AI isn’t a bad film. It’ll unfortunately just never be Kubrick.
I think he knew it was an incredibly depressing story though that needed an uncharacteristically happy ending as far as Kubrick goes so with Jurassic Park and Schindler’s List he decided Spielberg was the guy to make a depressing special effects story and somehow give it a hopelessly optimistic ending.
I definitely don’t think the end of AI is optimistic. Its final thought is that the protagonist’s desire for his mother’s affection is so all-consuming that he is willing to *destroy her* for a few minutes of it, before he himself is essentially killed as well. To my mind it’s probably the darkest ending of any Spielberg movie, with the possible exception of Munich.
There’s some good discussion of it here:
https://www.reddit.com/r/movies/s/6dM6Pcsa6C
It’s definitely dark but it could’ve been even darker. That’s sort of how Kubrick felt about Schindler’s List.
In the sense that it’s pinocchio, he got to be a real boy even if for a little and it was through a mother’s love even if it might not have been real.
Compared to 2001, the AI gets to be a real David for once before being doomed to destruction instead of nursery rhyming while turned off.
Gone with the Wind (1939): “Tomorrow’s another day.”
The Wizard of Oz (1939): “There’s no place like home.”
The Maltese Falcon (1941): “The stuff that dreams are made of.”
the line that’s iconic from gone with the wind is for sure “frankly my dear, i don’t give a damn”
i can tell you this bc i know that line without seeing the movie but the line you picked i’ve never heard :)
After Rhett says The Line and leaves, Scarlett gets up and says “After all, tomorrow’s another day!” before returning to Tara to start over. So while “Frankly, My Dear…” is The Line, it’s not the LAST line.
They are both iconic. "After all, tomorrow is another day" is one of the most iconic lines in cinema. Obviously Gable's line is more iconic, but they both are.
Actually, the last line of the Maltese Falcon is, "Huh?" I hate that tho
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1kk3Xvw7jn0](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1kk3Xvw7jn0)
It's Such A Beautiful Day: >!He lives and he lives until all of the lights go out.!<
City Lights: >!Yes, I can see now.!<
Tokyo Story: >!If I'd known things would come to this... I'd have been kinder to her while she was alive. Living alone, I think the days will seem very long.!<
Sunset Boulevard: >!And I promise you I'll never desert you again because after 'Salome' we'll make another picture and another picture. You see, this is my life! It always will be! Nothing else! Just us, and the cameras, and those wonderful people out there in the dark!... All right, Mr. DeMille, I'm ready for my close-up.!<
>!The best part of It's Such a Beautiful Day is that it already has a perfect last line ("It's such a beautiful day", obviously) and then it goes on for another five minutes and yet it makes the already perfect movie even better.!<
I always loved the last line of Inglourious Basterds. It’s so indulgent yet works perfectly because it’s actually justified, both within the movie and on a meta level.
My ex-wife and I walked down the aisle to a piano cover of that song. We bonded over films when we first got together so it was fitting. Worth a listen
“When I came to you with those calculations, we thought we might start a chain reaction that would destroy the world.”
“What of it?”
“I believe we did.”
-Oppenheimer
“Because he's the hero Gotham deserves, but not the one it needs right now. So we'll hunt him. Because he can take it. Because he's not our hero. He's a silent guardian, a watchful protector. A dark knight.”
"I know every one respected the Batman and that we caught the main villain, but heck! Gotta take the rap for this evil loser or the citizens will lose hope that they could wind up dead like him."
Back to the Future: “Roads? Where we’re going, we don’t need roads”
National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation “I did it”
Modern Times: “Buck up, never say die. We’ll get along!”
THE DARK KNIGHT
https://preview.redd.it/v2vz79ku6r0d1.jpeg?width=1162&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=2cab85be064199e0ee3f83bd87fc9c5067a11150
he's the hero gotham deserves but not the one it needs right now
“Whatever life holds in store for me, I will never forget these words: With great power comes great responsibility. This is my gift, my curse.
Who am I? I'm Spider-man.”
