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Mayberry Machiavelli

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153. Oooh I love that scene and line from "The Town".
Sun Nov 10, 2013, 03:47 PM
Nov 2013

What I love about that is, who wouldn't want to have a friend who, if you told them you needed to fuck some people up, no questions asked about why, they're you're wing man automatically? Of course it's partly because the Renner character is a thrill seeking violence loving jerk, but still...

What I liked about "The Town" is that while the Renner character was in large part the stereotypical "off the rails" member of a crime crew who winds up blowing everything up and getting everyone arrested or killed, he did display real loyalty and was owed a certain amount of loyalty by Affleck and the others. To a point (which he crossed of course). That made it a little more complex than the usual "fuckup gangster who ruins everything" character.

Ben Affleck also had some good lines as the villainous head of a shady stockbroker firm in "The Boiler Room" essentially reprising Alec Baldwin's role from "Glengarry Glen Ross". The guy has kind of limited range but is really strong in the right roles, and as a director he's aces in my opinion.

"Looks like we're gonna need some new FBI guys." Wounded Bear Nov 2013 #1
"It's a good day to die", Little Big Man calikid Nov 2013 #2
"They are all perfect!" Iggo Nov 2013 #3
Piss on you. I'm working for Mel Brooks. nt rrneck Nov 2013 #4
"I'll have what she's having." pinboy3niner Nov 2013 #5
Love that one! After the fake orgasm dballance Nov 2013 #26
Mine from that movie cyberswede Nov 2013 #28
Among my favorites: "As far as you know" (see context below) Gidney N Cloyd Nov 2013 #6
LOL - I use that all the time. cyberswede Nov 2013 #29
There are so many from the Fletch movies davidpdx Nov 2013 #54
I use a couple of made up names from that movie. Iggo Nov 2013 #60
I've always loved this little scene from The Big Sleep aint_no_life_nowhere Nov 2013 #7
"Red, I do believe you're talking out of your ass" charlie and algernon Nov 2013 #8
Pull that pistol an' I'll killya pscot Nov 2013 #9
Fill your hand you sonofabitch. nt rrneck Nov 2013 #102
Just about every line from True Romance for starters Boom Sound 416 Nov 2013 #10
Floyd smoked the second page of your letter. 7wo7rees Nov 2013 #146
Nice Boom Sound 416 Nov 2013 #148
What is a Drexel? Boom Sound 416 Nov 2013 #149
"I've come here to kick ass and chew bubble gum...and I'm all out of bubble gum." Tobin S. Nov 2013 #11
Love that one davidpdx Nov 2013 #51
"Rowdy" Roddy Piper NewJeffCT Nov 2013 #76
I wanted a mission and for my sins they gave me one NightWatcher Nov 2013 #12
"They brought it up to me like room service. Aristus Nov 2013 #70
Men in Black tavernier Nov 2013 #13
That movie has a lot of great dialogue. Initech Nov 2013 #30
There are three mythology Nov 2013 #14
From "A League of Their Own" Boomerproud Nov 2013 #15
"What? You're crying? Brigid Nov 2013 #48
"Perhaps you chastised her too vehemently." Iggo Nov 2013 #61
Its Chinatown Jake. mysuzuki2 Nov 2013 #16
From Groundhog Day pipi_k Nov 2013 #17
a truly great movie. kwassa Nov 2013 #19
He was good in pipi_k Nov 2013 #65
"Does Jeff know?" Tootsie Bertha Venation Nov 2013 #18
Raul Julia here... Archae Nov 2013 #20
What we have hee-ah is fayl-yuh to COMMUNICATE! kwassa Nov 2013 #21
My favorite line in that movie is Mr.Bill Nov 2013 #31
It is a good line. kwassa Nov 2013 #33
Abby....abby someone.............Abby... normal...Young Frankenstein! CaliforniaPeggy Nov 2013 #22
Hey where're the white women at? Sedona Nov 2013 #36
"Could by worse." "How?" "Could be raining." Thunder, followed by downpour. csziggy Nov 2013 #160
Mongo is just pawn in game of life. Paulie Nov 2013 #23
