Is there a line from a movie that really resonated with you but when you say it most people don't get the reference?

aCosmicWave@lemm.ee to Asklemmy@lemmy.ml – 155 points –

Mine is from an early 2000s film called Vanilla Sky.

“The sweet is never as sweet without the sour.”

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"It is possible to commit no mistakes and still lose. That is not a weakness. That is life."

Jean-Luc Picard

https://youtu.be/t4A-Ml8YHyM

“A lie of omission is still a lie!!”

  • Jean Luc Picard berating Wesley and also me, angry at my cats when I ask them if they knocked over the bag of treats and ate all the treats, and they refuse to answer me

There. Are. FOUR LIGHTS!! Also Jean Luc. Anytime I'm telling my SO there are 4 of something. This is probably why we can't keep friends.

Lieutenant Worf : [referring to Admiral Satie] I believed her. I, I helped her. I did not see what she was.

Captain Jean-Luc Picard : Mister Worf, villains who twirl their moustaches are easy to spot. Those who clothe themselves in good deeds are well camouflaged.

Lieutenant Worf : I think... after yesterday, people will not be so ready to trust her.

Captain Jean-Luc Picard : Maybe. But she, or someone like her, will always be with us, waiting for the right climate in which to flourish, spreading fear in the name of righteousness. Vigilance, Mister Worf - that is the price we have to continually pay.

Reminds me of

"Nothing everything is a lesson. Sometimes you just fail." ~ Dwight Schrute, The Office

Picard is a real quote machine. The one closest to my heart is:

Captain Jean-Luc Picard : There's no greater challenge than the study of philosophy.

Wesley Crusher : But William James won't be on my Starfleet exams.

Captain Jean-Luc Picard : The important things never will be. Anyone can be trained in the mechanics of piloting a starship.

Wesley Crusher : And Starfleet Academy...

Captain Jean-Luc Picard : Takes more. Open your mind to the past - art, history, philosophy. And all this may mean something.

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No, just endless Simpsons references that fall on deaf ears.

You tried your best and you failed miserably. The lesson is...never try.

Oh, don't worry. Their idea of wit is nothing more than an incisive observation humorously phrased and delivered with impeccable timing.

I have three kids and no money, why can't I have no kids an three money!

The all ighty ..ollar?

Oh hahaha I get it!

Me to a Chinese teacher called Nick: 'Hello everybody! Hi Doctor Nick!'

*Confused face

I get the best eye-rolls followed by smiles from my wife when I say: “you choo-choo choose me?”

You’re failing, Seymour! What’s with you and failing?!

He's not just some guy, marge, he's a carny. And part of a noble tradition. Carnys built this country!

... The carnival part of it anyway.

I'm good for like the first 10 seasons, which are the best 10 seasons. I grew up on it and rewatched a lot of them as an adult. It's funnier as an adult.

Yeah seasons 3 through 8 were the Conan O'Brien years. That's the golden era.

But there are excellent episodes outside of that. I personally think "SE12 EP18 - Trilogy of Errors" is a top 5 episode. It's the one where marge cuts off homer's thumb, Milhouse finds fireworks in a cave and Lisa builds a party grammar robot. I haven't seen enough of seasons beyond like 20 or so to comment on them, but Ive heard they've actually been hitting a solid stride since the pandemic.

Aziz light!

(Fifth Element)

I use this one a lot. Also, I've been known to say "mool-tee-pass" when handing over my ID.

Even as late as last year, I walked into a dark room, half shouted "Aziz!" and someone turned on a light.

He later claimed to have never heard of the movie.

What a banger of a movie

One of my all-time favorites. Whenever I have to point to something on a map, I always say "Dot!" with a Leeloo accent... no one gets it.

Flame thrower - my favorite

What a banger of a movie

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I don't know half of you half as well as I should like; and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve

Excuse me while I stare at my big hairy (proud!) feet as I try to figure out whether or not you just insulted me.

"Kick his ass, Sea Bass!"

What's the soup de jour?

It's the soup of the day

Mmm sounds good. I'll have that.

“Would you like to know more?”

“Tell me more!”

When Martin is playing the “my dinner with Andre” arcade game in the simpsons. It’s too obscure to ever explain it in the real world.

Whenever someone says anything remotely close to "you can imagine what happens next" or "you can guess where this is going" I say:

"He fixes the cable?"

"why do we fall? ... So we can learn to pick ourselves up again"

People don't get THAT reference? That's a pretty popular movie and a line that was pretty key in the movie AND repeated multiple times.

¯_(ツ)_/¯

Im glad to know that arm goes missing here too. Makes me feel right at home.

For those who actually don’t know: MarkDown (the markup language used by Lemmy and Reddit) uses the backslash as a “cancel” command. And it uses the underscores as an italicize command, just like the *asterisks* you’re probably in the habit of using.

