Movie moments are nice things to share with the people you care about. Most of those shared moments consist of, “Remember that part when the guy with the thing…” and before they can finish, you intersperse with your own wave, “Oh, I totally love that part!” But occasionally this process extends beyond an inner circle and becomes global in scope. This is where a perfectly good movie passes into the realm of the annoying, due to our need to repeat the catchy lines they contain. Here’s a completely subjective list of movies that have been ruined by our need to imitate.

1. Austin Powers – “Oh, behave yourself.” Remember that period after the movie when fairly normal people couldn’t resist putting their little finger in their mouth and incorporating the word fuck into a sentence. Oh, that’s right, nobody wants to remember that. Thank God there were two more movies with the same jokes to remind us.

2. The Godfather: A fantastical epic that spawned a generation of bad Marlon Brando impersonations. No cotton balls. The most overused dumb phrase: “It’s nothing personal, it’s strictly business.” Yes, and I am the president of Uzbekistan. The people who buy and repeat this line must have forgotten that the same people who outlawed this nonsense also cut off a horse’s head and put it on someone’s bed.

3. Jerry Maguire: What started with a nice moment between two deaf people saying in an elevator, “You complete me,” somehow ended with people saying to waiters at cheesy Italian restaurants, “I’ve been invited to our tonight’s specials.” .” Lucky dead.

4. Napoleon Dynamite – The most recent entry and, along with The Godfather, combines two elements of mimicry. You can’t just say the line, you also have to do it with the interpreter’s voice. How can this possibly go wrong?

5. Scarface – Oh man, give me coke! Give me everything! And after that, I’ll introduce you to my little friend and descend in a blaze of glory! Isn’t drug dealing cool? Okay, I know that’s not the point, but ask any guy what his favorite movie is and I guarantee none of them will say, “You know Out of Africa was fucking good. Remember when Robert Redford said… . .” Oh, who am I kidding, I’m a boy; This movie was perfect. Repeat “Say hello to my little friend” as many times as you want.

6. Caddyshack: Not because of the lines that are said, but because of the fact that no one can remember what the lines are. If the lines were so memorable, why the hell are we constantly butchering them on the golf course?

7. Warriors – Granted, this is not a good movie, but saying “Warriors, come out and playayeeeaay” is the equivalent of yelling “Freebird” at a concert.

8. Taxi driver: nobody looks at you. Stop pretending someone is.

9. Forrest Gump – Why did copying what a moron said seem like a good idea? No, life is not like a box of chocolates, most of the time we know what is coming our way.