.. do you know most dialogue from?
Mine are
Tombstone
The Vikings
Kind Heart and Coronets.
Chicken Run, Hot Fuzz, Blazing Saddles
Scarface
Razorback
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (mostly from reading but the film cemented them)
The Blues Brothers. 20 years ago I could have made a fair stab at quoting the entire film. It's faded a bit now though.
I'm struggling to think of any more that come close.
Withnail and I
"Two quid? You're out of your mind! You can shove it up your arse for nothing and you can f^ck off while you're doing it."
The Big Lebowski
"I like it too. The male myth about feminists is that we hate sex. It can be a natural, zesty enterprise. However, there are some people, it is called satyriasis in men, nymphomania in women, who engage in it compulsively and without joy..." ["Oh no.] "Oh. Yes, Mr Lebowski"
Living in Oblivion
"Great! I freak in your dream, I freak out in my dream, no wonder I'm so f^cking exhausted."
Probably The Princess Bride for me. Inconceivable.
"...only got two states of being: dangerous....or dead!"
I do not think that word means what you think it means.
Dialogue. Not necessarily favourite films, but epic, simple entertainment with great jokes and massive piss-takes. In no particular order:
Life of Brian
Star Trek IV (the one with the whales)
Young Frankenstein
... and Flash Gordon, obviously.
Blazing Saddles
Monty Python and the Holy Grail/Life of Brian
Top Gun, probably
Withnail & I
Monty Python and The Holy Grail
Indiana Jones and The Temple of Doom
...
Here hare here
or possibly Mike Leigh’s Naked should be in there displacing Poltergeist
> or possibly Mike Leigh’s Naked should be in there displacing Poltergeist
Ooh! The Breakfast Club. And as some others have said, Apocalypse Now. Sorry that’s six but at least one of them isn’t one of the obvious ones 😃
The Princess Bride
Life of Brian
Naked Gun (by association, my partner loves it)
It's like a pretentious love in, in reality most who are parents will be listing;
Toy story
Shrek
Frozen
Ice age
grandparents get to miss a lot of that stuff
> grandparents get to miss a lot of that stuff
You don't know what you're missing, half are films for grown ups disguised as kids movies.
> It's like a pretentious love in, in reality most who are parents will be listing;
A pedant writes: I hope you're not teaching your kids to introduce a list with a semicolon.
> Dune
> Poltergeist
> Point Break
Dune seems like cheating given there is hardly any dialogue. I always enjoy (from the book, can't remember whether it is in the film): "Parting with people is a sadness, a place is only a place".
> A pedant writes: I hope you're not teaching your kids to introduce a list with a semicolon.
No. It should be a colon, semi colons mid list if grouping things together? Good job I'm not and never pretend to be an english teacher. Most of my English lessons at school consisted of the teacher hitting kids, or being hit, education wasn't its strong point.
South Park: Bigger, Longer and Uncut
Shaving Private Ryan
Terminator: Genisys
> Most of my English lessons at school consisted of the teacher hitting kids, or being hit, education wasn't its strong point.
When I started teaching English, it was still quite common to give a kid a clip round the back of the head or lift them out of their seat by a twisted earlobe. Seems hard to believe looking back. Even years later, when I was a head, parents would often comment to me along the lines of, "I don't know how you manage without the cane." The answer of course was that words always worked better.
> It's like a pretentious love in
> When I started teaching English, it was still quite common to give a kid a clip round the back of the head or lift them out of their seat by a twisted earlobe.
I can only hope comprehensive schools in former NE pit communities have moved on too. Kids pinned to the wall with feet flailing wasn't that uncommon. Anyway I did eventually get my English via college evening classes, it was like a revelation when they started talking about metaphors etc... I'd never heard of them before.
Anyway we digress, the original star wars hasn't featured yet. Perhaps this isn't the thread fans were looking for.
There's always some who'll claim high brow viewing. Anyway, we'll see how it goes, I'll be back.
