The best final line of a movie.
 

Some of my favourites:


"Forget it Jake, it's Chinatown."


"Roads? Where we're going, we don't need roads."


"It wasn't the aeroplanes, it was beauty killed the beast."

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


"And like that... he's gone."


"I hope."


"Let me sleep."


"I'm having an old friend for dinner."

"Hang on lads. I think I've got an idea."

Hate to do this to ya but that isn't actually the final line from GWTW, Scarlett's "After all, tomorrow is another day." is.

Aaaaaaw SNAP!!

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"You're still here? It's over! Go home. Go." :)

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The last line from almost any action movie..."Argggh!"

My bad. Forgot about that, lol.

Great picks. What's "Let me sleep" from?

Insomnia (Al Pacino)

Of course. Good film.

The Professionals (1966, Richard Brooks)

Audie Murphy in No Name on the Bullet:

"Everything comes to a finish".

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"You maniacs! You blew it up! Damn you! God damn you all to hell!"


"Shoot straight, you bastards! Don't make a mess of us!"


"Still lucky."


"The horror, the horror, the horror..."


"I get to live the rest of my life like a schnook."

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



T2

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"Fire!" -- Whoops Apocalypse

“I think we'll be OK here, Leon."

"Shut up and deal."

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“You know something, Utivich? I think this just might be my masterpiece.”---Inglourious Basterds

We made it this far without Some Like It Hot?

"Well, nobody's perfect!"

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"So, this is where you live... Oh, Mother will love it up here!"

"Earnest Hemingway once wrote; 'the world is a fine place and worth fighting for.' I agree with the second part."

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This is a tough one. I wish you started a thread about the 'Best Line In A Movie'. Tons of awesome examples for that one.

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The final line of Mario Bava's Rabid Dogs.

Also, I feel like we should be wrapping spoiler tags around these. Just because.

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"Nice shootin', Son. What's your name?"

"Murphy"


*Smash-cut to credits*

I was very mixed on the movie as a whole, but, yeah,

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"and like that,he's gone"

"They'll see and they'll know and they'll say, 'Why, she wouldn't even harm a fly'…"

and

"Then he's still there."

I'm deeply ashamed to have forgotten The Thing.

"What the f***!"

-Spider-Man Homecoming

I thought it was the Machinist.

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There Will Be Blood: "I'm finished"

Apocalypse Now: "The horror...the horror"

No Country for Old Men: "And then I woke up"

The Silence of the Lambs: "I do wish we could chat longer, but I'm having an old friend for dinner"

"I was cured, all right."
-A Clockwork Orange

"Yes, I can see now."
-City Lights

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

-Terminator 2: Judgment Day

"I don't know. Maybe it was Utah."

"I Think This Just Might Be My Masterpiece."

"I Get To Live The Rest Of My Life Like A Schnook."

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A few that haven't been mentioned:


"Why, Mama, are you afraid?"


"What a cluster****."


"I guess we can decide along the way."


"Bye, Room."


"I love you! I love you!"

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"It's a good scream."

- Blow Out

One of the most heartbreaking final lines ever. Perfectly delivered by John Travolta.

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"Now what!!"

- Deep Rising

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"That's all, folks!"

- What's Up Doc?

I was just about to post There Will Be Blood. I'll settle for Get Out instead.


"I'm TS-motherf*king-A. We handle sh*t. It's what we do. Consider the situation f*king handled."


...



And one just for me. If you know what it's from, I owe you a Coke.


Taps in Morse code: "Kisses"

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"****"


-Eyes Wide Shut

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If this is their idea of Christmas, then I gotta be here for New Year's.

Argyle, Die Hard

“I was cured alright.”

A Clockwork Orange

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"That's all, folks!"

- Who Framed Roger Rabbit?

".... But there are much worse games to play."

The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 2

"There's no place like home."

The Wizard of Oz

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"I steal!"


- I Am a Fugitive From a Chain Gang

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An Event (1969) - the kid shouting for his grandfather. It was pretty haunting.

Probably the most classic ending line in the 20th Century was from Gone With the Wind (1939): "Frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn."

As someone else already mentioned, it's not the final line.


Don't worry, there's always tomorrow. After all, tomorrow is another day.

Yes, you're right. I always think of it as the last line in the movie, whereas it was simply Rhett's last words to Scarlett.


It's interesting that there was objection to the use of the word "damn" from the production code censors. How far we've decayed in the 80 years since...:skeptical:

"Aren't you his mother?" Rosemary's Baby


"G*d damn you all to Hell!" Planet of the Apes


"Cannibal." The Cook, the Thief, His Wife and Her Lover


"All right, Mr. DeMille, I'm ready for my close-up." Sunset Boulevard

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"I've always depended on the kindness of strangers"


A Streetcar Named Desire

Mein Führer..., I can walk!!

