I blame this on crantz, you big noodle.

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More stupid questions for ye olde friends list from yours truly ...

1. What movies can be guaranteed to make you cry every damn time you see them?

2. If you could only watch one movie for the rest of your life, which one would you pick?

3. Which movies that everybody you know loved, that made tons of money, and/or had critical acclaim do you despise?

4. Which movies are you embarrassed to admit you love?

5. If you were asked to recite a movie from beginning to end from memory, which one do you think you would have the best shot at?

6. Which movie star, past or present, would you kill to look like?

7. Which movie star, past or present, would you kill to have their talent?

8. Which movie star, past or present, do you think is totally underappreciated?

9. What are your favorite movie quotes of all time?

Don't mind me. I'm just a wee bit bored, not to mention I'm at buzzed and slowly crawling towards drunk. It's too bad drunk has a tendency to sit two feet away from me ... although can't say my bank account's not grateful. :)

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I have too many quotes.

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1. What movies can be guaranteed to make you cry every damn time you see them?
Au Revoir les Enfants, which sounds pretentious, but it’s the truth. Also, Zulu and A Bridge Too Far, both times at the singing scenes. War movie fans will know what I’m talking about.

2. If you could only watch one movie for the rest of your life, which one would you pick?
Difficult. There are no films I wouldn’t grow to hate. It’d probably be one of Die Hard, Heathers, Pulp Fiction, and Grosse Pointe Blank. I like people getting shot in my entertainment.

3. Which movies that everybody you know loved, that made tons of money, and/or had critical acclaim do you despise?
Everybody I know in real life liked Austin Powers: The Spy who Shagged me, which I consider to have been an utter waste of my time.

4. Which movies are you embarrassed to admit you love?
I’m not embarassed. I’m not ashamed. Some people are surprised at my affection for Highlander, but I usually manage to make an argument of great sword fights and the Queen soundtrack. Oh, wait, I know! Striptease. If you ignore the scenes with Demi Moore dancing and her breasts standing still, not to mention all the other scenes with Demi Moore doing anything whatsoever, you’re left with a seriously funny movie in which Ving Rhames and Armand Assante effortlessly steal the whole thing. But it’s not something you can normally admit to liking except when in the presence of a bunch of other blokes.
Oh yeah, and Octopussy is my favourite Bond film. What can I say? It’s got Vijay, it’s got the Giant Yo-Yo of Death, and they put Roger Moore into a clown suit. It’s perfect.

5. If you were asked to recite a movie from beginning to end from memory, which one do you think you would have the best shot at?
Loads of films. I have an exceptionally good memory, and a bad habit of talking in quotes. I could mouth along through pretty much all of Pulp Fiction, for example, not to mention Heathers.

6. Which movie star, past or present, would you kill to look like?
Sean Bean. Oh, to look that good with a stubble.

7. Which movie star, past or present, would you kill to have their talent?
Anthony Hopkins. The man can do amazing things with his eyes. Or possibly Wesley Snipes, assuming ‘talent’ includes his fifth-dan black belt in capoeira.

8. Which movie star, past or present, do you think is totally underappreciated?
Gabriel Byrne. Yes, I know a lot of people do appreciate him, and everyone knows he’s hugely talented. The fact remains, though, that Colin Farrell, of all people, is a bigger star than him. Why?

9. What are your favorite movie quotes of all time?
So, so many.

See the follow-up post.

And here they are.

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‘It’s one hundred and six miles to Chicago, we’ve got a full tank of gas, half a pack of cigarettes, it’s dark, and we’re wearing sunglasses.’
‘Hit it.’

‘Do I look like I had a brain tumour for breakfast?’

‘Fuck me gently with a chainsaw.’

‘I love my dead gay son!’

‘Say what again! I dare you, I double dare you, say what again!’

‘Yippie-kie-yay, motherfucker!’

‘Is my shit together, or is my shit together?’

‘I want knowledge, not faith, not suppositions, but knowledge. I want God to stretch out His hand towards me, reveal Himself, and speak to me.’
…
‘I call out to him in the dark but no one seems to be there.’
‘Perhaps no one is there.’
‘Then life is an outrageous horror. No one can live in the face of death, knowing that all is nothingness.’
…
‘In our fear, we make an image, and that image we call God.’

‘Monsieur Rick, what kind of a man is Captain Renault?’
‘Oh, he's just like any other man, only more so.’

‘We mustn’t underestimate American blundering. I was with them when they blundered into Berlin in 1918.’
In context, this is probably the best line ever spoken in any movie ever.

‘Well there are certain sections of New York, Major, that I wouldn't advise you to try to invade.’

‘Wait a minute. Robin Hood steals money from my pocket, forcing me to hurt the public, and they love him for it? That's it then. Cancel the kitchen scraps for lepers and orphans, no more merciful beheadings, and call off Christmas!’

‘You! My room. 10:30 tonight. You! 10:45. And bring a friend.’

‘This is grain, which any fool can eat, but which the Lord intended for a more divine means of consumption. Let us praise our maker and do glory to his bounty by learning about... beer.’

‘Hello, my name is Inigo Montoya. You killed my father: prepare to die.’

‘You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.’

‘You seem a decent enough fellow. I hate to kill you.’
‘You seem a decent enough fellow. I hate to die.’

‘You fell victim to one of the classic blunders, the most famous of which is ‘Never get involved in a land war in Asia’.’

‘I want my father back, you son of a bitch!’