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It's Friday, so what better way to waste a bit of the firm's time before beer o'clock than by participating in our fun-for-all-the-family top sci-fi movie quote poll? Our 42* prime cuts were lovingly selected by various members of Register staff, and are presented in no particular order for your reading pleasure. Please note …

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  1. David

    What about Hoth?

    "....and I thought they smelled bad on the outside!" Han Solo

  2. Sean Nevin

    Choices

    Oh man, this will take some thinking about. I guess I'll ponder it all day (rather than ponder work stuff) and make a selection around beer 'o clock...

  3. Marc Davies
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    ooh - i'm soo happy...

    At last, a really worthwhile activity for a Friday ... with added confirmation that El Reg staff have good [sci-fi] taste!

    the toughest call was definitely between Bladerunner and Dark Star, but Bladerunner edged it. Most importantly though, I must have used up a good 10 minutes chortling over the sheer cheekiness of script writers over the decades. Absolutely beat hands down watching emails dropping into my In Box (and doing nothing about them).

    Nice one guys :-)

  4. Anonymous Coward
    Anonymous Coward

    Where's...

    "Let's be bad guys" & "I aim to misbehave"

  5. Steve
    Happy

    How could you leave out:

    "Where's the Kaboom? There was supposed to be an Earth-shattering Kaboom!"

  6. Anonymous Coward
    Joke

    What no Red Dwarf ? !!

    I am offended and disgusted :oP

  7. Mick Brennan
    Alien

    Bad taste

    One thing the aliens hadn't counted on was Derek, and Dereks don't run

  8. bobbles31
    Coat

    I can't believe you guys left out this one...you suck!!!

    Just kidding, but here it is anyway:

    "You came in that? Your braver than I thought!"

    (Princess Leia - Star Wars)

    Add entire comments section full of other quotes below.....

    Mines the long cape with a hood. Thats not the coat your looking for...

  9. Allan Rutland

    what about...

    "Smoke me a kipper, I'll be back for breakfast" Ace Rimmer

  10. Tom
    Alien

    Obvious Quotes Missed

    "Game over man... Game over!" (Private Hudson - Aliens)

    "It's a rescue mission, you'll love it. There's some juicy colonists' daughters we have to rescue from their virginity. Heh!" (Apone - Aliens)

    "If it bleeds, we can kill it." (Dutch - Predator)

  11. Dr Stephen Jones

    Wot - no Solaris?

    http://www.mooviees.com/2422/quotes

  12. Sarah Bee (Written by Reg staff)

    Re: What no Red Dwarf ? !!

    Ahem.

    "Vote now for your fave sci-fi *movie* quote"

    "Please note that since our word is final on the available choices, there's absolutely no point in protesting along the lines of "I can't believe you haven't got [insert quote] from [insert film], jeez you guys suck", etc, etc."

    Specsavers have some great deals on at the moment, folks.

  13. Anonymous Coward
    Anonymous Coward

    Ghostbusters is SciFi?

    If so, you missed a few better choices, like

    So that's what an invisible barrier looks like -- Time Bandits

    It's not my goddamn planet monkey boy -- Buckaroo Banzai

  14. Tom

    Wrong Ghostbusters quote

    "Ray, when some asks if you are a god, you say YES!"

  15. Anonymous Coward
    Unhappy

    Sad Git.

    The BOFH was right we techies are sad pasty gits, I have seen all the films listed. But you missed a lot which would make me an even sadder git if I listed them.

    So long and thanks for all the fish.

  16. ImaGnuber
    Pirate

    Criminal

    Debates, arguments, fond memories all.day.long. in workplaces all over the world. You will be charged with crimes against the Earth's economy.

  17. Rob
    Coat

    Apologies to anybody on the same scansafe proxy as us...

    ... I've used our vote.

  18. Aristotles slow and dimwitted horse
    Thumb Up

    It's all Hudson... man

    "Stop your grinnin' and drop your linen..." - Hudson, Aliens.

    "We're on a first class elevator to hell... goin down!!!!" - Hudson, Aliens.

