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Movie Meme Answers
Ok, so next time I do something like this, I'll do something shoter and less demanding. *sigh*
1. "Would you classify that as a launch problem, or a design problem?"
Real Genius -- This was a favorite movie and favorite phrase of our rocketry company. I also enjoy this movie because it was filmed at my college, and the main characters lived in my senior year dorm.
2. "Son of a bitch better stay dead!"
Hopscotch -- I'm not a Walter Matthau fan, but this is a very funny movie.
3. "She thinks she’s a character in a book!"
American Dreamer -- My all-time favorite romantic comedy. A housewife wins a writing contest, goes to Paris, gets hit by a car. When she regains consciousness, she thinks she's Rebecca Ryan, the heroine of a series of romantic spy novels. (![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
athenian_abroad, I would have thought that you would have remembered this one.)
4. A: “Did you, or your sister, kill James?”
B: “Oh, yeah. . . a couple of times.”
Practical Magic
Sister witches accidentally kill the abusive boyfriend of one of them, bring him back to life, and then kill him again when he attacks them.
5. A: “A snap of my fingers, and you could be back on the block where I found you.”
B: “And with a flick of my wrist, I could change your religion.”
Disney's The Three Musketeers
This is Tim Curry's Cardinal Richelieu and Rebecca DeMornay's Milady DeWinter. She has a dagger pressing into his groin.
6. "He’s got demons? Cool!"
Gonzo, in Muppet Treasure Island
7. "No reward is worth this!"
Han Solo in Star Wars
8. "That shouldn’t be too hard to understand for a young lady who reads Plato in Greek."
Lady Jane. Another of my all-time favorite movies. Beautifully done romanticized history.
9. "Next time throw yourself in and rid us all of your stupidity!"
Gandalf to Pippin The Fellowship of the Ring
10. "I think we should go with the bizarre and risky, sir. It’s worked for us so far."
Down Periscope
Another rockey company favorite.
11. "I guess now we’ll see how professors fight."
This was the one I didn't expect anyone to get: Gettysburg. A courier officer is addressing Colonel Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain, who before the war was a "professor of natural and revealed religion" at Bowdoin College in Maine. I highly recommend this film, even if you don't usually like "war movies." The screenplay is very eloquent, and the cast is exceptional.
12. "Pain is your friend. Your ally."
Viggo Mortensen as the Master Sergeant in G.I. Jane
13. "Cattle mutilations are up!"
Dan Akroyd as conspiracy theorist "Mother" in Sneakers, a great caper movie.
14. "I got vision and the rest of the world is wearing bifocals!"
No one got this? Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid!
15. "Say you’re the Metatron and everyone looks at you blankly. Mention something out of a Charlton Heston movie and suddenly everybody’s a theology scholar!"
Dogma
16. "Terrific! I’m about to be killed a million miles from nowhere with a gung-ho iguana that tells me to relax!"
The Last Starfighter
17. "Ah, poetry. . . Yes, this it what I want – naughty words!"
Moulin Rouge
18. "Of all the necks on this boat, your highness, the one you should be worried about is your own."
Vizzini to Buttercup in The Princess Bride
19. "This is a castle. And we have many tapestries. And if you are a Scottish lord, then I am Mickey Mouse!"
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
20. "I wasn't disgusted with her, I was afraid. At that moment, I felt small - like I'd lacked experience, like I'd never be on her level or never be enough for her or something."
Chasing Amy
21. "I’m not an actor, I’m a movie star!"
I was also surprised that no one recognized My Favorite Year
22. "Oh you’re a very nice man. Maybe you could be my palace slave."
Willie in Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom
23. "You have good eyes. Not kind, but they don't lie, and they don't look away much, and they don't miss anything. I could use eyes like that."
Ok, so this was also kind of obscure. Three Days of the Condor
24. "That’s the second time I’ve shot that man while he was flying through the air."
The Mask of Zorro
25. "Don’t worry, kids. No one in this movie dies. They just get really bad boo-boos!"
George of the Jungle -- one of my guilty pleasure movies
26. "I will have one mistress here, and no master!"
Elizabeth
27. "You... all of you... you who hunger so for what I give, but cannot bear to see such power in a woman. You call God's greatest gift... ourselves, our yearning, our need to love... you call it filth and sin and heresy."
Dangerous Beauty -- which I think most of you would really enjoy, if you haven't seen it. The based-on-true story of a highly-educated Venetian courtesan who was also a successful poet. She was tried by the Inquisition as a witch, but released. (The icon on this post is Catherine McCormack as Veronica.)
