Are you sick and tired of quoted movies during your D&D sessions?

[Orius]

Ugh, Monty Python irritates me too. I can tolerate the flesh wound remarks, probably because that was the only part of the movie that made me laugh. But if the players start saying "Ni!", it's time to drop a nasty random encounter on their heads.

 

[ssampier]

Guilty

I've quote movies a lot during an average game. However, we make an attempt to make it relevant and therefore funny. Saying, "Help, help, I'm being repressed" when your character is walking in the streets is not funny, but if you're getting attacked by guards, it can be.

The only time we endless quote movies is in the wee morning hours when we're all too tired to think straight and almost everything is funny.

BTW, endless in-jokes can be just as annoying, too. I know one character was famous for needless killing a goat. Afterward, the player was known as "goat-slayer". That story is often brought up at unappropriate times during a game and really adds nothing (other than a worn out story we'd heard before).

 

[Captain Tagon]

For me, talking about the Monty Python is funnier than seeing it again after you've already seen it the first time.

- Pining for the fjords.

 

[DClingman]

I was thinking of the immortal words of Socrates who said "I drank what?"

Classic potion tester line.

Never get tired of hearing it.

Dustin

 

[The Grackle]

My new most-hated quotes come from the BBC show "The Office," and this clip of Orson Welles drunk out of his mind.

Excessive movie quoting annoys me when I'm the DM, but at least it's a brief punctuation in game play. What really drives me crazy is when players can't stop talking about out-of-game topics. I had a group that seriously could not focus on a game. I would give them like 2 hours of time before I started a game to catch up on their week, and talk about movies and whatever, but it still wasn't enough! It drove me crazy.

 

[Tolen Mar]

...I ran. I ran so far away.

Hmm...was this quote intentional? And am I the only one who caught it?

Shame is, I cant remember the name of the group!

 

[DClingman]

Flock of Seagulls... Also part of another great quote from Pulp Fiction right at the beginning....

Dustin

 

[Tolen Mar]

Holy Grail quotes have in fact gotten annoying. Holy Grail itself is an awesome fillm, but horrendously overrated. The Meaning of Life is by far the best Python film.

Yuck! Gag! Cough! That movie (Life) was horrendous and disgusting. Far worse than anything else they had done or have done since. It remains the only piece of Pythons work I refuse to watch.

I consider myself a fairly decent fan of their work, but that one crosses the line in so many ways.

Now back to the subject at hand...(sorry for reviving a dead topic), but I dont have a problem with quotes, particularly from Grail. However, when Pythonisms start showing we usually go for stuff from flying circus or (heh) jabberwocky than Grail.

(And yes, I realize jabberwocky is not technically a Python film.)

Now, there are two redeeming scenes in the Meaning of Life...The ones where the accountants go pirate. The rest of it, trash. Or maybe I just can't get past the gluttony scene....

 

[devilish]

Cartoons

One player and myself used to love quoting from old cartoons. Most
of the time it was appropriate; it just got annoying when we broke down
into fits of laughter.

Pirates of Darkwater: Chongo-Longo!
Noy Jitat!

Thundarr: Lords of Light!
Ariel, Ookla, RIDE!
Demon Dogs!

-D

 

[devilish]

Cartoons

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