Movie Quote Quiz #2
Here is episode 2 of a feature that is fun and interactive and easy to post. This likely won’t be a daily post here in the third row but you’ll see it pop up a couple times a week. RULES: guess the movie the quote is from and for extra street cred, name the CHARACTER (not the actor). Oh, and in theory the quotes are get progressively harder from 1 through 5.
Good luck - no cheating!
1) “Guys? We’re dodging diamonds the size of Cape Cod, so bear with me. Not exactly nimble here.”
2) “The ladies ever tell you that you look like a fucking optical illusion?”
3) “Already I had a bad feeling about the boat trip night as soon as I saw [NAME]. He was all coked up so much that his nostrils were red and swolen. Bad start man, bad start.”
4) “Here you go. The killer’s a literature professor. He cuts off little chunks from his victims’ bodies until they die. He calls himself “the deconstructionist”.
5) “In the shape that he’s in, you could stand him up in the garage next to the snow shovels and he’d be all right.”
02. Barry Pepper in ‘25th Hour’
03. Al Pacino in ‘Carlito’s Way’
04. Someone in ‘Adaptation.’
05. ???
Comment by Domenic — November 10, 2008 @ 6:17 am
For #2, Pepper’s character is named Frank I believe. In #3, Al Pacino plays Carlito.
Comment by Domenic — November 10, 2008 @ 6:18 am
02. The 25th Hour (just so you know I’m not just copying Domenic - he says it near the beginning in the office)
03. Carlito’s Way (I swear I knew that before Domenic said it!)
04. Adaptation (I believe it’s Charlie who says it. Yeah, the REAL brother)
05. ???
Comment by Ross Miller — November 10, 2008 @ 8:01 am
Comment by Domenic — November 10, 2008 @ 9:24 am
1) The Core - Rebecca Childs
2) 25th Hour - Frank Slaughtery
3) Carlito’s Way - Carlito
4) Adaptation - Charlie Kaufman
5) Wonder Boys - Grady Tripp
Comment by Andrew James — November 10, 2008 @ 9:35 am
Comment by Andrew James — November 10, 2008 @ 9:35 am
Comment by Ross Miller — November 10, 2008 @ 1:48 pm
One of the reasons I actually like this movie - “You want me to hack the planet?!”:
Comment by Marina Antunes — November 10, 2008 @ 5:38 pm
Comment by Kurt Halfyard — November 10, 2008 @ 5:55 pm
Comment by Shannon the Movie Moxie — November 10, 2008 @ 6:47 pm
Comment by Henrik — November 11, 2008 @ 1:25 am
Comment by kurt — November 11, 2008 @ 7:09 am
Yeah, well I can name a million movies with a stupid concept that is so ridiculous it is beyond the pale (Robinson Crusoe on Mars, 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, Sunshine, Event Horizon, etc, etc, etc). That’s not a valid reason for it being a terrible movie. I also didn’t think the visual effects were a joke either. I LOVE the sequence where they land in that crystal “cave”. And “dodging diamonds the size of cape cod” is actually pretty cool if you think about it.
I’m not going to defend a film that’s not worthy of being defended, but I like the idea of going to the planet’s core and seeing what’s actually there. It’s a lot of fun. And you’re right, the cast is what makes this journey watchable. Hate disaster films, but love The Core for some reason. Maybe it’s my buddy crush on Swank.
Comment by Andrew James — November 11, 2008 @ 9:45 am
I’m gonna need Star Trek tapes and Hot Pockets.
Comment by Andrew James — November 11, 2008 @ 9:48 am
Anyway, I didn’t mean the concept is a joke to say the concept is bad. I meant it to literally be a joke. It’s hilarious. It’s like how far out can it get, nuclear bombs to jumpstart the earths core otherwise lightning will destroy horrible models of roman buildings. It’s up there with Lex Luthor growing a continent of crystals to build expensive housing on as a scheme in Superman Returns. I don’t mind movies with ridiculous concepts (Lady in the Water - brilliant), but I do mind action movies with poor action, and visual effects thrill rides with poor visual effects.
