If a movie is quotable...

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If you don't know, I did not like Napoleon Dynamite. This causes great concern among quite a few of my good friends at Tulsa. How could I not like the randomness that is Napoleon Dynamite, one of the ten greatest movies of all time? I admit it has its funny moments. But the movie as a whole just fell flat with me, although its adherents are claiming that they will convert me at another showing of Napoleon Dynamite.

Of course, I made an outlandish standment in argument. Just because a movie is quotable does not make it funny. But then the argument became if a movie is quotable, then it must be good. At that moment I couldn't quite come up with a bad movie that's quotable. Okay, so I don't see a lot of movies. So, I ask you, my faithful readers:

If a movie is quotable, then must that be a good movie?

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You can't place a movie in the "greatest movies of all time" category just because it has some good one-liners. Truly great movies are touching in indescribable ways. I don't think a bunch of random 80's and 90's references are going to have the same effect on me as Citizen Kane or The Godfather.

If you want to claim ND was the greatest movie ever because it's funny, then what about Spaceballs or Meet the Fokkers? They made me laugh.

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You don't have to tell me that, mysterious man.