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Pierce Brosnan, Jack Nicholson, Glenn Close, Danny DeVito, and Annette Bening in Mars Attacks! (1996)

Rod Steiger: General Decker

Mars Attacks!

Rod Steiger credited as playing...

General Decker

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  • Martian Translator Device: All green of skin... 800 centuries ago, their bodily fluids include the birth of half-breeds. For the fundamental truth self-determination of the cosmos, for dark is the suede that mows like a harvest.
  • General Decker: What the Hell does that mean?
  • Gen. Decker: [in the White House] They don't know what the Hell they're talking about. Liberals! Intellectuals! Peacemongers! IDIOTS!
  • Taffy Dale: [opening her bedroom door in the background and coming out of her bedroom] Would you please keep it down? People live here!
  • [goes back inside her bedroom and closes the bedroom door]
  • General Decker: We should nuke these assholes with everything we got, sir.
  • President Dale: General Decker, if you do not shut up, I am going to relieve you of your command.
  • Gen. Decker: We have to strike now, sir! Annihilate! Kill! Kill! Kill!
  • President Dale: SHUT UP! SHUT UP! SHUT UP!
  • [the Martians have broken into the War Room and Decker approaches them, holding two pistols]
  • General Decker: You think you can do anything you want. You can't. Because we are human beings. And we have the United States Army that'll fight you to the last man! And we'll never surrender! Do you hear me?
  • [the Martian Leader uses a shrinking ray to begin miniaturizing Decker, who does not seem to care or even notice]
  • General Decker: [voice rising in pitch as he gets smaller and smaller] We'll fight you on the beaches. We'll fight you in the streets. We will never, never surrender! We will win!
  • [Decker is now smaller than the Martian Leader's foot]
  • General Decker: Democracy will survive! We will never, ever surrender! We will win! The eagle will be triumphant!
  • [the Martian Leader raises his foot and stomps on Decker, crushing him]
  • Gen. Decker: [In the White House] They don't know what the hell they're talking about. Liberals, intellectuals... peacemongers, IDIOTS!
  • Taffy Dale: [coming out of her bedroom] Would you please keep it down? People live here.
  • Gen. Decker: Screw the press! This is a need-to-know situation. We should make it a top secret, and we should move in right away with DefCon-4!
  • General Decker: You can't have Martians running all over Nevada!

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