NationStates Jolt Archive

Which is the best Monty Python movie:

1.Holy Grail
2. Life of Brian
3. Meaning of Life
4. And now for something completely different

My personal choice is holy grail....

Oh, Holy Grail definitely. It's not only my favorite movie, but one of those movies you can watch over and over. I have to watch it every couple of months to get my fix. A close second would be the Flying Circus sketches.

Pure genius.

Oh, Holy Grail definitely. It's not only my favorite movie, but one of those movies you can watch over and over. I have to watch it every couple of months to get my fix. A close second would be the Flying Circus sketches.

Pure genius.
too true...(one of the few things the english have provided us, lol)

too true...(one of the few things the english have provided us, lol)

That, and kick-ass rock music. :D

Holy Grail was etter, movie wise, but And Now for Something Completely Different is almost as good a title as I Killed My Lesbian Wife, Hung Her on a Meat Hook, and Now I Have a Three-Picture Deal at Disney.
Of course, both movies could be absolute crap because I am too lazy to go rent them.
Or I could be lying.
Or you could be hallucinating.
Or this whole thing could be, like, some dude's dream, man, and, and get this: He is totally tripping out, man.
Or I could just shuttup now, yes I think I shall go with that option.

BRIAN: You're all individuals!

CROWD: YES! WE'RE ALL INDIVIDUALS!

MAN: I'm not...

The Holy Grail, definitely.

"Okay, we've lost Hector, Gawain, and *insert name, as I've forgotten*. That's five."

"THREE, sir."

"Three."

Holy Grail's the best one. Although And Now For Something Completely Different has some pretty good sketches. Parrot sketch, How Not To Be Seen, Wink Wink, Nudge Nudge.

The Holy Grail, definitely.

"Okay, we've lost Hector, Gawain, and *insert name, as I've forgotten*. That's five."

"THREE, sir."

"Three."

ARTHUR (Chapman): We've lost Boers, Ector, and Kay, that's...five--

GAWAIN (Palin): Three, sir.

ARTHUR: Three. Right. We'd best not risk another frontal assault, that rabbit's dynamite.

ROBIN (Idle): I know -- let us attack and run away some more. Perhaps we'll confuse it!

ARTHUR: Oh, shut up and go and change your armor.

GALAHAD (Cleese): Ah -- we could taunt it! It may become so cross that it'll make a mistake!

ARTHUR: (Incredulously) Like what?

GALAHAD: (Hadn't thought of that) Erm...

GAWAIN: Have we got bows?

ARTHUR: No.

GALAHAD: Well, we have got the Holy Hand Grenade.

ARTHUR: Ah yes! The Holy Hand Grenade! It's one of the relics Brother Maynard carries with him. Brother Maynard! Bring forth the Holy Hand Grenade!

MONKS: (plainchant) Pie Jesu, Domine -- dona eis requiem.

ARTHUR: (after some pomp and circumstance) How does it -- erm -- how does it...work?

GALAHAD: Consult the book of Armaments!

MAYNARD (Palin): Armaments, Chapter One, Verses Nine through Twenty-two...

...and so on.

I'm not proud of this useless knowledge. It's just there.

I've only seen Holy Grail ("Are you suggesting coconuts migrate?"), though I hear Life of Brian is excellent. Also heard Meaning of life hardly lived up to the Monty Python name.

Comments on that?

Holy Grail's the best one. Although And Now For Something Completely Different has some pretty good sketches. Parrot sketch, How Not To Be Seen, Wink Wink, Nudge Nudge.

Mrs. Blake is trying not to be seen. Mrs. Blake, will you stand up?

*she does so, and after a beat a rifle report is heard and she flies backward, dead*

This demonstrates the value of not being seen.

*cut to a lone bush in a large expanse of grass*

Mister Smith is also trying not to be seen. Mister Smith, will you stand up?

*pause, nothing happens*

Mister Smith has learned the first lesson of how not to be seen: don't stand up. However, he has chosen a rather obvious piece of cover.

*the lone bush immediately explodes, producing a scream*

Now Mister Johnson has presented us with a poser: we do not know which bush Mister Johnson is hiding behind. But we can soon find out.

*left bush explodes*

*right bush explodes*

*center bush explodes followed immediately by a plaintive scream*

Yes, it was the middle one.

I have seen this at least 50 times, and I never fail to laugh myself silly every time I see it. THAT's comedy.

I've only seen Holy Grail ("Are you suggesting coconuts migrate?"), though I hear Life of Brian is excellent. Also heard Meaning of life hardly lived up to the Monty Python name.

Comments on that?

The Meaning Of Life has its moments (Mister Creosote, liver donation card, "well, you're dead now, so shut up!", "woke up, one sock too many!", "The Meaning of Life Part Two, The Third World: Yorkshire", and so forth), but it is the weakest of the Python films.

Life of Brian for me.

Meaning of Life is definitely the weakest, although as has been said, it has it's moments...

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The Holy Grail is solid overall and keeps you laughing the whole way through. The Life of Brian isn't as consistent, but nothing in the Holy Grail matches the alien abduction or the shock when Brian walks onto the balcony naked.

I voted Life of Brian, purely because Holy Grail was getting more votes :p I honestly can't choose between them, but Life of Brian was the first Monty Python movie i saw so thats why I'm choosing it. Plus R.E. would have been sooooo much poorer without it.

Mrs. Blake is trying not to be seen. Mrs. Blake, will you stand up?

*she does so, and after a beat a rifle report is heard and she flies backward, dead*

This demonstrates the value of not being seen.

*cut to a lone bush in a large expanse of grass*

Mister Smith is also trying not to be seen. Mister Smith, will you stand up?

*pause, nothing happens*

Mister Smith has learned the first lesson of how not to be seen: don't stand up. However, he has chosen a rather obvious piece of cover.