  19. Anonymous Coward
    Stop

    My favourite is probably...

    From Empire Strikes Back, when Han is about to be frozen in carbonite. Princess Leia says, "I love you"; Han's reply: "I know".

  20. Mike Richardson

    Another...

    "It's a Unix system! I know this!" - Lex, Jurassic Park.

  21. DJ
    Unhappy

    No 5th Element.

    "Lee-Loo Dallas Multi Pass - M-U-L-T-I-P-A-S-S" Lee-Loo.

    "I don't want one position I want all positions" Ruby Rod

    "Big Bada Boom" Korben

    "Mmm Chick-en" Lee-Loo.

  22. Sarah Bee (Written by Reg staff)

    Re: My favourite is probably...

    Apparently Ford changed that line from Lucas's original glurge and rescued the scene. But I guess you all knew that one.

  23. Neil Hoskins
    Unhappy

    Good Choice But....

    Where is, "Prepare to reverse polarity", from Forbidden Planet and milked to death in "Return to the Forbidden Planet"? (I suppose the latter isn't a film, though.)

  24. Neil Hoskins

    Come to think of it...

    Where is Deep Thought's, "FORTY TWO"?

    "I think you ought to know, I'm feeling very depressed."

    "Thank you for making a simple door so happy."

  25. Anonymous Coward
    Anonymous Coward

    Point or no point...

    "That's not a 'he', that's an *it*. We need bigger guns."

    Dick Durkin (?) - Split Second

  26. conan

    B<<<2TF

    Oh. I'm sad now. I just voted, and then found out that only one other person went for Emmet Brown. But he had mirrored shades on! Mirrored shades hadn't even been invented then!

  27. daniel
    Alien

    Wot no more additions?

    He's worse than dead. His brain has gone! - Dr. McCoy, Star Trek

  28. Cameron Colley

    I know you won't add them to the list, but what about:

    "Multipass!"

    "There is no spoon"

  29. Damian Gabriel Moran
    Happy

    hang on

    if we are going to want a Time Bandits quote then surely it should be...

    "God isn't interested in technology. He cares nothing for the microchip or the silicon revolution. Look how he spends his time, forty-three species of parrots! Nipples for men!"

    however, for that ultimate sci-fi quote you cannot go wrong with Split Second

    Dick Durkin: We need to get bigger guns. BIG F*CKING GUNS!

    Dick Durkin: I don't think this thing thinks it's Satan, I think this thing IS Satan.

    Stone: Well Satan is in deep shit.

  30. Peter

    Marvin...

    WHAAT!!! No Douglas Adams quotes!!!

    Shame on you.

  31. Philip Nicholls Silver badge

    Planet of the Apes

    The last line :

    "You ... IDIOTS!"

    with Charlton beating fists into the sand and a broken Statue of Liberty nearby.

    At least that's how I remember it. And I am NOT going to watch it again just to check.

    No icon. That's for "slack-jawed faggots". (Predator)

  32. Edwin
    Go

    I voted Armageddon

    I am much embarrassed about my vote.

    The best quote in the list came from the worst film...

  33. Ralph B

    These are not the movie quotes you are looking for.

    You can go about your business.

  34. Anonymous Coward
    Happy

    Re: Re: What no Red Dwarf ? !!

    "Specsavers have some great deals on at the moment, folks."

    Ouch!

    I voted to nuke the site from orbit.

    It really was the only way to be sure.

  35. Anonymous Coward
    Happy

    re: No 5th Element

    Well, they had Corbin's 'Meat Popsicle' quote in the list but that movie has loads of classic lines.

    Strange Days has a ton of them too..

    "Bullet-resistant? What ever happened to bullet-proof?"

    "This tie cost more than your entire wardrobe... it's the one thing that stands between me and the jungle"

    "This is what we laughingly refer to as a plan, right?"

    "His ass is so tight, when he farts only dogs can hear it."

    "Right now his frontal lobes are like two runny eggs."

    ..and that's just from Lenny.

  36. max allan
    Coat

    Re: Come to think of it...

    Neil & Peter,

    (And any other "what about Douglas Adams" complainers.)

