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[You can hear the acting quality in Anne Heche's voice here.]
Amy: "Sometimes... magma can find one of those fissures and rise up through it."
Roark: "What's magma?"
Rachel: "Lava."
Roark: "Lava?"
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[Two guards rescuing paintings from a gallery. One of the most intelligent
bits in the movie, and you almost can't hear it.]
Guard1: "Yeah, this Hieronymus Bosch is heavy!"
Guard2: "It's because it deals with man's inclination towards sin, in defiance of God's will."
Guard1: "I didn't mean it like that."
Guard2: "Oh."
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[This part is especially stupid. At this point, the film
is 40% through, and the 'suspense' of the plot will only make
sense if no one can recognize lava for another eight minutes or so.
So when the eruption happens alongside a busy street, a reporter who's driving
by attempts to describe the scene on his cellphone. He has to come up with
a convincing explanation without actually believing the red stuff
is lava. They might as well have had him say, "There's glowing hot strawberry
milkshake or jello flowing out of the tar pits onto the street!" Apparently,
the reporter roles in the film were played by actual L.A. reporters.]
Reporter: "Mitch, I don't know how to describe this, but the tar- the tar pits themselves
are on fire and they're right now spilling out onto Wilshire Boulevard. It's
coming right up out of the ground itself. It's as if the tar had caught fire
and melted and somehow expanded."
"I know this sounds crazy, but it almost looks like - like lava!"