what is the most profound line in cinema?

[Malvolio]

^For Your Eyes Only actually.

I wasn't sure which of the two it was. Thanks for reminding me.

[Huntsman Spider]

"When one seeks revenge, first dig two graves." James Bond, in The Spy Who Loved Me

^For Your Eyes Only actually.

I wasn't sure which of the two it was. Thanks for reminding me.

Still a pretty profound quote on the self-destructive nature of revenge.

[j9ac9k]

"Revenge is a dish best served cold."

[babyblob]

There is no tomorrow for someone who can not commit to today.

[DrNewGod]

"I stick my neck out for nobody!"

That film is so packed with iconic lines it's unbelievable.

[Scott Taylor]

Still a pretty profound quote on the self-destructive nature of revenge.

For Your Eyes Only was a well written movie overall. The dialogue fit the characters well and still had this great Bond flair for high class comedy.

Another favorite quote of mine from that movie:

"That's Détente, Comrade; you don't have it, I don't have it."

In the middle of the Cold War with Russia, when this movie came out, very profound words regarding the nuclear arms race. A lot of us were thinking it at the time, with nuclear war a possible real thing.

[krazijoe]

What we've got here is... failure to communicate. Some men you just can't reach. So you get what we had here last week, which is the way he wants it... well, he gets it.

[Huntsman Spider]

For Your Eyes Only was a well written movie overall. The dialogue fit the characters well and still had this great Bond flair for high class comedy.

Another favorite quote of mine from that movie:

"That's Détente, Comrade; you don't have it, I don't have it."

In the middle of the Cold War with Russia, when this movie came out, very profound words regarding the nuclear arms race. A lot of us were thinking it at the time, with nuclear war a possible real thing.

Oh, definitely . . . and we might be there again, alas.

[useridgoeshere]

"When one seeks revenge, first dig two graves." James Bond, in The Spy Who Loved Me

Still a pretty profound quote on the self-destructive nature of revenge.

Should lines from other sources really count? This is a riff on an old proverb.

[numberthirty]

While it is profound in a truly sad way, Captain Terrill saying "Doin' Right Ain't Got No End..." during that conversation about when they will be finished in The Outlaw Josey Wales sticks out.

[ChrisIII]

For Your Eyes Only was a well written movie overall. The dialogue fit the characters well and still had this great Bond flair for high class comedy.

Another favorite quote of mine from that movie:

"That's Détente, Comrade; you don't have it, I don't have it."

In the middle of the Cold War with Russia, when this movie came out, very profound words regarding the nuclear arms race. A lot of us were thinking it at the time, with nuclear war a possible real thing.

Curiously during the Cold War cinematic Bond never really had the Soviet Union as a direct enemy; FWRL and YOLT was SPECTRE messing things up (Although in the novel it was more directly SMERSH). In most of the Moore films (and one Dalton) the KGB director Gogol is a recurring character, he works directly with them in Spy Who Loved Me, and in Octopussy and View To A Kill his mission and Gogol's are pretty much the same case from opposite ends involving rogue generals/agents, and Gogol even shows up in M's office at the end of both movies. TLD also has a similar plot (and Pushkin was originally going to be Gogol but the actor wasn't feeling well and could only make a small cameo) as does GOLDENEYE to an extent with Ouromov.

FYEO is really the closest to a direct confrontation (and Bond does kill Kriegler who is Gogol's man) but as the clip shows, all's well that ends well.

[CliffHanger2]

Yoda.

[CliffHanger2]

"Afraid are you?"

[K7P5V]

"I know you had money. I didn't know you HAD money."

[Scott Taylor]

Curiously during the Cold War cinematic Bond never really had the Soviet Union as a direct enemy; FWRL and YOLT was SPECTRE messing things up (Although in the novel it was more directly SMERSH). In most of the Moore films (and one Dalton) the KGB director Gogol is a recurring character, he works directly with them in Spy Who Loved Me, and in Octopussy and View To A Kill his mission and Gogol's are pretty much the same case from opposite ends involving rogue generals/agents, and Gogol even shows up in M's office at the end of both movies. TLD also has a similar plot (and Pushkin was originally going to be Gogol but the actor wasn't feeling well and could only make a small cameo) as does GOLDENEYE to an extent with Ouromov.

FYEO is really the closest to a direct confrontation (and Bond does kill Kriegler who is Gogol's man) but as the clip shows, all's well that ends well.

SPECTRE included members of SMERSH in its war council or whatever the leading body was called. Using Soviets as full on direct enemies was avoided, I think, because it was too on the nose and would have raised controversies. I enjoy the way the Bond films, as well as films like Red October, show diplomatic relations between Soviets and the west. The cooperation is mostly BS, and I think doesn't reflect the real world at all, but those kinds of scenes make for nice food for thought about geo-politics.