Movies You Can Recite the Dialogue from While Watching

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Yes, this was inspired by one of those silly Facebook pick fives but anyway . . . what are yours?

The five I picked for FB:

Pretty in Pink
Kicking and Screaming (The N. Baumbach not the Will F. one)
RHPS - lol
Fletch
Steel Magnolias
Clerks
Mall Rats
Breakfast Club
Better off Dead

Other include:

Heathers
Any of the Evil Dead Movies
So I Married an Axe Murderer
Harold and Maude
The Graduate
lol Cabin Boy

a sweet ballet dancer (ENBB), Friday, 8 May 2009 17:51 (sixteen years ago)

Wow that got messed up. The first five were the FB ones. The rest are the "others".

a sweet ballet dancer (ENBB), Friday, 8 May 2009 17:52 (sixteen years ago)

the hours, dude, you should hear me

Surmounter, Friday, 8 May 2009 17:52 (sixteen years ago)

RHPS - lol

^^^ also...

most of Ghostbusters
Wrath of Khan
Diamonds Are Forever
Moonraker
Casino Royale (David Niven version)
Carry On Camping
probably most of Withnail & I

snoball, Friday, 8 May 2009 17:53 (sixteen years ago)

I could do most of Withnail too.

a sweet ballet dancer (ENBB), Friday, 8 May 2009 17:54 (sixteen years ago)

Surmounter I would love to hear that.

For me Steel Magnolias is the best/worst. I was Shelby in the play once so I literally know every single line.

a sweet ballet dancer (ENBB), Friday, 8 May 2009 17:57 (sixteen years ago)

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Surmounter, Friday, 8 May 2009 17:57 (sixteen years ago)

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Surmounter, Friday, 8 May 2009 17:57 (sixteen years ago)

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Surmounter, Friday, 8 May 2009 17:57 (sixteen years ago)

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Surmounter, Friday, 8 May 2009 17:57 (sixteen years ago)

also, The Italian Job (original Michael Caine version)
These seem to be more or less equally split between 1) movies that were on TV a lot when I was a kid, and 2) films I was obsessed with as a student.

snoball, Friday, 8 May 2009 17:58 (sixteen years ago)

weekend at bernie's.

languid samuel l. jackson (jim), Friday, 8 May 2009 17:58 (sixteen years ago)

for me it's a bunch of comedies from my childhood like happy gilmore/billy madison, ace ventura, anchorman plus like the departed and no country for old men

triple-hater protection (J0rdan S.), Friday, 8 May 2009 17:59 (sixteen years ago)

xpost to sur -

HAHAHAHAHAHAHA! I probably have the video from it somewhere still.

My colors are blush and bashful.
Her colors are pink and pink.
My colors are blush and bashful mama I have chosen . . .

I want a baby of my OWN!

etc.

a sweet ballet dancer (ENBB), Friday, 8 May 2009 17:59 (sixteen years ago)

Commando.

languid samuel l. jackson (jim), Friday, 8 May 2009 18:00 (sixteen years ago)

Goonies

a sweet ballet dancer (ENBB), Friday, 8 May 2009 18:00 (sixteen years ago)

er!ca stop i'm tearing up

Surmounter, Friday, 8 May 2009 18:01 (sixteen years ago)

(xxpost) I see your Commando and raise you one Predator

snoball, Friday, 8 May 2009 18:02 (sixteen years ago)

why are you PERFECT for that role? xp

Surmounter, Friday, 8 May 2009 18:02 (sixteen years ago)

It gets better. I wore a long curly red wig so as to look as much like the movie character as possible.

a sweet ballet dancer (ENBB), Friday, 8 May 2009 18:02 (sixteen years ago)

i can't

Surmounter, Friday, 8 May 2009 18:02 (sixteen years ago)

(xxpost) I see your Commando and raise you one Predator

i'm nearly there with predator but i haven't watched it quite as many times.

languid samuel l. jackson (jim), Friday, 8 May 2009 18:03 (sixteen years ago)

Pretty much all of the Vacation movies but esp European.

a sweet ballet dancer (ENBB), Friday, 8 May 2009 18:06 (sixteen years ago)

Oh and not including Vegas.

a sweet ballet dancer (ENBB), Friday, 8 May 2009 18:07 (sixteen years ago)

