# 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:** 3
**Author:** ![soulmurk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b782af/32.png) [@soulmurk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/soulmurk)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2001, 5:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-know-by-heart/61117/41 "2001-04-08T05:51:43Z")
It’s been a while, but I think I could still get 9 out of 10 words from MP’s Holy Grail. I’m better with music, I still know every word to Twisted Sister’s “Stay Hungry” album. My sister taped The Wizard of Oz from CBS or NBC years ago, and not only knows all of the words to the movie, but also knows all of the commercials. Always found it funny to hear her singing along to the jingles. ---
**Author:** ![exchicagoan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/0ea827/32.png) [@exchicagoan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/exchicagoan)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2001, 6:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-know-by-heart/61117/42 "2001-04-08T06:10:19Z")
What, am I the oldest one here? THE PIRATE THE YEARLING COBRA WOMAN THE WILD ONE WEST SIDE STORY ZULU WIZARD OF OZ GILDA MONTY PYTHON & THE HOLY GRAIL BECKETT—hey-ZEYSTARDST–I bought the LP of the dialogue. SAN FRANCISCO REBEL WITHOUT A CAUSE EAST OF EDEN THE GODFATHER SAGA Have recenty purchased DEAD END and ANGELS WITH DIRTY FACES. They’re next. Looks like I really need to start watching some others from my collection. ---
**Author:** ![elvisf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/49beb7/32.png) [@elvisf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elvisf)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2001, 6:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-know-by-heart/61117/43 "2001-04-08T06:19:23Z")
The Ninth Configuration Don’t know how I left this one out of my last post ---
**Author:** ![dave99](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/45deac/32.png) [@dave99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dave99)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2001, 6:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-know-by-heart/61117/44 "2001-04-08T06:51:44Z")
From Russia With Love Goldfinger The Truman Show Apocalypse Now Full Metal Jacket One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest Muppet Treasure Island Princess Bride The Third Man Star Wars ANH I’ve seen “Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon” in the theatres five times, so though I can’t make sense of any of the dialogue, I always know the next subtitle to appear. One particularly obsessive friend of mine could trump us all, though. When he was ten years old, he had the dialogue of the “Transformers” movie memorized cold. I made the mistake of betting that he was exagerating, and he rattled the first ten minutes off the top of his head before I finally conceded. ---
**Author:** ![JonScribe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/3be4f8/32.png) [@JonScribe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JonScribe)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2001, 7:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-know-by-heart/61117/45 "2001-04-08T07:09:40Z")
C’mon people, Repo Man. “Let’s go do some crimes … Yeah, Let’s go eat sushi and not pay.” “Oh, you don’t want to know what’s in there.” “Stop fucking singing, Kevin.” and the classic line “Ordinary fucking people; I hate 'em.” ---
**Author:** ![amico](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/8797f3/32.png) [@amico](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/amico)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2001, 9:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-know-by-heart/61117/46 "2001-04-08T09:27:24Z")
_Good Will Hunting_ _What Dreams May Come_ _Say Anything…_ ---
**Author:** ![dodge\_this](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e5b9ba/32.png) [@dodge\_this](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dodge_this)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2001, 1:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-know-by-heart/61117/47 "2001-04-08T13:08:58Z")
The Matrix Jurassic Park When Harry Met Sally Sound of Music Casablanca Rope The English Patient Monty Python and the Holy Grail ---
**Author:** ![Evnglion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/f04885/32.png) [@Evnglion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Evnglion)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2001, 3:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-know-by-heart/61117/48 "2001-04-08T15:25:24Z")
Ok, I got a couple of these [ul] [li] _Star Wars_ 4, 5, 6[/li][li] Most of _Pulp Fiction_[/li][li] _Fight Club_[/li][li] _Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon_ (I can recite the subtitles before they happen…I think I saw it too much)[/li][li] _Monty Python and the Holy Grail_[/li][li] _Dum and Dumber_ (my friend’s and I watch this about 3 times a month, each time everyone plays different person and recite’s their lines[/li][/ul] That’s all I can remember for now ---
**Author:** ![Evnglion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/f04885/32.png) [@Evnglion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Evnglion)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2001, 3:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-know-by-heart/61117/49 "2001-04-08T15:28:26Z")
wow…I am reading htrough these posts now, and _Monty Python and the Holy Grail_ appears in just about every post!..and the Princess Bride has a pretty big following too ---
**Author:** ![Rasa](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rasa/32/3578_2.png) [@Rasa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rasa)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2001, 4:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-know-by-heart/61117/50 "2001-04-08T16:43:39Z")
Office Space Princess Bride Most of the Monty Python movies Most of the Star Wars movies Spacecamp Man, when I was young, I must’ve watched Spacecamp a bazillion times. I so wanted that to be me! I was driving to work one day and noticed that I pass NASA’s Ames Research Center every day. Small world. ---
**Author:** ![Proudest\_Monkey](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/proudest_monkey/32/13257_2.png) [@Proudest\_Monkey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Proudest_Monkey)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2001, 6:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-know-by-heart/61117/51 "2001-04-08T18:25:06Z")
Animal House The Wizard of Oz Ferris Bueller’s Day Off Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid Sound of Music Singing in the Rain A Christmas Story Mary Poppins Moonstruck ---
