The rules (now modified from the generic meme version because with issue #4 it becomes mine):
- In the extended entry are quotes from 13 movies. Your job is to identify the movie that each quote came from.
- Guess as many times as you want, just don't get silly about it.
- First person to correctly guess each entry gets a point. If there are any left after 24 hours they are worth 2 points.
- As people guess the films I will strike out those entries and note who got it first.
- NO cheating!!! That means NO: Google, IMDb, searching my archives etc.!
#1: Vanilla Sky, Caught by Holly
"Doc, once you've been driven off a bridge at 80 miles an hour, somehow you don't invite happiness in without a full body search."#2: Captain Corelli's Mandolin, Caught by Clancy
"When you fall in love, it is a temporary madness. It erupts like an earthquake, and then it subsides. And when it subsides, you have to make a decision. You have to work out whether your roots are become so entwined together that it is inconceivable that you should ever part. Because this is what love is. Love is not breathlessness, it is not excitement, it is not the desire to mate every second of the day. It is not lying awake at night imagining that he is kissing every part of your body. No... don't blush. I am telling you some truths. For that is just being in love; which any of us can convince ourselves we are. Love itself is what is left over, when being in love has burned away. Doesn't sound very exciting, does it? But it is!"#3Hell Boy, Caught by Holly
"Remind me why I do this again."
"Rotten eggs and the safety of mankind."
"Ah!"#4: Ice Pirates, Caught by Tiffani
"Space herpes! On this ship?"#5: The Royal Tennenbaums, Caught by Holly
[quietly, into recorder] "Dudley suffers from a rare disorder combining symptoms of amnesia, dyslexia, and color-blindness, with a highly acute sense of hearing."
[from adjoining room] "I'm not color blind, am I?"
"I'm afraid you are."#6: Runaway Jury, Caught by Contagion
"...I was under the impression that we'd already purchased ourselves a verdict."#7: Serendipity, Caught by Tifani
"Kids your age. Pimple-faced college drop outs who have made unhealthy sums of money forming internet companies that create no concrete products, provide no viable services, and still manage to generate profits for all of its lazy day-trading son-of-a bitch shareholders! Meanwhile, as a tortured member of the disenfranchised proletariat, you find some altruistic need to protect these digital plantation-owners?!"#8: Underworld, Caught by Rob
"We have to get the bullets out quickly, or they end up dying on us during questioning."
"What happens to them afterward?"
"We put the bullets back in."#9: From Hell, Caught by Rob
"You stand before your peers, masons and doctors both."
"I have no peers present here."
"What?"
"No man amongst you is fit to judge... the mighty art that I have wrought. Your rituals are empty oaths you neither understand nor live by. The Great Architect speaks to me. He is the balance where my deeds are weighed and judged... not you."#10: Chocolat, Caught by Kenny
"I think we can't go around measuring our goodness by what we don't do - by what we deny ourselves, what we resist and who we exclude. I think we've got to measure goodness by what we embrace, what we create and who we include."#11: Species, Caught by Contagion
"We decided to make it female so it would be more docile and controllable."
"More docile and controllable, eh? You guys don't get out much."#12: House of Sand and Fog, Caught by Clancy
"Do you understand? Do not feel bad. Americans they do not deserve what they have. They have the eyes of small children who are forever looking for the next source of distraction, entertainment, sweet taste in the mouth. We are not like them. We know rich opportunities when we see them and do not throw away God's blessing."#13: Labrynth, Caught by Holly
"What exactly have you sworn?"
"I have taken an oath that no one may cross this bridge without my permission."
"Well... May we have your permission?"
"Well I, uh... I... that is, uh... hm... Yes?"
Bonus Points: 3 extra points to the first person to identify how these movies are interrelated.
1. Back to the future?
5. The Royal Tennebaums
13. Labyrinth
#1 - Nope.
#5 & #13 - Right you are!
#4 Spaceballs
6- Runaway Jury
11- Species.
