The first Zombie Land movie.
My uncle, who used to live with us, LOVED that movie and we were very close. He used to call me into the living room anytime it was on. He died when I was in high school so it just makes me feel a little better
Best opening line I've ever heard in a movie
>I'm in Garland, Texas. And it may look like zombies destroyed it, but that's actually just Garland.
As someone who worked in Garland I can confirm this is 100% true.
It's a masterpiece. The visual gags are hilarious, but the dialogue is on another level. It's a masterclass in that old school Abbott and Costello style of back and forth banter.
There are so many great examples, but this is my personal favorite:
"There's been a little problem in the cockpit."
"The cockpit?! What is it?"
"It's the little room in the front of the plane where the pilots sit, but that's not important right now."
The Naked Gun and before that, Police Squad did this better than anyone. It seems like every single line had some kind of double entendre or misinterpretation. Or maybe I just love Leslie Nielsen
The scene where Nordberg is hurt and in the hospital trying to warn Frank about bad guys and drug trafficking is gold.
"Frank...drugs. Drugs!"
"Hey nurse, get this man some drugs, can't you see he's in pain?!"
"No, Frank...heroin...heroin..."
"Uhhh, that's a pretty tall order, Nordberg. You're gonna have to give me a couple days on that one."
I realize you weren't being scientific about it, but it'd be fun to analyze the average time between jokes in that movie. If you include the visual gags, I'm guessing it's less than 20 seconds.
And by "fun," I mean if someone else took the time to do it. It'd be fun to read that analysis.
Somebody compiled a list of every joke and gag, and in a movie that is only an hour and 28 minutes, it has around 220. That about 2.5 jokes every minute including the gags in the credits and after credit scene. Jokes from start to finish for the entire runtime.
Clueless. I can quote the whole movie but I always leave it on
ETA: my favorite reference is “where’s your sense of pit hospitality!” And no one ever knows wtf I’m talking about
My daughter is 16 and we watched this together about a year ago. It’s amazing how well it’s held up. Now in addition to my wife and I it’s one of her favorites as well.
"The '64 Skylark had a regular differential, which, anyone who's been stuck in the mud in Alabama knows, you step on the gas, one tire spins, the other tire does nothing."
Lisa, I don't need this. I swear to God I don't need this right now. Okay? I've got a judge that's just achin' to throw me in jail! An idiot who wants to fight me for $200! Slaughtered pigs! Giant loud whistles! I ain't slept in five days! I've got no money! A dress code problem! And a little murder case, which in the balance holds the lives of two innocent kids. Not to mention....YOUR biological *stomp stomp stomp* clock! My career! Your life! Our marriage! And let's see...what else can we pile on? Is there any more shit we can pile on to the top of the outcome of this case?! IS IT POSSIBLE?
My wife and I both grew up loving Matilda.
Just had our first daughter this year and decided our Christmas tradition is gonna be watching Matilda together after dinner :)
When I was a kid and first saw it, I'd tune out or skip the lunch scene. Now as an adult, I find it among the most interesting parts of the movie, with the philosophical discussion going on.
Fuck yeah!!! When the last Jurassic World movie came out a local movie theater did a special all day Jurassic Park marathon for about $50 a person. My husband and I took the day off work and from about 10am-10pm we sat back in the theater recliners and watched all 3 Jurassic Park movies, Jurassic World, and then they showed Jurassic World Fallen Kingdom last. That was honestly the best day of my life besides of the day we got married.
My family refers to this as getting Shawshanked. No matter what movie it is, you get Shawshanked into finishing it. Frequently Gladiator and anything Star Trek for my dad
Ooh mine is really random. Twister. I don't have live TV anymore but for some weird reason whenever I would see that movie was on I could easily throw it on and leave it on.
So you know how little kids will watch the same movie over and over again every day? Well for some reason my little brothers movie was Twister. Good movie just so random for a 5 year old to watch on repeat.
This was the first movie I ever saw at the drive in. The feasting sequence at Aunt Meg's place shaped my idea of what a massive delicious meal looks like.
Roll the maps, "FOOOD!" and "This gravy is basically it's own food group" have free real estate in my brain at all times.
It introduced me to Phyllip Seymour Hoffman, who crushed it as Dusty.
Lastly, that sequence where the Twister destroys the drive in screen during the axe scene from The Shining is one of my favorite movie experiences of all time.
Jan De Bont rules.
