Network Video, an Australian video retail company, has come up with its list of the best and the worst move pick up lines.
Here’s the best…
1. ”We live in a cynical world. A cynical world. And we work in a business of tough competitors. I love you. You … complete me.”- Tom Cruise to Renee Zellweger in Jerry Maguire, 1996
2. ”Marry me, and I’ll never look at another horse.” - Groucho Marx to Margaret Dumont in A Day at the Races
3. ”I want to take care of you.” “Good … ’cause I really need to be taken care of.”
- Billy Bob Thornton to Halle Berry in Monster’s Ball
4. ”I want all of you. Forever. Every day.” - Ryan Gosling to Rachel McAdams in The Notebook
5. ”Mind if I get drunk with you?” - Clark Gable to Jean Harlow in Red Dust
6. ” I know what I want, because I have it in my hands right now. You.” - Gerard Butler to Hilary Swank in Ps I Love You
7. ”You came back to this bar to see me tonight, didn’t you?”"What if it wasn’t you I came here to see tonight?” “Well, ya’ got lucky.” - Paul Newman and Charlotte Rampling in The Verdict
And here’s the worst… 
1. ”You’re 38 and you look it” - Aaron Eckhart to Helena Bonham Carter in Conversations With Other Women
2. ”I appreciate this whole seduction thing you’ve got going on here, but let me give you a tip: I’m a sure thing.” - Julia Roberts to Richard Gere in Pretty Woman.
3. “Are you stalking me? Because that would be super” - Ryan Reynolds to Tara Reid in Van Wilder.
4. ”I could find the whole meaning of life in those sad eyes.”- Nathan Fillion to Kerri Russell in Waitress
5. “You think I’m gorgeous … you want to kiss me … you want to hug me … you want to love me … you want to smooch me … ” - Sandra Bullock to Benjamin Bratt in Miss Congeniality
6. “You were hoping for a goodnight kiss?”"No, you know. I’ll tell ya, I was hoping to get goodnight laid…” - Matt Damon and Minnie Driver in Good Will Hunting
7. “Would you like to have breakfast with me?” “Sure, fine.” “Shall I phone you or nudge you?” - Mary Mcdonnell and Stephen Tobolowsky in Sneakers
What do you think was the best — or the worst — movie pickup?
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Without a doubt, it is when William Hurt siddles up to Kathleen Turner on a hot Florida summer night and says “You can stand next time to if you promise not talk about the heat.”
- Posted by Michael PistonThat was, of course, in the definitive neo-Noir film “Body Heat”.
- Posted by Michael PistonI’d have to agree, the line from Body Heat is pretty much the winner: http://gentrystyle.com/
- Posted by Gio“I have crossed oceans of time to find you.”
- Posted by Nisha V.(Gary Oldman to Winona Ryder, Bram Stoker’s Dracula)
i know i screwed up … but i will love you forever.
Big to carrie (sex and the city). I got all choked up.
- Posted by m thompson