New game: 3 film quotes and a common element

[Kizarvexius]

I don’t know if this has been done before, but I thought I’d give it a try.

I’ll list quotations from three different movies. In order to answer correctly, you must a) name all three movies, and b) determine the element or theme all three movies have in common. For example.

1. “I am decent. I also happen to be naked.”
2. “You’re gonna need a bigger boat.”
3. “There are two types of people in this world: Those who like Neil Diamond, and those who don't. My ex-wife loves him.”

The correct answer:
1. The Goodbye Girl
2. Jaws
3. What About Bob
Common element: All feature Richard Dreyfuss

Another example:
1. “Welcome to MusicTown. May I service you?”
2. “Hello?... Yes. There is a beautiful woman in my bed, and a dead man in my bath.”
3. “Now that's what I call marine biology!”

The correct answer:
1. Empire Records
2. The Pink Panther Strikes Again
3. Back to School
Common element: “Empire Strikes Back”.

Quotes should not be TOO obscure. And the common elements shouldn't be too vague. "Locked-room mystery" is a good example. "Action-adventure movie" is not.

Okay, ready? Here goes.

1. “I know what you're thinking. Did he fire six shots or only five? Well, to tell you the truth, in all this excitement, I've kinda lost track myself.”
2. “It's a brassiere! You know about those things, you're a big boy now.”
3. “This is more enjoyable than my average day... reading philosophy, avoiding gang rape in the washrooms... though, it's less of a problem these days... maybe I'm losing my sex appeal.”

[Hal Briston]

Neat game...hope it catches on.

Dirty Harry, Vertigo and The Rock -- All set/filmed in San Francisco.


My input:

1. "If you ever disrespect my wife again, I will end you. I will fucking end you. You got that, chief?"
2. "I am a valuable commodity! I go across the middle! I see a dude coming at me, trying to kill me, I tell myself 'Get killed. Catch the ball!' BOO-YA! Touchdown! I make miracles happen!"
3. "Do you know a religious guy named John Paul?"

[Kizarvexius]

1. Good Will Hunting
2. Jerry Maguire
3. The Usual Suspects
Common element: All three films won Oscars for Best Supporting Actor.


1. “My sister wears a mustache, my brother wears a dress!”
2. “Monsters. Monsters from the id.”
3. “This is probably the first marriage I've ever seen that started out with a spanking.”

[MovieMogul]

1. West Side Story
2. Forbidden Planet
3. McLintock!

All are updatings of Shakespeare plays.

I'll be back with a submission...

[MovieMogul]

1. "I need him like the ax needs the turkey."
2. "The summer I killed my father, I was 10 years old."
3. "What a story! Everything but the bloodhounds snappin' at her rear end."

[Kizarvexius]

Very impressed, Archive Guy. Not that I'm a movie god or anything, but I thought that one would go unanswered for more than twenty minutes, at least. :confused:

[dalovindj]

1. The Lady Eve
2. Eve's Bayou
3. All about Eve

Hmm, let's see, they are all about women? Anyway, I can't wait til dinner this evening . . .

[Kizarvexius]

You're up, dalovindj.

[dalovindj]

1. "Whores don't get a second chance! "
2. "Who dat who say who dat who say who dat?"
3. "The Buddhist have a saying, "If you meet your master on the road, kill him."

DaLovin' Dj

[Kizarvexius]

1. Identity
2. Sybil
3. Never Talk To Strangers
Common Element: Characters with multiple-personality disorder.

Yup, I had to look ‘em up.

1. “I knew a man once who said, ‘Death smiles at us all. All a man can do is smile back.’”
2. “Now let's see what we have here. We have one missing, dead, naked butler, one host with a butcher's knife in his back, and one poisonous scorpion crawling up our sheets.”
3. “Whoever wrote this episode should DIE.”

[Hal Briston]

Ok, I'm working off of number 1 & 2 (don't know #3, and I won't look it up unless I get desperate). Now what the hell is a common element between these two?? They were filmed 25 years apart, set in different eras, no actors in common (ok, that I checked on the IMDB).