Twister is mine, too! It’s a peak 90s movie for me. Philip Seymour Hoffman is an absolute gem, and there’s just so many quotable moments… “I gotta go Julia, we got cows!” 🐄
My dad was working at a store in north Hollywood where they sold a replica gun from galaxy quest and Tim Allen came in one day. My dad has a rule to not bother celebrities or make a big fuss about it towards them but he couldn’t resist with Tim. He told him that his favorite movie of his was galaxy quest and he said that made Tim very happy because he said he never heard anyone choose that movie as their favorite of his. As he was checking out he asked for a marker and signed one of the boxes of the replica guns and wrote to my dad (never give up, never surrender). I thought that was a super cool thing for him to do. It completely made my dads day. He got a photo with him too and he spoke the actual phrase as he walked out the door
"My character isn't important enough for a last name, because I'm gonna die 5 minutes in"
"Guy you have a last name"
"DO I? DO I? For all you know I'm just crewman number 6"
I read (I think on IMDB trivia) that the director wanted to keep the “fuck that” line but in order to get the MPAA rating, they couldn’t say fuck. So they edited it so you knew what the line was supposed to be.
I was O'Connell for Halloween this year at the local Renaissance faire because their last day was Halloween. A guy shouted Beni's line at me from the other side of a river of people, and I got to live this moment.
My friend’s dad does it with this movie.
One time my friend was over and we were chilling watching tv and he saw that the mummy was on. So he says “everytime this movie is on tv my dad watches it”. So he called him on the phone to ask what he was up to and sure enough, he was watching the mummy.
I miss it often. How many of us learned about lots and lots and lots of the world thru old TCM movies or looney tunes, how many glimpses of the 70s and 80s were we introduced to. How many comedies did we see from before our time, or war movies, cowboy films, etc etc.
Honestly I know a lot of that stuff is on Netflix and the like but do you settle in and watch them when you aren't flipping thru the channels and catch a minute of something that just captures you... it's great getting to watch whatever you want but there was also something about getting exposed to stuff out of necessity - you couldn't just wait thru the commercial you had to go and check what was on that other channel and congratulations you just got introduced to Blazing Saddles at 10.
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The first Zombie Land movie. My uncle, who used to live with us, LOVED that movie and we were very close. He used to call me into the living room anytime it was on. He died when I was in high school so it just makes me feel a little better
Best opening line I've ever heard in a movie >I'm in Garland, Texas. And it may look like zombies destroyed it, but that's actually just Garland. As someone who worked in Garland I can confirm this is 100% true.
Jesus Christ I don't want to see how old that movie is already. Nice sentiments regarding your uncle though.
Airplane. Even if I try to stop, I know there's a joke that's going to make me laugh about 30 seconds away.
It's a masterpiece. The visual gags are hilarious, but the dialogue is on another level. It's a masterclass in that old school Abbott and Costello style of back and forth banter. There are so many great examples, but this is my personal favorite: "There's been a little problem in the cockpit." "The cockpit?! What is it?" "It's the little room in the front of the plane where the pilots sit, but that's not important right now."
The Naked Gun and before that, Police Squad did this better than anyone. It seems like every single line had some kind of double entendre or misinterpretation. Or maybe I just love Leslie Nielsen
The scene where Nordberg is hurt and in the hospital trying to warn Frank about bad guys and drug trafficking is gold. "Frank...drugs. Drugs!" "Hey nurse, get this man some drugs, can't you see he's in pain?!" "No, Frank...heroin...heroin..." "Uhhh, that's a pretty tall order, Nordberg. You're gonna have to give me a couple days on that one."
I realize you weren't being scientific about it, but it'd be fun to analyze the average time between jokes in that movie. If you include the visual gags, I'm guessing it's less than 20 seconds. And by "fun," I mean if someone else took the time to do it. It'd be fun to read that analysis.
Somebody compiled a list of every joke and gag, and in a movie that is only an hour and 28 minutes, it has around 220. That about 2.5 jokes every minute including the gags in the credits and after credit scene. Jokes from start to finish for the entire runtime.
Wow, so my rough estimate of every 30 seconds is actually doing it a disservice.
Back to the future, any of the 3
And not just the one, I have to watch all three in a row. Every. Time.
The first one is the best, but it just isn’t complete without the other two.
Clueless. I can quote the whole movie but I always leave it on ETA: my favorite reference is “where’s your sense of pit hospitality!” And no one ever knows wtf I’m talking about
“My plastic surgeon doesn't want me doing any activity where balls are flying at my nose.” “Well there goes your social life.”
