Mickey: Women weaken legs!
Mickey: You’re gonna eat lightnin’ and you’re gonna crap thunder!
Rocky: Well, ya see, sir I understand you’re lookin’ for sparrin’ partners for Apollo, and I jus’ want ta let ya know that I am very available.
Apollo Creed: Stay in school and use your brain. Be a doctor, be a lawyer, carry a leather briefcase. Forget about sports as a profession. Sports make ya grunt and smell. See, be a thinker, not a stinker.
Mickey: Your nose is broken.


Rocky: How does it look?
Mickey: Ah, it’s an improvement.
Adrian: Why do you wanna fight?
Rocky: Because I can’t sing or dance.
[Adrian is trying to get to Rocky in the ring]
Rocky: Adrian!
Adrian: Rocky!
Rocky: Adrian!
Adrian: Rocky!
Rocky: Adrian.
Adrian: Rocky.
[the 15th and final round of the fight has ended; reporters climb into the ring for interviews]
Fight Announcer: [interviews Rocky] It was chaos. Rocky, you went the distance. You went the 15 rounds. How do you feel?
Rocky: All right!
Fight Announcer: What were you thinking about when that buzzer sounded?
Rocky: [yelling] Adrian!
Fight Announcer: What were you thinking when the 15th…
Rocky: What? Adrian!
Rocky: Rocky? Rocky?
Jergens: [taking the mic] Ladies and Gentlemen, your attention, please.
Adrian: Rocky? Rocky!
Jergens: Tonight, we have had the privilege of witnessing the greatest exhibition of guts and stamina in the history of the ring!
Rocky: Adrian!
Adrian: Rocky. Rocky!
Jergens: [reads the results] Ladies and Gentlemen, we have a split decision.
[Jergens continues; indistinct]
Rocky: ADRIAN!
Adrian: Rocky!
Jergens: …for Creed!
[audience cheers]
Paulie: [talking about Adrian] You like her?
Rocky: Sure, I like her.
Paulie: What’s the attraction?
Rocky: I dunno… she fills gaps.
Paulie: What’s ‘gaps’?
Rocky: I dunno, she’s got gaps, I got gaps, together we fill gaps.
Paulie: Are you ballin’ her?
Rocky: Hey!
[punches Paulie in the shoulder]
Rocky: You don’t talk dirty about your sister!
[Rocky and Gazzo step out of the car for a talk]
Gazzo: [upset] How come you didn’t break this guy’s thumb like I told you?
Rocky: Well, how did you know I didn’t…
Gazzo: You don’t think I hear things? Did I give you a job this morning or didn’t I, huh?
Rocky: Yeah.
Gazzo: So why didn’t you break his thumb like I told you? When you don’t do what I tell you to do, you make me look bad, Rock.
Rocky: [trying to come up with an excuse] I figured… look, I figured if I break the guy’s thumb, he gets laid off, right? Then he can’t make…
Gazzo: [cuts Rocky off] Yeah, well don’t figure! Let me do the figurin’, okay, Rock? From here on in, just let me do the figuring, you know? These guys think we’re running some kind of charity or something. That they can get off light. From here on in, do what I tell you to do, because it’s bad for my reputation! You understand? You got…
[shoves Rocky]
Gazzo: you got it, Rock?
Rocky: [beat] I got it.
Gazzo: Good. Now, tomorrow I want you to collect 400 from Del Rio. He’s behind in his payment three weeks and I don’t like it. When I tell you to break a guy’s nose or thumbs as a “late payment notice”, you do it!
Rocky: [to Gazzo as he walks back towards the car] Hey, how do you spell “Del Rio”?
Gazzo: [angrly] Open a dictionary, Rock!
Rocky: What’s a dictionary?
Rocky: Adrian!
Fight Announcer: Your fans out there deserve a rematch!
Rocky: It ain’t gonna be no rematch! Oh, come on! I had enough things in my face tonight! Adrian!
Fight Announcer: You heard him, Ladies and…
[Last lines; Adrian snuck inside the ring]
Rocky: Adrian?
Adrian: Rocky!
Rocky: Adrian! Hey, where’s your hat?
Adrian: I love you!
Rocky: I love you.
Adrian: [grabs and hugs Rocky] I love you!
Rocky: I love you. I love you.
Adrian: I love you. I love you!
Rocky: Yeah.
Rocky: I just want to say hi to my girlfriend, OK? Yo, Adrian! It’s me, Rocky.
Adrian: [just before the big fight] I’ll be here waiting for you.
Rocky: How ’bout I stay here and you fight?
Adrian: Is this you?
Rocky: Yeah, that’s me when I was eight years old, that’s the Italian Stallion when he was a baby.
Rocky: I can’t do it.
Adrian: What?
Rocky: I can’t beat him.
Adrian: Apollo?
Rocky: Yeah. I been out there walkin’ around, thinkin’. I mean, who am I kiddin’? I ain’t even in the guy’s league.
Adrian: What are we gonna do?
Rocky: I don’t know.
Adrian: You worked so hard.
Rocky: Yeah, that don’t matter. ‘Cause I was nobody before.
Adrian: Don’t say that.