Ummm...the common theme is....errrrr...

something about people pretending to be other people? Maybe?

[Monstre]

Well, I can fill in the missing one... #3 is...
Galaxy Quest

But as for the common theme, I don't have it. Unless it's "None of the three movies have Kevin Bacon in them" :D

[Kizarvexius]

Due to the fact that this puzzle was probably a bit too vague, I am providing a couple of hints.

Number 1.
The common element is in the cast of each film.

Number 2.
Where have we seen some of these folks together?

Number 3.
It's a film series from within the last five years

[Draelin]

Aha! Each film contains a Harry Potter series cast member. I don't know #1, I'm sad to say, but #2 is from Murder By Death, which featured Maggie Smith, and Alan Rickman was in Galaxy Quest.

I was in such a rush to answer that I didn't come up with my own. I'll be right back. :)

[Kizarvexius]

Correct, m'lady. (Full bow)

The first quote is from Gladiator, the cast of which includes Richard Harris.

(And Dumbledore is my hero!)

[Draelin]

Woohoo, I got one!! 'Kay, here I go ...

1. "He wants you too, Malachai! He wants you too!"

2. "Finding new and preferably disgusting ways to degrade a friend's mother was always held in high regard."

3. "I'm a convicted murderer who provides sound financial advice."

[Kizarvexius]

1. Children of the Corn
2. Stand By Me
3. The Shawshank Redemption
Common element: Written by Steven King.

If the first quote had been from Apt Pupil, you'd have three movies adapted from the same book.


Okay, here goes another one. Yes, as a matter of fact, I HAVE been lying awake at night thinking these things up. So what's your point? :cool:

1. “Were you toilet trained at gunpoint?”
2. “I think I have it. A man talking sense to himself is no madder than a man talking nonsense not to himself.”
3. “She's brushed her teeth with soap for the last three nights, but she won't admit it.”

[dalovindj]

Yup, I had to look ‘em up.You filthy cheater. Kidding. Relax. I'm sure you are very clean. Hell, I had to look up the quotes to put the puzzle together. There should be a requirement (or at least a pro-level feature) to this game. You should have to pick quotes that a google search doesn't pull up. That way, you have to actually pull out and watch the movie to write down (gasp) the quote. That way the quotes will be obscure, the setup requires a little homework (while I can waste time at work here on the Dope, they don't allow us to watch movies - yet), and we force those lackadaisical degenerates who use google to win at this game to actually have seen the work in question.

DaLovin' Dj

Disclaimer: I have never actually seen any of the Eve movies. I used google to look up and solve that puzzle. I used google to create my own. All disparaging comments directed at others were actually acts of self-deprication. Points in this post are not as large as they appear. Some acceptions apply. Void where prohibited. Not valid on some message boards.

[rjung]

Okay, I'll give this a shot, and submit two:


First quiz: Fairly easy, but the quotes are a bit obscure to compensate--

1. "That way I could play the, uh, dominant predator!"
2. "I AM your father!"
3. "You're speaking like 'upset stomach!'"


Second quiz: Slightly harder, but the quotes are less obscure--

1. "Let's go back to my office and talk about this like two reasonable beings."
2. "Better that I devote myself to study the other great mystery of the universe -- women!"
3. "Then I hope pain's something you enjoy."

[Kizarvexius]

I'll bump this one in hopes it doesn't die just yet...

And since nobody put in a guess on my last puzzle, here is the answer.

1. Renaissance Man
2. Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead
3. In the Bleak Midwinter
Common element: Hamlet

As to rjung's puzzles, the first one is a set of three quotes from the same movie, Toy Story 2. I think.

Anybody going to make a guess on the second puzzle?

[MovieMogul]

As to rjung's puzzles, the first one is a set of three quotes from the same movie, Toy Story 2. I think.Actually, 3 different Pixar movies, Toy Story, Toy Story 2 and Finding Nemo.

