I'm a huge fan of the movies of the eighties. These are the movies I grew up with, and to me, they'll always be as rad as they were when I first saw them. I've got full-sized movie posters on the wall in my office of Big Trouble in Little China, Clash of the Titans, and The Breakfast Club. Movies like The Dark Crystal, The Highlander, The Princess Bride, RAD, Breathing Fire, Explorers, and Labyrinth will be classics forever in my mind.
So now I bring you some of the most quotable movies of the eighties.
Ghostbusters
- Someone blows their nose and you want to keep it?
- There is no Dana, only Zuul!
- Well, let's say this Twinkie represents the normal amount of psychokinetic energy in the New York area. Based on this morning's reading, it would be a Twinkie thirty-five feet long, weighing approximately six hundred pounds.
- Gozer the Traveler. He will come in one of the pre-chosen forms. During the rectification of the Vuldrini, the traveler came as a large and moving Torg! Then, during the third reconciliation of the last of the McKetrick supplicants, they chose a new form for him: that of a giant Slor! Many Shuvs and Zuuls knew what it was to be roasted in the depths of the Slor that day, I can tell you!
- Ray, when someone asks you if you're a god, you say "YES"!
Big Trouble In Little China
- Jack Burton: What does that say?
Wang Chi: Hell of Boiling Oil.
Jack Burton: You're kidding.
Wang Chi: Yeah, I am. It says Keep Out.
- Wang Chi: A brave man likes the feel of nature on his face, Jack.
Egg Shen: Yeah, and a wise man has enough sense to get in out of the rain!
- All I know is, this Lo Pan character comes out of thin air in the middle of a goddamn alley while his buddies are flying around on wires cutting everybody to shreds, and he just stands there waiting for me to drive my truck straight through him. With light coming out of his mouth!
- Like I told my last wife, I says, "Honey, I never drive faster than I can see. Besides that, it's all in the reflexes.
- Egg Shen: Can see things no one else can see. Do things no one else can do.
Jack Burton: Real things?
Egg Shen: As real as Lo Pan!
Jack Burton: Hey, what more can a guy ask for?
Egg Shen: Oh, the six-demon bag!
Jack Burton: Terrific, a six-demon bag. Sensational. What's in it, Egg?
Egg Shen: Wind, fire, all that kind of thing!
- When some wild-eyed, eight-foot-tall maniac grabs your neck, taps the back of your favorite head up against the barroom wall, and he looks you crooked in the eye and he asks you if ya paid your dues, you just stare that big sucker right back in the eye, and you remember what ol' Jack Burton always says at a time like that: "Have ya paid your dues, Jack?" "Yessir, the check is in the mail."
The Breakfast Club
- Don't mess with the bull, young man. You'll get the horns.
- Does Barry Manilow know that you raid his wardrobe?
- Screws fall out all the time, the world is an imperfect place.
- It's sorta social. Demented and sad, but social.
- Naked blonde walks into a bar with a poodle under one arm, and a two-foot salami under the other. The bartender says, I guess you won't be needing a drink. Naked lady says...
Conan the Barbarian
- Fire and wind come from the sky, from the gods of the sky. But Crom is your god. Crom. And he lives in the earth.
- Infidel Defilers. They shall all drown in lakes of blood.
- Crom, I have never prayed to you before. I have no tongue for it. No one, not even you, will remember if we were good men or bad. Why we fought, or why we died. All that matters is that two stood against many. That's what's important! Valor pleases you, Crom... so grant me one request. Grant me revenge! And if you do not listen, then to HELL with you!
- Now they will know why they are afraid of the dark. Now they learn why they fear the night.
- To crush your enemies, see them driven before you, and to hear the lamentation of the women.
The Empire Strikes Back
- I have a bad feeling about this...
- Impressive. Most Impressive.
- Why, you stuck up, half-witted, scruffy-looking nerf-herder!
- Excitement. Heh. Adventure. Heh. A Jedi craves not these things.
- No. Try not. Do... or do not. There is no try.
Not because it's a memorable line; exactly the opposite. No one ever quotes it except me and my friend, Jim (and, to be honest, Jim started it), and when we do drop it into a conversation, no one ever recognizes it.