Movies you and your friends watch (and quote) over and over

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For me and my gang of misfits it has to be The Big Lebowski. The first time I saw it I absolutely hated it. But like all Coen Brothers films it took several viewings to notice all the subtleties and catch every joke. I must have seen it 5 dozen times.

Dude: You thought Bunny’d been kidnapped and you could use it as a pretext to make some money disappear. All you needed was a sap to pin it on, and you’d just met me. You thought, hey, a deadbeat, a loser, someone the square community won’t give a shit about.
Lebowski: Well? Aren’t you?
Dude: Well… yeah.

Treehorn: New technology permits is to do very exciting things in interactive and erotic software. The wave of the future dude, 100 percent electronic.
Dude: Well, I still jerk off manually.

Walter: Am I wrong?!
Dude: You’re not wrong, Walter, you’re just an asshole.

Donny: I am the Walrus?
Walter: Shut the fuck up, Donny! V.I. Lenin! Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov!
Donny: What the fuck is he talking about?

Walter: This is not Nam. This is bowling. There are rules.

Maude: What do you do for recreation?
Dude: Oh, the usual. Bowl, drive around. The occasional acid flashback.

Jesus: Let me tell you something pendejo, you pull any of your crazy shit with us, you flash a piece out on the lanes, I’ll take it away from you and stick it up your ass and pull the fucking trigger 'till it goes click.
Dude: Jesus.
Jesus: You said it man. Nobody fucks with the Jesus.

Walter: We can’t do that, Dude. That fucks up our plan.
Dude: Well call them up and explain it to 'em, Walter! Your plan is so fucking simple, I’m sure they’d fucking understand it! That’s the beauty of it!

Walter: Nihilists! Fuck me. I mean, say what you like about the tenets of National Socialism, Dude, at least it’s an ethos.

Dude: The Dude abides.

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For me and my buds it would probably be the Evil Dead series, any Ash dialogue is immenintly quotable.

For more obscure movies It would be For Y’ur Height Only, a philipino midget spy movie which includes the classic line of dialogue from Mr. Giant, the bad guy, referring to Weng Wang, the hero: “That little Wang is going to put us out of business”.
Wild Zero is quotable in a way- just add the words “Rock and Roll!!” to the end of any zen-like statement.

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My high school buds and I used to Monty Python and the Holy Grail. Non-stop. We once did forty minutes of straight dialogue from the movie in accounting class towards the ends of our senior years. Fortunately, the teacher loved the movie, too and occassionally joined in.

Tango and Cash is a popular one with me and my amigos right now (“Do you screen all of your guests this way?”). And, of course, Boogey Nights is great as well. You’re not the boss of me!! Haha. Great stuff.

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Well, my friends and I often congregate over white wine and soft cheese to debate the merits of the works of such visionaries as Jean Cocteau or Francois Truffaut. Many a merry evening has been passed as we swap bon mots from My Dinner with Andre.

Okay, actually a bunch of my hairy, unwashed compadres decend, usually without warning, on my house to do bong loads and quote Star Wars and Monty Python at each other until someone loses consciousness. Perennial faves:

The Simpsons. Anything by the Coens, but esp. Lebowski, Raising Arizona, or O Brother, Where Art Thou?. Princess Bride. MST3K. Buffy. Fight Club. David Lynch’s Dune (“I will kill him!”). Anything by Kevin Smith (I am, in fact, Kevin Smith’s evil twin). The Simpsons. Cabin Boy. That’s right, Cabin Boy. Mr. Show with Bob and David. Austin Powers, but only lines uttered by Dr. Evil. A Fish Called Wanda (“Don’t call me stupid.”) Anything by Zucker, Zucker, and Abrams (“Don’t call me Shirley”). South Park. The Simpsons. Real Genius. Futurama. Demolition Man. Dr. Strangelove. Any 80’s teen comedy staring John Cusack. Henry V. The Adventures of Baron Munchausen. Time Bandits. The Simpsons.

Of course, that’s just the short list. This is what me and my friends do in lieu of finding real jobs.

Did I mention The Simpsons?

