The Day After ...

I refused to stand in line all night to see a movie.

While disasters, natural and otherwise, tend to bring out the worst in people, disaster MOVIES tend to bring out the "best" of Hollywood.

In a salute to summer disaster movies, we bring you our "favorite" disaster movie quotes of all time:

DANTE’S PEAK: I've always been better at feeling out volcanoes than people and politics.

RUNAWAY TRAIN: God, don't kill him. Let me do it.

ARMAGEDDON : I know the presidents' chief advisor, we were at MIT together. And, at this point in time, you really don't want to take advice from a man who got a C minus in astrophysics. The presidents' advisors are wrong. I am right.

DAWN OF THE DEAD: Well, they told me it was a midget force, and they needed somebody to look up to. Hey, where's Flyboy? What's his twenty?

TITANIC: A woman's heart is a deep ocean of secrets.

DEEP IMPACT: I know you're just a reporter, but you used to be a person, right?

OMEGA MAN: Is there anything you can do, DOCTOR, I mean, seeing as how you've lost over 200 million patients?

TWISTER: When you used to tell me that you chase tornadoes, deep down I thought it was just a metaphor.

THE TOWERING INFERNO: At this rate it's going to take a couple of hours to get everyone down. So, I would suggest that those of us with stout hearts and trim waistlines start using the stairs.

THE DAY THE EARTH STOOD STILL: I'm impatient with stupidity. My people have learned to live without it.

MATRIX RELOADED: Down here, sometimes I think about all those people still plugged into the Matrix and when I look at these machines I... I can't help thinking that in a way... we are plugged into them.

WOODSTOCK: There's always a little bit of heaven in a disaster area.

INDEPENDENCE DAY: I saw... its thoughts. I saw what they're planning to do. They're like locusts. They're moving from planet to planet... their whole civilization. After they've consumed every natural resource they move on... and we're next. Nuke 'em. Let's nuke the bastards.

AIRPLANE: Eh. Yo knock yourself a pro slick, gray matter live performas down now take TCB'in man.

EARTHQUAKE: Give me your panty hose damnit.

POSEIDEN ADVENTURE: We're cut off from the rest of the world. They can't get to us. Maybe we can get to them. You've said enough, now get out of the way.

THE BLOB: Yeah, as long as the Arctic stays cold.

THE BIRDS: Why are they doing this? Why are they doing this? They said when you got here, the whole thing started. Who are you? What are you? Where did you come from? I think you're the cause of all this. I think you're evil! EVIL!

ON THE BEACH: The war started when people accepted the idiotic principle that peace could be maintained by arranging to defend themselves with weapons they couldn't possibly use without committing suicide.

Comments

[Trish Wilson]

What, no quote from "Hard Rain"? You know they're running out of ideas if a mega torrential downpour is seen as a disaster.

[roxanne]

From hard rain:

Great, I'm gonna have people from all around the world come to see the impression of Jesus on my forehead.