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The Fifth Element quote thread

post #1 of 116
11/10/08 at 7:17pm
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"Negative, i am a meat popsicle"

GO!
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post #2 of 116
11/10/08 at 7:20pm
"The Fifth Element sucked." - Me, 1997
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post #3 of 116
11/10/08 at 7:27pm
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Originally Posted by Phil View Post
"The Fifth Element sucked." - Me, 1997
Win.
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post #4 of 116
11/10/08 at 7:55pm
/end thread.
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post #5 of 116
11/10/08 at 7:56pm
Bad thread idea, but I'll admit that The Fifth Element is my guiltiest of guilty pleasures.
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post #6 of 116
11/10/08 at 8:06pm
You could just make it an all-purpose Fifth Element thread, you know. Leeloo is hawtttt.
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post #7 of 116
11/10/08 at 8:07pm
"Big bada boom!" That's the only (stupid) line I remember.
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post #8 of 116
11/10/08 at 8:08pm
I don't know there was something about the fact that Leelo was essentially a six year old that always wigged me out about Bruce fucking her at the end.
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post #9 of 116
11/10/08 at 8:09pm
Anyone else pulled out by Gary Oldman's strange southern accent?
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post #10 of 116
11/10/08 at 8:11pm
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Originally Posted by Spike Marshall View Post
I don't know there was something about the fact that Leelo was essentially a six year old that always wigged me out about Bruce fucking her at the end.
She's supposed to be an anime character, with the hair and everything. I think Gary Oldman was supposed to be from, like, Space-Louisiana. He's got a Southern accent and his name is Jean-Baptiste Emmanuel Zorg.
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post #11 of 116
11/10/08 at 8:13pm
I think his skull cap was odd.
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post #12 of 116
11/10/08 at 8:13pm
I can safely say that with the plethora of fucking bizarre design choices in the film Oldman's Southern accent never really rankled me that much. It's a film about Bruce Willis using a metaphysical, kung fu powered, element of love to stop a planet sized globule of pure hatred destroying a future version of the Earth designed by Jean Paul Gautier and governed by Tiny Lister.
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post #13 of 116
11/10/08 at 8:15pm
I thought it was weird that he bled motor oil.
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post #14 of 116
11/10/08 at 8:16pm
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Originally Posted by Spike Marshall View Post
It's a film about Bruce Willis using a metaphysical, kung fu powered, element of love to stop a planet sized globule of pure hatred destroying a future version of the Earth designed by Jean Paul Gautier and governed by Tiny Lister.
This should be on the back of the DVD.

Anyway, as long as I'm here: "Want some more?"--Robot Bartender.
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post #15 of 116
11/10/08 at 8:17pm
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Originally Posted by Gaybe Sapien View Post
He's got a Southern accent and his name is Jean-Baptiste Emmanuel Zorg.

*Jaw Drop*
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post #16 of 116
11/10/08 at 8:18pm
That's representative of the power of hatred or whatever the fuck the black orb is supposed to be. I actually need to see the film again, I've not watched it in about three years and I keep remembering incidental details which make no sense like having Tricky as the villain's right hand man.
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post #17 of 116
11/10/08 at 8:18pm
Oh and Jason Priestly is in it.
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post #18 of 116
11/10/08 at 8:22pm
Ian Holm beats the shit out of Bruce Willis with Christ, Lee Evans plays the gayest intergalactic bellboy ever, the main character is called Corbin Dallas, the heroes fish representations of the elements out of the stomach of an intergalactic opera singer and Chris Tucker is an unstoppable and unsatable sex machine.

It's all flooding back.
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post #19 of 116
11/10/08 at 8:23pm
It could've been a lot better, obviously, but the intentional goofiness of the entire production goes a long way for me.

And yes, this is the part where everyone begins to wrongly slam what is still Chris Tucker's best performance in anything.
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post #20 of 116
11/10/08 at 8:23pm
Spike, the more you say about it, the more I want to watch it again.
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post #21 of 116
11/10/08 at 8:24pm
Only one quote from the movie has really stayed with me.

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post #22 of 116
11/10/08 at 8:26pm
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Originally Posted by Phil View Post
"The Fifth Element sucked." - Me, 1997
Can I just second this?
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post #23 of 116
11/10/08 at 8:26pm
If I remember rightly Zorg and Dallas never actually interact with each other in any way.
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post #24 of 116
11/10/08 at 8:26pm
They don't. They show up in one scene.
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post #25 of 116
11/10/08 at 8:27pm
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Originally Posted by BrianM View Post
It could've been a lot better, obviously, but the intentional goofiness of the entire production goes a long way for me.

And yes, this is the part where everyone begins to wrongly slam what is still Chris Tucker's best performance in anything.
Like I said I love the film because of how weirdly goofy it is. I actually think Tucker does a good job, I just think that Besson should have limited Ruby to a peripheral character rather than one of protagonists.
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post #26 of 116
11/10/08 at 8:29pm
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Originally Posted by EdHocken View Post
They don't. They show up in one scene.
Isn't that the Ian Holm's character and Zorg? The closest Dallas and Zorg get to having a meeting is when Dallas finds Leelo about five minutes after Zorg has left the scene.
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post #27 of 116
11/10/08 at 8:30pm
Not sure anything matches Chris Tucker and Ian Holm debating whether or not it's a bomb.
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post #28 of 116
11/10/08 at 8:33pm
"What's wrong with you? What you screamin' for? Every 5 minutes there's somethin', a bomb or somethin'. I'm leavin'. bzzzz"

