Action Movie One-Liners for an Internet Generation
July 16th 2007 22:48
Slate had a contest to see who could come up with the corniest action movie one-liner. One thing that makes action movies so bad/good/bad is that there's almost always some incredibly ridiculous one liner after the main character kills someone.
This point was satirized hilariously in the UK action movie homage, Hot Fuzz. Simon Pegg meets up with Nick Frost after shooting a bad guy, who then falls into the freezer.
'Did you say "Cool off!"?' Nick Frost asks.
'No, I didn't say anything,' replies Pegg, looking surprised that he would have the time to deliver a snappy one-liner.
My personal favourite is in one of the random Schwartzeneggar movies, probably True Lies. Arnie is flying a jet and a terrorist/spy/evil police officer happens to fall out of his plane and is hanging on to a missile on Arnie's jet.
'You're fired,' he says as he launches the missile and blows up an enemy jet.
Of course, with his accent and Hulk-voice, it's more like 'YO FAHYAD.'
The groupies at Junkiness sifted through the Slate list of user-submitted one-liners and picked out ones that are based on Internet humour. Some of the better ones:
"Control… Alt… Destroy
REPLY ALL, BITCHES!!
I’m gonna hit you so hard your Second Life character is gonna feel it.
Looks like my foot just found your ass on match.com
It’s my vengeance in a box."
This point was satirized hilariously in the UK action movie homage, Hot Fuzz. Simon Pegg meets up with Nick Frost after shooting a bad guy, who then falls into the freezer.
'Did you say "Cool off!"?' Nick Frost asks.
'No, I didn't say anything,' replies Pegg, looking surprised that he would have the time to deliver a snappy one-liner.
My personal favourite is in one of the random Schwartzeneggar movies, probably True Lies. Arnie is flying a jet and a terrorist/spy/evil police officer happens to fall out of his plane and is hanging on to a missile on Arnie's jet.
'You're fired,' he says as he launches the missile and blows up an enemy jet.
Of course, with his accent and Hulk-voice, it's more like 'YO FAHYAD.'
The groupies at Junkiness sifted through the Slate list of user-submitted one-liners and picked out ones that are based on Internet humour. Some of the better ones:
"Control… Alt… Destroy
REPLY ALL, BITCHES!!
I’m gonna hit you so hard your Second Life character is gonna feel it.
Looks like my foot just found your ass on match.com
It’s my vengeance in a box."
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Comment by Nickoftime's Sanity Corner
my personal favorite...Sneakers, 1992...
Cosmo: I'm sorry if he hurt you. I'm afraid Wallace doesn't like you very much.
Martin Bishop: You oughta have that guy checked for rabies.
Cosmo: Rabies occurs only in warm-blooded animals.
Damn I love that part!
LOL
Great post!
Take care,
Nick
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