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- CineQuote Newsletter #63
Knock. Knock. Guess who’s here?
THE. APP. IS. HERE. That’s right, ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, extremely smart chimpanzees and aliens posing as humans, the CineQuote App is finally live! We traveled quite the road getting here, and many Bothans died to bring us this information, but this week we are popping champagne and singing Auld Land Syne about a month early for a very good reason. It may take a day or three to get used to, but we’re hoping you all get the hang of it and like what we’ve done. Grab it in the Apple App Store or the Google Play Store, and please, if you’d be a real hero, rate and review us as you think we deserve. Those ratings do really go a long way…(be kind.)
For those who missed the News Post this weekend, we also unveiled a fun Friends n’ Family Pack to be played around the holidays, or right this very minute if you’re so inclined. It features 6 Classic Games of CineQuote, plus one new one certainly pertaining to “family” (p.s. if you can get Game Number 7 before Quote 3 you’re obviously some type of prodigy or child of a prodigy.)
Ok. Don’t want to take any more of your time. Grab the App and get those memory recesses firing in that beautiful brain of yours. Thanks for giving us a couple minutes of your day. Spread the word if you’d be so nice. The App is waiting for one and all. Alrighty, let’s crunch the numbers:
Last Week’s Highlights
Highest Win Percentage97.6 %  The Flintstones (1994) | Lowest Win Percentage43.8 %  Stalag 17 (1953) |
The numbers on this one caused us to spit out our Cactus Juice mid-sip. 97.6% puts The FLINTSTONES among the top 5 win percentages of all-time, and prompted us to talk about it here in the newsletter, so…. thanks? This movie grossed a total of $341 million worldwide, more than seven times its $46 million budget. So even though it was critically panned, and audiences tended to come away disappointed, a return like that prompted a sequel (er, prequel) to go into production. That one fared about the same critically, but ticket sales plummeted. Apparently, audiences did not have a yabba-dabba-doo time, a dabba-doo time, or even a gay old time.
Billy Wilder is known as one of the most brilliant comedic directors of the mid 20th-century, so naturally, he was the one chosen to helm a movie about a WWII prison camp. Jokes galore! STALAG 17, accordingly, is anything but conventional. William Holden (the guy with the cigar up above) won the Oscar for this role, and gave one of the most unorthodox acceptance speeches ever. Holden would later take out an ad in the Hollywood trade publications thanking the people he had intended to mention in his speech.
 Sidney Sedin (unconfirmed?) as apathetic as it gets, even with a gun in her face. | Ace of the Week14.6%“All... bets... are... off.” |
Most folks who like Snatch, love Snatch, and most folks who love Snatch, know Snatch well. Very well it seems, as it secured the Ace of the Week with, and this is a first, an actor who’s name we’re not sure of. Yeah, that’s right, this was an uncredited role and we know almost nothing about this woman. If it’s NOT Sidney Sedin, please let us know. She did a great job with almost nothing to work with. Maybe this was YOU. If so, CineQuote wants to hear from you and attribute you properly.
Here are the numbers for all the games last week.
CineQuote Movie | Win % | Ace % |
|---|---|---|
The Flintstones (1994) | 97.6% | 3.8% |
Paul Blart: Mall Cop (2009) | 93.9% | 3.2% |
Backdraft (1991) | 81.9% | 4.3% |
Little Women (1994) | 76.8% | 8.5% |
Snatch (2000) | 65.9% | 14.6% |
Morbius (2022) | 52.2% | 4.3% |
Stalag 17 (1953) | 43.8% | 6.3% |
CQ Recommends
CQ recommends you nestle up on the couch, properly.
 Close (2022) | In Belgium, 13-year-old boys Léo and Rémis have a close friendship at school and in the flower fields where they and their parents pick the harvest for home. When schoolmates shoot a wedge into the relationship, things unravel. Lukas Dhont’s sophomore follow-up to Girl, is a lovely story about friendship, and all of life’s inhibitions to it. A movie that received attention at Cannes, but for the rest of the world that was slow to stir post-Covid, it went largely unseen. Another less-you-know-the-better admonition, but it wouldn’t be in this spot on the newsletter if I thought it skippable. Close deserves all its flowers. -Sean |
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