QUOTE(MJAP @ Apr 8 2004, 04:58 PM)
In the words of "Cousin Eddie" in the cockpit of the fighter jet near the end of the movie "Independence Day" just before he rammed his jet into the center of the alien space craft to blow it up:
"Hello, boys! I'm baaaaack!"
<BLAM!!!>
Although I can't watch that movie any more, I remember it well. It had a lot of humor in it.
The line was "Up yours," and Randy Quaid flies the kamikaze mission. I also like a few other lines in that flick: "The aliens molested him...sexually."
"This could be our last night on earth...you don't want to die a virgin...do you?"
"President Whitmore staying in Washington....smart or stupid? Mor--ton?"
"Entertainment Tonight has a ticket to the biggest party in LA, atop the First Interstate Tower."
"Oh, God, I hope they bring back Elvis!"
"I'm just eager to get up there and whip ET's ass, that's all."
"I'm a dancer."
"Oh...ballet!"
"No...exotic."
"Welcome to Earth!" POW! "Now that's what I call a close encounter."
"They're cutting me off here, the vultures."
"You didn't think they really spent $700 on a hammer, did you?"
Notice that one of the RAF pilots says "We've lost the Belgian contingent in the Golan Straits." Somebody missed a step there.
But as I say, I can't watch that film any more. The Empire State Building's demise (along with all of New York, LA, and Washington, and presumably London as well), gives me flashbacks. I can't watch movies in which New York City gets destroyed. That includes "Deep Impact," where the Brooklyn Bridge meets its fate at the hands of a meteor and the head of the Statue of Liberty bounces around a river created in Manhattan's skyscrapers like a golf ball.
I was born there. Grew up there. Saw the WTC rise a mile-and-a-half from my house. It took four years. Then I saw it come down. That took four seconds.
It really changes how you view life.