Waiting for Guffman

a sweet ballet dancer (ENBB), Friday, 8 May 2009 18:08 (sixteen years ago)

I love the bit where the French waiter is insulting Chevy Chase.

snoball, Friday, 8 May 2009 18:09 (sixteen years ago)

Yeah where he says his wife has nice tits and that they'll serve him dishwater instead of wine and they won't know the difference.

a sweet ballet dancer (ENBB), Friday, 8 May 2009 18:09 (sixteen years ago)

high fidelity

I'm not some HOOS for someone's lust to snack on! (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Friday, 8 May 2009 18:12 (sixteen years ago)

xpost -

a sweet ballet dancer (ENBB), Friday, 8 May 2009 18:14 (sixteen years ago)

just clerks and billy madison :(

gui lovato (Whiney G. Weingarten), Friday, 8 May 2009 18:14 (sixteen years ago)

rocky horror, yeah duh

the rest of my choices are lol fanboy

apocalypse now
repo man
pulp fiction
road warrior

but then again saying "you've created such a joy for people, why are you crying" while watching andrei rublev is not quite as fun as yelling "LOSERS WAIT!" during the road warrior

鬼の手 (Edward III), Friday, 8 May 2009 18:14 (sixteen years ago)

I have to imagine a lot of people on this board could recite long sections of aliens from mem

鬼の手 (Edward III), Friday, 8 May 2009 18:15 (sixteen years ago)

Obv not all but a good portion of the lines from Pulp Fiction and Res Dogs.

I have a freakishly good memory and these are all movies I've watched over and over again.

a sweet ballet dancer (ENBB), Friday, 8 May 2009 18:16 (sixteen years ago)

i can recite long sections of george lopez's comedy special "why you crying?"

reservoir dogs lol xp

I'm not some HOOS for someone's lust to snack on! (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Friday, 8 May 2009 18:16 (sixteen years ago)

i'm seeing Aliens in the theater soon!

Surmounter, Friday, 8 May 2009 18:16 (sixteen years ago)

memento

I'm not some HOOS for someone's lust to snack on! (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Friday, 8 May 2009 18:17 (sixteen years ago)

oh god if we're talking comedy I know Izzard's dressed to kill pretty much entirely by heart and large sections of most of Chris Rock and Dave Chapelle's stand-up. Also, Patton Oswald.

a sweet ballet dancer (ENBB), Friday, 8 May 2009 18:17 (sixteen years ago)

Anchorman is a bad one for me. I hear one reference to it and I am all "IT'S SO HOT.. milk was a bad choice."

High Fidelity!

the Big Lebowski is highly quotable. Also, "Chinaman" is not the preferred nomenclature...

she started dancing to that (Finefinemusic), Friday, 8 May 2009 18:19 (sixteen years ago)

House of Games.

Eazy, Friday, 8 May 2009 18:22 (sixteen years ago)

almost famous

I'm not some HOOS for someone's lust to snack on! (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Friday, 8 May 2009 18:22 (sixteen years ago)

Top Gun

snoball, Friday, 8 May 2009 18:22 (sixteen years ago)

one of the reasons I remember so much of apocalypse now is because the soundtrack included almost all of the film's dialogue

鬼の手 (Edward III), Friday, 8 May 2009 18:23 (sixteen years ago)

big lebowski, duh

k3vin k., Friday, 8 May 2009 18:23 (sixteen years ago)

okay fess up old folks, breakfast club

鬼の手 (Edward III), Friday, 8 May 2009 18:24 (sixteen years ago)

Fight Club, er...

snoball, Friday, 8 May 2009 18:24 (sixteen years ago)

(xpost) also fess up to Ferris Bueller's Day Off

snoball, Friday, 8 May 2009 18:24 (sixteen years ago)

hahahha ^^^^ tbh xp

I'm not some HOOS for someone's lust to snack on! (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Friday, 8 May 2009 18:24 (sixteen years ago)

Wasn't breakfast club on my original list?

