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Quotes from Ishiro Honda

Oh, there’s Jimmy Big-Hands. [laughter] … Now, they were saying these tunnels are really old. … Are they growing them? … Building a home? I doubt they are. … With those hands, they aren’t gonna build much. — Blogtor Who,
Doctor Who ‘The Impossible Astronaut’ @0:37:12

During scenes like this where somebody can’t breathe, I always hold my breath. … In this scene, I can do it. I can’t do it in Star Trek 4, where Kirk dives … to free the whales, ’cause he holds his breath for like a minute and a half. — Commentary Track Stars,
Star Wars 5: Empire Strikes Back @1:43:20

First appearance of the tritovores … What do we think of the tritovores, guys? Eh. It’s— It’s a man in a boiler suit with a fly mask. Yeah. — Podcast of Impossible Things,
Doctor Who ‘Planet of the Dead’ @0:30:07

[as lonely Draco] *sigh* Well, I guess I’ll be non-specifically evil in here for a while. — Rifftrax,
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince @1:10:59

[Joss Whedon] is just all about the penetration. … Any chance he gets to stake somebody or stab somebody…. [as Joss Whedon] They’re a happy couple. I need to kill one of them! I forgot who I was for a second. — Sofa Dogs,
Dr. Horrible’s Sing-along Blog @0:37:19

Can I just say how very un-annoying this kid is? Sometimes in the movies the kid can be very annoying, and you almost don’t want to see him saved. — Sofa Dogs,
Eagle Eye @0:16:29

This could be an alien rock band. Absolutely. … Why else would they have giant synthesizers mounted to the outside of their spaceship? … So then they decide, ‘Okay, humanity is sufficiently funky to make contact with.’ — Speakeasy and Tysto,
Close Encounters of the Third Kind @1:56:52

Eddie, you’re a fan of film noir— I’m a fan of film noir. I’m a fan of classic films— And you love nose injuries. [laughter] I’ve had several myself. — Down in Front,
Chinatown @0:05:15

You think Digby there is used to regular beatings? I would certainly think so, yeah. Then it wouldn’t really be cruel to heap on a couple more? Oh god, no. — Rifftrax,
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets @0:08:57

[We should] tick off all the artifacts that are in this room. … Have a telestrator like Madden. [as John Madden] ‘Over here to the right is the Infinity Gauntlet. And over here to the left is the Casket of Ancient Winters.’ — Legion of Dudes,
Thor @0:18:06

Someone must have told [Radcliffe] if you just shake your head and blink a lot, that will show that you’re scared. … You don’t remember Shakey-Head-Blinky class from theater? [laughter] … I took that for two semesters. It was great! — PotterFicWeekly,
Harry Potter 1: Sorcerer’s Stone @0:13:19

[Luke is] playing with his T-16. … He plays with toys. He’s the original Star Wars collector! — IHN Radio,
Star Wars 4: A New Hope

I love that he’s chattin’ [Kelly] up in the women’s section. … She does have a certain kind of— je ne sais quoi? [hems] Don’t you dare. … She’s disheveled, weird, and hooped-earinged. ‘Chav,’ I think, is the word. — Blogtor Who,
Doctor Who ‘Closing Time’ @0:37:38

[as Kirk] We’re gonna turn this Klingon bird-of-prey into a … flying, time-traveling aquarium. God, that sounds retarded when you say it out loud. — TWIG Commentaries,
Star Trek 4 @0:35:07

We don’t really have a lot to talk about this movie, do we? No. I’ve only seen it once. I guess it’s so bad that why talk about it when people can just watch it? — Triforce Commentaries,
Street Fighter (1994) @0:26:03

You could’ve cast Arnold Schwarzenegger in this in, say, 1985, and gone whole hog with the slaughtering of the wolves and crows and whatnot. … Schwarzenegger as the Tin Man, I would say—not in the Dorothy role. — Tysto Commentaries,
The Wizard of Oz 1:16:06

For anyone listening to this commentary in five years’ time, a video shop was a place that had videos … you had a card, and you could rent them, a bit like stuff that you do online now. You actually had to go out of your house. — DVDCommentaries.co.uk,
The Lost Boys @0:33:24

Number 3 comes along. Scheider’s never gonna do it in a million years. Yeah. Let’s just tell another story about a different shark attack. Yeah. Why does it have to be about the Brodie family? — DVDCommentaries.co.uk,
Jaws 2 @1:32:02

This is Jack Lord. In a few years, he would go on to … play Steve McGarrett on Hawaii Five-O … once he’d cultivated his pompadour to the right height…. — Tysto Commentaries,
Dr. No

