Best action movie quotes of 1988

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Poltergeist III picture

Tangina: Stay back! He's got the girls, and now he wants you.

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Robowar - Robot da guerra picture

Colonel: This is our coordinator, Maj. Murphy Black. Multi-decorated field officer, better known as "Killzone."
Mascher: Why do they have nicknames?
Colonel: You should know what the group is called. "BAM."
Mascher: BAM?
Colonel: Big Ass Motherfuckers.

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Capt. Earl Armbruster: Just because Dellaplane had a few family problems.
Action Jackson: The man's son is a sexual psychopath! If I had family problems like that, I'd have myself neutered.
Capt. Earl Armbruster: You almost tore that boy's arm off.
Action Jackson: So? He had a spare.

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The Blob picture

Brian Flagg: In the meantime, we're your prisoners?
Dr. Meddows: Not at all, you're my patients.

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Zombi 3 picture

Ken: That'll fix ya, you friggin' monsters.

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Iron Eagle II picture

Sinclair: Man, if we get outta this thing, I want you to come to the States. I'll show you some stuff that you'll never believe.
Vodovsky: No way, my friend. I'm told in the States they shoot Communists in the streets.
Sinclair: Hell, man. In Detroit, my hometown, they shoot everybody in the streets.

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Sunset picture

Wyatt Earp: It's all true, give or take a lie or two.

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Bulletproof picture

Sharkey: What the fuck is this?
Frank McBain: Your worst nightmare, Butt-horn.

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The Incredible Hulk Returns picture

Donald Blake: Listen, David, I know you didn't tell her, but... I think she knows, and understands.

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The Tall Man: You think that when you die, you go to Heaven. You come to us.

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Harry Washello: I know how this sounds, but I answered the phone out there and the guy on the other end he was very, very frantic. He thought I was his dad for a minute, I think he just had the wrong area code.
Fred the Cook: Yeah, so what?
Harry Washello: So he was calling from a missile silo! He said that they were locked in, 50 minutes and counting, to shoot off their nuclear wad. We would be getting it back in an hour and 10. I mean he meant that we're at war! Nuclear war.

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Art Ridzik: Oh, great. We got a pro basketball team coming toward us - with guns.

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Return of the Killer Tomatoes! picture

Tara: They are gardeners and carpenters, they are not tomato men.

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Mousa: You do not look like men Griggs sent before. You not look like you are with military.
Rambo: I'm not.
Mousa: What you are? Mercenary?
Rambo: No.
Mousa: You're not with military, not mercenary - what you are? Lost tourist?
Rambo: I'm no tourist.

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Richard Walker: This is an emergency. Do you understand?
U.S. Security Officer: Yes sir, I do.
Richard Walker: You understand but you don't give a damn? Is that it?

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The Dead Pool picture

Harry Callahan: Oh you can set yourself into a bonfire and we'll break out the marshmallows and the weenies but you ain't gonna be on News at Eleven.

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Amsterdamned picture

Vermeer: What do you think she meant when she said a huge black monster with giant claws?
Eric Visser: I don't know, but I hope your mother-in-law has an alibi.
Vermeer: UGH.

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