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- CineQuote Newsletter #69
We're goin' up, up, up, it's our moment
You know together we're glowin'
Gonna be, gonna be golden (globes)
Ooooftttt. Pass the Alka-Seltzer, Tylenol, and guava-papaya juice as we’re a little slow this morning. Typically, we’re always a bit sluggish after a big movie awards night, and yesterday was no exception as we goldened our globes til damn near 4 in the morning. Thanks to the HFPA/Golden Globes Foundation for the invite. We are SOOOO sorry about the carpet, and that chandelier, and what we said to Ariana Grande and Jenna Ortega about them both fitting together in a standard kangaroo pouch and then asking how much it would take to make that happen. Hopefully you’ll review the footage and see our hearts were in the right place and not ban us from attending next year. We then would have to sit out in a van in the parking lot and watch the broadcast on our phones along with terrible, former host Jo Koy and blacklisted, famously right-handed Will Smith and yes, yes, we know Mr. Smith is specifically banned from the Oscars, but we think it’s a sister-city type of relationship as he hasn’t popped up at the Globes since. And even after being asked to leave last night, WE still had to write this newsletter. Aye, yai, yai, tenemos dolor de cabezaaaaaaa. We really should have stopped at a “few small beers”.
We congratulate all the nominees (we see you Joel, Byung-hun, and Amanda!), more earnestly congratulate all the winners (especially Papa Stellan!), and of course, like all of you, wonder what the hell was going on with the bizarre UFC fighter transition sequence. That was weird as hell, and all because Paramount Plus bought the streaming rights for the UFC we guess? Look, CineQuote would never, EVER stoop to such a shameless, promotional tie-in…
Wicked: For Plugs
Ahem. Ok, onto last week’s number crunch:
Last Week’s Highlights
Highest Win Percentage94.9%  Big (1988) | Lowest Win Percentage42.6%  Albert Brooks: Defending My Life (2023) |
BIG’s “wish” was for y’all to make it the top movie win rate for the week, and all you Zoltars out there granted it enthusiastically, edging out The Hunger Games by a smidge.
And despite it being the tail end of Rob Reiner Week, and we had done damn near everything else, nobody figured out:
a) Reiner directed the documentary ALBERT BROOKS: DEFENDING YOUR LIFE
or b) Albert Brooks was talking about himself in a lot of these quotes
We could have thrown the Spinal Tap sequel out at you, but opted for the doc which only barely cracked the 40% win rate.
Overall though, it WAS a tough week with only Big and Hunger Games getting grades you’d want to show to mom. Maybe we can make things a bit more normal this next week, but if so, then you have to promise to learn another Scottish-related period piece besides Braveheart. For crying out loud people, they were saying the name “Robert MacGregor” in those last quotes like it was going out of style! If you get back to that juncture again, just start typing names in the search bar and see what happens. It was either gonna be Rob Roy, or Robocop, and only one of those options have brogues!
And yes, we made Bad Boys way too difficult. Our bad. But whatcha gonna do? whatcha gonna do when they come for you? Bad boys, bad boys, whatcha gonna do? Whatcha gonna do when they come for you?
The answer: Nuke the win rate so we’re forced to do it again without being so cruel. Next time, everyone is getting Bad Boys on the first quote. GUARANTEED.
 Elizabeth Perkins as Susan in | Ace of the Week10.3%“She spent the last three months writing down her married name. Mrs. Judy Hicks, Mrs. Donald Hicks, Mrs. Judy Mitchelson Hicks, sometimes with a hyphen, sometimes without a hyphen, sometimes she spells the hyphen.” |
BIG scored the hoop and the harm, once again turning The Hunger Games into the close-but-no-cigar second place Muttation. Elizabeth Perkins’ reading of this quote jolted a lot of brilliant minds out there into thinking it was from nearly every other 80s comedy, EXCEPT for Big. Those who didn’t rush it though narrowed the multitude of titles down from tens of thousands to the right one. Therefore they… get to be on top.
Here are the numbers for all the games last week.
CineQuote Movie | Win % | Ace % |
|---|---|---|
Big (1988) | 94.9% | 10.3% |
The Hunger Games (2012) | 93.8% | 7.9% |
Hugo (2011) | 67.7% | 3.2% |
Bad Boys (1995) | 67.2% | 9.5% |
Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire (2024) | 66.9% | 2.6% |
Rob Roy (1995) | 51.2% | 5.6% |
Albert Brooks: Defending My Life (2023) | 42.6% | 1.8% |
CQ Recommends
We recommend taking it slow while traversing the city. It’s slippery out there.
 Sorcerer (1977) | Four men from different parts of the globe, all hiding from their pasts in the same remote South American town, agree to risk their lives transporting several cases of dynamite across dangerous jungle terrain. This movie is sheer madness, and I presume many disregarded it based on its title, which seemed more fitting when it was originally made in the 1950s with the name Wages of Fear. I’m a big Roy Scheider fan, and this movie, just as much as Jaws, All About Jazz, and The French Connection cemented my ardor. I could say more, but this movie does all the talking. Woweee. -Sean |
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