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Top 10 Snatch (The Movie) Moments | All Time Best Countdown

GANGSTERS, DAGS, GYPSIES, PIGS, BOXERS AND A REALLY BIG DIAMOND…

Snatch is an absolute classic that I lived without for years because I only owned it on VHS.  It’s expensive to upgrade all the movies you adore but finally, I got myself a copy of Snatch on Blu Ray and it’s still amazing.

So much so that I decided to countdown my favorite 10 Snatch movie moments.

10. Periwinkle Blue

Have you ever watched scenes featuring Brad Pitt’s Mickey with the subtitles on?  It’s a completely different experience when you aren’t trying to decipher his words on your own.  For example, I had no idea he said

“Save your breath for cooling your porridge.”

9. The Opening Credits

One of my favorite opening sequences ever.  What a fantastic way to introduce so many fantastic characters.

8. You Take Sugar?

Brick Top.  You can’t have a top 10 Snatch list without multiple Brick Top appearances.  Alan Ford is so good in this role.

“No thank you Turkish…  I’m sweet enough.”

7. All Bets Are Off!

“I’d be doing even better if you’d stop using my name.”

6. Mickey vs Gorgeous George

I love everything about this scene.

5. Two types of balls

Bullet Tooth Tony and his Desert Eagle .50 vs 3 horrible criminals carrying fake guns.  Nice.

4. No f*cking wheels?

Mickey is back to claim the number 4 spot on this list.

“Why the f*ck would I want a caravan that’s got no f*cking wheels?”

Arguably the funniest line in a movie that’s overflowing with brilliant dialogue.

3. It was 2 minutes 5 minutes ago?

This is why I love this movie.  You could completely eliminate Charlie and the movie would be just fine…

But that’s just it.  It would be mediocre without moments and details like:

“Five minutes Turkish.”

2. Funny Angle

Ah.  Tyrone.  You silly fat bastard.  But don’t question him because he’s done a rally driving course…  Ain’t you Tyrone?

“Course I have.”

1. As Greedy as a Pig

“Do you know what nemesis means?”

Brick Top claims the number 1 spot with a speech that’s as hilarious as it is intimidating.  Who knew you had to be weary of a man who keeps a pig farm.

What’s your favorite Snatch (The Movie) moment?

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Top 10 Pulp Fiction Movie Moments | All Time Best Countdown

QUESNTIN TARANTINO’S PULP FICTION

It’s hard to believe Pulp Fiction is nearly 20 years old.  It seems like it was only yesterday when the movie was released and changed the way people thought about movies.  It inspired a generation of storytellers and freed many who were bound to traditional narrative structures.

Pulp Fiction didn’t just change the rules, it rewrote the book.  For me at least…

XTRA | Movies That Changed Everything: Pulp Fiction

XTRA | Bandaids & Briefcases? 10 Movies With Unanswered Questions

Pulp Fiction redefined cool movies for me.  Beyond it’s unique storytelling techniques, it’s full of incredible characters, scenes, dialogue and moments.

HERE ARE 10 OF MY FAVORITE PULP FICTION MOMENTS

10. Zed’s Dead

Top 10 Pulp Fiction Movie Moments | All Time Best Countdown

9. Dancing at Jackrabbit Slim’s

8. Captain Koons

Top 10 Pulp Fiction Moments | All Time Best Countdown

7. Foot Massages

6. All right everybody be cool this is a robbery!

Top 10 Pulp Fiction Moments | All Time Best Countdown

5. In the fifth your ass goes down

Top 10 Pulp Fiction Movie Moments | All Time Best Countdown

4. Winston Wolfe’s Solution to the Bonnie Situation

3. Royale with Cheese

2. The Needle

The Madman strikes again!

1. Say What Again & Ezekiel 25:17

“What does Marsellus Wallace look like?”

Top 10 Pulp Fiction Movie Moments | All Time Best Countdown

What’s your favorite PULP FICTION moment?

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All Time Best: Opening Voice Over | In Bruges Opening Voice Over | Best Movie Moments

IN BRUGES
WRITTEN & DIRECTED BY MARTIN MCDONAGH

After I killed them I dropped the gun off 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 f$ck out of London you dumb f$cking c*&#%.  Get to Bruges.’  I didn’t even know where Bruges f$cking was…

…  It’s in Belgium.