> Dune seems like cheating given there is hardly any dialogue. I always enjoy (from the book, can't remember whether it is in the film): "Parting with people is a sadness, a place is only a place".
That line is not in the film.
Dune doesn't feel to me like it has "hardly any dialogue", any more than Apocalypse Now, but sure compared to Pulp Fiction it's a silent movie
I once made a point of not attending a cinema screening of Dune for fear I might get thrown out for treating it like my own Rocky Horror Picture Show and shouting a load of lines at the screen before the actors speak them.
"You'll have no need of your weapons with me, Gurney Halleck"
> I can only hope comprehensive schools in former NE pit communities have moved on too.
A lot of pit village secondaries have gone; they're really centralising them across the county. It's perhaps worst up the dale where attending a 6th form can involve a 1.5 hour journey over two busses, each way, every day.
Is nobody going to mention the Rocky Horror Picture Show?
Or are we all just waiting for that one to heighten the sense of antici...
> How is any of this pretentious? Massively popular films that are often subject both to repeat viewings and to having lines quoted out of context.
> Pretentious would be
> A Bout de Souffle
Oh dear, that would certainly make my top 10!
Quelle est votre ambition dans la vie?/Devenir immortel et puis mourir.
> How is any of this pretentious? Massively popular films that are often subject both to repeat viewings and to having lines quoted out of context.
> Pretentious would be
> A Bout de Souffle
> Wild Strawberries
> Berlin Alexanderplatz
> etc
Indeed. For recalling dialogue and pretentious points, I'll raise you:
Quest for Fire
La Jetée
Fanny och Alexander
> There's always some who'll claim high brow viewing. Anyway, we'll see how it goes, I'll be back.
Hasta la vista, baby.
Nice to see Bergman retained. Good calls on all. My three were just random, off the top of my head, and I wasn't going down the "dialogue-free" route.
I see your Quest for Fire and raise you "Caveman" starring Ringo Starr, Barbara Bach and Dennis Quaid.
Local Hero
MP and the Holy Grail
Moana
And I'd happily watch all three again today.
Withnail and I and The Big Lebowski are probably the only films I know a decent amount of the dialogue of, surely two of the most quotable films of all time?
Third may be Pulp Fiction, but I really don't know anything like as much of that as the other two...
I'm a trained actor reduced to the status of a bum
Do all Mike Leigh's works count as films?
I could have included Nuts in May, which seems like a film in most respects, but not Abigail's Party which is what I consider to be a conventional play. Is it something to do with the recording medium?
Gladiator. The rest of you are clearly not entertained.
Love Actually. No, really.
The two Monty Python films. Cheating, I know, but I couldn't leave either one out.
Aren't there four Monty Python films though?
I know the first and last aren't a patch on the middle two, but they do exist!
Pedant! I mean The Holy Grail and Life of Brian. The ones where every line is memorable.
> Do all Mike Leigh's works count as films?
> I could have included Nuts in May, which seems like a film in most respects, but not Abigail's Party which is what I consider to be a conventional play. Is it something to do with the recording medium?
Hmmm
Dangerous ground, discounting adaptations like that. No Tennessee Williams, no David Mamet, and even those rare adaptations of novels where the dialogue is taken straight from the novel (I think the 1995 Sense and Sensibility and the more recent Little Women and "Emma." did this) seem not to be allowed by what you are possibly suggesting here.
Mike Leigh's "Naked" is certainly a film, and at that time his most precisely scripted one - unlike his earlier works the spoken dialogue didn't arise from improvisation sessions
Just posting to give my wholehearted approval for "WHICH three films" rather than "WHAT three films", do approve of the Kind Hearts and Coronets also
Withnail and I
I went up to 'Crow Cragg' in 2009, when it was derelict and the panel blocking the door was covered in quotes. There was also a wooden plaque fixed with 'Here hare here' by an afficionado. Now, it's been done up and the owner runs Withnail breaks.
2001: a Space Odyssey
Open the pod bay doors, Hal
> She's got a magnificent pair of lungs
News does tend to travel fast around here. Mmmmmm.
