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Films in the last decade with memorable dialogue exchanges?

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Was rewatching Closer again last night and goddamn does that movie have some great exchanges.

Off the top of my head, outside of the obvious Tarantino entries, The Social Network also comes to mind.
 
Gladiator - Any scene with Maximus and Commodus.
Some of Gandalf's exchanges with various characters in the LOTR trilogy are quite memorable.
 
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"I guess you can dere-lick my balls cap-E-tan."
 
Edmond Dantès said:
Gladiator - Any scene with Maximus and Commodus.
Some of Gandalf's exchanges with various characters in the LOTR trilogy are quite memorable.
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Not to mention some of the exchanges between Aragorn and Theodon.
 
Sentry said:
Pulp Fiction comes to mind. More recently, probably The Prestige.
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My favourite movie of all time, but he said in the last decade.

Paraphrased:

Wolverine: "Cyclops! It's me!"
Cyclops: "Prove it."
Wolverine: "Your a dick."
Cyclops: *stops priming optic blast*
 
dec·ade/ˈdekād/

Noun:
1.A period of ten years.
2.A period of ten years beginning with a year ending in 0: "the fourth decade of the nineteenth century".
 
Solo said:
dec·ade/ˈdekād/

Noun:
1.A period of ten years.
2.A period of ten years beginning with a year ending in 0: "the fourth decade of the nineteenth century".
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Yeah, a lot of people seem to be having trouble.
 
Renner's monologue at the end of The Hurt Locker has stuck with me pretty well.

Oh, and the entirety of Anchorman.
 
I like threads like this, since I'm such a huge stickler for good dialog. I hear somebody like Shnae Black or Aaron Sorkin wrote it, I'll see it, no matter what it is.

That reminds me, anybody say Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang? Fantastic character interactions, even the nameless henchmen are memorable.
 
LeonSKennedy90 said:
I like threads like this, since I'm such a huge stickler for good dialog. I hear somebody like Shane Black or Aaron Sorkin wrote it, I'll see it, no matter what it is.

That reminds me, anybody say Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang? Fantastic character interactions, even the nameless henchmen are memorable.
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Oooh, Kiss Kiss Bang Bang is a great choice.

I'd say Revolutionary Road is pretty high up there in terms of dramatic stuff.
 
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From Twilight Samurai

Twilight: Zenemon Yogo, by order of the clan I come for your life. Draw your sword, please.
Zenemon: Have a drink. I know you're all keyed up, but I'm going to run.
Twilight: Run?
Zenemon: Yep. I want you to let me get away. If you please.
Twilight: I didn't expect that from the clan's best one-sword man. My orders are to kill you. I can't let you escape.
Zenemon: Don't be so impatient, you can kill me at anytime. I'd like to talk to you. Have a seat. It's a nice day. Sit down.
Twilight: Even if you escaped, where would you go?
Zenemon: Over that mountain and I'm out of the clan's domain. There are masterless samurai everywhere. I can lose myself in them. Go to Kyoto, to Edo...If I do that for a few years, the world will have changed. The samurai's day is done.
Twilight: This isn't the time for that talk. Pick up your sword, please. I am under orders from the clan to...
Zenemon: Like Hell. You're the clan's errand boy out to claim a reward. Have drink. I was an errand boy, too.


This scene goes on much longer than the text I quoted. It reflects on the dominant themes of the film (the unsustainable wages peasants and low-samurai make, illness in Twilight's family, his desperation) in a way that ties everything the viewer has seen together without being forced--this is just the outcome of a broken system, with two men put into bad positions by that system. It ends with a brilliant lead into their fight:


Twilight: I was desperate so I finally sold my sword. It was a fine sword I'd inherited from my father. But I figured, the age of the sword was over. I'm afraid this is just bamboo.
Zenemon: You're going to kill me with a bamboo sword?
Twilight: No! I learned short-sword from Toda-sensei! I meant to fight with that.
Zenemon: Short-sword? You mean to kill me with some kind of cheap trick? You're not taking me seriously, are you?
Twilight: Wait!
Zenemon: I won't have it!


