CineQuote is ALIVE!
Well, it’s been a fortnight, but we’re back. For the time being we’re gonna do CQ Newsletters twice a month, as opposed to once a week. Even with a thousand monkeys typing away at a thousand typewriters it was still very stressful getting a coherent Newsletter together in just seven days. Format-wise, we added a bunch more stats, as well as some trivia tidbits. Give it a perusal, and as always, you can let us know your thoughts and feelings by hitting Send Feedback under your Profile Tab.
IF YOU’RE READING THIS, A WARNING: today begins fourteen straight days of horror movies! We’ll be doing scary stuff all the way through Halloween. Lock the doors, get under the bed, and be very, very quiet… or CQ will stump you!
And a big “oh hi there” to all our CQ Members, old school gamers and the newly enlisted alike! We’re so happy you signed up. In addition to all the bonus features and extra games to play, the Triple Play below is exclusively for our Members. Thank you, thank you, thank you!
But of course everyone reading this is welcome to try their luck at the One Shot.
Alrighty. Let’s talk numbers:
BY THE NUMBERS
Sun Oct 4 to Sat Oct 17
75%
of games were won
6%
of games were aced on the first quote
1970s
the decade players knew best: 81% of those games won
Highs & Lows
BIGGEST WINNERS
90.2% Pocahontas (1995)
87.9% Toy Story 4 (2019)
85.6% Meet the Parents (2000)
HARDEST MOVIES
53.4% The English Patient (1996)
67.1% Us (2019)
69.3% Ernest Scared Stupid (1991)
It’s alive! YOUNG FRANKENSTEIN had a great showing thanks in large part to the unmistakable voice of Gene Wilder, and the general vibe of reanimated necrotic tissue, but you know, for the laughs. Beating a Disney Princess is extremely difficult to do, but never doubt the Mel Brooks effect.
So BETTER OFF DEAD died a terrible death this last circuit. John Cusack halfheartedly attempts suicide a number of times in this mid 80s screwball comedy, but there’s little dialogue in those scenes so it was difficult to convey his sentiment ergo the title of the movie.
Top Aces
12.1% Better Off Dead... (1985)
“Christmas. Christmas.”
9.6% Coraline (2009)
“Bless you, miss. You found me.”
YOUNG FRANKENSTEIN won the double-dip of highest win rate, and also snagging the Ace Rate winner. A heavily make-upped suburban mom squeezing the face of a teenage French girl was the silver medalist.
At a Glance
Spotlights
RED HERRING
Where the Red Fern Grows (1974)
46.9%
of wrong guesses on this one were Old Yeller (1957).
STREAKBREAKER
The English Patient (1996)
30.5%
of the players lost a winning streak to it. Next closest was Coraline at 22.0%.
CLUTCH
Where the Red Fern Grows (1974)
31.8%
of players needed all five quotes and got it on the last one. Thank goodness we mentioned a red fern in that quote, right?
SLOW BURN
Up in Smoke (1978)
1.6% → 84%
Only 1.6% of players knew it from the first quote, but 84% got there in the end.
PHOTO FINISH
Young Frankenstein vs Pocahontas
0.3 points
separated first and second place for easiest game, 90.5% to 90.2%.
ANNIVERSARY
Training Day (2001)
25th anniversary
Released October 5, 2001, 25 years to the day before it ran. 84% of players remembered it. Also celebrating: Ernest Scared Stupid (35 years), Meet the Parents (26 years).
DOES AN OSCAR HELP?
5 Oscar winners this fortnight
79% vs 74%
Players won the Oscar-winning games 79% of the time and the rest from this span 74%. All time, it runs 77% against 71%. The English Patient, 9 Oscars including Best Picture, scored well below average at 53%.
FAMILIAR FACE
Pocahontas and Better Off Dead...
David Ogden Stiers
David plays Governor Ratcliffe (voice) in Pocahontas and plays the dad Al Meyer in Better Off Dead.... 2 very different films over this span, 2 very different roles, 1 actor.
REPEAT OFFENDER
Young Frankenstein (1974)
8th Mel Brooks game
Players have won 78% of Mel Brooks' games on CineQuote. Earlier entries: History of the World: Part I (1981), Spaceballs (1987), Blazing Saddles (1974).
