# New game: 3 film quotes and a common element **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [April 28, 2004, 4:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-game-3-film-quotes-and-a-common-element/242497 "2004-04-28T16:01:16Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Kizarvexius](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/da6949/32.png) [@Kizarvexius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kizarvexius)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2004, 4:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-game-3-film-quotes-and-a-common-element/242497/1 "2004-04-28T16:01:16Z")
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.” ---
**Author:** ![Hal\_Briston](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a9a28c/32.png) [@Hal\_Briston](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hal_Briston)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2004, 4:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-game-3-film-quotes-and-a-common-element/242497/2 "2004-04-28T16:51:59Z")
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?” ---
**Author:** ![Kizarvexius](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/da6949/32.png) [@Kizarvexius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kizarvexius)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2004, 5:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-game-3-film-quotes-and-a-common-element/242497/3 "2004-04-28T17:41:46Z")
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.” ---
**Author:** ![MovieMogul](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f08c70/32.png) [@MovieMogul](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MovieMogul)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2004, 5:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-game-3-film-quotes-and-a-common-element/242497/4 "2004-04-28T17:57:31Z")
1. _West Side Story_ 2. _Forbidden Planet_ 3. _McLintock!_ All are updatings of Shakespeare plays. I’ll be back with a submission… ---
**Author:** ![MovieMogul](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f08c70/32.png) [@MovieMogul](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MovieMogul)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2004, 6:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-game-3-film-quotes-and-a-common-element/242497/5 "2004-04-28T18:02:00Z")
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.” ---
**Author:** ![Kizarvexius](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/da6949/32.png) [@Kizarvexius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kizarvexius)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2004, 6:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-game-3-film-quotes-and-a-common-element/242497/6 "2004-04-28T18:11:40Z")
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. 😕 ---
**Author:** ![dalovindj](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/65b543/32.png) [@dalovindj](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dalovindj)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2004, 6:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-game-3-film-quotes-and-a-common-element/242497/7 "2004-04-28T18:43:24Z")
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 _eve_ning . . . ---
**Author:** ![Kizarvexius](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/da6949/32.png) [@Kizarvexius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kizarvexius)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2004, 7:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-game-3-film-quotes-and-a-common-element/242497/8 "2004-04-28T19:01:13Z")
You’re up, **dalovindj**. ---
**Author:** ![dalovindj](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/65b543/32.png) [@dalovindj](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dalovindj)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2004, 7:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-game-3-film-quotes-and-a-common-element/242497/9 "2004-04-28T19:01:24Z")
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 ---
**Author:** ![Kizarvexius](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/da6949/32.png) [@Kizarvexius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kizarvexius)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2004, 10:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-game-3-film-quotes-and-a-common-element/242497/10 "2004-04-28T22:22:18Z")
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.” ---
**Author:** ![Hal\_Briston](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a9a28c/32.png) [@Hal\_Briston](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hal_Briston)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2004, 3:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-game-3-film-quotes-and-a-common-element/242497/11 "2004-04-29T03:50:11Z")
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? ---
**Author:** ![Monstre](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e274bd/32.png) [@Monstre](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Monstre)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2004, 4:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-game-3-film-quotes-and-a-common-element/242497/12 "2004-04-29T04:30:33Z")
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” 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Kizarvexius](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/da6949/32.png) [@Kizarvexius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kizarvexius)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2004, 2:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-game-3-film-quotes-and-a-common-element/242497/13 "2004-04-29T14:35:54Z")
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 ---
**Author:** ![Draelin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ce73a5/32.png) [@Draelin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Draelin)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2004, 2:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-game-3-film-quotes-and-a-common-element/242497/14 "2004-04-29T14:44:36Z")
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. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Kizarvexius](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/da6949/32.png) [@Kizarvexius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kizarvexius)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2004, 2:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-game-3-film-quotes-and-a-common-element/242497/15 "2004-04-29T14:48:05Z")
Correct, m’lady. (Full bow) The first quote is from _Gladiator_, the cast of which includes Richard Harris. (And Dumbledore is my hero!) ---
**Author:** ![Draelin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ce73a5/32.png) [@Draelin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Draelin)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2004, 2:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-game-3-film-quotes-and-a-common-element/242497/16 "2004-04-29T14:55:49Z")
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.” ---
**Author:** ![Kizarvexius](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/da6949/32.png) [@Kizarvexius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kizarvexius)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2004, 3:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-game-3-film-quotes-and-a-common-element/242497/17 "2004-04-29T15:40:08Z")
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? 🆒 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.” ---
**Author:** ![dalovindj](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/65b543/32.png) [@dalovindj](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dalovindj)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2004, 4:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-game-3-film-quotes-and-a-common-element/242497/18 "2004-04-29T16:57:02Z")
> [@](#): > > 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. ---
**Author:** ![rjung](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/45deac/32.png) [@rjung](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rjung)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2004, 7:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-game-3-film-quotes-and-a-common-element/242497/19 "2004-04-29T19:09:02Z")
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.” ---
**Author:** ![Kizarvexius](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/da6949/32.png) [@Kizarvexius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kizarvexius)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2004, 8:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-game-3-film-quotes-and-a-common-element/242497/20 "2004-04-30T20:42:43Z")
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? [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-game-3-film-quotes-and-a-common-element/242497.md?page=2)