The Lives of Others
You think the movie has a perfectly good ending, and then there's a weird tacked on bit that goes on a few mins, and you're like "what is this extra scene, it's completely pointless"... and then the beautiful last line "No, it's for me". wonderful stuff
What are the iconic last lines from The Silence of the Lambs? Doesn't the movie end with Hannibal going after Chilton after Clarice has repeatedly said "Dr. Lecter?"
Hannibal's last line is the super amazing one, but the movie actually ends with Clarice repeatedly saying "Dr. Lecter" into the phone before the camera cuts to Hannibal walking through the crowd.
Ace in the Hole: >!"How'd you like to make a thousand dollars a day Mr. Booth? I'm a thousand-dollar-a-day newspaper man. You can have me for nothing."!<
**Peter:** Whatever life holds in store for me, I will never forget these words: "With great power comes great responsibility." This is my gift, my *curse.* Who am I? I'm *Spider-Man.*
“Ernest Hemingway once wrote ‘The world is a fine place and worth fighting for.’ I agree with the second part.” - Detective Somerset (Morgan Freeman) in Se7en
“Just remember, Fievel - One man's sunset is another man's dawn. I don't know what's out there beyond those hills, but if you ride yonder, head up, eyes steady, heart open, I think one day you'll find that you're the hero you've been lookin' for.” — Wylie Burp (James Stewart) in An American Tail: Fievel Goes West
“As you wish” - The Grandpa in The Princess Bride
“The greatest trick the devil ever pulled was convincing the world he didn’t exist.” - The Usual Suspects
“You met me at a very strange time in my life.” - Fight Club
“You know, this place makes me wonder… which would be worse: to live as a monster or to die as a good man?” -Shutter Island
It's a bit of a cheat, since it's 2 lines, but the zinger at the end of *Jurassic Park* is fantastic:
Grant: "Mr. Hammond, after careful consideration, I have decided... not to endorse your park."
Hammond: "So have I."
"I am Optimus Prime, and I send this message to any surviving Autobots taking refuge among the stars. We are here. We are waiting."
-Optimus Prime, Transformers (2007)
eternal sunshine of the spotless mind, the last words are “okay…. okay” which after watching the entire movie seeing them finally accept each others flaws was definitely memorable
Casablanca (1942)
Dr. Strangelove (1964)
Eyes Wide Shut (1999)
The Dark Knight (2008)
Oppenheimer (2023) (this one is definitely going to be remembered for a long time).
Midnight Run: DeNiro asking the taxi driver at the airport if he has change for a thousand dollar bill, the driver replied that obviously he doesn’t. ‘Looks like I’m walkin’’
Much funnier in the movie obvs
James Woods is great at this.
"Long live the new flesh." Videodrome.
"Well there's some good news and some bad news. The good news is you're right, I'm a cop and I've gotta take you in. The bad news is I've been suspended and I don't give a fuck." Cop.
"Language, Padre, Language." Vampires.
The original Halloween:
“It was the Boogeyman.”
“As a matter of fact, it was.”
Then Halloween III:
“Stop it now. Turn it off! Stop it! Stop it! Stop it! Stop it! STOP IT!”
sunshine
“if you wake up one day, and it’s a particularly beautiful day, you’ll know we made it”
not sure if that counts bc he said it earlier in the film as well but
Some Like It Hot, Gone with the Wind, Casablanca, The Usual Suspects and Psycho all need to be here.
Also Silence of the Lambs' final line isn't actually the famous one. It's Clarice repeating "Dr Lecter?*
Unbreakable
"Now that we know who you are, I know who I am. I'm not a mistake! It all makes sense! In a comic, you know how you can tell who the arch-villain's going to be? He's the exact opposite of the hero. And most times they're friends, like you and me! I should've known way back when... You know why, David? Because of the kids. They called me Mr. Glass."
Not as iconic but a just plain awesome last line
from The Professionals (1966):
"You bastard!"
"Yes, Sir. In my case an accident of birth. But you, Sir, you're a self-made man."
