# You've seen this film HOW many times ? ? ? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [April 21, 2003, 8:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youve-seen-this-film-how-many-times/169995 "2003-04-21T08:08:06Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Anyanka](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/43a26b/32.png) [@Anyanka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anyanka)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2003, 10:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youve-seen-this-film-how-many-times/169995/21 "2003-04-21T22:35:28Z")
When I was younger, I used to annoy my friends by spouting quotes of “The Breakfast Club”- as we were watching it. That and “Raising Arizona”. ---
**Author:** ![Mockingbird](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c68b51/32.png) [@Mockingbird](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mockingbird)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2003, 10:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youve-seen-this-film-how-many-times/169995/22 "2003-04-21T22:54:00Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Lsura \* > [B > **jarbabyj** , I used to be able to quote from _Empire of the Sun_. Unfortunately, my copy of the video was taken in a burglary several years ago and I’ve not been able to find another copy I can afford (I keep checking at the used book/video store though). \*\* Well, it is on DVD: [http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B00003CX9U/qid=1050965558/sr=8-3/ref=sr\_8\_3/002-2028158-2061600?v=glance&s=dvd&n=507846](http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B00003CX9U/qid=1050965558/sr=8-3/ref=sr_8_3/002-2028158-2061600?v=glance&s=dvd&n=507846) There’s a used VHS here for 89 cents: [http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/630105573X/qid=1050965558/sr=8-4/ref=sr\_8\_4/002-2028158-2061600?v=glance&s=video&n=507846](http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/630105573X/qid=1050965558/sr=8-4/ref=sr_8_4/002-2028158-2061600?v=glance&s=video&n=507846) Then there is [half.com](http://half.com): [http://half.ebay.com/cat/buy/prod.cgi?cpid=1929935&domain\_id=1877&meta\_id=3](http://half.ebay.com/cat/buy/prod.cgi?cpid=1929935&domain_id=1877&meta_id=3) [http://half.ebay.com/cat/buy/prod.cgi?cpid=1067484156&domain\_id=1877&meta\_id=3](http://half.ebay.com/cat/buy/prod.cgi?cpid=1067484156&domain_id=1877&meta_id=3) I hope this helps. ---
**Author:** ![jack\_ss](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/c77e96/32.png) [@jack\_ss](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jack_ss)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2003, 11:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youve-seen-this-film-how-many-times/169995/23 "2003-04-21T23:03:20Z")
_Pulp Fiction_ I honestly don’t know how many times I’ve seen it. I’ve owned it on VHS for 10 years. ---
**Author:** ![Quack](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/e99b99/32.png) [@Quack](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quack)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2003, 11:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youve-seen-this-film-how-many-times/169995/24 "2003-04-21T23:11:58Z")
Pulp Fiction Mallrats All the original Star Wars films Monty Python and the Holy Grail ---
**Author:** ![cleops](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/2acd7d/32.png) [@cleops](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cleops)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2003, 11:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youve-seen-this-film-how-many-times/169995/25 "2003-04-21T23:23:50Z")
If I had a copy of The Big Lebowski, I’d watch it everyday, all day. Fortunately, I don’t! ---
**Author:** ![Cisco](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ccd318/32.png) [@Cisco](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cisco)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2003, 11:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youve-seen-this-film-how-many-times/169995/26 "2003-04-21T23:39:32Z")
Ahhh yes, let me add Pulp Fiction, can’t believe I forgot that. And someone mentioned The Lion King, which reminded me of one I should probably be embarassed of. I bet I could quote 90-95% of _Aladdin_. ---
**Author:** ![dreamer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/6bbea6/32.png) [@dreamer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dreamer)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2003, 1:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youve-seen-this-film-how-many-times/169995/27 "2003-04-22T01:32:49Z")
I never really had a favorite movie that I watched over and over until Lord Of The Rings came out. So I’m starting anew with _yeah, we want meats!_ ---