*the lone bush immediately explodes, producing a scream*

Now Mister Johnson has presented us with a poser: we do not know which bush Mister Johnson is hiding behind. But we can soon find out.

*left bush explodes*

*right bush explodes*

*center bush explodes followed immediately by a plaintive scream*

Yes, it was the middle one.

I have seen this at least 50 times, and I never fail to laugh myself silly every time I see it. THAT's comedy.

What happened to Mrs. B J Smegma?

And Now For Something Completely Different... Absolutely.


Eric: So, you've been with a woman. Had sex with a woman??

Terry J.: Yes...

Eric: Whats it like?

*cut to terry gilliam dressed up a nun showing hairy legs on a rowing machine*

Terry G: Well I think its overrated...

Clease(as army corporal): Shat up you!!.... Right!

And then into the amazingly hilarious 'How to defend yourself against fresh fruit'

Clease: The 16 ton weight is just one way! Just one way to kill the rasberry fiend!

Eric: What are the other ways?

Clease: Shoot him

Eric: what if you don't have a gun?

Clease: Well thats forethought for you! You've got to plan ahead for these things!

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Clease: Next! You eat the banana! Thus making him unarmed!

Palin: What if hes got a bunch?

Clease: Shut up!

Eric: What if hes got a pointed stick?

Clease: Shut up!

I fart in your general direction.

"Ofcourse African swallows are non-migratory"

"Oh yeah, ofcourse"

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Graham: I dont care!!

*classic pause*

"look, its all a matter of weight ratio. A 14 ounce bird cannot carry a 1 pound coconut!"


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MAN: Where'd you get the coconuts?

Graham: We found them!

MAN: In Serbia/Mercia(?)!

Graham: Yes, what of it?

MAN: Coconuts are tropical!

Graham: Birds can fly south for the winter, and yet these are not strangers to our land?

MAN: Are you suggesting Coconuts migrate??!

Graham: No, it could have been carried!

Man: On what?

Graham: A swallow could have brought it.

Man: A swallow??

Graham: Yes, it could have gripped it by the husk!

Man: Its not a matter of where it grips it!

Yeah The Holy Grail is teh win! :cool:

Although I do have a special edition of The Life of Brian as well which is excellent too!

"He's not the Messiah, he's a very naughty boy!"

and

"I'm Brian of Nazereth and so's my wife!"

Call me crazy but I live The Meaning of Life best of all of them.

Every sperm is sacred.
Every sprem is great.
If a sperm is wasted,
God gets quite irate.

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So you see my loves, its got to be medical experiments for the lot of ya.

Deciding between the Holy Grail and Life of Brian is difficult, but I think I like Life of Brian better. Just a matter of personal taste, but there are a few scenes in Life of Brian that make me roll on the floor gasping for breath just remembering them...

PILATE
Now, what is your name, Jew?
BRIAN
Brian.
PILATE
Bwian, eh?
BRIAN (trying to be helpful)
No, *BRIAN*.
(The CENTURION cuffs him.)
PILATE
The little wascal has spiwit.
CENTURION
Has what, sir?
PILATE
*SPIWIT*.
CENTURION
Yes, he did, sir.
PILATE
No, no, spiwit ... bwavado ... a touch of dewwing-do.
CENTURION (still not really understanding)
Ah. About eleven, sir.
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.
.
BRIAN
I'm not Jewish ... I'm a Roman!
PILATE
*WOMAN*?
BRIAN
No, *ROMAN*.
(But he's not quick enough to avoid another blow from the CENTURION.)
PILATE
So, your father was a *WOMAN*. Who was he?

And of course, best Latin ever "Romanes eunt domus"...
I was in 8th grade when I first saw the movie and faced another 3 years of compulsory Latin lessons. I LOVED that scene...

C: What's this thing?
"ROMANES EUNT DOMUS"?
"People called Romanes they go the house"?
B: It, it says "Romans go home".
C: No it doesn't. What's Latin for "Roman"?
B: (hesitates)
C: Come on, come on!
B: (uncertain) "ROMANUS".
C: Goes like?
B: "-ANUS".
C: Vocative plural of "-ANUS" is?
B: "-ANI".
C: (takes paintbrush from Brian and paints over) "RO-MA-NI".
"EUNT"? What is "EUNT"?
B: "Go".
C: Conjugate the verb "to go"!
B: "IRE". "EO", "IS", "IT", "IMUS", "ITIS", "EUNT".
C: So "EUNT" is ...?
B: Third person plural present indicative, "they go".
C: But "Romans, go home!" is an order, so you must use the ...?
(lifts Brian by his hairs)
B: The ... imperative.
C: Which is?
B: Ahm, oh, oh, "I", "I"!
C: How many romans? (pulls harder)
B: Plural, plural! "ITE".
C: (strikes over "EUNT" and paints "ITE" to the wall)
(satisfied) "I-TE".
"DOMUS"? Nominative? "Go home", this is motion towards, isn't it, boy?
B: (very anxious) Dative?
C: (draws his sword and holds it to Brian's throat)
B: Ahh! No, ablative, ablative, sir. No, the, accusative, accusative, ah, DOMUM, sir.
C: Except that "DOMUS" takes the ...?
B: ... the locative, sir!
C: Which is?
B: "DOMUM".
C: (satisfied) "DOMUM" (strikes out "DOMUS" and writes "DOMUM") "-MUM".
Understand?
B: Yes sir.
C: Now write it down a hundred times.
B: Yes sir, thank you sir, hail Caesar, sir.
C: (salutes) Hail Caesar.
If it's not done by sunrise, I'll cut your balls off.
B: (very reliefed) Oh thank you sir, thank you sir, hail caesar and everything, sir!