Rocky: Ah come on, Adrian, it’s true. I was nobody. But that don’t matter either, you know? ‘Cause I was thinkin’, it really don’t matter if I lose this fight. It really don’t matter if this guy opens my head, either. ‘Cause all I wanna do is go the distance. Nobody’s ever gone the distance with Creed, and if I can go that distance, you see, and that bell rings and I’m still standin’, I’m gonna know for the first time in my life, see, that I weren’t just another bum from the neighborhood.
Apollo Creed: Ain’t gonna be no rematch.
Rocky: Don’t want one.
Apollo’s Trainer: He doesn’t know it’s a damn show! He thinks it’s a damn fight!
Marie: Hey Rocky! Screw you, creepo!
Paulie: [in the bathroom of a bar] I’d like to kill the freaking guy who broke this mirror.
Adrian: Paulie, it’s Thanksgiving. I got a turkey in the oven.
Paulie: Oh… a turkey in the oven.
[he takes the turkey out]
Paulie: You want the bird?
[he throws it out the door]
Paulie: Go in the alley and eat the bird!
Adrian: [disgusted] Oh Paulie!
Paulie: [about Adrian] She’s pushing thirty freaking years old, and if she don’t wise up, she’s gonna die an old maid.
Rocky: I’m thirty myself!
Apollo Creed: Apollo Creed vs. the Italian Stallion. Sounds like a damn monster movie.
Rocky: Don’t smoke that. It makes your breath like garbage.
Marie: Maybe I like garbage.
Rocky: [putting out the cigarette] Nobody likes garbage!
Rocky: [upon seeing Apollo Creed] He looks like a big flag.
Bartender: You want me to take a shot? All right.
[pours himself a drink]
Bartender: I’ll take a shot!
[Paulie overhears Rocky and now he’s angry and hurt]
Paulie: I don’t want nothin’ from you. I don’t want nothin’ from you. This ain’t no charity case. Get outta my house.
Adrian: It’s not just your house.
Paulie: [to Rocky] You ain’t no friend no more. Get outta my house, I just says.
Adrian: Don’t talk to him like that.
Paulie: Both of you get out of my house.
Rocky: Yo… It’s cold outside, Paulie.
[drops his hat; getting angrier, Paulie grabs his bat]
Paulie: I don’t want you messin’ her, and I don’t raise you to go with this scum bum! Yeah? Come on! You wanna hit on me? Come on! I’ll break both your arms so they don’t work for ya!
[Paulie smashed a lamp, then a dinner tray; Adrian screams]
Paulie: [Screaming] That’s right! I’m not good enough to meet with Gazzo…
[spits]
Paulie: - that’s what I think of Gazzo! Now your a big-shot fighter on your way up, you don’t even throw a crumb to your friend Paulie! When I go out and get your meat every morning! You forgot that! Then I even give you my sister, too!
Adrian: Only a pig would say that!
Paulie: I’m a pig? A pig gives you the best?
Paulie: [Smashes a coffee set] You’re such a loser! I don’t get married because of you! You can’t live by yourself! I put you two together! And you - don’t you forget it! You owe me! You owe me!
Adrian: [Freaks out] WHAT DO I OWE YOU?
Paulie: [cries] You’re supposed to be good to me.
Adrian: WHAT DO I OWE YOU, PAULIE? WHAT DO I OWE YOU? I treat you good! I cook for you! I cleaned for you! I pick up your dirty clothes! I take care of ya, Paulie! I don’t owe you nothin’! And you made me feel like a loser! I’M NOT A LOSER!
Marie: You’re a bum!
Mickey: Get out of here! Don’t ya ever interrupt me while I’m conductin’ business. Move your little chicken asses out.
Mickey: You’re a bum, Rock. You’re a bum.
Rocky: I ain’t no bum, Mick. I ain’t no bum.
Rocky: I wanna kiss ya-ya don’t have to kiss me back if ya don’t feel like it.
Rocky: Took you long enough to get here. Took you ten years to get to my house. Huh, what’s the matter? You don’t like my house? Does my house stink? That’s right-it stinks! I didn’t have no favors from you! Don’t slum around me. Talkin’ about your prime. What about my prime, Mick? At least you had a prime! I didn’t have no prime. I didn’t have nithin’! Leg’s are goin’, everything is goin’. Nobody’s getting’ no nothin’. Guy comes up, offers me a fight. Big deal. Wanna fight the fight? Yeah, I’ll fight the big fight. I wouldn’t wanna fight. Know what’s gonna happen to me? I’m gonna get that! I’m gonna get that! And you wanna be ringside to see it? Do ya? You wanna help me out? Huh? Do you wana see me get my face kicked in? Leg’s ain’t workin’, nothing’s workin’, but they go, “Go on, fight the champ.” Yeah, I’ll fight him. Get my face kicked in. And you come around here. You wanna move in here with me? Come on in! It’s a nice house! Real nice. Come on in and move. It stinks! This whole place stinks. You wanna help me out? Well, help me out! Come on, help me out. I’m standin’ here!
[Rocky and Adrian watching a Christmas movie in the house]
Adrian: And he called the reporters?
Rocky: Yeah. It threw my whole training schedule off.
Adrian: Don’t be mad at him. He’s just trying to help.
