First And Last Impressions --Movie's Best Opening & Final Lines

1.

From the very first line, some movies grab your attention, and completely take you along for a ride. According to Shortlist.com, these are the best opening lines ever in movies. How many of these lines grabbed your attention right out of the gate?

As far back as I can remember, I always wanted to be a gangster -- Henry Hill (Ray Liotta) in Goodfellas

16%

268 votes

We were somewhere around Barstow on the edge of the desert when the drugs began to take hold -- Raoul Duke (Johnny Depp) in Fear & Loathing In Las Vegas

9%

141 votes

I don't want to be a product of my environment. I want my environment to be a product of me -- Frank Costello (Jack Nicholson in The Departed

8%

132 votes

Let me tell you what 'Like a Virgin' is about -- Mr. Brown (Quentin Tarantino) in Reservoir Dogs

6%

102 votes

Last night, I dreamt I went to Manderley again -- Mrs. De Winter (Joan Fontaine) in Rebecca

5%

76 votes

Only ever met one man I wouldn't wanna fight -- Scrap (Morgan Freeman) in Million Dollar Baby

6%

103 votes

I had the craziest dream last night. I was dancing the White Swan -- Nina Sayers (Natalie Portman) in Black Swan

5%

76 votes

People are always asking me if I know Tyler Durden... -- The Narrator (Edward Norton) in Fight Club

6%

106 votes

Now I want you to remember that no ba**ard ever won a war by dying for his country. He won it by making by making the other poor dumb ba**ard die for his country --Patton (George C. Scott) in Patton

12%

194 votes

What came first, the music or the misery? -- Rob Gordon (John Cusack) in High Fidelity

3%

57 votes

They all did

4%

68 votes

Don't remember any of these lines/none did

56%

915 votes

2.

While I agree with some of these, I have also included my choices for the best opening lines--lines that I feel really set the tone for the movie. Which of my choices do you agree with?

Rosebud -- Citizen Cane

12%

195 votes

Chapter one. He adored New York City. He idolized it all out of proportion. Eh uh, no make that he, he romanticized it all out of proportion. Better -- Manhattan

4%

72 votes

I remember those cheers,. They still ring in my ears -- Raging Bull

7%

114 votes

I believe in America. America has made my fortune -- The Godfather

13%

210 votes

Who am I? You sure you want to know? -- Spiderman

15%

249 votes

Today is a good day to die -- Flatliners

16%

260 votes

Agree with all of these

7%

111 votes

Don't agree with any of these

48%

785 votes

3.

Here are the best closing lines from the movies, according to the same website. Again, which do you agree left you feeling like it was the perfect closing line?

You met me at a very strange time in my life -- The Narrator (Edward Norton) in Fight Club

11%

175 votes

Louis, I think this is the beginning of a beautiful friendship -- Rick (Humphrey Bogart) in Casablanca

22%

356 votes

Let me sleep -- Will Dormer (Al Pacino) in Insomnia

5%

83 votes

Roads? Where we're going, we don't need roads -- Dr. Emmett Brown (Christopher Lloyd) in Back To The Future

19%

319 votes

Now, where was I? -- Leonard (Guy Pearce) in Memento

6%

97 votes

Where we go from there is a choice I leave to you -- Neo (Keanu Reeves) in The Matrix

11%

184 votes

Ernest Hemingway once wrote, 'The world is a fine place and worth fighting for.' I agree with the second part --Detective William Somerset (Morgan Freeman) in Seven

9%

151 votes

This is Ripley, last survivor of the Nostromo, signing off -- Ripley (Sigourney Weaver) in Alien

12%

199 votes

We will hunt him down because he can take it. Because he's not our hero. He's a silent guardian. A watchful protector. A dark knight... --Lt. James Gordon (Gary Oldman) in The Dark Knight

10%

160 votes

Why don't we just wait here for a little while...see what happens... -- MacReady (Kurt Russell) in The Thing

6%

95 votes

They all did

5%

79 votes

Don't remember any of these/none did

44%

717 votes

4.

And, again, here are some last lines that I feel perfectly ended the movies they were in. Which do you agree with?

So long...partner -- Toy Story 3

23%

374 votes

I wish I could chat longer, but I'm having an old friend for dinner... -- The Silence Of The Lambs

28%

461 votes

I was cured all right -- A Clockwork Orange

9%

143 votes

The horror, the horror... -- Apocalypse Now

10%

170 votes

I'll be right here... -- E.T.

23%

383 votes

I agree with all of these

9%

141 votes

I don't agree with any of these

36%

601 votes

5.

Sometimes it takes just one line whether it be the first line, or the last line, or a line somewhere in the movie, to perfectly sum up the movie to a 'T'. How many of these lines do you feel summed up the movie perfectly in just one line?

This is our destiny -- Slumdog Millionaire

8%

136 votes

I'm as mad as hell, and I'm not going to take this anymore -- Network

14%

238 votes

I am big! It's the pictures that got small -- Sunset Boulevard

8%

136 votes

Mama always said life was like a box of chocolates. You never know what you're gonna get -- Forrest Gump

42%

685 votes

Oh, no, it wasn't the airplanes. It was Beauty killed the Beast -- King Kong

12%

199 votes

A boy's best friend is his mother -- Psycho

16%

264 votes

I see dead people -- The Sixth Sense

31%

518 votes

All of these are great

8%

130 votes

None of these

31%

508 votes

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