Name that movie

[bironic]

Life continues busy, mostly happily. Have catch-up and beta-ing to do. But in the meantime, this meme's making the rounds again, and I keep meaning to do it, so here we go.

These are quotes from 15 movies I own. How many do you know without having to look them up? (And do you know who said them?)


1. Some have great stories. Pretty stories that take place at lakes with boats and friends and noodle salad. Just, no one in this car. But a lot of people, that's their story. Good times. Noodle salad.

(As Good As It Gets, guessed by hannahrorlove)


2. Yes, yes. Without the "oops." Thataway.

(Independence Day, guessed by nightdog_barks and elynittria)


3. When you talk to the President, you might remind him that I am holding his wife, his daughter, his chief of staff, his national security advisor, his classified papers, and his baseball glove!

(Air Force One, guessed by perspi and elynittria)


4. It's the goof of all time. Look, but don't touch. Touch, but don't taste. Taste, but don't swallow. And while you're jumpin' from one foot to the next, what is he doing? He's laughin' His sick, fuckin' ass off! He's a tight-ass! He's a sadist! He's an absentee landlord! Worship that? Never!

(Devil's Advocate, guessed by cryptictac)


5. Of my friend, I can only say this: Of all the souls I have encountered in my travels, his was the most... human.

(Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan, guessed by pwcorgigirl, elynittria and daasgrrl)


6. Lose it? I didn't lose it. It's not like, "Whoops, where'd my job go?" I quit. Someone pass me the asparagus.

(American Beauty, guessed by phinnia and the_drifter)


7. I like these calm little moments before the storm. It reminds me of Beethoven. Can you hear it? It's like when you put your head to the grass and you can hear it growin', and you can hear the insects... Do you like Beethoven?

(Leon / The Professional, guessed by cryptictac)


8. Sixty-five years. Don't they go by in a blink.

ETA: You're not Death. You're just a kid in a suit.

(Meet Joe Black, guessed by cryptictac)


9. Why can't I be good at anything except shooting marbles? Marble champ. So what? If only I could run or swim or do something to be the Camp Champ.

(Care Bears Movie II, guessed by recrudescence and cryptictac)


10. You must not be seen, and you would do well, I feel, to return before this last chime. If not, the consequences are too ghastly to discuss. If you succeed tonight, more than one innocent life may be spared. Three turns should do it, I think.

(Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, guessed by perspi, elynittria and the_drifter)


11. Character 1: What do you call the mouse shadow on the second moon?
Character 2: We call that one Muad'Dib.

(Dune, guessed by cryptictac and thewlisian_afer)


12. The first boy I ever kissed ended up in a coma for three weeks. I can still feel him inside my head. It's the same with you.

(X-Men, guessed by thedeadparrot and the_drifter)


13. I don't need to be lectured by you. I was out saving the galaxy when your grandfather was in diapers. Besides which, I think the galaxy owes me one.

(Star Trek: Generations, guessed by cryptictac)


14. They know about us. They watch us dine on empty plates and drink from empty glasses.

(Interview with the Vampire, guessed by cryptictac)


15. Don't be silly! I could never love anyone more than I love my sisters.

(Little Women, guessed by ahab99)

Comments

[daasgrrl.livejournal.com]

LOL, I could only identify #5 and #10 (although I'd have to think very carefully to work out exactly which one), and #13 sounded awfully familiar and now I know why. The Wrath of Khan is all kinds of love, and I've seen Air Force One more than once, but didn't remember the baseball glove specifically.

Care Bears? XD

I still have no idea why everyone loves American Beauty so much. I need to read a dissertation on it or something. I liked the subplot with Lester's repressed neighbour, and that was about it.

[bironic.livejournal.com]

I have a terrible suspicion that if I'd known everyone would love American Beauty before I went, I wouldn't have enjoyed it as much. But I did. Oh well. You're not the only one, btw -- synn wasn't much moved by it either, and hated the voiceover/montage ending.

The Wrath of Khan is all kinds of love

Yes. Yes. And not just because of Khan's pecs and Shatner's hairpiece. Hope and bleakness all mixed up. Every time I watch it, I feel like I pick up something new.

It's tough to pick just one quote for most of these. Wouldn't it be easier if you got three quotes? Although I may need to do that with poor 1, 8 and 11.

