Monty Python Comic

[Cadaverous Pallor]

Originally Posted by Alex Stroup

I guess it is just a difference. While I find reasonably appropriate quoting tolerable (though very few who do it, do it well) I don't really ever find it witty. It is just an exercise in memory and no more witty than someone mentioning a topic and being able to remember a Web site that has something interesting to say.

Saying you want to speak only in movie quotes is, to me, like saying you'd like to speak only in domain names or in words that consist of concatenations of element abbreviations (Beryllium-calcium-uranium-selenium Iodine calcium-nitrogen, Iodine americium lanthamum-molybdenum. Iodine tungsten-indium.). An exercise in cleverness perhaps, but not wit.

Here's the thing - he was mostly joking. Yeah, just mostly. In my family, "What's That From" is not a game, it's a bloodbath. I suck at it but my brothers are all in a never-ending attempt to claw their way to the top of the heap. Even so, it was a joke.

I can wax poetic on the concept...that as children of the cable/VHS generation, many more of us can be movie buffs, and movie buffs in our own way, whatever our favorites. The great thing about movies is very similar to the great thing about message boards - every sentence is planned in advance, edited carefully to say the exact right thing in the exact right way at the exact right moment. Sure, it's not always done perfectly, but when it does hit the mark, wow! It's no wonder that the simple lines said in a movie can touch us so deeply and feel so profound. I admit to wishing everything I said in face-to-face encounters was so well crafted.