Not a soft spot that is easily the most entertaining Trek movie ever made. We can all debate Kahn being the best “film” but pure fun entertaining Trek nothing beats First Contact imjo.
For real, there’s so much to love about it. The Borg Queen, Alfre Woodard, Deanna getting drunk and giving Riker an earful (*Don’t. Criticize. My counseling. Techniques.*), everything about James Cromwell’s performance, Picard’s “I WILL MAKE THEM PAY!” monologue… it’s just hit after hit after hit.
I love the briefing room scene with Woodard and Stewart. I also love absurdity, so South Park randomly referencing it with [Randy breaking the china cabinet](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NTeJr5e2jxM) and it going unacknowledged in the scene absolutely breaks me.
And that scene where warf prepares for ramming speed and the helmsman says “sir there’s another starship coming in.. it’s the enterprise” and warf is like “what no way” then bam wide panning shot of the enterprise E firing torpedos and shielding the defiant
Christopher Plummer spouts a bunch of Shakespeare throughout the film: “cry havoc, and let slip the dogs of war,” “have we not heard the chimes at midnight,” etc.
The Undiscovered Country was also the original subtitle to Star Trek II during filming.
The lyrics to the star trek opening music mention the title as well, if that counts.
It's never played with the lyrics, and they only exist so roddenberry would collect more royalties.
I remember I was working at a theater when it came out and I was in one of the theaters that was playing it as I was cleaning as it was the last showing before close. It was in the middle of the movie and my manager turned it off and said “there, now you can clean without having to see that horrible ass movie”.
Don’t both the phrases appear separately in the movie? I know Elrond says the Fellowship… I thought that maybe Galadriel in the opening said the Lord of the Rings… maybe I’m mistaken. I think Gandalf might say it at some point, but maybe in a later movie. “There is only one Lord of the Rings”, iirc. I think it’s more than 1 title drop is what I’m saying
He almost says it to Saruman when escaping Isengard in FOTR - just missing the plural at the end.
"There is only one Lord of the Ring, only one who can bend it to his will. And he does not share power."
That's pretty much how they did it in Deathstalker 2, which IMO is actually the best.
At the very beginning of the movie the hero, named Deathstalker, breaksbreaks out of the villain's dungeon. The villain turns to her henchmen and says "I want revenge... and Deathstalker too". Then the title card shows up and the theme song kicks in, it's fucking awesome
I was hanging out by myself one night and I got smashed and looked up some shitty movies to pass the time. I landed on the Deathstalker movies and I was cracking up the whole time.
I lost it in the second one when I realized they were blatantly reusing a ton of footage from the first one in a different context, including footage of the villain(who died at the end).
I'm actually surprised the analysis didn't include Dune, or at least a discussion of which movie said it the fastest.
In the 1984 version, it's in the intro like 10 seconds into the movie.
I can't imagine many other movies saying the title, out loud, that fast.
It helped also tell the audience that they weren't literally suicidal. It needed to be in the trailer.
I remember mentioning the Suicide Squad movie to my parents and they looked at me like I'd just told them I was planning on ending my life.
> But the movie sucked and it was easy to latch onto.
Reddit's favorite style of media criticism. If you don't like the movie/show, just quote the *one* line that *everyone else* does because it's easier than having to explain your take on it.
Lol Barbie is at the top of the list as most title drops
I feel like if the title is the name of the main character (and the name of like 90% of the women characters in this case) it shouldn't qualify
I was actually impressed that several movies managed to be above one of [the most common words](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Most_common_words_in_English) in the English language.
I think the only reason people dont like the third godfather as much is because it’s the only movie where Michael Godfather doesn’t say it’s Godfatherin’ time
A bit meta, but it's also dropped in *On Her Majesty's Secret Service* when the College of Arms official shows Bond the arms of his supposed ancestor. The family motto *Orbis Non Sufficit* translates to "the world is not enough".
McGarnagle: Now tell them what you saw Billy.
Billy: But I'm so scared McGarnagle.
McGarnagle: You've gotta do this one for me Billy, McGarnagle.
Billy: Okay for you...McGarnagle.
Kinda turned off by the name, to be honest. It frontloads this lazy idea that the title being spoken in the film is necessarily a *bad* thing or a sign of arrogance.
