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“The only reason to wear this monstrous dress is so some groomsman can rip it to shreds with his teeth.”

“How refreshing! A man who doesn’t believe in marriage.”

“He asks if you want a drink, you smile and say vodka soda…then there’s some flirting, some inter-office sex, an accidental pregnancy, a shotgun wedding and a life of bliss. How many times do we have to go over this?”

“What good is being appreciated if no one is naked?”

Movie lines from 27 Dresses

When Harry Met Sally - movie quotes:

“Men and women can’t be friends because the sex part always gets in the way.”

“I’ll have what she’s having.”

“Right now everything is great, everyone is happy, everyone is in love and that is wonderful. But you gotta know that sooner or later you’re going to be screaming at each other about who’s going to get this dish. This eight dollar dish will cost you a thousand dollars in phone calls to the legal firm of That’s Mine, This Is Yours.”

Movie lines from When Harry Met Sally

Director: Rob Reiner

Starring: Billy Crystal, Meg Ryan, Bruno Kirby, Carrie Fisher

Rob Reiner gave us this romantic comedy classic that has set the standard for the entire genre. Nora Ephron’s stellar screenplay has well-formed characters exchanging fabulous dialog that will remind new viewers of Seinfeld. Crystal gives his usual appealing neurotic, but laid back, portrayal, while Ryan shines in the leading role, including the unforgettable restaurant orgasm scene. This hit would make her the go-to gal for rom-coms for the next decade. The story is gentle, patient and authentic and, aided by talented and charismatic performers and makes this film a wonderfully pleasing experience.

Harry (Billy Crystal) first meets Sally (Meg Ryan) when both have just finished university in Chicago and are sharing a car ride to NYC. They click like motor oil and mustard and soon forget about one another. Over the years, a couple more chance encounters paves the path to an unlikely friendship between two very different young, single adults. There are charming scenes set in during time passages featuring interviews of older couples talking about how they met. Adding humor and story depth that is stereotypical, but still amusing, are ‘friends’ played here by Bruno Kirby and Carrie Fisher.

When Harry Met Sally looks a little dated now with its 80’s hair and fashions, but this near-perfect screenplay is still interesting, touching and funny. If you have never seen this before, it’s better than you think. If you have seen it before, it’s better than you remember.

Movie Quotes- Harold and Kumar Escape from Guantanamo Bay

“Maybe if you stupid Americans would put down your donuts and realize what your government is really doing, there wouldn’t be terrorists like me”
“We like donuts” “Yes they are delicious”

“Zip it hello kitty, i know your operation is funded through drugs”

“I am sick of all the hype about topless, i am starting the bottomless trend”

“He is not a terrorist, just an idiot”

Movie Lines from Harold and Kumar Escape from Guantanamo Bay

The Recruit - movie quotes:

“Everything is a test”

“You already know, don’t you? That’s why you’re sitting here. You want answers, you’re in the wrong car, kid. I only have secrets.”

“All right, your objective - reach the parking lot with an asset who intends to have sex with you.”

Movie lines from The Recruit

Director: Roger Donaldson

Starring: Colin Farrell, Al Pacino, Bridget Moynahan, Gabriel Macht

Director Roger Donaldson (The Bank Job and The World’s Fastest Indian), does a good job with this spy thriller that features a pretty good story with plenty of suspense and semi-surprising twists. Al Pacino shows flashes of his past glory, as he manages to perform without simply shouting his lines at the camera. The characters could have been more fully developed and the dialog needed to be punched up, but not a bad job, overall.

Colin Farrell is James Clayton, a computer whiz kid all set to start making the big bucks in Silicone Valley, when he is approached by a different kind of recruiter. Al Pacino is Walter Burke and he is recruiting for an outfit with a three letter acronym, but it sure ain’t IBM. Burke tantalizes Clayton with hints of secrets about his long deceased father and eventually manages to persuade him to join the CIA, where he is sent to ‘the farm’ for training as part of a group of recruits that includes a willowy beauty played Bridget Moynahan. There is plenty going on here and the story manages to keep the tension up as it progresses.

I am a sucker for spy films, be they cheesy James Bond, twisted, realistic (in my mind, anyway) features like the Tailor of Panama or glossy and far-fetched films like The Recruit. Action fans, may find it too slow and drama fans may find it too unbelievable, but for spy genre fans, its just right.

