What is your favorite final line spoken in a film or tv series?

Lars · July 16

Ending with a big line to sum up your film's themes, provide a last minute revelation or cliffhanger, or simply end on a punchline has been a thing for pretty much the entirety of film.

Popular examples include 1933's King Kong with "It wasn't the airplanes, it was beauty killed the beast" or 1959's Some Like It Hot with "Nobody's perfect."

For my entry, I'm going to go with 1987's The Lost Boys:

Grandpa silently walks to the fridge, gets out a beer and takes a big sip before saying "One thing about living in Santa Carla I never could stomach...all the damn vampires."

So let's share other good ones. TV shows can be included. If the line is a spoiler then put it behind tags...oops, except that Kong spoiler I have up there. Well, in that case...

Raijin Quickfoot · July 16

Fin

ChicoBlue · July 16

I liked it in Fight Club when Edward Norton is like

"You're Tyler DurDONE" BLAMMO

and then the Pixies kicks in.

Raijin Quickfoot · July 16

“That was truly the greatest Jurassic Park of all.”

RMS Oceanic · July 16

"Where we're going we don't need...roads."

Lars · July 16

ChicoBlue wrote: »

I liked it in Fight Club when Edward Norton is like

"You're Tyler DurDONE" BLAMMO

and then the Pixies kicks in.

You might have seen a different cut of Fight Club than I did. Though "You met me at a very strange time in my life" is a good final line.

Raijin Quickfoot · July 16

“Hey everybody, we’re all gonna get laid!”

RMS Oceanic · July 16

Not quite last line, but "Second star to the right, and straight on 'til morning" was pretty great in Star Trek VI

Oh, speaking of: "Five card stud, nothing wild... and the sky's the limit."

Raijin Quickfoot · July 16

“I do wish we could chat longer but I’m having an old friend for dinner.”

Lars · July 16

The series finale of Babylon 5 had a pretty good speech as it's closer.

Ivanova: "Babylon 5 was the last of the Babylon stations. There would never be another. It changed the future, and it changed us. It taught us that we have to create the future or others will do it for us. It showed us that we have to care for one another because if we don't, who will? And that true strength sometimes comes from the most unlikely places. Mostly, though, I think it gave us hope that there can always be new beginnings.

Even for people like us.

As for Delenn, every morning for as long as she lived Delenn got up before dawn and watched the sun come up."

ChicoBlue · July 16

I liked the end of Rounders were Edward Norton is like

"You never count your money when you're sitting at the table...

There'll be time enough for counting when the dealing's DurDONE"

BLAMMO

RMS Oceanic · July 16

For unspoken final lines, Knives Out

When Marta is standing on the porch of the house drinking coffee and it shows the "My House, My Rules" cup

Zonugal · July 16

Sure, I could have stayed in the past. I could have even been king. But in my own way, I *am* king.

Raijin Quickfoot · July 16

“How’s Annie?”

KalTorak · July 16

I rag on Nolan's writing quite a bit, but Memento's "Now... where was I?" is pretty good.

Endless_Serpents · July 16

I am haunted by humans.

Lost Canuck · July 16

"Nobody's perfect!" from the end of Some Like It Hot has aged very well, I think.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Inp_sWsUqQ

Elderlycrawfish · July 16

"....lens cap."

Endless_Serpents · July 16

Wait no, I pick d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-that’s all folks!

DarkPrimus · July 16

"Among all of these star wars, this one will be remembered as the rise of Skywalker."

A Dabble Of Thelonius · July 16

"I’ll say this to you, my friend, with all the love in my heart and all the wisdom of the universe: Take it sleazy."

But my true pick?

"It’s such a good feeling to know we’re lifelong friends."

Eddy · July 16

"You've met me at a very strange time in my life" is so good. I said it a few weighty times during my decade under the influence

"Now, bring me that horizon" is another unexpectedly good final line

lazegamer · July 16

"The greatest trick the devil ever pulled was convincing the world he did not exist. And like that...he's gone."

RT800 · July 16

"Because if a machine - a terminator - can learn the value of human life... maybe we can, too."

MrMonroe · July 16

"It's time to pay the price"

King Riptor · July 16

Dont you see we're the walking dead

I assume both show and comic both ended there because what can you do after that ?

Librarian's ghost · July 16

Just remember what ol' Jack Burton does when the earth quakes and the poison arrows fall from the sky, and the pillars of Heaven shake. Yeah, Jack Burton just looks that big ol' storm right in the eye and says "Give me your best shot. I can take it."

Jedoc · July 16

"It's too bad she won't live! But then again, who does?"

Mysst · July 16

"Five keeps a neighborhood alive"

R-dem · July 16

Forget it, Jake. It’s Chinatown.

Schadenfreude · July 17

Shut up and deal.

Xaquin · July 17

Monkeys brains, though popular in Cantonese cuisine, are not often to be found in Washington D C!

I'm going to go home and sleep with my wife

facetious · July 17

as good as the ending of Clue is (and it's my favourite film), it always kind of annoyed me too that it

negates him being gay.

I've decided that he's joking, and is

actually gay, but just wants to fuck with the others.

Xaquin · July 17

facetious wrote: »

as good as the ending of Clue is (and it's my favourite film), it always kind of annoyed me too that it
negates him being gay.

I've decided that he's joking, and is
actually gay, but just wants to fuck with the others.

I assumed he waa faking specifically because he could be blackmailed for it and was just rubbing it in to the others

edit: it's my favorite movie too!

Munkus Beaver · July 17

facetious wrote: »

as good as the ending of Clue is (and it's my favourite film), it always kind of annoyed me too that it
negates him being gay.

I've decided that he's joking, and is
actually gay, but just wants to fuck with the others.

I mean, the whole thing is that he is being blackmailed over it. So it would 100% track for him to have a beard and to loudly declare he's gonna fuck her to dispel any of those notions.

Dex Dynamo · July 17

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

Casablanca is one of those movies that impossibly lives up to its own hype.

Librarian's ghost · July 17

Also he’s saying it very loudly to his coworkers and lots of other cops.

Jokerman · July 17

"I know you're out there. I can feel you now. I know that you're afraid... you're afraid of us. You're afraid of change. I don't know the future. I didn't come here to tell you how this is going to end. I came here to tell you how it's going to begin. I'm going to hang up this phone, and then I'm going to show these people what you don't want them to see. I'm going to show them a world without you. A world without rules and controls, without borders or boundaries. A world where anything is possible. Where we go from there is a choice I leave to you."

Centipede Damascus · July 17

The simplicity of Cheers' final line being just "Sorry, we're closed." is something I really love.

Depressperado · July 17

Welcome to the human race.

Jokerman · July 17

"'It's a far, far better thing I do than I have ever done before. ...A far better resting place that I go to than I have ever known'.
'You okay, Jim? How do you feel?'
'Young. I feel young.'"

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