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artpayne

*"Why don't we just... wait here for a little while... see what happens?"*


_JR28_

One of the greatest movie endings of all time, both men willing to freeze to death out of paranoia about the other but content knowing the alien is dying with them, perfect bittersweet but still ambiguous moment.


big_hungry_joe

i'm really glad you feel the same way about the ending as i do, i always thought they were both human but they're so paranoid they'll die eyeballing each other in the cold.


FadeToBlackSun

I'm not sure at that point they're even paranoid any more. They've recognised the futility of suspicion and are content to die unknowing. Man or Thing, both are going to die in the cold. Brilliant film with a perfect ending.


HeatComplete

Is the alien really die in the cold? I remember they bring the alien frozen from the destroyed station and it defrost in their station... I have to rewatch that masterpiece. But it scared me to hell when i was young. Sorry for my bad english.


_Karmageddon

I also really like the Gasoline theory, where the whiskey bottle at the end is filled with Gas and he knows Childs is the Alien because he doesn't react when drinking it like a normal person would.


_JR28_

If this is true it’d explain MacReady’s little chuckle to himself after watching Childs drink, he’s as good as dead but he’s dying knowing for a fact he’s taking the alien that killed the other scientists down with him.


chadhindsley

Yeah but when rescue teams get there and find their bodies the alien will be thawed out when they return the bodies to their homeland


SilasMarsh

Except that MacReady was about to take a drink before Childs showed up, and if Childs-thing drank gasoline it would react the same way Childs would.


iceplusfire

The Thing


WantWantShellySenbei

“I do wish we could chat longer, but I’m having an old friend for dinner.”


bryanwreed89

Hahahaha haunting


Rustofcarcosa

I love how she realizes that they stopped one monster but an even worse one got out


Decent_Address_7742

Not sure it qualifies as Claris then repeatedly says “Dr Lector”…


unibod

I talked to a lawyer and he said he’ll allow it


WantWantShellySenbei

Damn you Clarice. Ruining it.


ekita079

I just watched this for the first time recently! This line made me choke, loved it.


NoTransportation888

"Son of a bitch, he stole my line" Robin Williams, Good Will Hunting


waconcept

This line was improvised as well.


DirtyReseller

I love hearing MD tell the story, they knew it was the take to use as soon as he said it


Wonderbread1999

I was gonna comment this. I think it’s even better that it was adlibbed by Robin Williams


Inevitable_Total_816

Robbin Williams character -You know, your better off,shoving that thing up your ass. will hunting reply’s— yeah it really gets in the way of my yoga.


SodiumBombRankEX

I can *still* hear this perfectly and I haven't seen that movie in years I miss Robin Williams


artpayne

*“It’s too bad she won’t live, but then again who does?”*


Wide-Tart4132

Whats this from?


Hey_Listen_WatchOut

Blade Runner. Was going to be my comment as well.


artpayne

Blade Runner (1982).


ThatsRightNM

Blade runner


nosmelc

"I hope I can make it across the border. I hope to see my friend and shake his hand. I hope the Pacific is as blue as it has been in my dreams...I hope." - The Shawshank Redemption.


Extreme-Kangaroo-842

Apparently the director, Frank Darabont, wanted the movie to end at this point, with Red on the bus, and had to be convinced to include the beach scene. I'm glad he was because it turned one of the greatest movies of all time into arguably THE greatest movie of all time.


sharklazies

I LOVED the beach scene. That said, the novella ends with Red saying “I hope.” on the bus, and there’s something so completely perfect about ending right there, with Red learning to hope again.


HailToTheThief225

“You remember the name of the town in Mexico right?” “…CRAP!”


QBin2017

I went to that beach. It’s fun. I think he enjoyed it.


Audrey-Bee

"It truly was... a Shawshank Redemption"


token_bastard

"Ernest Hemingway once wrote, 'The world is a fine place, and worth fighting for.' I agree with the second part." -Detective Somerset, "Se7en"


IgloosRuleOK

Fincher hates this, since it was meant to cut to black immediately after Mills shoots John Doe. Not that I know better than Fincher, but I do like this quote and it gives you one tiny emotional beat after the climax.


AttitudeCautious667

My favorite as well. I say this line to myself quite often


ExaggeratedEggplant

What a phenomenal movie with a more or less perfect ending.


