I'm something of a movie buff, so I often tend to quote lines from movies here and there, particularly during gameplay. A well timed quote that everyone knows can be funny, entertaining and not annoying in any way. Am I the only one who does this?
Yes, I'm a Monty Python fan.
And no, I don't quote Holy Grail all the time.
Here are some favorite quotes and clips where I could find them. One or two may have some naughty language, so kids if you watch these please don't go around dropping the F-bomb and then blame Board Games and The Internet when you get into trouble.
Unless I'm the only one like this (a distinct possibility) please feel free to add your own entries to the list.
"If you have a milkshake and I have a milkshake, and I have a straw...my straw reaches across the room and starts to drink your milkshake. I. Drink. Your. Milkshake! I drink it up!"
When my wife and I first played the Inns & Cathedrals expansion for Carcassonne, I used this scene to explain how the big meeples work and how I'd just weaseled my way into the city she'd been building and scored all the points for her hard work. She'd protest and I'd start yelling "drainage! Draaaaaaaaainage!"
On a side note, Daniel Day-Lewis is a heck of an actor.
Tombstone is one of my favorite guilty pleasures (the movie, not the game.) It's very quotable, most of them coming from Doc Holliday (played by Val Kilmer.) Here are a few:
"You called down the thunder, well now you've got it!" "I have two guns: One for each of you." "Maybe (insert game here) is just not your game. I know! Let's have a spelling contest!" "Cover your ears, darling."
One of my favorite movies. The "Tiny Dancer" scene on the bus is classic. My favorite quotable line is from the scene where Russell is on the room screaming about being a golden god. Good to quote when I've just done something great or something really boneheaded. If it was a boneheaded move, it's appropriate to pause and then deliver the "I'm on drugs!" line.
I like to say this when something bad has happened to someone else. It's from the scene in Road Trip where they jump the car across the bridge and the wheels come off when it lands. The owner of the car is freaking out and his buddy reassures him that it won't be hard to fix and it isn't a big deal because it's just the wheels. The car then bursts into flames.
A good quote for when someone has just put the screws to me in a game. This is from the scene in Anchorman when they replace his usual "You stay classy, San Diego" with the above the line and he obliviously reads it. The clip obviously contains some language.
We have the rest of our lives to be mediocre, but we have the chance to play like gods tonight. But we can't be afraid to lose. There's no room for fear in this game. Now if we go out there and half-ass it because we're scared, then we're left with nothing but an excuse. We'll always wonder.
so I can clearly not choose the wine in front of me...
This one comes up a lot, usually in response to someone's AP over trying to figure out what the other player(s) are doing in order to make a decision about their own turn.
We played this for pretty much the first time last night and by an enormous effort of will we spent the entire game not saying the obvious. We did have some conversations about the non-fluid dynamical properties of the various types of spices though.
And I did manage to say Dead, for a Ducat! far more times than might actually have been funny. But I was on a lot of paracetamol and codeine at the time.
(When landing in a same space with another player to steal the key)
Gimme the fucking key you motherfucker cocksucker aaarrghh!
From Bryan Singer's Usual Suspects.
Admittedly a rather unlikely quote, because it's slightly unappropriate when playing with the family, and the game is an unlikely choice for an adults' gaming night.
Actually, I sometimes have trouble not quoting that line whenever I need a key/am about to receive a key(s) from someone. Which is slightly disturbing.
BTW, for me, that whole 'voice line-up' thing is one of the best and most memorable movie scenes, ever.
A good rule of thumb for quoting is, if you say the first 2 or 3 words and someone else completes the quotation, it's overdone and needs to be buried for a decade or ten. Oh, and I disagree strongly with you on quoting a snappy one-liner: it rarely comes off as witty. The usual result is that it makes the quoter look lazy, unoriginal, and unfunny.
"Go ahead.-." You're not tough. STFU.
"Shop smart," STFU.
"'t Is but-" Double STFU.
If you adopt a poor imitation of the original accent, you make it worse, and should be beaten about the head with kitchen utensils until unconscious.