Rocky: Adrian, I ain’t mad. It’s just that, uh, when a reporter’s around, I get out of joint ’cause they take cheap shots, and Paulie knows that. Paulie keeps askin’ me for a job all the time, but he don’t know nothin’ about fighting.
Adrian: Are you gonna say anything to him?
Rocky: Well, what’s to say? I just don’t know what he wants from me.
Rocky: I shold have broke your thumbs!
Paulie: You’re busted!
Adrian: What?
Paulie: You’re not a virgin!
[Adrian sobbing]
Paulie: You let him get into your pants! She’s busted!
[Rocky grabs Paulie; screams, then sobs]
Paulie: [cries] I can’t haul meat no more.
Paulie: I want you outta here instamatically.
Adrian: You want a roommate?
Rocky: Absolutely.
TV Commentator: [about Apollo] I’ve never seen a fighter that concerned about his hair.
Reporter: Where did you get the name, “The Italian Stallion”?
Rocky: Oh I made that up one night while I was eating dinner.
Rocky: What’s the matter with my house? My house stink? THAT’S RIGHT! IT STINKS!
Mickey: Down! Down! Stay Down!
Apollo Creed: You’d better stop this fight! You ain’t nothin’ but a bum!
Bodyguard: Did ya get the license number?
Rocky: Of what?
Bodyguard: The truck that run over your face.
Rocky: You gotta be a moron… you gotta be a *moron* to wanna be a fighter.
Rocky: You stop this fight, I’ll kill ya’!
Adrian: Einstein flunked out of school, twice.
Paulie: Is that so?
Adrian: Yeah. Beethoven was deaf. Helen Keller was blind. I think Rocky’s got a good chance.
Rocky: I been comin’ here for six years, and for six years ya been stickin’ it to me, an’ I wanna know how come!
Mickey: Ya don’t wanna know!
Rocky: I wanna know how come!
Mickey: Ya wanna know?
Rocky: I WANNA KNOW HOW!
Mickey: OK, I’m gonna tell ya! You had the talent to become a good fighter, but instead of that, you become a legbreaker to some cheap, second rate loanshark!
Rocky: It’s a living.
Mickey: IT’S A WASTE OF LIFE!
Rocky: Hey… you know how I said that stuff on TV didn’t bother me none?
Adrian: Yeah?
Rocky: It did.
Mickey: You know what you are?
Rocky: No, what?
Mickey: A tomato.
Rocky: A tomato?
Mickey: Yeah, and I’m running a business here, not a goddamn soup kitchen.
Apollo’s Trainer: Hey, champ, you oughta come and look at this boy you’re gonna fight on TV. It looks like he means business.
Apollo Creed: Yeah, yeah. I mean business too.
[Apollo is looking thru a book of Philadelphia fighters]
Jergens: What exactly are you looking for Apollo?
Apollo Creed: This is who I’m looking for. The Italian Stallion.
Jergens: Rocky Balboa? Never heard of him.
Apollo Creed: Look it’s the name man. The I-talian Stallion. The media will eat it up. Now who discovered America? An Italian right? What better way to get it on than with one of its descendants?
Apollo’s Trainer: He’s a southpaw. I don’t want you messing with southpaws. They do everything backwards
Apollo Creed: Southpaw nothing. I’ll drop him in three. Apollo Creed meets the Italian Stallion. Now that sounds like a damn monster movie.
Rocky: Hey, yo, Mike, whose lock is this? Whose stuff is this in my locker?
Mike: It’s Dipper’s stuff. It ain’t your locker no more.
Rocky: Whatta ya talkin’ about it ain’t my locker no more? It’s been my locker for six years. Where’s my gear?
Mike: Mickey told me to bag it. Hang it.
Rocky: You put my stuff on skid row? I been in that locker six years; you put my stuff in a bag on skid row?
Mike: Mickey tells me what to do. I gotta do it, right, Rock?
Rocky: Where is he?
Mike: Working with Dipper. He’s in a baaad mood.
Rocky: So am I.
[last lines]
Adrian: I love you.
Rocky: I love you.
Mickey: [to rocky, after round 1 with Apollo] Keep hittin’em in the ribs ya see? Don’t let that bastard breathe!
Rocky: What about my prime, Mick? At least you had a prime! I had no prime, I had nothin’!
[Repeated line]
Gazzo: Don’t you think I hear things?
[after Rocky finishes pounding on the raw meat]
Paulie: You do that to Apollo Creed, they’ll put us in jail for murder.
Rocky: I think we make a real sharp couple of coconuts - I’m dumb, you’re shy, whaddaya think, huh?
Rocky: Cut me, Mick.
Fight Announcer: What is keeping him up Bill, I dont know.
Rocky: Shut up! Mr Gazzo wants the 200 now.
Rocky: [Rocky is trying to make out with Adrian on their first date] Will you do me a favor? Take off these glasses.
[Rocky takes off Adrian’s frumpy glasses, revealing her beautiful eyes]
Rocky: Now take off this hat.
[Takes off her unattractive hat, revealing her dark, lovely hair. Adrian is beautiful and Rocky is appreciative]
Rocky: I always knew you was pretty…
Adrian: [Adrian looks at him, disbelieving] Stop teasing me.

