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John Hobbes: What are we here for? What do we do?
Jonesy: Bottom line Hobbes: we catch bad guys, that's our job.
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[after killing man possessed by Azazel]
John Hobbes: [whistles Time is on my side]
Teenage Girl: [becomes possessed and sings] Yes it is.
John Hobbes: [spins around very slowly/shocked]
Teenage Girl: [sweetly] Hiya pal.
[seriously]
Teenage Girl: Wake up Hobbs. I'm not that easy to kill. When my host dies and I move as spirit, no man can resist me. What are you going to do. Arrest me? What'll you tell Stanton then. I'd *love* to hear that one.
John Hobbes: It's me that you want. Why don't you just kill me.
Teenage Girl: But I'm still having fun.
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Jonesy: From where I'm sitting, we're dealing with shit that ain't in the manual.
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John Hobbes: I got a bad feeling about this.
Jonesy: Yeah, me too. Somebody is playing with my dick and it ain't me.
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John Hobbes: You take any cop on the force, cream or no, ninety-nine percent of the time they're doing their job, aren't they?
Jonesy: Ninety-nine five.
John Hobbes: Point five. So he or she, cream or no, is doing more good out there every day than any lawyer or stockbroker or president of the United States can ever do in thier lifetime. Cops are the chosen people.
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John Hobbes: Can I ask you a personal question?
Gretta Milano: Everything is personal, if you're a person.
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Azazel: You've been on the force so long you think you've seen it all, but you haven't. 'Cause life's always got one more surprise for you. And sometimes, it's a big one.
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John Hobbes: I can feel the love in this room man.
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Azazel: What's a matter pal. Afraid to fight me?
John Hobbes: Put the gun down!
Azazel: I knew you would come out.
John Hobbes: Set your gun down sir!
Azazel: I know you Hobbs, I know who you are.
John Hobbes: PUT THE GUN DOWN!
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Azazel: Time is on my side. Yes it is.
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John Hobbes: C'mon Azazel. Open your eyes
[sticks a cigarette in his mouth]
John Hobbes: Look around sometimes.
[lights his cigarette]
Azazel: What's this? You don't smoke anymore.
John Hobbes: You're right I do'nt. You know why? Because cigarettes kill. Because it has a lot of poisions.
Azazel: Bullshit.
John Hobbes: The same kind of poisons you used to kill my brother.
Azazel: Uh, uh, fuck you.
John Hobbes: Yeah I know. It was so sweet.
[singing]
John Hobbes: Time, is on my side. Yes it is.
Azazel: Fuck you, motherfucker.
John Hobbes: [picks up his gun] Goodbye, Jonesy.
[shoots Jonesy, who is possessed by Azazel in the head]
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John Hobbes: You leave my family alone.
Azazel: But I'm still having fun! Aren't you still having fun?
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[at cabin towards end of film]
John Hobbes: I knew you'd come. Haven't you done enough? You made me kill an innocent man. You
[croaks]
John Hobbes: murdered my brother! Come out, you son of a bitch! How much more fun can you have!
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John Hobbes: Something is always happening, but when it happens, people don't always see it, or understand it, or accept it.
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Executioner: [straps Reese in chair]
Edgar Reese: [grabs executioner's arm and says] Hey, if you get me out of this I'll give you a blow job.
Executioner: [immediately pulls awqay]
Edgar Reese: Heh heh heh heh. Yee-haw!
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[upon seeing Detective Hobbs]
Edgar Reese: Well, well, well. Look who's here. It's the brilliant detective who sealed my brutish fate.
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Jonesy: If it wasn't for pizza and other fine Italian foods, there would be no happiness.
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Jonesy: Everything is a motive. SICKNESS is a motive.
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[lines before opening credits]
Edgar Reese: Howdy, folks. Ladies, gents, cocksuckers, pederasts, I hope you all enjoy the show. Yes, I do.
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Azazel: Can you imagine what it feels like to be alive for thousands of years, and then realize you're actually going to die, 'cause some self-righteous cop decided that he was going to save the fucking world?
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Jonesy: Hobbes, I'm following you, but at the same time, I'm losing you.
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John Hobbes: The criminals don't accept consequences. They kill somebody, somehow it's not their fault.
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Charles: [to his boss, as he is possessed] You know what you would look like with this sandwich up your ass? Like a fat, stupid fuck with a sandwich up his ass!
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John Hobbes: Why are we here? Us, humans? I mean there's six billion of us, we're like ants, I mean do we care what ants do, from a moral standpoint?
Jonesy: No. Maybe if you figure it out, you die, you know from a stroke or a heart attack, you just die, sort of like a promotion.
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Description
Homicide detective John Hobbes (Washington) pursues a killer down a bustling sidewalk. There she is a small, middle-aged woman. No, wait: the killer is the timid man beside her. Now it is someone else. It is all and none of them. Because the murderer Hobbes seeks is a demon passing from one human host to another with a brush of an overcoat or touch of a hand. Hobbes stalks a seemingly immortal foe in Fallen, an intense thriller co-starring John Goodman and Donald Sutherland, written by Nicholas Kazan (Reversal of Fortune) and directed by Gregory Hoblit (Primal Fear). An ages-old evil faces a shattering showdown with one clever, tenacious man.
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Starring: Denzel Washington, John Goodman, Donald Sutherland, Embeth Davidtz, James Gandolfini, Elias Koteas Director: Gregory Hoblit Additional Information Special Features: Production Notes, Cast/Crew Bios, Interactive Menus, Theatrical Trailer, and TV Spots Video Format: Widescreen (no A.R. specified), Standard 1.33:1 (4.3), Enhanced for 16x9 TVs Subtitles: English, Spanish, French Track Info: English: Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround French: Dolby Digital Surround Closed Captioning: Yes # Discs: 1 # Sides: Dual Produced by Charles Roven, Dawn Steel; written by Nicholas Kazan; running time of 125 minutes. Copyright: 1998, Warner Bros.
Format: DVD MOVIE
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Although it received mixed reactions from critics and audiences alike when released in 1998, this supernatural thriller benefits from a sustained atmosphere of anticipation and dread, and its combination of detective mystery and demonic mischief is handled with ample style and intelligence. Under the direction of Gregory Hoblit (who fared better with Primal Fear), Denzel Washington plays detective John Hobbes, who witnesses the gas-chamber execution of a serial killer (Elias Koteas). But when another series of murders begins, Hobbes suspects that the killer's evil spirit has survived and is possessing the bodies of others to do its evil bidding. Even Hobbes's trusted partner (John Goodman) thinks the detective is losing his grip on reality, but the dire warnings of a noted linguist (Embeth Davidtz) confirm Hobbes's far-out theory, and his case intensifies toward a fateful showdown. Although its idea is better than its execution, and the story's film noir ambitions are never fully accomplished, this slickly directed thriller has some genuinely effective moments in which evil forces are entwined into the fabric of everyday reality. Among the highlights is a memorable scene in which Detective Hobbes must track the killer as the evil spirit is transferred between many people via physical contact. Even if the film is ultimately less than the sum of its parts, it's an intriguing hybrid that resides in the same cinematic neighborhood as Seven and The Silence of the Lambs with a cast that also includes Donald Sutherland and James Gandolfini. Included on the DVD is a full-length audio commentary by director Hoblit, screenwriter Nicholas Kazan, and producer Charles Roven. --Jeff Shannon
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