    Look how many quotes there are to choose from.

    6 times 9 perhaps?

    Max

  37. Nick
    Paris Hilton

    A couple of my favourites

    Helmet: "I am your father's brother's nephew's cousin's former room-mate."

    Lone Starr "What's that make us?"

    Helmet: "Absolutely nothing!"

    From Spaceballs: The Movie

    And:

    "Violence is the ultimate authority, from which all other authorities are derived."

    From Starship Troopers.

    Is it wrong that I have that last quote memorised?

    Paris because most of the time she's on another planet.

  38. Anonymous Coward
    Alien

    I so wanted....

    ...to vote for one of the Aliens quotes, but Roy Batty's speech is just fantastic.

    But Aliens is a damn quotable movie - here's a couple more of my faves:

    Hudson "Vasquez, have you ever been mistaken for a man?"

    Vasquez "No. Have you?"

    Hicks (produces shotgun) "I like to keep this handy. For close encounters..."

  39. Steve Mason
    Thumb Up

    spaceballs anyone?

    so many quotes to choose from.

    still I'm happy with the selection so far ;)

  40. bobbles31
    Coat

    I have a bad feeling about this:

    Is Jurassic Park classed as SciFi?

    "after careful consideration I have decided NOT to endorse your park...."

    "Me too."

  41. Tom

    @ Neil Hoskins

    There are 42 to pick from.. thats a big enough douglas adams tilt of the hat.

    "Killian, here's your Subzero, now plain zero"

  42. lee harvey osmond

    "Wake up -- time to die!"

    "I can't believe you guys left out this one...you suck!!!"

  43. Chris

    Another Ghostbusters quote

    What about "Back off man, I'm a scientist" from Ghostbusters?

    I did an entire science degree just to be able to use that line.

  44. /\/\j17

    Gak!

    No "These aren't the droids you are looking for"!?!

    (OK, so I'd still have voted for Blade Runner but...

  45. J Welek
    Go

    Roy Batty ftw!

    The bkg music during his brief monologue nails it for sure... :D

  46. Anonymous Coward
    Paris Hilton

    How Could You Miss This?

    Holy : They're all dead. Everybody's dead, Dave

    Paris, because she would remember...

  47. Anonymous Coward
    Heart

    Dark star nearly won, but that quote aint the best... so

    ... i voted for blade runner...

    my fave dark star/bomb quote is later, when they're discussing the philosophy...

    i liked it so much i used it in a rather nice [if i do say so myself] psy-trance track:

    http://www.ingie.com/media/music/demo/light-sheep.mp3

    /plug :)

    [ if you want to just hear the quote it's at the very beginning, so you don't have to suffer the whole track ]

  48. Robert Harrison

    Spectacular

    I think we need a gold star icon, because this is the best article ever[1].

    What about:

    "You're hit man. I ain't got time to bleed. Oh ok then, *ptang* *ptang* have you got time to duck? *BOOM*" (Predator)

    "There's a lot of slack jawed faggots round here. This stuff'll make you a sexual tyrannosaurus.. just like me" (Predator)

    I tip my cap to the film industry in some part, after all, when they get it right, with some of the films quoted in the above list, they certainly get it *right*.

    [1] It must be friday if I'm making outrageous claims like that.

  49. Ivan Lozowy

    That damn Dutch accent!

    I always thought it was "shores of Orion," though "shouler" makes sense -- Orion the hunter and all that. Nice to see I chose the number 1 pick, though I thought I was being idiosyncratic.

  50. Anton Ivanov

    Babylon 5 sadly missing

    "Only those whose lives are brief can imagine that love is eternal. You should embrace that remarkable illusion. It may be the greatest gift your race has ever received." - Lorien

    "On your trip back I would like you to take the time to learn the Babylon 5 mantra.

    Ivanova is always right. I will listen to Ivanova. I will not ignore Ivanova's recommendations. Ivanova is god. And if this ever happens again, Ivanova will personally rip your lungs out." - Ivanova

    "Understanding is a three-edged sword: your side, their side, and the truth." - Kosh Naranek

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