28. "When a woman who has much to say says nothing, her silence can be deafening."
Also obscure. Anna and the King
29. "Do you not know that King Kong the first was just three foot six inches tall? He only came up to Faye Wray's belly button! If God could do the tricks that we can do he'd be a happy man!"
Peter O'Toole as director Eli Cross in The Stunt Man
30. "You want to talk to God? Let’s go see him together. I’ve got nothing better to do."
No one got this one?
Raiders of the Lost Ark
Indy thinks Marion is dead after the truck blows up following the basket chase. He's drinking, and is taken to Belloq, who speaks of the ark by saying, "It's a radio for talking to God." This quote is Indy's reply, as he stands up and reaches for his gun.
31. A: “You could say we grew up together.”
B: “You could also say you were her first husband.”
The Philadelphia Story
32. "All my life. . . all I ever wanted to be. . . was him."
The Man in the Iron Mask A young musketeer officer speaking of D'Artagnan.
33. "Congratulations, madam. There's another town you've destroyed."
Cutthroat Island
34. "I don't know about honor. But I promise you, I won't kiss you again till you ask me to."
Lancelot to Guinevere in First Knight
35. "My chickens are more advanced than you!"
A rabbi to an under-achieving student in Yentl.
36. "In the future, when a woman is crying like that, she isn't having any fun."
Thelma and Louise
37. "If you believe you're playing well because you're getting laid, or because you're not getting laid, or because you wear women's underwear, then you ARE! And you should know that!"
Bull Durham
38. A: "Why would anyone want to cut out a man's tongue?"
B: "Perhaps the previous owner had nothing pleasant to say."
The Wind and the Lion
39. "If you can't do as good as a bunch of old Romans, you're no brothers of mine!"
Seven Brides for Seven Brothers
Adam has told his brothers the story of the Sabine women and is exhorting them to go into town and kidnap the girls they've just fallen in love with.
40. "Tell him Margaret wants to know if he still misses the war."
Kenneth Branagh in Dead Again
41. A: "Strangely enough, it all turns out well."
B: "How?"
A: "I don't know. It's a mystery."
Shakespeare in Love
Watch it as a double feature with Elizabeth.
1. "Would you classify that as a launch problem, or a design problem?"
Real Genius -- This was a favorite movie and favorite phrase of our rocketry company. I also enjoy this movie because it was filmed at my college, and the main characters lived in my senior year dorm.
2. "Son of a bitch better stay dead!"
Hopscotch -- I'm not a Walter Matthau fan, but this is a very funny movie.
3. "She thinks she’s a character in a book!"
American Dreamer -- My all-time favorite romantic comedy. A housewife wins a writing contest, goes to Paris, gets hit by a car. When she regains consciousness, she thinks she's Rebecca Ryan, the heroine of a series of romantic spy novels. (
athenian_abroad, I would have thought that you would have remembered this one.)4. A: “Did you, or your sister, kill James?”
B: “Oh, yeah. . . a couple of times.”
Practical Magic
Sister witches accidentally kill the abusive boyfriend of one of them, bring him back to life, and then kill him again when he attacks them.
5. A: “A snap of my fingers, and you could be back on the block where I found you.”
B: “And with a flick of my wrist, I could change your religion.”
Disney's The Three Musketeers
This is Tim Curry's Cardinal Richelieu and Rebecca DeMornay's Milady DeWinter. She has a dagger pressing into his groin.
6. "He’s got demons? Cool!"
Gonzo, in Muppet Treasure Island
7. "No reward is worth this!"
Han Solo in Star Wars
8. "That shouldn’t be too hard to understand for a young lady who reads Plato in Greek."
Lady Jane. Another of my all-time favorite movies. Beautifully done romanticized history.
9. "Next time throw yourself in and rid us all of your stupidity!"
Gandalf to Pippin The Fellowship of the Ring
10. "I think we should go with the bizarre and risky, sir. It’s worked for us so far."
Down Periscope
Another rockey company favorite.
11. "I guess now we’ll see how professors fight."
This was the one I didn't expect anyone to get: Gettysburg. A courier officer is addressing Colonel Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain, who before the war was a "professor of natural and revealed religion" at Bowdoin College in Maine. I highly recommend this film, even if you don't usually like "war movies." The screenplay is very eloquent, and the cast is exceptional.
