Kong: Skull Island Quotes

Houston Brooks: Conrad, which way are we going?

James Conrad: You three need to get back to the boat. It's that way. Wait for us till dawn. If we're not back by then, just go.

Houston Brooks: [scoffs] You ain't gotta twist my arm.

Hank Marlow: Where are you two going?

James Conrad: We're going to save Kong.

Hank Marlow: Not without me, pal.

Preston Packard: Two years in country. Where you been?

Mason Weaver: Embedded with MACV-SOG.

Preston Packard: [chuckles] Ah, you were in the shit. I respect that. But it's people like you lost us support back home.

Mason Weaver: You're not actually gonna blame the people without guns for losing the war, are you?

Preston Packard: Camera's way more dangerous than a gun. And we didn't lose the war; we abandoned it.

Mason Weaver: Right.

[scoffs]

Preston Packard: We're soldiers, we do the dirty work so that families back home don't suffer! They shouldn't even know that a thing like this exists!

Mason Weaver: The world is bigger than this.

Preston Packard: Bitch, please!

Houston Brooks: I thought you were crazy.

Bill Randa: I wish I had been.

Slivko: Who'd win, tigers or cubs?

Hank Marlow: A tiger would win, obviously. A cub's just a baby bear. Now wait till the bear gets bigger...

Hank Marlow: Hey, what happened with the war? Did we win?

James Conrad: Which one?

Hank Marlow: Uh-huh. That makes sense.

[after credits]

James Conrad: You just gonna sit there? In the dark? You're enjoying this, right? Is this fun for you? I promise I won't tell the Russians.

Mason Weaver: I promise *I* will tell the Russians.

James Conrad: She's gonna tell the Russians.

[throws pencil at the reverse mirror]

James Conrad: Why are you keeping us here?

Mason Weaver: I want to go home.

James Conrad: We get it. There was no island. We were never on an island.

Houston Brooks: [enters the room] Island? What island?

James Conrad: Brooks, what the hell is going on?

Houston Brooks: Welcome to MONARCH. This island is just the beginning.

San: There's more out there.

James Conrad: What do you mean more?

Houston Brooks: This world never belonged to us. It belonged to them. The question is, how long before they take it back. Kong is not the only king.

[Godzilla roars]

Preston Packard: [Walking up to Randa] How you doing?

Bill Randa: I'm fine, thank you.

Preston Packard: Good. Glad to hear it. I was worried about you.

[Sits, draws gun, points it at Randa]

Preston Packard: You are going to tell me everything I don't know, or I'm gonna blow your head off.

Bill Randa: Monsters exist.

Preston Packard: No shit.

Bill Randa: Nobody believed me. Yesterday, I was a crackpot. But today?

Preston Packard: So this was never about geology. You dropped those charges to flush something out. Who are you?

Bill Randa: You heard of the U.S.S. Lawton? Neither did the public. Out of a thousand young men on that ship I was the only survivor. They told my family she was sunk in battle but I know what I saw. It had no conscience. No reasoning. Just destroy. I spent the last 30 years trying to prove the truth of what I learned that day. This planet doesn't belong to us. Ancient species owned this Earth long before mankind; and if we keep our heads buried in the sand, they will take it back. My agency is known as MONARCH. We specialize in the hunting of Massive Unidentified Terrestrial Organisms.

Preston Packard: You knew that thing was out here?

Bill Randa: I'm sorry for your men, Colonel, I truly am. Get us home, with proof - so that we can send the cavalry.

Preston Packard: [Stands, holsters gun, turns, walks away] I am the cavalry.

[Preston's squad flies through a storm]

Preston Packard: And remember the story of Icarus, whose father gave him wings of wax. Warned him not to fly too close to the sun. But the exhilaration was too great. So he flew higher and higher, until the sun melted his wings, and he fell into the sea. The US Army is not an irresponsible father. So they gave us wings of hot Pennsylvania steel, guaranteed not to melt.

[last lines]

Hank Marlow: [looks at his wife's picture, sings softly] We'll meet again, don't know where, don't know when...

James Conrad: I'm sorry, Colonel Packard...

[holds up Chapman's dog tags]

James Conrad: Chapman is dead.

Preston Packard: Doesn't change a thing. We're still going to that crash site.