Machelle - Nope
Contagion - Yup on both
2. Captian Cornelli's Mandolin
12. House of Sand and Fog (I did not see the movie, but read the book - same as 6 - and the book was way too depressing.)
oooh #1 Vanilla Sky. *slaps forehead for forgetting*
Clancy - Both correct. For #6 the book completely kicked the movie's sorry ass.
Holly - That's the one!
I just got out of a meeting and saw your quotes. Thank God no one picked #7 yet...It's Serendipity...with John Cusack the Love of my life.
8 - underworld?
9 - From Hell?
Tiffani - you got it.
Rob - correct on both.
7 is Serendipity.
10 is Chocolat. Dreadful.
13 is Labyrinth.
Hey lady, its against the rules to kick other peoples heads!
It took a while, but 10 finally came to me - Chocolat
btw a great dinner party question (for those that saw it) is to ask what Chocolate symbolized in that movie. Most woman I've asked thought it wa s3x - I think it was a little deeper than that...
Kenny, all correct but also all previously taken except #10.
Clancy, correct but Kenny snagged it second before you.
Can I guess again? I know number 4 (I think)
Sure. See rule #2.
Well...this is from my husband who says that in The Ice Pirates their ship was called Herpes.
Is there such a movie called Ice Pirates?
If there is What the hell?
Ice Pirates is one of the funniest movies ever made. The ship wasn't called herpes but there was a high speed grub infesting the ship. It was called a space herpes.
Point for Tiffani!
My 11 year old brother has informed me (after much long distance phone pestering) that #3 is from Hellboy
Ding ding ding!
That's the last clue. Nothing left but the bonus points. Can anybody figure out how all of these movies inter-relate?
They all star women you think are hot?
(Second guess--they all star non-American-born actors, though I'm not sure about Ice Pirates' cast--been a couple decades since I've seen it!)
I just noticed something else--the first two movies have Penelope Cruz, the next two have Ron Perlman, Jennifer Connally is in two of them, Ben Kingsley is in two of them, Johnny Depp is in two of them, Kate Beckinsale is in two of them, John Cusak is in two of them, and Gene Hackman is in two of them. I will admit that I imdb'ed Ice Pirates, or I never would have known Ron Perlman was in it, but I caught all the rest on my own....
Looks like Susie's on to something here. Just a little further, rabbit...a little further...
I saw that, too, Susie. I wasn't sure who was in some of the leaps, since I have never been infected with Space Herpes, so wasn't sure if it was a sharing of the lead stars.
Is it that all the leading ladies are brunette?
Or all the leads are brunette?
Or that they are all six degrees of seperation from Kevin Bacon?
Yes, that is at least one connection. All the actresses Susie posted are brunettes, as is Juliette Binoche and Gwennie went brunette for her role. The creepy chick in Species is realyl a brunette, too. As is Rachel Weisz in the Jury movie. Heather Graham goes brunette in From Hell. Angelica Huston is brunette (Ice Pirates).
That may not be the connection you were thinking of, but it's a common link in all the films.
All brunettes? Mmmm...brunettes...
But Susie had the right idea, she didn't identify all of the links. Here are the links identified so far. What are the others?
1 to 2 Penelope Cruz
2 to 3 ?
3 to 4 Ron Perlman
4 to 5 ?
5 to 6 Gene Hackman
6 to 7 John Cusack
7 to 8 Kate Beckinsale
8 to 9 ?
9 to 10 Johnny Depp
10 to 11 ?
11 to 12 Ben Kingsley
12 to 13 Jennifer Connaly
Yay! Got them. The missing ones, in order, are John Hurt, Anjelica Huston, Sophia Myles, and Alfred Molina. That makes the full list:
1 - 2 Penelope Cruz
2 - 3 John Hurt
3 - 4 Ron Perlman
4 - 5 Anjelica Huston
5 - 6 Gene Hackman
6 - 7 John Cusack
7 - 8 Kate Beckinsale
8 - 9 Sophia Myles
9 - 10 Johnny Depp
10 - 11 Alfred Molina
11 - 12 Ben Kingsley
12 - 13 Jennifer Connelly
3 points, please :-)
You got it, Dafyd! Points will get updated soon.
You know, looking through all this I've realised one thing: you've got waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay too much time on your hands.