12. "Pain is your friend. Your ally."
Viggo Mortensen as the Master Sergeant in G.I. Jane
13. "Cattle mutilations are up!"
Dan Akroyd as conspiracy theorist "Mother" in Sneakers, a great caper movie.
14. "I got vision and the rest of the world is wearing bifocals!"
No one got this? Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid!
15. "Say you’re the Metatron and everyone looks at you blankly. Mention something out of a Charlton Heston movie and suddenly everybody’s a theology scholar!"
Dogma
16. "Terrific! I’m about to be killed a million miles from nowhere with a gung-ho iguana that tells me to relax!"
The Last Starfighter
17. "Ah, poetry. . . Yes, this it what I want – naughty words!"
Moulin Rouge
18. "Of all the necks on this boat, your highness, the one you should be worried about is your own."
Vizzini to Buttercup in The Princess Bride
19. "This is a castle. And we have many tapestries. And if you are a Scottish lord, then I am Mickey Mouse!"
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
20. "I wasn't disgusted with her, I was afraid. At that moment, I felt small - like I'd lacked experience, like I'd never be on her level or never be enough for her or something."
Chasing Amy
21. "I’m not an actor, I’m a movie star!"
I was also surprised that no one recognized My Favorite Year
22. "Oh you’re a very nice man. Maybe you could be my palace slave."
Willie in Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom
23. "You have good eyes. Not kind, but they don't lie, and they don't look away much, and they don't miss anything. I could use eyes like that."
Ok, so this was also kind of obscure. Three Days of the Condor
24. "That’s the second time I’ve shot that man while he was flying through the air."
The Mask of Zorro
25. "Don’t worry, kids. No one in this movie dies. They just get really bad boo-boos!"
George of the Jungle -- one of my guilty pleasure movies
26. "I will have one mistress here, and no master!"
Elizabeth
27. "You... all of you... you who hunger so for what I give, but cannot bear to see such power in a woman. You call God's greatest gift... ourselves, our yearning, our need to love... you call it filth and sin and heresy."
Dangerous Beauty -- which I think most of you would really enjoy, if you haven't seen it. The based-on-true story of a highly-educated Venetian courtesan who was also a successful poet. She was tried by the Inquisition as a witch, but released. (The icon on this post is Catherine McCormack as Veronica.)
28. "When a woman who has much to say says nothing, her silence can be deafening."
Also obscure. Anna and the King
29. "Do you not know that King Kong the first was just three foot six inches tall? He only came up to Faye Wray's belly button! If God could do the tricks that we can do he'd be a happy man!"
Peter O'Toole as director Eli Cross in The Stunt Man
30. "You want to talk to God? Let’s go see him together. I’ve got nothing better to do."
No one got this one?
Raiders of the Lost Ark
Indy thinks Marion is dead after the truck blows up following the basket chase. He's drinking, and is taken to Belloq, who speaks of the ark by saying, "It's a radio for talking to God." This quote is Indy's reply, as he stands up and reaches for his gun.
31. A: “You could say we grew up together.”
B: “You could also say you were her first husband.”
The Philadelphia Story
32. "All my life. . . all I ever wanted to be. . . was him."
The Man in the Iron Mask A young musketeer officer speaking of D'Artagnan.
33. "Congratulations, madam. There's another town you've destroyed."
Cutthroat Island
34. "I don't know about honor. But I promise you, I won't kiss you again till you ask me to."
Lancelot to Guinevere in First Knight
35. "My chickens are more advanced than you!"
A rabbi to an under-achieving student in Yentl.
36. "In the future, when a woman is crying like that, she isn't having any fun."
Thelma and Louise
37. "If you believe you're playing well because you're getting laid, or because you're not getting laid, or because you wear women's underwear, then you ARE! And you should know that!"
Bull Durham
38. A: "Why would anyone want to cut out a man's tongue?"
B: "Perhaps the previous owner had nothing pleasant to say."
The Wind and the Lion
39. "If you can't do as good as a bunch of old Romans, you're no brothers of mine!"
Seven Brides for Seven Brothers
Adam has told his brothers the story of the Sabine women and is exhorting them to go into town and kidnap the girls they've just fallen in love with.
40. "Tell him Margaret wants to know if he still misses the war."
Kenneth Branagh in Dead Again
41. A: "Strangely enough, it all turns out well."
B: "How?"
A: "I don't know. It's a mystery."
Shakespeare in Love
Watch it as a double feature with Elizabeth.
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