Because it's been fun looking at everyone else's...

[averygoodun42]

I shouldn't post this right now as I'll be going out this evening. But I'm going to anyway. ;-)

1. Pick 10-20 your favorite movies.
2. Go to IMDb and find a quote from each movie.
3. Post them here for everyone to guess.
4. Fill in the film title once it's guessed.
5. NO GOOGLING/using IMDb search functions.


1. Let me tell you something my friend. Hope is a dangerous thing. Hope can drive a man insane. The Shawshank Redemption rosedemon

2. Yes. The British Empire. Arthur... what fraction of the earth's surface is British?

That's what this war is all about. Men are fighting and dying to save all the pink bits for you ungrateful little twerps.

3. It's not me.

If I show up at your door, chances are you did something to bring me there. Grosse Pointe Blank camillo1978 (as I guessed she would!)

4. Wow, the floors are so clean.

I mean, this is unreal. They're gonna start eating each other out there. Galaxy Quest keladry_lupin!

5. Say no to carrots, cabbage and cauliflower. Wallace and Gromit: Curse of the Were-Rabbit mundungus42

6. I had an impulse. Are you gonna sue me for sexual harassment?

Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure.

7. The winning side would have paid you much better.

Tell me, who was it you left me for? Was it Laszlo, or were there others in between? Or - aren't you the kind that tells? Casablanca keladry_lupin and camillo1978 got it at the same time!

8. Mom, you're making weird faces again. The Incredibles sshg316

9. (an easy, easy one) That poem, "The Walrus and the Carpenter" that's an indictment of organized religion. The walrus, with his girth and his good nature, he obviously represents either Buddha, or... or with his tusk, the Hindu elephant god, Lord Ganesha. That takes care of your Eastern religions. Now the carpenter, which is an obvious reference to Jesus Christ, who was raised a carpenter's son, he represents the Western religions. Now in the poem, what do they do... what do they do? They... They dupe all these oysters into following them and then proceed to shuck and devour the helpless creatures en masse. I don't know what that says to you, but to me it says that following these faiths based on mythological figures ensure the destruction of one's inner-being. Organized religion destroys who we are by inhibiting our actions... by inhibiting our decisions, out of... out of fear of some... some intangible parent figure who... who shakes a finger at us from thousands of years ago and says... and says, "Do it - Do it and I'll fuckin' spank you. " Dogma minuet99

10. The only thing more pathetic than Indians on TV is Indians watching Indians on TV.

Arnold got arrested, you know. But he got lucky. They charged him with attempted murder. Then they plea-bargained that down to assault with a deadly weapon. Then they plea-bargained that down to being an Indian in the Twentieth Century. Then he got two years in Walla-Walla.

11. They were waiting for their new leader... but he died.

When she was born, that's when things went wrong for us.

12. Oh, well, thank you very much, very nice of you. Your vote of confidence is overwhelming. The Princess Bride mundungus42

Comments

[minuet99.livejournal.com]

#9 - DOGMA.

[averygoodun.livejournal.com]

You are correct! (Told you it was easy!)

[minuet99.livejournal.com]

Yeah. Cuz I'm stuck for everything else.

[averygoodun.livejournal.com]

I know you've seen #4.

[minuet99.livejournal.com]

I looked at it again. I don't recognize it w/o Googling.

[averygoodun.livejournal.com]

Even with the new clue?

[rosedemon.livejournal.com]

Number one is The Shawshank Redemption.

[averygoodun.livejournal.com]

Yep!

[sshg316.livejournal.com]

#8 The Incredibles :)

[averygoodun.livejournal.com]

Yes, it is!

[mundungus42.livejournal.com]

5 is Wallace and G romit: Curse of the Were-Rabbit!

[averygoodun.livejournal.com]

You are correct! Whee!

[mundungus42.livejournal.com]

Oh! and 12 is The Princess Bride!

[averygoodun.livejournal.com]

Indeed!

[mundungus42.livejournal.com]

Yay! Excellent selection of quotes, by the way. Specific to the film but not dead giveaways.

[averygoodun.livejournal.com]

The Princess Bride is especially difficult because everybody and their mother has memorized all the best lines! So thank you!

[keladry_lupin]

Hmph. All I can identify are ones that are already taken.

[averygoodun.livejournal.com]

Ah, but I know you know #4, and you almost certainly know #7, and probably know #3. I guess I will have to add clues. (I was trying to be tricky.)

[keladry_lupin]

*scowling at 3, 4, and 7* I know I've heard 4 and 7, but I can't place either.

[averygoodun.livejournal.com]

I just added some clues...

[keladry_lupin]

*headdesk* I am ashamed that I didn't recognize Galaxy Quest.

I've only seen Casablanca twice, but I do recognize that one, too.

[averygoodun.livejournal.com]

Well, it's one of those moments of zen that is so easily bypassed in the craziness of everything else going on in that movie. ;-D

I figured you had to have seen it!

[keladry_lupin]

I only saw it for the first time about a year ago, actually.

[camillo1978.livejournal.com]

2. 1984?
3. Is Grosse Pointe Blank!
7. Is Casablanca!

[averygoodun.livejournal.com]

Nope on 2, but otherwise, well done! Would you have got Grosse Pointe Blank without the second line?

[camillo1978.livejournal.com]

God, movie Arthurs... Um, Arthur, or Hitchikers Guide are the only others I can think of. And I don't think it's them!

Yep! They were on my list, too ;-)

[averygoodun.livejournal.com]

Ah, and see the clue is more in the setting than the name for #2. (That's a 'no', btw. ;-)

I figured just about any clue relating to GPB you'd get, having put it on your list.

[camillo1978.livejournal.com]

2. Now I'm seeing Michael Caine...

[averygoodun.livejournal.com]

Noooo... Think comedy.