National Movies Day is a month away and you need to get your sick-day script ready! If you can’t think of anything, we’re here to help with these movie-inspired excuses.
Check them out below and see if you can guess which movie they come from!
I can’t come in to work today because…
- …an alien exploded out of my stomach.
- …I chose the red pill.
- …I followed the yellow brick road.
- ...everybody wants to be like Mike.
- …my stepmother fed me a poisoned apple.
- …I’m spying on my neighbour who may have killed someone.
- …Don Corleone said so.
- …I tied balloons to my house and ripped its foundations out the ground.
- …I gave birth to an evil baby.
- …my doll’s trying to kill me.
- …I feel the pull of the dark side.
- …frankly, my dear, I don’t give a damn.
- …Voldemort is back.
- …I don't want to survive. I want to live.
- …I have to explore strange new worlds, to seek out new life and new civilisations, to boldly go where no one has gone before.
- …I have to say hello to my little friend.
- …I’m Batman.
- …I have to phone home.
- …I ain’t afraid of no ghosts.
- …my gift is my song.
- …I’m having an old friend for dinner.
- …just when I thought I was out, they pull me back in.
- … the path of the righteous man is beset on all sides by the inequities of the selfish and the tyranny of evil men.
- …I will have my vengeance, in this life or the next.
- …life is beautiful.
- ... I'm just one stomach flu away from my goal weight.
- …I love the smell of napalm in the morning.
- …I’m divergent.
- …nobody’s perfect.
- …I’m singin’ in the rain.
- …I see dead people.
- …I love it when a plan comes together.
- …when you realise you want to spend the rest of your life with somebody, you want the rest of your life to start as soon as possible.
- … your ego is writing checks your body can't cash.
- …I’m the king of the world.
- …you can’t handle the truth.
- …I am your father.
- …you’ll never take my freedom.
- …you had me at hello.
- ...I just keep swimming.
- …they’re here.
- …I should kill everyone and escape.
- …I’m Bond. James Bond.
- …what we've got here is a failure to communicate.
- …I'm as mad as hell, and I'm not going to take this anymore.
- …the force is with me.
- …I’m going to make my life extraordinary.
- …Johnny’s here.
- ...if you worry you suffer twice.
- …there’s something about Mary.
- …this is Sparta!
- …I missed the Hogwarts express.
- …we have a problem.
- …I have to help Stella get her groove back.
- ...I’m going to National Movies Day.
And here are your excuses:
- Melanie-Ann Diesel (Facebook)...I have to take this ring up a mountain and throw it into hot molten lava.
- Elize van Heerden (Facebook)...I just can't wait to be king!
- Melanie-Ann Diesel (Facebook)...I'm Kaiser Soze.
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