BEST MOVIES OF 2011

#01. HARRY POTTER AND THE DEATHLY HALLOWS PART 2

Professor Albus Dumbledore: We both know Lord Voldemort has ordered the Malfoy boy to murder me. But should he fail, I should presume the Dark Lord will turn to you. You must be the one to kill me, Severus. It is the only way. Only then will the Dark Lord trust you completely. 
[Flashback of Snape killing Dumbledore] 
Professor Albus Dumbledore: There will come a time when Harry Potter must be told something. But you must wait until Voldemort is at his most vulnerable. 
Professor Severus Snape: Must be told what? 
[Shot of Snape going through the halls of the Potter house] 
Professor Albus Dumbledore: On the night Lord Voldemort went to Godric’s Hollow to kill Harry, and Lily Potter passed herself between them, the curse rebounded. When that happened, a part of Voldemort’s soul lached itself onto the only living thing it could find. Harry himself. There’s a reason Harry can speak with snakes. There’s a reason he can look into Lord Voldemort’s mind. A part of Voldemort lives inside. 
Professor Severus Snape: So when the time comes… the boy must die? 
Professor Albus Dumbledore: Yes. Yes… he must die. 
[Shot of Snape collapsing at the sight of Lily’s dead body] 
Professor Severus Snape: You’ve kept him alive so that he can die at the proper moment. You’ve been raising him like a pig for slaughter! 
Professor Albus Dumbledore: Don’t tell me now that you’ve grown to care for the boy. 
[Snape casts a Patronus in the shape of a doe, just like Lily’s- the same one that helped Harry find the Sword of Gryffendor in Part 1] 
Professor Albus Dumbledore: Lily… after all this time? 
[Shot of Snape holding Lily’s body in his arms while crying] 
Professor Severus Snape: Always. 

BEST MOVIES OF 2011

#02. CRAZY, STUPID, LOVE.

Hannah: I’m very nervous.
Jacob: I’m getting that.
Hannah: Okay. Because I know I seemed confident back at the bar, but that was mostly just because I was cold and wet, and trying to be dramatic a little bit.
Jacob: You’re adorable.
Hannah: No. I am sexy. I am R-rated sexy. Okay, I know what happens in the PG-13 version of tonight, all right? I know. It’s that I get really drunk and then I pass out. You cover me with a blanket, kiss me on the cheek, nothing happens. But that’s not why I’m here. I am here to bang the hot guy that hit on me at the bar.
Jacob: Jacob.
Hannah: Jacob.
Jacob: Are people still saying “bang”?
Hannah: I do. We are gonna bang. Hmm? This is happening. Take off your shirt.
Jacob: Why?
Hannah: Please, will you take off your shirt? I can’t stop thinking. I need to just..
Jacob: Okay, okay, okay.
Hannah: Fuck. Seriously? It’s like you’re Photoshopped. Can l…?
Jacob: Aah. You have cold hands. Now you take off your dress.
Hannah: No. Not with that going on. No, thank you. Is there dim lighting somewhere?

BEST MOVIES OF 2011

#03. TRANSFORMERS: DARK OF THE MOON

[first lines] 

Optimus Prime: We were once a peaceful race of intelligent mechanical beings. But then came the war between the Autobots, who fought for freedom and the Decepticons, who dreamt of tyranny. Overmatched and outnumbered, our defeat was all but certain. But in the wars final days, one Autobot ship escaped the battle. It was carrying a secret cargo, which would have changed our planet’s fate. A desperate mission, our final hope… 
[the Ark flies from Cybertron into space… and is gunned down] 
Optimus Prime: A hope that vanished. 

[last lines] 

Optimus Prime: In any war, there are calms between the storms. There will be days when we lose faith, days when our allies turn against us. But the day will never come, that we forsake this planet and its people. For I am Optimus Prime, and I send this message to the universe: We are here. We are home.

BEST MOVIES OF 2011

#04. DRIVE

Driver: If I drive for you, you give me a time and a place. I give you a five-minute window, anything happens in that five minutes and I’m yours no matter what. I don’t sit in while you’re running it down; I don’t carry a gun… I drive.

BEST MOVIES OF 2011

#05. SHERLOCK HOLMES: A GAME OF SHADOWS

Sherlock Holmes: [looks at Watson’s gun] Get that out of my face. 
Dr. John Watson: It’s not in your face; it’s in my hand. 
Sherlock Holmes: Get what’s in your hand out of my face!
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Dr. John Watson: [reading a note from Holmes] Come at once if convenient. 
[flips the note over to back side] 
Dr. John Watson: If inconvenient, come all the same. 
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Dr. John Watson: [as he watches Sherlock drinking embalming fluid] You’re drinking embalming fluid? 
Sherlock Holmes: [exhales] Yes. Care for a drop? 
Dr. John Watson: You do seem… 
Sherlock Holmes: Excited? 
Dr. John Watson: Manic. 
Sherlock Holmes: I am. 
Dr. John Watson: Verging on… 
Sherlock Holmes: Ecstatic? 
Dr. John Watson: Psychotic. 
Dr. John Watson: [pause] I should’ve brought you a sedative. 
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Dr. Watson: We should go home.
Sherlock Holmes: I concur. Let’s go home…via Switzerland. What better way to start a war at a peace summit?
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Sherlock Holmes: This is one of the best hedgehog goulashes I’ve ever tasted. I can’t remember tasting it anywhere else.

