The Answers! With Gratuitous Commentary!
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bloodyrosemccoyUnder the cut: Answers to the Movie Lines Quiz! (Miss it? It's okay, you can still guess--comments are screened so everyone has a chance!)
I tried to use really obvious lines from some of the more obscure movies, and balanced it by trying to find mostly obscure lines from the more well-known movies. Granted, that wasn’t always the case …
1. “Ooh, Nokias are real nasty. You’ve gotta respect the Japanese. They know the way of the samurai.”
-Transformers. Oh, John Turturro, your weirdass performance was definitely a highlight—and this was in a movie filled with giant robots doing combat rolls. I tip my hat to you, sir.
2. “Let’s get out of here before one of those things kills Guy!”
-Galaxy Quest—Sigourney Weaver on the care and keeping of Redshirts. (Amazing Fact: More people got this movie than #18. SHAME ON YOU, NERDS.)
3. “That’s just what this country needs. A cock in a frock on a rock.”
-The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert. Terence Stamp plays Bernadette, one of the most splendid bitches ever to grace the screen.
4. “I may be synthetic, but I’m not stupid.”
-Aliens. This is one of my favorite moments in the movie, just because of the little thing Lance Henriksen does when he says this—he looks a little confused at himself for having made a joke. Hell, his whole performance as Bishop was stellar.
5. “Inwardly downwardly! Pulsating striving! Ending and unending!”
-The Seven Year Itch. I don’t know, either.
6. “Jackie Treehorn treats objects like women.”
-The Big Lebowski.
7. “Your daughter? But she seems to have such nicely rounded diphthongs.”
-Oscar. This is the only Sylvester Stallone movie I have ever seen, and it has skewed my vision of his acting, because he is hilarious and wonderful in it. It also has Tim Curry as a linguistics dork.
8. “Normal view! Normal view! NORMAL VIEW!”
-Mystery Science Theater 3000: The Movie. I counted any call of MST3k because it’s hard to remember which is which, but it seemed cruel and against the rules to not go with the actual movie.
9. “This is Scrump! I made her. Only her head is too big. So I pretend a bug laid eggs in her ear, and she’s sad, because she only has a week … to …”
-Lilo & Stitch This was, not surprisingly, a line a lot of people recognized.
10. “I may not be much Mr. Finch, but I'm still sheriff of Maycomb County, and Bob Ewell fell on his knife. Good night, sir.”
-To Kill A Mockingbird.
11. “Enchanted? Ha! Who said anything about this castle being enchanted? It was you, wasn’t it?”
-Beauty and the Beast.
12. “We need more monkeys!”
-Toy Story.
13. “Maybe it erupted from an ocean trench, you know? Or a crevasse! … Crevice.”
-Cloverfield. Hud channels the Department of Backstory. (My sister maintains that the Cloverfield line I should have used was: "MARLENA! ASKDJFLADLDJSLAJFD!!")
14. “The past is behind us! And the future … below us.”
-Muppet Treasure Island
15. “Me? I've had so many names. Old names that only the wind and the trees can pronounce. I am the mountain, the forest, and the earth.”
-El Laberinto del Fauno/Pan’s Labyrinth. This one posed a red herring for a lot of people who guessed it was a LotR movie. I really can’t blame them.
16. “I was an owl exterminator!”
-Futurama: Bender’s Game. I really liked it, even though it was pretty damn disjointed. The Big Reveal was one I saw coming, and it seemed perfectly natural, so apparently I know the writers too well. I’m surprised more nerds on my list haven’t guessed it.
17. “You’re an interesting species. An interesting mix. You’re capable of such beautiful dreams, and such horrible nightmares.”
-Contact.
18. “Everything’s perfectly all right now. We’re fine. We’re all fine here now, thank you. How are you?”
-Star Wars (aka Star Wars: A New Hope). I had to dig for a line that might present a challenge. It didn’t actually work.
19. “Oh, well, God bless whatsisname.”
-The Sound of Music.
20. “You shall be executed buffet style: lethally injected, electrocuted, and placed before a firing squad. May God have mercy on your soul, you bastard you.”
-Wrongfully Accused, which is to movies what “Jabberwocky” is to poetry—the structure is all there, but the content is nonsense.
Let’s play again sometime!
I tried to use really obvious lines from some of the more obscure movies, and balanced it by trying to find mostly obscure lines from the more well-known movies. Granted, that wasn’t always the case …
1. “Ooh, Nokias are real nasty. You’ve gotta respect the Japanese. They know the way of the samurai.”
