The Neil McCauley “A Book about Metals” Award for Best Line from the Movie
"I swear, you two are the most fucked up people I've ever known, and I specialize in fucked up"; "I love tests"; "What are you thinking? How are you feeling? What have we done to each other?"; "I was with you before we were even born"; "You want to stay with her?"; "Everyone knows that complicated is a code word for bitch"; "No, but it is humiliating"; "He actually expected me to love him unconditionally"
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- Nothing from the Amy monologue is allowed; the favorite non-Amy quote is Tanner's 'I swear you two are the most fucked up people I've ever known, and I specialize in fucked up', played as a clip, a good high-school yearbook quote if you can get the asterisks past the school.
- Picks are capped at four; one host's favorite line of the whole movie is Amy's 'I love tests' when Nick demands a paternity test at the very end, imagine saying that to your fiance in front of reporters, quite a flex; 'you have a world class vagina' is thrown out but nobody picks it.
- The opening narration, picturing cracking his wife's lovely skull to get answers to the primal questions of any marriage, what are you thinking, how are you feeling, what have we done to each other, is called an incredible opening note and poignant to apply to your own life, unless you are the Serranos; Go has many good lines, 'I was with you before we were even born', 'I thought writers hated cliches' while dunking on the affair, and the devastating, really well acted 'you want to stay with her?' at the end.
- More Go lines: the woodshed exchange, why not a hotel, it shows up on the statement, why not Andy's, it goes to her parents, 'ew'; 'everyone knows that complicated is a code word for bitch'; and the least believable line of dialogue, a sister telling her twin to go home and smack her in the face with his penis, 'there's some wood, bitch', which is kind of Lannister-esque.
- Gil's 'no, but it is humiliating' to Boney about Amy funding Nick's life is a succinct but important moment about emasculation and the gender politics at large; among Amy's many lines, 'invite pregnant idiot into your home and ply her with lemonade' and the crushing 'he actually expected me to love him unconditionally' passage about being dragged penniless to the navel of the country for a newer, younger, bouncier cool girl.
- Best quote is called first here, before more nits interrupt it.