Osler's Razor

"Oh I hated the Colonel with his wee, beady eyes, and that smug look on his face, 'Oh, you're gonna buy my chicken, ohhhhhhh!'"

"Dad, how can you hate 'The Colonel'?"

"Because he puts an addictive chemical in his chicken that makes you crave it fortnightly, smartarse!"

"Interesting... Cuckoo!"

So I Married an Axe Murderer... One of the most quotable movies of all time.
 

What? Nothing featuring "My Pretty Pony?"
 

The 3 best:

1) The Philadelphia Story
2) Godfather II
3) Alien
 

A big agree as to #3, with a sequal (GF2) that was almost as good. Classic story of a good man corrupted by understandable choices.

Also, sooo quotable!
 

"This one goes to eleven..."

Spinal Tap is incredible but I really go for those legal drama movies, like Michael Clayton, The Firm (not really a legal drama), All the President's Men, Three days of the Condor, Absence of Malice, Patriot Games, Presumed Innocent, Philadelphia, The Good Shepard... stuff like this..

THEN I ALSO like those totally goofy movies like Something About Mary, Along Came Polly, Zoolander, Anchorman, Orange County, 40 year old Virgin, Tootsie. that kind of stuff.

BILL now BILL LOVES LOVES LOVES the SO I Married an Axe Murderer...

Gawd he quotes it all the time.

Esp the thing about the guy's head being so big it needs its own weather system. Gawd.

"I thought I ordered the LARGE Cappuccino."

"Harri
Harriet.
Hard Hearted Harbinger of Haggus..."
 

HEED! PANTS! NOW!
 

Quotable, you want quotable...look no further than Raising Arizona:

"Son, you got a panty on your head."

Nathan Arizona Sr.: I got the cops and the Federal BI out there lookin' for my boy...
Leonard Smalls: Cops won't find your boy. A cop couldn't find his butt if it had a bell on it.

Policeman: What did the pyjamas look like?
Nathan Arizona Sr.: I don't know - they were jammies! They had Yodas 'n' s&*t on 'em!

Evelle: Do they blow up in funny shapes?
Grocer: Nope. Unless round's funny.

"Those were the salad days..."

"I don't know. Maybe it was Utah."
 

My favorite movie is Sling Blade. It's quotable, but also kind of depressing.
 

" We have a Piper Down. I repeat: a Piper is down."
 

Oh, RRL, I do love that line from Raising Arizona "Boy, don't you know you got a panty on your head?"

Spinal Tap is really classic . . . I love the whole Stonehenge part towards the end . . you could probably put every scene from the movie up there and it'd be hilarious.
 

That is my favorite Godfather scene, too!
 

My Fave part of Spinal Tap: When the girlfriend of the one guy comes and joins the band on tour, and she draws new like costumes for everyone based on their horoscopes.

Or the quote about how their new album cover entitled Smell the Glove the stores will not sell it because it is Sexist and The Christopher Guest character goes:
"What's wrong with being sexy?"

Or Billy Crystal is working the party as a caterer and he is charge of a staff of mimes serving appetizers and they are not moving fast enough and he claps.. "Come on! Mime is Money!!"

I know that movie a little TOO well. Bill swears that half of that stuff in that movie actually happened in actual bands.. the getting stuck in the pod thing for one and there are a lot of others.
 

Good call, RRL...
The two convict friends of HI are great...

"Y'all busted out of jail?
"No ma'am, We released ourselves on our own recognizance."

"All right, ya hayseeds, it's a stick-up. Everybody freeze! Everybody down on the ground!
"Well, which is it, young feller? You want I should freeze or get down on the ground? Mean to say, if'n I freeze, I can't rightly drop. And if'n I drop, I'm a-gonna be in motion."
 

As I have never seen Spinal Tap or So I married an Axe Murdered, I guess this is not the topic for me. I would rate Godfather II and Philadelphia high on my list. I also like Look Who's Coming to Dinner.
 

Since I teach screenwriting, I get this question occasionally. I have a Top 20. But invariably #1 is a wistful, atmospheric comedy by the brilliant Scots director, Bill Forsythe, called "Local Hero."

Interestingly enough, it's Mike Korpi's favorite.

RFDIII
 

Anon,

I would like to hear the rest of the top 20!!!! and I LOVED that movie Local hero!!!
 

Local Hero reminds me of another two movies... one is called Keeping Mum (a wacky murder mystery) but also even more like this movie called Waking Ned Devine.