Tuesday, December 4, 2012
FAMILIAR QUOTATIONS: Vulture is already in full-steam year-end wrap-up mode, and one of their features is a list of pop culture quotes of the year which covers film, TV, and music. Sadly, it contains a Zero Dark Thirty semi-spoiler (apparently a memorable Jessica Chastain line, which I can guess the context for, despite not having seen the movie), but it's hard to find flaw with a list that manages to include both Jesse Pinkman shouting about magnets and Tony Stark on Middle Eastern food.
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Isn't Zero Dark Thirty inherently kind of spoiled? And if you have seen a preview, it basically instructs you what Miss Chastain's role is without being quite as explicit as that line. I mean you would have to live in the cave the subject of that film's manhunt was supposed to have been living in to be spoiled by it.
ReplyDelete"Hey, I just met you, and this is crazy."
ReplyDelete"Yo, Letterman! I did it!"
“You love your children. It’s your one redeeming quality. That and your cheekbones.”
Also: "There's no cure for being a c*nt."
ReplyDeleteWalter, shut the fuck up and let me die in peace.
ReplyDeleteSince people are saying Zero Dark Thirty can be seen as a follow up to Kathryn Bigelow's masterpiece, I assume the line has to be something along the lines of "I AM A SEE EYE AY AGENT!"
ReplyDeleteThat is one of my favorite final lines, ever.
ReplyDelete"BANJO!"
ReplyDelete“There are brave men knocking on our door—let's go kill them!”
ReplyDeleteI know I'm almost alone in this, but I thought Hurt Locker was completely tedious. The segments barely hung together into a coherent narrative and even the bomb disposal scenes -- bomb disposal scenes -- were boring. I love war movies. Love 'em love 'em love 'em -- blood and guts pro war movies, war movies about the absurdity of war, historically accurate costume dramas. If I hadn't been on a long distance flight, I'd have turned it off about 30 minutes in, and I still don't know if I finished the thing.
ReplyDeleteSo...we're in agreement that Point Break is a masterpiece?
ReplyDeleteThat much is obvious.
ReplyDeleteSpeak of: I need to see this. http://www.pointbreaklivela.com/Home.html
TPE: I wouldn't go quite that far. I thought there was some extraordinary filmmaking, and some of the sequences were breathtaking, but I'll agree that I thought it didn't fully hold together / come together as a coherent narrative.
ReplyDeleteAnd, for the record, Strange Days and Near Dark are both better than Point Break.
My favorite line from this year isn't actually from this year, but I'm going to count it because Misfits is new to me: "Monkeyslut is blown." What a ridiculous show.
ReplyDeleteNo love for Bronn, huh?
ReplyDeleteI just want to call out the middle quote above, which is from the penultimate episode of Louie. I don't know about you all, but I read that as an amazing moment of triumph. That line, and what followed it, made me feel more alive than almost anything else I saw on television in 2012.
ReplyDeleteI thought the lack of narrative was kind of the point to show how war fractures people's minds. Also, even though it got characterized as an "anti-war" film, I took a different message--"war is dangerous, nasty, but sometimes necessary--because of that, we need to make sure that we only undertake when necessary."
ReplyDeleteI'm sorry, the winner is from Game of Thrones. Tyrion, of course.
ReplyDelete"Don't fight for a king. Don't fight for his kingdoms. Don't fight for honor, don't fight for glory, don't fight for riches, because you won't get any. This is your city Stannis means to sack. That's your gate he's ramming. If he gets in it will be your house that burns. Your gold he steals, your women he rapes. Those are brave men knocking at our door. Let's go kill them!"