[U2vertigofly]

Thanks, I'll see if i can get it in, but I can't be sure

 

[LMP]

that's cool, at least you have an excuse.

 

[U2vertigofly]

Yes, I would hope hitting other people for 7 hours a day is a good excuse

 

[Lancemc]

I was thinking about making a sort of "fantasy filmmaker" competition soon. But nothing as extensive as what the cats over at RT do, with the year long scoring and team-making and stuff like that.

Maybe just have people come up with a very short film idea (genre-subgenre-setting-time perid), director, writer, stars, supporting actors, cinematographer, art designer, composer/sountracks, producer maybe, and on and on. People would submit their fantasy films, using people from anyone in the industry to fill in the gaps, and then maybe we could have people list their favorites, and then start a short competition if there's enough interest.

Anyone game?

 

[LMP]

That sounds like the best idea ever.