**Author:** ![80sHairMetalMaven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/8/ed655f/32.png) [@80sHairMetalMaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/80sHairMetalMaven)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2003, 2:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youve-seen-this-film-how-many-times/169995/28 "2003-04-22T02:27:55Z")
_Legend_ **Darkness** :Blix,are you not the most loathesome of my goblins? Is your heart not black and full of hate? **Blix** : Truly,Lord. Black as midnight,black as pitch. Blacker than the foulest witch! **Blix** :Higher higher, burning fire!Making music like a choir! **Oona** :Am I not sweet? **Jack** : Sweeter than bee pollen on a summer wind…that’s just more faerie glamour. Human hearts don’t work that way. b]Oona\*\*:What care I for human hearts?!?!? Soft and spiritless as porridge! A faerie’s heart beats fierce and free! **Lilli** :Do you speak their language? **Jack** :They express only love and laughter. Dark thoughts are unknown to them. IDBB ---
**Author:** ![Lissa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/85f322/32.png) [@Lissa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lissa)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2003, 3:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youve-seen-this-film-how-many-times/169995/29 "2003-04-22T03:24:18Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by jarbabyj \* > \*\*When I was in highschool I used to come home and watch Ferris Bueller’s Day Off probably three or four times a week. I’ll venture that I’ve seen that movie around 200 times, and can do almost every line along with the movie and I’m vehemently angry when folks get famous lines wrong. \*\* Me too! I was a latchkey kid who was alone in the house all day during the summer. The VCR would replay my favorite movies over and over and over. \*Gone With the Wind, Ferris, Star Wars, Dirty Dancing, Lonesome Dove, The Princess Bride, Ghostbusters, Better Off Dead, Big, \* and, oddly enough, \* Patton. \* These were my summer babysitters. ---
**Author:** ![LifeOnWry](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/96bed5/32.png) [@LifeOnWry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LifeOnWry)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2003, 3:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youve-seen-this-film-how-many-times/169995/30 "2003-04-22T03:36:14Z")
Princess Bride (“I wonder if he is using the same wind we are using.”) Godfather I (“Leave the gun. Take the cannoli.”) Rocky Horror Picture Show ("Say goodbye to…all of this… _goodbye all of this!_ and hellooo… to oblivion _hi, oblivion, how’s the wife and kids?_) The Man Who Would Be King (“I wish you many good lucks!”) Mallrats (“Fly Fatass, fly!”) Desperado (“Carolina… did I remember to thank you? I will.”) Threesome (“I hate the taste of sperm.”) ---
**Author:** ![CaptMurdock](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/captmurdock/32/11736_2.png) [@CaptMurdock](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CaptMurdock)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2003, 3:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youve-seen-this-film-how-many-times/169995/31 "2003-04-22T03:40:57Z")
jaws monty holy grail army of darkness buckaroo bonzi the haunting star wars better off dead princess bride ghostbuster stripes ---
**Author:** ![Lapin\_de\_poussiere](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/a4c791/32.png) [@Lapin\_de\_poussiere](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lapin_de_poussiere)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2003, 3:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youve-seen-this-film-how-many-times/169995/32 "2003-04-22T03:54:06Z")
_Shawshank Redemption_: “The Count of Monte… Crisco.” “That’s Cristo, you dumbshit.” “By Alexandrey… Dumbass. Dumbass!” (pause) “Dumas. Have you read that? You’d like it. It’s about a prison break.” _Apollo 13_: “So, uh… hit it, Freddo.” _Monty Python and the Holy Grail_: “What else floats?” “Errrrr… very small rocks?” _Lilo and Stitch_: “Oh, ‘Stitch’ isn’t a real name… iiiin Iceland. But here it’s good.” ---
