Which movie is more quotable?

[andrewducker]

Poll #24364

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More quotable?

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Aliens
4 (8.7%)

The Princess Bride
38 (82.6%)

SEWIWEIC
4 (8.7%)

Comments

[momentsmusicaux]

Is that SEWIWEIC part 1 or SEWIWEIC part 2?

[andrewducker]

The sequel is definitely more quotable.

[f4f3]

Inconceivable that it could be anything but The Princess Bride. Although Casablanca runs it close.

[nancylebov]

Probably the Princess Bride, but there are a lot of quotes in Ghost Busters.

[danieldwilliam]

Any of the Monty Python films.

[white_hart]

I said The Princess Bride, as it's the more quoteable of the two, but in fact the most quoteable film is Airplane!.

[pink_halen]

I can't think of any quotes from those two movies. Here are two that I quote from.
One you have heard of is "Baok to the Future."
One you haven't heard of is "Personal Services."

"The Future lies in Kinky people."

[andrewducker]

The 1987 Julie Walters film?

I'm aware of it, and I know of the real life story that inspired it. Haven't seen it though (I was a little young when it came out)

[calimac]

I've never seen Aliens, which puts a dent in its quotability for me. Though I have quoted from other movies I haven't seen.

[gingicat]

Star Wars Episode 4 (aka the original)

[inamac]

Star Wars - A New Hope (Which I know better than either Alien or Princess Bride.)

[hairyears]

Surely we've all quoted it, training the new joiner on the in-house time-recording application:

"The perfect HR Interface: it's purity of form is matched only by its hostility"


And that 'how the hell are we going to fix it?' meeting in which you offer the suggestion:

"What we gotta do, is take off - Now! - and nuke the site from orbit..."

To which all those present dutifully reply, in unison:

"...It's the only way to be sure"

[snippy]

Based on what actually gets quoted in my home, Aliens. We say "nuke the site from orbit, it's the only way to be sure" at least every other day.

Monty Python episodes because ...

[agoodwinsmith]

... the first way that my crowd was introduced to Monty Python was by vinyl long play albums. We listened to them over and over, and sometimes all chanted the lines as it played. "There's a penguin on the television" and so on.

[davidcook]

So I'm assuming you're aware, but just in case - when this appeared on Faceborg, it had the title, but not the poll/options, which may explain why the answers were a bit more free-ranging than you may have expected :)

[andrewducker]

Yup, that kind of thing doesn't carry over through Facebook's scraping. You have to click the link.

[andrewducker]

But I'm always happy to have discussion going on.

[ckd]

The Princess Bride has at least one eminently quotable line for almost every speaking character. The Mother is an exception, the King's quotable bits only occur as part of conversations ("she kissed me" isn't interesting on its own), and I don't remember if the Queen even has a line...but even the one-scene Ancient Booer has several quotable lines during her denunciation of Buttercup.

[jducoeur]

I'm going to say Monty Python and the Holy Grail. But The Princess Bride is a close second.