In every Batman movie, he gives up his biggest secret to some piece of trim. [laughter] So are you saying that his piece of trim in this movie is Chris O’Donnell? — Adudathuda PodBlast,
Batman Forever @1:10:00

[re: Indy's later war service] Why didn’t Indiana Jones [say], ‘Okay, long story short: I know you guys have a box that melts Nazis. [Laughter] Just get that out of storage. We’ll end this real fast.’ — Down in Front,
Raiders of the Lost Ark @0:55:00

Do you think [O-Ren Ishii] hates that guy Mickey? She sent one guy, like they just had an argument a few minutes before. … He was eating off her plate. … Those were my grapes, you son of a bitch. — Jon Madsen and friends,
Kill Bill vol. 1 @1:18:18

This not a magic bean. This is just us, a little worse off. … We’re mostly living this world already. Our police don’t dress like this, and—what else is different? … Which is what makes this … a legitimately great science fiction story. — Down in Front,
Dredd @0:35:14

[Bond has] got amazing, slow-motion binoculars. — Renegade Commentaries,
Die Another Day @0:34:31

[female voice] I love everything about this Doc Oc. … Even the man-boobs? Especially the man-boobs. I love me some double-D guy-boobs. — Amazing Spider-Cast,
Spider-Man 2 @0:13:52

Rock monster. It looks better than Shatner’s rock monster. … Which you can find on the Star Trek V DVD. Altho … Shatner’s rock monster doesn’t look like a rock monster. But it does look kind of like a bad-ass alien costume. — Commentary Track Stars,
Galaxy Quest @0:59:29

The only person who knew this ending was coming was Tod Browing. … The script pages … were not even delivered until the third week. … The actors were f***ing furiously pissed … because they had been playing it straight. — Terror Transmission,
Mark of the Vampire @1:29:07

Oh, wow. I have seen part of this movie. I recognize that thing on his forehead. It was a number, Lee. You probably see them all the time. [laughter] Yeah, but not usually flaming on someone’s forehead! — AfterShock Commentaries,
The Frighteners @0:25:17

Now here we go: he’s in an elevator. Again. Again. And I think whenever McClane’s in an elevator, he thinks, ‘Right. F*** the doors. I’m going out thru the ceiling.’ — DVDCommentaries.co.uk,
Die Hard 2 @0:36:45

What do you think he’s actually hitting? I would say… Melissa Rivers. — Adudathuda PodBlast,
Snakes on a Plane

Whoa. One of those. It’s happening again. Yeah, giant vulture with a golden cage. We spray for them, but they keep coming back. — Out Now,
Clash of the Titans (1981) @0:37:00

That would be a cool amusement park ride, right there. Yes! The illusion of a zombie attack and you getting lowered down into them and getting to blow them away. That’d be cool. — Widescreen Warrior,
Zombieland @1:11:24

I did find that Oswald Danes becoming the ‘one true voice of the people’ again— Yes. It’s like Gary Glitter becoming the one true voice of the people, isn’t it? Mmm, a bit of a stretch. — Impossible Podcast,
Torchwood ‘Miracle Day: Escape to LA’ @0:53:30

[re: Val Kilmer in hiding] That is an unwell man. … This is what he looked like after he read the reviews for Batman Forever. [laughter]I defy you to look as good as that when you’ve been shot! — MMM Commentaries,
Heat @2:12:09

I do like the fact that it was the Tardis that taught her to fly. Yeah.[The Doctor] was pretty busy. Dying. — Staggering Stories,
Doctor Who ‘Let’s Kill Hitler’ @0:40:58

His cup’s started vibrating, so there’s shenanigans going on. Ooh, there’s nothing so bad as shenanigans. — Staggering Stories,
Doctor Who ‘Hungry Earth’ @0:03:41

[as Melina] ‘Oh! How did you know I was here?’ [as Bond] ‘Oh, well, actually, I just checked around at the shops that wax ladies’ mustaches. It’s Greece, so there are a lot of them, … but eventually I found one that knew you.’ — Tysto Commentaries,
For Your Eyes Only @0:59:29

Originally … Kevin Costner was gonna play Kill Bill. … He didn’t do it because he wanted to hold a baseball bat the whole time and not a sword.[laughter] And a husk of corn. — Jon Madsen and friends,
Kill Bill: Vol. 1 @0:25:08

My friend—who’s like 6 or 7 at the time—[told me], ‘And then the penguins raised him.’ And I just accepted that. Then when I’m older, I’m like, ‘Wait a minute. That doesn’t make sense!’ — Batman Universe,
Batman Returns @0:09:06

I will say watching this and reading this as a mother, is so much different than when I read it the first time. How so? … I can picture myself in that position. … It just is horrible! — PotterFicWeekly,
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2 @1:36:50

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