**Author:** ![Lsura](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7993a0/32.png) [@Lsura](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lsura)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2003, 10:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youve-seen-this-film-how-many-times/169995/33 "2003-04-22T10:53:24Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Lapin de poussière \* > \*\*_Shawshank Redemption_: “The Count of Monte… Crisco.” “That’s Cristo, you dumbshit.” “By Alexandrey… Dumbass. Dumbass!” (pause) “Dumas. Have you read that? You’d like it. It’s about a prison break.” > \*\* “Jailbreak? Maybe we ought a file that one under “Educational” too!” Thanks for the tips on _Empire of the Sun_, folks. I’ll look into it - but things are going to be tight here until Summer financial aid comes in (and after as well, but not quite so bad), so it’s not in the cards at the moment. I’ll snag a copy eventually. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Bernard\_Marx](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4491bb/32.png) [@Bernard\_Marx](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bernard_Marx)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2003, 12:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youve-seen-this-film-how-many-times/169995/34 "2003-04-22T12:28:51Z")
_A Clockwork Orange_ ---
**Author:** ![green\_bladder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/73ab20/32.png) [@green\_bladder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/green_bladder)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2003, 12:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youve-seen-this-film-how-many-times/169995/35 "2003-04-22T12:33:19Z")
Perhaps \*\* The Godfather \*\* - “He’s a businessman. I’ll make him an offer he can’t refuse.” Or \*\* Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb \*\* - “You can’t fight in here, this is the War Room!” Priceless 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Bernard\_Marx](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4491bb/32.png) [@Bernard\_Marx](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bernard_Marx)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2003, 12:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youve-seen-this-film-how-many-times/169995/36 "2003-04-22T12:33:28Z")
I forgot to mention, of course, _Bring It On_. I can quote an embarassing amount of that movie ---
**Author:** ![Dunderman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ecb155/32.png) [@Dunderman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dunderman)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2003, 12:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youve-seen-this-film-how-many-times/169995/37 "2003-04-22T12:40:06Z")
One of my talents is to be very good at memorizing movie lines (and song texts); I usually pick a lot up on first screening and then reinforce the memories on second screening, and then they’re there, cast in iron. So my list would be way too long, but the following come to mind: _Spaceballs_. One summer I watched this once a day, and soon memorized the entire script. I hadn’t seen it for at least a year when it happened to be on, and I found I could still predict every single line with 100% accuracy… until Pricegal told me to stop or eat boot. _Star Wars_ IV, V and VI. Of course. _The Big Lebowski_, the most quotable movie of all time. _Top Secret_. Underrated film. _The Young Ones_, _Black Adder_, _Monty Python’s Flying Circus_, _Bottom_ and an infinite amount of other TV series. Anything by ZAZ, Mel Brooks (well, admittedly not the more recent ones) or Monty Python. I have to stop sometime, so I will now. But never challenge me in a movie quote game. ---
**Author:** ![Alessan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alessan/32/465_2.png) [@Alessan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alessan)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2003, 1:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youve-seen-this-film-how-many-times/169995/38 "2003-04-22T13:05:57Z")
I know most of _Ghostbusters_ by heart - and so does my Dad. It leads to some interesting conversations. ---
**Author:** ![Broken\_Doll](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bbce88/32.png) [@Broken\_Doll](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Broken_Doll)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2003, 2:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youve-seen-this-film-how-many-times/169995/39 "2003-04-22T14:20:33Z")
**Beetlejuice.** Best movie ever. Seen it so many times I’ve lost count. ---
**Author:** ![Baldwin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/baldwin/32/7264_2.png) [@Baldwin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baldwin)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2003, 2:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youve-seen-this-film-how-many-times/169995/40 "2003-04-22T14:31:51Z")
_Macbeth_. > [@](#): > > “Lay on, Macduff; And damn’d be him that first cries ‘Hold, enough!’” Damned good movie. Who wrote that? Have to check that out. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youve-seen-this-film-how-many-times/169995.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youve-seen-this-film-how-many-times/169995.md?page=3)