All Time Best: Opening Voice Over

Opening voice overs…  So many times they become too long and wordy.  The bad ones are obvious and full of exposition.  I know because I’ve written some pretty wordy ones myself. (They are collecting dust for a reason.)  Needless to say, opening voice overs are difficult to pull off…

Many screenwriters stay away from voice overs.  The same screenwriters have probably seen Adaptation (2002) and it’s portrayal of Robert Mckee’s thoughts on the matter:

“God help you! It’s flaccid, sloppy writing. Any idiot can write voice-over narration to explain the thoughts of a character. You must present the internal conflicts of your character in image, in symbol. Film is a medium of movement and image.” (‘Adaptation’ Written by Charlie Kaufman.)

In Bruges is most definitely an exception to the ‘rule’ which are meant to be skillfully broken. (Annie Hall is another fantastic example) I’m a big fan of the versatility of voice overs but it has to be done right especially if it opens a movie.  It’s risky but it can also be unique.

Martin Mcdonagh succeeds where many have failed.  He strings a couple sentences together and perfectly captures the spirit of the movie and the main character played by Colin Farrell.

It’s a fantastic movie and a perfect example of how a simple concept can be injected full or originality, humor and entertainment in the right hands.  I’ve loaned it to so many people who skipped it.

If you skipped it, it’s worth a try.  From an aspiring screenwriter’s perspective, it’s absolutely inspiring.

Check out these links for more on Voice Overs in screenplays:

The Script Lab | When Voice Over Works

Gideon’s Screenwriting Tips | Voice Overs In Your Screenplay

The Story Department | The Great Voice Over Debate

The Script Lab | Top 10 Voice Overs In Film

All Time Best: Opening Voice Over | In Bruges Opening Voice Over | Best Movie Moments

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The Top 100 Dumb & Dumber Quotes Part 1 | Best Dumb & Dumber Quotes | 100-31

THE JOURNEY TO THE NUMBER ONE DUMB & DUMBER QUOTE CONCLUDES!

100 Quotes.  That’s a lot of hilarious lines.

In part 1 of this series, I ranked #100 all the way to #31.  Now, it’s all about the best of the best.  The Top 30!

CLICK HERE TO READ PART 1

#30-1

30-Sea Bass’ Friend: Kick his ass, Sea Bass!

Mary: So you’ll pick me up tonight at seven forty-five?
29-Harry: Well I got a few things to take care of. How about we make it quarter to eight?

28-Lloyd: What if he shot you in the face?
27-Harry: What if he shot me in the face?

Harry: One time, we successfully mated a bulldog with a Shih-Tzu.
Mary: Really? That’s weird.
26-Harry: Yeah, we called it a bullshit.

Lloyd: You mean, not good like one out of a hundred?
Mary: I’d say more like one out of a million.
25-Lloyd: So you’re telling me there’s a chance… YEAH!

24-Lloyd: I’m going to hang by the bar… Put out the vibe.

Airport Clerk: Sir, you can’t go in there!
23-Lloyd: It’s ok, I’m a limo driver!

22-Lloyd: I can’t stop going once I’ve started. It stings!

21-Anxious Man: Ohhh you turned your back on me. Hooohhoooo he got me mad I almost like it!

Harry: It gets worse. My parakeet, Petey.
Lloyd: Yeah?
Harry: He’s dead.
Lloyd: Oh, man, I’m sorry. What happened?
20-Harry: His head fell off.
Lloyd: His head fell off?
19-Harry: Yeah. He was pretty old.

Harry: I expected the Rocky Mountains to be a little rockier than this.
18-Lloyd: I was thinking the same thing. That John Denver’s full of shit, man.

17-Harry: Nice set of hooters you got there!
Mary: I beg your pardon?
Harry: The owls! They’re beautiful!

Harry: How was your day?
16-Lloyd: Not bad. Fell off the jet way again.

15-Lloyd: Mock
Harry: Yeah!
Lloyd: Ing
Harry: Yeah!
Lloyd: Bird
Harry: Yeah!
Lloyd: Yeah!
Harry: Yeah!

14-Lloyd: G’day mate! Let’s put another shrimp on the barbie!

13-Lloyd: Oh yeah. Tractor beam. Sucked me right in.