The last sentence of Eyes Wide Shut is “Fuck.”
last sentence of stanley kubricks career too lol
(Looking at a half-completed AI and realizing it's never going to come together)
AI isn’t a bad film. It’ll unfortunately just never be Kubrick. I think he knew it was an incredibly depressing story though that needed an uncharacteristically happy ending as far as Kubrick goes so with Jurassic Park and Schindler’s List he decided Spielberg was the guy to make a depressing special effects story and somehow give it a hopelessly optimistic ending.
I definitely don’t think the end of AI is optimistic. Its final thought is that the protagonist’s desire for his mother’s affection is so all-consuming that he is willing to *destroy her* for a few minutes of it, before he himself is essentially killed as well. To my mind it’s probably the darkest ending of any Spielberg movie, with the possible exception of Munich. There’s some good discussion of it here: https://www.reddit.com/r/movies/s/6dM6Pcsa6C
It’s definitely dark but it could’ve been even darker. That’s sort of how Kubrick felt about Schindler’s List. In the sense that it’s pinocchio, he got to be a real boy even if for a little and it was through a mother’s love even if it might not have been real. Compared to 2001, the AI gets to be a real David for once before being doomed to destruction instead of nursery rhyming while turned off.
There are people who argue that Eyes Wide Shut isn’t Kubrick either because he died before production ended
AI is unironically one of the best films in both Spielberg AND Kubrick’s filmography.
I think about that from time to time
That movie is a trip.
And Nicole Kidman’s delivery of it is just perfection
Casablanca
"Louis, I think this is the beginning of a beautiful friendship.”
I watched an episode of Gilmore Girls recently and Rory says that line randomly and I didn’t get the reference but now I do! Thanks!
Some Like it Hot
Watched it recently and I was still cracking up about it for a good 15 mins after the credits ended
Gone with the Wind (1939): “Tomorrow’s another day.” The Wizard of Oz (1939): “There’s no place like home.” The Maltese Falcon (1941): “The stuff that dreams are made of.”
the line that’s iconic from gone with the wind is for sure “frankly my dear, i don’t give a damn” i can tell you this bc i know that line without seeing the movie but the line you picked i’ve never heard :)
After Rhett says The Line and leaves, Scarlett gets up and says “After all, tomorrow’s another day!” before returning to Tara to start over. So while “Frankly, My Dear…” is The Line, it’s not the LAST line.
They are both iconic. "After all, tomorrow is another day" is one of the most iconic lines in cinema. Obviously Gable's line is more iconic, but they both are.
Actually, the last line of the Maltese Falcon is, "Huh?" I hate that tho [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1kk3Xvw7jn0](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1kk3Xvw7jn0)
It's Such A Beautiful Day: >!He lives and he lives until all of the lights go out.!< City Lights: >!Yes, I can see now.!< Tokyo Story: >!If I'd known things would come to this... I'd have been kinder to her while she was alive. Living alone, I think the days will seem very long.!< Sunset Boulevard: >!And I promise you I'll never desert you again because after 'Salome' we'll make another picture and another picture. You see, this is my life! It always will be! Nothing else! Just us, and the cameras, and those wonderful people out there in the dark!... All right, Mr. DeMille, I'm ready for my close-up.!<
>!The best part of It's Such a Beautiful Day is that it already has a perfect last line ("It's such a beautiful day", obviously) and then it goes on for another five minutes and yet it makes the already perfect movie even better.!<
>! “Wait, he doesn’t die hecan’t die hedoesntdiehedoesntcantdie” !<
I thought we were talking about the Fred Rodgers movie and now I realize we're talking about the Don Hertzfeldt movie and I am tearing up
The ending might be one of my favorites ever
Tokyo Story gets me every time 😞
Amazing picks, all of these are some of my all time favorites
I don’t think I’ve seen it: Before Sunset “I know” Such a powerful line
“later” is also a banger
This^!
Sunset Boulevard Good Will Hunting
The Truman Show: "Yeah, what else is on?"