I can pretty much do Breakfast Club, Pretty in Pink, and Sixteen Candles all by heart and yeah, Ferris.

a sweet ballet dancer (ENBB), Friday, 8 May 2009 18:25 (sixteen years ago)

Are we talking about every single line here? Then probably nothing. Otherwise I think I pretty much know most of Mulholland Dr.

touch my bum / this is life (daavid), Friday, 8 May 2009 18:25 (sixteen years ago)

"I don't care if Europeans are socialists. I wouldn't care if they were fascist anarchists, that still wouldn't change the fact that I don't have a car!"

snoball, Friday, 8 May 2009 18:25 (sixteen years ago)

dedication

I saved cassie breast in my iPhone (Tape Store), Friday, 8 May 2009 21:16 (sixteen years ago)

do you have a babysitter fetish or

Bianca Jagger (jaymc), Friday, 8 May 2009 21:22 (sixteen years ago)

Kicking and Screaming (The N. Baumbach not the Will F. one)

^^lots of all-time classic lines in this

Oh, I've been to Prague. Well, I haven't "been to Prague" been to Prague, but I know the Prague thing.

I'd like to fuck her on the tennis court, if you get my meaning.

Bianca Jagger (jaymc), Friday, 8 May 2009 21:25 (sixteen years ago)

Annie Hall
Groundhog Day
Princess Bride
Steel Magnolias
Die Hard
Metropolitan
Rushmore
Breakfast Club
Bad News Bears
Major League
A Few Good Men
Ghostbusters
Goonies
Animal House
Real Genius
Blade Runner
Mad Max BT
Fast Times
Dazed & Confused
The Apple
The Room

and many more

Your heartbeat soun like sasquatch feet (polyphonic), Friday, 8 May 2009 21:29 (sixteen years ago)

None, although I'm good for large chunks of both the UK QaF and Spaced. I don't really get into movies like that, I spose. But if I DID, I'd start with Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang.

But not someone who should be dead anyway (Laurel), Friday, 8 May 2009 21:29 (sixteen years ago)

Kicking and Screaming (The N. Baumbach not the Will F. one)

^^lots of all-time classic lines in this

Oh, I've been to Prague. Well, I haven't "been to Prague" been to Prague, but I know the Prague thing.

I'd like to fuck her on the tennis court, if you get my meaning.

― Bianca Jagger (jaymc), Friday, May 8, 2009 5:25 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark

He'd already rather be bow hunting!

Otis are you wearing mascara? No. Yes.

Go away cookie man!

Ah hello Miami Jello shot? Grape, perhaps?

I've gotta go fuck a freshman. Yeah, me too.

a sweet ballet dancer (ENBB), Friday, 8 May 2009 22:40 (sixteen years ago)

"monkeys monkeys ted & alice. la femme monkita."

horseshoe, Friday, 8 May 2009 22:42 (sixteen years ago)

Kicking and Screaming (The N. Baumbach not the Will F. one)

^^lots of all-time classic lines in this

"Selfish girl abandons helpless boy for overrated country"

I'm crossing over into enterprise (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 8 May 2009 22:45 (sixteen years ago)

Horseshoe! I was was waiting for you to chime in on this one!

It's been so long since I've seen it but I'm trying to come up with ones that already haven't been posted.

a sweet ballet dancer (ENBB), Friday, 8 May 2009 22:46 (sixteen years ago)

Ha yes Alfred that's a good one.

The whole would you rather fuck a cow or fuck your mother thing is pretty good too.

a sweet ballet dancer (ENBB), Friday, 8 May 2009 22:46 (sixteen years ago)

That movie's had quite a shelf life. I remember asking friends in the late nineties if they'd seen it and they'd just stare blankly.

I'm crossing over into enterprise (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 8 May 2009 22:48 (sixteen years ago)

i'm trying to remember that exchange at the beginning between otis and max..."i'm little." "you're huge." "but i'm also small." "you're, like, a monster." "but on the inside. i can't do all the things the big kids do!"

you can watch kicking and screaming instantly on netflix. even though i have it on dvd i do so often.

horseshoe, Friday, 8 May 2009 22:51 (sixteen years ago)

I want to know why Tape Store has seen Adventures in Babysitting 50 times.

giving a shit when it isn't your turn to give a shit (sarahel), Friday, 8 May 2009 22:52 (sixteen years ago)

Ooohhhhhhhh - I know what I'm watching tonight.