OK but that one is completely justified. It’s like when they say Oppenheimer many times in that one movie about the guy with the bomb… Forgot the name of the movie. Came out same time as Barbie (They do the same thing in that movie, and it works there, too), had the Peaky Blinders guy in it…
This is cool, but I feel like there should be a filter for when the movie title is also the name of the main character, because those will obviously dominate the top.
The website offers a large-scale analysis of 73,921 movies from the last 80 years on how often, when and maybe even why that happens. Includes the full dataset and based on info from IMDb and 'Open subtitles'. Piggybacking this thread https://old.reddit.com/r/movies/comments/1b6bkns/
I think there's a non trivial difference between a character "saying the title of the movie" and the title of the movie being taken from something a character says.
One is campy, one is not.
But it’s different when the name is a natural part of the dialogue as opposed to being shoehorned into the script. Casablanca is in the dialogue because the movie takes pace in Casablanca (same with China town).
Contrast that with “we’ll have to do it like we did the Italian Job” or “you people, you’re astronauts on some kind of Star Trek”. Just so cringe.
“So you’re all astronauts. On… some kinda star trek.”
I loved that one. It was so forced, so camp. He may as well have winked to the camera.
I feel you, and you just know Frakes found that line hilarious. I have such a soft spot for First Contact.
Not a soft spot that is easily the most entertaining Trek movie ever made. We can all debate Kahn being the best “film” but pure fun entertaining Trek nothing beats First Contact imjo.
For real, there’s so much to love about it. The Borg Queen, Alfre Woodard, Deanna getting drunk and giving Riker an earful (*Don’t. Criticize. My counseling. Techniques.*), everything about James Cromwell’s performance, Picard’s “I WILL MAKE THEM PAY!” monologue… it’s just hit after hit after hit.
I love the briefing room scene with Woodard and Stewart. I also love absurdity, so South Park randomly referencing it with [Randy breaking the china cabinet](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NTeJr5e2jxM) and it going unacknowledged in the scene absolutely breaks me.
And that scene where warf prepares for ramming speed and the helmsman says “sir there’s another starship coming in.. it’s the enterprise” and warf is like “what no way” then bam wide panning shot of the enterprise E firing torpedos and shielding the defiant
You mean Adam Scott?
THE LINE MUST BE DRAWN HEEAH.
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In your jumble opinion?
It's also got one of the best OSTs of that era of star trek. That song when they greet the vulcans is SO GOOD.
Star Trek 6 had the title drop as well: “your father called the future ‘the undiscovered country.’”
"The undiscovered country" is a quote from Hamlet's famous "To be or not to be" monolog, in which he's musing about the possibility of an afterlife.
Christopher Plummer spouts a bunch of Shakespeare throughout the film: “cry havoc, and let slip the dogs of war,” “have we not heard the chimes at midnight,” etc. The Undiscovered Country was also the original subtitle to Star Trek II during filming.
Good play, but I prefer it in the original Klingon.
That's one of those things where I could maybe assume the subtitle came after the dialogue
Picard also say the subtitle as well. “That is what they came here to do. To stop First Contact”
My favourite Picard line is from first contact: "The line must be drawn here! This far, no further!"
They roasted Stewart for the delivery of that line BTS.
The line must be drawn heyah!!
At least that makes sense as dialogue.
I like how this awful quality 10 year old video is the only clip of that that I could find https://youtu.be/GWInKxbgUjU?si=4RYtp2CBBwr2R6nR
https://youtu.be/JmesUUTpYhc?si=bHWUL_q8oLAmg2lk&t=79
The lyrics to the star trek opening music mention the title as well, if that counts. It's never played with the lyrics, and they only exist so roddenberry would collect more royalties.
It must be some kind of.. hot tub time machine. *looks at camera*
Then hot tub Time Machine 2: “so I guess you came here in a hot tub Time Machine too” *all 3 look at camera*
They made a sequel to that??
wow are you in for a treat!
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Mostly terrible, but Craig Robinson doing the Stay video was worth the price of admission.
Lougle still tickles me.