Which now transitions to one of the best fight scenes, and the best sword fighting scene, in film. But dealt with in the tense portions during their conversation are what I mentioned above, as well as the failure of samurai with more liberal outlooks on their lifestyle (and an understanding that it can't continue!) still falling prey to the rigidity of their class system (short-style = disrespect = sorry bro, we gotta do this). It really, really, really, really plays out better visually, so watch it! Here's a handy Youtube link. Trust me, it's a scene that is hard to capture through text, and the dialogue itself is much better with its staging present. A great, great movie.
 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=28BXqQWqYJU

THERE WILL BE BLOOD:

Plainview: Are you an angry man, Henry?
Henry Brands: About what?
Plainview: Are you envious? Do you get envious?
Henry Brands: I don't think so. No.
Plainview: I have a competition in me. I want no one else to succeed. I hate most people.
Henry Brands: That part of me is gone... working and not succeeding- all my failures has left me... I just don't... care.
Plainview: Well, if it's in me, it's in you. There are times when I look at people and I see nothing worth liking. I want to earn enough money that I can get away from everyone.
Henry Brands: What will you do about your boy?
Plainview: I don't know. Maybe it will change. Does your sound come back to you? I don't know. Maybe no one knows that. A doctor might not know that.
Henry Brands: Where is his mother?
Plainview: I don't want to talk about those things. I see the worst in people. I don't need to look past seeing them to get all I need. I've built my hatreds up over the years, little by little, Henry... to have you here gives me a second breath. I can't keep doing this on my own with these... people.
 
The Matador (Pierce Brosnan and Greg Kinnear) has some great dialogue. One of my favorite movies of the 00's, too.
 
I've always loved the argument scene in The Incredibles, between Bob and Helen. I'm not sure why, exactly. I wish I could find the scene on YouTube.

Helen: I thought you'd be back by 11 .
Bob: I said I'd be back later.
Helen: I assumed you'd be back later. If you came back at all... you'd be ''back later''.
Bob: Well, I'm back, okay?
Helen: Is this rubble?
Bob: [with mouth full] It was just a little workout. Just to stay loose.
Helen: You know how I feel about that, Bob. Darn you! We can't blow cover again!
Bob: The building was coming down anyway.
Helen: What?! You knocked down a building?!
Bob: It was on fire. Structurally unsound. It was coming down anyway.
Helen: Tell me you haven't been listening to the police scanner again.
Bob: Look, I performed a public service. You act like that's a bad thing.
Helen: It is a bad thing, Bob! Uprooting our family, again, so you can relive the glory days is a very bad thing.
Bob: Reliving the glory days is better than acting like they didn't happen!
Helen: Yes, they happened! But this, our family, is what's happening now, Bob. And you're missing this! I can't believe you don't want to go to your own son's graduation.
Bob: It's not a graduation. He's moving from the fourth grade to the fifth grade.
Helen: It's a ceremony!
Bob: It's psychotic! They keep creating new ways to celebrate mediocrity but if someone is genuinely exceptional...
Helen: This is not about you, Bob. This is about Dash.
Bob: You want to do something for Dash? Then let him actually compete. Let him go out for sports!
Helen: I will not be made the enemy here! You know why we can't do that.
Bob: Because he'd be great!
Helen: This is not about you!

Edit: Ah, here we are: http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=lTU1jzJm6xw#t=562s
 
In Bruges:

Ken: Harry, let's face it. And I'm not being funny. I mean no disrespect, but you're a cunt. You're a cunt now, and you've always been a cunt. And the only thing that's going to change is that you're going to be an even bigger cunt. Maybe have some more cunt kids.
Harry: [furious] Leave my kids fucking out of it! What have they done? You fucking retract that bit about my cunt fucking kids!
Ken: I retract that bit about your cunt fucking kids.
Harry: Insult my fucking kids? That's going overboard, mate!
Ken: I retracted it, didn't I?

