# Movies you know by heart... **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [April 7, 2001, 3:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-know-by-heart/61117 "2001-04-07T03:19:14Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Gazoo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/ce73a5/32.png) [@Gazoo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gazoo)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2001, 3:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-know-by-heart/61117/1 "2001-04-07T03:19:14Z")
What are the movies that you have on tape, and still watch a lot? You know the ones…once you pop it in the VCR, you can speak along with the actors. Mine = **[ul]Cool Hand Luke A Few Good Men Harvey It’s a Wonderful Life Big** (a college roomie loved it, so we watched it a lot) **Mr. Smith Goes to Washington Star Wars Exorcist III[/ul]** ---
**Author:** ![Gunslinger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/4491bb/32.png) [@Gunslinger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gunslinger)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2001, 3:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-know-by-heart/61117/2 "2001-04-07T03:33:30Z")
**Dr. Strangelove** –a classic. **Jaws** –don’t have it on tape, but it’s on one of the Turner networks at least once a week. ---
**Author:** ![racinchikki](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/eada6e/32.png) [@racinchikki](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/racinchikki)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2001, 3:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-know-by-heart/61117/3 "2001-04-07T03:42:45Z")
[list][_]Every Monty Python movie, from Holy Grail to The Meaning of Life[_]The Blues BrothersThe Princess Bride ---
**Author:** ![Jack\_Batty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jack_batty/32/3201_2.png) [@Jack\_Batty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jack_Batty)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2001, 3:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-know-by-heart/61117/4 "2001-04-07T03:49:56Z")
**Rounders** **Fight Club** and of course … **Titanic** ---
**Author:** ![IndignantSarcasm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/6a8cbe/32.png) [@IndignantSarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/IndignantSarcasm)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2001, 3:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-know-by-heart/61117/5 "2001-04-07T03:50:06Z")
Robin Hood (the animated Disney one) Most Mel Brooks movies and Monty Python and the Holy Grail “With nasty big pointy teeth!” ---
**Author:** ![AwSnappity](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a3d4f5/32.png) [@AwSnappity](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AwSnappity)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2001, 4:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-know-by-heart/61117/6 "2001-04-07T04:04:44Z")
**Billy Madison Wayne’s World The Music Man The Rocky Horror Picture Show** I obviously don’t know the words to this but I can play most of the songs on my violin and I know most of the dances on **Lord of the Dance**. ---
**Author:** ![Oblong](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/c0e974/32.png) [@Oblong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oblong)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2001, 4:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-know-by-heart/61117/7 "2001-04-07T04:19:02Z")
Strange Brew Godfather I and II Usual Suspects Reservoir Dogs Trading Places Beverly Hills Cop ---
**Author:** ![hardygrrl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a3d4f5/32.png) [@hardygrrl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hardygrrl)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2001, 4:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-know-by-heart/61117/8 "2001-04-07T04:20:07Z")
All the Kevin Smith movies. Goodfellas Godfather I and II Rocky Horror Picture Show ---
**Author:** ![Arden\_Ranger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b487fb/32.png) [@Arden\_Ranger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Arden_Ranger)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2001, 4:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-know-by-heart/61117/9 "2001-04-07T04:20:09Z")
I have kids. Pick a Disney movie, _any_ Disney movie and a few kids movies that aren’t Disney. Ghostbusters The Mask of Zorro The Thirteenth Warrior Tombstone Bull Durham Independance Day Rocky Horror Picture Show Earth Girls Are Easy Princess Bride Labyrinth Arthur Any Star Trek Movie Star Wars 4, 5, 6 Matrix Wild, Wild West Men in Black Boys on the Side Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves Victor/Victoria Zorro: The Gay Blade Sheesh. I have no life. [Edited by Eutychus55 on 04-07-2001 at 09:15 AM] ---
**Author:** ![Arden\_Ranger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b487fb/32.png) [@Arden\_Ranger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Arden_Ranger)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2001, 4:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-know-by-heart/61117/10 "2001-04-07T04:21:53Z")
Bah. The coding gods have cursed me again. It’s okay. I forgot to add The Usual Suspects. ---
