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[conuly]

Avatar? It's just not, to me, a very quotable movie. I mean, my mother and I saw Ever After, and that's no less formulaic, but we quote that movie at each other quite often. (It helps that it plays on constant repeat on one of those "women's channels".) I always find time in my life for another Princess Bride quote. I can quote Monty Python with, if not quite the *best* of them, at least the *worst* of them, and I've never seen Monty Python! I read OotS, and go to the forum there where you can end most any argument, at least temporarily, by quoting the appropriate comic... even if, upon closer inspection, your quote is wildly off-topic. I quote Piggie and Elephant with the nieces, and when they were younger it was endless repetitions of Go, Dog, Go!

Quoting. It's what's for dinner how I live, and (to an extent) how I think. I sometimes come up with just the right quote or reference but then re-think it into non-quotey speech because the people I'm with won't get it. (There is something wrong with complaining about an ugly hat but not getting the "Man wears a hat like that..." reference. But that's all right, Firefly's on DVD.)

So to come out of a movie and not, upon retrospect, be able to find something to quote, some scene that's appropriate to my life... that's a little disappointing. (Although the movie is worth watching if only to see the space jungle bugs. Strange compliment, that, but it's the absolute truth.)

Comments

[conuly]

Well, they also named the main character "Sully". Maybe they were trying for meaningful.

[ancarett]

Yeah, that was deep!

[ksol1460.livejournal.com]

*pulls on hip boots*