Since no one gets my Hey, pizza! Line I can only assume you’ve forgotten this wonderful movie.
Heres another to help.
Things sure have changed since we got kicked out of school.
This one might not, I suspect, have made it outside the UK, but I’ll try it anyway:
“All them cornfields, and ballet in the evenings”
This might be too easy.
“If I don’t find out who Lila is, I’ll go crazy!”
The Fifth Element
Incorrect.
Green!
Hombre
Snoopy Come Home?
Yes, well done. I thought that one would be solved a lot quicker. I was just about to post another clue.
It was the only movie I could think of that had a character named Lila. Actually came to mind right away.
It’s been decades since I’ve seen it, but I seem to remember that Charlie Brown says that in frustration a few times. The next clue was going to be “no dogs allowed.”
And a new clue:
“That armor plating must be inches thick.”
Last try- Don’t let any more mice in here. They’ve been exploding all over the place.
We live in a kingdom of rains, where royalty comes and goes in gangs.
Jurassic Park?
Incorrect.
This is driving me mad because I am sure I know it, just can’t put my finger on it. If it’s from a Bond film I’m gonna kick myself…
Is it The Spy Who Loved Me ?
Yes! During the firefight on the oil tanker, the submarine crews have taken over the docking area, but can’t get in to the control room. Bond throws a grenade that explodes right next to the shuttered door, but has no effect. The British captain says “that armor plating must be inches thick.”
There’s a very particular reason why that line sticks in my head. When I was a kid, my mom would sometimes see an actor on TV and comment, “oh, he also played the Japanese soldier on Gilligan’s Island”, or something like that. I must have picked up the habit of seeing someone and trying to remember what other roles I’d seen them in.
At some point years later, I recognized someone, probably his voice more than his look, but I didn’t know the actor’s name, or the character he’d played. For whatever reason, that was the line that stuck in my head. Whenever I saw him, he was the “that armor plating must be inches thick” guy.
I now know his name was Shane Rimmer, and he popped up in a lot of action/adventure/sci-fi films He was in a couple other Bond films, the first three Superman films, and Star Wars. If you needed someone to be the voice of Mission Control for a space mission, you called Shane Rimmer. He yells “Jonathan!” at the end of Rollerball. When Slim Pickens was trying to fix the bomb doors at the end of Dr. Strangelove, and the co-pilot says “target in sight, where in hell is Major Kong?”, that’s him, too.
Haha yes that is the scene I was picturing, I just couldn’t picture the character for sure but thought it was probably him. Nitpick: probably a typo but Rimmer is the US captain, not the British one. His voice was well known to British audiences though as he was one of the Tracey brothers in Thunderbirds.
No, not a typo. There were British, American, and Russian subs in the movie. Bond and Major Amasova get transported to a sub to intercept Stromberg’s oil tanker, so I assumed it was the British sub. It gets swallowed up, joining the two already there.
But now that you mention it, the movie begins with something bad happening to a submarine, and it’s clearly Royal Navy. The tracking map from that is what sets the whole plot in motion. So you’re right; it’s the British sub at the beginning, and the American sub with James and Anya on board.
Rimmer was Canadian, but moved to and worked in England.