Nicholas Andre: What is this? What is this? Where’s all the money?
12-Lloyd: That’s as good as money, sir. Those are I.O.U.’s. Go ahead and add it up, every cents accounted for. Look, see this? That’s a car. 275 thou. Might wanna hang onto that one.

11-Lloyd: I can’t stop going once I’ve started, it stings!

The Top 10 Dumb & Dumber Quotes

THE 10 BEST DUMB & DUMBER QUOTES ARE…

Here we go.  After counting down 90 quotes we have now arrived at the Top 10.  The funniest and most quotable lines in the movie. (In my opinion of course)

10-Lloyd: WE LANDED ON THE MOON!

9-Lloyd: I got robbed by a sweet old lady on a motorized cart. I didn’t even see it coming.

Lloyd: Maybe we should call it quits right now.
Harry: You just tell me where to sign, bud.
8-Lloyd: Right on my ass after you kiss it!
Harry: You kiss mine! Both cheeks, both lips, right here!

HARRY: What did you sell him Lloyd?
Lloyd: Stuff.
Harry: What kinda stuff?
Lloyd: I don’t know, a few baseball cards, a sack of marbles… Petey.
7-Harry: You sold my dead bird to a blind kid? Lloyd! Petey didn’t even have a head!
Lloyd: Harry, I took care of it…

Harry: Lloyd, I can’t feel my fingers, they’re numb!
6-Lloyd: Oh well here, take this extra pair of gloves, my hands are starting to get a little sweaty.
Harry:
Extra gloves? You’ve had extra gloves this whole time?
Lloyd:
Uh yea, we are in the Rockies. Jeez!

5-Lloyd: Harry… Your hands are freezing!

4-Lloyd: We got no food, we got no jobs… our PETS’ HEADS ARE FALLING OFF!
Harry:
Okay just calm down.

3-Lloyd: You’re it.
Harry: You’re it.
Lloyd: You’re it, quitsies!
Harry: Anti-quitsies, you’re it, quitsies, no anti-quitsies, no startsies!
Lloyd: You can’t do that!
Harry: Can too!
Lloyd: Cannot, stamp it!
Harry: Can too, double stamp it, no erasies!
Lloyd: Cannot, triple stamp, no erasies, Touch blue make it true.
Harry: No, you can’t do that… you can’t triple stamp a double stamp, you can’t triple stamp a double stamp! Lloyd!
Lloyd: LA LA LA LA LA LA!
Harry: LLOYD! LLOYD! LLOYD!

Harry: What’s her last name? I’ll look it up.
Lloyd:
You know, I don’t really recall. Starts with an S! Let’s see. Swim? Swammi? Slippy? Slappy? Swenson? Swanson?
Harry:
Maybe it’s on the briefcase.
2-Lloyd: Oh, yeah! It’s right here. Samsonite! I was way off! I knew it started with an S, though.

Lloyd: Traded the van for it straight up.  I can get 70 miles to the gallon on this hog.
1
-Harry
: Just when I thought you couldn’t possibly be any dumber, you go and do something like this… and totally redeem yourself!

WHAT DO YOU THINK?  WHAT’S THE NUMBER 1 DUMB AND DUMBER QUOTE?

For even more check out Part 3

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The Top 100 Dumb & Dumber Quotes Part 1 | Best Dumb & Dumber Quotes | 100-31

THE GENIUS OF LLOYD CHRISTMAS AND HARRY DUNNE

THANK YOU FARRELLY BROTHERS, JIM CARREY & JEFF DANIELS!

Dumb and Dumber is arguably the most quotable comedy of all time.  Everyone quotes lines that make them laugh.  In my generation, or at least within my circle of friends, the champ is Dumb & Dumber.

While I was gathering material for this post, I realized that every one of my friends adore different lines from the film.  What started as a top 10 quickly became a top 50.  How could I possibly leave certain lines out?  In the end, over 100 lines were ready to be ranked.  A simple idea for a top 10 post became an enormous list of virtually every line of dialogue in the film.  I may have done the leg work creating a list but it’s essentially become a tribute that any Dumb and Dumber fan would love.  I had a blast creating this series.

What’s your favorite Dumb & Dumber quote?

