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.
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.
The Ninth Configuration
Don’t know how I left this one out of my last post
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.
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.”
Good Will Hunting
What Dreams May Come
Say Anything…
The Matrix
Jurassic Park
When Harry Met Sally
Sound of Music
Casablanca
Rope
The English Patient
Monty Python and the Holy Grail
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
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
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.
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
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.
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)
X-Men
*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.
Empire Records
16 Candles
Go!
Sound of Music
Rocky Horror Picture Show
Breakfast Club
Pretty in Pink
Mallrats
woohoo!
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!”
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.
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.
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.