# Film Countdown **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [May 28, 2007, 5:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/film-countdown/405806 "2007-05-28T17:58:26Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![C\_K\_Dexter\_Haven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/b2d939/32.png) [@C\_K\_Dexter\_Haven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/C_K_Dexter_Haven)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2007, 5:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/film-countdown/405806/1 "2007-05-28T17:58:26Z")
Arguably, better than the AFI 100 best… [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/FExqG6LdWHU/hqdefault.jpg "100 Movies, 100 Quotes, 100 Numbers") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FExqG6LdWHU) ---
**Author:** ![Equipoise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/equipoise/32/151_2.png) [@Equipoise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Equipoise)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2007, 8:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/film-countdown/405806/2 "2007-05-28T20:22:45Z")
[QUOTE=C K Dexter Haven] Arguably, better than the AFI 100 best… [![](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/FExqG6LdWHU/hqdefault.jpg "100 Movies, 100 Quotes, 100 Numbers") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FExqG6LdWHU) [/QUOTE] Ayup, pretty cool! There is a list in [this thread](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=421405&highlight=Movies) of the movie titles in case you didn’t identify some of them. ---
**Author:** ![Quartz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/quartz/32/267_2.png) [@Quartz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quartz)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2007, 8:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/film-countdown/405806/3 "2007-05-28T20:27:04Z")
That’s brilliant! ---
**Author:** ![Liberal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/848f3c/32.png) [@Liberal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Liberal)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2007, 11:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/film-countdown/405806/4 "2007-05-28T23:52:12Z")
How do people _find_ scenes like that? Are there computer programs that will scan for phonemes or something? If it’s done the hard way, it’s amazing. ---
**Author:** ![Tuckerfan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/eada6e/32.png) [@Tuckerfan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tuckerfan)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2007, 12:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/film-countdown/405806/5 "2007-05-29T00:52:11Z")
The last line was hysterical. I was surprised at how many of the clips I actually recognized. ---
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2007, 1:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/film-countdown/405806/6 "2007-05-29T01:26:24Z")
[QUOTE=Liberal] How do people _find_ scenes like that? Are there computer programs that will scan for phonemes or something? If it’s done the hard way, it’s amazing. [/QUOTE] They could probably search through screenplay text in a database. ---
**Author:** ![Just\_Some\_Guy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ad7895/32.png) [@Just\_Some\_Guy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Just_Some_Guy)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2007, 1:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/film-countdown/405806/7 "2007-05-29T01:36:00Z")
While I fully expected that they did a search for popular film quotes looking for the numbers the real complication is avoiding repeats and making sure the quote is good for identifying the film. It was a fun countdown… ---
**Author:** ![Liberal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/848f3c/32.png) [@Liberal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Liberal)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2007, 2:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/film-countdown/405806/8 "2007-05-29T02:03:23Z")
[QUOTE=GuanoLad] They could probably search through screenplay text in a database. [/QUOTE] :smack: ---
**Author:** ![C\_K\_Dexter\_Haven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/b2d939/32.png) [@C\_K\_Dexter\_Haven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/C_K_Dexter_Haven)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2007, 2:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/film-countdown/405806/9 "2007-05-29T02:26:07Z")
( Oops, I didn’t realize there was already a thread on this. Oh, well. ) ---
**Author:** ![Exapno\_Mapcase](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/exapno_mapcase/32/1051_2.png) [@Exapno\_Mapcase](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Exapno_Mapcase)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2007, 2:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/film-countdown/405806/10 "2007-05-29T02:26:13Z")
[QUOTE=GuanoLad] They could probably search through screenplay text in a database. [/QUOTE] What database? Where? ---
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2007, 5:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/film-countdown/405806/11 "2007-05-29T05:44:01Z")
Well, it may not be a public online database. I was just speculatin’.