Can't believe I missed that out, and Toy Story, arguably my favourite quote film of all time, if it wasn't for Toy Story 2.
and (slightly altered):
My three favourite films are ....
I'll come in again.
> The Lost Boys
Interesting! Apart from some Frog Brothers stuff I can’t think of any quotable stuff from it, although Kiefer Sutherland’s lines are easy to remember as 70% of them are just him saying “Mmmmmiiiiiiiiiichael” 😃
Bernard Hughes’ character has some great lines.m, especially his closing words.
“Death by Stereo” however takes some beating.
There is a lot of chanting/repeating “Michael” to be fair.
> Is nobody going to mention the Rocky Horror Picture Show? Or are we all just waiting for that one to heighten the sense of antici...
.. pation.
Jeez. Tough crowd.
Another one I'm surprised hasn't had a mention is Aliens, given how often Ripley's advice to "take off and nuke the entire site from orbit" gets quoted on here. (To be fair, it really is the only way to be sure.) Game over, man, game over!
Apollo 13
Monty Python and the Holy Grail
The Eiger Sanction (North Face, .. naturally)
> Another one I'm surprised hasn't had a mention is Aliens, given how often Ripley's advice to "take off and nuke the entire site from orbit" gets quoted on here. (To be fair, it really is the only way to be sure.) Game over, man, game over!
Amazing that no one has said 'Planes, trains and automobiles' yet (unless I've missed that).
> Don't worry, the thread is predictably mutating into "which films do you know most dialogue from" to "what are your favourite movie quotes".
Hm.. fair point. Guilty as charged with 'Aliens' - I only know a handful of quotes, not a big chunk of the whole dialogue.
I genuinely was quite surprised to see Rocky Horror scoring so low though. (There can't be many films that have so often been shown at the cinema to audiences who largely already know every word.) Showing my age a bit maybe. Mind you - with a strict interpretation of the rule suggested above that film adaptations of existing plays aren't allowed, it should probably be disqualified anyway.
> Do yah like dags? You know dags?
> I'm sure there are many more.
"I need a shite." was my favourite, possibly Brad Pitt's finest moment.
> Mind you - with a strict interpretation of the rule suggested above that film adaptations of existing plays aren't allowed, it should probably be disqualified anyway.
I don’t think Tom was really suggesting such a thing, he just got on a Mike Leigh tangent briefly
Also possibly in my top three is A Good Year. Even more so than Love Actually, it got slated in reviews, but we have watched it enough times by now to know most of the dialogue, which is why we keep watching it.
Surprised Zulu dialogue hasn't got more followers.
Aliens
Predator
Dune
Mood? Mood Is a thing for cattle and loveplay.....
Now guard yourself for true!
> Surprised Zulu dialogue hasn't got more followers.
Bits and bobs but not the whole film. Lots of “boring” stuff at the start. Not like Dune which is full on theatrical camp from the moment Virginia Madsen’s space-ghost floating head fades into view 😃
Memorised all the captions have you?
Jaws, Ghostbusters, Once Upon a Time in the West (or any of the earlier Leone films).
Need to remember, for kids of a certain age there were books of the films... Hardwired.
Obviously Jaws was the other way round.
I forgot Terminator (the first and only)...
Noseferatu sounds interesting.
More 'most quoted' than 'know every line' but:
Spinal Tap
Holy Grail
Aliens (Game over man, game over!)
I forgot "Local Hero"
and "An Ocurrence at Owl Creek" (1962)
> Don't worry, the thread is predictably mutating into "which films do you know most dialogue from" to "what are your favourite movie quotes".
If we are being strict with the original question, so "most" meaning highest total not highest proportion, and "dialogue" meaning one actor speaks and another responds, then I suspect we are looking for quickfire, quotable films where the quotes/jokes take the form of call and response*.
Ones that fit those criteria and come to mind are: Airplane, In Bruges, Hot Fuzz, Mel Brookes films. The challenge of course is to actually remember the setup as well as the punchline, but that's not important right now.