MOST FAMILIAR FACE
Tom Hanks, as of Toy Story 4
27 Tom Hanks games so far on CQ
Players win 84% of the time Tom Hanks is in the cast.
FRANCHISE CHECK
Toy Story, 5 games deep
90%
Toy Story games average a 90% win rate on CineQuote. Toy Story 4 came in just below at 87.9%.
SUNDAY STUMPER CHECK
Bio-Dome and Where the Red Fern Grows
3 points lower
The Sunday games averaged a 73% win rate against 76% for the rest of the week.
ADVENTURE CHECK
Pocahontas, Up in Smoke and Toy Story 4
87%
The 3 adventure films averaged 87%. All time, adventure films run a 78% success rate against 73% overall. Although, some cynics out there might pushback on how widely that tab is allocated. Up in Smoke ain’t exactly Raiders of the Lost Ark.
LONGEST SIT
The English Patient (1996)
162 min
Longest film by 28 minutes over the last two weeks. Only 53% of players found the time for it. Elaine Benes was not one of them…
ERA REPORT
47 years of movies
1974 to 2021
Two from 1974, two from 1996, two from 2019. Best decade: the 1970s at 81%. Trickiest: the 1990s at 72%.
ALL OR NOTHING
Better Off Dead... (1985)
12.1% aces, 50.9% wins
It had the lowest win rate, yet it had the second-best ace rate. Almost a quarter of its winners got it from the first quote.
THIRD TIME LUCKY
Bio-Dome (1996)
51.5%
Over half of all players won on the third quote, when we used a quote basically describing a bio-dome. Far fewer got it when they heard Tenacious D.
DENZEL'S BEST SIDE
Training Day (2001)
+17 points
Players won 83.9%, well above the 66.8% they manage across Denzel Washington's games. The most common wrong guess was another Denzel film… American Gangster.
WRONG FLOWER
Young Frankenstein (1974)
27.7%
The first quote was "Oh, I love my flower" and 27.7% of wrong guesses went to Bambi (1942). Players had that lovable skunk on their mind.
WRONG IN-LAWS
Meet the Parents (2000)
27.9%
More than a quarter of wrong guesses went to the sequel, Meet the Fockers.
SAME WEEK, SAME NAME
Us (2019) and Toy Story 4 (2019)
67.1% vs 87.9%
Jordan Peele's credited in two movies this span, one as an actor one as a director. Us was the tougher of the two by almost 21 points.
ERNEST SLIPS
Ernest Scared Stupid (1991)
69.3%
Players win 85% of games with Jim Varney in the cast, a percentage bolstered by this Toy Story work. His Earnest Halloween outing came in well under that.
Which quote cracked it
Of all the games won this span, the # quote that clinched it.
We generally aim for people to get the quote around #3 or 4 so this aligns well with our goal!
All Games
Movie | Win | Ace |
|---|---|---|
WEEK OF OCT 4 | ||
Young Frankenstein 1974 | 90.5% | 12.7% |
Training Day 2001 | 83.9% | 1.7% |
Cruella 2021 | 78.1% | 2.8% |
Bio-Dome 1996 | 76.6% | 6.2% |
Coraline 2009 | 72.3% | 9.6% |
The English Patient 1996 | 53.4% | 4.4% |
Better Off Dead... 1985 | 50.9% | 12.1% |
WEEK OF OCT 11 | ||
Pocahontas 1995 | 90.2% | 4.3% |
Toy Story 4 2019 | 87.9% | 3.3% |
Meet the Parents 2000 | 85.6% | 8.4% |
Up in Smoke 1978 | 84.0% | 1.6% |
69.8% | 3.9% | |
Ernest Scared Stupid 1991 | 69.3% | 9.1% |
Us 2019 | 67.1% | 2.2% |
CQ Recommends
Tenzing (2026)
The inspiring tale of one of the most important mountain climbers in history who along with Edmund Hillary, are forever linked with Mount Everest.
Rare for me to drop a recent movie in this section, but I want to get it on your radar while it’s streamable. I lucked out and got to see this at a theater. Definitely check local listings as it’s one of the cinematographic marvels this year. Could not be more impressed with how this movie looks and the bravura performance from lead actor Genden Phuntsok. Best of all, Tom Hiddleston doesn’t dance for a second.
-Sean
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