And the score is horrible. Christopher Young should stop getting work, he has done so much, and nothing has been remotely interesting.
Comment by Henrik — November 11, 2008 @ 10:40 am
Now, this is probably the heart of the issue. Some movies just have hot bitches that make you want to watch them.
Comment by Henrik — November 11, 2008 @ 10:41 am
I can’t believe you just called Lady in the Water brilliant (if you just meant the concept then please excuse the following:P…). The Core has a fun factor to it, a ridiculously silly aura about it (and personally I think it’s KNOWS it’s silly and just runs with it). But Lady in the Water….urgh…if you want to talk about a terrible movie that one should go down in the movie history books. Seriously, there’s literally nothing redeeming about that movie, at least The Core is fun even if it’s not exactly “top quality filmmaking”.
Again Lady in the Water…..urgh…..
Comment by Ross Miller — November 11, 2008 @ 2:10 pm
I havent’ rewatched it but in retrospect The Happening makes LITW look creative and enjoyably eskew.
Comment by Rusty James — November 11, 2008 @ 2:17 pm
Basically everything Ross said is correct.
As for Happening vs LITW, I think Happening works a little bit better because I’m not sure Shyman was taking it very seriously whereas with LITW he seems to be taking it very seriously and can’t understand why people don’t praise him for his genius. With Happening, it’s played out like a B-movie complete with shitty acting from non-shitty actors. It’s a fun “what-if” movie that can be discussed and hypothesized on while LITW is completely nonsensical.
Comment by Andrew James — November 11, 2008 @ 2:25 pm
uh… I would say it plays out like M NIGHT SHAMALAN’S B-MOVIE. A b movie from a director far too pretentious and self import to ever lower himself to such a disreputable genre.
I wasn’t saying I think LITW was a good film. But it’s a more artistic film with more redeeming value than Happening.
Comment by Rusty James — November 11, 2008 @ 4:17 pm
There is far too many misguided choices in Lady in the Water (Giamatti Crying for cookies, Mr. Semibeef, etc.) to forgive it on the ‘deconstruction of storytelling’ angle that people prop this movie up on.
Comment by kurt — November 11, 2008 @ 4:36 pm
It really saddens me that MNS has went as downhill as he has. He used to be so good (I still like The Sixth Sense quite a bit but I admit it’s lost it’s edge, but I LOVE LOVE LOVE Unbreakable. And Signs is really underrated imo, despite it’s nonsensical ending) but The Village (which is awful as I remember it, I’ve been meaning to re-watch it just to check actually), Lady in the Water (see above^_^) and most recently with The Happening he’s just shit the bed enough times for me to lose faith in him. Hopefully he comes down from his mountain-top of self-importance and makes something…you know….good again.
Comment by Ross Miller — November 11, 2008 @ 5:22 pm
I can think of no other filmmaker in the past maybe ten years or so, who risked as much, and exposed themselves as much as Shyamalan did with Lady In The Water.
And I didn’t mean to hijack anything, Lady In The Water just came to mind as a movie I have defended and am known to like, that has a ridiculous concept.
But Ross, we don’t agree on anything. It’s because I am much smarter and deeper than you are.
Comment by Henrik — November 11, 2008 @ 8:08 pm
Yes, thats right. And that’s why I would throw in Paul Thomas Anderson to the ring with regards to your first statement of your last comment there. Now THERE’S a filmmaker who invests himself in the art. MNS is more along the lines of “this idea I think is brilliant, and NO ONE can tell me otherwise. For I am the almighty Shamhammer!”
Comment by Ross Miller — November 12, 2008 @ 5:23 am
Comment by Goon — November 12, 2008 @ 6:48 am
Other artists invest as well. I have only seen Magnolia and There Will Be Blood, and I have liked both to a degree, but nowhere do I see the same amount of unabashed exposure of self that Shyamalan puts on display in Lady in the Water.
Comment by Henrik — November 12, 2008 @ 9:42 am