# Guess The Movie From The Opening Line **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [December 18, 2002, 9:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guess-the-movie-from-the-opening-line/143658 "2002-12-18T21:41:33Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![HPL](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/3da27b/32.png) [@HPL](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HPL)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2002, 9:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guess-the-movie-from-the-opening-line/143658/81 "2002-12-19T21:31:46Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Legomancer \* > \*\*A beginning is a very delicate time. \*\* Dune? ---
**Author:** ![Legomancer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/779978/32.png) [@Legomancer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Legomancer)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2002, 9:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guess-the-movie-from-the-opening-line/143658/82 "2002-12-19T21:40:11Z")
Dune is correct, HPL. Was the “hash bars” line the first in Pulp Fiction? I thought the Pumpkin and Hunny Bunny bit was before that, about robbing a bank with a cell phone. ---
**Author:** ![Pashnish\_Ewing](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/8797f3/32.png) [@Pashnish\_Ewing](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pashnish_Ewing)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2002, 10:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guess-the-movie-from-the-opening-line/143658/83 "2002-12-19T22:02:11Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Legomancer \* > \*\*Was the “hash bars” line the first in Pulp Fiction? I thought the Pumpkin and Hunny Bunny bit was before that, about robbing a bank with a cell phone. \*\* Check out the big brain on **Legomancer**. Uh, I thought the game was “First line after the opening credits” (Pash looks around to see if anyone buys it) My mistake. > [@](#): > > _Originally posted by Pashnish Ewing_ > **Fun Game** [grumble] Stupid game [/grumble] 🙂 Pash ---
**Author:** ![Monstre](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e274bd/32.png) [@Monstre](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Monstre)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2002, 10:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guess-the-movie-from-the-opening-line/143658/84 "2002-12-19T22:39:01Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Joe\_Cool \* > \*\*Oh, and I have one more: > > “The world is changing.” \*\* Actually, I believe it is “The world is changed.” And this is just the translation of the first line, spoken in Elvish, in (of course)… **Lord of the Rings: Fellowship of the Ring** ---
**Author:** ![IThinkNot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/ce73a5/32.png) [@IThinkNot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/IThinkNot)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2002, 10:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guess-the-movie-from-the-opening-line/143658/85 "2002-12-19T22:57:40Z")
Can I post one? A REALLY EASY ONE? “At the corner of Wiltern and Weatherly…hey! Tumbler messed up! He said the Porsche would be at the corner of Wiltern and Weatherly!” (at least I believe that’s how it goes) ---
**Author:** ![HPL](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/3da27b/32.png) [@HPL](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HPL)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2002, 11:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guess-the-movie-from-the-opening-line/143658/86 "2002-12-19T23:57:49Z")
“We just outside Barstow, at the edge of the Desert, when the drugs began to kick in”. ---
**Author:** ![capacitor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e47774/32.png) [@capacitor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/capacitor)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2002, 12:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guess-the-movie-from-the-opening-line/143658/87 "2002-12-20T00:12:03Z")
I got one “Arr eru ahh oo”, etc. ---
**Author:** ![Joe\_Cool](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ecb155/32.png) [@Joe\_Cool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Joe_Cool)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2002, 12:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guess-the-movie-from-the-opening-line/143658/88 "2002-12-20T00:13:30Z")
Is that Fear And Loathing In Las Vegas? ---
**Author:** ![Ike\_Witt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ike_witt/32/283_2.png) [@Ike\_Witt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ike_Witt)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2002, 12:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guess-the-movie-from-the-opening-line/143658/89 "2002-12-20T00:13:53Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by HPL \* > \*\*“We just outside Barstow, at the edge of the Desert, when the drugs began to kick in”. \*\* This can be none other than _Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas_. ---
**Author:** ![HPL](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/3da27b/32.png) [@HPL](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HPL)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2002, 12:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guess-the-movie-from-the-opening-line/143658/90 "2002-12-20T00:15:59Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Joe\_Cool \* > \*\*Is that Fear And Loathing In Las Vegas? \*\* Yep, you’ve got it. ---
**Author:** ![Ike\_Witt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ike_witt/32/283_2.png) [@Ike\_Witt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ike_Witt)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2002, 12:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guess-the-movie-from-the-opening-line/143658/91 "2002-12-20T00:23:05Z")
My line > [@](#): > > Here you are sir, main level ‘B’. ---
**Author:** ![IThinkNot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/ce73a5/32.png) [@IThinkNot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/IThinkNot)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2002, 1:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guess-the-movie-from-the-opening-line/143658/92 "2002-12-21T01:12:59Z")
Adam Yax— “Speed?” ---
**Author:** ![Gadarene](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e47c2d/32.png) [@Gadarene](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gadarene)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2002, 1:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guess-the-movie-from-the-opening-line/143658/93 "2002-12-21T01:42:12Z")
Heads. ---
**Author:** ![BioHazard](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/3bc359/32.png) [@BioHazard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BioHazard)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2002, 3:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guess-the-movie-from-the-opening-line/143658/94 "2002-12-21T03:55:19Z")
“My name is [I forgot the name] six months from now, I will be dead” ---
**Author:** ![etv78](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/d78d45/32.png) [@etv78](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/etv78)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2002, 4:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guess-the-movie-from-the-opening-line/143658/95 "2002-12-21T04:02:17Z")
BioHazard- “American Beauty” ---
**Author:** ![Lightnin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lightnin/32/180_2.png) [@Lightnin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lightnin)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2002, 4:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guess-the-movie-from-the-opening-line/143658/96 "2002-12-21T04:16:44Z")
“Consider outer space.” Surely THIS is a tough one? ---
**Author:** ![Flowerchild](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/858c86/32.png) [@Flowerchild](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Flowerchild)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2002, 4:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guess-the-movie-from-the-opening-line/143658/97 "2002-12-21T04:27:50Z")
FC: “The thing about me and Bob was, we hated rednecks more then anything, because rednecks were America incarnate, and as for America, well, F\*\*k America!” ---
**Author:** ![Scarlett67](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scarlett67/32/7387_2.png) [@Scarlett67](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scarlett67)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2002, 4:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guess-the-movie-from-the-opening-line/143658/98 "2002-12-21T04:37:16Z")
“Consider outer space” = _The Sure Thing._ One of my favorites. ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2002, 5:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guess-the-movie-from-the-opening-line/143658/99 "2002-12-21T05:26:16Z")
SLC PUNK. Just saw that for the first time last night! “I have come to the conclusion that one useless man is called a disgrace, that two useless men are called a law firm, and that three or more useless men combine to form a Congress.” “Come for me!” (yelled very loud) ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2002, 6:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guess-the-movie-from-the-opening-line/143658/100 "2002-12-21T06:04:04Z")
\*\*Sampiro, \*\* the one about useless men is from \*1776, \* isn’t it? Spoken by William Daniels playing John Adams? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guess-the-movie-from-the-opening-line/143658.md?page=4) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guess-the-movie-from-the-opening-line/143658.md?page=6)