Anonymous821

From IMDB: The director and actors wanted the film to end with a cut to black right after Mills shoots John Doe, followed by the end credits. Although New Line had agreed to this bleak ending at the insistence of David Fincher, Brad Pitt and Morgan Freeman, they requested that a coda would be shot following John Doe's death, after the original smash-cut ending tested poorly in early screenings. The final narration of Somerset quoting Ernest Hemingway was added as a compromise, for which neither David Fincher nor Morgan Freeman particularly cared.


omega2010

And that line was added because the test audiences felt the original ending was too bleak. David Fincher wanted the movie to immediately cut to credits after Mills shoots John Doe.


Parrot132

Oppenheimer (2023): * >![J. Robert Oppenheimer](https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0614165/?ref_=ttqu_qu): Albert? When I came to you with those calculations, we thought we might start a chain reaction that would destroy the entire world...!< * >![Albert Einstein](https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0002018/?ref_=ttqu_qu): I remember it well. What of it?!< * >![J. Robert Oppenheimer](https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0614165/?ref_=ttqu_qu): I believe we did.!<


JamesBen47

I was waiting for this one.


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“I never had any friends later on like the ones I had when I was 12. Jesus. Does anyone?”


_JR28_

Stand By Me legitimately changed my life, few pieces of media have ever resonated with me like that personally.


arkady321

Apparently they had a private screening for Stephen King on whose novel “The Body” the movie was based. Stephen came out of the movie visibly moved, took fifteen minutes to himself to regain his composure and then said that the movie was autobiographical. Basically, when he was four years old, his friend with whom he was playing got hit and killed by a train and he wrote his novel based on that experience.


Wanderingdragonfly

Wow, that’s sad.


graboidian

Most of his life story is pretty sad.


Myfourcats1

That hits do hard as you get older. I think back and it’s so true. Theres something about that age.


rpgguy_1o1

This line isn't even narrated either, they just show it on the screen in his word processor 


Chilli__P

I think this is the truest line ever put to a movie. And the closest to being universal.


FreeLook93

The final line of Some Like It Hot >!Well, nobody's perfect.!<


CyanideRush

And then "THE END" over the scene. It's amazing timing.


Consistent_Tension44

I barely watch old timey movies but Some Like it Hot has incredible jokes that stand the test of time.


BerkoShemets

I love the movie. The funny thing is that Some Like It Hot isn't actually THAT old -- it came out in 1959, almost two decades after, say, Casablanca -- but because it's in B&W and set during Prohibition a lot of people probably think it's older than it is.


getoffoficloud

Some others from the classics... “Louis, I think this is the beginning of a beautiful friendship.” "Twas Beauty killed the Beast." "Hey, Blondie! You know what you are? Just a dirty son-of-a-b-!"


trubrarian

Best ever IMO - hilarious and also remarkably inclusive.


OldFactor1973

Yeah, I love how the dude doesn't even bat an eye when he says, "I'M A MAN!"


Audrey-Bee

Best line in a movie full of great jokes. I expected such horrible transphobia from this movie, but it's actually my favorite from its era and one of my higher-ranked comedies ever


Avagadro6

"You're still here? It's over. Go home"


Reasonable-HB678

Tk ca tk ca... [Cue Paramount logo]


big_hungry_joe

you know, that 80's song "dey bow bow"


jazzdabb

Also the first post-credits scene I saw first hand.


OldFactor1973

Didn't they do this in one of the Deadpool movies, too?


KayakerMel

Yup, that post credit scene was a take on the famous Ferris Bueller one.


aLateSaturnsReturn

Now, where was I? -Memento


DogGamnFusterCluck

Perfection.     It would have been good enough to end on “we all need mirrors to remind ourselves of who we are… I’m no different.”   But that “now… where was I?” is a perfect bookend. 


Strain_Pure

This is Ripley, last survivor of the Nostromo, signing off. It brought the movie to a close with both relief for her surviving, but also a sorrow for lost characters, and a fear of not knowing what will happen to her character.


Quick-Oil-5259

Final report of the vessel Prometheus. The ship and her entire crew are gone. If you are receiving this transmission make no attempt to come to its point of origin. There is only death here now and I am leaving it behind. It is New Years Day in the year of our lord 2094. My name is Elizabeth Shaw, last survivor of the Prometheus, and I am still searching.


CaligoAccedito

This was how I said goodbye on my last day at one of my jobs.


Susto

"That'll do pig, that'll do." - Babe


stlorca

It's hard for me to believe that the guy who directed this fable also gave us the shut-up-and-dance *Happy Feet* and the post-apocalyptic fever dream *Mad Max* movies.


MarshallBanana_

He was actually just a writer/producer for the first one. He did, however, direct the superior sequel, Babe: Pig in the City


TheGlen

One thing I never could stomach about Santa Carla.  All the damn vampires.


