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What’s the coolest quote from your favorite SiFi/geek movie?

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My favorite is from the movie The Core, where Theadore Donald ‘Rat’ Finch (played by Dj Qualls) was being asked to take control of the internet, “hack the planet.”
Rat: “How many languages do you speak?… I speak one. One Zero One Zero Zero. With that I could steal your money, your secrets, your sexual fantasies, your whole life. In any country, any time, any place I want. We multitask like you breathe. I couldn’t think as slow as you if I tried.”
That’s powerful geek kung-fu indeed….

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Sorry, mine’s not geeky or SF.

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“You’re gonna need a bigger boat.”

I say “42” a lot, but I’m quoting the book; I never saw the movie.

Oh, wait; I remember now.

“I’m going to blow up the Earth; it obscures my view of Venus.”

I agree – best overall!

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Best Overall –

“You’re gonna need a bigger boat.” . . . and of course the several later references such as ” . . . and then we’ll get a bigger boat”

Best SF

“I’ll be back” – Arnold in Terminator.
Which is also my favorite screen saver slogan.

Don

Favorite movie quote of all time

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“Get busy living, or get busy dying.”

In terms of SciFi/geekness, the first quote that pops to mind is “I ain’t got time to bleed.”

Too bad Ventura retired from politics. Would make a great battle cry for either side of the health care reform debate! 😉

Banzai!!!!

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“No matter where you go, there you are”

The Tick

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And, isn’t sanity really just a one-trick pony anyway? I mean all you get is one trick, rational thinking, but when you’re good and crazy, oooh, oooh, oooh, the sky is the limit.

Star Trek The search for Spock

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When Kirk and Spock are re-united aboard the Klingon vessel and Kirk begins to get emotional. Spock says “Please Jim, not in front of the Klingons”.

Correction

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That was from Star Trek V: The Final Frontier. It takes place after Kirk is beamed aboard the Klingon Bird of Prey and is introduced to the new gunner.

From the Wrath of Khan

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Spock: That is wise. Were I to invoke logic, however, logic clearly dictates that the needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few.
Kirk: Or the one.
Spock: You are my superior officer. You are also my friend. I have been and always shall be yours.

Also from Wrath of Khan

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Khan: “Kirk! Kirk, you’re still alive, my old friend.”

Kirk: “Yes! Still! Old! Friend! You’ve managed to kill just about everybody else, but like a poor marksman you keep missing the target!”

🙂 Love that..

Kirk: “He’ll die in there!”

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Scotty: “He’s already dead.”

There’s just too much to select from this classic. You might as well post the entire script.

“KHAAAAN!”

Your right

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The whole thing is good!!

I’m gonna have to watch it this weekend now… haven’t seen it in a few months.

(oops..my secret is out now isn’t it…no one is suposed to know I love Star Trek..)

Why didn’t this movie pop into my head???

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As Palmetto said, you could probably come up with a top 20/50 list of quotes just from this movie alone.

I think it would make for another good discussion thread, too:

Which sequel was better than the original in a geek series by the widest margin.

I think Star Trek II would have to be the runaway winner.

Other sequels better than the original

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‘Back to the Future II’. Don’t get me wrong, the first one was a great movie. The second one was so much better as a time travel story. You practically had to diagram the time lines to keep up. BTTF2 is to time travel what ‘The Sting’ is to con men movies.

Not a fan

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BTTF just annoyed me…
not sure why…
i’ll watch almost any sci fi movie but that one 🙂

Your just not a true fan dude ..

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🙂
hahaha..

Its one of the best.. I’ve a soft spot for Search for Spock as well..

Star Trek: The Motion Picture

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I actually liked the premise of the movie, and some of the execution. Would have been cool if they would have tied this to the introduction of the Borg in some way.

However, garish is garish is those uniforms. BLECH!!

🙂

soft spot for Search for Spock

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Perhaps apocryphal: while filming the scene after the restoration of his katra, Spock delivers the line “Jim… your name is Jim.” Nimoy then turns to Uhura and says, “Jim… *your* name is Jim…”

Aliens

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“Game over man! Game over”.

Star Wars

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I think Empire gives Kahn a run for the money on better than it’s predecessor.

I have too many

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One of them is from the movie [u]Real Genius[/u]:

Chris Knight: Have you ever seen a body like this before in your life?
Decker: She happens to be my daughter.
Chris Knight: Oh. Then I guess you have.

:^0

Yes..

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I don’t know if this is the EXACT quote from Real Genius..but

“Can you hammer a 4 inch spike through a 2×4 with your penis”?

“No”.

“A girl’s got to have her standards”.

It’s a moral imperative.

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…hardly no one I’m around ever gets it, but I love it!

Real Genuis has alot of good quotes

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One right after the one you noted is great, but can’t be related hear…it involves driving nails…

From Aliens

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“Nuke’em from orbit, it’s the only way to be sure.”

Another from Aliens

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“Game over man. Game Over!” 🙂

Way back in my Mac days

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We had software that would allow us to take sounds and use them for system events. That quote was very often used for shutdown (and Homer’s D’oh for system errors).

We had fun.

James

I used to work in a place like that

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Customized icons, sounds, let us drink beer in the Friday corporate meetings. Fun place.

Alas, I’ve been a corporate grinder monkey ever since they shut down. 🙁

One more from Aliens

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“Get away from her, you bitch!” Sigourney Weaver, with the baddest-ass throwdown in cinema history.

They Live

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“I have come here to chew bubble gum and kick ass! And I’m all out of bubble gum!” :p 😀

Rock or Roddy???

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Best wrestler-turned-actor??

Rock has the charm, but I think that line alone puts Roddy over the top!

