"Have we heard the last (truly memorable) word from Hollywood?"

[Parrot Head]

Here's an interesting article in the NY Times about the lack of good one-liners in movies over the past decade +. Several of our beloved posters and/or their avatars get pub in the article.

I can't think of a lot of good, recent one-liners, but I don't really see that many movies.


Longing for the Lines That Had Us at Hello

[Green Lantern]

Hey, that's a good article, thanks for posting. Mostly I just like all the memories it brings up of great movie lines. While there may be a dearth of good one-liners in recent cinema (and God help him, James Cameron really, really tries,) great screenwriting is definitely alive and well. I've been quoting lines from The Social Network ever since I saw it earlier this week:

A couple favorites:

"If you guys were the inventors of Facebook, you'd have invented Facebook."

"You're going to go through life thinking that girls don't like you because you're a nerd. And I want you to know, from the bottom of my heart, that that won't be true. It'll be because you're an asshole."