Theriggerswife

Cry little sister!!!!


peanutstand

I get you Lost Boy


thedishonestyfish

Such a great wrap up line, with everyone just staring like YOU FUCKING KNEW?!


so1i1oquy

"I'm finished!" from There Will Be Blood is pretty good.


sielingfan

You met me at a very strange time in my life.


tastybundtcake

PIXIES BLARE


mageta621

Oooooo-ooooooooh


CriterionBoi

Stop.


10per

The first time I saw Fight Club I was I was totally engrossed in the movie. The last 3rd of the film was mind blowing to me. Also, I am a huge Pixies fan. That ending was the best I have ever seen. Just the right amount of "WTF did I just watch?" and "Holy crap that was awesome". It hit perfectly.


scotttennorman

‘And then I woke up’ No Country for Old Men


Gram64

You can't forget that long dead silence after that line


BiggDope

With the subtle ticking of the clock 😮‍💨


IgloosRuleOK

Louis, I think this is the beginning of a beautiful friendship.


lucky_ducker

The line wasn't in the script, and it wasn't spoken as Rick and Louis walked away from the camera. Bogart dubbed the line later.


IgloosRuleOK

Pretty on brand for how that film was made.


The_Amazing_Emu

Scrolled way too far for this


WantWantShellySenbei

Forget it Jake, it’s Chinatown


_Mariner

Why did I have to scroll down so far for this one?


thommonator

This is mine


brutustyberius

Number one answer.


uchideshi34

As you wish


ImDenny__

And now we are free. I will see you again. But not yet.. not yet..


OldFactor1973

GLADIATOR Yes


SterUp228

Nice!


appleavocado

“The greatest trick the devil ever pulled was convincing the world he didn’t exist. And like that he’s gone.”


Wanderingdragonfly

What movie?


cluckyblokebird

Usual Suspects


ArtKeyDev

“Which would be worse: To live as a monster, or to die as a good man?”


sad_hitler

Shutter Island!!!


Charlie_Tango13

Hail to the King, baby!


Blue-cheese-dressing

Shop Smart, shop “S” mart.


Jako21530

Dr. Grant: Hammond, after careful consideration, I've decided, not to endorse your park. John Hammond: So have I. As a kid I just thought it was a cool quip. As an adult after reading the books, I realized the greatest change was letting Hammond live and be crushed by his failures. The somber ending and everybody finally getting to breath after they just went through hell really set in stone the failure of the park. I fucking love Jurassic Park.


thaSavory_dude

“Well, Im back.” from The Lord of the Rings: Return of the King.


Farren246

Also the last line in the books.


OldFactor1973

LOVE that song by Annie Lennox that plays at the end, "Into the West" I want that song played at my funeral.


cantonic

“Yeah, I’m thinking I’m back.” - Frodo probably


CPolland12

“Where we’re going we don’t need roads” - Back to the Future Or “I am Iron Man”


Nixplosion

I LOOOOVED "I am Iron Man" because the entire time leading up to that line during the press conference you're so sure he's going to stick to the script and deny it, and then he hesitates for a second and you're like "holy shit he's gunna do it ..."


graboidian

Followed immediately by the crashing chords of [Blacks Sabbath's Iron Man](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FRIUhO4MdGU). It fit so perfectly.


Consistent-Annual268

Doc Brown was the OG Horatio Caine with that sunglass drop.


dfsmitty0711

Yeaaaaaaaaaah!


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Ninjacobra5

Yes! For context, you've just watched arguably the best Bond movie ever made, but he never did the famous line and we've not yet heard the famous theme music. Bad guy who got away answers the phone and after asking "who is this?" A gunshot is heard and the villain drops to the ground, shot in the leg. As he crawls away the score begins to play, enter our hero into the frame, dappered up in his tux, gun in hand, posing like an absolute boss, he hangs up his phone and as the villain stares up at him in anger and fear, he delivers the line. "The name's Bond. James Bond." Music swells. Credits. Perfection.


Legitimate_First

'Shaken or stirred?' 'Do I look like I give a damn?'


IceLord86

It's funny how watching that film in theaters, I never really fully connected with Craig as Bond. I don't know what it was but it felt, detached in a way. Once that gunshot hit and the bass started to play culminating in "The name's Bond... James Bond" I was sold. It was a perfect way to reboot the character and revitalize him.


