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CineQuote Newsletter #49
How many Willies or Mikeys would it take to defeat one Meg?
CineQuote.net Team
August 25, 2025
The movies of the week ran from 1978 - 2018, a forty year stretch that started with Halloween and ended with The Meg. That got us thinking if the Meg could actually stop Michael Myers once and for all. Probably not. He’d just get swallowed and an hour later he’s carving an exit outta poor Meggie’s stomach. Million dollar movie idea if anybody wants it. Going once…going twice…
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Got some fun movies up this week for ya, especially after the not-so-fun one from yesterday’s Sunday Stumper. And if you haven’t watched that YouTube link under the poster on the win screen, you might want to go back and click that...
Ok. On to the stats!
Last Week’s Highlights
Highest Win Percentage91.9%  Free Willy (1993) | Lowest Win Percentage54.3%  Diary of a Mad Black Woman (2005) |
Nearly 92% of players convinced a 13,000 sea mammal to swim headfirst towards a rock wall and only at the last instant, breach, resulting in a choppy visual effects shot, but also glorious freedom for said creature. Good job! The rest of you were attending a Costco-brand SeaWorld enabling his imprisonment and ended up with going with a completely different “kid savior complex” movie for your final guess. Don’t sweat it. We’re sure the dorsal fin being flopped like that is unrelated, and has nothing to do with you forgetting the seminal 1993 whale underground railroad story, FREE WILLY.
Tyler Perry made a few things with his Madea character before making her a mainstay in the title of the movies, and, of course, front and center on the posters. This is why everybody guessed a Madea movie except for this one, and a 54.3% win rate would probably result in Madea hooting critically at half of you. Did you remember the sneaky CQ Rule? Sometimes we squeeze in a word from the title into the last quote. Had you typed “diary”, it might have led your brain to the right movie. Or it could have lead you to Diary of Anne Frank. Way less Nazis in the Madea world, as a rule. Just remember the sneaky CQ tip next time you’re stuck on a Stumper. Or hey, follow our social media accounts for hints (see way below on this newsletter.)
In a way, DOAMBW is to the Madea movies what FIRST BLOOD is to the Rambo movies. I’m sure someone will try and steal that analogy from this newsletter and get to sound all high-falutin at a cocktail party, but YOU’LL know where they got it from and you’ll get to confront them a la Will Hunting and make them look quite the fool. No one steals from the CQ Newsletter without getting their comeuppance by one of you vigilant readers out there! They will, indeed, like dem apples.
 Nancy Kyes as Anne in Halloween (1978) | Ace of the Week24.4%[barking] “Lindsay! Lester's barking again and getting on my nerves again. Never mind.” “Guess he found a hot date.” |
How in the world do you know this so well? Yes, HALLOWEEN is a mainstay on the cable stations each and every spooky season but we thought we were being sneaky. Not sneaky enough, as 24.4% of players ACED this. Well, that’s fine. We’re just gonna go hang out silently halfway behind a bush somewhere and think of some much harder quotes for the next time we do the John Carpenter slasher-flick (to be fair, maybe more of an impaler-flick?)
Here are the numbers for all the games last week.
Movie | Win % | Ace % |
|---|---|---|
Free Willy (1993) | 94.2% | 7.7% |
Guardians of the Galaxy (2014) | 91.4% | 5.7% |
Halloween (1978) | 84.8% | 22.8% |
The Meg (2018) | 81.0% | 1.8% |
Ransom (1996) | 68.9% | 2.0% |
Rambo (2008) | 57.7% | 2.0% |
Diary of a Mad Black Woman (2005) | 51.5% | 2.9% |
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Twenty-five years after environmental collapse left the Earth uninhabitable, Mother, Father and Son are confined to their palatial bunker, where they struggle to maintain hope and a sense of normalcy by clinging to the rituals of daily life—until the arrival of a stranger, Girl. Joshua Oppenheimer directed two of the most gut-wrenching and difficult-to-watch documentaries of the last fifteen years (The Act of Killing / The Look of Silence) so as his next project he chose to do a post-apocalyptic bunker…musical. Yep. And it gets stranger from there. Now, disclaimer, this isn’t a panacea recommendation. This if for you weird freaks out there (like me) who are tired of your mainstream gruel and want to try something adventurous, even if you end up being allergic to it. -Sean |
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