"Say 'Hello' to-" Enough already.
"Hello. My name-" Even he says it too many times to be cool. Do not make me relive the overkill.
"Hasta-" There is no way to maintain your dignity after saying this or any other line by this man (except perhaps from pre-terminator films like Pumping Iron or Conan).
If you want to quote a film and be cool about it, then quote some beautiful soliloquy which a) is apropos to the situation b) somehow conveys the beauty of the moment, takes people back to the film in question.
Something like this:
Quote:
The one constant through all the years, Ray, has been baseball. America has rolled by like an army of steamrollers. It's been erased like a blackboard, rebuilt, and erased again. But baseball has marked the time. This field, this game, is a part of our past, Ray. It reminds us of all that once was good, and it could be again. Ohhhhhhhh, people will come, Ray. People will most definitely come.
or this:
Quote:
We don’t read and write poetry because it’s cute. We read and write poetry because we are members of the human race. And the human race is filled with passion. And medicine, law, business, engineering, these are noble pursuits and necessary to sustain life. But poetry, beauty, romance, love, these are what we stay alive for.
or this:
Quote:
The only verdict is vengeance; a vendetta held as a votive, not in vain, for the value and veracity of such shall one day vindicate the vigilant and the virtuous.
Oh, and do it accurately.
The art of quotation will be revived with the death of the one-liner.
FTR, I love every one of these films. I just get irked when people try to look erudite and clever and then take the easy way out.
Depends on your crowd I guess. We all tend to like the same pool of movies, so it works.
A quick one liner is much more effective and less awkward than a big long drawn out monologue in my circle.
Sure, but it's just so....easy. It usually doesn't strike me as the least bit witty. What exactly is there to admire about someone doing a pelvic thrust and shouting "schwing!" when an attractive member of the opposite sex walks by? Or saying "Do ya feel lucky, punk?" as your opponent is thinking about where to put that road? Nothing, I say. Not funny, not clever, just cheap and easy. Might as well throw a banana peel on the floor.
The beauty of quotation comes from artfully bringing an allusion to something great into a current situation. It's not awkward. After a monster game of Tigris & Euphrates, with umpteen surprising, brilliant, scale-tipping moves, an opponent dropped this before his final turn:
Quote:
I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I watched C-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhauser gate. All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain. Time to die.
Depends on your crowd I guess. We all tend to like the same pool of movies, so it works.
A quick one liner is much more effective and less awkward than a big long drawn out monologue in my circle.
Sure, but it's just so....easy. It usually doesn't strike me as the least bit witty. What exactly is there to admire about someone doing a pelvic thrust and shouting "schwing!" when an attractive member of the opposite sex walks by? Or saying "Do ya feel lucky, punk?" as your opponent is thinking about where to put that road? Nothing, I say. Not funny, not clever, just cheap and easy. Might as well throw a banana peel on the floor.
The beauty of quotation comes from artfully bringing an allusion to something great into a current situation. It's not awkward. After a monster game of Tigris & Euphrates, with umpteen surprising, brilliant, scale-tipping moves, an opponent dropped this before his final turn:
Quote:
I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I watched C-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhauser gate. All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain. Time to die.
Now that's the art of quotation!
I can appreciate what you're saying. Like I said, it depends on the people and the situation. When I plunk my big meeple on table, look at my wife and say "I drink your MILKSHAKE!" it's entertaining to us. I haven't found many situations at the table where I want to give a rousing speech and inspire my audience. It's not that I don't appreciate that kind of movie (I do) or that I can't recall the lines (I can) it doesn't fit so far.
My group tends to be younger than me, and while we aren't doing pelvic thrusts and throwing pies at each other, our humor tends towards small, well-timed jabs, and quoting things is usually done for humor, not dramatic effect.
We aren't chimps flinging poo at each other, and we aren't especially highbrow. There is a middle ground.
I do this all the time, although it usually goes to waste since most people I play with are very casual film-watchers, and won't know where a quote comes from (or if it is a movie quote at all). I was actually about to start a list of my own when I found this...