**Author:** ![Fionn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/a587f6/32.png) [@Fionn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fionn)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2001, 4:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-know-by-heart/61117/11 "2001-04-07T04:27:58Z")
The Princess Bride Empire Records (It’s Rex Manning Day!) Dr. Strangelove Mystery Science Theatre 3000 Shorts Vol. 1&2 (Not quite movies, but definitely about movies.) Friday Am I really the only person who knows every line of The Breakfast Club? Including the cheesy edits for network TV? ---
**Author:** ![Kayeby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/9de0a6/32.png) [@Kayeby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kayeby)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2001, 4:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-know-by-heart/61117/12 "2001-04-07T04:52:33Z")
**The Sound of Music The Lion King** and **A Bug’s Life** ---
**Author:** ![Dark\_Lord\_Davidson](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/bc8723/32.png) [@Dark\_Lord\_Davidson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dark_Lord_Davidson)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2001, 5:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-know-by-heart/61117/13 "2001-04-07T05:00:31Z")
\*\*Tommy Boy Me, Myself, and Irene Road Trip\*\* ---
**Author:** ![ghandi5569](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/d26b3c/32.png) [@ghandi5569](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ghandi5569)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2001, 5:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-know-by-heart/61117/14 "2001-04-07T05:00:56Z")
American Beauty Ferris Bueller’s Day Off Alll of the Texas Chainsaw Massacre Movies So, I Married an Axe-Murderer Gross Pointe Blank The Breakfast Club Needful Things The Shining There are probably more, and they are probably comedy or horror. ---
**Author:** ![riley\_dieffenbach](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/bb73d2/32.png) [@riley\_dieffenbach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/riley_dieffenbach)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2001, 5:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-know-by-heart/61117/15 "2001-04-07T05:11:36Z")
The king of these movies is Fargo - My best friend and I actually made a pilgrimage to Fargo in the dead of winter. After seeing it twenty odd times we set out from Massachusetts to Fargo, Minneapolis and of course Brainerd. Saw Babe the Blue Ox. Unfortunately we didn’t find some of the other landmarks. It was as much as twenty below zero at the time so most all the time was spent in the car. I can still recite the movie almost word for word. Also in that category but not nearly as extreme are: Once Were Warriors Usual Suspects Cool Hand Luke Bridge on the River Kwai All the other Coen Brothers movies ---
**Author:** ![Kallessa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/7993a0/32.png) [@Kallessa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kallessa)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2001, 5:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-know-by-heart/61117/16 "2001-04-07T05:12:49Z")
**The Lion in Winter The Goodbye Girl LadyHawke Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh Jungle Book (animated) Desk Set Harvey Bull Durham Summertime Philadelphia Story Robin and Marian** Of the more current movies, I’d watch \*\* American Beauty, The Usual Suspects\*\* and \*\* L.A. Confidential\*\* enough to learn them by heart. Gee, I wonder what they all have in common? ---
**Author:** ![Kaitlyn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/73ab20/32.png) [@Kaitlyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kaitlyn)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2001, 5:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-know-by-heart/61117/17 "2001-04-07T05:24:43Z")
Searching for Bobby Fischer Say Anything Pleasantville The Shawshank Redemption ---
**Author:** ![ITR\_champion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/c67d28/32.png) [@ITR\_champion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ITR_champion)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2001, 5:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-know-by-heart/61117/18 "2001-04-07T05:29:29Z")
Star Wars Monty Python and the Holy Grail Mystery Men Airplane ---
**Author:** ![rowrrbazzle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rowrrbazzle/32/414_2.png) [@rowrrbazzle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rowrrbazzle)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2001, 5:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-know-by-heart/61117/19 "2001-04-07T05:30:59Z")
The Wizard of Oz Becket There’s a story to that last one. This movie came out when I was in my teens and I saw it a number of times. Eventually, when it made it to TV, I recorded the audio on reel-to-reel tape (this was WAY before VCRs) and listened to it many, many times. ---
**Author:** ![Dr.Rieux](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/aeb1de/32.png) [@Dr.Rieux](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr.Rieux)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2001, 5:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-know-by-heart/61117/20 "2001-04-07T05:32:08Z")
Excalibur Blade Runner [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-know-by-heart/61117.md?page=2)