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What color are their hands now?

DamnYankees: 2) Wrong speech from Lord of the Rings. The one Theoden gives earlier is better.

Even being quoted in a goofy Fark thread, that one still gives me chills.

Cagey B: DamnYankees: 2) Wrong speech from Lord of the Rings. The one Theoden gives earlier is better.

Even being quoted in a goofy Fark thread, that one still gives me chills.

this.

How Mr. Smith Goes to Washington isn't in the top 3 amazes me. Watch that movie at least once every year.

Fails without this:

DamnYankees: Cagey B: DamnYankees: 2) Wrong speech from Lord of the Rings. The one Theoden gives earlier is better.

Even being quoted in a goofy Fark thread, that one still gives me chills.

The one that always gets me is:

Theodon King stands alone.

Not alone. Rohirrim!

I love the very archaic diction "Theoden King".

it's like saying ATM machine or PIN number

/ of course, i studied the archaic diction, so I know that Tolkien was a little lazy with this names and stories.

Say what you will about Independence Day and the whole "earf" thing, but Bill Pullman's speech still gives me goosebumps every time I see it. It's partly the writing, but mostly it's in the delivery.

Incidentally, and knowing nothing about the actual writing process or division of labor on that film, I always chalk the quality parts of ID4 up to Dean Devlin and assume all the trite crap belongs to Roland Emmerich. On the films where they collaborated (Stargate, ID4), the action seemed to be tempered by an interesting set of human stories. On the stuff where Emmerich wrote on his own (Godzilla, Day after Tomorrow, 10,000 BC, 2012), they just devolve into mindless action movies.

"This is my new mop. George, my friend, he gave me this mop. This is a pretty good mop. It's not as good as my first mop. I miss my first mop, but this is still a good mop. Sometimes you just hafta take what life gives ya, 'cause life is like a mop and sometimes life gets full of dirt and crud and bugs and hairballs and stuff... you, you, you gotta clean it out. You, you, you gotta put it in here and rinse it off and start all over again and, and sometimes, sometimes life sticks to the floor so bad you know a mop, a mop, it's not good enough, it's not good enough. You, you gotta get down there, like, with a toothbrush, you know, and you gotta, you gotta really scrub 'cause you gotta get it off. You gotta really try to get it off. But if that doesn't work, that doesn't work, you can't give up. You gotta, you gotta stand right up. You, you gotta run to a window and say, 'Hey! These floors are dirty as hell, and I'm not gonna take it any more!'"

Herbie555: Say what you will about Independence Day and the whole "earf" thing, but Bill Pullman's speech still gives me goosebumps every time I see it. It's partly the writing, but mostly it's in the delivery.

Seconded.

What? Over? Did you say "over"? Nothing is over until we decide it is! Was it over when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor? Hell no!

Good, they got #1 right

21-37-42: What? Over? Did you say "over"? Nothing is over until we decide it is! Was it over when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor? Hell no!

Germans?

LowbrowDeluxe: 21-37-42: What? Over? Did you say "over"? Nothing is over until we decide it is! Was it over when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor? Hell no!

Germans?

Forget it. He's rolling.

Insufficient Fight Club instances.

But, maybe I missed it -- That is, I must be blind, since I also didn't see "Always. Be. Closing." (new window) on there and how could you make a list of pep talks without that? Fail.

/ my watch currently does not, unfortunately, cost more than your car. : (

Glad to see Bill Murray's "It just doesn't matter" speech from Meatballs. I suppose it would have been too much to ask to have his pep talk from Stripes on the list as well.

"We're American soldiers! We've been kicking ass for 200 years! We are 10-1!"

Time Traveling Bunnies: Herbie555: Say what you will about Independence Day and the whole "earf" thing, but Bill Pullman's speech still gives me goosebumps every time I see it. It's partly the writing, but mostly it's in the delivery.

Seconded.

Oh man I love that scene! Gets me all choked up.

The Pullman speech is retch-worthy. 1-2 are great calls. The speech Coppola wrote for Patton is only a slightly edited version of the one Patton gave to Allied soldiers before D-Day. Some of those picks are weak but,overall, a good list.

bottlekid: Time Traveling Bunnies: Herbie555: Say what you will about Independence Day and the whole "earf" thing, but Bill Pullman's speech still gives me goosebumps every time I see it. It's partly the writing, but mostly it's in the delivery.

Seconded.

Oh man I love that scene! Gets me all choked up.

That whole "we will not go quietly into the night!" part always sticks out to me.

