I thought this was great.  It came in an e-mail today…

Top Ten Movie Misquotes

1. “Play it Again, Sam” – Casablanca – This is not the quote. The quote is “You played it for her, you can play it for me…If she can stand it, I can. Play it!”

2. “ Badges? We don’t need no stinkin’ badges!” One of the biggest movie misquotes of all time is from the Treasure of the Sierra Madre. The true quote is: “Badges? We ain’t got no badges. We don’t need no badges. I don’t have to show you any stinkin’ badges!”

3. “Luke, I am your father” – Darth Vader never said this to Luke Skywalker, instead the quote is: “No. I am your father.”

4. “Mrs. Robinson, are you trying to seduce me?” Yes, she was…but that’s not what Dustin Hoffman’s character said in the graduate. He actually said, “Mrs. Robinson, you’re trying to seduce me. Aren’t you?”

5. “Greed is Good” Though there’s no mistaking the meaning, Gordon Gecko never said “greed is good” in the movie Wall Street. The quote reads as follows, The point is, ladies and gentlemen, that greed, for lack of a better word, is good. Greed is right. Greed works. Greed clarifies, cuts through and captures the essence of the evolutionary spirit…”

6. “If you build it they will come” was not the message Kevin Costner’s talking corn threw out that fateful night in the movie Field of Dreams. The quote is “if you build it he will come,” meaning Costner’s father.

7. “Houston, we’ve got a problem” is incorrect. In the movie Apollo 13 Tom Hank’s character said, “Houston we have a problem.”

8. “Do you feel lucky, punk?” An often misquoted line from Dirty Harry, the line is really “Ah, I know what you’re thinking, punk. You’re thinking, ‘Did he fire six shots or only five?’ Well, to tell you the truth, I’ve forgotten myself in all this excitement. But being as this is a .44 Magnum, the most powerful handgun in the world, and would blow your head clean off, you’ve got to ask yourself one question: ‘Do I feel lucky?’ Well, do ya punk?”

9. “I love the smell of napalm in the morning… it smells like victory!” Robert DeNiro did love the smell of napalm in the morning in the movie Apocalypse now, but that’s not what he said. The true quote is: “You smell that? Do you smell that? Napalm, son. Nothing else in the world smells like that. I love the smell of napalm in the morning. You know, one time we had a hill bombed for 12 hours. When it was all over, I walked up. We didn’t find one of ‘em, not one stinkin’ dink body. The smell, you know, that gasoline smell, the whole hill. Smells like… victory.”

10. “Fasten your seat belts, it’s going to be a bumpy ride.” No it’s not going to be a bumpy ride it’s going to be a bumpy night. This line from All About Eve, is rarely quoted correctly.

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When Bucket List, starring Morgan Freeman and Jack Nicholas, first was in the theatre, I wanted to see it.  I finally got to watch it and I have mixed feelings on it.

It started out extremely boring with only a few moments of laughter.  Sean Hayes was GREAT though. And the whole movie started with someone climbing up a mountain.  The movie started picking up pace about halfway through. 

The car racing scene was hilarious, especially when Nicholas ended up stuck in the tunnel.  All through I honestly thought that Jack Nicholas was going to die first.  Freeman ended up dying.  Nicholas gave his eulogy.  (And I have to say that I started crying when Nicholas crossed off the list that he kissed the most beautiful girl in the world…his granddaughter…I didn’t see that coming.)  Then the movie goes back to the person climbing the mountain.  At this point, you realize that the person who was talking (both at the end and the beginning) was Sean Hayes character.  He’s climbing up the Himalayan mountains taking Jack Nicholas’s cremated remains and putting him with Morgan Freeman’s remains.  He then crosses off the last thing on the Bucket List, climbing the Himalayan mountains, and puts the list with their remains.  The movie ends up with a laugh though.  Sean Hayes saying that Nicholas would have liked where he ended up being buried…because he was breaking the law by being buried there.

Overall it was a great movie, but you just got to give it a chance.

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Okay, I love an animated movie as much as the next guy, and Kung Fu Panda was no exception.  I brought my 7 year old niece to the movie this last weekend and had a blast.  After loading up with hot dogs, pop, popcorn, and candy…(Hey, I brought her back to her dad’s afterwards, it’s my right as an aunt to fill her up with sugar and return her to her parents…)  Anyways, we got our goodies and watched the movie from the TOP of the theatre. 

The movie was hilarious!  Po, the bumbling Panda hero, just wanted to fit in.  And I don’t blame him.  His dad was a duck who sold noodles and got excited that when he thought Po had "the noodle dream".  Anways, Po got chosen as the dragon warrior.  Shifu, the little rat guy who’s the "sensei" (as my niece calls him), did everything he could to make Po quit.  And the Furious Five (the other kung fu warriors who were training to become the dragon warrior, but Po took that away) they didn’t help matters any.

Anyways, Po ends up learning Kung Fu and beating the vicious Tai Lung and saving the Valley of Peace. 

My two favorite quotes that my niece and I kept saying afterwards were as follows…

"Tai Lung: The Wuxi finger hold!
Po: Oh, you know this hold?
Tai Lung: You’re bluffing. You’re bluffing! Shifu didn’t teach you that.
Po: Nope. I figured it out. Skadoosh! "

Po: Are you dead, please don’t die please don’t die…
Shifu:  I’m not dying you idiot uhh I mean dragon warrior, I’m at peace……..
(silence)
Po: Sooo wanna get something to eat?
Shifu: YEP

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Hhhmmm…I’m kinda interested in how this show/series is going to turn out.  The previews have been creepy.  hhhmmm….tonight’s the first episode…

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Well, I realize that I didn’t write about Indiana Jones.  There’s spoilers ahead about the movie, so if you haven’t seen, quit reading right now…

I liked the movie.  I didn’t like the plot of the movie, but how they pulled it off was great.  But I mean the plot out right sucked.  Aliens!!!  I mean, come on.  But if you get past that my only complaint was with the little time they spent in that cool graveyard.  They could have spent less time on the jungle chase and more time on the graveyard.  Everything else though…the double agent, triple agent thing with Mac and Shia LeBouf being his son.  Bringing Maryanne back.  All that was great.  Could have done without the aliens though.  They could have just really found a city of gold and had some mystical, religous thing happen.  The aliens was a little too much.

At any rate…I am going to take my 7 year old niece to Kung Foo Panda on Saturday at Galaxy.  Her and her three year old sister got two of the dolls from Kung Foo Panda and she likes martial arts.  Go figure.  I’ll take her for some fun time.  I’ll let you all know next week what my thoughts were and what her’s were.

Also, we’re having that movie screening for Get Smart.  Hopefully I’ll be able to stay and see it.  I’ve heard that it’s great and keeps with the original show.  I can’t wait!!!

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I honestly would NEVER have thought of Brad Garrett and Tony Shaloub teaming up.  (For those of you who don’t know those two guys, Brad Garrett played on Everybody Loves Raymond and Til Death.  Tony Shaloub played on Wings and Monk.)

Well, Garrett is going to play a handyman on Monk.  Just the picture in the latest TV Guide of the two of them is funny looking.  He’s so almost 6’9" and Shaloub is 5’10".

I can’t wait!  Monk returns July 18th!

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