For instance, _this_ turns into this. But when I cancel those underscores with a backslash \_like this\_ they appear.

So why does the backslash disappear on the ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ face? For starters, the backslash cancels the underscores around the head. So the underscores show up, but the arm doesn’t. So what if we try two backslashes? Then we get:

¯\(ツ)/¯

The first backslash canceled out the second, but now the underscores are italicizing the head. So let’s try three:

¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Now the first backslash is canceling out the second, and the third backslash is canceling out the underscore.

These are my go to quotes from Snatch and The Big Lebowski that I use whenever the occasion arises. Not everyone gets the reference. I also refer to my anxiety meds as "anti anxiety disco biscuits." I got that one from Shameless - my doctor got a kick out of that.

"What's happening with them sausages, Charlie?"

"In the quiet words of the Virgin Mary... come again?"

"D'ya like dags?"

"You're out of your element!"

"This aggression will not stand, man."

"Yeah, well, you know, that's just, like, your opinion, man"

"This is what happens when you fuck a man in the ass!" is a favorite of mine.

I like the edited for TV version too "..when you FIND A STRANGER IN THE ALPS!!!"

Lmao you just reminded me. I'm a fan of indie folk singer Phoebe Bridgers. Her debut album was titled "Stranger in the Alps" and it took me like two years to realize why that phrase sounded so familiar.

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It's great that the opportunity has arisen for you to ask someone whether they like dags.

"You can call me Susan if it makes you happy..."

I use it all the time

I love the safe for TV dub of John Goodman beating up the corvette:

"THIS IS WHAT HAPPENS WHEN YOU FIND A STRANGER IN THE ALPS!"

"You can call me Susan if it makes you happy..."
I use it all the time

I had a roommate once who kept walking in and contributing to conversations with no idea what was happening, so "You're out of your element!" became a staple.

I once had a dog who was a bit of an asshole, but I loved the cheeky bastard. He knew he wasn’t supposed to be in the kitchen and would purposely lie on the floor and place one paw on the kitchen tile that separated it from the living room and just stared at me. I’d frequently shout, “OVER THE LINE!”

But that was just between me and him. :)

OMG I'm gonna start using this. My dogs also know not to come in the kitchen but they think as long as their back feet are still on the carpet they are not in the kitchen.

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"shit"

Avengers: Age of Ultron (2015)

The scene where Hulk jumps into Ultron's jet and, from off screen, you get James Spader's exasperated "Oh, for god's sake".

Love that moment.

There are just so many quotable lines from Kung Pow

"That's a lot of nuts!"

"You go that way, I'll go home."

"We trained him wrong as a joke"

"If you got an ass I'll kick it!"

"My nipples look like Milk Duds!"

"I'm a man too, you know. I go peepee standing up!"

"I rock and roll, all day long, sweet Susie!"

"Leap that wall, if you're so great!"

"I'm a nice man with happy feelings all the time!"

"I've got some yellow liquid for your popcorn, and it's non-dairy!"

'You go that way, I'll go home!' Is one I quote often and nobody ever gets. Perfect!

i hate that movie but i do quote "Would you say, 500 miles?....no not 500"

"No sir, I didn't like it"

-Mr. Horse

Do people really not remember Ren and Stimpy? Maybe younger folks but I assume that's most references that are older than them.

I feel like it was niche even when it was on. Lots of people know the big quotes like 'Stimpy! You eeediot! ' but dont know the more rare ones like 'Quick, man! Cling tenaciously to my buttocks! '

The thing I remember most when I think of that show are the incredibly disturbing full face shots in all their detail. Always freaked me out as a kid.

"It's log, it log, it big it's heave it wood". If we ever play Card Against Humanity I will pick the Log card and sing the song 100% of the time.

Im in fucking Austria. Illiterate farmers the lot of them here. Nobody has ever seen a movie in English or anyther language than German.

There is nothing I can quote that they would recognise.

So alone.

Are there no German language instances?

I'm not wishing you gone, I'm wishing you could find what you want.

Oh, I'm fine right here. I'm just stuck in a country that isn't my home or my culture. 🤷

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Its dumb, but whenever someone mentions peaches I always hit them with "I could eat peaches for hours". An obscure line from Face Off but for whatever reason it's stuck in my head over all these years. No one ever gets the reference.

Yo I've been saying that for years. And yeah, nobody remembers it.

"Some motherfuckers are always trying to ice-skate uphill."

  • Wesley Snipes as 'Blade' in Blade

Not from a movie, but there's a line from The Office that really stuck with me:

"Not everything's a lesson, Ryan. Sometimes, you just fail."

I love to say, “Hello there!” Whether in game (on an mmorpg) or in person at a party and hold my breath, waiting in anticipation to see if anyone gets it.

Pain don't hurt.