"You will never find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy" friendly_iconoclast Nov 2013 #24
He was talking about the GOP. Brigid Nov 2013 #49
"Are you gonna do something? Or just stand there and bleed?" Miles Archer Nov 2013 #25
I have two guns, one for each of ya. Sedona Nov 2013 #35
I'm your huckleberry. Aerows Nov 2013 #40
This classic: blue neen Nov 2013 #27
My favorite scene from Animal House: Initech Nov 2013 #32
The Otter Defense, Joe Shlabotnik Nov 2013 #115
We all have it coming kid. Sedona Nov 2013 #34
Also from Unforgiven.... Wounded Bear Nov 2013 #38
Naw. This is the best line from that movie: El Supremo Nov 2013 #135
I love the smell of napalm in the morning HarveyDarkey Nov 2013 #37
love Dr. Peter Venkman bench scientist Nov 2013 #39
Two from Aliens Aerows Nov 2013 #41
Game over man! Sedona Nov 2013 #44
He's got a lot of good lines in that movie NewJeffCT Nov 2013 #78
I've used that "take off & nuke the whole site from orbit" NewJeffCT Nov 2013 #77
Guess she don't like the cornbread either. NuclearDem Nov 2013 #141
The question is.... Broken_Hero Nov 2013 #42
"Looks like two pigs fighting under a blanket." ("Steel Magnolias') Behind the Aegis Nov 2013 #43
"Put . the . candle . beck!" Brigid Nov 2013 #50
hahaha!!! pipi_k Nov 2013 #66
I LOVE THIS ONE.... yuiyoshida Nov 2013 #45
somebody's gotta go back to town and get a shitload of dimes! flying rabbit Nov 2013 #46
One of the best! Logical Nov 2013 #162
Throwing away a perfectly good white boy like that Revanchist Nov 2013 #47
"Oh, Tommy! For that you sold your everlasting soul?" Brigid Nov 2013 #52
Too many to list davidpdx Nov 2013 #53
True Romance... Callmecrazy Nov 2013 #55
"Round up the usual suspects" Glorfindel Nov 2013 #56
Batman II "But Penguin..killing kids..isn't that a little" BLAM! underpants Nov 2013 #57
Oddly, from two Ben Affleck movies. RiffRandell Nov 2013 #58
Oooh I love that scene and line from "The Town". Mayberry Machiavelli Nov 2013 #153
"shut up and deal" The apartment. and "Nobody's Perfect" Some like it hot. mucifer Nov 2013 #59
"I've spent most of my life in jail, BeyondGeography Nov 2013 #62
"That old hag hates my ass." Brigid Nov 2013 #63
"I told him we already got one" Ohio Joe Nov 2013 #64
"You're not too smart, are you? I like that in a man." Paladin Nov 2013 #67
"These are the devil's playthings, and those that touch them will burn."..... MotorCityMan Nov 2013 #123
A few of my favorite lines juanrodriguezn248 Nov 2013 #68
here you go warrior1 Nov 2013 #69
"I think we're gonna need a bigger boat." Jenoch Nov 2013 #71
"I swear, if you existed, I'd divorce you" mockmonkey Nov 2013 #72
"Such impudence never came my way." KansDem Nov 2013 #73
"Gentlemen, you can't fight in here..." GoCubsGo Nov 2013 #74
What movie is that line from? oberliner Nov 2013 #75
Dr. Strangelove mucifer Nov 2013 #82
Thanks oberliner Nov 2013 #95
Cat Ballou: El Supremo Nov 2013 #134
"He didn't know who he was f***ing with." RebelOne Nov 2013 #79
Pulp Fiction my2sense Nov 2013 #80
"You wouldn't treat me this way if I wasn't in a wheelchair." "But ya are, Blanche, ya are." vademocrat Nov 2013 #81
"Hey everybody … we're all going to get laid!" Auggie Nov 2013 #83
Wasn't that from "Porky's?" DFW Nov 2013 #92
Definitely Caddyshack Auggie Nov 2013 #100
It was in Porky's as well DFW Nov 2013 #101
Spies Like Us Boom Sound 416 Nov 2013 #84
What was the question? (I was away Googling.) From Shampoo: "Aw, you can call anybody a whore." n/t UTUSN Nov 2013 #85
Food Fight B Calm Nov 2013 #86
Endeavor to persevere. Blue_In_AK Nov 2013 #87
Dave Bowman: Open the pod bay doors, HAL. Blue_In_AK Nov 2013 #88
There's another old saying, Senator: Don't piss down my back and tell me it's rainin (nm) Rambis Nov 2013 #129
"Is this a game of chance?" -an onlooker Sognefjord Nov 2013 #89
