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We’ll see ya, Rob. Unless you see us first.
Yeah, so we did a Rob Reiner week. Didn’t tell anyone we were going to do it, but how could we not, ya know? Nearly everything he’s done has shown up on CineQuote before so we were relegated to going back and cutting new quotes for the past week’s worth of films. And for those who haven’t tackled yesterday’s Sunday Stumper, well, now you know the theme. For about ten or so years, Reiner directed some absolute classics to the halls of cinema. Before and after those years he was an actor, producer, writer, and from nearly every account a stellar human being. Much has been said of his passing and so we’re not going to contribute anything new on that. He will be missed though and neither he, nor his great movies, will be forgotten here.
Last Week’s Highlights
Highest Win Percentage94.6%  When Harry Met Sally... (1989) | Lowest Win Percentage61.5%  The Dirty Dozen (1967) |
Day 3 of Reiner week coincided with New Year’s Eve, and well, we’re not gonna deny our base instincts and NOT do WHEN HARRY MET SALLY. Perhaps the word on the street had spread as not only did it swell to an almost 95% win rate, it also secured the Ace rate of the Week. We hope to all of you out there in CineQuote Land that when you find that person to spend the the rest of your life with that the rest of your life begins as soon as possible.
DIRTY DOZEN, despite having plenty of fellas in it, does not have the fella Rob Reiner, nor anything whatsoever to do with Rob Reiner. We squeezed it in before beginning Reiner Week and so it’s not worth too much ink here in this space. Ernest Borgnine was in it though, and he did a non-drumming movie called Whiplash back in 2002 that co-starred the actor Bradley Gregg who played Eyeball Chambers in Stand by Me. So come to think of it, I guess Dirty Dozen really was a Rob Reiner movie! About 40% of people missed that one though.
Briefly, just to touch on the other movies of the week:
STAND BY ME outran the train with a terrific score, proving that you all “must have at least some of your brother’s good sense.”
THE PRINCESS BRIDE had an Ace rate of 25% which would normally be more than enough to win Ace of the Week were it not for Reiner week narrowing the options.
THIS IS SPINAL TAP couldn’t quite hit 90%, but it did go to 11 with that Ace rate.
By week’s end, we were running out of Reiner movies, but A FEW GOOD MEN’s 26% Ace Rate is something of a mirage. Obviously the next time this movie pops up it’ll seem more out of the blue and thus the percentages will revert back to normal levels.
THE AMERICAN PRESIDENT is a difficult watch today as you see what was deemed a “presidency-destroying scandal” back in 1995. The movie that was to become “The West Wing” wanted audiences to believe that if a widowed President with a 65% approval rating starting dating an accomplished, intelligent woman his own age the country would melt down. Uh. Okay.
 Aldo Rossi and Donna Hardy in | Ace of the Week42.5%“At that moment I knew. I knew the way you know about a good melon.” |
Well we certainly don’t think it was the famously recognizable voice of, uh… (*checking notes*) Donna Hardy (?) that did it, but needless to say, we couldn’t trick you on the first quote out of the gate with WHEN HARRY MET SALLY. This was nearly double the Ace rate from the first time we did this movie. Back then, only 23% of people knew who was “staring at them from Personal Growth…”
Here are the numbers for all the games last week.
CineQuote Movie | Win % | Ace % |
|---|---|---|
When Harry Met Sally... (1989) | 94.6% | 42.5% |
Stand by Me (1986) | 91.6% | 6.8% |
The Princess Bride (1987) | 90.8% | 25.6% |
This Is Spinal Tap (1984) | 89.8% | 5.5% |
A Few Good Men (1992) | 89.6% | 26.1% |
The American President (1995) | 74.1% | 12.9% |
The Dirty Dozen (1967) | 61.5% | 5.0% |
CQ Recommends
We recommend a relaxing roll in the grass.
 Jeanne Dielman, 23, quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles (1975) | A widowed housewife does her daily chores and takes care of her apartment where she lives with her teenage son, and occasional makes income through apathetic prostitution. Worth the hype. Less said the better if you’ve never seen it, but the fact that it took me so long to get around to this is so shameful I almost didn’t want to mention it. Let me take the hit here. It’s my fault if you haven’t seen this yet. Mine alone. I’m sorry. I’ll do better. Now, please, go watch it. -Sean |
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