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Re: FYC 1957: Best Line
« Reply #10 on: May 29, 2012, 06:04:38 PM »
Presenting the 1957 Retro Filmspot nominees for Best Line:

  • "I am constantly surprised that women's hats do not provoke more murders." (Witness for the Prosecution)
  • "I'd hate to take a bite outta you. You're a cookie full of arsenic." (Sweet Smell of Success)
  • "She's a high-riding woman... with a whip!" (Forty Guns)
  • "The arrangement of your features is not entirely repulsive to me." (Silk Stockings)
  • "You're dead son. Get yourself buried." (Sweet Smell of Success)
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Re: FYC 1957: Best Line
« Reply #11 on: May 29, 2012, 06:22:02 PM »
Presenting the 1957 Retro Filmspot nominees for Best Line:

  • last minute sneak in
  • Winner, but will lose to a split vote
  • cabal
  • the only pure, unbiased nominee
  • vote splitter

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Re: FYC 1957: Best Line
« Reply #12 on: May 29, 2012, 06:26:56 PM »
I nom'd three of those.

Shame not enough people understand the greatness of the Zero Hour! screenplay.
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Re: FYC 1957: Best Line
« Reply #13 on: May 29, 2012, 06:59:38 PM »
Presenting the 1957 Retro Filmspot nominees for Best Line:

  • last minute sneak in
  • Winner, but will lose to a split vote
  • cabal
  • the only pure, unbiased nominee
  • vote splitter

;D

That "pure" one cracks me up. I'll probably vote for it.

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Re: FYC 1957: Best Line
« Reply #14 on: May 29, 2012, 07:46:46 PM »
I don't understand what makes a nominee "biased".

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Re: FYC 1957: Best Line
« Reply #15 on: May 29, 2012, 09:39:09 PM »
The people who voted for the Forty Guns line only did so because they're part of a pro-Samuel Fuller cabal, the only purpose of which is to trick unsuspecting people into watching bad movies because they think it's funny.
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Re: FYC 1957: Best Line
« Reply #16 on: May 29, 2012, 11:08:33 PM »
I'm arrogant enough to assume this is directed at me so I'll clarify. I like Sam Fuller, but 1957 was not a good year for him.

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Re: FYC 1957: Best Line
« Reply #17 on: May 29, 2012, 11:37:58 PM »
I forgot the ;).
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Re: FYC 1957: Best Line
« Reply #18 on: May 30, 2012, 01:50:03 PM »
"Kill da wabbit! Kill da wabbit! Kill da wabbit!" wasn't even FYC'd? We suck at this.

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Re: FYC 1957: Best Line
« Reply #19 on: May 30, 2012, 01:56:33 PM »
Oops. Is there anything in the Filmspot bylaws about write-in campaigns?
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