Now I need to get that bit from Gone with the Wind when Scarlett O'Hara tries to eat the radishes and swears that she'll never go hungry again. That would be great for if you're ever forced to take the beggar card in Agricola.
Posted Sat Nov 8, 2008 1:31 pm
Winnipeg/Auckland/Cheonan
"Go ahead.-." You're not tough. STFU.
"Shop smart," STFU.
"'t Is but-" Double STFU.
If you adopt a poor imitation of the original accent, you make it worse, and should be beaten about the head with kitchen utensils until unconscious.
"Say 'Hello' to-" Enough already.
"Hello. My name-" Even he says it too many times to be cool. Do not make me relive the overkill.
"Hasta-" There is no way to maintain your dignity after saying this or any other line by this man (except perhaps from pre-terminator films like Pumping Iron or Conan).
If you want to quote a film and be cool about it, then quote some beautiful soliloquy which
a) is apropos to the situation
b) somehow conveys the beauty of the moment, takes people back to the film in question.
Something like this:
or this:
or this:
Oh, and do it accurately.
The art of quotation will be revived with the death of the one-liner.
FTR, I love every one of these films. I just get irked when people try to look erudite and clever and then take the easy way out.
Springfield
Massachusetts
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Burtchville
Michigan
A quick one liner is much more effective and less awkward than a big long drawn out monologue in my circle.
Winnipeg/Auckland/Cheonan
A quick one liner is much more effective and less awkward than a big long drawn out monologue in my circle.
Sure, but it's just so....easy. It usually doesn't strike me as the least bit witty. What exactly is there to admire about someone doing a pelvic thrust and shouting "schwing!" when an attractive member of the opposite sex walks by? Or saying "Do ya feel lucky, punk?" as your opponent is thinking about where to put that road? Nothing, I say. Not funny, not clever, just cheap and easy. Might as well throw a banana peel on the floor.
The beauty of quotation comes from artfully bringing an allusion to something great into a current situation. It's not awkward. After a monster game of Tigris & Euphrates, with umpteen surprising, brilliant, scale-tipping moves, an opponent dropped this before his final turn:
Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion.
I watched C-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhauser gate.
All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain.
Time to die.
Now that's the art of quotation!
Burtchville
Michigan
A quick one liner is much more effective and less awkward than a big long drawn out monologue in my circle.
Sure, but it's just so....easy. It usually doesn't strike me as the least bit witty. What exactly is there to admire about someone doing a pelvic thrust and shouting "schwing!" when an attractive member of the opposite sex walks by? Or saying "Do ya feel lucky, punk?" as your opponent is thinking about where to put that road? Nothing, I say. Not funny, not clever, just cheap and easy. Might as well throw a banana peel on the floor.
The beauty of quotation comes from artfully bringing an allusion to something great into a current situation. It's not awkward. After a monster game of Tigris & Euphrates, with umpteen surprising, brilliant, scale-tipping moves, an opponent dropped this before his final turn:
Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion.
I watched C-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhauser gate.
All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain.
Time to die.
Now that's the art of quotation!
I can appreciate what you're saying. Like I said, it depends on the people and the situation. When I plunk my big meeple on table, look at my wife and say "I drink your MILKSHAKE!" it's entertaining to us. I haven't found many situations at the table where I want to give a rousing speech and inspire my audience. It's not that I don't appreciate that kind of movie (I do) or that I can't recall the lines (I can) it doesn't fit so far.
My group tends to be younger than me, and while we aren't doing pelvic thrusts and throwing pies at each other, our humor tends towards small, well-timed jabs, and quoting things is usually done for humor, not dramatic effect.
We aren't chimps flinging poo at each other, and we aren't especially highbrow. There is a middle ground.
Turku
Now I need to get that bit from Gone with the Wind when Scarlett O'Hara tries to eat the radishes and swears that she'll never go hungry again. That would be great for if you're ever forced to take the beggar card in Agricola.