James Conrad: What's at that crash site that you want so badly?

Preston Packard: Weapons! Enough to kill it!

James Conrad: Kong didn't kill Chapman...

Preston Packard: [holding up dog tags] But he DID kill these men! MY men!

Preston Packard: [last words, to Kong] Die, you motherf...

[Kong crushes him]

Mason Weaver: Wasn't Kong the one who killed your friend?

Hank Marlow: No.

Hank Marlow: [points to painting of a creature] One of them did. Kong's god on the island, but the devils live below us.

James Conrad: And what are they called?

Hank Marlow: The Iwis won't speak their name, but I call them... Skullcrawlers.

James Conrad: Why?

Hank Marlow: Cause it sounds neat.

James Conrad: Okay.

Hank Marlow: Look, I just made that name up. I'm trying to scare you.

Mason Weaver: I'm fine calling them that.

Mason Weaver: [to James] Are you cool with that?

James Conrad: Yeah. That seems okay.

Mason Weaver: I like the name.

Hank Marlow: I've never said that name out loud before, it sounds stupid now that I say it. Just... you call them whatever you want.

Hank Marlow: This man's name was Gunpei Ikari. If you take away the uniforms and the war, then he became my brother.

[choked up]

Hank Marlow: And we swore we'd never leave each other behind.

[pause, then sternly]

Hank Marlow: Let's get off this island.

Hank Marlow: I can't tell when I'm talking, or when I'm not talking.

Victor Nieves: You're talking.

Hank Marlow: Really?

Victor Nieves: Yes.

Hank Marlow: I'm talking?

Victor Nieves: Yes.

Hank Marlow: Your mouth is moving.

Victor Nieves: What?

Hank Marlow: I'm gonna stab you by the end of the night.

Victor Nieves: Really?

Hank Marlow: [laughs] Just kiddin'.

Hank Marlow: [to the soldiers] This is a good group of boys. We're all gonna die together out here. You're a good group of boys to die with, I'll tell you that much.

[laughing]

Hank Marlow: You shouldn't have come here.

Hank Marlow: Keep your eyes open. Up in the trees, too.

Houston Brooks: Why?

Hank Marlow: Ants. Big ones.

[hears chirping]

Hank Marlow: There's one. Sounds like a bird, but it's a fucking ant.

Landsat Steve: Mason Weaver...

[looks up at her from his clipboard]

Landsat Steve: Is a woman.

Mason Weaver: Last time I checked.

Mills: We just got taken down by a monkey the size of a building!

Cole: Yeah. That was an unconventional encounter.

James Conrad: Don't forget to tell me this is a bad idea.

Mason Weaver: This is a bad idea.

Mills: [during helicopter readiness checklist] He's taking the lead. That means he miss his bed. I miss my bed. Don't you miss your bed?

[Cole not answering]

Mills: Do you even have a bed, Cole? You got a bed, right?

James Conrad: Are you all right?

Mason Weaver: I don't know how to answer that question right now.

Mason Weaver: Have you met Colonel Packard yet?

James Conrad: Yeah.

Mason Weaver: The guy's wound pretty tight.

James Conrad: Well, he's a decorated war hero. That's the package they come in.

[first lines]

Bill Randa: Mark my words. There'll never be a more screwed up time in Washington. But we can't let it stop us.

Mason Weaver: Did you crash here?

Hank Marlow: Oh. Sorry, miss. Lieutenant Hank Marlow of the 45th. Put the old flight suit on for you. You are more beautiful than a hot dog and a beer at Wrigley Field on opening day.

[imagines holding a hot dog]

Hank Marlow: But you're real. Right?

Preston Packard: Steve, you running with the big dogs or staying on the porch?

Landsat Steve: I don't want to be on the porch.

Cole: You ever heard the story of the mouse, the lion, and the thorn?

Mills: Yeah?

Cole: There you go, then. In case we ever see that primate again.

Mills: You do know that story is about a mouse becoming friends with the lion after taking the thorn out of his paw though, right?

Cole: No it's not. The mouse kills the lion with the thorn.

Mills: [Slaps away mosquito] Who told you that, Cole?

Cole: My mother.

Mills: [pause] That actually explains a lot.