by mike | Apr 8, 2021 | Movie Lines, Movies, Uncategorized, War Movies |
FROM 2017: I don’t know why—maybe it’s the militancy and negativity that pervades our world these days—but I’ve been watching quite a few war movies of late. Here are some of the most memorable quotes from a few of them. “Napalm, son. Nothing else in the world smells...
by mike | Mar 15, 2021 | Horror, Horror Movies, Movie Lines, Movies, Quotes, Uncategorized |
No CGI in the classic horror movies of yore, but they could still scare the crap out of you. Here are some memorable lines from a few of them. “My, what a big bat!” Yes, quite large. John Harker (David Manners) uttered this line in the 1931 version of Dracula. One...
by mike | Jan 28, 2021 | Death, Disaster Movies, Horror Movies, Movie Lines, Movies, Science Fiction, Uncategorized |
Wow, has it really been four years since one of my favorite actors passed away?! Time just seems to whiz by… A fine actor—and, from all I’ve ever heard about him, and even better person—Bill Paxton passed away a little over a month ago at the all-too-young age of...
by mike | Dec 10, 2020 | Movie Lines, Movies, Science Fiction, Uncategorized |
This sci-fi franchise has endured for decades. I first presented this post in 2017. It began in 1963 as a slim novel, La Planète des Singes, written by Pierre Boulle, a Frenchman. Alternately translated as Monkey Planet or Planet of the Apes, it told the futuristic...
by mike | Nov 12, 2020 | Humor, Movie Lines, Movies, Sports Movies, Sword & Planet, Uncategorized |
In these challenging times we could all use a good laugh, so this edition of Movie Lines is all about quotes from comedy films. The post first ran in 2017. “But we Romans are rich. We’ve got a lot of gods. We’ve got a god for everything. The only thing we don’t have a...
by mike | Jul 16, 2020 | Guilty Pleasures, Humor, Movie Lines, Movies, Uncategorized, Western Movies |
I’ve watched this goofy film one more time since this post first ran in 2016, and I still think it’s a hoot—which puts me in a vast minority. I may be the only person on the planet who found the 1999 “steampunk western action comedy” film, Wild Wild West, a “pleasure”...
