I mentioned Cameron from Ferris Bueller's Day Off to a friend of mine today, and he automatically quoted the line about his father's car:
"It's his love, his passion. It's his fault he didn't lock the garage."
It made me think of how many movies we grew up with or loved to watch so much, that we can nearly quote the whole movie. Of course for many of us Star Wars and its sequels are at the top of that list. (And no, he did not say, "Luke, I am your father" exactly; but other memorable lines they did say.)
Yoda: "Find someone you have." (Empire Strikes Back.)
Also Yoda: "There is no try." (Empire Strikes Back.)
But there are many, many fun movies that evoke a memory of certain lines when they are brought up.
"Roads? Where we are going, we don't need roads..." (Back to the Future)
Some might be true classics.
"Play it." (Casablanca) -- By the way, NOT "Play it again, Sam" -- just like the Darth father thing, a line that is often misquoted.
But most of the time, I think, they are just fun guilty pleasures that remind us of good times growing up or seeing movies with friends. So, I thought I would ask you guys what movie lines really stand out for you.
Which ones can you quote automatically from your own memory?
"It's his love, his passion. It's his fault he didn't lock the garage."
It made me think of how many movies we grew up with or loved to watch so much, that we can nearly quote the whole movie. Of course for many of us Star Wars and its sequels are at the top of that list. (And no, he did not say, "Luke, I am your father" exactly; but other memorable lines they did say.)
Yoda: "Find someone you have." (Empire Strikes Back.)
Also Yoda: "There is no try." (Empire Strikes Back.)
But there are many, many fun movies that evoke a memory of certain lines when they are brought up.
"Roads? Where we are going, we don't need roads..." (Back to the Future)
Some might be true classics.
"Play it." (Casablanca) -- By the way, NOT "Play it again, Sam" -- just like the Darth father thing, a line that is often misquoted.
But most of the time, I think, they are just fun guilty pleasures that remind us of good times growing up or seeing movies with friends. So, I thought I would ask you guys what movie lines really stand out for you.
Which ones can you quote automatically from your own memory?
My DH works nights, so I was watching the end of movie 1 (Hunchback) when he got up. He proceeded to watch them with me. About halfway through Cinderella, he asked "How many times have you watched this?"
I wasn't really sure...seen at the theater as a child and then shared it with my children...especially with DD as she was growing up...probably listened to it a few times while she watched it and I was doing other things around the house..."Why?" His reply, "You quoted the whole movie with the characters." 
(Pay back for him playing 'Mystery Science Theater 3000' or whatever it was called when our DS was a teenager...couldn't watch a movie w/o them making some comments every few minutes...they thought they were being funny, just like the shows 'audience'.)
I can turn the tv down and do full dialogue for The Polar Express, Strange Brew, A Hard Day's Night, Who Framed Roger Rabbit, Over the Hedge, the Harry Potter series, The Mummy series, the Pirates of the Caribbean series, The Lord of the Rings series, the Shrek series, the Kung Fu Panda series, the Madagascar series, and of course all Star Wars. I started doing it when I was little just to drive my family crazy. (Hey, there were worse things I could have done. 
) It just turned into a hobby as I got older I guess. Instead of quoting from all my favorite movies, I'll give you lines from the first full script I memorized.