Was it over when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor? abq e streeter Nov 2013 #90
That sounds like a line Sarah Palin would say for real! n/t DFW Nov 2013 #99
Does, doesn't it? abq e streeter Nov 2013 #110
Never give up, never surrender…. nt Grey Nov 2013 #91
"No shit?" from "Putney Swope" (see clip for context) DFW Nov 2013 #93
Two of THE best lines ever DFW Nov 2013 #94
"Social... Demented and sad, but social..." ScreamingMeemie Nov 2013 #96
"That's a guy's line, Peggy Sue!" PassingFair Nov 2013 #97
"Dance with me, you little toad" Myrina Nov 2013 #98
"And don't call me Shirley." nt rrneck Nov 2013 #103
"Use the force Harry!" -- Gandalf, from Lord of the Flies Demo_Chris Nov 2013 #104
Do or do not, there is no try -- Professor X from Lord of the Rings NuclearDem Nov 2013 #142
"Where is pancakes house?" geardaddy Nov 2013 #105
Ohhh That's not right! sharp_stick Nov 2013 #106
also: "...AND he exploded." mainer Nov 2013 #117
I had to drag my sharp_stick Nov 2013 #119
"Seven years of college down the drain!" KamaAina Nov 2013 #107
"i'm going to make you eat both your own buttucks" Rambis Nov 2013 #108
"I was born a poor black child in Mississippi." KamaAina Nov 2013 #109
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Toot, toot, tootsie I love this line. aurora the great Nov 2013 #111
"That's part of your problem you know Ghost of Tom Joad Nov 2013 #112
Rodney Danderfield.. Rebellious Republican Nov 2013 #113
"Are you the police?" Joe Shlabotnik Nov 2013 #114
"If she weighs the same as a duck, she's made of wood" Art_from_Ark Nov 2013 #118
"Skin that smoke wheel and see what happens."... lame54 Nov 2013 #120
Some great lines! bif Nov 2013 #121
"Now go home and get your fuckin' shinebox." name not needed Nov 2013 #122
"Fasten your seatbelts-- it's going to be a bumpy night!" ailsagirl Nov 2013 #124
"I'm as mad as hell and I'm not going to take this anymore! spiderpig Nov 2013 #125
"I'll alert the media"...from Arthur. hamsterjill Nov 2013 #126
I said I had never had much use for one. Never said I didn't know how to use it. BarbaRosa Nov 2013 #127
This one. Liberal Veteran Nov 2013 #128
They're nihilists donny nothing to be afraid of Rambis Nov 2013 #130
Littering and... littering and... littering and smokin' the reefer. rudolph the red Nov 2013 #131
"God damn Army" ~ M*A*S*H Scuba Nov 2013 #132
Life is like a box of chocolate B Calm Nov 2013 #133
Some asshole wrote a poem about that once...probably good advice if you have shit for brains. sir pball Nov 2013 #136
"it was somewhere right along here Morning Dew Nov 2013 #137
"Hey Ridley...ya got any Beeman's?" Ryano42 Nov 2013 #138
Ghostbusters! Calista241 Nov 2013 #139
So Many! Steerpike Nov 2013 #140
"That's why I love hanging out with you guys. NuclearDem Nov 2013 #143
Get me mah Cheez Whiz boy? - The Blues Brothers 7wo7rees Nov 2013 #144
"Gentlemen! You can't fight in HERE... This is the WAR ROOM!" cherokeeprogressive Nov 2013 #145
Breaker Morant: Shoot straight, you bastards. - Don't make a mess of it! Botany Nov 2013 #147
The Dude abides... deutsey Nov 2013 #150
A Night at the opera shebornik Nov 2013 #151
"You can't dust for vomit." bif Nov 2013 #152
You know they can't prove whose vomit it was...They don't have the facilities at Scotland Yard. Arugula Latte Nov 2013 #158
"Well, it's a well run campaign. Midget, broom, and what not." (O Brother Where Art Thou) Mayberry Machiavelli Nov 2013 #154
any line from "As Good As It Gets" Duppers Nov 2013 #155
Just because it's a great thread. Kick. bif Nov 2013 #156
"It's the fucking Catalina Wine Mixer!" a la izquierda Nov 2013 #157
"No, Boomer, it is forbidden!" Hell Hath No Fury Nov 2013 #159
lighten Up Francis! or You want to earn $14 the hard way? Logical Nov 2013 #161
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