10 Movies I Will Always Watch… No Matter What

Some people see a movie once and call it good.  While I think watching certain movies just one time is more than it deserves because that’s 2 hours of your life you’ll never have back, there are several movies I’ve seen so many times that I can quote them exactly.  While this is incredibly annoying for others in the room, I can’t seem to help myself (although try talking in a darkened movie theatre anywhere near me and I’ll rip out your tonsils because “silence is golden”).  Am I the only one who goes channel flipping on a Sunday afternoon and notices that TNT is showing ‘The Shawshank Redemption’ AGAIN and despite owning my own copy and seeing it 27 times, I sit down for the duration?  I doubt it.

So here is my ode to the BEST movies ever and my favorite lines.  I just don’t seem to tire of them:

1. GHOSTBUSTERS

Dr. Peter Venkman: Janine, someone with your qualifications would have no trouble finding a top-flight job in either the food service or housekeeping industries.
[phone rings]
Dr. Peter Venkman:  You gonna answer that?
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Dr. Egon Spengler: I have a radical idea. The door swings both ways, we could reverse the particle flow through the gate.
Dr. Peter Venkman: How?
Dr. Egon Spengler: [hesitates] We’ll cross the streams.
Dr. Peter Venkman:  ‘Scuse me Egon? You said crossing the streams was bad!
Dr. Ray Stantz: Cross the streams…
Dr. Peter Venkman:  You’re gonna endanger us, you’re gonna endanger our client – the nice lady, who paid us in advance, before she became a dog…
Dr. Egon Spengler:  Not necessarily. There’s definitely a *very slim* chance we’ll survive.
[pause while they consider this]
Dr. Peter Venkman: [slaps Ray] I love this plan! I’m excited to be a part of it! LET’S DO IT!

2. GOONIES

Francis Fratelli: Tell us everything! Everything!
Chunk: Everything. OK! I’ll talk! In third grade, I cheated on my history exam. In fourth grade, I stole my uncle Max’s toupee and I glued it on my face when I was Moses in my Hebrew School play. In fifth grade, I knocked my sister Edie down the stairs and I blamed it on the dog… When my mom sent me to the summer camp for fat kids and then they served lunch I got nuts and I pigged out and they kicked me out… But the worst thing I ever done - I mixed a bag of fake puke at home and then I went to this movie theater, hid the puke in my jacket, climbed up to the balcony and then, t-t-then, I made a noise like this: hua-hua-hua-huaaaaaaa – and then I dumped it over the side, all over the people in the audience. And then, this was horrible, all the people started getting sick and throwing up all over each other. I never felt so bad in my entire life.
Jake Fratelli:  I’m beginning to like this kid, Ma!
Mama Fratelli:  [tired of Chunk's stalling] Hit puree!

3. FLETCH

Doctor: Aren’t there children’s books… about an elephant named Babar?
Fletch:  I don’t know. I don’t have any.
Doctor:  No children?
Fletch:  No, elephant books.
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Fletch:  Ah… Provo, Spain?
Airline Agent:  Utah 

4. FLETCH LIVES

Jimmy Lee Farnsworth: Erwin, admit that you are a sinner.
Fletch:  Uh. Well, I’ve sinned. I didn’t take any Polaroids or anything. But, yeah, I’ve sinned.
Jimmy Lee Farnsworth:  The Lord forgives ya!
Fletch: Thank you. Thank you very much. Thank you. Thank you. Amen. What? Other sins? Uh, I parked in a handicap spot on my way up here. Actually, on a handicap person. I told him I’d be back in five minutes, so that’s not such a big deal.

5. HONEYMOON IN VEGAS

Mahi Mahi: Chief Orman have pretty big influence around here.
Jack Singer: Influence? He lives in a SHACK!
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Jack Singer: Do you know what a straight flush is? It’s like… unbeatable.
Betsy: “Like unbeatable” is not unbeatable.
Jack Singer:  Hey, I know that now, okay!

6. RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK

Marion: You’re not the man I knew ten years ago.
Indy: It’s not the years, honey, it’s the mileage.

7. ANIMAL HOUSE

Flounder: I can’t believe I threw up in front of Dean Wormer.
Boon: Face it, Kent. You threw up *on* Dean Wormer.

8. BILL & TED’S EXCELLENT ADVENTURE

Ted: Strange things are afoot at the Circle-K.

9. OLD SCHOOL

Mitch: [after finding out that it's in the bylaw that the only way to keep the fraternity is take a course of tests but Beanie does not want to do it]
Beanie: Whose lives are ruined?
Mitch: Well, see. Blue’s dead. Frank’s divorced. I lost my house. Nicole thinks I’m a total jackass. And now we got nine kids who are gonna get expelled from school, and you’re not even gonna help them.
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Frank: A little housewarming gift.
Mitch: I actually gave this to you for your wedding.
Frank: This model?
Mitch:  That exact one.

10. CLUELESS

Cher: So, how did I do?
DMV Tester: How’d you do? Well, let’s just see shall we? You can’t park, you can’t change lanes, you can’t make right hand turns, you damaged private property and you almost killed someone. Off hand, I’d say you failed.
Cher: You can’t be the absolute and final word on drivers’ licenses?
DMV Tester: Girlie, as far as you’re concerned, I am the messiah of the DMV.
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Cher’s Dad: You drink?
Christian: No, thanks, I’m cool.
Cher’s Dad:  I’m not offering. I’m asking if you drink. You think I’d give alcohol to teenage drivers taking my daughter out?
Christian:  Hey, man! The protective vibe. I dig.
Cher’s Dad: What’s with you, kid? You think the death of Sammy Davis left an opening in the Rat Pack?

Honorable Mention: GROUNDHOG DAY

Phil: Morons… your bus is leaving.
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[Phil Connors is stopped by the police after some crazy driving]
Phil: Yeah, three cheeseburgers, two large fries, two chocolate shakes and a large coke.
Ralph: [to Phil] And some flapjacks.
Phil:  [to Cop] Too early for flapjacks?
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Rita: Look at all these people. They sit around telling stories. Then they sing songs all morning.
Phil: Yeah, they’re hicks, Rita!