In part 1 of this series, I rank #100 all the way to #31.  Part 2 will complete the Top 100 and Part 3 will focus on the lines that didn’t make the cut (believe it or not), links, sequel news and more…

Click here for Part 2: The Top 30
Click here for Part 3: The Tribute

So let’s get to it.  The top 100 Dumb & Dumber quotes.

#100-31

100-Harry: OK gang, you know the rules, no humping, no licking, no sniffing hineys.

99-Lloyd: How about you go over and introduce yourself, build me up, that way I don’t have to brag about myself later.

98-Lloyd: Harry, you’re alive… and you’re a horrible shot!

97-Lloyd: Life is a fragile thing, Har. One minute you’re chewin’ on a burger, the next minute you’re dead meat.
Harry: But he blamed me. You heard him. Those were his last words.
Lloyd: Not if you count the gurgling sound.

Harry: So you got fired again, eh?
96-Lloyd: Oh yeah. They always freak out when you leave the scene of an accident.
Harry: Yeah, well, I lost my job too.
95-Lloyd: Man, you are one pathetic loser. No offense.
Harry: No, none taken. You know what really chaps my ass though? I spent my life savings turning my van into a dog. The alarm alone cost me two hundred.
94-Lloyd: Hey, chicks love it. It’s a shaggin’ wagon.

93-Lloyd: You just earned your seat at the head table.  And we already got the tuxes.

92-Lloyd: There you go… There you go… There you go…

Harry: Why would she have you meet her in a bar at ten in the morning?
91-Lloyd: I just figured she was a raging alcoholic.

90-Lloyd: All this time I’ve been going through such pain and personal ANGUISH… SUCH HELL, for NOTHING!

Harry: I can’t believe we drove around all day, and there’s not a single job in this town. There is nothing, nada, zip!
89-Lloyd: Yeah! Unless you wanna work forty hours a week.

88-Harry: Yeah I called her up. She gave me a bunch of crap about me not listening to her, or something. I don’t know, I wasn’t really paying attention.

87-Lloyd: What the hell are we doing here, Harry? We’ve gotta get out of this town!
Harry: Oh yeah, and go where? Where are we gonna go?
86-Lloyd: I’ll tell you where. Someplace warm. A place where the beer flows like wine. Where beautiful women instinctively flock like salmon of Capistrano. I’m talking about a little place called Aspen.
the Harry: Oh, I don’t know, Lloyd. The French are assholes.

85-Lloyd: Excuse me. Could you tell me how to get to the medical school? I’m supposed to be giving a lecture in 20 minutes, and my driver’s a bit lost.

84-Lloyd: I swallowed a big June bug when we were driving. I’m not really hungry.

83-Lloyd: Suck me sideways!

Lloyd: So where are you headin’?
Mary: Aspen.
82-Lloyd: Hmmm, California! Beautiful!

81-Lloyd: Out with the bad, in with the good!
80-Lloyd: He’s resisting me!

79-Harry: Now we don’t have enough money to get to Aspen, we don’t have enough money to get home, we don’t have enough money to eat, we don’t have enough money to sleep!
78-Lloyd: Well, it’s not gonna do us any good sitting here whining about it.

77-Lloyd: What do you think the chances are of a guy like you and a girl like me… ending up together?

76-Lloyd: I’ll bet you twenty bucks I can get you gambling before the end of the day!
Harry: No way!
Lloyd: I’ll give you three to one odds.
Harry: No.
Lloyd: Five to one.
Harry: No.
Lloyd: Ten to one?
Harry: You’re on!
Lloyd: I’m gonna get ya!
Harry: Nuh uh!
Lloyd: I don’t know how, but I’m gonna get ya.

75-Lloyd: Hey guys. Woah, Big Gulps, huh? All right! Well, see ya later.

74-Harry: That was genius, Lloyd, sheer genius. I mean where did you come up with a scam like that?
Lloyd: Saw it in a movie once.
Harry: That’s incredible! So what happened, so the guy tricks some sucker into picking up his tab and gets away with it scott free?
73-Lloyd: No, in the movie, they catch up to him half mile down the road and slit his throat! Hahaha! It was a good one.

72-Lloyd: You spilled the salt, that’s what’s the matter! Spilling the salt is very bad luck! We’re driving across the country, the last thing we need is bad luck. Quick, toss some salt over your right shoulder.
71-Sea Bass: What the hell? Who’s the dead man that hit me with the salt shaker?