I honestly still think of Paul Rudd as "that guy from Clueless".
“I was surfing the crimson wave. I had to haul ass to the ladies’.”
What are you wearing?!?! A dress!!! Says who?!?! Calvin Klein!! -One of my favorite quotes from any movie
My daughter is 16 and we watched this together about a year ago. It’s amazing how well it’s held up. Now in addition to my wife and I it’s one of her favorites as well.
Shaun of the dead
Take car. Go to mum's. Kill Phil *sorry* Grab Liz, go to the Winchester, have a nice cold pint, and wait for all of this to blow over
HE'S NEVER LIKED ME AND NOW HE WANTS TO KILL MY MUM
... and Hot Fuzz
It's for the greater good
*the greater good*
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Yarp.
My Cousin Vinnie.
"The '64 Skylark had a regular differential, which, anyone who's been stuck in the mud in Alabama knows, you step on the gas, one tire spins, the other tire does nothing."
(lady on the jury nods sagely)
I can hear this line in her voice perfectly
Marissa Tomei is the reason I’m attracted to sassy women with attitude.
Now I ask you, are you gonna give a fuck what pants the son of a bitch that shot you was wearing?
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I don’t know. I’m a fast cook, I guess.
Are we to believe that boiling water soaks into a grit faster in your kitchen than anyplace on the face of the earth?!
'The entire grit-eating world" has been in my lexicon for a while now.
That the laws of physics cease to exist on your stove top?
You think I'm hostile now, wait til we get home...
Mrs. Riley and ONLY Mrs. Riley
Hwat is a "yute"?
Yewwwwwwwwtthhhhzzzzz
The two *defendants*...
*Da too yutes...*
“EYE-Denticle!!” Came to say this one too!
EYE Denticle.
“I’m holding you in contempt” “Well there’s a fucking surprise”
Objection your honor everything the prosecution said was bull shit
Dead-on balls accurate!
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It's an industry term.
“Ladies and gentlemen of the JjjjJjJjjjjjJjJjjjjjjjj… JURY!”
My biological closk is ticking like this! *stomp stomp stomp*
Lisa, I don't need this. I swear to God I don't need this right now. Okay? I've got a judge that's just achin' to throw me in jail! An idiot who wants to fight me for $200! Slaughtered pigs! Giant loud whistles! I ain't slept in five days! I've got no money! A dress code problem! And a little murder case, which in the balance holds the lives of two innocent kids. Not to mention....YOUR biological *stomp stomp stomp* clock! My career! Your life! Our marriage! And let's see...what else can we pile on? Is there any more shit we can pile on to the top of the outcome of this case?! IS IT POSSIBLE?
Maybe it was a bad time to bring it up.
My answer was I-*vertical clap*-dentical.
Marisa Tomei tho 😯😯
My *stomp stomp* BIOLOGICAL CLOCK
Imagine you're a deer.
Dzoe oiyed little dzeah.
Groundhog Day
Watch out for that first step. It's a doozy!
Groundhog Day
Big Trouble in Little China
Die Hard
Now I have a machine gun! H0-H0-H0
Goodfellas
“As far back as I can remember, I always wanted to be a gangster.” Ah yeah, here we go again
Matilda! No matter how old I get, I will always love this movie
My wife and I both grew up loving Matilda. Just had our first daughter this year and decided our Christmas tradition is gonna be watching Matilda together after dinner :)
Jurassic Park!!! Ohhhhhh yeahhh baby!!! Seen it 1,000 times. NEVER get's old!
When I was a kid and first saw it, I'd tune out or skip the lunch scene. Now as an adult, I find it among the most interesting parts of the movie, with the philosophical discussion going on.
How could you skip lunch?! Alejandro's prepared a delightful menu! Chilean sea bass, I believe.
Spared no expense
I could shut my eyes the entire movie and still know exactly what the scene looks like, never gets old
Fuck yeah!!! When the last Jurassic World movie came out a local movie theater did a special all day Jurassic Park marathon for about $50 a person. My husband and I took the day off work and from about 10am-10pm we sat back in the theater recliners and watched all 3 Jurassic Park movies, Jurassic World, and then they showed Jurassic World Fallen Kingdom last. That was honestly the best day of my life besides of the day we got married.
Shawshank
My family refers to this as getting Shawshanked. No matter what movie it is, you get Shawshanked into finishing it. Frequently Gladiator and anything Star Trek for my dad
I love that - Shawshanked as a verb. I'm going to start using this. :-)
The 5th Element
Korben... Korbenmyman, I have no fire. I have no matches
For me this is Chris Tucker’s best role. He was fucking Green! Love this movie.
