Edited to add on 3/1/08: Saintseester! Gmail me with your address and I’ll send you a prize. I have removed the strikethroughs and emboldened the correct answers. I have also added comments to the ones you missed.
1. Pick 15 of your favorite movies.
2. Go to IMDB or somewhere else and find a quote from each movie.
3. Post them here for everyone to guess.
4. Strike it out when someone guesses correctly, and put who guessed it and the movie.
5. NO GOOGLING/using IMDB search functions because that would totally be cheating, you dirty cheaters.
6. The commenter with the most correct guesses gets a prize from me (provided you are willing to give a psycho hose beast blog stalker your address).
7. This contest closes at 12 AM PST on Saturday, March 1, 2008.
1. There’s not a day goes by I don’t feel regret. Not because I’m in here, or because you think I should. I look back on the way I was then: a young, stupid kid who committed that terrible crime. I want to talk to him. I want to try and talk some sense to him, tell him the way things are. But I can’t. That kid’s long gone and this old man is all that’s left. I got to live with that. Rehabilitated? It’s just a bullshit word. So you go on and stamp your form, sonny, and stop wasting my time. Because to tell you the truth, I don’t give a shit.
Saintseester may know The Shawshank Redemption as well as I do.
2. A heart is not judged by how much you love; but by how much you are loved by others.
Bec knows her Wizard of Oz.
3. Dear God, make me a bird. So I could fly far. Far far away from here.
Mrs. Chili knows that “me and Jenny are like peas and carrots” in Forrest Gump.
4. If you were to give advice to a woman, what would it be? Love. To a young girl? Love. To a child? Love.
From La Vie En Rose
5. He was sweeping you sons of bitches, he was sweeping!
From The Last Picture Show
6. Every night it’s the fucking chicken! Holy God Almighty! Is it possible just once we could get something to eat for dinner around here that’s not the goddamned fucking chicken
Saintseester loves that chicken (hopefully, it is Popeye’s) and Little Miss Sunshine.
7. Revenge is not good. Once you’re done. Believe me.
Bec knows her Leon (The Professional).
8. The game starts now. You have to score one thousand points. If you do that, you take home a tank with a big gun. Each day we will announce the scores from that loudspeaker. The one who has the fewest points will have to wear a sign that says “Jackass” on his back. There are three ways to lose points. One, turning into a big crybaby. Two, telling us you want to see your mommy. Three, saying you’re hungry and want something to eat.
Anonboogymous knows his Life Is Beautiful.
9. The only reason people are nice to me is because I have more money than God.
Saintseester knows her Ouiser in Steel Magnolias.
10. How do you tell a child that she was born to be hurt?
From Imitation of Life
11. Uh, I don’t know, I don’t know. Um, it’s a hard grape to grow, as you know. Right? It’s uh, it’s thin-skinned, temperamental, ripens early. It’s, you know, it’s not a survivor like Cabernet, which can just grow anywhere and uh, thrive even when it’s neglected. No, Pinot needs constant care and attention. You know? And in fact it can only grow in these really specific, little, tucked away corners of the world. And, and only the most patient and nurturing of growers can do it, really. Only somebody who really takes the time to understand Pinot’s potential can then coax it into its fullest expression. Then, I mean, oh its flavors, they’re just the most haunting and brilliant and thrilling and subtle and… ancient on the planet.
Saintseester knows Pinot or, at least, Sideways.
12. Where do they teach you to talk like this? In some Panama City “Sailor wanna hump-hump” bar, or is it getaway day and your last shot at his whiskey? Sell crazy someplace else, we’re all stocked up here.
Nina knows her crazy; I mean her As Good As It Gets.
13. No matter what anybody tells you, words and ideas can change the world.
Mrs. Chili knows English teacher movie references such as this incredible line from Dead Poets Society.
14. I never did mind about the little things.
From Point of No Return
15. I don’t know what’s worse, church or jail.
Melissa knows her Fried Green Tomatoes. Yum-o!
Taking wild stupendous guesses here, because almost none of these ring a bell with me:
1. Shawshank Redemption
2. ?
3. ?
4. ?
5. ?
6. Little Miss Sunshine; I swear I can see the old guy saying this at the table.
7. Revenge of the Nerds? LOL - I know it isn’t but I must guess
8. Uhhh. Stripes?
9. Steel Magnolias or Pretty Woman. Julia Roberts appears in my head here. I am gonna go with Steel Magnolias.
10. ?
11. Sideways ?
12. ? No idea, but I bet a crotchety old guy says this
13.?
14. ?
15. ?
Ok I completely suck.
@ Saintseester: And, 4 out of 15 ain’t bad. As far as #12, you are on the right tangent. And, you don’t suck.
Well, I refused to cheat. So 4 ain’t too bad, since I was SERIOUSLY GUESSING! Heh heh. I have the feeling there are several on that list that I have never seen, though.
#3 Forrest Gump
#13 Dead Poets Society (you really didn’t think I wouldn’t know THAT one…)
@ Mrs. Chili: I figured that you or Tense would answer #13 before anyone else, but seeing that Tense is trapped at her fam-damily’s you did it!
oo ooo.. #8 is Life is Beautiful
wtf no anonymous …
12: As Good as it Gets, Jack Nicholson being awesome.
#15 - Fried Green Tomatoes. Second fave line: “Face it ladies, I’m older and I have more insurance.”
2. Wizard of Oz (I totally weep at this point in the film)
7. Leon
And now I want to watch the both of them!
Aw, DARNIT! I should have known the Wizard of OZ, quote. It was so familiar, but I couldn’t place it.
I thought #2 was from LOTR but I wasn’t positive…Wizard of Oz, i’ll be damned! That was the only one that sounded vaguely familiar!
This is why I NEVER played the drinking game in college where you had to say a movie quote or take a drink. I would have died of alcohol poisoning.
#12 is Jack Nicholson in As Good As It Gets. I think that’s the name of it. I don’t watch a lot of movies. It baffles people. Really.
@ anonboogymous: Ooh! Ooh! I know who you are.
@ Nina: My favorite Jack performance ever.
@ Melissa: I forgot about that line. Love it!
@ Bec: Just call me a girl. I cry every time I watch the Wizard of Oz.
@ Saintseester: It looks like you are going to win.
@ Janet: I loved LOTR, but I am not sure if I could quote from anyone but Gollum.
@ Marlee: Ha! I remember that game. Hiccup.
@ Natalie: Yep. Nina was first. Thanks for playing.
[...] And the Oscar goes to … Saintseester who answered 4 correctly! Send me your mailing address, and I’ll send you your prize. The original post has been edited to reflect the correct answers to all the memorable (or not-so-memorable) quotes. Thanks to everyone for playing. It was so much fun that I would like to do something like it again. What do you think? [...]