Tuesday, July 27, 2004
I Got Nothing
Actually, the title of today's little piece is not entirely true. I do kind-of have something, but I'm just not entirely prepared yet.
A few weeks ago in Entertainment Weekly magazine, Stephen King (who has a monthly column) did a story on his favorite movie lines of all time, and invited the readers to send in their own. The latest issue has several pages full of those responses. Eliminated from consideration were what King called "Punch-Out" lines; i.e. "I'll Be Back" and things of that nature, which were designed to be used in posters and T-shirts and ad infinitum. He was talking about the kinds of lines that just are either so good or so funny that they become pat of your vocabulary.
Well, Lord only knows I use movie lines as part of my basic vocabulary all the time. So much so that sometimes people will get offended by something I've said, without realizing I was just doing movie lines and not actually calling them an asshole.
So I want to do a column on my favorite movie lines of all time, but like I said at the top, I'm not prepared. Give me a day and I'll have them here tomorrow. And because I'm a lazy bastard, I'm going to make a kind of game of it, mostly to get ANOTHER day's worth out of it beyond that. What I'll do is just give you the quotes tomorrow, and the next day tell you where they came from, so you will have a whole day to try and remember.
Check back tomorrow for the quotes. Or, if you're a dirty rotten cheater, you can wait 2 days and just see the quotes and the answers all together. But remember: you're only cheating yourself.
A few weeks ago in Entertainment Weekly magazine, Stephen King (who has a monthly column) did a story on his favorite movie lines of all time, and invited the readers to send in their own. The latest issue has several pages full of those responses. Eliminated from consideration were what King called "Punch-Out" lines; i.e. "I'll Be Back" and things of that nature, which were designed to be used in posters and T-shirts and ad infinitum. He was talking about the kinds of lines that just are either so good or so funny that they become pat of your vocabulary.
Well, Lord only knows I use movie lines as part of my basic vocabulary all the time. So much so that sometimes people will get offended by something I've said, without realizing I was just doing movie lines and not actually calling them an asshole.
So I want to do a column on my favorite movie lines of all time, but like I said at the top, I'm not prepared. Give me a day and I'll have them here tomorrow. And because I'm a lazy bastard, I'm going to make a kind of game of it, mostly to get ANOTHER day's worth out of it beyond that. What I'll do is just give you the quotes tomorrow, and the next day tell you where they came from, so you will have a whole day to try and remember.
Check back tomorrow for the quotes. Or, if you're a dirty rotten cheater, you can wait 2 days and just see the quotes and the answers all together. But remember: you're only cheating yourself.