When the Mother-Ship passes over the Devil’s Tower near the end of Spielberg’s movie, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, R2-D2 can be seen hanging from the bottom of the ship.In the movie E.T. there is a scene where the young boy lures the extraterrestrial with some Reese’s pieces. Originally Spielberg was going to use M+M’s, but he could not get the rights. Reese’s pieces were the replacement.

The Godfather was the first movie in over twenty years in which Marlon Brando was required to audition.

“Halloween” was originally going to be titled “The Babysitter Murders”.

The Sesame Street characters Bert and Ernie were named after the cop and the taxi driver from the movie “It’s a Wonderful Life”.

The mechanical shark used in the movie Jaws was nicknamed Bruce, named after Spielberg’s lawyer.

When the T-Rex devours the traffic light in San Diego within the movie “The Lost Word: Jurassic Park”, there is a sign close by that reads “No Dinosaurs”.

After reading the script for Men in Black, Will Smith did not want any part of the movie. It was wife Jada that persuaded him to take the part.

Midnight Cowboy was the first non-pornographic movie to receive a X rating.

For the movie the Wizard of Oz, Judy Garland was paid $35 a week while Toto received $125 a week.

The producers of the movie Gone With The Wind were fined 5,000 dollars for allowing the word “damn” to be heard within the movie‘s dialog.

Brooke Shields spent a lot of time during the filming of Blue Lagoon standing/walking in a trench beside Chris Atkins so that she wouldn’t be taller than him in the scenes that they had together.

The Blues Brothers once held the record for crashing the most police cars in a movie at approximately 30. The record was eventually broken by Blues Brothers 2000.

During filming of the chariot race scene in the movie Ben-Hur, one of the cameras was completely ruined when a chariot ran over it. The footage right up to the camera’s obliteration was used in the final film.

Near the beginning of the movie Back To The Future there’s a scene where they show all of the clocks at Doc’s house. If you look closely there is one clock with a little man hanging from the minute hand.

In Carrie, the slow motion scene at the end of the movie was filmed in reverse to simulate ghostlike movement effects. If watched vigilantly, cars can be seen driving backwards in the upper left hand corner of the screen.

Bogart never said “Play it again Sam” in the movie Casablanca. What Bogart did say was “Play it Sam”.

Orson Welles was only 21 years old when here starred in & directed in the movie Citizen Kane.

Hitchcock used chocolate syrup to portray the blood seen in the shower scene for his classic film Psycho.

Over 1,400 actresses were interviewed to play the part of Scarlett O’Hara for the movie Gone with the Wind.

The first toilet being flushed in a motion picture was in Alfred Hitchcock’s movie Psycho.

In the James Bond movie “For Your Eyes Only” one of the bond girls used to be a man.

The longest Hollywood kiss was from the 1941 film, “You’re in the Army Now”. It lasted for three minutes and three seconds.

Disney’s “Beauty and the Beast” was the first animated film to be nominated for an Oscar for best picture.

Liverpool is the most filmed British city.

Bruce Lee was so fast, that they actually had to slow a film down so you could see his moves.

Rolling Stone Keith Richards was set to make a cameo appearance as the father of Captain Jack Sparrow, in Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest, a commitment he could not keep.

 

1.    After her unfortunate hair-gel incident in There’s Something About Mary, Cameron Diaz noticed a sudden increase in the number of male strangers that would approach her and offer to supply her with hair care products.2.    On Leonardo DiCaprio’s first date, he was so shy that he couldn’t look his date in the eye!

3.    Stunt coordinator Simon Crane exited the tail of a DC-9 at 15,000 feet and slid down a connecting rope to the open door of a smaller JetStar plane for the production of the Sylvester Stallone film Cliffhanger (1993). It was the greatest one-man aerial stunt ever performed in cinematic history.

4.    Audiences named “seeing Halle Berry’s naked breasts” the best thing about the movie Swordfish. When asked what that said about the rest of the movie, Berry replied, “That says that my boobs are pretty f—ing incredible!”

5.    Tommy Lee Jones hates clothing labels. During production of Men in Black II, his publicist assembled the entire crew and told them to get rid of all t-shirts and any visible clothing labels, because if Jones saw them he would walk off the set.

6.    When watching Raiders of the Lost Ark on home video nearly 30 years ago, Steven Spielberg was so irritated at the “pan & scan” method of showing feature films on television sets (where the square TV screen will pan from left to right on the original film as needed to show the important action) that he experienced a fit of anger and invented widescreen.

7.    Did you ever hear that rumor that Sylvester Stallone started his acting career in a 1970’s adult film called The Italian Stallion? Not only is it true, but he was paid a whopping $200 for his performance!

8.    Ever wonder what the most expensive movie ever made was? Titanic cost $200,000,000 and doesn’t come close. Neither does the $300,000,000 Spiderman 3. Believe it or not, the most expensive movie ever made was the 1968 Soviet-produced adaptation of Tolstoy’s War and Peace which, when adjusted for inflation, cost more than $700,000,000 to make.

9.    Eli Roth, director of blood-soaked horror films like Cabin Fever, Hostel, and Hostel II, faints at the sight of real blood! Movie blood, for some reason, has no effect on him.

10.    Here are the five movies with the highest measurable body counts ever (discounting, obviously, movies that show global destruction like War of the Worlds or Independence Day) – Grindhouse: Double Feature – 310 deaths, Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers – 468 deaths, Troy – 572 deaths, 300 – 600 deaths, and Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King comes in at #1 with 836 deaths. That’s nearly four deaths a minute for more than four hours! Go Peter Jackson!

11.    The original title for “50 Amazing Movie Facts” was “101 Amazing Movie Facts,” but then I discovered the difficulty involved in amassing that many amazing facts!

