FitforDanga wrote:These all kind of go together. All that non-chalant ass-kicking and "pardon me while I BLOW YOUR MIND" talk, including PLENTY of Philosophy 101. Some particularly awful examples from iMDB:
Morpheus: Throughout human history, we have been dependent on machines to survive. Fate, it seems, is not without a sense of irony.
Morpheus: Neo, sooner or later you're going to realize just as I did that there's a difference between knowing the path and walking the path.
Neo: Why do my eyes hurt?
Morpheus: You've never used them before.
Oracle: I'd ask you to sit down, but, you're not going to anyway. And don't worry about the vase.
Neo: What vase?
[Neo turns to look for a vase, and as he does, he knocks over a vase of flowers, which shatters on the floor]
Oracle: That vase.
Neo: I'm sorry...
Oracle: I said don't worry about it. I'll get one of my kids to fix it.
Neo: How did you know?
Oracle: Ohh, what's really going to bake your noodle later on is, would you still have broken it if I hadn't said anything?
... I could go on. That is some SHIT dialogue there.
Listen...if you take any set of quotes completely out of context, mock and parody them enough, they will sound absurd and laughable.
You know what? Read some of the quotes from the original "Star Wars". Everything from Yoda's ramblings about The Force to Sir Alec Guiness's Obi Wan Kenobi, to Han Solo to Princess Leia. I can absolutely guarantee it will sound ten times as silly and ridiculous as anything you quoted above.
But you know what? In the context of the film, with the way it's delivered by the actors, it works.
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AFlickering wrote:holy shit imagining shogunrua as william shatner has totally blown my mind
I wouldn't stand a chance against Shatner's rugged manliness, picture-perfect looks, and indomitable all-around majesty. Even nowadays. Come on, now. I bow down before my superiors.