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andagh wrote:For whatever reason, Reagan's America was the golden age of movie one liners. Movies like Big Trouble in Little China, Robocop, Aliens, Cobra, Commando, etc are full of them.

No, you're getting it confused; the 80s were the Golden Age of American action movies, ergo the golden age of one-liners. It didn't have much to do with Reagan directly, although the guy was a fan of the Rambo films.

I will forgo the "iconic" one-liners, and instead post the ones that my circle of friends use all the time.

"I lied!" - Commando
"You're a funny guy, Sully" - Commando
" Let off some steam, Bennett." - Commando
"This Green Beret is going to kick your big ass!" - Commando
"I eat Green Berets for breakfast." - Commando
"Don't disturb my friend, he's dead tired." - Commando
"Fuck you, asshole" - Commando
"Fuck you, asshole" - Commando

"Kill me! I'm here! Come on! Do it now!" - Predator
"Bunch of slack-jawed faggots around here." - Predator
"God damned sexual Tyrannosaurus" - Predator
"What's the matter? The CIA got you pushing too many pencils?" - Predator

"We will miss Angus tonight, we will miss his sword. " - The 13th Warrior
"It's all right, little brother... there are more!" - The 13th Warrior
"Is there a cave?" - The 13th Warrior
"They have been... gnawed upon. " - The 13th Warrior

"Shoot her!" - Jurassic Park

Mrs. Hogwallop up and R-U-N-N-O-F-T.

No time for the 'ole in and out love, just came to read the metre.
what's with today, today?
The only thing you'll ever learn, is just to love and be loved in return.
i see you shiver with antici...pation
you're a cantaloupe!
You're so cool

"I'm just up here tryin' to get a motherfuckin' scholarship!"- Red- Pineapple Express
"They're for the bullet holes, puta!" - Jimmy Jump- King of New York
"Drainage! Drainage! Eli, you boy."- Daniel Plainview- There Will Be Blood
"You, stay alive baby. Do it for Van Gogh"- Frank Booth- Blue Velvet
"No time for the old in-n-out, love, I've just come to read the meter" Alex- A Clockwork Orange
"Mr. Parker, do you know what it means to feel like God?" Dr. Moreau- Island of Lost Souls
"I cannot accept your premise, Socrates. Affectability? Progress? A vanity spawned by fear”-Doc Tydon- Wake in Fright
"I'm in whore heaven"- Pops- Dirty Work

A few off the top, that I like. Passed over foreign films because quoting translations isn't quite the same.

"I reject your reality and substitute my own." - The Dungeonmaster - oft quoted on Mythbusters.

I Love this thread

"It really tied the room together" - TBL
"We'll always have Paris" - Casablanca
"We must go deeper" - Inception
"It's in the teeth, Bob" - 12 Monkeys
"The first rule of Fight Club is - You do not talk about Fight Club" - I really can't say

"Come and get one in the yarbles, if ya have any yarbles, you eunuch jelly thou!" A Clockwork Orange

"You ain't stopping at this hotel, kid. My hotel! The stars at night, I put 'em there."--Emperor of the North.

"I am a shithead"--Billy Fish, Streets of Fire.

"I don't want FOP, goddamn it! I'm a Dapper Dan man!"--O Brother

"The Secret's in the sauce."--Fried Green Tomatoes

And this gem from TV:
"Once you give up integrity, the rest is a piece of cake."--Dallas

Several from The Wizard of Oz:

"Auntie Em, Auntie Em!"

"Toto, I've a feeling we're not in Kansas anymore."

"I'll get you my pretty, and your little dog too."

And my personal favorite, "....if I only had a brain."

love the Aliens quotes. I can so clearly hear Hudson's beautiful, whiny voice.