Interesting Movie Quotes

The Movie has two versions, the original from 1968 with another release in 2001. The movie tells the fictional story of a deep space mission that unexpectedly lands in a black hole to a planet where Apes evolved into the superior species and humans were the animals. The movie has the men trying to get back home but before doing so getting the apes to recognize the people whom they treated as pets and slaves their freedom and rights to subsist along sides each other. The Original movie had the famous quote spoken by the human when he was captured by the apes speaking “Get your stinking paws off me. You dirty ape.” which was reversed on the revived version to “Get your dirty hands off me. You dirty Human”. The story ends with the chimpanzee they launched as part of their experiments landing in the same planet showing the apes and men that in their world the roles were reversed.

The line, “I see dead people”, was spoken by a gifted young boy who sees dead people whom Malcolm Crowe (Bruce Willis) a child psychologist is bent on saving from a killer whom the boy is a witness to. The line was spoken by the boy when he tells Malcolm of his problem and he says he’s a freak. The movie was intended by Shaylaman to be a cross of the Exorcist and Ordinary People, both stories of the extra-ordinary events of ghosts and other super-natural beings. Malcolm continues to help the boy through his illness as he fails to realize that he too is already dead and is same as the other ghosts the boy sees. In the end, he remembers the whole story of him being shot and killed by the man whom he is protecting the boy from.

The phrase is a stereotypical phrase that has been used when it comes to aliens and any other matter that concerns them. Though the true origins of the words is totally unknown, there have been early references to such phrases as early as 1647 when people began to realize the possibility of there being other intelligent beings out there in the universe which was subject to growing interest in those very years. In the works of John Milton, Paradise Lost, there was a notion of the concept when the angel discusses with man the possibility of life on the moon.
The phrase may have been concocted by the many famed movie makers and writers for it instills fear and curiosity that the words “Take me to your leader” has been so much a part of most science fiction films that deal with aliens and the supernatural. Scientists are just beginning to study the possibility of sentient life on other planets like the earth amidst the billions of stars that are in the universe. There may indeed be such life though not in the forms and shapes we expect them. SETI has been constantly working to find signs of such intelligent life feom space by listening through large radio telescopes for signals that may have meaning. Though no solid facts have been ironed out, the mere statistics of the universe and the many other stars which may have such planets as the earth is a truly enticing idea indeed.

Another remake of a classic, the movie has aliens and machines that are meant to destroy the earth using alien technology far advanced than what we have on earth. Though greatly expanded on, the movie has environmentally conscious beings who travel to earth bringing with them technology we can only dream of. Curiosity is quickly turned to fear as that technology turns against us disintegrating anything on contact. The original story had humongous giants sent to earth to kill everything that moves. Klaatu played by Keanu Reeves, is an alien who is dressed as a human sent to study the people and culture of this earth trying to study and learn as much as he can. Gort is an indestructible alien which does all the destroying takes clues from Klaatu as to what to do, created to patrol the universe to keep the peace. Klaatu dies in the end but not after passing down the words “Klaatu Barada Nichto” which is to be spoken to Gort to stop him from killing off the human race.

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The outline for Wall-E looks somewhat like this: “Disney and Pixar join forces for this computer-animated tale about a wide-eyed robot that travels to the deepest reaches of outer space in search of a newfound friend.” The year is 2700, and planet Earth has long been uninhabitable. For hundreds of years, WALL-E (Waste Allocation Load Lifter Earth-Class) has been taking out the trash, and collecting precious knick-knacks in order to stave off the monotony of his dreary routine. Little does WALL-E realize that he has recently stumbled onto a secret that could save planet Earth, and once again make the ravaged planet safe for all humanity. When highly advanced search robot EVE makes friends with WALL-E and realizes the value of his remarkable discovery, she excitedly races back to let the humans know that there’s hope for their home planet after all. But after centuries alone in the world, WALL-E can’t stand the thought of losing the only friend he’s ever known, and eagerly follows her into the deepest reaches of space on the adventure of a lifetime. Along the way, the friendly trash-collecting robot who has always known what he was made for gradually begins to understand what he was meant for.

This is the most excellent film of 2008 so far, and if Wall-E doesn’t get listed for Best Picture (not just the cheap cop-out Best Animated Picture) then I’m going to throw a total fit. This is a beautiful, smart, touching, hilarious and damn cute movie that I’m going to see at least 4 more times in the theatre. It is the best film Pixar has ever made in my opinion… and the most complete one too. I appreciated this movie.

“We Came, We saw, We kicked Ass!”, exclaimed by the ever proud Peter Venkman who’s role was supposed to be played by James Belushi till his untimely death. The ghost that they called “Slimer” was called onion head by the cast and was referred to by Dan Akroyd as the ghost of Belushi on set. The movie is one of the best comedy films of all time that children the world over enjoyed. The publicity for the film even had a dedicated phone line that was put up to receive the calls of fans that were answered by a recording of two of the films cast saying they were out on a call busting ghosts. Followed by a sequel, that re-united the team that had them deal with a sea of slime that was flowing under New York and causing many un-earthly apparitions that signifies the coming of a mythical dark lord.

“Snakes! Why did it have to be snakes”, spoken by Indiana Jones as he falls into the Well of Souls which is said to hold the Ark of the Covenant, the mythical relic which is said to hold the Ten Commandments that was lost in time. The fear was true for Harrison Ford did indeed fear snakes (though some of them were merely rubber hoses cut and made to look like snakes). The one he faced as he fell was a true cobra and a pane of glass was the only thing protecting the nervous actor as he did his lines. The cobra did indeed sprayed some venom on the glass much to the delight of Ford that that piece of glass was there.

“Father to a murdered son, husband to a murdered wife. And I will have my vengeance, in this life or the next” The line was spoken by defamed Roman General Maximus to Commodus, the son of the Roman Emperor whom he himself killed. One of the best films depicting the triumphs and struggles of the civilization that was Rome it was dedicated to Oliver Reed (Proximo, the gladiator trainer who bought Maximus as a slave) who suffered a heart attack during filming. Sad as it may be, the long film had some authenticity as to the way people were met with ruthlessness during the time of the Romans who ruled half of the civilized world. Their having to deal with the many territories led to their downfall as with the movie it showed a respected and prominent Roman General turned slave then Gladiator with his family killed just so the son of the Emperor could take his place. “What we do in Life echoes in eternity” is another of the famous and respectable lines from the movie that reflects the deep belief of the Romans in the Gods of the time.