[MovieMogul]

1. "Let's go back to my office and talk about this like two reasonable beings."
2. "Better that I devote myself to study the other great mystery of the universe -- women!"
3. "Then I hope pain's something you enjoy."Well, 2 out of the 3 quotes are spoken by Christopher Lloyd, so I'm guessing that's the thing in common. Still don't know one of the quote's origins though...

[UselessGit]

1. "Let's go back to my office and talk about this like two reasonable beings."
2. "Better that I devote myself to study the other great mystery of the universe -- women!"
3. "Then I hope pain's something you enjoy."

1. the adventures of Buckaroo Banzai across the 8th dimension.

2. Back to the future II

3. Star Trek III - the search for Spock

In common.... Christopher Lloyd.

Try this on for size:

1. "You were right, Billy. I am a butthead!"

2. "If there are any teenage virgins listening, show up at KDRT right now with a jar of petroleum jelly, and ask to speak to Johnny Crunch."

3. "Oh my God, it's a necrophiliac's wet dream!"

Only one of these quotes is even remotely obscure, knock yourselves out.

[UselessGit]

Erm... as it turns out, my first quote in the above post is more obscure than I thought at first and I don't think you can google it. Also, it is quite short.

It's from the excessively strange 80's "horror" movie Society and I'm positive I have it right. Please someone make the connection - it's good!

[UselessGit]

Terribly sorry for the bumping and triple-posting, but I have to at least explain this so that my work won't have been in vain.


1. "You were right, Billy. I am a butthead!"

2. "If there are any teenage virgins listening, show up at KDRT right now with a jar of petroleum jelly, and ask to speak to Johnny Crunch."

3. "Oh my God, it's a necrophiliac's wet dream!"


1. Society - Starring Billy Warlock as "Billy"

2. Ford Fairlane, Rock 'n' Roll detective - Starring Brandon Call as "The Kid"

3. Bordello of Blood - Starring Erika Eleniak as "Katherine"

That's right... they're all from the original Baywatch series.

Sorry again...

[Kaitlyn]

Puzzle 1:

1. I have an M.D. from Harvard, I am board certified in cardio-thoracic medicine and trauma surgery, I have been awarded citations from seven different medical boards in New England, and I am never, ever sick at sea. So I ask you; when someone goes into that chapel and they fall on their knees and they pray to God that their wife doesn't miscarry or that their daughter doesn't bleed to death or that their mother doesn't suffer acute neural trama from postoperative shock, who do you think they're praying to? Now, go ahead and read your Bible, _Dennis_, and you go to your church, and, with any luck, you might win the annual raffle, but if you're looking for God, he was in operating room number two on November 17, and he doesn't like to be second guessed. You ask me if I have a God complex. Let me tell you something: I am God.

2. What was I supposed to do -- call him for cheating better than me, in front of the others?

3. Think big, think positive, never show any sign of weakness. Buy low, sell high. Fear? That's the other guy's problem. Nothing you have ever experienced will prepare you for the unlimited carnage you are about to witness. Superbowl, World Series -- they don't know what pressure is. In this building, it's either kill or be killed. You make no friends in the pits and you take no prisoners. One moment you're up half a mil in soybeans and the next, boom, your kids don't go to college and they've repossessed your Bentley. Are you with me?

Puzzle Two:

1. Our crusade was such madness that only a real idealist could have thought it up.

2. Now, if you two don't mind, I'm going to bed before either of you come up with another clever idea to get us killed. Or worse, expelled.

3. You want to know how good he is? I'll tell you how good he is. He's better at this than I've ever been at anything in my life. He's better at this than you'll ever be, at anything. My son has a gift. He has a gift, and when you acknowledge that, then maybe we will have something to talk about.

[Kizarvexius]

1. Malice
2. The Sting
3. Trading Places
All are about elaborate scams.

1. The Seventh Seal
2. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone
3. Searching for Bobby Fischer
Chess

Be back in a few with a new puzzle.

[ShibbOleth]

Oh, sure, I finally read my way to the bottom of this thread and then there are no new puzzles to solve. Fie! Although it's not as if I'd have probably solved more than one of the others on my own. Someone else's non-obscure quote is usually my movie I've never seen.

