2012 (I) (2009)
John Cusack: Jackson Curtis
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Quotes
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Kate Curtis : [on the "ark"] Where have you been all my life?
Jackson Curtis : Gift shop.
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[They're about to drive out from the plane with the Bentley]
Jackson Curtis : All right, let's go!
Tamara : Wait! Where's Sasha?
Gordon Silberman : Sasha's fine. We need to get out of here before he touches down.
Tamara : No, no, no! We have to wait for him.
Yuri Karpov : Go Jackson, go!
Jackson Curtis : [Tries to start the car] It won't start!
[Everyone panics]
Yuri Karpov : Shut up, everbody!
[Everyone stops screaming]
Yuri Karpov : Engine... start!
[Car starts]
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Lilly Curtis : [inside Charlie's camper] That guy's crazy. Right, daddy?
Jackson Curtis : No. I don't think so.
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Charlie Frost : You'd have to keep a thing like this underwraps. I mean, just think about it, okay? First, the stock market would go. Then the economy, boom! The dollar, boom! And then pandemonium in the streets. War, genocide, ba-ba-ba-ba, boom, boom, boom!
Jackson Curtis : Bullshit. Nobody could keep that big a secret, Charlie. Somebody would blow the whistle.
Charlie Frost : And every once in a while, some poor little sucker tries. Well, like these guys, boom, boom!
[pulls down a screen of posted obituaries]
Charlie Frost : Every one of these guys, dead, dead, dead.
Jackson Curtis : [notices one of them] Whoa, whoa, whoa! That's Professor Meyers.
Charlie Frost : He ran the Atlantis shuttle program. Why, did you know him?
Jackson Curtis : Yeah, he helped me with research on my book.
Charlie Frost : Well, that must have been before this "accident."
Jackson Curtis : Meyers is dead?
Charlie Frost : Oh, two months ago. He was one of my most avid listeners and he had it all figured out. Everything the government was doing, where and why... He even sent me a map.
Jackson Curtis : A map for what Charlie? What's the map for?
Charlie Frost : They're building spaceships, man.
Jackson Curtis : Shit, man, I have to go because I gotta get back to Earth.
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Jackson Curtis : [as Kate's house is collapsing in an earthquake] Get in the fucking car!
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[Yellowstone's caldera erupts. The giant ash cloud and fire is rushing behind them]
Lilly Curtis : Daddy, it's following us.
Jackson Curtis : Don't look at it! Get down on the ground. Get on the ground and hold on. Don't look back. Don't look back. Look at me. Do I look scared?
Lilly Curtis : Uh-huh.
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Jackson Curtis : Hey, have a safe trip, you little bastards.
Oleg : Now you're laughing, Curtis, but we have tickets to go on on a big ship. We will live and you will die.
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Jackson Curtis : [to pilot] Here. Take this. This is a very expensive watch. My editor gave it to me when he thought I was gonna be somebody.
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Kate Curtis : [on the phone with Jackson] Hello?
Jackson Curtis : [in the limo en route to Kate's house] Kate, stop what you're doing.
Kate Curtis : Jackson?
Jackson Curtis : Listen to me. I've rented a plane. Pack up the kids, I'm gonna be there in five minutes.
Kate Curtis : What are you talking about? We're gonna do our regular Saturday. Noah has music at 2 and Lil has karate.
Gordon Silberman : Not gonna expect him to remember.
Jackson Curtis : Kate, California is going down! Pack up the kids now!
Kate Curtis : They just got back. God, you sound like a cray person. The Governor just said we're fine.
Jackson Curtis : The guy's an actor! He's reading a script! When they tell you not to panic...
[makes a hard left]
Jackson Curtis : that's when you run!
Kate Curtis : Look, will you call me back when you calm down?
[hangs up phone]
Lilly Curtis : Mommy, why is Daddy so crazy?
[Gordon looks at Kate]
Kate Curtis : Finish your pancakes, Al Capone.
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Sasha : Boss, I found us a plane.
Yuri Karpov : Can you still fly that thing?
Sasha : Sure, boss. But I need co-pilot.
Lilly Curtis : Gordon's a pilot.
Gordon Silberman : No, I'm not. I'm not.
Jackson Curtis : Yes, he is. Great pilot. Let's go.
Yuri Karpov : Good. Let's go!
[both groups set out for the plane]
Gordon Silberman : [just before going outdoors] Jackson, stop saying I'm a pilot.
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Kate Curtis : Do you think people change?
Jackson Curtis : By "people," do you mean me?
Kate Curtis : Yes. Do you think you've changed since we separated?
Jackson Curtis : I certainly eat a lot more cereal now.
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Lilly Curtis : I'm not scared. No more Pull-Ups.
Jackson Curtis : Nice.
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[Outside the gates of the ark docks]
Kate Curtis : You don't have to save us, but please, just take my kids!
Tenzin : Why should I do that?
Jackson Curtis : The same reason you let in your family.
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Jackson Curtis : Going to this place really special place that I know. Actually, it's a place where your Mom and I used to hang out a lot.
Noah Curtis : I don't wanna know where you and Mom had sex. I'm not ready for that, Jackson.
Jackson Curtis : Stop calling me that. It's creeping me out. What's wrong with "Dad"?
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Kate Curtis : Does anybody got any money? We could bribe them.
Gordon Silberman : I do, I do.
Jackson Curtis : You got a billion euros?
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Charlie Frost : Hey. Hey, guess what? They're selling seats.
Jackson Curtis : Put me down for three.
Charlie Frost : No, guys like you and me don't have a chance. You'd have to be Bill Gates or Rupert Murdoch or some Russian billionaire or something.
Jackson Curtis : Hey, keep it down. My kids are sleeping.
Charlie Frost : Get them out of Yellowstone. It's gonna get ugly up here.
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[from trailer]
Jackson Curtis : No matter what happens, we'll all stay together.
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Kate Curtis : So, now that you have your map, where are we going?
[Jackson holds a one-finger signal before unfolding the map with the ships to discover that it is located in "China"]
Jackson Curtis : We're going to need a bigger plane.
[looks back at the map]
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Jackson Curtis : We gotta get to the Santa Monica Airport!
Gordon Silberman : Well, take the freeway! It'll be half the time!
Jackson Curtis : [as the freeway collapses from the earthquake] Yeah, right!
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Kate Curtis : [as they escape Los Angeles in the plane] I don't understand. How did you know this was to happen?
Jackson Curtis : It's not just California. It's the whole goddamned world that gone to shit. I met this guy at Yellowstone, this crazy guy, but he's been right about that's happened so far. And he says that the government is building these ships, spaceships, I don't know what, but something.
Gordon Silberman : What, ships?
Jackson Curtis : Yeah, places where we can be safe. He knows where they are. He's got a map.
Kate Curtis : Jackson...
Jackson Curtis : Kate, you gotta just trust me on this, okay?
Gordon Silberman : Guys... look.
[L.A. is sinking into the Pacific as they fly away]
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Jackson Curtis : I was listening to the broadcast and I was wondering what is exactly that's gonna start in Hollywood?
Charlie Frost : It's the apocalypse. End of days. The Judgment Day, the end of the world, my friend. Christians called it the rapture, but the Mayans knew about it, the Hopis, the I Ching, the Bible, kind of...
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Jackson Curtis : [looks at his watch after being awaken by the morning news] I'm a dead man. I'm a dead man.
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Kate Curtis : Do you think you've changed since we separated?
Jackson Curtis : I certainly eat a lot more cereal now.
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Jackson Curtis : Do you love him?
Kate Curtis : I love him enough.