I think you pretty much nailed that scene. I love "You're huge. You're, like, a monster" so great.

a sweet ballet dancer (ENBB), Friday, 8 May 2009 22:53 (sixteen years ago)

OK and given my age and when I grew up I'd be lying by omission if I didn't admit that Dirty Dancing falls into this category for me as well.

a sweet ballet dancer (ENBB), Friday, 8 May 2009 22:53 (sixteen years ago)

Annie Hall
Local Hero
Simple Men
24 Hour Party People
Sex, Lies and Videotape (I actually cannot stand in front of a window and not say "This isn't supposed to happen. I've spent nine years structuring my life so this didn't happen."

and of course...
Life of Brian
Holy Grail (yes I am one of those guys that should be slapped)

Ned Trifle II, Friday, 8 May 2009 22:53 (sixteen years ago)

yes my husband chris eigeman really nails that delivery.

xposts

horseshoe, Friday, 8 May 2009 22:54 (sixteen years ago)

oh and probably Withnail and I as well (and The Blues Brothers)...so predictable.

Ned Trifle II, Friday, 8 May 2009 22:54 (sixteen years ago)

"Balls! I'll take two hits and run a mile!"

I'm crossing over into enterprise (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 8 May 2009 22:55 (sixteen years ago)

HS - did you ever watch the sitcom he was on with Jennifer Grey? What was that called . . . "It's like, you know"?

a sweet ballet dancer (ENBB), Friday, 8 May 2009 23:03 (sixteen years ago)

"Local Hero" -- nice. I can do that one as well.

Alex in NYC, Friday, 8 May 2009 23:19 (sixteen years ago)

I want to know why Tape Store has seen Adventures in Babysitting 50 times.

It was one of my favorite films when i was a kid? Forgot the Goonies, which I've seen about the same number of times.

I saved cassie breast in my iPhone (Tape Store), Friday, 8 May 2009 23:25 (sixteen years ago)

Oh -- Metropolitan.

"Bartender...follow that pedestrian."

I'm crossing over into enterprise (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 8 May 2009 23:40 (sixteen years ago)

monty python & the holy grail (parents)
monty python's life of brian (parents)
bottle rocket (ok probably rushmore and RTs too)
once upon a time in the west
little women (LOL afterschool HBO in 1995-96)
wayne's world
batman returns

69, Friday, 8 May 2009 23:44 (sixteen years ago)

HS - did you ever watch the sitcom he was on with Jennifer Grey? What was that called . . . "It's like, you know"?

― a sweet ballet dancer (ENBB), Friday, May 8, 2009 7:03 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

never!

horseshoe, Saturday, 9 May 2009 00:42 (sixteen years ago)

die hard, face off, braveheart, anchorman, and uh, joe dirt.

Old Big 'OOS (AKA the Cupwinner) (darraghmac), Saturday, 9 May 2009 00:46 (sixteen years ago)

the crying game

"Details, baby, details.."
"What were you doing in the bar if you didn't know?!"
"That bitch -- " "She's a friend of mine." "Okay. That nice lady."
"Funny the way things go. Never the way you expect."
"Who's Dave when he's at home?" "He's at home."

cnn and the holograms (daria-g), Saturday, 9 May 2009 01:03 (sixteen years ago)

clueless, most def
first three star wars
ET
nightmare before christmas
lion king
beetlejuice
princess bride
centre stage (lol)

Roz, Saturday, 9 May 2009 02:14 (sixteen years ago)

clueless (probably)
young frankenstein
patton oswalt comedy

mostly, though, i have a horrible memory for movie lines.

JuliaA, Saturday, 9 May 2009 02:22 (sixteen years ago)

Danny: "Trade, phenodihydride benzarex. Street, the embalmer."
Withnail: "Balls, I'll swallow it and run a mile."
Danny: "Cool your boots man, this pill's valued at two quid."
Withnail: "Two quid?! You're out of your mind!"
Marwood: "That's sense Withnail."
Withnail: "You can shove it up your arse and fuck off while you're doing it!"
Danny: "No need to be rude, man. I was leaving anyway. Do either of you have shoes?"

I'm not sure of the exact name of the drug, but it is definitely a non-existant made up name. Also I can't remember if Withnail says "stuff it" or "shove it".

snoball, Saturday, 9 May 2009 08:33 (sixteen years ago)

Both the Bill & Ted films
Princess Bride
Gregory's Girl
Heathers
Grease

ailsa, Saturday, 9 May 2009 08:52 (sixteen years ago)

He says "you can shove it up your arse for nothing and fuck off while you're doing it!".