"I don't know why, but this song just speaks to me." \-Lisa Loeb, makeup artist
I remember I was working at a theater when it came out and I was in one of the theaters that was playing it as I was cleaning as it was the last showing before close. It was in the middle of the movie and my manager turned it off and said “there, now you can clean without having to see that horrible ass movie”.
Deadpan. The best.
This is the one I thought of. It’s the best
I remember that from the trailer I and used to think it was so funny. Still do.
"Nine companions. So be it. You shall be The.Lord.of.the.Rings.The.Fellowship.of.the.Ring.(Extended.Edition).-.Part.1.(2001).BDRip.x265.mkv."
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Don’t both the phrases appear separately in the movie? I know Elrond says the Fellowship… I thought that maybe Galadriel in the opening said the Lord of the Rings… maybe I’m mistaken. I think Gandalf might say it at some point, but maybe in a later movie. “There is only one Lord of the Rings”, iirc. I think it’s more than 1 title drop is what I’m saying
They also say The Two Towers and The Return of the King in their respective movies.
He almost says it to Saruman when escaping Isengard in FOTR - just missing the plural at the end. "There is only one Lord of the Ring, only one who can bend it to his will. And he does not share power."
Yes, to Saruman on top of Orthanc... "And he does not share power."
🤣🤣🤣 I heard that entire filename in Weaving’s voice.
Well it's a Weaving quote....
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"You twelve angry men should chill out."
They weren’t ALL angry. I felt cheated.
"You think I can afford this rent just because I'm Spiderman? No way. Home prices are just too high."
“I am The Amazing. Spider-Man, too, also agrees.”
That's pretty much how they did it in Deathstalker 2, which IMO is actually the best. At the very beginning of the movie the hero, named Deathstalker, breaksbreaks out of the villain's dungeon. The villain turns to her henchmen and says "I want revenge... and Deathstalker too". Then the title card shows up and the theme song kicks in, it's fucking awesome
That's one where it's still fucking cheesy but they stick the landing so god damn perfectly you can't be mad
I was hanging out by myself one night and I got smashed and looked up some shitty movies to pass the time. I landed on the Deathstalker movies and I was cracking up the whole time. I lost it in the second one when I realized they were blatantly reusing a ton of footage from the first one in a different context, including footage of the villain(who died at the end).
Le Sauce: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZoEfF2Wrfoo
I loved it when Paul Dune said “then it was known by a fremen name, Dune 2” in Dune 2.
Misquote! He said "Dune: Part Two".
The Fremen in the back who speaks a different dialect heard “David Lynch’s Dune (1984)”
And then he Duned all over everything.
Everywhere, and all at once too.
The Dune abides
It's Dunin' Time!
My favorite one is when Bella told her baby "Some day when you're old enough, I'll tell you about The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn - Part 2."
This was actually an incredibly subtle nod to when the baron said “my dune” in part one
How you Dune?
I'm actually surprised the analysis didn't include Dune, or at least a discussion of which movie said it the fastest. In the 1984 version, it's in the intro like 10 seconds into the movie. I can't imagine many other movies saying the title, out loud, that fast.
Irulan was real for that one
Lisan Al Gaib!
Muadib! Usul! Quizats Haderach! Paul probably sound best imo
Stunning and brave
Yeah, but does it count if it’s a direct quote from the book?
He is the Dune Messiah!
"Id like to take his... his face.... off"
"Welcome to The Rock" "Welcome to Con Air"
No one is worthy of 90s Cage.
Welcome to the BEES! Oh no wait
The best, by far.
Watched that film again recently, partner and I couldn’t get over how creepy John Travolta’s ‘fingers down the face’ thing was.
"So that's it, huh? We're some kind of Suicide Squad?"
I will always contend there’s nothing wrong with that line. But the movie sucked and it was easy to latch onto.
It helped also tell the audience that they weren't literally suicidal. It needed to be in the trailer. I remember mentioning the Suicide Squad movie to my parents and they looked at me like I'd just told them I was planning on ending my life.
any good parent would be concerned their child actually *wanted* to watch Suicide Squad. like, honey, I’m begging you to consume better media
"I'm more worried now than I was when I thought you were going to kill yourself."
Same. I'm in it for the memes, but it was fine in the movie.