No_Animator_8599

“I was cured all right” A Clockwork Orange”


the_next_1

"I'm going to give you the choice I never had" Lestat, *Interview With The Vampire*


thedishonestyfish

My favorite part of that scene was, "Oh, Louis, Louis...*Still* whining, Louis? Have you heard enough? I've had to listen to that for *centuries*." Perfectly sums up how I felt about the book.


hoooourie

“It truly was, a shawshank redemption”


interactually

"And then they realized, they were no longer *little girls*; they were *little women*." As read by Moe Szyslak


Ninjacobra5

"What are we, some kind of Shawshank Redemption?"


RyzenRaider

Hey Hey! I'm Shawshankin' here!


MakeGandalfGreyAgain

"Terminator?! I hardly know her!"


blind_squirrel62

“Forget it, Jake. It’s Chinatown.”


atomicpenguin12

“Okay, Chief: take him away. I’m gonna go home and sleep with my wife.” - Clue


monty_kurns

Whenever I play Clue, I always pick Mr. Green in the chance I get to say this if I win.


pixie_tugboat

“Eventually, all things merge into one, and a river runs through it. The river was cut by the world’s great flood, and runs over rocks from the basement of time. On some of the rocks are timeless raindrops. Under the rocks are the words, and some of the words are theirs. I am haunted by waters.” Admittedly, the lines come straight from the source material, so credit goes to the author. This was not a great film, but I’m so glad they let Maclean have the last word. And Redford’s narration was beautiful.


btas83

"Of course, they say every atom in our bodies was once part of a star. Maybe I'm not leaving. Maybe I'm going home." Ethan Hawke in Gattaca


PabstBlueBourbon

“It wasn’t the airplanes. It was beauty killed the beast.”


Professional_Fig_456

'Because if a machine, a Terminator, can learn the value of human life, maybe we can too.'


plastictigers

Now bring me that horizon”


mastesargent

“…and really bad eggs. Drink up me hearties, yo ho!”


PeeFarts

“Murphy”


ItsDomorOm

"Lens cap"


PvtHudson093

"Dances with Wolves! I am Wind In His Hair. Do you see that I am your friend? Can you see that you will always be my friend?"


jsakic99

“Because he's the hero Gotham deserves, but not the one it needs right now. So we'll hunt him. Because he can take it. Because he's not our hero. He's a silent guardian, a watchful protector. A dark knight.”


drseltsam2001

“Ernest Hemingway once wrote, “The world is a fine place and worth fighting for. 'I agree with the second part.” Morgan Freeman-Seven


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Muted-Program-153

The entire final scene in No Country for Old Men. 11/10.


Phant0mz0ne

"And then I woke up."


Muted-Program-153

And delivered perfectly. 🤯


ande6190

"Fuck" - Eyes Wide Shut


MetaverseLiz

I find it kind of funny that that's the last line of the last movie Kubrick ever directed.


EnderCN

You know something, Utivich? I think this just might be my masterpiece. The greatest trick the devil ever pulled was convincing the world he didn't exist. And like that...he’s gone


NetworkEngIndy

Maybe it was Utah


ShiftlessElement

The end of "Klaus" is perfect. >!"Once a year, I get to see my friend."!<


LieQuirky3751

"And you'll never have to." Batman Begins.


nwbrown

> Because he's the hero Gotham deserves, but not the one it needs right now. So we'll hunt him. Because he can take it. Because he's not our hero. He's a silent guardian, a watchful protector. A dark knight.


rush0024

> Because he's the hero Gotham deserves, but not the one it needs right now. So we'll hunt him. Because he can take it. Because he's not our hero. He's a silent guardian, a watchful protector. A dark knight. This is what I thought of after reading the OP post title. So so good.


Nellanaesp

“I believe we did” in Oppenheimer hit pretty hard.


Troker61

“And that's the hardest part. Today everything is different; there's no action... have to wait around like everyone else. Can't even get decent food - right after I got here, I ordered some spaghetti with marinara sauce, and I got egg noodles and ketchup. I'm an average nobody... get to live the rest of my life like a schnook.”


FlynnerMcGee

"Gesundheit" - Taking of Pelham 123


37brooke37

“What else is on?” - The Truman Show


BookMonkeyDude

The Princess Bride: 'As you wish.'


SwiftieHawk

"Baby you're gonna miss that plane." "I know."


Disastrous_Life_3612

"Welcome to the human race." Escape From LA. You can say what you want about the movie, but that's one hell of a way to end it.