Yes! The absurdity of that final scene helps make it one of the best satires ever.


And since no one had any clue what I was talking about, tapping out the word 'kisses', in morse code, is the ending of Let the Right One In.

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You push that button, everything we've accomplished for the past 500 years will be finished.
Our technology, our way of life, our entire history.
We'll have to start all over again.
For God's sake, don't do it, Snake!

The name's Plissken.

Actually, while people remember it that way, that was not the last line, which was "After all, tomorrow is another day". Apparently from what I recall hearing when I was a kid, the use of the word damn was such a shock at that time that people remembered it almost like where they were when the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor.

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Keep looking!!! Watch the skies!!! Keep looking!!!!

From The Thing From Another World. It contributed to UFO mania.

Yeah, as I said a few posts ago, I always misremember that line as the final line, whereas it wasn't-- simply a famous line.

Right, the use of "damn" was a shocker in '39, and probably up until 20 years later...:D "Hell" was okay, since it's a place. But I can't recall hearing damn or worse through most of the '50s. Shows you how much films (and society) have degenerated.

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Oh, Frank! Everyone should have a friend like you!

"Woke up this morning feeling fine..."

It's just a matter of what is the current version of shock. Nobody declares "God's Wounds", AKA Zounds, any more, not to mention "Snails!" (God's nails), not to mention Thunderation or Great Horn Spoon.

Now and again, movies need to go past some barriers in order to have emotional impact. Characters who never violate language rules are not very appealing. When I was a kid, I recall old folks who were still shocked by Frankly Me Dear, I don't give a damn. That doesn't have much power anymore.

Yes, it's a matter of current fashion and also personal taste. But the overuse of foul language has gone so far beyond any novel impact that it's either annoying or banal. To my taste it often becomes like fingernails on a blackboard (for those old enough to remember blackboards.:)). In some films hardly a sentence can be uttered without a bomb word. So in the end the effect becomes not impactful but irritating.

But I'm a bit of a relic. Modern younger audiences evidently expect and receive plenty of language.

Agreed, I find the over use of foul language in movies to be a distraction...one of the reasons I don't watch that many new movies these days. When I buy groceries the millennial checker does not smile and say to me in a friendly voice, "How the f... are you doing today? Did you find every f...ing thing you were looking for. Thanks and have a f...ing great day." In general people don't always talk with such vulgarity as they do in the movies.

It's done in the movies for often one reason: to qualify for an R rating. Certain movies make more money as an R than they would as a PG. I mean who wants to see a PG crime thriller? Not many, so the film makers load up the foul language to an otherwise PG-13 movie and get their R rating.

“And then I woke up.”

WTF are you talking about:D

You're dead, son. Get yourself buried.

You might be right re the R versus PG rating. But it seems to me I read awhile ago that PG rated films consistently make more money.

My sense is that the over abundance of foul language in many films today is because Hollywood believes it to be "hip" or "adult" or "edgy". Of course it's none of those. It's just simply annoying.

I blame Tarantino!:p
To me, foul language always sounds like something 14 years olds do. Now if I got really mad (which is ultra rare) or hit my finger with a hammer I've been known to swear...but I try to not do that in public.

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I don't know if you could say it's the best, but here's a really great final line that so far no one else has mentioned...

"Come on, now. It's gonna be a nice day!"
--- Randolph Scott as Pat Brennan in The Tall T (1957)

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I had to check back for my old favorite, the last line in Casablanca...."Louis, I think this is the beginning of a beautiful friendship", Rick (Humphrey Bogart) to Renault (Claude Rains) after Rick shoots the nazi officer Strasser and Louis Renault (the police chief) agrees to "round up the usual suspects" and Rick agrees to get out of town for a while. They walk off into the night. It's one of many great lines in what must be one of the most sentimental and romantic wartime movies ever made. This must be the movie that made trench coats cool forever.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5kiNJcDG4E0

Not an original quote, but I thought it was fitting.


“Second star to the right, and straight on till morning.”
- Captain Kirk - Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country

And then there was the final line to Star Trek - TMP:

"Out there. Thataway."

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"I'll be back!"

Skelator
Masters of the Universe

"The play is over. Go home".

Anastasia (1956)

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"She puts me to shame."


-The Diary of Anne Frank

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I do wish we could chat longer, but... I'm having an old friend for dinner. Bye.
Dr. Hannibal Lecter - The Silence of the Lambs - 1991.

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Clue:
"I'm going to go home and sleep with my wife."

A Fish Called Wanda:
"ASS***E!"

Blood Simple:
"Well, ma'am, if I see him, I'll sure give him the message."

Memento:
"Now... where was I?"