The 15 Greatest Movies

January 30, 2023

15) Forrest Gump (1994)

Anyway, like I was sayin', shrimp is the fruit of the sea. You can barbecue it, boil it, broil it, bake it, saute it. There's shrimp-kabobs, shrimp creole, shrimp gumbo. Pan fried, deep fried, stir-fried. There's pineapple shrimp, lemon shrimp, coconut shrimp, pepper shrimp, shrimp soup, shrimp stew, shrimp salad, shrimp and potatoes, shrimp burger, shrimp sandwich. That, that's about it.

You can’t be doin’ this, Forrest. You can't keep tryin’ to rescue me all the time.

I don’t remember being born, I don’t recall what I got for my first Christmas, and I don’t know when I went on my first outdoor picnic. But I do remember the first time I heard the sweetest voice in the wide world.

14) Lawrence Of Arabia (1962)

Truly, for some men nothing is written unless they write it.

I cannot fiddle but I can make a great state of a small city.

Do you think I’m just anyone? Do you?

13) Double Indemnity (1944)

It's just like the first time I came here, isn't it? We were talking about automobile insurance, only you were thinking about murder. And I was thinking about that anklet.

- Phyllis Dietrichson: We're both rotten.
- Walter Neff: Only you're a little more rotten.

I killed him. I killed him for money - and a woman - and I didn't get the money - and I didn't get the woman.

12) Jaws (1975)

Here lies the body of Mary Lee; died at the age of a hundred and three. For fifteen years she kept her virginity; not a bad record for this vicinity.

Here’s to swimmin’ with bow-legged women.

Mr. Vaughn, what we are dealing with here is a perfect engine, an eating machine. It’s really a miracle of evolution. All this machine does is swim and eat and make little sharks, and that’s all.

11) Monty Python And The Holy Grail (1975)

I don’t want to talk to you no more, you empty headed animal food trough water! I fart in your general direction!

No, now go away before I taunt you a second time.

Oh, but you can’t expect to wield supreme executive power just because some watery tart threw a sword at you!

10) Patton (1969)

They're ivory. Only a pimp from a cheap New Orleans whorehouse would carry a pearl-handled pistol.

I've always felt that I was destined for some great achievement, what I don't know.

Well, get back down there, son. You're the only son of a b*tch in this headquarters who knows what he's trying to do.

9) The Good, The Bad and The Ugly (1966)

Even a filthy beggar like that has got a protecting angel.

The way I figure, there’s really not too much future with a sawed-off runt like you.

You see in this world there’s two kinds of people, my friend. Those with loaded guns, and those who dig. You dig

8) Shawshank Redemption (1994)

I think a man working outdoors feels more like a man if he can have a bottle of suds. That’s only my opinion.

I guess it comes down to a simple choice, really: Get busy living, or get busy dying.

Geology is the study of pressure and time. That’s all it takes, pressure and time. That and a big damn poster.

7) Sunset Boulevard (1950)

I am big! It's the pictures that got small.

The whole place seemed to have been stricken with a kind of creeping paralysis—out of beat with the rest of the world, crumbling apart in slow motion.

The poor dope—he always wanted a pool. Well, in the end, he got himself a pool.

6) Raiders of the Lost Arc (1981)

Marion: You're not the man I knew ten years ago.
Indiana Jones: It's not the years, honey, it's the mileage.

Your persistence surprises even me. You’re going to give mercenaries a bad name.

What a fitting end to your life's pursuits. You're about to become a permanent addition to this archaeological find. Who knows? In a thousand years, even you may be worth something.

5) Apocalypse Now (1979)

I wanted a mission, and for my sins, they gave me one.

I love the smell of napalm in the morning!

The horror, the horror…

4) It's A Wonderful Life (1946)

Look, we’re still in business! We’ve still got two bucks left!

What is it you want, Mary? What do you want? You want the moon? Just say the word, and I’ll throw a lasso around it and pull it down.

Strange, isn’t it? Each man’s life touches so many other lives. And when he isn’t around he leaves an awful hole, doesn’t he?

3) The Godfather (1972)

Leave the gun. Take the cannoli.

I’m gonna make him an offer he can’t refuse.

What are you worried about, if I wanted to kill you, you'd be dead already.

2) The Lord of the Rings (2001)

Not all those who wander are lost.

It’s a dangerous business, Frodo, going out your door. You step onto the road, and if you don’t keep your feet, there’s no knowing where you might be swept off to.

I don't know half of you half as well as I should like; and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve.

1) Casablanca (1942)

Of all the gin joints, in all the towns, in all the world, she walks into mine.

Here's looking at you, kid.

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

Honorable Mentions

The Wizard of Oz (1939)

You've always had the power my dear, you just had to learn it yourself.

Someplace where there isn't any trouble. Do you suppose there is such a place, Toto? There must be.

Don't stand there talking! Put me together! We've got to find Dorothy!

Star Wars (1977)

Mos Eisley, you will never find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy.

Don’t call me a mindless philosopher, you overweight glob of grease.

In my experience, there’s no such thing as luck.

Pulp Fiction (1994)

Every time my fingers touch brain, I’m Superfly T.N.T. I’m the Guns of the Navarone!
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It’s a chopper, baby.

If my answers frighten you then you should cease asking scary questions.

2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)

Look Dave, I can see you're really upset about this. I honestly think you ought to sit down calmly, take a stress pill, and think things over.

I'm sorry Dave, I'm afraid I can't do that.

Dave, I don't know how else to put this, but it just happens to be an unalterable fact that I am incapable of being wrong.

Titanic (1997)

Can you exchange one life for another? A caterpillar turns into a butterfly. If a mindless insect can do it, why couldn't I?

I figure life's a gift and I don't intend on wasting it. You don't know what hand you're gonna get dealt next. You learn to take life as it comes at you... to make each day count.

I'm the king of the world!

Doctor Zhivago (1965)

Oh Lord, this is an awful time to be alive!

She'd come to Moscow to look for her child. I helped her as best I could, but I knew it was hopeless. I think I was a little in love with her.

I told myself it was beneath my dignity to arrest a man for pilfering firewood. But nothing ordered by the party is beneath the dignity of any man. And the party was right: one man desperate for a bit of fuel is pathetic; five million people desperate for fuel will destroy a city.

Fargo (1996)

I’m not sure I agree with you a hundred percent on your police work there, Lou.

Oh, he was a little guy… Kinda funny lookin’.

Say, Lou, did you hear the one about the guy who couldn’t afford personalized plates, so he went and changed his name to J3L2404?

Tags: 2001: A Space Odyssey Casablanca Doctor Zhivago Double Indemnity It's A Wonderful Life Jaws Pulp Fiction Raiders Of The Lost Arc Star Wars The Godfather The Lord of the Rings