-Transformers. Oh, John Turturro, your weirdass performance was definitely a highlight—and this was in a movie filled with giant robots doing combat rolls. I tip my hat to you, sir.
2. “Let’s get out of here before one of those things kills Guy!”
-Galaxy Quest—Sigourney Weaver on the care and keeping of Redshirts. (Amazing Fact: More people got this movie than #18. SHAME ON YOU, NERDS.)
3. “That’s just what this country needs. A cock in a frock on a rock.”
-The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert. Terence Stamp plays Bernadette, one of the most splendid bitches ever to grace the screen.
4. “I may be synthetic, but I’m not stupid.”
-Aliens. This is one of my favorite moments in the movie, just because of the little thing Lance Henriksen does when he says this—he looks a little confused at himself for having made a joke. Hell, his whole performance as Bishop was stellar.
5. “Inwardly downwardly! Pulsating striving! Ending and unending!”
-The Seven Year Itch. I don’t know, either.
6. “Jackie Treehorn treats objects like women.”
-The Big Lebowski.
7. “Your daughter? But she seems to have such nicely rounded diphthongs.”
-Oscar. This is the only Sylvester Stallone movie I have ever seen, and it has skewed my vision of his acting, because he is hilarious and wonderful in it. It also has Tim Curry as a linguistics dork.
8. “Normal view! Normal view! NORMAL VIEW!”
-Mystery Science Theater 3000: The Movie. I counted any call of MST3k because it’s hard to remember which is which, but it seemed cruel and against the rules to not go with the actual movie.
9. “This is Scrump! I made her. Only her head is too big. So I pretend a bug laid eggs in her ear, and she’s sad, because she only has a week … to …”
-Lilo & Stitch This was, not surprisingly, a line a lot of people recognized.
10. “I may not be much Mr. Finch, but I'm still sheriff of Maycomb County, and Bob Ewell fell on his knife. Good night, sir.”
-To Kill A Mockingbird.
11. “Enchanted? Ha! Who said anything about this castle being enchanted? It was you, wasn’t it?”
-Beauty and the Beast.
12. “We need more monkeys!”
-Toy Story.
13. “Maybe it erupted from an ocean trench, you know? Or a crevasse! … Crevice.”
-Cloverfield. Hud channels the Department of Backstory. (My sister maintains that the Cloverfield line I should have used was: "MARLENA! ASKDJFLADLDJSLAJFD!!")
14. “The past is behind us! And the future … below us.”
-Muppet Treasure Island
15. “Me? I've had so many names. Old names that only the wind and the trees can pronounce. I am the mountain, the forest, and the earth.”
-El Laberinto del Fauno/Pan’s Labyrinth. This one posed a red herring for a lot of people who guessed it was a LotR movie. I really can’t blame them.
16. “I was an owl exterminator!”
-Futurama: Bender’s Game. I really liked it, even though it was pretty damn disjointed. The Big Reveal was one I saw coming, and it seemed perfectly natural, so apparently I know the writers too well. I’m surprised more nerds on my list haven’t guessed it.
17. “You’re an interesting species. An interesting mix. You’re capable of such beautiful dreams, and such horrible nightmares.”
-Contact.
18. “Everything’s perfectly all right now. We’re fine. We’re all fine here now, thank you. How are you?”
-Star Wars (aka Star Wars: A New Hope). I had to dig for a line that might present a challenge. It didn’t actually work.
19. “Oh, well, God bless whatsisname.”
-The Sound of Music.
20. “You shall be executed buffet style: lethally injected, electrocuted, and placed before a firing squad. May God have mercy on your soul, you bastard you.”
-Wrongfully Accused, which is to movies what “Jabberwocky” is to poetry—the structure is all there, but the content is nonsense.
Let’s play again sometime!
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Date: 2009-01-31 08:43 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-01-31 11:32 pm (UTC)Also, my little brother and I used to recite the scripts of the Star Wars movies on long road trips. My parents really appreciated it. : P
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Date: 2009-02-01 12:06 am (UTC)I almost went with "Sir, I am asking ... politely" for the Transformers quote because I love the way he delivers it, but I think you'd have to hear it.
Also, for the record, you got the most movies of anyone except
*This always made sense to me. YOU SEE, to shave that close to the cluster of black holes by Kessel, you have to have a fast ship that can achieve escape velocity. Nobody else has a ship fast enough to get that close and escape! I AM THE JUSTIFYING EDITOR OF GREAT JUSTICE!
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