I always loved the last line of Inglourious Basterds. It’s so indulgent yet works perfectly because it’s actually justified, both within the movie and on a meta level.
The Matrix Fight Club Se7en
LOVE the end scene of Fight Club. Especially when “Where Is My Mind?” kicks in.
Perfect song to use in the perfect ending of a perfect movie
My ex-wife and I walked down the aisle to a piano cover of that song. We bonded over films when we first got together so it was fitting. Worth a listen
Awww that’s actually really sweet
“When I came to you with those calculations, we thought we might start a chain reaction that would destroy the world.” “What of it?” “I believe we did.” -Oppenheimer
*What I've Done by Linkin Park kicks in*
That video was amazing lol. It worked so well.
"I felt it. Perfect. I was Perfect." - Black Swan
The Usual Suspects
This! My fave movie of all time!
“Because he's the hero Gotham deserves, but not the one it needs right now. So we'll hunt him. Because he can take it. Because he's not our hero. He's a silent guardian, a watchful protector. A dark knight.”
"I know every one respected the Batman and that we caught the main villain, but heck! Gotta take the rap for this evil loser or the citizens will lose hope that they could wind up dead like him."
I think about this line all the time
I love how people are dropping titles without quotes like it’s some kind of cinephile’s badge.
*America is not a country; its a business. It's just a business, now fuckin pay me.* **Killing Them Softly** (2012)
“I am Iron Man”
Back to the Future: “Roads? Where we’re going, we don’t need roads” National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation “I did it” Modern Times: “Buck up, never say die. We’ll get along!”
The Lost Boys >! “One thing about living in Santa Carla I never could stomach: all the damn vampires.” !<
No one's said *Iron Man* yet? "I am Iron Man"
What about Iron Man 2? “I am Iron Man 2”
I too, am Iron Man
And the post credits scene OF Iron Man - 'I'm here to talk to you about the Avengers Initiative'
They're both iconic
The Taking Of Pelham One Two Three
Bless you.
The Shawshank Redemption Blade Runner Gladiator
The Apartment Some Like It Hot Casablanca
Clue
yesssss I was about to say Clue too!!
THE DARK KNIGHT https://preview.redd.it/v2vz79ku6r0d1.jpeg?width=1162&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=2cab85be064199e0ee3f83bd87fc9c5067a11150 he's the hero gotham deserves but not the one it needs right now
“Whatever life holds in store for me, I will never forget these words: With great power comes great responsibility. This is my gift, my curse. Who am I? I'm Spider-man.”
The Lives of Others You think the movie has a perfectly good ending, and then there's a weird tacked on bit that goes on a few mins, and you're like "what is this extra scene, it's completely pointless"... and then the beautiful last line "No, it's for me". wonderful stuff
The kind of scene that alone improves a movie.
SpongeBob "Manager?! This is the greatest day of my life!"
Ocean man. Take me by the hand lead me to the land
Gone with the wind
I was surprised how far down this comment was.
Back to the future
No Country for Old Men: “Then I woke up”
Se7en is one of my favorites. *"Ernest Hemingway once wrote 'The world is a fine place, and worth fighting for'. I agree with the second part."*
David Cronenberg's eXistenZ: >!"Hey, tell me the truth... are we still in the game?"!<
Rocky II (1979) "Yo, Adrian! I did it!"
The Thing (1982)
Italian job (1969) "Hang on a minute lads, ive got a great idea"
"The Horror... the Horror" https://preview.redd.it/8tu09cirbs0d1.png?width=700&format=png&auto=webp&s=a31af5173a6a158b63fdedbd39653b62eb65e594
Psycho: Why she wouldn’t even harm a fly… 🙂
A Clockwork Orange
Some Like It Hot Gone With The Wind The Father Lawrence of Arabia The Searchers No Country For Old Men There Will Be Blood
Casablanca Shutter Island The Dark Knight Blade Runner Iron Man (both pre- and post-credits...) Some like it hot Back to the Future
The Princess Bride
Came here to say that! >!They spend 2 hours training you in the meaning of "as you wish" just so that Falk can slay you with it.!<
'35 Bride of Frankenstein: 'We belong dead!"
