I don’t even want to count the number of times I’ve seen Clueless.
“You see how picky I am about my shoes, and those only go on my feet!”
Jaws
“We’re gonna need a bigger boat.”
“Yeah, that’s real fine equipment ya got there, Mr. Hooper. Don’t know what that bastard shark’s gonna do with it. Might eat it I suppose. Saw one eat a rocking chair once.”
“I’ll never put on another life jacket again.”
“You yell ‘barracuda,’ people say ‘huh? what?’ You yell ‘shark,’ and we got a panic on our hands on the fourth of july.”
Wow I paid to see the film about 12 times in the theatres. (twice in one day) I used to work at a sub-run theatre and there watched the film about 20 more times.
You taught me that people will do anything for a potato.
They were bigger than me.
It was like God taking a photograph.
HORSEPOWER!!!
If we had died like the others, our bones would be in the runway!
I surrender.
Movies I’ve seen over 50 times:
The Rocky Horror Picture Show (Used to live next to a theater in Chicago that ran it)
Reckless
Hunt for Red October
Casablanca
The Warriors
Terminator
Jaws
The Princess Bride
The Blues Brothers
Animal House
Apocalypse Now
Honorable mentions:
The Godfather I & II There is no III
Midway
Raiders of the Lost Ark
Matrix, 1, 2, 3 will soon be on the above list.
I’m always up for a good movie.
I probably have the dorkiest list:
Muppet Treasure Island
Pure Country
The Little Mermaid
and
Tombstone
Raiders of the Lost Ark, who knows, 40-50 times maybe, I’ve owned three copys on VHS, still waiting for the DVD.
Planes, Trains and Automobiles. I love this movie, though I havent seen it in a few years.
Life of Brian and Holy Grail, hey what can I say.
I used to watch Scrooge the musical every year for christmas but haven’t done that in a few years either.
That poem, and Dillman’s Grove (both poems by England’s greatest one-armed poet, the first man to be run over by a car), was in The Man With Two Brains, another Steve Martin movie. Was it in L. A. Story as well?
Jackie Brown. My…favoritist…movie…ever.
Seen it upwards of 15 times.
I cannot believe no one has mentioned Airplane
“Let’s get some pictures”
“I sure picked the wrong week to give up ______”
“Have you ever seen a grown man naked?”
The sign gags are great…like the drinking problem, the woman who goes hysterical, the taxi waiting outside the terminal, etc
I have no idea how many times I have seen this movie, but I would say over 30 times.
deb “don’t call me Shirley” 2world
I’m so original ! Princess Bride, Ferris Beuller, A Fish Called Wanda, Life of Brian, all the Indiana Joneses, L.A. Story …
Also I’ve seen A Christmas Story (“You’ll shoot your eye out!”) almost as many times as I’ve been through Christmas.
And I spent a week watching Snatch when my roommate played it over and over and over and over … (“Do you have anything to declare?” “Yes. Don’t go to England.” My friend was English.)
I have a friend who has seen Alive hundreds of times. I find that a bit creepy …
Not quite. It was released theatrically in 1994.
Yes it is. Harris (Steve) recites it to Sarah (Victoria) outside her window when he is trying to convince her to stay. She closes the shutters, which cuts him off.
I also forgot to mention Snatch. But, well, duh. Lookit my fricking sig.
I just have to mention my favourite quote from the Director’s Commentary on the DVD, even though I already did in another thread a few weeks ago.
Guy: Are you wearing my track pants?
Matt: Your girlfriend gave them to me.
Also the part where Guy tells Brad that he loves him and that they should get married and have children “and all that”.
A few years ago I was working at home as a freelance writer, and I spent most of the day at my desk. Early on our cable system hiccoughed and we suddenly started getting a free premium movie channel. The channel’s big attraction for the next several months was “Beetlegeuse” they played it almost constantly. I found it a great movie to work to as it was generally pleasant but not interesting enough to be a distraction, esp. after the tenth viewing.
I may well know it line for line:
“Sandworms! You hate 'em? Me, too!”
“I myself am strange and unusual.”
“If you don’t let me redecorate this house to my tastes, I will go insane and I will take you with me!”
“This thing reads like stereo instructions.”
“He does not work well with others.”
Yah, I have it memorized, for no particular reason.
Dah! Okay, my one concession to memorizing a movie for sheer “creep out the guests” points is Silence of the Lambs.
“Well, hallo, Clarice.”
“Oh, Senator? One more thing… love the suit.”
“It puts the lotion in the basket…”
“A census taker tried to test me once… I ate his liver. With some fava beans and a nice Chianti… freaky slurp-slurp-slurp sound here” :eek:
I saw Shallow Hal in the theaters 17 times, and have seen it several times since then with the DVD that I bought within 1 hour of when DVDs of Shallow Hal first became available to the public. I have set up my own shrine to the movie and everything: http://www.netcom.com/~rogermw/ShallowHal.html. I love this movie. I want to marry it.
And, yes, I can quote, from memory, all the lines Hal speaks in the elevator when he’s rattling off all the qualities of his ideal woman.
And who could forget such classic immortal lines as:
“I know what you’re thinkin’, ‘Where does she put it?’, right?”
“Get over here, Houdini!”
“Hal. Do me a favor and stop saying that I’m pretty and that I’m not fat, okay? 'Cause it makes me uncomfortable.”
“You know, there are a few times in a guy’s life – and I mean, two or three, tops – where he comes to a crossroads, and he’s gotta decide. If he goes one way, he can keep doing what he’s been doing, and be with any girl who’ll have him, and if he goes the other way, he only gets to be with one woman – maybe for the rest of his life. Now it seems that by taking the other road he’s missing out on a lot, but the truth is, he gets much more in return! He gets to be happy. Are you wearing panties?”
Which reminds me… I’m going to watch The Adventures of Baron Munchausen again.
Jaws " You’re gonna need a bigger boat."
Caddyshack " Hey you got a pool over there? Yeah, I got a pool and a pond. A pond’ll be good for you, Carl. "
Dr. Strangelove " NO FIGHTING IN THE WAR ROOM !! "
Young Frankenstein " My Grandfather worked for your Grandfather. Of course…the rates have gone up ".
Airplane " What’s happened so far? Well, first the earth cooled and the dinosaurs ROAAAAMED free. "
Ghostbusters " I’ve been slimed ! "
** This Is Spinal Tap** " It’s so hard to dust for vomit. "
The Untouchables " You know what a blood oath is? Yes. Good. You just took one "
** The Shining** " Danny’s not here, Mrs. Torrance".
Cartooniverse, who is now dying to go watch a nice movie this afternoon…
Upon reading the thread again, I kinda feel as though I hijacked a bit. The movies I quoted are ones I watch frequently.
I saw All That Jazz in the theatres 3 times when I was a kid. I couldn’t get enough of it. Oddly enough now, I don’t own it. Might have to recitfy that situation…
That was from Airplane II: The Sequel, not the original holiest-of-holies classic.
And the correct rendition is: “First the earth cooled. And then the dinosaurs came, but they got too big and fat, so they all died and they turned into oil. And then the Arabs came and they bought Mercedes Benzes. And Prince Charles started wearing all of Lady Di’s clothes. I couldn’t believe it.”
My number of viewings of Transformers: the Movie is somewhere in the triple digits.
“It is the year 2005…”