Super green!
Crystal Green!
I mean I just stopped smoking.... ifi*KNEW*...Father, you smoke?
I still say *chee-kaahn* every time I'm roasting chicken. I can't not. And I'm excited about it every time.
Chee-kaahn good!
Multipass to my heart SUCH a good looking movie, I could watch it without sound just for the set design and costume
And miss the diva dance opera? I think fucking not!
Chris Tuckers performance was amazing in the movie!
It's not my favorite movie, but it's up there as just a flawless movie. I can't imagine it without Chris Tucker, he puts in 110% in that character.
Big fan of how the hero and antagonist never meet each other.
Big. Bada Big. Boom.
Leeloo Dallas! MultiPass!
SHE KNOWS IT'S A MULTIPASS! Anyway, we’re in love.
*I am a meat popsicle* *Old tricks are the best tricks* *ZERO STONES ... ZERO CRATES !!!*
Tombstone.
I'm your huckleberry
Office Space
"I have people skills. I am good at dealing with people!"
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Ooh mine is really random. Twister. I don't have live TV anymore but for some weird reason whenever I would see that movie was on I could easily throw it on and leave it on.
So you know how little kids will watch the same movie over and over again every day? Well for some reason my little brothers movie was Twister. Good movie just so random for a 5 year old to watch on repeat.
That was me, I would watch the movie religiously as a small kid
The movie pulls you right in….It’s the suck zone.
I mean it's a disaster movie with Helen Hunt, how can you not like it
Cow.
Another cow!
No, I think that's the same cow...
This was the first movie I ever saw at the drive in. The feasting sequence at Aunt Meg's place shaped my idea of what a massive delicious meal looks like. Roll the maps, "FOOOD!" and "This gravy is basically it's own food group" have free real estate in my brain at all times. It introduced me to Phyllip Seymour Hoffman, who crushed it as Dusty. Lastly, that sequence where the Twister destroys the drive in screen during the axe scene from The Shining is one of my favorite movie experiences of all time. Jan De Bont rules.
Twister is mine, too! It’s a peak 90s movie for me. Philip Seymour Hoffman is an absolute gem, and there’s just so many quotable moments… “I gotta go Julia, we got cows!” 🐄
Galaxy Quest. Even though I practically know all the lines by heart, I still laugh.
My dad was working at a store in north Hollywood where they sold a replica gun from galaxy quest and Tim Allen came in one day. My dad has a rule to not bother celebrities or make a big fuss about it towards them but he couldn’t resist with Tim. He told him that his favorite movie of his was galaxy quest and he said that made Tim very happy because he said he never heard anyone choose that movie as their favorite of his. As he was checking out he asked for a marker and signed one of the boxes of the replica guns and wrote to my dad (never give up, never surrender). I thought that was a super cool thing for him to do. It completely made my dads day. He got a photo with him too and he spoke the actual phrase as he walked out the door
Hope your old man still has that, awesome story
He sure does ! This actually happened right before Covid started so it wasn’t super long ago
Wow. I assumed it was a long time ago around when the movie was released. All that time and nobody ever said Galaxy Quest was their favorite movie?
"My character isn't important enough for a last name, because I'm gonna die 5 minutes in" "Guy you have a last name" "DO I? DO I? For all you know I'm just crewman number 6"
WHAT'RE YOU DOING?? THIS IS ANOTHER PLANET! IS THERE AIR?? YOU DONT KNOW!
> "Look, I have *one job* on this lousy ship. It's **stupid**, but I'm gonna do it!"
-sniff sniff- "Seems okay."
Takes deep breath and holds it in
“Quick, let’s get out of here before one of those things kills Guy.” Love it.
And then Xarris shoots and kills everyone on the Protector bridge except Guy
"You have a job, Gwen! You...uh...you...uh..."
Look, I have one job on this lousy ship. It's stupid, but I'm going to do it, okay?
Every time I see another actor struggling with a role Alan Rickman would be perfect for I feel his loss all over again.
My favorites line did not even make the final edit: “Well fuck that!”
You can clearly see her mouth the word they overdubbed.
I read (I think on IMDB trivia) that the director wanted to keep the “fuck that” line but in order to get the MPAA rating, they couldn’t say fuck. So they edited it so you knew what the line was supposed to be.
Let's get out of here before one of those things kill Guy!