Well…

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The Rock is probably the better actor. But Roddy definitely played in a better movie in this instance. 😀

I love that one…

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I mentioned it in the last post we had similar to this one. I liked it so much I downloaded it as a ringtone. I promptly changed it since I forgot to set my phone to vibrate before a meeting.

🙂

Now I settled on the ringtone from Frank’s phone in Crank 2.

Repo Man

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“You don’t wanna know what’s in the trunk.”

All-time favorite movie quote? “Somebody ride back to town. We’re gonna need a sh|tload of dimes!

Not scifi or geek

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But I use this quote all the time..

“I don’t know if it’s worth $5 but it’s pretty f*cking good”.

My favourite

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I’m sorry, did I break your concentration? I didn’t mean to do that. Please, continue

However, if I’m allowed TV…

Kryten, unpack Rachel and get out the puncture repair kit. I’m alive!

Well, the thing about a black hole – it’s main distinguishing feature – is it’s black. And the thing about space, your basic space colour is black. So how are you supposed to see them?

Hey, I got it! We laser our way through!?
Ah, an excellent suggestion, Sir, with just two minor drawbacks. One, we don’t have a power source for the lasers, and two, we don’t have any lasers.

And the truly profound –

Time is a great healer. Unless it’s a rash, then you’re better off with ointment.

“What’s up?”
“I don’t know, I’ve never been there.”

It is a mistake to think you can solve any major problems just with potatoes.

Anything that happens, happens.
Anything that, in happening, causes something else to happen, causes something else to happen.
Anything that, in happening, causes itself to happen again, happens again.
It doesn’t necessarily do it in chronological order, though.

Quote just about anything

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from Red Dwarf and it’s worth gold. :^0

dwarf

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Smoke me a kipper, I’ll be back for breakfast”. Classic.

OK how about this…

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I’d Buy that for a dollar! (science fiction and geeky…well it is when you say it to everything. My bad!

?Life is hard; it’s harder if you’re stupid.?

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Okay, it isn’t sc fi, but sc fi quotes are always too long. The greats like john wayne and clint eastwood kept it short and sweet.

🙂

Forum John Wayne (Friend of mine)

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He had some great quotes

“Most people don’t care if they get a steaming pile of crap, as long as they get it in a timely fashion.”

“Can you drink yet? Smoke? Do illegal drugs? You can’t even drive, can you? You aren’t an adult until you’ve performed a drive-by shooting.”

“When I grow up, I want to be a Japanese model.”

“Everyone should get the chance to talk to a Malaysian chick.”

These are just some.

This… is my BOOM STICK.

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Shop smart, shop S-Mart.

Yes…yes…yes

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and just in case you didn’t catch that…YES! Long live Ash and hail to the hero.

Re: From Galaxy Quest

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I’ve made of this one my new philosophy in life. “Never give up, never surrender!”

By Grabthars hammer and

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by the sons of Worvan I shall remember that…oh yes, and you shall be avenged. Big thumbs up. God bless ya 🙂

My favorite is

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from Blade Runner, where the character Roy Batty (played by Rutger Hauer)is questioning a guy who designs genetic eyes. The guy tells Roy that he designed his eyes. Roy replies “If only you could see what I’ve seen with your eyes”.

What’s the coolest quote from your favorite SiFi/geek movie?

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There’s no limit to what he can do. He could destroy the earth… If anything should happen to me you must go to Gort, you must say these words, “Klaatu barada nikto”, please repeat that.

?Klaatu

Excellent. The original is fantastic isn’t it?…but

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Ash does it so much better, even if he does screw it up 🙂

Not certain where this quote came from but…

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“It takes you back, does it not, to the days when the world was young, our hearts were pure and there was no problem in human relations which could not be solved by the application of sufficient quantities of high explosive?”

From Blade Runner

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“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.” Roy Batty

Blade Runner… (yes… again)

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I’m with rod13, Rutger Hauer made that part his own and ad-libbed those lines which made the final cut. A jobbing German actor at his best before Hollywood made him a B-movie favourite with it’s straight to video (the olde days) flicks.

Good one

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Almost forgot about that line.

Ash

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“This is my BOOMSTICK!”

Don’t get me wrong…

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… it’s a great movie and I will watch it again, but come on now…admit it, the science is all wrong. But yes it’s a very nice quote and very nicely scripted for the actor.

The Thing

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“I don’t know what’s in there but it’s mean and it’s pissed off”.

GORT ! – Klaatu barada nikto …

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Says it all, and managed to say it in 1951. 🙂

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Klaatu_barada_nikto

Hellboy

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“Hellboy” quote: Hellboy is battling a demonic monster with a long tongue, which it uses to grab hold of Hellboy, to which HB says: ” Ah ah ah…No tongue on the first date!” or words to that effect.

Tremors

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“Just a few common household chemicals mixed up in the proper proportions.”

several

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Princess Bride: “My name is Inigo Montoya, you killed my father, prepare to die.”

Serenity: This is the captain. We have a little problem with our entry sequence, so we may experience some slight turbulence and then – explode.

Empire Strikes Back: “Laugh it up, Fuzzball.” and “Who’s scruffy looking?”

Monty Python

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And the Lord spake, saying, “First shalt thou take out the Holy Pin. Then shalt thou count to three, no more, no less. Three shall be the number thou shalt count, and the number of the counting shall be three. Four shalt thou not count, neither count thou two, excepting that thou then proceed to three. Five is right out. Once the number three, being the third number, be reached, then lobbest thou thy Holy Hand Grenade of Antioch towards thy foe, who, being naughty in my sight, shall snuff it.”

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