70-State Trooper: Give me that booze you pumpkin pie haircutted freak!

Harry: Look at the butt on that…
69-Lloyd: Yeah, he must work out.

68-Lloyd: Why you going to the airport? Flying somewhere?

Harry: Hey look there’s some people who want a ride too.
67-Lloyd: Pick’em up!

State Trooper: Pullover!
66-Harry: No, it’s a cardigan but thanks for noticing.
65-Lloyd: Yeah, killer boots man!

64-Lloyd: You can’t be too careful. There are a lot of bad drivers out there.

63-Lloyd: Tic-Tac, sir?

62-Harry: Skis, huh?
Beth: That’s right!
Harry: Great! They yours?
Beth: Uh-huh.
Harry: Both of ‘em?
Beth: Yes.
Harry: Cool!

Lloyd: My friend Harry and I are saving up to open our own pet store.
Mary: That’s nice.
61-Lloyd: I got worms!
Mary: I beg your pardon?
Lloyd: That’s what we’re gonna call it. “I Got Worms!” We’re gonna specialize in selling worm farms.

60-Lloyd: All we need to do is show a little class, a little sophistication, and we’re in like a dirty shirt.
59-Harry: No problem, Lloyd. We can be classy and sophistic-Oh check out the funbags on that hose-hound.
58-Lloyd: I’d like to eat her liver with some fava beans and a nice bottle of Chianti.

57-Harry: Yesterday was one of the greatest days of my life. Mary and I went skiing, we made a snowman, she touched my leg…
Lloyd: Okay kill him…

Harry: I have to go to the bathroom.
56-Lloyd: Just go man…

55-Lloyd: If I know Mary as well like I think I do, she’ll invite us right in for tea and strumpets.

54-Lloyd: I traded the van for it straight up.

53-Lloyd: Pills are goooood. Pills are goooood!

52-Lloyd: Man, I would have to be a real lowlife to go rooting around in someone else’s private property.
Harry: Is it locked?
Lloyd: Yeah. Really well.

51-State Trooper: You fellas been doing a bit of boozing, have you? Suckin back on grandpa’s old cough medicine?

50-Lloyd: Goodbye my loooooooooove!

49-Lloyd: I said, “Do you love me?” and she said, “No, but that’s a really nice ski mask.”

48-Lloyd: Hey, I guess they’re right. Senior citizens, although slow and dangerous behind the wheel, can still serve a purpose. I’ll be right back. Don’t you go dying on me!

47-Lloyd: You really wimped out, man.

46-Lloyd: The first time I set eyes on Mary Swanson, I just got that old fashioned romantic feeling where I’d do anything to bone her.
Harry: That’s a special feeling, Lloyd.

45-Harry: FOR GOD’S SAKE! JUST GIVE ME THE DAMN NUMBER!

44-Harry: Foot long! Who’s got the foot long?

43-Lloyd: Move it or lose it sister!

42-Lloyd: Husband? Wait a minute… what was all that ‘one in a million’ talk?

41-Harry: How’s your burger?

40-Lloyd: Mary… I desperately wanna make love to a school boy.

39-Lloyd: Wanna hear the most annoying sound in the world?

38-Lloyd: We don’t usually pick up hitchhikers… but I’m-a gonna go with my instincts on this one. Saddle up partner!

Beth: So I told myself. Beth you just got to run girl and oh you know what that clutz did next?
37-Lloyd: No and I DON’T CARE!
36-Lloyd: BarTENDER…

35-Lloyd: Tell her I’m rich, and I’m good looking, and I have, uh, a rapist’s wit.

Bikini Girl: Hi guys. We’re going on a national bikini tour, and we’re looking for two oil boys who can grease us off before each competition.
34-Harry: You are in luck! There’s a town about three miles that way. I’m sure you’ll find a couple guys there.
Bikini Girl: Okay, thanks.
33-Lloyd: Do you realize what you’ve done?

32-Lloyd: Boy this party really died.

Lloyd: What is the Soup Du Jour?
Flo, Waitress #1: It’s the Soup of the Day.
31-Lloyd: Mmmm. That sounds good. I’ll have that.

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