Directors: Jon Hurwitz, Hayden Schlossberg

Starring: John Cho, Kal Penn, Rob Corddry, Neil Patrick Harris, Danneel Harris

This effort is the second installment in what is apparently becoming the new standard in stoner movies. Like it predecessors, Cheech and Chong and Half Baked, the Harold and Kumar movies have a very apparent central theme, pot makes everything funny. Although that may be true, unlike the others in this genre, this movie might even be funny if you are not fried!

John Cho and Kal Penn star once again as(in their only leading roles to date), straight laced, stick to the plan Harold Lee or Roldy and this is bullshit my dad is a tyrant, damn the man Kumar Patel. Two lovable also rans, who despite their very different personalities are best friends, probably because of their mutual adoration of ganja. The two decide to take a week off, Harold from his job at the bank and Kumar from whatever it is he does to pay for weed, and head to Amsterdam to meet a girl who is apparently (although it is never actually explained) Harold’s long distance girl friend and of course smoke weed. After some trouble at the security checkpoint the boys run into Kumar’s ex Vanessa played by Danneel Harris who is on her way to Texas to marry her new boyfriend in Texas. Obviously since he is from Texas he is the dream son in law for any parent, tall, handsome, rich and connected (and of course according to Kumar, a douche bag) While on the plane Kumar decides that he can’t wait for 6 hours to get his smoke on and busts out a smokeless Bong. Since the he is darker skinned but not African American or Mexican, he is already under suspicion and when he breaks out this strange contraption the has some kind of blinking light (i have seen a lot of bongs in my time and even i was not sure what this was) and rhymes with the word bomb, you can imagine what happens next. Thanks to an wildly over zealous Homeland security agent played by Rob Corddry and the patriot act, the boys are shipped off to G-bay with their only hope being Vanessa’s connected boyfriend in Texas.

This movie, unlike so many before it, surprised me in a good way. Having seen the first Harold and Kumar movie which centered around having the munchies, I had a pretty good idea of what to expect walking in. It would be filled with random scenes that have nothing to do with the story but have everything to do with what happens when you are stoned. It would also have some unexpected cameos that would be entertaining and perplexing. Moreover, it would be predicated on a story that is as thin as craft paper. This is all true but the difference with this movie is that the writers took the things that made the first one almost unwatchable and replaced them with more of the stuff that made the first one extremely funny. Now, I am not going to say that this is Forrest Gump because it isn’t and the story has some obvious holes (you might be able to park in a few of them) like sure it wasn’t a bomb, but they were still smoking pot on a plane!!! But taken for what it is, this movie has enough humor to keep you laughing. It also has some very funny political humor with it’s pokes at stereotypes. And like the first one, it has a great sequence with Neil Patrick Harris playing himself, you will never look at Doogie Howser the same way again. If you combine half baked with Jay and silent Bob strike back, you will get a decent idea of how this movie will feel when you try it on.

“Of course someone else wants the treasure. Thats the axiom of treasure hunting.”
“I’m gonna kidnap him. I’m gonna kidnap the President of the United States.”
“Wouldn’t it just have been easier to make an appointment?”

Grace is Gone - movie quotes:
“What if we did? What if we right now went to Enchanted Gardens? What if we did?”
Movie lines from Grace is Gone

Director: James C. Strouse

Starring: John Cusack, Shelan O’Keefe, Gracie Bednarczyk, Alessandro Nivola

Someone answer me this. Is there a shortage of misery in the world? Do things not occur in our own lives often enough to make us sad? Do we really have to entertain ourselves by watching the saddest possible stories? Writer/director James C. Strouse must think not. Otherwise he wouldn’t sit down to write and make a film this bloody sad. The dialog is very natural and the story is too simple, seems full of dead subplots and will probably have you at least sniffling a little by the end (no surprise there, if you have seen the trailer). The performances are magnificently authentic with the young performers shining as brightly as the veteran, Cusack.

John Cusack is Stanley Philipps, whose career army wife is sent to Iraq, while he is left home to care for their daughters. Heidi (Shelan O’Keefe) is 12 and her sister, Dawn (Gracie Bednarczyk) is 8, and caring for them promises to get alot tougher when Stanley receives word that his wife has died in combat. Unable to deal with telling the girls, Stanley instead takes them on an impromptu road trip to an amusement park called Enchanted Garden, while he figures out how to break it to them.

Cusack is great, and he showcases his talent in a role that is very rare for him, here, but the story is too depressing and not interesting enough to offer much more than a dull, empty, heavy feeling by the end. Melodrama lovers might find it suitable for a nice Wednesday night cry, but I’d rather have more jokes, or more story if a movie is going to make me sad in the end.