12.    If you read 50 Amazing Movie Facts Vol. 1 this might sound familiar, but it bears repeating. Jean Claude Van-Damme speaks five languages!!

13.    M&M’s were the original choice for the candy to be used in E.T.: The Extraterrestrial, but Reese’s Pieces were used instead because Mars Incorporated, the M&M’s parent company, didn’t want their candy associated with aliens and UFOs. The placement of Resse’s Pieces in the movie went on to become one of the most wildly successful instances of product placement in film history. Oops!

14.    Steven Spielberg dropped out of college in 1968 to concentrate on his film career. In the early 2000’s, he went back to fulfill his dream and graduate, fulfilling the various correspondence courses and term papers required to obtain his degree. One of the requirements was that each Film Major must submit a finished film of at least 12 minutes in length, so Spielberg submitted Schindler’s List. During the graduation ceremony, the orchestra played the theme song from Indiana Jones as he walked across the stage.

15.    Entertainment Weekly claims that Tom Hanks is the only actor alive worthy of $20 million.

16.    Contrary to popular belief, and as a matter of simple logic, actors are not overpaid unless the movie bombs at the box office.

17.    For the scene in the 007 film From Russia with Love (1963) where Bond and the leading lady Tatiana Romanova escape onto the Orient Express, there were so many people trying to watch the filming of the scene and ruining takes that director Terence Young had one of his stunt men pretend to hang himself to distract the crowds enough so that the scene could be filmed.

18.    Sylvester Stallone has that unique look about his face because of birth complications “caused by forceps.” And on an unrelated note, in high school he was voted “most likely to end up in the electric chair.”

19.    Johannas Heesters has had the longest acting career ever, and is also the oldest actor to ever appear in a movie, and now remains the oldest actor alive anywhere in the world. His first film was called Cirque hollandais (1924), and when he appeared in the yet to be released 1 1/2 Knights: In Search of the Ravishing Princess Herzelinde (2008), he was 104 years old. Incidentally, he was also Adolf Hitler’s favorite actor…

20.    In the late 1970’s, Stanley Kubrick was sorting through novels at his home trying to find one that would make a good movie, and from the other room, his wife would hear a pounding noise every half hour or so as he threw books against the wall in frustration. Finally, she didn’t hear any noise for almost two hours, and when she went to check on him she found him reading “The Shining.”

21.    A single, charming man named Ed Gein was the main inspiration for The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1974), The Silence of the Lambs (1991), and Norman Bates from Psycho (1960). Sounds like a fun guy!

22.    The original tagline for Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines (2003) was “The War Begins 2003,” but the phrase was removed from all promotional material when it turned out to really be true…

23.    The first preview for Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace was played in November 1998 before the Adam Sandler film The Waterboy. Many Star Wars fans who were not Sandler fans paid the full admission price, watched the Star Wars trailer, and then left the theater.

24.    Hulk Hogan has three movies on the Internet Movie Database’s list of the 100 worst films of all time. Before getting into professional wrestling and, ah, “acting,” he majored in business management.

25.    Robocop (1987) was the first film ever given an “X” rating not because of sexual content or pervasive nudity, but because of extreme violence. It was re-edited to get the R rating.

26.    Cheech and Chong originally called themselves Spic and Span, but they changed their names because “Spic” was not so popular with Chicano organizations.

27.    A young boy named Ronald Hunkeler was the subject of a real life exorcism in the 1940s and was the inspiration for William Peter Blatty’s novel “The Exorcist.” He was “cured” and ultimately went on to become a NASA scientist.

28.    The archaeological dig sight at the beginning of The Exorcist is a real site in Hatra, Iraq. An all-British film crew were used because the U.S. had no diplomatic relations with Iraq at that time. They were allowed to film only on the condition that they would teach Iraqi filmmakers how to do special effects.

29.    At the end of Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom, one of the movie’s most climactic moments involves the lid sliding off of an enormous stone coffin. The sound effects guy made the sound for that scene by sliding the lid across the tank of his toilet. Try it!

30.    Ever hear the James Bond theme played with machine guns? In License To Kill (1989), there is a scene where Bond is in a petrol tanker being chased by the bad guys. They shoot at him with machine guns, and if you listen carefully you can hear the Bond theme being played by the sounds of the bullets hitting the tanker.

31.    Relative to the rest of the movie, Total Recall (1990) has the cheesiest ending of any American film ever made.

32.    The f-bomb is dropped 186 times in the movie Superbad (2007). That’s more than in the infamous Scarface (1983), which provided the number for which Blink-182 named their band.

33.    Julia Roberts was originally cast in the role of Viola in Shakespeare in Love (1989). Am I the only person who can’t imagine Julia Roberts doing Shakespeare? Maybe not, because she flew to the UK to persuade Daniel Day-Lewis to take the lead role of Shakespeare, but when he turned it down to do In the Name of the Father (1993) instead, Universal dropped the Shakespeare project until Joseph Fiennes and Gwyneth Paltrow signed on 6 years later.

34.    Oh and speaking of Shakespeare, get this, the first case of the “common cold” was diagnosed in 1611 in Stratford, England (Shakespeare’s hometown) in a patient named John Common. Coincidentally, Common gave his cold to Shakespeare, who said that the malady exacerbated his love-sickness and thus inspired some of his most fondly remembered sonnets.

