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    It's A Sad Day For Obscure Movies You Don't Care About

    By Will Leitch, 12:43 PM on Fri Oct 3 2008, 7,678 views (Edit, to draft, Top, Slurp)

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    I know I've been writing a lot this week, and I swear, my actual job really does keep me plenty busy, but Daulerio informed me of an impending change at Deadspin that I had to weigh in on. In about 15 minutes, Gawker Media is introducing automated, ad-produced sponsors posts. That means: No more movie quotes, ever again. I was surprised by how sad this made me.

    To be entirely honest, there were weeks in which I put as much mental energy into deciding what the movie quotes were going to be than the I spent on the rest of the site. (This will likely not strike you as a surprise.) The whole thing started because, well, I absolutely hated that I had to write a sponsors post; it felt like ad copy, and only chumps like Drew do ad copy. But, you know, back in 2005, Nick Denton had us writing posts on an Etch-and-Sketch, which was then flown by carrier pigeon (very, very carefully) to Hungary, where tiny, hairless, meth-enhanced Indonesian children pedaled bicycles to power the servers. (I never quite understood why Nick bothered to fly the children to Hungary from Indonesia. I was afraid to ask.) Posts hit the site roughly 37 days after they were initially written. We've come a long way. Kind of.

    That is to say: I wasn't in much of a position to complain about anything, considering my only other career option at the time involved harvesting horse semen. Now that I think about it, that's not all that different than the days of Barbaro, really.

    Anyway. I kind of feel like we're losing something by not having the movie posts anymore. It was the only time on Deadspin I got to do what I really wanted to: Just quote Woody Allen all day. It took restraint I didn't know I had not to make every movie post a Woody Allen post. To deaden the pain, I tried to pick movies that I loved, hoping someone out there would recognize them. This rarely happened. Fortunately, Daulerio would pick movies that, you know, people actually watched and enjoyed. A coarse plebian, that guy.

    So, because this is the last ever sponsors post with movie quotes, I thought I'd just list all the movies I used. Beware: There are a lot, so this is one of those posts that runs long and ruins your workday, apparently. For the record, I don't love all these movies ... but I do love most of them.

    Here you go, in order:

    Glengarry Glen Ross
    This Is Spinal Tap
    The Big Lebowski
    Army Of Darkness
    Annie Hall
    A Fish Called Wanda
    Rushmore
    Being John Malkovich
    Friday
    True Romance
    Clerks
    The Naked Gun
    Requiem For A Dream
    Best In Show
    Zoolander
    Dr. Strangelove
    Ed Wood
    Punch Drunk Love
    The Incredibles
    Heat
    Brazil
    Rambo: First Blood Part II
    Beavis And Butt-head Do America
    Ali G Indahouse
    Do The Right Thing
    Airplane
    Cool Hand Luke
    Election
    Brick
    L.A. Confidential
    South Park: Bigger, Longer And Uncut
    Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind
    Taxi Driver
    Sin City
    Lost In Translation
    The Departed
    The Straight Story
    The Truman Show
    From Russia With Love
    Nashville
    Love And Death
    Double Indemnity
    The Talented Mr. Ripley
    A Christmas Story
    Eddie Murphy: Raw
    Children Of Men
    The Good Shepherd
    Junebug
    The Naked Gun 33 1/3: The Final Insult
    Hannah And Her Sisters
    Million Dollar Baby
    se7en
    Vertigo
    Pootie Tang
    The Upside Of Anger
    Bob Roberts
    Four Rooms
    Grindhouse
    Shaun Of The Dead
    Clue
    Darkman
    28 Days Later
    Confessions Of A Dangerous Mind
    Donnie Brasco
    "Freaks And Geeks"
    From Dusk Till Dawn
    "The Sopranos"
    The Manchurian Candidate
    The Iron Giant
    Transformers: The Movie
    Trees Lounge
    Back To The Future
    "The Simpsons"
    Broadcast News
    The Natural
    The Limey
    Three Kings
    You Can Count On Me
    Unforgiven
    The Fly
    In The Company Of Men
    The Royal Tenenbaums
    Kingpin
    Aliens
    A Nightmare On Elm Street
    Dog Day Afternoon
    Miller's Crossing
    The Squid And The Whale
    The Conversation
    Superbad
    Gremlins
    There Will Be Blood
    Blade Runner
    Once
    Edward Scissorhands
    Raiders Of The Lost Ark
    No Country For Old Men
    Zodiac
    Short Cuts
    Rambo
    Michael Clayton
    Body Heat
    Repo Man
    Sideways
    Lone Star
    Funny Games
    Good Night, And Good Luck
    Crumb
    I Am Legend
    Mean Girls
    The Aviator
    Raiders Of The Lost Ark (Ooops. My first repeat. Sorry.)
    The Spanish Prisoner
    Top Secret
    Manhattan
    Tootsie
    Lady In The Water
    Singin' In The Rain
    2001: A Space Odyssey

    A sad day indeed.

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