Kevin's Watch

Now Cail, don't be a grump.

stormrider--that avatar screams for a white milk-stache and the catch-phrase, Got Milk?

I think the only movie I can quote by heart
no thanks to the mind set of my dates in the summer of 1977 when I was 17 years old
that there was no other movie out that summer
is what was simply known at the time as...

Star Wars

I must have seen that movie 20 times in the theatre over the course of that summer alone.

...good thing it is still an all time favorite of mine...

Cail wrote:Thanks to exchanges like this, I'll never watch it again.

Y'know, I'm pretty well done with the movie myself. I think I memorized it in Jr. High with my friend. It was practically all we had to do while sitting around for a summer trip I took at his place the first time we really truly became friends. I stayed with him for two weeks in Arkansas, and we did a lot of listening to the audio tape I made of it off of PBS one day many years ago, complete with my dad yelling in the background, and occasionally attempting to be clever in the foreground. And my sister shrieking at some point, and practicing her French Horn as well. Now I wish I kept that tape, as I think I'd find it amusing for all the things it irritated me with originally.

But yeah...I'm always bored silly watching it anymore, except for some of the reaction shots. Which is why I can't tell if I'd enjoy Spamalot.

But yeah...I'm always bored silly watching it anymore, except for some of the reaction shots. Which is why I can't tell if I'd enjoy Spamalot.

You would. There's enough new material that you would find enjoyable.

Cail wrote:Thanks to exchanges like this, I'll never watch it again.

I think the quotes from Holy Grail I use the most are "She's got huge... tracts of land," and "There are some who call me... Tim."

The quote I probably use the most often, though, is from Tombstone. "I feel... capital." (I've just realized I have a strange penchant for quotes with elipses). Considering how many times a day someone asks, "How are you?" The only options are to ignore the rhetorical nature of the question, grunt, or devise a set response. I occasionally switch it out with "I feel better!" from Willow.

And then there's Fight Club. Most often, "[Jack]'s not here. [Jack] went away." Then, "I know this because Tyler knows this." And the occasional, "You are not a unique, beautiful snowflake." I doubt there's a line of dialogue in the movie I haven't used at one point.

The three most quoted films in my life are Kelly's Heroes and Spinal Tap and Withnail and I.

Between the 3, I could probably get through a full day's worth of conversation. Well, a full evening in the pub anyway!

Stonemaybe wrote:The three most quoted films in my life are Kelly's Heroes and Spinal Tap and Withnail and I.

"You want workin' on, boy . . ."

I quote quite a bit of Doc from Tombstone as well, especially, "It's official. I hate him."

But the most quotable movie ever has got to be The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the Eighth Dimension. Every line is gold, especially John Lithgow's. But the throwaway lines that pepper the movie just take it right over the top.

"Why is there a watermelon there?"

"I'll tell you later."

Montressor wrote:

Stonemaybe wrote:The three most quoted films in my life are Kelly's Heroes and Spinal Tap and Withnail and I.

"You want workin' on, boy . . ."

"We've gone on holiday by mistake."

But the most quotable movie ever has got to be The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the Eighth Dimension. Every line is gold, especially John Lithgow's. But the throwaway lines that pepper the movie just take it right over the top.

"Why is there a watermelon there?"

"I'll tell you later."

Totally forgot about that movie. It is very surreal and abstract, and not for everyone's taste.

Remember: No matter where you are ..... there you go.

I am thinking the one line I quote the most, especially as the mother of a 14 year old male, is...

Jedi Master Yoda wrote: No. Try not. Do... or do not. There is no try.

Well, as a 41 yearold father, that works for me too...

High Lord Tolkien wrote:I work in the IT department and my favorite movie line when a computer or server is slow to respond is Scotty from Star Trek IV: "Hellooo computer"

Nobody ever gets it though and thinks I'm some kind of nutball.

You have to pick up the mouse and speak into the underside of it.

High Lord Tolkien wrote:I work in the IT department and my favorite movie line when a computer or server is slow to respond is Scotty from Star Trek IV: "Hellooo computer"

Nobody ever gets it though and thinks I'm some kind of nutball.

At an old job, there was a guy called Dave. One day he was shutting down his computer, and I whispered: "What are you doing, Dave? Dave, what are you doing?"

Thankfully, he got that one. I can never whistle "Daisy, daisy . . ." without thinking of computers now.

But, the films I've quoted the most would have to be Conan the Barbarian, and Dr Strangelove. The second is good for getting out of things . . . "it's this gammy leg . . ."

I quote Casablanca ALL the time.

Of course, I work AT the movies, so I quote everything all the time.

But Casablanca, more than most.

Being able to quote all of Monty Python and the Holy Grail is an essential part of male adolescence. Ahhh, to be twelve. Why is it that Mad magazine is the absolute funniest thing in the universe when you're twelve? I mean, I can still enjoy it, but it's more a nostalgia now.

The Dreaming wrote:Being able to quote all of Monty Python and the Holy Grail is an essential part of male adolescence. Ahhh, to be twelve. Why is it that Mad magazine is the absolute funniest thing in the universe when you're twelve? I mean, I can still enjoy it, but it's more a nostalgia now.

Praising HaShem for the gift of Beorn's social ineptitude.

Urgh.

Mad Magazine???

*shudder*