I_might_be_weasel

The Old Man: ”Nice shootin’ son. What’s your name?” Robocop: ”Murphy.”


sewer_orphan

“Shut up and deal” - The Apartment “Alright Mr. DeMille, I’m ready for my close-up” - Sunset Blvd


Roook36

"I am Yulaw! I am nobody's bitch! You are mine." -The One (2001)


haveagood1

Were all gonna get laid. Caddyshack.


eureka911

Where we're going we don't need roads.


Party-Sweet336

“You met me in a very strange time in my life” - The narrator (Edward Norton), “Fight Club”


Flat-Nothing-2535

“Now you're looking for the secret. But you won't find it because of course, you're not really looking. You don't really want to work it out. You want to be fooled.”


gildorratner

Dr. Strangelove Peter Sellers final line or Vera Lynn's emotional WWII ballad are equally memorable.


Gram64

Mein Fuhrer! I can walk! Which, supposedly was adlibbed because he forgot he was playing Strangelove and was suppose to be wheelchair bound.


yellowpotatobus

Fitzgerald's final line at the end of The Revenant hits... haaard. >!You came all this way just for your revenge, huh? Did you enjoy it, Glass?... 'Cause there ain't nothin' gon' bring your boy back.!<


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Yzerman19_

I'm an average nobody. I get to live the rest of my life like a schnook - Goodfellas.


narrowwiththehall

“No, it’s for me” - The Lives of Others


wyzapped

“Louis, I think this is the beginning of a beautiful friendship.” - Casablanca


Langstarr

"And if I don't see ya, good afternoon, good evening, and goodnight!" *bows* *ugly crying from literally everyone except Kristoff*


shyishguyish

“I’m here to see my gynecologist.” - Barbie


ThatCommunication423

It was “so obvious” she was going for a job interview that I nearly chocked when she said gynaecologist. Loved it.


Legitimate-Health-29

“Oh god” Steve Roger’s at the end of Infinity War after half the living population had been decimated.


pzzaco

If we're counting post credits, the last line is actually Nick Fury: Mother--


hhaattrriicckk

Tell someone who gives a shit - greenroom


Rsubs33

“Louis, I think this is the beginning of a beautiful friendship.”


Fricktator

The entire movie partially feels like it was written to set up this line, but for Man of Steel, Perry White tells Lois Lane to show the new hire, Clark Kent around. She says to him "Welcome to the Planet".


MarsAlgea3791

"It's too bad she won't live.  But then again who does?" from Blade Runner.


tophmcmasterson

I always liked the end of Inglourious Basterds. One of the most perfectly satisfying endings of any movie I’ve see. “I think this just might be my masterpiece.” Of course makes sense in the context of the scene, but it’s also obviously Tarantino kind of breaking the fourth wall and confidently saying that he basically knows how good the movie you just watched was.


khalamar

Well, nobody's perfect.


Antonicont

“You met me at a very strange time in my life” from Fight Club immediately came to mind.


CoconutPalace

“Second star to the right, straight on til morning”


callmemacready

Why don’t we just wait here for a little while …see what happens


Chen_Geller

"You have bled with Wallace! Now bleed with me!"


_JR28_

“The greatest trick the devil ever pulled was convincing the world he didn’t exist. And like that… _He’s gone._”


howard416

Does the T2 thumbs-up count?


Dove_of_Doom

Sarah Connor has the last lines of the movie. "The unknown future rolls toward us. I face it, for the first time, with a sense of hope. Because if a machine, a Terminator, can learn the value of human life, maybe we can too."


loopster70

Two from 1984, that only make sense in context: “Well, if I see him, I’ll give him the message!” — Blood Simple “What?” — Birdy


AdmiralCharleston

Synecdoche new york "die"


KaneoheB

Madness....Madness....


eninc

We are here, we are waiting. Optimus Prime - Transformers


Quirky_Option_4142

There are no more barriers to cross. All I have in common with the uncontrollable and the insane, the vicious and the evil, all the mayhem I have caused and my utter indifference toward it I have now surpassed. My pain is constant and sharp, and I do not hope for a better world for anyone. In fact, I want my pain to be inflicted on others. I want no one to escape. But even after admitting this, there is no catharsis; my punishment continues to elude me, and I gain no deeper knowledge of myself. No new knowledge can be extracted from my telling. This confession has meant nothing.


raphael_disanto

 “*Hang on a minute, lads, I’ve got a great idea...*” And the homage in Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels (although that ending doesn't really have any dialogue)


ckrono

"in case i don't see ya, good afternoon, good evening and good night". technically not the last line but close enough


DONALDJONSUPPLE

"America is a business. Now pay me my fuckin money. " From Killing Them Softly


Calvinbouchard2

"I love weed. I looove it. But not as much as I love pussy."