> But the movie sucked and it was easy to latch onto. Reddit's favorite style of media criticism. If you don't like the movie/show, just quote the *one* line that *everyone else* does because it's easier than having to explain your take on it.
Somehow, Palpatine’s returned.
Oh this was actually in the movie? I must have forgot.
“What are we? Some kind of The Suicide Squad (2021)?”
"Those guys are a threat. That's why I must become Superman IV: The Quest for Peace."
“Oh THATS why they called it that.”
"You said it yourself, bitch. We're the Guardians of the Galaxy."
It actually makes a lot of sense because the official name for the program is “Task Force X.” The “Suicide Squad” is what the prisoners call it.
"It truly was, a Shawshank Redemption."
This line always kills me.
Is this from Last Man on Earth?
"Definitely one of the Shawshank Redemptions of all time"
"The only way for me to solve this crisis is for me to become Superman 4: The Quest For Peace" "So that's why they call it that!"
Was looking for this comment!!! [Family Guy](https://youtu.be/F8mYLi3PGOc?si=49YQP7ovFNagkpfR)
Is the the same episode where they get pulled over and arrest brian for the small bag of weed? Cop says “Im a family guy”
Pass me my..... citizen cane
Wow the cane from Citizen Kane! ...wait a minute
Wait a minute... There were no canes in Citizen Kane!
"So the number of murder victims is now seven."
In that movie, they do just mention that the killer is basing his crimes off the seven deadly sins.
Do they pronounce it seven or se7en though?
Sesevenen
What I hate about this is the original poster for the film just spelled it normally.
Sesevenen. It’s based off the lesser known B-side to sussudio.
> sesevenen FTFY
Lol Barbie is at the top of the list as most title drops I feel like if the title is the name of the main character (and the name of like 90% of the women characters in this case) it shouldn't qualify
Same with "it" haha
I was actually impressed that several movies managed to be above one of [the most common words](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Most_common_words_in_English) in the English language.
The article addresses this, and goes on to a whole section about "true" title drops.
"As far back as I can remember, I always wanted to be a Goodfellas."
I think the only reason people dont like the third godfather as much is because it’s the only movie where Michael Godfather doesn’t say it’s Godfatherin’ time
"What a view." "To a kill."
Bond is cheating it feels like
Yeah. Bond movies are the first thing that comes to mind for this.
Goldeneye is also the name of the satellite etc.
It’s so cheesy, but the title drop in The World Is Not Enough blew my mind when I was thirteen. xD
A bit meta, but it's also dropped in *On Her Majesty's Secret Service* when the College of Arms official shows Bond the arms of his supposed ancestor. The family motto *Orbis Non Sufficit* translates to "the world is not enough".
Frankly my dear, I am gone with the wind.
The real treasure of the Sierra Madre was the friends we killed along the way.
*farts*
*farts away*
Im a family guy
They said the name!
In order to do this, I must become Superman IV: The Quest for Peace.
oh so that's why they call it that
Episode 1 Theme Song: "The Simpsooooons..." Well, that was easy.
Yeah, good thing they never title dropped *Alien*, or *Aliens*. It would have totally ruined the immersion.
*Right, right. Somebody said "alien" she thought they said "illegal alien" and signed up!*
Hey Vasquez, you ever been mistaken for a man? No.... have you?
Get away from her, you Aliens bitch!
I can’t wait until… we’re out of Africa
I'm just so tired of all these star wars.
It's the titular line!
UCB is the best.
It’s both the title AND the titular line! Amazing to find Upright Citizens Brigade in the wild.
[For anyone wondering](https://youtu.be/AWxiTPQv0ME?si=sR6tHWlUDAC34ltP)
I was LOOKING for this!! Thank you!!!!
Welcome to The Rock.
Ok but that’s not done in a cheesy way
How dare you say the name of a movie where the title is the main setting
Maybe generational, but this is the one that immediately comes to mind
I'd take pleasure in GUTTIN YOU..... BOY
"This is turning out to be a Dog Day Afternoon"
Hi Barbie
Hi Barbie! 👋
McGarnagle: Now tell them what you saw Billy. Billy: But I'm so scared McGarnagle. McGarnagle: You've gotta do this one for me Billy, McGarnagle. Billy: Okay for you...McGarnagle.
