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Three horror movies last week, (four if you count Dude, Where’s My Car?) and perhaps a few more scary ones this coming week. What’s REALLY scary is that some of our players haven’t even created a login! Did you know you get to see all your cool individual stats, PLUS get an extra day of backplay so if today’s Monday and you missed Saturday’s movie you can go back and play it, all thanks to creating a profile. We know, we know…you have enough logins and your internet carbon footprint is deep enough, but we haven’t even SPOKEN with Xi Jinping, let alone had a meeting with him about China buying CineQuote. Oh, and if we have any CQ players out there in Asia, we wanna hear from you! How’s the game working over there? Should we dole out more Japanese, Korean, and Chinese movies? What’s the weather like? Hit us up via our contact page, we might have some emails to sell you, uh, we mean… some business to discuss.
Last Week’s Highlights
Highest Win Percentage94.8%  Dude, Where’s My Car? (2000) | Lowest Win Percentage43.1%  ‘Friday the 13th Part III (1982) |
We here at CineQuote officially have no dog in the fight. That’s why you get everything from Academy Award winners to MCU blockbusters to arthouse faves to whatever the hell Deceived was classified as (we’re still sorry about that one.) That’s why, without any commentary, we can inform the body public that DUDE, WHERE’S MY CAR earned top spot this week with a mighty win percentage of 94.8%. Does that mean that it’s a better movie than Raiders of the Lost Ark, Paris Texas, Citizen Kane, or 2001, all of which had lower scores? We won’t say one way or the other. Does Dude, Where’s My Car vastly eclipsing the win rate of the upper echelon of cinema signify some foreboding indication of humanity’s descent into abject nihilism? Uhhh. Well…one could perhaps, uh, you see, umm…. Hey look, a chimp riding a bike!
Every now and again, we gotta come to you, cap in hand, with a hangdog look and admit we screwed up. Last Friday’s movie is one of those times. Unfortunately we didn’t luck out with a sync’d up Friday the 13th on the calendar in 2025, so we pushed a Friday the 13th movie to the 17th (a Friday.) No one picked up on that til it was too late, but boy, we really should have saved this for a Sunday Stumper. Believe it when we say… our bad. Though, we were certainly a bit hamstrung as FRIDAY THE 13th PART 3 contains:
no mentions by name of Jason or the Vorhees surname
no widely recognizable character names
no mention of a hockey mask despite SEEING it
nothing plot wise that singles this out to the 3rd one
Let’s hope that you forgive us our trespasses on this and we can move forward without too much of a grudge. Again, we messed up, we probably should have swapped this with The Secret Garden . However now you know some good trivia; that the 3rd Friday the 13th is the first time we get Jason in the infamous hockey mask. It’s also the one they released in 3-D, although unlike the hockey mask thing, they didn’t bring that back for future sequels.
 Donut shop manager Glenn (Ed O’Neill) takes the conversation to a dark place. | Ace of the Week |
Good job, Aurora! WAYNE’S WORLD BARELY beat out Dude, Where’s My Car for top Ace Rate, which means we don’t have to rehash that movie. Instead, we get to discuss the most PTSD-laden misanthrope in a 90s comedy, Ed O’ Neill’s “Glenn.” How Glenn didn’t get a spinoff movie of his own we’ll never know.
Here are the numbers for all the games last week.
CineQuote Movie | Win % | Ace % |
|---|---|---|
Dude, Where's My Car? (2000) | 94.8% | 20.4% |
Corpse Bride (2005) | 84.0% | 4.8% |
Poltergeist (1982) | 83.7% | 3.3% |
Annie Hall (1977) | 81.9% | 5.3% |
Wayne's World (1992) | 79.8% | 20.5% |
The Secret Garden (1993) | 76.6% | 9.3% |
Friday the 13th Part III (1982) | 43.1% | 3.1% |
CQ Recommends
We recommend toggling the supernatural setting off when setting up your new TV.
 The Parallax View (1974) | An ambitious reporter gets in trouble while investigating a senator’s assassination which leads to a vast conspiracy. There's an unfulfilling amount of fat on this, with scenes where one would expect explanations or theories or answers just entirely not there. What's left is a lean, complex, adept, solemn, and nauseating story with Warren Beatty in arguably his prime as an actor. What's even bleaker seeing it today is not that we are further than ever from the truth at times, but how many people simply don't care about knowing or accepting it. Packs quite a punch, even after all these years. -Sean |
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