CineQuote Newsletter #37

Today is our 900th game! We are only about three and a half months away from #1000, and yep, you guessed it, we already got the Fox TV series “Millennium” from the mid ‘90s queued up and ready to go! “But wait, isn’t that a TV show, CineQuote? Why would you go and do that?” Well, we aren’t, so hang up with 9-11, Karen. BUT…we will do something that correlates to hitting quadruple digits, or has thousand in the title, or to keep you from hatching a plan, we’re gonna go the opposite way and do something so diminutive, it’s almost the polar opposite of what you’d expect our 1000th game to be! So think on that, and nooooooo, it won’t be 8 Below with Paul Walker and a bunch of huskies (the dogs, not the men although it’s sad Paul Walker never made a movie with bears before he left us. We would have preferred that over Meet the Deedles. Oh wait, that DID have a bear in it, AND John Ashton. So, how bout that, 2 for 2 on bears! Alright, this joke has gone on for too long, and if you didn’t even pick up on the joke, it’s gone on for WAY too long.) Forget it, let’s just look over the numbers.

If it felt like a tough week, it was. In fact only one movie cracked the 80% win rate, and that was Disney’s Nurse Robot as pseudo superhero cartoon BIG HERO 6. Despite making three times back it’s budget, the long-awaited sequel still seems to be in for a longer wait, although Hiro and Baymax have found their way onto the small screen. Scott Adsit, who seems like he was cast quite out of the blue, does a great job as Baymax, the Michelin Man of the fictitious San Fransokyo, and were it not so popular we would have slapped Big Hero 6 in our recommendation section awhile back.

Not so widely seen was the Netflixian Adam Sandler non-comedy HUSTLE, in which a beleaguered basketball scout tries to shepherd a raw, unproven Spanish player into the NBA draft. This movie came out right as Covid-19 was winding down, so instead of sitting down for a movie most people were shucking off their clothes and running through glens and pastures or mosh-pitting at heavy metal shows just to feel human contact again. Hustle couldn’t even muscle to the 50% benchmark, but it’s worth a watch, if nothing else to see young NBA superstar-in-the-making Anthony Edwards play the foil to our underdogs. Go Wolves. We’ll get ‘em next year…

Going by the numbers, players either got AIRHEADS right away or they didn't get it at all. That be the case sometimes for these 90s comedies that were ingested ad nauseum by some or existed in obscurity for most. Tough as well to get it when they never come close to saying the title in any form. However, the true Buscemiheads were rewarded with an Ace. Here’s a little clip of Adam Sandler and Brendan Fraser chatting about Airheads, apparently the most fun Sandler had filming a movie. Take that, Click!

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