New game: 3 film quotes and a common element

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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.”
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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?”
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  1. Good Will Hunting
  2. Jerry Maguire
  3. The Usual Suspects
    Common element: All three films won Oscars for Best Supporting Actor.
  4. “My sister wears a mustache, my brother wears a dress!”
  5. “Monsters. Monsters from the id.”
  6. “This is probably the first marriage I’ve ever seen that started out with a spanking.”
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  1. West Side Story
  2. Forbidden Planet
  3. McLintock!

All are updatings of Shakespeare plays.

I’ll be back with a submission…

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  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.”
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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:

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  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 . . .

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You’re up, dalovindj.

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  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

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  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.”
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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?

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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” :smiley:

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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

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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. :slight_smile:

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Correct, m’lady. (Full bow)

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

(And Dumbledore is my hero!)

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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.”

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  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.”
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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.

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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.”

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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?