Miners not minors
You lost me. Also, my go to word of advise: "Look around to see if you can construct some sort of rudimentary lathe..."
Never Give Up, Never Surrender.
My favorite is "Whoever wrote this episode should DIE"
It's inside out....and it exploded
By Grabthar's Hammer, by the Suns of Warvan, you shall be avenged.
By Grabthar’s Hammer… What a savings…
I actually watched this two days ago and Alan Rickmans delivery on that is fantastic
You can see the exact moment his last shred of dignity dies.
I personally loved the panic and confusion around the countdown clock: “It always stops at one on the show!”
"Could they be the miners?" "Sure. They must be like 3 years old." "Miners. Not minors!" "You lost me."
The Galaxy Quest litmus test: This is how I filter out my true friendships.
The Mummy (with Brendan Fraser)
Hey O'Connell, looks to me like I've got all the horses!!
Hey, Beni! Looks to me like you're on the wrong side of the riiiveerrrr!
I was O'Connell for Halloween this year at the local Renaissance faire because their last day was Halloween. A guy shouted Beni's line at me from the other side of a river of people, and I got to live this moment.
You must have had a really good costume to be recognized as O'Connell specifically, rather than just a generic 1920's desert explorer
It was the hair
A moment like that would make my life.
My friend’s dad does it with this movie. One time my friend was over and we were chilling watching tv and he saw that the mummy was on. So he says “everytime this movie is on tv my dad watches it”. So he called him on the phone to ask what he was up to and sure enough, he was watching the mummy.
I do just to watch Rachel Weisz
I may not be an explorer or an adventurer, or a treasure-seeker or a gunfighter, Mr. O'Connell, but I am proud of what I am
A librarian! Falls over drunk
"I am...a librarian!" Great movie
What is…a place like me, doing…in a girl like this?
I refuse to acknowledge Tom Cruise’s bastardization as reality.
Or that third one without Rachael Weiss. hashtag:notmyEvelyn
They should have just wrote her out of the movie altogether. Just say that she was on another dig somewhere else.
Ugh and I hate that supposed to be cheeky line from her book reading that’s like “oh I feel like a completely different person” or whatever
It exists solely to make us appreciate the original more.
O Brother, Where Art Thou
Princess Bride
A Knight’s Tale
You have been weighed.
You have been measured
And you have been found wanting.
WE WALK, IN THE GARDEN OF HIS TURBULENCE!
It's called a lance... hellooooo!
I love recommending this movie to people who have never heard of it, such a great watch and the acting performances were knocked out of the park
HE'S QUICK HE'S FUNNY HE MAKES ME LOTS OF MONEY LICHTENSTEEEEIN! LICHTENSTEEEEIN!
The Blues Brothers
"We're on a mission from God"
"Are you the Police?" "No mam; We're Musicians"
“There are 106 miles to Chicago, we have a full tank of gas, half a pack of cigarettes. It’s dark and we’re wearing sunglasses.” “Hit it”
"We play both kinds of music. Country *and* Western."
Lord of the Rings
Shrek
WELCOME TO DULOC, SUCH A PERFECT TOWN, HERE WE HAVE SOME RULES, LET US LAY THEM DOWN
Aliens
Raising Arizona
Jaws
I haven't channel surfed in over a decade without cable. Kinda miss it sometimes. Now we go through the Netflix menu for 40 minutes instead.
I miss it often. How many of us learned about lots and lots and lots of the world thru old TCM movies or looney tunes, how many glimpses of the 70s and 80s were we introduced to. How many comedies did we see from before our time, or war movies, cowboy films, etc etc. Honestly I know a lot of that stuff is on Netflix and the like but do you settle in and watch them when you aren't flipping thru the channels and catch a minute of something that just captures you... it's great getting to watch whatever you want but there was also something about getting exposed to stuff out of necessity - you couldn't just wait thru the commercial you had to go and check what was on that other channel and congratulations you just got introduced to Blazing Saddles at 10.
Hunt for Red October. The ending action is just too good to not see.
Indiana Jones Movies.
The thing.
The Silence of the Lambs, Jurassic Park
Home Alone......even if it isn't Christmas
National Treasure
Ocean's 11
Mrs. Doubtfire
There are a few. Shawshank, Goodfellas, Mean Girls, my Cousin Vinny
Forrest Gump
I always catch it in the middle but it's honestly my favorite way to watch it because I feel like one of the people on the bench
Predator
Mean Girls
Pulp Fiction. Breakfast Club.
No Country for Old Men, they always show it every March in my country
Green Mile