The Quest for the Greatest Movie Quote of All Time

The NCAA Tournament is over now, (so close, Butler. So close...) but your March Madness bracket was likely destroyed weeks ago. The good news for you is, you now have a chance to redeem yourself by filling out another bracket. It's not sports-related, but then again, 85% of people who fill out the brackets don't even follow sports. It's all about the competition, isn't it?

So here's the deal. Our fearless leader, Ryan Hennesy, founded the Facebook group page 100 Best Movie Quotes Ever. Even with only 70+ members in its first week of existence, the group page received more than enough quote recommendations for us to generate a formidable list of 100 great movie quotations. With bracket fever still fresh in our systems, we decided to take it a step further and launch a vote-based tournament in an effort to determine the single greatest movie quote of all time.

So for now, we're just linking the brackets. It's a basic Google Docs spreadsheet with four different 25-team brackets included. The brackets are seeded and laid out, all ready for an epic showdown. What is written on the actual bracket is a short, condensed version of the quote in question. The entire quote is listed to the right of each bracket. As this is single-elimination, the top-7 seeded quotes all have a bye in the first round of matchups. 88 movies are represented in this tournament.

The four categories are: 

1. Drama/Horror/Suspense: 24 movies are represented in this bracket, with Casablanca being the only film to appear twice.
2. Action/Adventure/Sci-Fi/Fantasy: There are also 24 movies represented in this bracket. Star Wars: Episode IV gets the honor of two appearances.
3. Comedy: Four movies got double nominations in this bracket, giving us a total of 21 different movies represented in the bracket. The double nominations belong to Dumb and Dumber, Monty Python and the Holy Grail, Anchorman, and Billy Madison.
4. Hybrid Genres/Catch-All: Naturally, a couple of the categories had more than 25 quality nominations, so they fell into this group. Additionally, any other movie that either didn't fit into one of the three groups or could have fit into more than one of them. 19 films are represented in this bracket.

So take a look at the bracket online here. If you want a copy of the file yourself so that you can fill out the bracket, leave a comment on here with your email address written out (i.e. username at domain dot com) and we'll send you an email with the spreadsheet file. Voting will begin soon.

And look for more mindless bracket fun and polls to come in the future.