prison term to rewatch all of these !
We’ve got movies with some of the mostgorgeous lines, movies withepic final lines, and movies with some seriouslyunderrated lines.
And because it all starts at the beginning, we wanted to take a look at some of the most memorableopeninglines from a film. Here are some of the best ones (according to theBuzzFeed Communityandr/Movies):
1.The Prestige: “Are you watching closely?”
" This one is slap-up . It captures both the subject material and the audience ’s attending . "
— ItsOK_ImHereNow , suggested inr / picture
2.Spider-Man: “Who am I? You sure you want to know?”
— Suggested inr / flick
3.The Virgin Suicides: “Cecilia was the first to go."
— suggest bytheformermrsbutterworth
4.Trainspotting: “Choose Life. Choose a job. Choose a career.”
" Choose a house . Choose a bloody big video . Choose washing machine , cars , thickset disc players , and electrical tin openers . Choose good wellness , low cholesterol , and dental insurance . Choose get - interest mortgage repayments . prefer a starter household . Choose your protagonist . Choose leisurewear and matching baggage . Choose a three - piece causa on hire leverage in a range of fucking textile . Choose DIY and wondering who the fuck you are on Sunday good morning . Choose sitting on that couch watching mind - numbing , feeling - crushing game shows , stuffing fucking dust food into your back talk . Choose moulder away at the end of it all , pissing your last in a hapless home , nothing more than an embarrassment to the selfish , fucked up brats you breed to replace yourselves . prefer your time to come . take liveliness … But why would I want to do a thing like that ? I choose not to pick out life sentence . I choose somethin' else . "
5.Stand by Me: “I was 12 going on 13 when I first saw a dead human being.”
6.Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: “We were somewhere around Barstow on the edge of the desert when the drugs began to take hold.”
7.Do the Right Thing: “Wake up! Wake up, wake up, wake up, up you wake, up you wake, up you wake, up you wake!”
— Anonymous , BuzzFeed Contributor
8.The Social Network: “Did you know there are more people in China with genius IQs than there are people in the United States?”
9.Citizen Kane: “Rosebud.”
" Greatest opening move line of all meter from the greatest picture show of all time . "
— kaischagun1
10.Jennifer’s Body: “Hell is a teenage girl.”
— suggest inr / AskReddit
11.The Sound of Music: “The hills are alive with the sound of music.”
" Do n’t tell me you all did n’t study that to the tune ! "
— juliaw1
12.In Bruges: “After I killed him, I dropped the gun in the Thames, washed the residue off my hands in the bathroom of a Burger King, and walked home to await instructions. Shortly thereafter, the instructions came through — ‘Get the fuck out of London, you dumb fucks. Get to Bruges.’ I didn’t even know where Bruges fucking was.”
13.The Departed: “I don’t want to be a product of my environment. I want my environment to be a product of me.”
" Costello ’s intact opening monologue is full of memorable lines , it gets you so instantly enveloped in the taradiddle . "
— Pablo_Sanchez1 , suggested inr / Movies
14.Mad Max: Fury Road: “My name is Max. My world is fire and blood.”
15.American Beauty: “My name is Lester Burnham. This is my neighborhood. This is my street. This…is my life. I’m 42 years old. In less than a year, I’ll be dead.”
16.Apocalypse Now: “Saigon…shit. I’m still only in Saigon… Every time I think I’m gonna wake up back in the jungle.”
17.Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring: “The world is changed. I feel it in the water. I feel it in the earth. I smell it in the air. Much that once was is lost, for none now live who remember it.”
18.Gone Girl: “When I think of my wife, I always think of her head. I picture cracking her lovely skull.”
" I love how the movie opens and closes with the same origin and image . Brilliant , creepy-crawly flick . David Fincher is an amazing director . "
— tawanab
19.Rounders: “Listen, here’s the thing. If you can’t spot the sucker in your first half hour at the table, then you are the sucker.”
" This is one of those opening lines that is really just phenomenal . It ’s the theme of the motion-picture show for Damon ’s character in many respects . "
— nsfw_deadwarlock , suggested inr / Movies
20.The Godfather: “I believe in America.”
" The Godfatherhas to be the most quotable movie serial in existence . "
— The_Underhanded , suggest inr / flick
21.Coco: “Sometimes I think I’m cursed…‘cause of something that happened before I was even born.”
22.Big Fish: “There are some fish that cannot be caught. It’s not that they are faster or stronger than any other fish, they’re just touched by something extra.”
" The first line ofBig Fishalways gets me . … It really sets the feeling of this whimsical , marvelous film . "
— strawberrylumps22
23.And finally,Barbie: “Since the beginning of time, since the first little girl ever existed, there have been dolls.”
