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[theweaselking]

"Three billion human lives ended on August 29th, 1997. The survivors of the nuclear fire called the war Judgement Day. They lived, only to face a new nightmare. The war against the machines..."

#bestopeninglinesever?

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[unnamed525.livejournal.com]

"The man in black fled across the desert and the gunslinger followed."

[theweaselking.livejournal.com]

Ugh. Hampered by that series sucking.

[sandchigger.livejournal.com]

It's still an incredible opening line. I agree with unnamed525.

But yeah, after book 3 or 4 the series just kinda got super shitty.

[anivair.livejournal.com]

It didn't suck till about midway. Rather, the audience couldn't tell that it sucked till about midway through.

[theweaselking.livejournal.com]

I found the first book unbearable.

[reynardo.livejournal.com]

"Allow me to be frank at the commencement. You will not like me."

All right - it's two lines, not one, but not bad.

[lafinjack.livejournal.com]

Can I still be Garth?

[theweaselking.livejournal.com]

Today I learned:

Todd, as in "Todd and Janelle", as in "John Connor's foster parents"?

That's Xander Berkeley.

He's The Man.

Who sits in The Booth At The End. (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1554369/?ref_=sr_1)

[onlyonechoice.livejournal.com]

And Janelle was Vasquez :)

[theweaselking.livejournal.com]

Yes, but that one I knew. I haven't seen T2 in *years*, so while I'm used to Xander Berkeley being in everything, I'd forgotten that Todd was someone I would recognise.

It's like... going back to Die Hard, having forgotten that the cop outside is Reginald VelJohnson.

[theweaselking.livejournal.com]

Dude, giant NWS image in the comments, not cool. Please replace with a link, and a warning?

[iblis-kukl.livejournal.com]

[theweaselking.livejournal.com]

Yeah. The problem is that it was scaled, wherever you saw it. But the image itself was still 1600x1200, and if you don't stick in a scaling command yourself when you repost it....

(But yeah, NWS. "Genitals obscured" does not "not a pinup" make)

[iblis-kukl.livejournal.com]

[iblis-kukl.livejournal.com]

[hwrnmnbsol.livejournal.com]

I am partial to:

"The sky above the port was the color of television, tuned to a dead channel."

if only because it is now gloriously antiquated.

[rev-ursa.livejournal.com]

Thank you Gibson. I love that guy.

[loopback.livejournal.com]

not at all. That means the sky was a glorious cloud-free blue, right?

[ashbet]

I was going to bring that one up if no one else had :)

<3!

[dscotton.livejournal.com]

"Long long ago, there were a man who try to make his skill ultimate. Because of his bloody life, it's no accident that he was involved in the troubles."

[tjackson.livejournal.com]

From the dawn of time we came; moving silently down through the centuries, living many secret lives, struggling to reach the time of the Gathering; when the few who remain will battle to the last. No one has ever known we were among you... until now.

[evcelt.livejournal.com]

"O for a Muse of fire, that would ascend
The brightest heaven of invention,
A kingdom for a stage, princes to act
And monarchs to behold the swelling scene!"

[lederhosen.livejournal.com]

"War. War never changes."

[torrain.livejournal.com]

Yes yes yes this. <3

[andrewducker]

'In five years the penis will become obsolete'. (If we're allowing books)

[a-pawson.livejournal.com]

I am Gunnery Sergeant Hartman, your senior drill instructor. From now on, you will speak only when spoken to, and the first and last words out of your filthy sewers will be 'Sir!' Do you maggots understand this?

that or Johnny Depp's opening line: "We were somewhere around Barstow on the edge of the desert when the drugs began to take hold."

[rgovrebo.livejournal.com]

The opening to Fear & Loathing is really Hunter S. Thompson's opening line, since it's a direct quote from the book.

Another great opening line, a real mouthful:

"No one would have believed in the last years of the nineteenth century that this world was being watched keenly and closely by intelligences greater than man's and yet as mortal as his own; that as men busied themselves about their various concerns they were scrutinised and studied, perhaps almost as narrowly as a man with a microscope might scrutinise the transient creatures that swarm and multiply in a drop of water."

(The War of the Worlds, H.G. Wells)

[anton-p-nym.livejournal.com]

Between the time when the oceans drank Atlantis, and the rise of the sons of Aryas, there was an age undreamed of. And onto this, Conan, destined to wear the jeweled crown of Aquilonia upon a troubled brow. It is I, his chronicler, who alone can tell thee of his saga. Let me tell you of the days of high adventure!

-- Steve knows it's technically three lines, but it still rocks.

[iblis-kukl.livejournal.com]

[stormfeather.livejournal.com]

"It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife."

Okay, totally different genre than most of them, but I always enjoy that line (and many others).

[boxcat.livejournal.com]

"It was a cold day in April, and all the clocks were striking thirteen."

[torrain.livejournal.com]

Bright cold day. And yes, that's a good one.