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How could I forget Cabin Boy. “I’m not that bright.”, “Wanna buy a monkey”, “These pipes are… CLEAN!”

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Kevin Smith movies and Office Space
“I’m not even supposed to be here today!”

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Grendel72, we have GOT to hang out some time. I make sure all of my friends have seen Evil Dead 2 and Army of Darkness at least once, and every now and again, I have the gratuitous Evil Dead night.

My friends and I always watch Nate and Hayse when we have Pirate Night, and Bio-Zombie for Zombie nights.

As for me personally, whenever it gets too quiet in the apartment, I always reach for Dirty Work. Sure, it’s an absolutely terrible movie with virtually no redeamable qualities, but that’s what makes it so wonderful.

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<long silence>

“This one goes to 11.”

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Are you serious?!?!? I mean most of these movies I know and find quotable, but I mean come on, that’s just overkill.
As for myself and my housemates, we find the Big Lebowski useful (mostly due to the influence of one of our housemates).

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I forgot to add Motel Hell starring Rory Calhoun as a serial killer/cannibal/farmer. “Meat’s meat, and man’s gotta eat.” “It takes all kinds of critters to make Farmer Vincent’s fritters.” “Tubin’.” The country song “your eeeeatin’ out my heart and soul, dear…”, the heavy metal song “I’ve had it up/ I’ve had it up/ I’ve had it up to here, girl/ I’ve had enough/ I’ve had enough/ I’ve had enough of you.” “I don’t think those are real cows.”

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More Spinal Tap: “There’s a fine line between clever and…stupid.”

                         "You can't really dust for vomit."

                         "How much more black can it be?  And the 
                           answer is none.  None more black."
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Fargo “Go bears!”

Office Space “I said no salt! No salt!”

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My Favorite Year:

Benji: There, that’s me. The guy carrying the guy with the sword. The guy
with the sword is Alan Swann, the greatest movie hero off all times, and my personal hero.

Swann: Women enjoy unraveling the mystery that is man, but you must allow them the freedom to discover you.

Benji: Is that what you do?

Swann: No. The women I meet know who I am and what they want, and nine times out of ten they get it.

Benji: That’s some curse!

Swann: You’d be suprised.
King Kaiser: Are they serving tounge in the cafeteria today, Leo?
Twice they served tounge on show day, and twice the opening sketch died. No tounge on show day, Leo, no tounge. Tounge, death!

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Among my college friends, it was Monty Python and the Holy Grail and The Princess Bride. It wasn’t just among the students, either. My differential equations prof once introduced a problem by saying that he was going to show us why we shouldn’t get involved in a land war in Asia.

Among my high school friends, The Matrix.

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Isn’t that Clerks? Another eminently quotable flick.

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Our most common quotes:

Strange Brew
“Save one of those beers for me, eh?”
“OK, OK, you boss me around”

Holy Grail
“I don’t want to talk to you no more” (in a silly french accent)

Raising Arizona
for a friend’s graduation from college, we put on the cake:

“You’re young, you’ve got your health, what you want with a job?”

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Well, there’s all the Monty Python movies and a lot of skits from Flying Circus. Evil Dead trilogy. Um, Indiana Jones, Star Wars, Weird Science, The Breakfast Club, Bugs Bunny & Friends, James Bond, Strange Brew, Animal House, 1941, Time Bandits, Brazil, Clerks, Mallrats, Nat’l Lampoon’s Vacation, Caddyshack, Saturday Night Live, Simpsons, Ren & Stimpy, Beavis & Butthead, South Park, Princess Bride, Conan the Barbarian, Calvin & Hobbes, and A Clockwork Orange.

Or else we would just sit around and stare at each other in paranoia.

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Star Wars, natch. It’s mostly Palpatine quotes.

“So be it…Jedi.”
“Oh…I’m afraid the deflector shield will be quite operational when your friends arrive.”
“All is proceeding as I have foreseen it.”
“I will make it legal.”

And so forth.

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I can watch Half Baked and Dirty Work are a couple awesome, under-appreciated movies I could watch every day.

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Wayne’s World and Yellow Submarine