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WHOA! So many A’s on your report card this week as CQ players crested 90 percent on four movies, including the special selection we made for Game #1000… DIE HARD. Yes, yes, we waited nearly three years to drop the fun on Christmas Eve at Nakatomi Tower, which was absolutely brimming with quotable dialogue. Finding difficult quotes took us into the wee hours of the morning but it looks like once Reginald VelJohnson (yes, this is how he does his last name) starting buying Twinkies, the right answers came flowing in. By the way, he was only 35 when they shot this movie. “EXCUSE ME, SIR!”
We’ve got some cool news on the horizon, but for the moment don’t let your friends miss the next time we yippy kai yay. Spread the word and get them on the train. Plenty of room. Now let’s see if Argyle can bring the limo around with the stats from last week…
Last Week’s Highlights
Highest Win Percentage96.8%  The Karate Kid (1984) | Lowest Win Percentage33.1%  After the Thin Man (1936) |
When it comes to how players did for THE KARATE KID, all we gotta say is you try to be best 'cause you're only a man and a man's gotta learn to take it. Try to believe though the going gets rough that you gotta hang tough to make it. History repeats itself try and you'll succeed. Never doubt that you're the one and you can have your dreams. You're the best around, nothing's gonna ever keep you down. You're the best around, nothing's gonna ever keep you down. You're the best around, nothing's gonna ever keep you dooooooooooooooooown!
But like a crane kick to the face, ANOTHER THIN MAN proved “no can defense” with an obliterating 33.1% win rate. Sharp-eared players may have heard Jimmy Stewart in Quote 2 and went through the litany of his movies, not knowing that he had a supporting role way back in 1936 along with William Powell and Myrna Loy as the great detective duo, Nick and Nora Charles. Some folks noticed those character names mentioned in Quote 4 and then were able to get the sequel in time. Sadly though, a lot of people guessed the original Thin Man movie, not ascertaining that Quote 5 was focused on the Thin Man case being done with and in the past. Needless to say, this one was VERY hard, and you should feel just fine with yourself if it snookered you.
 Jonah Hill as Tighten in | Ace of the Week19.5%"You're living a fantasy. There is no Easter Bunny. There is no Tooth Fairy. And there is no Queen of England. This is the real world. And you need to wake up!” |
A feather in your cap to narrow down all of Jonah Hill’s movies to land on MASTERMIND, and nearly a fifth (!!!) of all players did just that. This movie made an obscene amount of money, so perhaps people saw it multiple times in order to remember it better than we were counting on when we used such a recognizable voice. And if you got ANOTHER THIN MAN and an ACE on MASTERMIND, well then, you are living in a very thin slice of a Venn Diagram, my friend.
Here are the numbers for all the games last week.
CineQuote Movie | Win % | Ace % |
|---|---|---|
The Karate Kid (1984) | 96.8% | 15.8% |
Die Hard (1988) | 96.7% | 11.6% |
Apollo 13 (1995) | 95.6% | 9.4% |
Cool Runnings (1993) | 94.5% | 13.0% |
Megamind (2010) | 87.4% | 19.5% |
Sunset Boulevard (1950) | 69.1% | 3.5% |
After the Thin Man (1936) | 33.1% | 1.3% |
CQ Recommends
We recommend leaving the office Christmas party early. Beat that traffic. Stay alive.
 Mikey and Nicky (1976) | Nick is desperate, holed up in a cheap hotel, suffering from an ulcer and convinced that a local mob boss wants him killed. Desperate and terrified, he calls Mikey, his friend since childhood and a fellow gangster. This is like if the Safdie Brothers made AFTER HOURS. Half the time it's out of focus and the poor fitting score makes it feel like a sitcom, but if you can tolerate that (along with some problematic stuff with women) you got a real unflinching character study and feature length acting class. Both these guys are great, but Falk is tremendous. And Elaine May, I’ll always come to your defense when they vilify you. -Sean |
Balance good, karate good, everything good. Balance bad, better pack up and go home.
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