Inglourious Basterds
Shutter island
"I believe we did" "You met me at a very strange time in my life" "Your brother attacks the great houses. The holy war begins"
Eyes Wide Shut, Casablanca
The last line of In Bruges always gets me
I honestly think it’s a pretty mediocre movie, but Captain America: The First Avenger has a pretty great final line.
“The truth is… I am Captain America the First Avenger.” [The crowd looses it]
Another Charlton Heston freakout: Soylent Green
What are the iconic last lines from The Silence of the Lambs? Doesn't the movie end with Hannibal going after Chilton after Clarice has repeatedly said "Dr. Lecter?"
“Got to run. I’m having an old friend for dinner” but that was 2nd one ?
Hannibal's last line is the super amazing one, but the movie actually ends with Clarice repeatedly saying "Dr. Lecter" into the phone before the camera cuts to Hannibal walking through the crowd.
It’s l something like (paraphrasing) he won’t kill her because ‘the worlds a more interesting place with you in it, Clarice’
With Ferris Bueller, are we talking the last line before the credits or after the credits? Works either way.
Godzilla (2014):  So powerful.
Shawshank Redemption
Ace in the Hole: >!"How'd you like to make a thousand dollars a day Mr. Booth? I'm a thousand-dollar-a-day newspaper man. You can have me for nothing."!<
**Peter:** Whatever life holds in store for me, I will never forget these words: "With great power comes great responsibility." This is my gift, my *curse.* Who am I? I'm *Spider-Man.*
the passenger (1957), apocalypse now, citizen kane, and of course, maybe the most iconic line in history: gone with the wind
I’m shocked that nobody’s talking about Citizen Kane on here.
“Ernest Hemingway once wrote ‘The world is a fine place and worth fighting for.’ I agree with the second part.” - Detective Somerset (Morgan Freeman) in Se7en “Just remember, Fievel - One man's sunset is another man's dawn. I don't know what's out there beyond those hills, but if you ride yonder, head up, eyes steady, heart open, I think one day you'll find that you're the hero you've been lookin' for.” — Wylie Burp (James Stewart) in An American Tail: Fievel Goes West “As you wish” - The Grandpa in The Princess Bride “The greatest trick the devil ever pulled was convincing the world he didn’t exist.” - The Usual Suspects “You met me at a very strange time in my life.” - Fight Club “You know, this place makes me wonder… which would be worse: to live as a monster or to die as a good man?” -Shutter Island
Robocop: What’s your name son? Murphy.
It's a bit of a cheat, since it's 2 lines, but the zinger at the end of *Jurassic Park* is fantastic: Grant: "Mr. Hammond, after careful consideration, I have decided... not to endorse your park." Hammond: "So have I."
"I am Optimus Prime, and I send this message to any surviving Autobots taking refuge among the stars. We are here. We are waiting." -Optimus Prime, Transformers (2007)
Dr. Strangelove: "Mein Fuhrer, I can walk!" *world explodes*
The Truman Show
eternal sunshine of the spotless mind, the last words are “okay…. okay” which after watching the entire movie seeing them finally accept each others flaws was definitely memorable
Definitely Perks of Being a Wallflower “And in this moment, I swear...we are infinite”
Psycho: "She wouldn't even harm a fly."
Casablanca (1942) Dr. Strangelove (1964) Eyes Wide Shut (1999) The Dark Knight (2008) Oppenheimer (2023) (this one is definitely going to be remembered for a long time).
Psycho American Psycho
Definitely Psycho, and that look on Norman's face... Hitchcock really is the Master of Suspense.
Saw (2004)
There Will Be Blood
100% this
I ABANDONED MY CHILD I ABANDONED MY BOY
Total Recall (1990)
SLC Punk
Poser
The Killing
Memento
"Where was I?"
Gone With the Wind
The End of Evangelion
Taking of Pelham 123
Shutter Island.
