# What movies have you memorized most? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [October 10, 2007, 4:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movies-have-you-memorized-most/422224 "2007-10-10T16:26:35Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 15\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![SmartAleq](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smartaleq/32/163_2.png) [@SmartAleq](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SmartAleq)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2007, 1:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movies-have-you-memorized-most/422224/81 "2007-10-12T01:01:08Z")
**Tommy.** Yes, I sing it. All of it… Either original album or Ken Russell version. Greatest housecleaning music EVAR! Monty Python (inclusive,) RHPS (of course,) _How To Get Ahead In Advertising, Tapeheads, LA Story, Up In Smoke, Clerks, Dogma, Pulp Fiction, Breakfast Club, Sixteen Candles, Sirens, Butch Cassidy & The Sundance Kid_, that’s all that’s on the top of my head. ---
**Author:** ![TripleTee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ac8455/32.png) [@TripleTee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TripleTee)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2007, 1:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movies-have-you-memorized-most/422224/82 "2007-10-12T01:02:16Z")
[QUOTE=Usram] Groundhog Day. I have watched it over and over again to the point that watching it now is like reciting a mantra, which I suppose is ironic considering what the film is about. But it’s a great and under-appreciated film. [/QUOTE] “Once again the eyes of a nation turn to this…TIN-Y LIT-TLE VILL-AGE IN WES-TERN PENN-SYL-VAN-IA…BLAH BLAH BLAH BLAH BLAH…” I love that film. ---
**Author:** ![HazelNutCoffee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/ac91a4/32.png) [@HazelNutCoffee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HazelNutCoffee)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2007, 1:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movies-have-you-memorized-most/422224/83 "2007-10-12T01:17:10Z")
Disney’s **Robin Hood**. “Taxes, taxes! Beautiful, lovely taxes! AH-ha! AH-ha!” “If you don’t mind my saying so, you have a very loud thumb.” ---
**Author:** ![Roderick\_Femm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/roderick_femm/32/14875_2.png) [@Roderick\_Femm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Roderick_Femm)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2007, 5:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movies-have-you-memorized-most/422224/84 "2007-10-12T05:12:44Z")
**The Maltese Falcon**. “Keep on riding me and they’re gonna be picking iron out of your liver.” “The cheaper the crook, the gaudier the patter.” \*\*Bedazzled \*\*(Peter Cook and Dudley Moore version). “Up we go sisters, leaping to the sky, nearer to heaven, let us fly.” **The 39 Steps**. “Gentlemen, please! You’re not at home!” **The Lady Vanishes**. “It’s always been my contention that the Hungarian Rhapsody is not their national anthem.” **Rear Window**. “Tell me what you saw, and what you think it means.” **To Have and Have Not**. “What are you trying to do, guess her weight?” I could watch these over and over again. And there’s always something new. Sigh, life is good. Roddy ---
**Author:** ![GreedySmurf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a698b9/32.png) [@GreedySmurf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GreedySmurf)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2007, 5:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movies-have-you-memorized-most/422224/85 "2007-10-12T05:27:12Z")
I’ll join the very deep end of the pool it seems with **Princess Bride** & **Star Wars** (the original trilogy of course) I’m very amazed that I’ve only seen **Aliens** mentioned once, I could without doubt sit down with this movie on mute and provide all the dialogue pretty damn near word perfect. ---
**Author:** ![Larry\_Borgia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/larry_borgia/32/156_2.png) [@Larry\_Borgia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Larry_Borgia)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2007, 5:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movies-have-you-memorized-most/422224/86 "2007-10-12T05:43:08Z")
Big Lebowski Pulp Fiction South Park:BLU ---
**Author:** ![Small\_Clanger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9fc348/32.png) [@Small\_Clanger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Small_Clanger)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2007, 9:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movies-have-you-memorized-most/422224/87 "2007-10-12T09:32:18Z")
[QUOTE=GreedySmurf] I’m very amazed that I’ve only seen **Aliens** mentioned once [/QUOTE] Twice (me and **McNew** ). I’m surprised too, we’ve had entire threads made up of **Aliens** quotes. And The Breakfast Club gets more mentions than Repo Man? ---
**Author:** ![BelZarak](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ea666f/32.png) [@BelZarak](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BelZarak)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2007, 12:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movies-have-you-memorized-most/422224/88 "2007-10-12T12:21:41Z")
Movies I know from start to finish: **The Rocky Horror Picture Show The Princess Bride Monty Python and the Holy Grail Blues Brothers Ferris Beuler’s Day Off Blazing Saddles Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory The Muppet Movie P.C.U. The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas** Movies I can quote extensively: **Young Frankenstein Better Off Dead Sixteen Candles The Breakfast Club Stir Crazy The Bird Cage To Wong Foo Thanks for Everything, Julie Newmar The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert Aliens Stephen King’s The Stand** (TV Miniseries) I’m sure there are several others that I quote regularly that I’m not thinking of at the moment. I might try to post more after some coffee. Coffee! COFFEE NOW! ---