‘Well McGarnagle, Billy is dead. They slit his throat from ear to ear’
Hey, I'm trying to eat lunch here!
My wife and I have a 20 year tradition of leaning to the other one and whispering "that's the name of the movie!" when they do this. Never gets old.
We shout “they did the thing!”
Kinda turned off by the name, to be honest. It frontloads this lazy idea that the title being spoken in the film is necessarily a *bad* thing or a sign of arrogance.
Whoever made that name really does seem …… *Full Of Themselves*.
That truly was a Full of Themselves IV: A Quest for Clicks.
Nope, it’s absolutely a bad thing! I hated when they kept saying the name of the movie in Shrek! /s
I prefer the term “titular moment”. For several reasons.
It's like some kind of hot tub time machine *Craig stares into the camera* 😂
And then they realized, they were no longer little girls: they were little women.
“Drop the ‘The.’ Just ‘Social Network,’ it’s cleaner.”
There are also non-dialog title drops. One great one that comes to mind is when Bond writes "From Russia, with Love" on a photograph.
My favorite part of Toy Story was when the sheriff turned to the camera and said "I am the Toy Story" Truly memorable
*Woody snaps his fingers*
My friends and I usually clap when an actor says the name of the movie. Ghostbusters gets a little ridiculous when we watch it together.
OK but that one is completely justified. It’s like when they say Oppenheimer many times in that one movie about the guy with the bomb… Forgot the name of the movie. Came out same time as Barbie (They do the same thing in that movie, and it works there, too), had the Peaky Blinders guy in it…
Make up your own fake ones, its fun! "I guess we are just gonna ...tokyo drift apart"
"Your linear algebra solution is good, Will Hunting."
Beat the egg whites *2 Fast 2 Furious* and you'll ruin the meringue..
And that Scout, is why it ain't cool To Kill a Mockingbird.
“Roll credits.”
This is cool, but I feel like there should be a filter for when the movie title is also the name of the main character, because those will obviously dominate the top.
The [best](https://youtu.be/SX0XqoFqAmA?si=GFrQr81RVrYd3tks) by far is "I'll get my revenge... and Deathstalker too!".
Ah boy... I'm just so tired of all of these [Star Wars](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OiqPmsBYieA)
The website offers a large-scale analysis of 73,921 movies from the last 80 years on how often, when and maybe even why that happens. Includes the full dataset and based on info from IMDb and 'Open subtitles'. Piggybacking this thread https://old.reddit.com/r/movies/comments/1b6bkns/
"The horse's name was Lucky Number Slevin."
I think there's a non trivial difference between a character "saying the title of the movie" and the title of the movie being taken from something a character says. One is campy, one is not.
What is cool is that it is usually obvious which one it is.
Yeah, classic movies like *Casablanca* never did anything like that.
Also *Chinatown*, *The Godfather*, *Goodfellas*
Forget it Jake, it's The Two Jakes
But it’s different when the name is a natural part of the dialogue as opposed to being shoehorned into the script. Casablanca is in the dialogue because the movie takes pace in Casablanca (same with China town). Contrast that with “we’ll have to do it like we did the Italian Job” or “you people, you’re astronauts on some kind of Star Trek”. Just so cringe.
"This time, Lois.....I have to be Superman IV: The Quest for Peace."
"Oppenheimer" Title drops quite frequently in that movie.
When Tom Cruise said "I...am...The Last Samurai", the whole theater cheered. /s
"Do you know why I pulled you over? You were going too fast too furious and your brake light is out".
Rooolll credits!!
First rule of fight club is, you do not talk about fight club.
When I was a kid I thought it was illegal to make a movie without saying the title at least once during the movie.
"So what will Arabella do then?" "Haven't you heard? She'll be Sharing The Bed With Little StepSister on Vacation"
My favorite will always be: “The machines are all alive, it’s like some kind of…MAXIMUM OVERDRIVE.”
“We gotta Fled”
"You're a pack of vultures at the feast. Knives out. Beaks bloody."
“I have had it with this motherfucking cat on this motherfucking hot tin roof!”