35.    I have a Bachelor’s Degree in English Literature, but I learned the word “exacerbate” from Shaun of the Dead (2004).36.    William Shatner was half of the first-ever televised interracial kiss, when he kissed African American actress Nichelle Nichols, who played Lieutenant Uhura in an original “Star Trek” episode called “Plato’s Stepchildren.” It aired for the first time on November 22nd, 1968, and some TV stations in the American south refused to air the episode on the grounds that the kiss, despite being between two of the good guys in the story (and involuntary), was the moral equivalent of a sexual assault.

37.    An American novelist named Morgan Robertson published a book called “The Wreck of the Titan” about a massive ship that struck an iceberg on it’s maiden voyage and sank on a cold April night. It was published in 1898.  The Titanic sank in 1912.

38.   When Gaff talks to Deckard in the Japanese restaurant in Blade Runner, he says this line in Hungarian, “Azonnal kövessen engem,” which means “Follow me immediately,” and then he says, “Lófasz” which can mean both “bullshit” and “no way,” but the literal translation is “horse penis.” Evidently, Hungarian moviegoers find this fantastically funny.

39.    Mickey Mouse is named after Mickey Rooney, whose mother dated Walt Disney.

40.    The actual name of the Oscar is the “Academy Award of Merit.” Bette Davis claims that she gave the statue its name after her husband, bandleader Harmon Oscar Nelson. Also, it’s illegal for anyone, including the winners themselves, to ever sell an Oscar statuette without first offering to sell it back to the Academy for $1.

41.    Rocky Balboa was born on July 6, 1945. According to FIrst Blood: Part II (1985), John J. Rambo was born on July 6, 1947. Sylvester Stallone was born July 6, 1946.

42.    J.K. Rowling was a struggling single mother when she started writing her first Harry Potter book. She now has more money than the Queen of England.

43.    Sean Penn called Eddie Vedder to ask him to do the soundtrack for his film Into the Wild, and Vedder agreed on the spot before he knew anything about the film.

44.    The Chinese government has barred Martin Scorsese from ever entering Tibet because they found his 1997 Disney film Kundun too offensive.

45.    Charlie Chaplin once entered a Charlie Chaplin look-a-like contest and finished third!

46.    The funniest movies ever made, in no particular order, are This Is Spinal Tap (1984), The Blues Brothers (1980), Ace Ventura: Pet Detective (1994), Shaun of the Dead (2004), Blazing Saddles (1974), Spaceballs (1987), Borat (2006), Dumb & Dumber (1994), Groundhog Day (1993), Army of Darkness (1992), Office Space (1999), The Big Lebowski (1998), and Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975).

47.    There is a strong possibility that Monty Python and the Holy Grail is the single most hilarious movie ever made. Ironically, excessive quoting of the movie is intensely irritating.

48.    The year after Deliverance was released, 31 people drowned trying to canoe down the treacherous stretch of the Chattanooga River where the movie was filmed. Also, because of budget constraints, local South Carolina and Georgia residents were cast as the mountain people! “Where you goin’, city boy!!”

49.    In The Big Lebowski, The Dude never actually bowls.
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Rocky Balboa: Ya know they always say if you live in one place long enough, you are that place.
Paulie: I ain’t no talking building, Rock.

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Paulie: [to the dog Punchy] What an ugly dog!

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Rocky Balboa: You know I couldn’t have done nothing without you… Yo Adrian we did it…
[kisses tombstone]
Rocky Balboa: We did it…
[Walks off into distance]

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[last lines]
Rocky Balboa: Yo, Adrian, we did it… We did it.

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Rocky Balboa: Yo, don’t I got some rights?
Boxing Commissioner: What rights do you think you’re referring to?
Rocky Balboa: Rights, like in that official piece of paper they wrote down the street there?
Boxing Commissioner: That’s the Bill of Rights.
Rocky Balboa: Yeah, yeah. Bill of Rights. Don’t it say something about going after what makes you happy?
Boxing Commissioner: No, that’s the pursuit of happiness. But what’s your point
Rocky Balboa: My point is I’m pursuing something and nobody looks too happy about it.
Boxing Commissioner: But… we’re just looking out for your interests.
Rocky Balboa: I appreciate that, but maybe you’re looking out for your interests just a little bit more. I mean you shouldn’t be asking people to come down here and pay the freight on something they paid, it still ain’t good enough, I mean you think that’s right? I mean maybe you’re doing your job but why you gotta stop me from doing mine? Cause if you’re willing to go through all the battling you got to go through to get where you want to get, who’s got the right to stop you? I mean maybe some of you guys got something you never finished, something you really want to do, something you never said to someone, something… and you’re told no, even after you paid your dues? Who’s got the right to tell you that, who? Nobody! It’s your right to listen to your gut, it ain’t nobody’s right to say no after you earned the right to be where you want to be and do what you want to do!… You know, the older I get the more things I gotta leave behind, that’s life. The only thing I’m asking you guys to leave on the table… is what’s right.

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Rocky Jr.: [questioning his father wanting to fight again] Don’t you think you’re a little, you know, old?

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Duke: Let’s start building some hurting bombs.

