Sturgeon's Law

This list isn't quite the same as my 13 favorite movies, some of which I'm not quite so inclined to see over and over or randomly spew lines from, usually with my brother. As always, I may slightly misquote the lines when I do them from memory.

1. Tombstone
Best scene: Johnny Ringo and Doc Holliday threaten each other in Latin.
Favorite line to say: "You know, Frederic fucking Chopin."

2. Monty Python's Life of Brian
Best scene: The stoning.
Favorite line to say: "Worse? How could it possibly be worse? Jehovah, Jehovah, Jehovah!"

3. Heat
Best scene: The massive gunfight following the bank robbery.
Favorite line to say: "She's got a GREAT ASS! And you got your head all the way up it." I can't possibly replicate in text the way Pacino says that.

4. The Princess Bride
Best scene: The duel between Wesley and Inigo.
Favorite line to say: "Rodents of unusual size? I don't believe they exist." (WHOMP)

5. Get Shorty
Best scene: Travolta throws a pre-Sopranos James Gandolfini down the stairs in some well-known restaurant. Great camera work for all the going up and down the stairs.
Favorite line to say: "This is strictly between you and I." Has to be said with Dennis Farina's hilarious inflection.

6. The Naked Gun
Best scene: Lesley Nielsen impersonates the national anthem singer and an umpire at a baseball game as he tries to find out who's going to kill the Queen of England.
Favorite line to say: "I can't hear you! Don't fire the gun while you're talking!"

7. Goodfellas
Best scene: Long tracking shot as Ray Liotta narrates the various strangely named mobsters at a restaurant.
Favorite line to say: "Now go home and get your fucking shine-box!"

8. Thunderheart
Best scene: The final chase and confrontation.
Favorite line to say: "Listen to the wind. Listen to the owl. He also said don't trust Mr. Magoo."

9. Field of Dreams
Best scene: Shoeless Joe shows up on the field for the first time.
Favorite line to say: "You're a pacifist!" "Shit."

10. Young Frankenstein
Best scene: Gene Hackman as a blind hermit tortures the monster with attempted kindnesses.
Favorite line to say: "Blucher!" (Neeeeeeeigh)

11. Bowfinger
Best scene: Eddie Murphy's character, unaware he's the star of a movie being filmed, is confronted by a menacing man telling him about aliens and plutonium.
Favorite line to say: "My gonads! My gonads!" (accompanied by electronic chirps from a polygraph-type device)

12. Ronin
Best scene: The wrong-way tunnel chase.
Favorite line to say: "What color was the boathouse at Hereford?" "How the hell should I know?"

13. Scarface
Best scene: The climactic shootout.
Favorite line to say: "I bury those cockaroaches!" Another movie helped infinitely by Pacino's hamminess

Labels: movies, not poetry