Monty Python and the Holy Grail

I find some of the decisions as to what has made this list quite confusing. Yes I know it has been done by random people on IMDb (which is clearly going to be a certain type of person), but how is it possible that only one of the Python movies makes the Top100?!?!

As it is I love the Holy Grail.

It is probably one of the smartest scripts in the whole list, managing to have me giggling repeatedly over some of the worst insults known to man! At times it is perhaps too smart for its own good, particularly the part with the modern day police force - although that does give it quite a cheap and convenient ending. Alongside that however you have some completely random parts that are not even part of the story that are just brilliant - in one scene a man trying to catch fish with a stick!?!

It does make me wonder what would happen if they were to make that movie today. How much of it would be censored? How much money would be thrown at it, and would that then change the very essence of what makes the film so great? After all if you can afford horses would you have used coconuts?

If you haven't seen this movie then you really should if for no other reason than it has one of the greatest scenes ever:

The Dead Collector: Bring out yer dead.

[a man puts a body on the cart]

Large Man with Dead Body: Here's one.

The Dead Collector: That'll be ninepence.

The Dead Body That Claims It Isn't: I'm not dead.

The Dead Collector: What?

Large Man with Dead Body: Nothing. There's your ninepence.

The Dead Body That Claims It Isn't: I'm not dead.

The Dead Collector: 'Ere, he says he's not dead.

Large Man with Dead Body: Yes he is.

The Dead Body That Claims It Isn't: I'm not.

The Dead Collector: He isn't.

Large Man with Dead Body: Well, he will be soon, he's very ill.

The Dead Body That Claims It Isn't: I'm getting better.

Large Man with Dead Body: No you're not, you'll be stone dead in a moment.

The Dead Collector: Well, I can't take him like that. It's against regulations.

The Dead Body That Claims It Isn't: I don't want to go on the cart.

Large Man with Dead Body: Oh, don't be such a baby.

The Dead Collector: I can't take him.

The Dead Body That Claims It Isn't: I feel fine.

Large Man with Dead Body: Oh, do me a favor.

The Dead Collector: I can't.

Large Man with Dead Body: Well, can you hang around for a couple of minutes? He won't be long.

The Dead Collector: I promised I'd be at the Robinsons'. They've lost nine today.

Large Man with Dead Body: Well, when's your next round?

The Dead Collector: Thursday.

The Dead Body That Claims It Isn't: I think I'll go for a walk.

Large Man with Dead Body: You're not fooling anyone, you know. Isn't there anything you could do?

The Dead Body That Claims It Isn't: I feel happy. I feel happy.

[the Dead Collector glances up and down the street furtively, then silences the Body with his a whack of his club]

Large Man with Dead Body: Ah, thank you very much.

The Dead Collector: Not at all. See you on Thursday.

Large Man with Dead Body: Right.

Random, bizarre, hysterical... and on that note I'm off to trawl for some more quotes...