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Besides those mentioned (definitely the Back to the Future trilogy for me) I'd have to add Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid.

Think you used enough dynamite there?
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Most quotable movie? As in, how much of it we know by heart?

  • Back to the Future trilogy
  • Serenity
  • Ocean's Eleven
  • Ocean's Thirteen
  • The Avengers
  • Star Trek
  • Miami Vice (the movie that launched the original series, not the remake)
  • Top Gun (formerly, I haven't seen it in years)

Most quotable, as in how often I repeat the lines in public/with friends?

Every Nicolas Cage and Arnold movie. I've got a friend who just loves these two actors and when we're bored in programming class we try to find appropriate times to use their lines (using IM, we wouldn't talk in a lecture hall of 300+ stuents). Sounds childish, but when you're learning about linked lists for the fifth time...

 

There are a lot of movies mentioned in this thread that are on my "to watch" post it. The Big Lebowski just got bumped to the top of the list.

 

Yeah, Nic Cage in The Wicker Man remake is awesomely quotable: "How'd it get BURNED?!!!" "Killing me won't bring back your goddamn honey!" "No, NOT THE BEES, AHHHH!"

 

And you are in for a treat if you haven't seen Lebowski. It's earned so much hype over the years, but it delivers. There's a reason it grew legs and endured despite initially receiving lukewarm and downright negative reviews. Critics did not understand it upon initial release. It's a strange film, to be sure. Like many great films it can take a couple of viewings for its genius to completely emerge. I always worry that public quote saturation ruins movies like Lebowski for the uninitiated. I hope not.

 

Truth be told I only know a few of lines from LeBowski, all of them are out of context and make 0 sense to me so I don't think it will impact the jokes. Next movie I sit down to watch will be that one. I hope it's on netflix or apple TV. I don't like having to go through illegitimate means to acquire these kinds of things because distribution is horrible.

 

Do you have Showtime? Their channels have been playing it lately.

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Besides those mentioned (definitely the Back to the Future trilogy for me) I'd have to add Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid.

Think you used enough dynamite there?

If he'd just pay me what he's spending to make me stop robbing him, I'd stop robbing him.

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Most quotable movie? As in, how much of it we know by heart?

  • Back to the Future trilogy
  • Serenity
  • Ocean's Eleven
  • Ocean's Thirteen
  • The Avengers
  • Star Trek
  • Miami Vice (the movie that launched the original series, not the remake)
  • Top Gun (formerly, I haven't seen it in years)

Most quotable, as in how often I repeat the lines in public/with friends?

Every Nicolas Cage and Arnold movie. I've got a friend who just loves these two actors and when we're bored in programming class we try to find appropriate times to use their lines (using IM, we wouldn't talk in a lecture hall of 300+ stuents). Sounds childish, but when you're learning about linked lists for the fifth time...

 

There are a lot of movies mentioned in this thread that are on my "to watch" post it. The Big Lebowski just got bumped to the top of the list.

 

Yeah, Nic Cage in The Wicker Man remake is awesomely quotable: "How'd it get BURNED?!!!" "Killing me won't bring back your goddamn honey!" "No, NOT THE BEES, AHHHH!"

 

And you are in for a treat if you haven't seen Lebowski. It's earned so much hype over the years, but it delivers. There's a reason it grew legs and endured despite initially receiving lukewarm and downright negative reviews. Critics did not understand it upon initial release. It's a strange film, to be sure. Like many great films it can take a couple of viewings for its genius to completely emerge. I always worry that public quote saturation ruins movies like Lebowski for the uninitiated. I hope not.

 

Truth be told I only know a few of lines from LeBowski, all of them are out of context and make 0 sense to me so I don't think it will impact the jokes. Next movie I sit down to watch will be that one. I hope it's on netflix or apple TV. I don't like having to go through illegitimate means to acquire these kinds of things because distribution is horrible.

 

Do you have Showtime? Their channels have been playing it lately.

 

I don't think so. I've got basic cable.

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Besides those mentioned (definitely the Back to the Future trilogy for me) I'd have to add Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid.

Think you used enough dynamite there?

If he'd just pay me what he's spending to make me stop robbing him, I'd stop robbing him.

Alright, before we get started we need to lay out some rules.

Rules? There are no rules in a knife fight!

Sure there are. Someone needs to count 1, 2, 3, go.

1, 2, 3, go.

 

or

 

I can't swim!

 

Classic. :ebert:

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many great ones previously mentioned - airplane, waynes world, dumb and dumber, anchorman, blazing saddles, young frankenstein, top gun etc

 

one of my favorites me and my highschool buddies quoted to death was baseketball, very underrated one of my favorites of all time

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Besides those mentioned (definitely the Back to the Future trilogy for me) I'd have to add Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid.

Think you used enough dynamite there?

If he'd just pay me what he's spending to make me stop robbing him, I'd stop robbing him.

Alright, before we get started we need to lay out some rules.

Rules? There are no rules in a knife fight!

Sure there are. Someone needs to count 1, 2, 3, go.

1, 2, 3, go.

 

or

 

I can't swim!

 

Classic. :ebert:

[laughing] Why, you crazy — the fall'll probably kill ya!

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My two biggies are Airplane and This is Spinal Tap, which are both infinitely quotable. Many other comedies are tied for third.
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Dunno if it's been mentioned, but I use Vacation and Christmas Vacation quite a bit.

 

Seems like for me, Bill Murray, Chevy Chase, Will Farrell movies are big hitters with me :)

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Oh... and Elf.

 

I find myself saying "Son of a nutcracker!" a lot. And sometimes when I'm reading posts here on TRF, I will smile. My wife will say "what are you smiling about?" and I almost always reply "smiling's my favorite."

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Airplane, Repo Man, Planet of the Apes, The Blues Brothers, Casablanca, Young Frankenstein

 

I may think of more :unsure:

 

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I did: Princess Bride - thanks default! :hi:

and Spinal Tarp (sic) thanks labt! :hi:

Gone With The Wind, thanks CygnusGal :hi: ...oh, no wait.... :eh:

Was going to add Young Frankenstein but you beat me to it!
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