Movies with the best dialogue
 

I recently watched "Glengarry Glen Ross" for the first time in a while, and it occurred to me that I don't think I have ever seen a film with better dialogue in it than that. Reservoir Dogs is up there, but nothing tops Glengarry as far as the dialogue.

Anyone care to disagree?

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pulp fiction

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princess bride too

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That Shakespeare guy is pretty good.

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big lebowski

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I wasn't aware they had cameras, lights, sound and editing equipment in the 1590s.

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Love and Death.

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I also generally like the dialogue in the Judd Apatow stuff/Superbad

Also The Big Sleep (or generally anything with Bogie in it)

Double Indemnity

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Clerks

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As mentioned, the best of billy wilder, the coen brothers, kevin smith and tarantino is going to be some of the best dialogue ever put on screen.

In the end though I think if we're just talking about the movie with the best dialogue ever it has to be Casablanca.

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For some reason firefox seems to believe I'm misspelling dialogue.

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I'm with you there. I'm also a big fan of House of Yes and Metropolitan, but those movies are an acquired taste.

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I opened the thread to say Glengary.

I like Aaron Sorkin so I'll mention A Few Good Men.

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That Shakespeare guy is pretty good.

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I wasn't aware they had cameras, lights, sound and editing equipment in the 1590s.

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Shockingly enough some people have taken Shakespeare's plays and made movies out of them.

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good answer.

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swingers ?

I think MADE is funnier tho.

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I really like Lost in Translation for its naturalistic dialogue.

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I wasn't aware they had cameras, lights, sound and editing equipment in the 1590s.

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They used Adobe Premiere

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I wasn't aware they had cameras, lights, sound and editing equipment in the 1590s.

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You know they have made films based on Shakespeare's plays?

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There's good dialogue and there's good natural-sounding dialogue. Everything listed so far doesn't really sound natural. This doesn't mean it doesn't sound great or seem natural. One of the amazing things about Pulp Fiction is that everything sounds natural but people are all actually giving a series of small speeches.

As far as natural dialogue, I don't think any movie is better than Mean Streets.

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All the Coen brothers movies. I put 'Miller's Crossing' at #2 and 'O, Brother, Where Art Thou' at #1.

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I opened the thread to say Glengary.


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Pulp Friction
Britney's Spheres
Willy Wonka and the Hershey Highway
There's Something Inside Mary
Shriek
The Neverending Glory Hole
The C. Ring
Bill Macy's movie "The Drooler"
Field of Creams
David Spade's "Joe Squirt"
Meat the Parents

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Interesting point about "good" versus "natural."

Don't you think Glengarry Glen Ross counts as natural dialogue though? I mean that is a totally believable situation with real-life characters.

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Interesting point about "good" versus "natural."

Don't you think Glengarry Glen Ross counts as natural dialogue though? I mean that is a totally believable situation with real-life characters.

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Now, don[t get me wrong, this is one of my favorite rants ever, delivered by my favorite actor ever, but I don't think its something someone would say in real life :P

I think Glengarry has amazing dialogue, but more than that, incredible acting. Great dialogue in Good Will Hunting in my opinion, that's high up there for the best. Pulp Fiction, I agree with that too.

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Unforgiven.

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Likewise, specifically Baldwin's scene.

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any tarantino ldo

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Great ones mentioned so far, of course, plus

Spartan
Brick
Kiss Kiss Bang Bang

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Midnight Run comes to mind as dialogue that was both natural and good.

So much depends on the actor, though. Midnight Run had DeNiro.

Glengary had great dialogue, but it was as unnatural as can be (deliberately).

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anything tarantino writes

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Who's Afraid of Viginia Woolfe?
Sexy Beast

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Lawrence of Arabia, probably.

Casablanca is pretty damn good too.

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Masterful dialogue in Glengarry. The Alec Baldwin Character is an add-in for the screen, though. I don't think he existed in the play.

I will take American Beauty as being up there as far as dialogue. There seems to be a brutal honesty about it. The kind of honesty that a bunch of disillusioned people would have with themselves, maybe each other if they were intimate. Seemed pretty real to me.

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I also agree with the Pulp Fiction selections but anoth one I like is
The Outlaw Josie Wales

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after sunset has incredible dialouge

and, as others have said, big lebowski

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Reservoir Dogs is up there

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This and The Big Lebowski instantly came to mind. Someone said The Princess Bride, which is also a good choice.

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CSI: Miami