No Country for Old Men:

Anton Chigurh: What's the most you ever lost on a coin toss.
Gas Station Proprietor: Sir?
Anton Chigurh: The most. You ever lost. On a coin toss.
Gas Station Proprietor: I don't know. I couldn't say.
[Chigurh flips a quarter from the change on the counter and covers it with his hand]
Anton Chigurh: Call it.
Gas Station Proprietor: Call it?
Anton Chigurh: Yes.
Gas Station Proprietor: For what?
Anton Chigurh: Just call it.
Gas Station Proprietor: Well, we need to know what we're calling it for here.
Anton Chigurh: You need to call it. I can't call it for you. It wouldn't be fair.
Gas Station Proprietor: I didn't put nothin' up.
Anton Chigurh: Yes, you did. You've been putting it up your whole life you just didn't know it. You know what date is on this coin?
Gas Station Proprietor: No.
Anton Chigurh: 1958. It's been traveling twenty-two years to get here. And now it's here. And it's either heads or tails. And you have to say. Call it.
Gas Station Proprietor: Look, I need to know what I stand to win.
Anton Chigurh: Everything.
Gas Station Proprietor: How's that?
Anton Chigurh: You stand to win everything. Call it.
Gas Station Proprietor: Alright. Heads then.
[Chigurh removes his hand, revealing the coin is indeed heads]
Anton Chigurh: Well done.
[the gas station proprietor nervously takes the quarter with the small pile of change he's apparently won while Chigurh starts out]
Anton Chigurh: Don't put it in your pocket, sir. Don't put it in your pocket. It's your lucky quarter.
Gas Station Proprietor: Where do you want me to put it?
Anton Chigurh: Anywhere not in your pocket. Where it'll get mixed in with the others and become just a coin. Which it is.
[Chigurh leaves and the gas station proprietor stares at him as he walks out]

Mulholland Drive:

Cowboy: A man's attitude... a man's attitude goes some ways. The way his life will be. Is that somethin' you agree with?
Adam Kesher: Sure.
Cowboy: Now... did you answer cause you thought that's what I wanted to hear, or did you think about what I said and answer cause you truly believe that to be right?
Adam Kesher: I agree with what you said, truthfully.
Cowboy: What'd I say?
Adam Kesher: Uh... that a man's attitude determines, to a large extent, how his life will be.
Cowboy: So since you agree, you must be someone who does not care about the good life.
 
HIGH DEF JEFF said:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=28BXqQWqYJU

THERE WILL BE BLOOD:

Plainview: Are you an angry man, Henry?
Henry Brands: About what?
Plainview: Are you envious? Do you get envious?
Henry Brands: I don't think so. No.
Plainview: I have a competition in me. I want no one else to succeed. I hate most people.
Henry Brands: That part of me is gone... working and not succeeding- all my failures has left me... I just don't... care.
Plainview: Well, if it's in me, it's in you. There are times when I look at people and I see nothing worth liking. I want to earn enough money that I can get away from everyone.
Henry Brands: What will you do about your boy?
Plainview: I don't know. Maybe it will change. Does your sound come back to you? I don't know. Maybe no one knows that. A doctor might not know that.
Henry Brands: Where is his mother?
Plainview: I don't want to talk about those things. I see the worst in people. I don't need to look past seeing them to get all I need. I've built my hatreds up over the years, little by little, Henry... to have you here gives me a second breath. I can't keep doing this on my own with these... people.
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Came here to post this.
 
I drink your milkshake.

Or...

You are probably going to be a very successful computer person. But you're going to go through life thinking that girls don't like you because you're a nerd. And I want you to know, from the bottom of my heart, that that won't be true. It'll be because you're an asshole.

Or...

The scene from Hunger

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bq0SETWIO8U

Or

Quite a few scenes from inglorious basterds
 
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