Some people get it, but most don't.

Pain don’t hurt.

I like it but I'm not sure that I get it haha

It’s not a movie but it makes me think of this quote from Murakami’s What I Talk About When I Talk About Running:

Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional. Say you’re running and you think, ‘Man, this hurts, I can’t take it anymore.’ The ‘hurt’ part is an unavoidable reality, but whether or not you can stand anymore is up to the runner himself.

I feel this may be the sentiment behind, “Pain don’t hurt.”

"I'm bad, and that's good. I will never be good, and that's not bad. There's no one I'd rather be than me"

"Listen to the sounds of the machine" From Elephant's Dream, a short animated film.

I'm an engineer, and there's something almost spiritual about that line and its delivery. I think about it every time I'm debugging or trying to understand how a complex system works

Something tells me you would like the Love, Death, and Robots episode "The Very Pulse of the Machine".

I did!

And now I'm learning it's based off a short story. Gonna have to pick that up.

"Certainly it hurts. The trick is to not mind that it hurts" - Lawrence of Arabia

Worrying is like a rocking chair. It gives you something to do but doesn’t get you anywhere. -Van Wilder

"Constantly talking isn't necessarily communicating."

Eternal sunshine of the spotless mind

One of my all time favourites.

As cliche as it sounds, the breakdown of their relationship and the personalities involved are so spot on to me and my ex-wife that I was floored the moment that I saw it.

One of my favorite movies as well, the mindfuck twist is nicely done and the way the movie portraits so many complicated relationship issues is just so good.

Ive always been saying a line from a movie that even I didn't remember the movie:

"We're walking... We're walking..."

I had to look it up when a friend asked what movie it was from.

So what was the movie

Dave from 1993

Oh my God. My family quotes that all the time and I had no idea where it was from. My parents loved Dave so that makes since. Thanks for clearing that up for me!

Another one my wife and I quote a lot.

Mine is from City Slickers. Billy Crystal keeps saying "hellooooooo" to the cows in a kind of half-moo voice. I use it all the time and no one gets it.

"Heineken? Pabst Blue Ribbon!"

Said it once. Never again.

Serpentine!

What's this one from. My old roommate used to always say it when we played first person shooters and he was being shot at.

I think it's from Generation Kill, where the Marines are bounding and when it's the journalist's turn, he runs back and forth instead of in a straight line and explains it with "Serpentine!"

"If I say 'I know,' I stop thinking."

Nobody has ever gotten the reference, and many don't even get it after I explain it.

(It's from Nicholas Roeg's movie Insignificance, and it's said by an Einstein expy just called The Professor, explaining why it is that he's careful to always say that he thinks that ____ or believes that ____ or that the leading theory is that ____.)

There's a line right at the end of an extremely obscure animated film from when I was a kid. It ain't a great movie. And I didn't fall in love with it even at the time, but that line somehow stuck in my mind to this day and I re-discovered it a couple months ago. I'll just hint that it takes place in a sky world and Mark f*ckin' Hamill does the narration. "Comme des anges" is the line in question (Since I saw it in French as a kid) but it probably translates to "Like angels" in English. I tried to find it and it was impossible to stream or buy that movie in any form nowadays.

Every time my dog watches me eat: "Look how curious the puppy is!" (From Lilo and Stitch)

Two of my favourite lines come from "The Matador" 2005 (Arguably one of the best movies Pierce Brosnan did).

  • I hate these Catholic countries. All blushy-blushy no sucky-fucky.

  • I'm as serious as an erection problem.

It was a great movie. Thomas Crown, though, was the role he was born to play.

Online or IRL? Cuz IRL, this is what I get with most things I quote. Online, I've only really gotten it when quoting super new shit, like when there was just the first season of I Think You Should Leave.

"Far be it from me, and forgive me for asking, and I don't mean to pry, but would you consider yourself a happy person?"-Hector and the Search for Happiness

Great question to randomly ask a person if smalltalk stalls

You think I sound crazy. I mean, it's amazing. You people...

You wear helmets when you ride your bikes.

You have seat belts in your cars.

You have alarm systems to protect your homes. But what do you do when those alarms go off?

"Crazy" is building your ark after the flood has already come!

"the future is now"

I should watch Cable Guy again. It's been a long time.

I constantly say “I'm doing my suduku, okay?” and people just think I’m an idiot who doesn’t know how it’s pronounced. (from The Heat)

“Save me a piece of that corn for later!”

I say this one all the time, and I always get weird looks. My wife just rolls her eyes because she can't stand that movie.

They just don’t understand you!

Even though your clothes may have the appearance of riches, beneath the clothes we find a man. Beneath the man we find his… nucleus.

"A beatin' ain't the worst thing in life that's gonna happen to you. You stand it like a man. And give some back."

-Al Swearengen