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[graculus]

Gakked from somewhere or other...

Pick 20 movies you love. Pick a quote from each. Make people guess.

1. "This is not 'Nam. This is bowling. There are rules." The Big Lebowski, guessed by d_and_cats

2. "I don't have to take this abuse from you, I've got hundreds of people dying to abuse me." Ghostbusters, guessed by lovellama

3. "Oh George, not the livestock." Oh Brother, Where Art Thou?, guessed by lovellama

4. "Go back to Jersey, Sonny. This is the City of the Angels and you haven't got any wings." L.A. Confidential, guessed by sg1scribe

5. "Look at that. "Accident Blackspot"? These aren't accidents. They're throwing themselves into the road gladly. Throwing themselves into the road to escape all this hideousness." Withnail and I, guessed by przed

6. "We're no longer called Sonic Death Monkey. We're on the verge of becoming Kathleen Turner Overdrive, but just for tonight, we are Barry Jive and his Uptown Five." High Fidelity, guessed by xochiquetzl

7. "You broke the ship. You broke the bloody ship." Galaxy Quest, guessed by d_and_cats

8. "Now now, let's not bicker and argue about who killed who, this is supposed to be a happy occasion!" Monty Python and the Holy Grail, guessed by xochiquetzl

9. "Delia, you are a flake. You have always been a flake. If you insist on frightening people, do it with your sculpture." Beetlejuice, guessed by xochiquetzl

10. "My mind is a raging torrent, flooded with rivulets of thought cascading into a waterfall of creative alternatives."

11. "When a man's partner is killed, he's supposed to do something about it. It doesn't make any difference what you thought of him. He was your partner and you're supposed to do something about it." The Maltese Falcon, guessed by d_and_cats

12. "A thousand innocent people get killed every day! But a millionaire's pet gets detonated, and you're marked for life."

13. "We're dead! We're dead! We survived but we're dead!"

14. "Well of course you can't reach him. He's off saving the rain forest, or recycling his sandals or some shit."

15. "I don't mind if you don't like my manners, I don't like them myself. They are pretty bad. I grieve over them on long winter evenings." The Big Sleep, guessed by przed

16. "An enlightened man would offer a weary traveler a bed for the night, and invite him to share a civilized conversation over a bowl of Cocoa Puffs."

17. "Say Lou, didya hear the one about the guy who couldn't afford personalized plate so he went and changed his name to J3L2404?"

18. "You're acting like a pack of rabid dogs. And that, gentlemen, simply will not do."

19. "Name a shrub after me - something prickly and hard to eradicate." Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World, guessed by atdelphi

20. "Memory can change the shape of a room; it can change the color of a car. And memories can be distorted. They're just an interpretation, they're not a record, and they're irrelevant if you have the facts." Memento, guessed by lovellama

This was harder than I expected when I realised how many of my favourite movies don't have English as a first language. ;)

Comments

[atdelphi.livejournal.com]

I'm so bad at these - at least a half-dozen are achingly familiar, but I can't hum it along to figure out the next line since it's not Name That Tune. :-P But I do know that #19 is Master and Commander.

[graculus.livejournal.com]

No, humming really isn't going to help here. ;)

And yes, it is indeed Master and Commander, which is a movie decidedly short on quotable quotes, alas...

[d-and-cats.livejournal.com]

Number 7 is Galaxy Quest

Number 11 is The Maltese Falcon

[graculus.livejournal.com]

Yes and yes. Bravo! :)

[d-and-cats.livejournal.com]

Okay, I'm going to try two more

1. The Big Lebowski
2. A Fish Called Wanda

[graculus.livejournal.com]

Yes and no! :P

[xochiquetzl]

8. Monty Python and the Holy Grail.

[graculus.livejournal.com]

Yes!

[xochiquetzl]

6. High Fidelity.

[graculus.livejournal.com]

Either you're too good or you know about my not-so-secret John Cusack fetish. ;)

[xochiquetzl]

That was a good movie. I should try to hunt it down on DVD.

[blktauna.livejournal.com]

Nothing at all wrong with John Cusack my dear... nothing at all...

[xochiquetzl]

9. Beetlejuice.

[graculus.livejournal.com]

Now, did you know that or did you cheat and look it up? ;)

[xochiquetzl]

I knew that one. :)

[lovellama.livejournal.com]

3 is Oh Brother, Where Art Thou?

2 I want to say is Ghost Busters?

was 15 said by Cary Grant?

[graculus.livejournal.com]

Yes, yes and no. ;)

[lovellama.livejournal.com]

20 is Memento (I think)

[graculus.livejournal.com]

It is indeed. :)

[przed.livejournal.com]

5 is Withnail and I.

And I believe 15 is The Big Sleep. It's definitely Humphrey Bogart.

[graculus.livejournal.com]

I was wondering when the two people I know have a copy of W&I would get here. ;)

And yes, the other one is The Big Sleep.

[przed.livejournal.com]

I think I've got a copy of W&I permanently implanted in my brain. (This is what happens when you and all of your roomies in uni become simultaneously obsessed with the flick and quote it at each other constantly.)

[graculus.livejournal.com]

I wouldn't like to think how many times I've seen that movie. I reckon I must watch it at least 3 or 4 times a year, so I would expect if you had a top 10 of most-watched movies then W&I would probably be at the top of my list (along with a few others quoted here).

I'm always a bit surprised when I discover people who haven't seen it (at least if they're this side of the pond). ;)

[przed.livejournal.com]

It's a big cult movie in Canada as well, at least amongst people in my age group. Not quite so much in the States, though. (I forced more than one of my Wisconsin classmates to sit through it in my grad school days.)

I have no idea how many times I've seen it, but it's up there. (Lawrence of Arabia takes the top spot for me, but I'd guess that Withnail is number 2.)

[cara-chapel.livejournal.com]

Ghostbusters. Peter Venckman (Bill Murray).

:-)

[graculus.livejournal.com]

Yes, but someone beat you to it... ;)

[sg1scribe.livejournal.com]

Is Number 4 LA Confidential?

[graculus.livejournal.com]

It is indeed. I was thinking the 'city of angels' thing was a bit of a give-away... ;)

[jennixen.livejournal.com]

I hear McGonagall saying 18 in my head but I don't know if it's right.

[graculus.livejournal.com]

It isn't, alas. Not even the right gender. ;)

[blktauna.livejournal.com]

10. "My mind is a raging torrent, flooded with rivulets of thought cascading into a waterfall of creative alternatives."

Hedly Lamar - Blazing Saddles

[graculus.livejournal.com]

Such a very silly movie. And I think I told you, there was a slash vid for it last MW? ;)

Way too late...

[auctasinistra.livejournal.com]

...but browsing about my folist I had to stop on this, and 10 is, of course, Hedley LaMarr from Blazing Saddles. It's fairly grim that that and Galaxy Quest were the only ones I knew. :)

Re: Way too late...

[graculus.livejournal.com]

It is indeed! And maybe you just don't have the same obsessive love of Coen Brothers and John Cusack that grips me far too often? ;)

Re: Way too late...

[auctasinistra.livejournal.com]

At least I've heard of the other films ... I'm pretty sad in terms of cultural knowledge, I'm afraid. :)