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Movie Quote of the Day – Up In The Air, 2009 (dir. Jason Reitman)
San Francisco Manager: So, what happened?
Natalie Keener: How exactly do you mean?
San Francisco Manager: You graduated top of your class. You could have had your pick of employment, including right here. Instead, you went to Omaha to. . .fire people for a living?
Natalie Keener: Challenging work.
San Francisco Manager: I’ll say. I couldn’t imagine doing that day in and day out. Not in this climate.
Natalie Keener: I. . .followed a boy.
San Francisco Manager: I guess we’ve all done that at some point in our lives.
Movie Quote of the Day – The Hurt Locker, 2009 (dir. Kathryn Bigelow)
Staff Sgt. William James: You love playing with that. You love playing with all your stuffed animals. You love your mommy, your daddy, your nature pajamas. You love everything, don’t you? [beat] Yeah. But you know what, buddy? As you get older, some of the things that you love might not seem so special anymore, you know. Like your jack-in-the-box. Maybe you realize it’s just a piece of tin and a stuffed animal. But the older you get, the fewer things you really love. And by the time you get to my age, maybe it’s only one or two things. [beat] With me I think it’s one.
Movie Quote of the Day – The Dark Knight, 2009 (dir. Christopher Nolan)
Gambol: Give me one reason why I shouldn’t have my boy here pull your head off.
The Joker: How about a magic trick? [beat] I’m gonna make this pencil disappear. [beat] Ta-daa! It’s. . .it’s gone.
Oscar Vault Monday – A Serious Man, 2009 (dir. Joel Coen & Ethan Coen)
Joel and Ethan Coen’s 14th feature film was also their third film (out of four) to be nominated for Best Picture (1996’s Fargo was the first, 2007 Best Picture winner Now Country For Old Men the second, 2010’s True Grit the fourth). It’s also probably the most insular of their films; those who love it really love it, but many who saw it just couldn’t relate. The setting of the film, St. Louis Park, Minnesota in the late 1960s, adds a slight autobiographical element to the film and its plot deals heavily with Jewish mysticism and spirituality. The film was only nominated for two Academy Award, winning none: Best Original Screenplay and Best Picture. The other films nominated for Best Picture that year were: Avatar, An Education, District 9, Inglourious Basterds, Precious, The Blind Side, Up, Up In The Air and winner The Hurt Locker.
Movie Quote of the Day – District 9, 2009 (dir. Neill Blomkamp)
Wikus Van De Merwe: This whole thing’s under your shack? For 20 years, you’ve had this fookin’ thing hidden out here? This is, this is very illegal, I mean, this is. . .this is a fine.
Movie Quote of the Day – A Perfect Getaway, 2009 (dir. David Twohy)
Nick: I’m a goddamn American Jedi.
Movie Quote of the Day – Star Trek, 2009 (dir. J.J. Abrams)
Leonard ‘Bones’ McCoy: I may throw up on you.
James T. Kirk: I think these things are pretty safe.
Leonard ‘Bones’ McCoy: Don’t pander to me, kid. One tiny crack in the hull and our blood boils in thirteen seconds. Solar flare might crop up, cook us in our seats. And wait till you’re sitting pretty with a case of Andorian shingles, see if you’re so relaxed when your eyeballs are bleeding. Space is disease and danger wrapped in darkness and silence.
James T. Kirk: Well, I hate to break this to you, but Starfleet operates in space.
Leonard ‘Bones’ McCoy: Yeah. Well, I got nowhere else to go, the ex-wife took the whole damn planet in the divorce. All I got left is my bones.
Movie Quote of the Day – A Single Man, 2009 (dir. Tom Ford)
George Falconer: Just get through the goddamn day.
Movie Quote of the Day – The Hangover, 2009 (dir. Todd Phillips)
Stu: You fucking calm down! He drugged us. I lost a tooth. I married a whore.
Alan: How dare you! She’s a nice lady.
Stu: You are such a fucking moron.
Alan: Your language is offensive.
Stu: Fuck you!
Movie Quote of the Day – Bright Star, 2009 (dir. Jane Campion)
John Keats: You dazzled me. There is nothing in the world so bright and delicate. You have absorbed me. I have a sensation at the present moment as if I was dissolving.
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