Movies and their dialog

I'm one of those nuts who can recite dialog from movies as though it were my own... at the right moment. When you think about it, the screenwriters are paid a great deal of money to craft each line perfectly. When I find the same circumstances, I think its clever to use something clever from a movie (and make it seem like it was my own)

Some of my favorite movies are

Meet Joe Black - great remake of the 1939 "Death takes a Holiday" - gives perspective on family and time

Go - amazing film about reckless youth with the story carrying 4 threads that move to a single Christmas Eve.

The Fabulous Baker Boys - I like to think I'm like Jack but am probably more like Frank Baker
American Beauty - the first screenplay he writes becomes Oscar winning for script and best pic
The Long Good Friday - British gangsters, Bob Hoskins and Helen Mirren at their best
Breaker Morant - Edward Woodward & Bryan Brown in a dramtic legal defense
Scarface (Oliver Stone is the screenwriter)
Godfather Part II - better than "the Godfather"
Masada (this is a very overlooked work of Peter O'Toole & Peter Strauss)
Becket (O'Toole & Burton's voice & dialog can only be rivaled by Patrick Stewart)
Bounty
Wall Street
To Live and Die in L.A.
Field of Dreams
2010
Heartbreakers (Nick Mancuso and Peter Coyote in a great study of 2 men, how their lives changed and mid-life)
Chariots of Fire
Aliens (much better than Alien, we agree Alien 3 should never have been made)
A Very British Coup

TV shows and *their* dialog

You can tell a TV show is well written, when they don't step back to fill you in and they don't use a person's first name repeatedly in ways that you wouldn't in real life.

An example of BAD TV writing is Jada Pinkett's "Hawthorne". Notice how repeat the same a situation or a person's first name. I know it was pitched as "Grey's Anatomy meets ER" but it lacks the realism of the Crichton show.