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Duke: You know all there is to know about fighting, so there’s no sense us going down that same old road again. To beat this guy, you need speed - you don’t have it. And your knees can’t take the pounding, so hard running is out. And you got arthritis in your neck, and you’ve got calcium deposits on most of your joints, so sparring is out.
Paulie: I had that problem.
Duke: So, what we’ll be calling on is good ol’ fashion blunt force trauma. Horsepower. Heavy-duty, cast-iron, piledriving punches that will have to hurt so much they’ll rattle his ancestors. Every time you hit him with a shot, it’s gotta feel like he tried kissing the express train. Yeah! Let’s start building some hurtin’ bombs!

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Mason ‘The Line’ Dixon: [before the final round] You one crazy old man.
Rocky Balboa: You’ll get there.

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Rocky Balboa: What’s so crazy about standing toe to toe with someone saying “I am”?

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[Angie, a young woman approaches Rocky at the bar]
Angie: Yo! Yo, is that you? Is that really you?
Rocky Balboa: How you doin’?
Marie: [to Angie] I think he wants to drink alone.
Angie: [turning “Street Gangsta”] Well, then give him his drink then. I ain’t stoppin’ you. What’s that, your man or somthin’? No, I don’t think so!
[turns back to Rocky]
Angie: Anyway, me and my friends, we’re right down there. You think - You think you can buy us a round? Come on, you got the money. Just one round.
Rocky Balboa: Hey, uh…
[pushes Angie hand down]
Rocky Balboa: Thank you.
Angie: What are y - What are you doin’ pushin’ my hand away like that?
Rocky Balboa: What’s your name?
Angie: Angie. What do you wanna know for?
Rocky Balboa: Angie, don’t be playin’ a fool for that guy, all right?
Angie: [turning cross] A fool?
Rocky Balboa: Yeah.
Angie: [angry] A fool? I’m the fool? You’re the fool, not me! You got it twisted. You’re the fool. I’m a person, just like you. You ain’t no better than me. You think you’re a big shot? You ain’t nothin! You ain’t no better that me! NO better!

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Rocky Balboa: Wow.
Marie: Glad you dropped in?
Rocky Balboa: I think the neighborhood’s changin’ a little.

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Rocky Balboa: You know your kid sorta resembles ya. He’s got that thick Irish hair, you know.
Marie: …Yeah it’s the other one.
[Rocky looks at the dark skinned one]
Rocky Balboa: …Yeah?
Marie: His father was from Jamaica.
Rocky Balboa: Jamaica… European… Was you on a cruise ship or somthin’ ?
Marie: [smiles] Not exactly.

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Rocky Balboa: [visiting his old house as he thinks about Adrian] … I remember when she was standing there all nervous and shy with that small smile… And all I wanted her to do was trust me… And she did… She did…

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Rocky Balboa: Hey yo, champ. Aren’t you a little scared?
Mason ‘The Line’ Dixon: I don’t get scared.
[walks away]
Rocky Balboa: [turns and walks away with his son] You know, I think you try harder when you’re scared… That’s when it’s worked best for me.

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Rocky Balboa: [repeated line]
Rocky Balboa: Yo, how you doin’?

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Rocky Balboa: Come on Paulie, we’re about to serve the special.
Paulie: Italian food made by Mexicans ain’t that special.

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Rocky Jr.: You cast a big shadow.

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Rocky Balboa: You ain’t gonna believe this, but you used to fit right here.
[taps on the inside of his hand]
Rocky Balboa: I’d hold you up to say to your mother, “this kid’s gonna be the best kid in the world. This kid’s gonna be somebody better than anybody I ever knew.” And you grew up good and wonderful. It was great just watching you, every day was like a privilige. Then the time come for you to be your own man and take on the world, and you did. But somewhere along the line, you changed. You stopped being you. You let people stick a finger in your face and tell you you’re no good. And when things got hard, you started looking for something to blame, like a big shadow. Let me tell you something you already know. The world ain’t all sunshine and rainbows. It’s a very mean and nasty place and I don’t care how tough you are it will beat you to your knees and keep you there permanently if you let it. You, me, or nobody is gonna hit as hard as life. But it ain’t about how hard ya hit. It’s about how hard you can get it and keep moving forward. How much you can take and keep moving forward. That’s how winning is done! Now if you know what you’re worth then go out and get what you’re worth. But ya gotta be willing to take the hits, and not pointing fingers saying you ain’t where you wanna be because of him, or her, or anybody! Cowards do that and that ain’t you! You’re better than that! I’m always gonna love you no matter what. No matter what happens. You’re my son and you’re my blood. You’re the best thing in my life. But until you start believing in yourself, ya ain’t gonna have a life. Don’t forget to visit your mother.

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[as they touch gloves to start off the final round]
Mason ‘The Line’ Dixon: You are one crazy old man.
Rocky Balboa: You’ll get there.

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Rocky Balboa: The world ain’t all sunshine and rainbows. It is a very mean and nasty place It will beat you to your knees and keep you there permanently if you let it. You, me or nobody is going to hit as hard as life. But it ain’t about how hard you hit, it is about how hard you can get hit and keep moving forward, how much can you take and keep moving forward. That’s how winning is done!

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Rocky Balboa: Lotta people come to Vegas to lose… I didn’t

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Duke: To beat this guy, you need speed. You don’t have it. And you’ve got calcium deposits on most of your joints, so sparring is out.
Paulie: I had that problem.
Duke: So what we’ll be calling on is blunt force trauma. Let’s start building some hurtin’ bombs

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[last lines]
Rocky Balboa: Yo, Adrian… we did it.

