CineQuote Newsletter #67

We’re down to our last holiday of the year! Hopefully you enjoyed the Christmas movie barrage we leveled at you. As much as we were itching to we opted not to hit you again with National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation: Impossible Edition. Next year be ready…

Also, it’s come to our attention that some of you out there in CQ world aren’t aware of some aspects of this newsletter! Some of you don’t know that at the bottom of EVERY newsletter is a One Shot. It’s like an ultra condensed mini game of CineQuote. One quote from one movie and you have one guess. Just click the big shiny button at the end. It does not affect your normal stats, so don’t worry about playing and missing it.

Billy Bob Thornton has one of “those” voices, doesn’t he? Players narrowed down the options to BBT’s filmography and then added into their calculations references to Santa, and well, 1+1=2. BAD SANTA was also the last live-action movie appearance for John Ritter, reuniting with Thornton seven years after they both were in Sling Blade. Monday Morning Downer aside (♡ RIP Jack Tripper! ♡), most of the quotes we sorted through were NSFW. One more reason we really have to stop editing these clips at the public library.

Well, the War in the Pacific ended in ‘45, so it’s fitting perhaps that only 45% of players disobeyed a purple-faced Nick Nolte and answered THE THIN RED LINE. Big hints being there aren’t too many movies, oddly enough, that focus on the island-hopping assault of WW2, so when in quote 5 you heard the soldiers talking about the Japanese, it could only be Flags of Our Fathers, Letters from Iwo Jima, Hacksaw Ridge, Unbroken, Run Silent, Run Deep, In Harm's Way, They Were Expendable, Sands of Iwo Jima, From Here to Eternity, or something we forgot…. but only ONE of those had that permeable and dreamy Terrence Malickian philosophy in the dialogue.

Briefly, just to touch on the other movies of the week:

Y’all weathered the incredibly hard first four quotes of DIRTY DANCING, then spiking the bar graph on quote five when you heard sexy Johnny Castle declaring that his dance IS the last dance of the season. DD Hardcores, of course, knew that Baby’s real name is Frances…

HORRIBLE BOSSES had some horribly uncouth quotes, and a horrible person in the cast, but CQ players got the win rate to the B minus range thanks perhaps to all the bossicide dialogue.

We’re gonna get some angry villagers and maybe a tossed molotov over at CQHQ, but we’re going on record here to say that SPICE WORLD actually has some quality jokes in it. When you have to whittle it down from a dozen quotes to get five, that’s a good sign. Is S.W. Citizen Kane on a tour bus? Probably not, but perhaps, just perhaps, it got a raw deal from folks who didn’t take the time to watch it. There. We said it. Come at us, bro!

And last but not least, THE HOLDOVERS is still too recent of a movie, or too Alexander Payney to hit high marks in the win rate department, but we did toss the word “holdover” in the fifth quote, so some of you forgot to try the old secret CQ tactic of typing some distinct words from that last quote into the search bar before you give up. Remember, we WANT you to get these! Help us help you.

A major red herring for anyone not familiar with this movie, the teaser trailer to Frank Cross’ Christmas Special is the stuff of nightmares. Canonically, this sequence even kills a grandmother who was scared to death by it. All that being said, the people that know SCROOGED really know SCROOGED. Some dynamos only needed half a second on this before they were immediately typing the right answer. Don’t be discouraged if you were befuddled, this had a lot of people wondering if they accidentally strolled onto the dark web.

Just in case three spirits didn’t visit you last week, you STILL have time to turn this year around. Find it in your heart to support this game. Become a CQ Member. We could use you on the team!

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