*"YOU'RE a quickfire, quotable film where the quotes/jokes take the form of call and response".
Harry Potter - all of them.
> Dune
> Mood? Mood Is a thing for cattle and loveplay.....
> Now guard yourself for true!
Certainly I remember the version of those lines in the book - and I haven't read it for probably thirty years.
I guess my three films would be Hot Fuzz, Life of Brian and Casablanca.
I would have said Henry V, but that's only really remembering bits of Shakespeare rather than a film script.
> .....Airplane, In Bruges, Hot Fuzz, Mel Brookes films....
I'd forgotten "Airplane!" Full of great lines
Spinal Tap, Life of Brian, Wild Strawberries
Both predictable and pretentious
Don't call me Shirley
It's an entirely different kind of flying, altogether
Damn, got me there...
Serenity, Hot Fuzz, and unfortunately, due to my niece's obsession, Frozen!
Glengarry glenross. Superb writing and acting.
Midnight express
dead poets society
Good to see this thread for some promts about films I need to search out
Memorised all the caption cards have you?
All is Lost..
Pulp Fiction - can practically recite the whole script!
Burn After Reading
The Godfather
Obviously I can remember many lines from films I worked on. On every movie we'd be wandering around the cutting room quoting lines that seemed appropriate for the moment. E.g.:
'Things could be better, Lloyd. Things could be a whole lot better.'
'The Zambuli warriors have arrived.'
'The critics? I have nothing but compassion for them. How can I hate the crippled, the mentally deficient and the dead?'
Is that second one from the film by He Who Shall Not Be Named?
No, it was by John Guillermin: Sheena, Queen of the Jungle.
That was what I meant by He Who Shall Not Be Named! Did you think I meant Stanley?
Ah! I don't remember Guillermin ever being given that epithet. He was very, very difficult by any standards. No, I did not think you meant SK
Just my quickly-made-up epithet. Looking back, maybe not obvious! I know all the issues he presented, thanks to you (and that birthday message from Tanya from some years ago, that you shared, half of which seemed to be about John!)
Before he died I would have had to be very careful about what I said about him. But I still better not here: except, the way he treated people was truly dreadful (not helped by an obvious drink problem).
The extraordinary thing about Mr K was just how gentle he was. I'll be starting to write a short book about working with him very soon, having just finished the huge biography of my once-famous world speed record-breaking great uncle that's bogged me down for 11 years (going to my agent this week).
Congratulations on finishing your long project . Check your email.
Thanks. But I can't see anything in my mailbox. Please send again (I may have inadvertently wiped it.)
Sounds like a lot of my emails have not reached you in the past 18 months then!
I’ll send a test. It’s not via UKC, it’s direct from my webmail to the address I have for you (the domain is your name, maybe this is now out of use or unchecked)
I've had very few emails from you. And there are no more now. Just one 'test' email at 16:07.
Check your junk mail Gordon, I had a really good email from Blue a while back but due to some glitch or other it went directly to my junk folder. Mark it as 'not junk' and future emails should come through fine.
> Koyaanisqatsi
Memorised all the Philip Glass choral bits have you? (or is it all instrumental on that one? I know there is a lot of great vocal on Powaqaatsi....)
No, there's nothing from Kenny in my junk email.
> Memorised all the Philip Glass choral bits have you?
Yes. Yes I have.
Kooooyaahhh-ni-sqaaatsiiiii.....
etc.
Have just resent the mail I sent last night. There’s something odd going on, maybe (for example) you once upon a time set up your email to filter and block anything from me containing a link
> South Park: Bigger, Longer and Uncut
> Shaving Private Ryan
> Terminator: Genisys
Did you mean Shaving Ryan's Privates?
I'm sure I've never blocked you ... and I certainly haven't changed anything recently (i.e. unblocked you)
The Lord of the Rings Trilogy (slightly book related)
Star Wars
Monty Python and the Holy Grail
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