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Heartbreak Ridge (1986)
Rate:
5
Viewed:
10/03, 7/05
7/05:
You got to love Clint Eastwood and the way he deliver his lines.
"That is until some suckhead writes home to mama and says he dipped his wick in the Republic of South Vietnam."
"It means: Be advised. I'm mean, nasty and tired. I eat concertina wire and piss napalm, and I can put a round in a flea's
ass at 200 meters. So why don't you go hump somebody else's leg, mutt face, before I push yours in?"
"Jumping out of a perfectly good aircraft is not a natural act. So let's do it right, enjoy the view. Come on."
"My name's Gunnery Sergeant Highway, and I've drunk more beer and banged more quiff and pissed more blood and stomped more
ass than all of you numbnuts put together."
"Drop your cocks and grab your socks! Off your ass and on your feet. Let's move. Knees to the breeze in five minutes."
"You're Marines now. You adapt. You overcome. You improvise. Let's move."
"Well, if she's looking for more alimony, she's in real trouble because I've got myself so broke I couldn't get out of
sight if it took a quarter to go around the world."
"You pump the neighbor's dog again, Jakes, or are you always slack-eyed and silly in the afternoon?"
"Sergeant, you get that contraband stogie out of my face before I shove it so far up your ass you'll have to set fire to
your nose to light it."
"Just because we're holding hands doesn't mean we'll be taking warm showers together until the wee hours of the morning."
"If you pull another shithead stunt like that again, the only thing that'll beat you to the brig is the headlights on the
ambulance you'll be riding in."
"You're dead, marine. You just stepped on four booby traps that blew your legs off, and we'll have to send out a search party
for your testicles."
"Well, what happens when these men have to go into combat and they're not prepared? They just get dead."
By the way, it's a common misconception that everybody, from grunts all the way up to President of the United States,
must first salute the soldier who earned Medal of Honor. It's only a gesture, nothing more, unless rank comes in play.
All in all, Heartbreak Ridge is a classic Clint Eastwood picture with a great script although the movie isn't great.