“The moon rides high in the sky again, Kharis; there’s death in the night air. Your work begins.”
-Mehemet Bey (Turhan Bey), The Mummy’s Tomb (1942)
“The moon rides high in the sky again, Kharis; there’s death in the night air. Your work begins.”
-Mehemet Bey (Turhan Bey), The Mummy’s Tomb (1942)
“What would you do if you were stuck in one place and every day was exactly the same, and nothing that you did mattered?”
-Phil Connors (Bill Murray), Groundhog Day (1993)
“Stuff my orders! I only kill professionals. That girl didn’t know one end of her rifle from the other. Go ahead. Tell M what you want. If he fires me, I’ll thank him for it. Whoever she was, it must have scared the living daylights out of her.”
-James Bond (Timothy Dalton), The Living Daylights (1987)
“Listen, I’ll tell you how the world is. Nothing works right. Relationships don’t work right, people don’t work right. People make machines. Why should the machines be perfect?”
-Ramsay (Tom Selleck), Runaway (1984)
“Why Johnny Tyler! Madcap… Where you goin’ with that shotgun?”
-Doc Holliday (Val Kilmer), Tombstone (1993)
“I lost my job. Well, actually I didn’t lose it, it lost me. I am over-educated, under-skilled. Maybe it’s the other way around, I forget. But I’m obsolete. I’m not economically viable.”
-Bill Foster (Michael Douglas), Falling Down (1993)
“You know, plenty of people in their right minds thought they saw stuff like flying saucers. The light was just right in the angle of the imagination. And oh boy if that’s what this is, this is just an ordinary night, and you and I are going to go home to sleep, and tomorrow the sun will shine just like yesterday, good old yesterday.”
-Steve Andrews (Steve McQueen), The Blob (1958)
I was driving to work earlier this week when I heard Michael Jackson’s “Thriller” on the radio. That brought back memories of the epic music video for the song. The video was directed by John Landis and included makeup effects by Rick Baker. Like I said, epic.
I watched the video again tonight. Over four decades later, it’s still epic.
“My name, it’s pronounced Fronkensteen.”
-Dr. Frederick Frankenstein (Gene Wilder), Young Frankenstein (1974)