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Marie: It doesn’t matter how this looks to other people. If this is something you gotta do, then you do it. Fighters fight.

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Marie: Do you have a reservation?
Paulie: Do I look like a freakin’ Indian?

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Marie: [after Paulie walks into Adrian’s after being let go from his job] Excuse me? Do you have a reservation?
Paulie: [laughs] Do I look like an indian?

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Rocky Balboa: Let me tell you something you already know. The world ain’t all sunshine and rainbows. It is a very mean and nasty place and it will beat you to your knees and keep you there permanently if you let it. You, me, or nobody is gonna hit as hard as life. But it ain’t how hard you hit; it’s about how hard you can get hit, and keep moving forward. How much you can take, and keep moving forward. That’s how winning is done. Now, if you know what you’re worth, then go out and get what you’re worth. But you gotta be willing to take the hit, and not pointing fingers saying you ain’t where you are because of him, or her, or anybody. Cowards do that and that ain’t you. You’re better than that!

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Rocky Balboa: My son’s coming over tonight, so I’m going to have something special made for him.
Paulie: Italian food made by a bunch of Mexicans doesn’t sound so special to me, Rock.

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Rocky Balboa: I feel like a kangaroo… all this stuff in my pocket.

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Martin: The only kind of respect that matters is self-respect

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Martin: You got everything money can buy, except what it can’t. Its Pride. Pride is what got your ass out here, and losing is what brought ya back. But people like you, they need to be tested. They need a challenge.
Mason ‘The Line’ Dixon: But you know that ain’t never gunna happen, there ain’t anybody out there Martin.
Martin: Theres always somebody out there. Always. And when that time comes and you find something standing if front of you, something that ain’t running and ain’t backin up and is hittin on you and your too damn tired to breathe. You find that situation on you, that good, Cuz thats baptizim under fire! Oh you get thru that and you find the only kind of respect that matters in this world, Self respect.

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Rocky Jr.: [talking to Rocky as he is getting ready for Round Three] Hey, stay on him! Everybody thought this was a joke, including me! Now, nobody’s laughing! Stay on him!

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Rocky Jr.: Don’t take any more chances out there than you have to. There’s nothing more to prove, Pop! There’s nothing more to prove!
Rocky Balboa: I gotta go out the way I gotta go out.

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Rocky Balboa: I think every guy should at one time try to name an animal or something.

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Rocky Balboa: I’ll leave it on the steps… Steps.

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Paulie: Hide the silverware!

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Paulie: Are you angry because Adrian left you?
Rocky Balboa: She didn’t leave, she died.

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Marie: The last thing to age on somebody is their heart

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[first lines]
HBO Commentator: Yet another quick knockout for Mason Dixon, almost perfunctory; the fans let him know how they feel about it.

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Rocky Balboa: [to a commentator just before his match with Dixon] Hi, how ya doing?
ESPN Commentator: [to his colleages] Wow, Rocky Balboa said hi to me, I watched Rocky when I was a kid, I never thought that I would commentate one of his fights!

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Duke: Gettin’ stronger!

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Mason ‘The Line’ Dixon: It’s already over.
Rocky Balboa: There aint nothin’ over till it’s over.
Mason ‘The Line’ Dixon: Where’s that from, the 80’s?
Rocky Balboa: That’s probably the 70’s.

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Paulie: Who’s the criminal?
Rocky Balboa: He’s a nice kid.
Paulie: He dresses like a bum.
Rocky Balboa: Oh, coming from a human hamper, that’s quite a compliment.

 

John Rambo is a man of consistency. When Sylvester Stallone released Rambo: First Blood Part II in 1985 there were some who felt that it has a slight right-wing bent. We don’t like to look for hidden meanings in a film where a man takes out a helicopter with a bow-and-arrow, but, hey, those yamheads on talk radio have to come up with something. Now it’s 2008 and the Rambo with no number, set in the jungles of Myanmar, is said to be inspiring students in that country to rebel against the socialist dictatorship that has ruled the country under a military junta for years.

Perhaps they just want to have Myanmar change its name back to Burma (or, at the very least, Burma: First Blood Part II) but Reuters announced this weekend that police in Myanmar are cracking down hard on anyone selling a DVD of Rambo. According to the report “people are going crazy with the quote ‘Live for nothing, die for something’” and are using it as a rallying cry for the growing democracy movement. See - we aren’t the only ones who are moved by Sly’s words!

In a statement released in Paris (Paris? What’s Rambo doing with the French?!?) Sylvester Stallone was quoted by the Associated Press as saying “Students have now used this film as a rallying point and are using the quote, thinking maybe the American military will intervene and save them.” UGO previously reported that Sly picked Myanmar as the setting for his latest Rambo installment after conferring with “Soldier of Fortune” Magazine in an attempt to find the least reported human rights abuses in the world.

We salute Sly for a) bringing the issue of the suffering Burmese (or Myanmarese or whatever) to light, for b) doing it in such a kick-ass way and c) for not getting all whiny like Lars Ulrich about the concept of pirated DVDs. Indeed, the film in question is not available in Myanmar through any “legal” means.

Rambo, however, is still playing at a theater near you. And he needs your support.