Dr. Watson: When was the last time you had hedgehog goulash?

Sherlock Holmes: I told you, I can’t remember.

BEST MOVIES OF 2011

#06. FAST FIVE

Hobbs: Aright listen up! The guys we’re after are professional runners. They like speed and are guaranteed to go down the hardest possible way so make sure you’ve got your funderwear on. We find ‘em we take ‘em as a team and we bring ‘em back. And above all else we don’t ever, ever let them get into cars. 

BEST MOVIES OF 2011

#07. THE IDES OF MARCH

Stephen Meyers: Were gonna be fine. We have to do it, it’s the right thing to do and nothing bad happens when your doing the right thing.
Governor Mike Morris: Is this your personal theory? ‘Cause I can shoot holes in it.
Stephen Meyers: Well there’s exceptions to every rule.

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Governor Mike Morris: There is only one thing I value in this world, Stephen, that’s loyalty. And without it, you are nothing and you have no one.

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Stephen Meyers: I’ll do or say anything if I believe in it, but I have to believe in the cause.

BEST MOVIES OF 2011

#08. LIMITLESS

Eddie Morra: A tablet a day and I was Limitless… 

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Eddie Morra: I see everything, Carl. I’m fifty moves ahead of you and everybody else. What makes you think I don’t have a guy that can beat on you right now? How do you know that you’re going to be alive this time next year?
[Eddie comes close to Van Loon and touches him on his chest]
Carl Van Loon: What are you doing? Get your hands off me! What are you doing?
Eddie Morra: Something is pumping half mass in there. Walls of your heart are dilated. Aortic stenosis. You’re gonna need that replaced. But you already knew that.

BEST MOVIES OF 2011

#09. THE HELP

Minny Jackson: [to Skeeter] You ain’t got nothing left here but enemies in the Junior League. You done burned every bridge there is. And you ain’t never gonna get another man in this town, everybody know that. So don’t walk your white butt to New York, run it! 

BEST MOVIES OF 2011

#10. THE TWILIGHT SAGA: BREAKING DAWN PART 1

Charlie Swan: Edward will be a good husband. I know this because I’m a cop, I know things. Like how to hunt somebody to the ends of the earth and I know how to use a gun. 

BEST MOVIES OF 2011

#11. MIDNIGHT IN PARIS

Gil: You can fool me, but you cannot fool Ernest Hemingway!

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Ernest Hemingway: All men fear death. It’s a natural fear that consumes us all. We fear death because we feel that we haven’t loved well enough or loved at all, which ultimately are one and the same. However, when you make love with a truly great woman, one that deserves the utmost respect in this world and one that makes you feel truly powerful, that fear of death completely disappears. Because when you are sharing your body and heart with a great woman the world fades away. You two are the only ones in the entire universe. You conquer what most lesser men have never conquered before, you have conquered a great woman’s heart, the most vulnerable thing she can offer to another. Death no longer lingers in the mind. Fear no longer clouds your heart. Only passion for living, and for loving, become your sole reality. This is no easy task for it takes insurmountable courage. But remember this, for that moment when you are making love with a woman of true greatness you will feel immortal. 

BEST MOVIES OF 2011

#12. HORRIBLE BOSSES

Stars:

 Jason Bateman, Charlie Day and Jason Sudeikis

Nick: You’re gonna be our lookout.
Dale: I’m gonna honk the horn six times.
Kurt: Something much more subtle…
Dale: Four honks?
Nick: Can you honk once?
Dale: People honk once all the time - you’re gonna be running in and out of the house…

BEST MOVIES OF 2011

#13. NEVER LET ME GO

Kathy: I come here and imagine that this is the spot where everything I’ve lost since my childhood is washed out. I tell myself, if that were true, and I waited long enough then a tiny figure would appear on the horizon across the field and gradually get larger until I’d see it was Tommy. He’d wave. And maybe call. I don’t know if the fantasy go beyond that, I can’t let it. I remind myself I was lucky to have had any time with him at all. What I’m not sure about, is if our lives have been so different from the lives of the people we save. We all complete. Maybe none of us really understand what we’ve lived through, or feel we’ve had enough time.