[Kizarvexius]

1. “No pulse, no heartbeat. If condition does not change, this man is dead.”
2. “You gentlemen aren't really trying to kill my son, are you?”
3. “You kiss by the book.”

[ShibbOleth]

Well, "You kiss by the book" is either from Romeo and Juliet or Dragnet. Maybe both.

:)

[Kizarvexius]

Romeo and Juliet is correct, and the fact that the line is not specific to any particular version may serve as a hint.

[Draelin]

The quotes are Murder By Death, North By Northwest, and [/i]Romeo and Juliet[/i], all of which involve someone faking their death.

I'll be right back with a question of my own. I'm always so surprised when I get one that I'm not prepared. :)

[Draelin]

*curses self for not previewing last post*

1. "Listen, I watched four episodes of "Lassie" before I figured out why the little hairy kid never spoke. I mean, he rolled over, sure, he did that fine but, I don't think he deserved a series for that. "

2. "Okay. Michael Jackson didn't come over to my house to use the bathroom. But his sister did!"

3. "Oh, really religious, Sean! Why don't we just do it in Burger King?"

This one might be a stretch, but somebody will get it.

[Kizarvexius]

Your answer was correct, milady.

Got numbers 1 and 2 on your puzzle, but 3 is stumping me.

[Draelin]

Just for kicks, I'll give you an additional quote from movie #3--

"You're not a virgin, are you?"
"Well .... Steve, but he doesn't count!"

[Kizarvexius]

...which wasn't very easy.

1. Explorers
2. The Goonies
3. The Monster Squad

All are movies about kids who discover that the fantasy/sci-fi things they are obsessed with are real.

I'll be back with a new one in a few.

[Kizarvexius]

1. "You see - comedy. Love, and a bit with a dog. That's what they want. "
2. "When I'm done, we'll be looking for a needle in a haystack. But if we stop now, it'll be a hundred thousand haystacks."
3. "Learned a new word today. Atom bomb. It was like the God taking a photograph."

[Draelin]

1. Shakespeare in Love
2. Enigma (and I will admit to looking that one up)
3. Empire of the Sun

All written by Tom Stoppard.

1. "What is this, some sort of dork outreach program?"
2. "Who would've guessed that everyone in school was a professional dancer?"
3. "Behind every great man... is a woman rolling her eyes."

Okay, this one's a very strange connection, and it'll be hard to catch. Would have been easier if I could use TV lines as well, so I'm going to include one line from a TV show that fits into the theme:

"How can I say this clearly? I don't like you. At the end of the day, I pretty much think you're a vampire."

Good luck--and you'll probably need the IMDB. :)

[Trunk]

Not sure, Draelin. . .is the theme that Dweebs become cool? I only got
1. She's All That
3. Bruce Almighty

Here's my quiz. The first two should give it away. I'm only 95% sure the third one fits in.

1. "I am big. It's the pictures that got small."

2. "Look at me, jerking off in the shower... This will be the high point of my day; it's all downhill from here."

3. "The day's running down like a tired clock."

[my unsolicited opinion. . .this is a good game but the quotes seem just arbitrarily difficult. Give me some identifiable quotes and a tricky theme, and I like the game a little more.]

[Only Mostly Dead]

Here's my quiz. The first two should give it away. I'm only 95% sure the third one fits in.

1. "I am big. It's the pictures that got small."

2. "Look at me, jerking off in the shower... This will be the high point of my day; it's all downhill from here."

3. "The day's running down like a tired clock."


Sunset Blvd.
American Beauty
Our Town

Theme: Narrated by a dead person. And you were right to be unsure about the third one. The narrator is more of a god-figure than a once-member-of-the-world.

I'll give the next one in a few minutes.

[Only Mostly Dead]

1. Invention, my dear friends, is 93% perspiration, 6% electricity, 4% evaporation, and 2% butterscotch ripple.

2. Come on, ease on down, ease on down the road.

3. When suddenly an unconscious Argentinean fell through my ceiling. He was then joined by a dwarf dressed as a nun. You see, the Argentinean has a disease called Narcolepsy...