**Author:** ![The\_Mermaid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/a183cd/32.png) [@The\_Mermaid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Mermaid)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2001, 6:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-know-by-heart/61117/52 "2001-04-08T18:54:12Z")
A Christmas story The Princess Bride Rocky Horror All of the Indiana Jones–my fave is #3 with Sean Connery Jesus Christ Superstar Little Shop of Horrors Dirty dancing Ghost The usual suspects And courtesy of my husband’s viewing list Big Jake Eldorado True Grit Stalag 17- especially the part where William Holden slaps the shit out of Peter Graves. There are probably dozens more that I know by heart when its on. ---
**Author:** ![kevja](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/aeb1de/32.png) [@kevja](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kevja)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2001, 9:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-know-by-heart/61117/53 "2001-04-08T21:12:47Z")
House of Games (A great movie. It’s about con arists, but an even more telling story of compulsion) The Exorcist Kinjite (Bronson’s best,IMHO) Mommy Dearest I’ll Cry Tommorrow (Susan Hayward’s best,IMHO) ---
**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 8, 2001, 10:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-know-by-heart/61117/54 "2001-04-08T22:00:29Z")
X-Men ---
**Author:** ![Orual](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/779978/32.png) [@Orual](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Orual)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2001, 10:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-know-by-heart/61117/55 "2001-04-08T22:26:41Z")
\*And Now For Something Completely Different \*Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves Jurassic Park \*The Empire Strikes Back \*Return of the Jedi \*Monty Python and the Holy Grail Mulan The Princess Bride Dangerous Beauty Pride & Prejudice (the A&E miniseries with Colin Firth, watched some of it every day my 1st semester of freshman year) note: the movies with \*'s before them are those my sister and I watched 2 or more of every day for an entire summer. ---
**Author:** ![ellimac007](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ba9def/32.png) [@ellimac007](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ellimac007)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2001, 2:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-know-by-heart/61117/56 "2001-04-09T02:37:08Z")
Empire Records 16 Candles Go! Sound of Music Rocky Horror Picture Show Breakfast Club Pretty in Pink Mallrats woohoo! ---
**Author:** ![brianjedi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/3be4f8/32.png) [@brianjedi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/brianjedi)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2001, 4:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-know-by-heart/61117/57 "2001-04-09T04:45:39Z")
MST3K: The Movie-“Hey!! A chainsaw!” Monty Python and the Holy Grail-“Bring forth the Holy Hand Grenade of Antioch!” Ghostbusters-“Mother pus-bucket!” Ghostbusters II-“Vhy am I drippings vith goo?” Brianjedi-“PACKERS!” ---
**Author:** ![Deiket](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ce7236/32.png) [@Deiket](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Deiket)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2001, 3:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-know-by-heart/61117/58 "2001-04-09T15:21:37Z")
Let’s see… The Princess Bride Dirty Dancing Clue “Mrs. Peacock’s a MAN?!” MST3K The Movie “It’s the amazing technocolor CHEESE WEDGE!” The X-Files: Fight the Future Ace Ventura (Yes, I am ashamed about that one…) Fight Club The Rocky Horror Picture Show (Naturally) Tommy Boy Happy Gilmore Matrix ANY of the Indiana Jones movies… Empire Records The Lion King Ferris Bueller’s Day Off The Silence of the Lambs Hannibal (only saw it twice, but man, I LOVED it) The Breakfast Club The Frighteners Dogma The Talented Mr. Ripley The Little Mermaid Jurassic Park The Radioland Murders Maverick William Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet A Midsummer Night’s Dream Mission: Impossible Center Stage Storm of the Century That’s all I can think of off the top of my head but I know there are others. It’s really easy for me to memorize stuff, books, movies, songs, anything. ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2001, 3:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-know-by-heart/61117/59 "2001-04-09T15:53:43Z")
A Man for All Seasons – one of my all-time favorites Becket – I didn’t have it taped or on LP, but I memorized the script of the play Spartacus – Love that Dalton Trumbo screenplay The Guns of Navarone – It’s hard to believe that when it first came out the critics lambasted this as nefarious because it made a ludicrous story seem plausible. What would they say about Rambo? The Seventh Voyage of Sinbad – my all-time favorite fantasy film Forbidden Planet – This one I HAVE transferred to audio tape!Despite what the critics have said, this is extremelt well-written. It has one of the most intelligent science fiction scripts, with half the story buried in the lines, rather than the visuals. If you think this one’s for kids, you haven’t been paying attention. Charade – Peter Stone’s script is a virtual textbook on the art of revelation. ---
**Author:** ![Balance](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ccd318/32.png) [@Balance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Balance)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2001, 5:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-know-by-heart/61117/60 "2001-04-09T17:01:58Z")
And I thought _I_ had no life… OK, mine are obvious: Monty Python and the Holy Grail Star Wars, including Ep. 1 (although many lines are corrupted with “pants” as a result of the games my family plays with them) Even-numbered Star Treks Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (I never visit home without my niece and nephew asking me to do one of Connery’s lines in my Connery voice–“Our shituation hash not improved.” is a favorite.) Also, when I was a child, I had the ST:TOS episode “The Trouble with Tribbles” down so thoroughly that my older brother could turn off the TV, and I’d pick up the dialogue (complete with accents, facial expressions, excessive pauses, and gestures) without missing a beat. “The area vas first mapped by the Russian astronomer Ivan Burkov een…” “John Burke.” “Byairke, sir? I dond theenk so. I’m sure eet vas…” “John Burke was the Chief Astronomer at the Royal Academy of Old Britain at the time.” “Oh, _Royal Academy_, vell…” “Is the rest of your history…that…faulty…Ensign?” I can’t believe that I still remember all of that. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-know-by-heart/61117.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-know-by-heart/61117.md?page=4)