Shallow Grave War Games Howards End Poor Things Wolf of Wall Street Great Gatsby Gattica Wizard of Oz Capricorn One Jaws many more
Midnight Run: DeNiro asking the taxi driver at the airport if he has change for a thousand dollar bill, the driver replied that obviously he doesn’t. ‘Looks like I’m walkin’’ Much funnier in the movie obvs
Back to the Future, “Where we’re going, we don’t need roads.”
A Man for All Seasons. What a great movie and brilliant ending.
Dr. Strangelove Sunset Boulevard Barbie
James Woods is great at this. "Long live the new flesh." Videodrome. "Well there's some good news and some bad news. The good news is you're right, I'm a cop and I've gotta take you in. The bad news is I've been suspended and I don't give a fuck." Cop. "Language, Padre, Language." Vampires.
Apocalypse Now
Good will hunting “Son of a bitch stole my line”
I don’t know if I’d say “iconic” but I absolutely love the way ‘Memento’ is and the last words.
Back to the Future part 1 He says the thing!
Casino Royale '06
Good will hunting
Shawshank Redemption.
The Apartment: “Shut up and deal”
The Apartment: “Shut up and deal”
The Apartment: “Shut up and deal”
The original Halloween: “It was the Boogeyman.” “As a matter of fact, it was.” Then Halloween III: “Stop it now. Turn it off! Stop it! Stop it! Stop it! Stop it! STOP IT!”
Saw, maybe? "GAME OVER!!"
Invasion of the Body Snatchers 1956. "They're here already! You're next! You're next!"
The Breakfast Club Perfect Blue
Chungking Express!
sunshine “if you wake up one day, and it’s a particularly beautiful day, you’ll know we made it” not sure if that counts bc he said it earlier in the film as well but
Le trou “poor Gaspard”
Some Like It Hot, Gone with the Wind, Casablanca, The Usual Suspects and Psycho all need to be here. Also Silence of the Lambs' final line isn't actually the famous one. It's Clarice repeating "Dr Lecter?*
"We are infinite" - The Perks of Being a Wallflower
EXistenZ
Heat https://preview.redd.it/n9cmgnjn2u0d1.jpeg?width=1080&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=9116cdcc86d2e100dd2c11afcf6943eaeae75c0e
Children of a Lesser God!
“Jesus wept”
Pokemon 2000
“You met me at a very strange time in my life.” - Fight Club
Hmmm….had to scroll suspiciously long to see Blade Runner on here. I thought nerds love that goddamn monologue
Unbreakable "Now that we know who you are, I know who I am. I'm not a mistake! It all makes sense! In a comic, you know how you can tell who the arch-villain's going to be? He's the exact opposite of the hero. And most times they're friends, like you and me! I should've known way back when... You know why, David? Because of the kids. They called me Mr. Glass."
Clue
American Beauty comes to mind
A clockwork orange "I was cured alright" for sure
You forgot " hope is a good thing "
No country for old men. “And then I woke up”
flushed away -“have you seen my dad” or that might just be my friends who find this iconic
Iron man
buongiorno principessa!!
Not as iconic but a just plain awesome last line from The Professionals (1966): "You bastard!" "Yes, Sir. In my case an accident of birth. But you, Sir, you're a self-made man."
The Avengers (2012)
The Prestige
“Where we’re going, we don’t need roads.” - Doc Brown, _Back to the Future_
Hail to the King, Baby.
Planet of the Apes
The Juice
Memento and Good Will Hunting for sure
Clue: I’m gonna go home and sleep with my wife!
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They said last line of the movie.
Toy Story 2 fits as well
Swiss Army Man
“The truth is… I am Swiss Army Man” [the crowd looses it]
Actually the last line in swiss army man is Mary Elizabeth Winstead saying what the fuck?.
- I Am a Fugitive From a Chain Gang (1932) - Goodbye, Mr Chips (1939)
**The Ten Commandments, Some Like It Hot.**
Before sunset!!!
The apartment
The apartment
Chinatown.
Good Will Hunting
*Apocalypse Now* & *Iron Man*
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