It's easy to come up with the basic theme, but there's a particularity to it that's a bit tougher. Bonus points for figuring out this extra little twist.

[Max Torque]

1. Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory
2. The Wiz
3. Moulin Rouge

Well, they're all musicals, but I reckon that's not what you're looking for.

[Draelin]

Not sure, Draelin. . .is the theme that Dweebs become cool? I only got
1. She's All That
3. Bruce Almighty

#2 was Not Another Teen Movie, and the common thread (which, as I said, was difficult) is that all three had scene that took place in the same high school courtyard. The TV quote was from Buffy, which used the same courtyard for Sunnydale High School.

I told you, it was a stretch. :)

On the current puzzle, the answers are Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory (I think), The Wiz, and Moulin Rouge. All are musicals, but could the interesting twist be that all three also featured midgets? That's all I've got for bonus twist.

Back with the new one as soon as humanly possible ... just have to come up with it. :)

[Only Mostly Dead]

On the current puzzle, the answers are Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory (I think), The Wiz, and Moulin Rouge. All are musicals, but could the interesting twist be that all three also featured midgets? That's all I've got for bonus twist.

I was just going to say they were all written/arranged specifically for the movies. There was never any stage adaptation (could be wrong on The Wiz, though). But I really like your midget link better! I'll just pretend that's what I meant all along.

[Draelin]

Here we go again ...

1. "Bless the saints, it's an ashtray! I've been thinking of taking up smoking. This clinches it!"

2. "There was what, no one at the mutant hamster races and we had one entry into the Madame Curie look-alike contest and he was disqualified later. Why do I bother?"

3. "Maggie, when you grow up and are incredibly beautiful and intelligent and possess a certain sweetness that's... that's like a distant promise to the brave, to the worthy, could you please not beat to a pulp every miserable bastard that comes your way simply because you can? Could you not do that?"

And a bonus that will fit into the theme in another year or so ...

"I like to dissect women. Did you know I'm utterly insane?"

[Only Mostly Dead]

Oh yeah, I'm dumb this morning. The Wiz was a crappy stage musical WAY before it was a crappy movie.

[Kalhoun]

1. Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory
2. The Wiz
3. Moulin Rouge

Well, they're all musicals, but I reckon that's not what you're looking for.
Maybe they all contain "little people"?

[Kizarvexius]

1. Johnny Dangerously
2. Real Genius
3. One Fine Day
Bonus: American Psycho

Each includes a future Batman.


My next submission.

1. “I believe God made me for a purpose, but he also made me fast. And when I run I feel His pleasure.”
2. “In the event of a water landing, I have been designed to act as a flotation device.”
3. “To me, jazz is just noise. Insolent noise.”

[astorian]

1. “I believe God made me for a purpose, but he also made me fast. And when I run I feel His pleasure.”
2. “In the event of a water landing, I have been designed to act as a flotation device.”
3. “To me, jazz is just noise. Insolent noise.”

1. "Chariots of Fire"
2. "Star Trek: Insurrection"
3. "The Talented Mr. Ripley"


But I have absolutely no idea what the 3 have in common.

[Kizarvexius]

astorian has named the three movies correctly.

As to what they have in common, I'll provide a couple of hints.

Number One:
Do the initials W.S.G. and A.S.S. mean anything to you?

Number Two:
Think Victorian England.

Number Three:
It's not in what you see, it's in what you hear.

[MovieMogul]

Gilbert & Sullivan. Chariots has quite a few references (Pinafore, Mikado) while the other two have single songs written by the duo.

Sorry, gotta head out but I promise I'll be back in the morning with several entries...

[astorian]

1) "I have flames on my car. I HAVE FLAMES ON MY CAR!"

2) "It appears my hypocrisy knows no bounds."

3) "Okay, okay, let's say that he did make a pass at you. The guy's been in prison for 5 years. He's desperate. He'd sleep with a meat grinder."