**Author:** ![Lionne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Lionne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lionne)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2007, 2:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movies-have-you-memorized-most/422224/89 "2007-10-12T14:44:05Z")
**Zoolander** **Robin Hood:Prince of Thieves** (I don’t care, I love it!) ---
**Author:** ![Dorjan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dorjan/32/12440_2.png) [@Dorjan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dorjan)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2007, 5:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movies-have-you-memorized-most/422224/90 "2007-10-12T17:06:13Z")
I can recite **Friday** and **The Last Dragon** in my sleep. I’m especially fond of quoting The Last Dragon. “Just direct-a your feets-a to Daddy Green’s Pizza!” ---
**Author:** ![KSO](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/f07891/32.png) [@KSO](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KSO)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2007, 5:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movies-have-you-memorized-most/422224/91 "2007-10-12T17:17:45Z")
[QUOTE=Sampiro] **Coming to America** is one of those movies that I have to watch whenever it comes on and can recite everything (including the “she’s your queeeeeeeeen to be…” song) like catechism. My favorite lines will always be “He got _Gillligggggaaaaaan_ off the Island!” and the one I quote most often when frustrated with friends, “Fuck you! Fuck you! And fuck you! Who’s next?” [/QUOTE] “Ooooh, that’s nice. What is that? Velvet?” As for the OP: Spinal Tap Sixteen Candles Valley Girl ---
**Author:** ![Balance](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ccd318/32.png) [@Balance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Balance)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2007, 7:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movies-have-you-memorized-most/422224/92 "2007-10-12T19:24:47Z")
Most of mine are the usual suspects: _Monty Python and the Holy Grail_ _Aliens_ _Star Wars_ _Ghostbusters_ _The Princess Bride_ and I’ll add _The Crow_ (“Victims. Aren’t we all?”) There are tons of others that I can quote extensively from if something triggers me, but those are the ones I think of most readily. [QUOTE=GreedySmurf] I’m very amazed that I’ve only seen **Aliens** mentioned once, I could without doubt sit down with this movie on mute and provide all the dialogue pretty damn near word perfect. [/QUOTE] When I was a kid, we had video discs (not laser discs–the old vinyl-and-stylus LP-type videos) of several Star Trek episodes. My favorite was “The Trouble with Tribbles”, and I was known to quote big chunks of it and to mouth along with the lines while watching it. One day, my family got me to sit with my back to the TV with the volume turned down, and speak the dialogue as it played. I spoke every line, complete with accents and inflections, no more than a few seconds off from the on-screen delivery. ---
**Author:** ![Wakinyan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wakinyan/32/352_2.png) [@Wakinyan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wakinyan)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2007, 8:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movies-have-you-memorized-most/422224/93 "2007-10-12T20:20:01Z")
**The Big Lebowski**. Put it on again and again until unintentionally memorized. Perhaps the funniest picture ever. At least, bowling picture. > [@](#): > > **The Thug:** [Holding up a bowling ball.] What the fuck is this? > **The Dude:** Obviously you’re not a golfer. > [@](#): > > **The Jesus:** You ready to be fucked, man? I see you rolled your way into the semis. _Dios mio_, man. Liam and me, we’re gonna fuck you up. > \*\*The Dude: \*\*Yeah, well, you know, that’s just, like, your opinion, man. > **The Jesus:** [Turning to Vietnam vet Sobchak.] 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, stick it up your ass and pull the fucking trigger 'til it goes… click. etc. ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2007, 1:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movies-have-you-memorized-most/422224/94 "2007-10-13T01:11:53Z")
**Enter The Dragon** ; my kids and I can spend an hour throwing dialog back and forth on that one and it’s parody by Weird Al. “This is Han; he’s tough and ruthless. This is Han’s driver, he’s rough and toothless.” ---
**Author:** ![drachillix](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/48db29/32.png) [@drachillix](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drachillix)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2007, 2:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movies-have-you-memorized-most/422224/95 "2007-10-13T02:47:59Z")
[QUOTE=olivesmarch4th] Nobody has mentioned _Ghostbusters_? I watched that movie 10,000 times when I was a kid, now whenever I see it I feel like I’ve got déjá vu. [/QUOTE] Damn beaten to it… When someone asks you if you are a God…you say YES!!! Dana: I want you inside me… Dr Venkman: …it sounds like there is at least two of you in there already. Ok, lets pretend I don’t know anything about architecture, metallurgy, chemisty, physics, etc, and try that again. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movies-have-you-memorized-most/422224.md?page=4)