Hi! :D

[daasgrrl.livejournal.com]

I think the Wrath of Khan is exquisitely constructed. It's the kind of movie you could take apart to see how it works. You know apart from the sheer gorgeous angst of the K/S moments :)

I forgot to say, I was going to hazard a guess at Little Miss Sunshine for #1, if only because of the situation. But I thought that was a van, anyway, so. #11 has got to be the cartoon. With the mice, or rather that one little one? That I haven't seen and can't remember the name of. Am I close? XD

*starts humming Somewhere Out There for no apparent reason*

Edit: oh, the Care Bears one would have been the cartoon one, right? Never mind *g*

[bironic.livejournal.com]

*laughing* I'm never going to watch An American Tail the same way again. Alas, no, it's not that. The cartoon was the Care Bears Movie II (#9). Edit, meet edit. :)

Not Little Miss Sunshine. I haven't seen it; I wonder how similar it is to where the quote came from.

I think the Wrath of Khan is exquisitely constructed. It's the kind of movie you could take apart to see how it works.

Absolutely. There was some years-long gap between the last time I'd seen it and when I bought it on DVD and watched it one slow Saturday in college, and I was just blown away by how beautiful all the themes were and how they intertwined. The birthday and the book and Khan and Spock and David and Genesis and just... everything. *happy sigh* That is good storytelling. (Hear that, David Shore and ... SGA producer type people?)

[daasgrrl.livejournal.com]

An American Tail

LOL, of course. I'd gotten as far as A (Mouse's) Tale, which was kind of not quite almost there ;)

Dead Women In Uniform / Shakespearean Quote / Person On Fire / Blood / Father Son Relationship

That's kind of disturbing, isn't it? Can you imagine someone looking for "Dead Women In Uniform" or "Person On Fire" and thinking, 'yeah, I gotta see that!'. Eeep.

And I've seen 9 of the movies, so that shows how well they registered with me *g*. Oh, Dune. I loved that book so much - when I was a teenager Frank Herbert had a booksigning in the city and I actually went and got mine done. Although I found that movie? Mini-series? mind-boggling though. WTF did you DO to my book? Why is Sting there? LOL.

Also have you read Doon? Because it's one of the funniest things, ever, and the better you know the novel, the funnier and cleverer it is.

[bironic.livejournal.com]

Aaaargh, just got home 20 minutes ago and scarfed down dinner. Snow traffic. Let's see:

That is nifty that you got a book signed by Frank Herbert. I didn't know who he was until he was dead, I think. And I saw the David Lynch (/Sting) version first, which I'm certain is why I didn't fling it across the room in horror. I didn't know better! I thought the sonic technology was part of the story, and when I was confused by the muttering diamond-foreheaded people and the blue-within-blue-eyed cave people and the fat-and-levitating people, I figured it was just stuff that got condensed from the book. Which it... kind of was.

Haven't read Doon -- must, it would seem -- although I do have Bored of the Rings (which, er, I haven't read either, but should now that I sort of know the original story). *checks library catalog* Hm, our library system doesn't have it, but maybe I can get my hands on it some other way.

That's kind of disturbing, isn't it? Can you imagine someone looking for "Dead Women In Uniform" or "Person On Fire" and thinking, 'yeah, I gotta see that!'.

Ahaha, yes, although I didn't even think that so much as, "What dead women in uniform?" and "How are those taken together a profile of this movie?" Also, what Shakespeare quote? Did Kirk say "undiscovered country" at any point? I just remember the Dickens.

[daasgrrl.livejournal.com]

"What dead women in uniform?"

I admit, I thought the same thing! I decided simulations probably counted, or maybe there were some I forgot about. I believe the original title had the quote you mentionn (as you probably know, or you wouldn't have mentioned it) and... that's all I got :)

With Dune, I don't know, I guess I didn't expect quite so much... gothic XD

[bironic.livejournal.com]

Hee. Those Bene Gesserit uniforms and hairdos were really something.

Next time I watch ST II I'll have to keep an ear out for Shakespeare, because I'm drawing a blank. "The Undiscovered Country" was the title for VI, but something tells me they may have said it at some point in "Khan."

[daasgrrl.livejournal.com]

Ah! No wonder it sounds familiar. It really was the working title, though :)

PS seeing the logo thing reminded me that I still have the playing cards, LOL ♥

[bironic.livejournal.com]

There were playing cards?!

It really was the working title, though :)

Ah, so it was. And maybe the dead women included Uhura during the Kobayashi Maru?

[daasgrrl.livejournal.com]

There were playing cards?!

See? SEE? They're gooorgeous XD

Ah, so it was. And maybe the dead women included Uhura during the Kobayashi Maru?

Yea verily, that was my thought with the simulation comment above :)

[bironic.livejournal.com]

p.s. IMDB's keywords for Wrath of Khan were:

Dead Women In Uniform / Shakespearean Quote / Person On Fire / Blood / Father Son Relationship