[MovieMogul]

1. The In-Laws
2. Tombstone
3. The Whole Nine Yards

All three lines are spoken by dentists.

OK, I'll post a couple--give me a few minutes.

[MovieMogul]

1. "You big bully--why are you hitting that little bully?"
2. "The doctors told me it was pneumonia, but I knew what it was: a victim of the Modern Age!"
3. "I may be good looking myself when I grow out of this ugly-duckling stage."

[MovieMogul]

1. "You have a rat's ears and a ferret's nose"
2. "Every man I ever loved was a hero and all he got was death."
3. "Sat right there and took it like it was an ice cream soda."

[Kizarvexius]

1. A Night At the Opera
2. A Clockwork Orange
3. Babes in Arms
All three have songs also featured in Singin’ In The Rain.

1. The Ten Commandments
2. The Americanization of Emily
3. Only Angels Have Wings
No clue what the connection is. :confused:

[MovieMogul]

The key to the connection is to concentrate on who exactly says the quote and that performer's larger filmography and accomplishments.

[rjung]

Okay, let's try another:

1. "They'll send you to the Gulag, like your father."

2. "If that's the Happiness Hotel, I'd hate to see what the sad one looks like."

3. "Strike them all dead! What right have you to butcher me?"

[astorian]

1) K-19: the Widow Maker

2) The Great Muppet Caper

3) Oliver Twist

Took me a while to figure this out, but... Harrison Ford, Frank Oz (voice of Fozzie Bear) and Alec Guinness were all part of the original Star Wars trilogy.



1) "To crosh your enemies, to see zem driven before you, and to hear ze lamentation of zere vimmen!"

2) "And maybe there's no peace in this world, for us or for anyone else, I don't know. But I do know that, as long as we live, we must remain true to ourselves. "

3) "I'm a kike! A yid! A Hebie! A hook nose! I'm kosher, Mum! I'm a Red Sea pedestrian, and proud of it!"

[MovieMogul]

1. Conan the Barbarian"
2. Spartacus
3. The Life of Brian

Connection: Sword & Sandals(?)

BTW: Nobody's provided the connection between the films I offered: The Ten Commandments, The Americanization of Emily, Only Angels Have Wings. I don't think new quotes should be offered unless you at least try (and I even provided a clue!)

[Kizarvexius]

I agree with you ArchiveGuy, though I can see how some, glancing over the posts with a cursory eye, might have mistaken the hint you provided for an actual answer.

So Dopers, please keep your new submissions in reserve until ArchiveGuy's unanswered puzzle (Post #55) is solved.

[rjung]

Took me a while to figure this out, but... Harrison Ford, Frank Oz (voice of Fozzie Bear) and Alec Guinness were all part of the original Star Wars trilogy.
And if you throw in Liam Neeson for K-19, you can include the prequels as well. :)

[MovieMogul]

Well, I answered the last one, so I'll give this a bump to give people a chance to get my last connection as well as the following:

1. "You married an incompetent. I'm irresponsible, cruel and aimless. I hate to cook, and I'm sloppy. If you really knew me, you'd hate me."
2. "You're the nellie, not me! I'm a pitcher, not a catcher! Don't you ever forget that!"
3. "Nobody brought a piece. It's not that kind of an evening."

[astorian]

Oh... while my 3 movies were identified, the theme I intended was, all three people being quoted (Conan the Barbarian, Spartacus, and Brian Cohen) get crucified in their movies.

[MovieMogul]

Actually, I was going to guess crucifixtion, but had forgotten about Conan's (good flick, but it's been a while).

[MovieMogul]

1. The Ten Commandments
2. The Americanization of Emily
3. Only Angels Have Wings
No clue what the connection is. :confused:
OK, the actors who said these quotes are: Yul Brynner, Julie Andrews, and Thomas Mitchell.

Not only are these 3 Oscar winners, but they won Oscars the same year as these movies, but for different films: The King and I, Mary Poppins and Stagecoach.

Anybody still want to take a crack at my other quotes, or is this thread dead?