Sorry, but it's missing Robert Loggia.

"Now, let's analyze what's been working for us....

NOT A GOD DAMN THING'S been working for us. Like this goddamn suit doesn't work for me... and this stinking tie... and this goddamned shirt. IT DOESN'T WORK FOR ME. YOU KNOW HOW TO PLAY WINNING HARD-NOSED FOOTBALL? YOU PLAY FOOTBALL LIKE ED GENERRO PLAYED FOOTBALL. A guy who gave his life for this football team. He was a 140-pound halfback, and HE PLAYED LIKE A GODDAMN WILDMAN! NO! LIKE A GODDAMN RAMPAGING BEAST! And that's the way you got to do it! YOU GO OUT THERE! YOU TEAR THEIR farkING HEADS OFF, AND YOU shiat DOWN THEIR NECKS! Let us pray."

List totally, completely and utterly fails without Mr. Clark (The Sing-Along Part)

Also,where was the baseball speech from "The Untouchables"?

The last thing he said to me, doc, he said, "Sometime when the crew is up against it, the breaks are beating the boys, tell them to get out there and give it all they got and win just one for the Zipper. I don't know where I'll be then doc, he said, but I won't smell too good, that's for sure.

List is worthless w/out:



/you're a bad man, mikey. you're a bad man, bad man.

To the writer:



Put that coffee down! Coffee's for closers.

leaving to check list for Buttermaker's speech to Lupus in Bad News Bears...

"Listen, Lupus, you didn't come into this life just to sit around on a dugout bench, did ya? Now get your ass out there and do the best you can!"

No love for Malcolm Reynolds' I Aim to Misbehave speech from "Firefly"?

Joss Whedon acknowledges he was writing a St. Crispin's Day speech and, as pep talks go, this one gets the rabble to choose sides.

DamnYankees: Wrong speech from Lord of the Rings. The one Theoden gives earlier is better.

Sam's speech from the end of Two Towers is the best one in the series.

Does anyone else hate Jimmy Stewart? Is it wrong?

yes and no

esp. since he spied on his liberal co-actors for th FBI

This was already done once (new window)- several years ago - and much more stylishly, at that.

/Suspects the author cribbed most of the article from that video, making just enough changes to claim deniability.

And Crispin Crispian shall ne'er go by,
From this day to the ending of the world,
But we in it shall be remembered-
We few, we happy few, we band of brothers;
For he to-day that sheds his blood with me
Shall be my brother; be he ne'er so vile,
This day shall gentle his condition:
And gentlemen in England now a-bed
Shall think themselves accursed they were not here,
And hold their manhoods cheap whiles any speaks
That fought with us upon Saint Crispin's day.

Yeah, that one's not bad.

Henry V is awesome; liked the Pacino football speech; agree about "where was 'Glory'?"

Rumack: Well, I don't have anything to say, you've done the best you could. You really have, the best you could. You can't expect to win em all. But, I want to tell you something I've kept to myself through these years. I was in the war myself, medical corps. I was on late duty one night when they brought in a badly wounded pilot from one of the raids. He could barely talk. He looked at me and said, "The odds were against us up there, but we went in anyway, I'm glad the Captain made the right decision." The pilot's name was George Zip.
Ted Striker: George Zip said that?
Rumack: The last thing he said to me, "Doc," he said, "some time when the crew is up against it, and the breaks are beating the boys, tell them to get out there and give it all they got and win just one for the Zipper. I don't know where I'll be then, Doc," he said, "but I won't smell too good, that's for sure."
Ted Striker: Excuse me doc, I got a plane to land.


/you people are slippin....

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"This is my new mop. George, my friend, he gave me this mop. This is a pretty good mop. It's not as good as my first mop. I miss my first mop, but this is still a good mop. Sometimes you just hafta take what life gives ya, 'cause life is like a mop and sometimes life gets full of dirt and crud and bugs and hairballs and stuff... you, you, you gotta clean it out. You, you, you gotta put it in here and rinse it off and start all over again and, and sometimes, sometimes life sticks to the floor so bad you know a mop, a mop, it's not good enough, it's not good enough. You, you gotta get down there, like, with a toothbrush, you know, and you gotta, you gotta really scrub 'cause you gotta get it off. You gotta really try to get it off. But if that doesn't work, that doesn't work, you can't give up. You gotta, you gotta stand right up. You, you gotta run to a window and say, 'Hey! These floors are dirty as hell, and I'm not gonna take it any more!'"

Stanley Spudowski FTW.