Name: Ieuan Malcom Parry (IMP)
Alpa Chino: [why he's in the movie] I had to represent. Cause they had one good role for a black man, and they gave it to Crocodile Dundee!
Kirk Lazarus: Pump your breaks, kid, that man's a national treasure.
Brick Tamland: I ate fiberglass insulation. It wasn't cotton candy like the guy said... my tummy itches.
Baravelli: [through speakeasy's door] Who are you?
Professor Wagstaff: I'm fine, thanks, who are you?
Baravelli: I'm fine too, but you can't come in unless you give the password.
Professor Wagstaff: Well, what is the password?
Baravelli: Aw, no. You gotta tell me. Hey, I tell what I do. I give you three guesses. It's the name of a fish.
Professor Wagstaff: Is it Mary?
Baravelli: Ha-ha. That's-a no fish.
Professor Wagstaff: She isn't? Well, she drinks like one. Let me see: Is it sturgeon?
Baravelli: Hey, you crazy. Sturgeon, he's a doctor cuts you open when-a you sick. Now I give you one more chance.
Professor Wagstaff: I got it. Haddock.
Baravelli: That's-a funny. I gotta haddock, too.
Professor Wagstaff: What do you take for a haddock?
Baravelli: Well-a, sometimes I take-a aspirin, sometimes I take-a Calamel.
Professor Wagstaff: Say, I'd walk a mile for a Calamel.
Baravelli: You mean chocolate calamel. I like that too, but you no guess it. Hey, what's-a matter, you no understand English? You can't come in here unless you say, "Swordfish." Now I'll give you one more guess.
Professor Wagstaff: ...swordfish, swordfish... I think I got it. Is it "swordfish"?
Baravelli: Hah. That's-a it. You guess it.
Professor Wagstaff: Pretty good, eh?
First of all the good points. When the special effects were used, boy were they used! The solar flare at the very end, with buildings turned ashes was amazing. The crash scenes, especially the aeroplane, were horrific and troubling. You feel his helplessness and horror as a family gets blown to smithereens from an explosion. The concept was interesting and was played out very well. Nicholas Cage was in very good form as a troubled MIT prof. All the little clues such as the stones, the whisperers were also interesting and almost chilling.
BUT there were a lot of bad points about the movie.The children were not particulaly good and I didnt connect with them in any way. If I see one more McGuffin which is a spaceship, I will scream! The silent alien whisperes were nothing very new. Cliches such as innocent children and the children are the ones who truly see were very annoying. In fact, the whole ending was bad. WTF is with the tree?