I've seen that movie way too many times.
Can also reasonably do Grosse Pointe Blank, and probably bits of Donnie Darko and Ferris Bueller but can't everyone?
My ridiculous memorised library of quotes is all Simpsons and Futurama ep's I'm afraid to say.

65daysofsugban (Trayce), Saturday, 9 May 2009 09:36 (sixteen years ago)

Oh, aye, Ferris Bueller.

ailsa, Saturday, 9 May 2009 09:41 (sixteen years ago)

ok, so you're probably thinking "Is this, like, a Noxema commercial, or what?"

❉❉❉❉❉❉❉❉Plaxico❉❉❉❉❉❉❉❉❉ (I know, right?), Saturday, 9 May 2009 10:32 (sixteen years ago)

As a kid I could do most of the Ninja Turtles movie without the movie even on. Not so much today.

SQUIRREL WITH A PEOPLE FACE (╓abies), Saturday, 9 May 2009 11:34 (sixteen years ago)

Pulp Fiction
La Dolce Vita
Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie
Heathers
Love and Death
Blade Runner
most Almodovar oldies as well

warmsherry, Saturday, 9 May 2009 11:48 (sixteen years ago)

I forgot about Heat

warmsherry, Saturday, 9 May 2009 11:49 (sixteen years ago)

Oh god I love "Withnail & I"

"MONTY, YOU TERRIBLE CUNT!"

"We want the finest wines in creation. We want them here, and we want them NOW!"

Alex in NYC, Saturday, 9 May 2009 12:27 (sixteen years ago)

actually, it's "THE FINEST WINES KNOWN TO HUMANITY!"

"I DEMAND TO HAVE SOME BOOZE!"

Too many quotable lines in that film.

Alex in NYC, Saturday, 9 May 2009 12:29 (sixteen years ago)

ultimate bromance film, too

warmsherry, Saturday, 9 May 2009 12:52 (sixteen years ago)

Haha the other night I was showing Withnail to a friend who hadn't seen it before and I said halfway through "This is kinda the original bromance film now that I think of it..."

I have too many candidates for this thread which is why I won't say anything more. I am glad I can do this for The Apple, though.

Ned Raggett, Saturday, 9 May 2009 16:16 (sixteen years ago)

"This is kinda the original bromance film now that I think of it..."

What about Butch Cassidy?

Ned Trifle II, Saturday, 9 May 2009 16:17 (sixteen years ago)

Or Sons of the Desert?!

Ned Trifle II, Saturday, 9 May 2009 16:20 (sixteen years ago)

(not SOFD but you get the idea...)
http://lh5.ggpht.com/_OVa00n0LDBU/Rtxm3DXgzsI/AAAAAAAAA2E/LVvna8znbqM/laurelhardyhd1.jpg

Ned Trifle II, Saturday, 9 May 2009 16:21 (sixteen years ago)

Thus 'kinda' :-D

If anything probably more of an unconscious forebear of the recent crop given that its status in the UK and the US are radically different.

Ned Raggett, Saturday, 9 May 2009 16:23 (sixteen years ago)

Yeah, you're right - just yankin' yer chain, bro.

Actually SOTD is probably another film I can do all the dialogue to, also.

Ned Trifle II, Saturday, 9 May 2009 16:25 (sixteen years ago)

Stan: I've certainly got to hand it to you, Ollie.
Oliver: For what?
Stan: Well for the meticulous care with which you have executed your finely formulated machinations in extricating us from this devastating dilemma.
Oliver: Get in bed

Ned Trifle II, Saturday, 9 May 2009 16:28 (sixteen years ago)

OK, I'm gonna watch it now. It's making me chuckle just thinking about it.

Ned Trifle II, Saturday, 9 May 2009 16:30 (sixteen years ago)

"Monty Python and the Holy Grail" (it pains me to admit this)

tzzt (Pashmina), Saturday, 9 May 2009 16:31 (sixteen years ago)

Beautiful Girls (the Timothy Hutton and young Natalie Portman scenes are so, so great)
Los Amantes del Circular Polar
All The President's Men
The Devil's Advocate
The Insider
Mullholland Drive
Oh and Seinfeld (pretty much everything after season 2)

Gerard (Le Bateau Ivre), Saturday, 9 May 2009 19:16 (sixteen years ago)


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