| advocate | 22 May 2015 2:23 a.m. PST |
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 Flashman14  | 22 May 2015 5:45 a.m. PST |
Mostly I'm just checking the ones I recognize. |
| Yesthatphil | 22 May 2015 6:22 a.m. PST |
Yes … very much a 'can you remember the film' coffee-time quiz  I missed the original discussion, but my own favourite would be Richard Burton with … The Secretary of State for War has today received the following despatch from Lord Chelmsford, Commander-in-Chief of her Majesty's forces in Natal Colony, South Africa … (Zulu, 1964) Still makes me choke, some 50 years on from when my (now, late) father took me to see the film as a boy … Phil |
| nazrat | 22 May 2015 6:36 a.m. PST |
Although I love film and recognize a good many of them, I don't really think that opening lines are really ever "great". So it's No Opinion for me. |
| RavenscraftCybernetics | 22 May 2015 6:45 a.m. PST |
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| Who asked this joker | 22 May 2015 7:15 a.m. PST |
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| Old Contemptibles | 22 May 2015 9:32 a.m. PST |
I missed the original post. The ZULU one is pretty good. |
| Old Contemptibles | 22 May 2015 9:33 a.m. PST |
"There's an old joke: Two elderly women are at a Catskill Mountain resort." That was a great movie. Had to vote for it. |
| Coelacanth | 22 May 2015 6:57 p.m. PST |
There was a demon that lived in the air. They said whoever challenged him would die. Their controls would freeze up, their planes would buffet wildly, and they would disintegrate. The demon lived at Mach 1 on the meter, 750 miles an hour, where the air could no longer move out of the way. He lived behind a barrier through which they said no man could ever pass. They called it: The sound barrier. --opening narration from The Right Stuff (dir. Philip Kaufman, 1983) Ron |
| charles popp | 23 May 2015 8:38 a.m. PST |
Coelacanth,
That is truely a very awesome opening to a really great movie. |
| charles popp | 23 May 2015 8:42 a.m. PST |
Yeah the line from Big Trouble in Little China is great. One of those movies that if I come across it I cant turn it off. Soo badly needed a sequel. |
 piper909 | 25 May 2015 9:53 p.m. PST |
Yeah! "Worse Trouble in Little China." I tell you the Kurt Russell film I'd like to see a sequel to -- his goofy, cartoony comedy flop "Captain Ron," which to this day I find HILARIOUS, in the way that Captain Ron is every bit as over-the-top as Jack Burton in BTILC. I'd call it, "Captain Ron's Revenge." And it would be twisted! |
| rmaker | 26 May 2015 5:59 p.m. PST |
A few more good ones not on the list: "This is the BBC Home Service. Here is the news. In the House of Commons this afternoon, the Prime Minister, Mr. Churchill said, 'What General Weygand called the Battle of France is over. The Battle of Britain is about to begin.'" "Now is the winter of our discontent made glorious summer by this Sun of York…" "Now in India's sunny clime, where I used to spend my time, aservin' of her majesty the Queen…" |
| dandiggler | 28 May 2015 1:04 p.m. PST |
Way out west there was this fella… fella I wanna tell ya about. Fella by the name of Jeff Lebowski. |
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