It's like Ruby Rhod is Detective James Carter's flamboyant great-great-grandson.
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post #29 of 116
11/10/08 at 8:36pm
I'm guessing I'm not alone in having just shoved this onto the top of my rewatch pile.
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post #30 of 116
11/10/08 at 8:39pm
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Originally Posted by Spike Marshall View Post
Bad thread idea, but I'll admit that The Fifth Element is my guiltiest of guilty pleasures.
But we turn on anything from Van Halen's first album and you're out the door. You're a fickle one, Spike. DANCEDANCEDANCEDANCEDANCETOTHERADIO
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post #31 of 116
11/10/08 at 8:40pm
I've found the best way to watch this is to wait for one of the late-night broadcasts on TNT (I swear it's on every other week) and leave it on as you drift in and out of consciousness.
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post #32 of 116
11/10/08 at 8:41pm
Pretty much all of Gary Oldman's lines. I can actually recite some of his full scenes.
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post #33 of 116
11/10/08 at 8:43pm
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Originally Posted by Phil View Post
But we turn on anything from Van Halen's first album and you're out the door. You're a fickle one, Spike. DANCEDANCEDANCEDANCEDANCETOTHERADIO
I'm picturing a Van Halen cover of Transmission and dying a little on the inside.
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post #34 of 116
11/10/08 at 8:44pm
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Originally Posted by mcnooj82 View Post
Pretty much all of Gary Oldman's lines. I can actually recite some of his full scenes.
I think they call that "psychosis".
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post #35 of 116
11/10/08 at 8:45pm
Haven't thought about this since I first saw it a number of years ago, but I disliked it then and doubt I'd feel differently now.
The goofiness might work if the film wasn't obviously trying so hard. Instead, it comes across as a poor man's Douglas Adams.
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post #36 of 116
11/10/08 at 8:45pm
The FUCK was that crippled baby elephant on Gary Oldman's desk for?
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post #37 of 116
11/10/08 at 8:47pm
I think it was a Flintstonian vacuum cleaner, there to pick up crumbs and what not.
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post #38 of 116
11/10/08 at 8:47pm
This movie is awesome. Get the fuck outta here.
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post #39 of 116
11/10/08 at 8:48pm
I like that Gary Oldman has an office full of utterly useless contraptions which are simply there to give Ian Holm's point a visual representation.
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post #40 of 116
11/10/08 at 8:51pm
He just forgot he had a cherry-pit remover in the third drawer.
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post #41 of 116
11/10/08 at 8:51pm
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Originally Posted by Spike Marshall View Post
Isn't that the Ian Holm's character and Zorg? The closest Dallas and Zorg get to having a meeting is when Dallas finds Leelo about five minutes after Zorg has left the scene.
To the best of my knowledge, the one shot they almost cross paths is when Korben and the Gang leave the building/ship on an elevator and Zorg pops out of another elevator to come back and disarm the bomb or something. That's as close as they ever get.

I enjoy this movie for its kookiness too. It was sold as an action movie, but I find pretty much all of that stuff to be really dull. I love Eric Serra's score. My favorite cue being the moment right before Leeloo jumps off the building half-naked. The cello that comes in as the fat police scan her face for records is beautiful.
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post #42 of 116
11/10/08 at 8:54pm
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Originally Posted by Sonic Boom View Post
I think they call that "psychosis".
"So ya see, Father... by creating a lil' destruction... I am in fact encouraging life. In reality, you and I are in the same bid'ness. Cheers."

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KEKEKEKEKEKEK!!!
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post #43 of 116
11/10/08 at 8:54pm
"Fifth Element [something something]. It is THE ride." -- Owen Gleiberman, Fifth Element VHS case

I know this because my friend would always make fun of Gleiberman, who is the EW film critic. Anytime he wrote a review my friend disagreed with, he would disavow it starting with that quote.

Googling it, in all fairness to Gleiberman, he was a victim of movie quote editing.

Also, imdb trivia used to say that Ian Holm calls Willis (Dallas) "Mr. Willis" when they first meet, and Willis corrects him. But apparently this has been deleted from their goofs because it sounds more like "Wallace."
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post #44 of 116
11/10/08 at 8:57pm
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Originally Posted by mcnooj82 View Post
I enjoy this movie for its kookiness too. It was sold as an action movie, but I find pretty much all of that stuff to be really dull. I love Eric Serra's score. My favorite cue being the moment right before Leeloo jumps off the building half-naked. The cello that comes in as the fat police scan her face for records is beautiful.
If it's the bit I'm thinking of it's Eric Serra's classic mournful string sound.
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post #45 of 116
11/10/08 at 9:16pm
What other moments has he used it in?
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post #46 of 116
11/10/08 at 9:22pm
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Originally Posted by BrianM View Post
And yes, this is the part where everyone begins to wrongly slam what is still Chris Tucker's best performance in anything
That's funny, I didn't know this was a DEAD PRESIDENTS thread.
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post #47 of 116
11/10/08 at 9:36pm
Best Heavy Metal movie ever made.
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post #48 of 116
11/10/08 at 9:38pm
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Originally Posted by Richard Dickson View Post
Best Heavy Metal movie ever made.
Very true, even though there wasn't much in the way of tits.
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post #49 of 116
11/10/08 at 9:39pm
The Fifth Element is one of my favourite movies ever.

"Where did he learn to negotiate like that?"

"I wonder"
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post #50 of 116
11/10/08 at 9:40pm
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Originally Posted by Spike Marshall View Post
I don't know there was something about the fact that Leelo was essentially a six year old that always wigged me out about Bruce fucking her at the end.
And she's not even a six year old! She's like, about a half-hour old when Bruce Willis meets her. What I don't get is that she was somehow cloned from the arm of one of those stocky robot aliens from the beginning of the movie.

I have to say, this is one of those flicks that's so silly it's impossible to hate. It really is a "live action cartoon".
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