- CineQuote Newsletter
- Posts
- CineQuote Newsletter #77
By the time you’re reading next week’s CQ Newsletter, the Oscars will be OVER. That means we’re less than a week to go. So if someone eerily whispers “seven days” to you, it probably has nothing to do with that eerie VHS tape you watched where the girl climbs out of the well. Instead, it means the Academy Awards are fast approaching! However, you probably shouldn’t answer the phone if you get a call after watching that foreboding video. Don’t say we didn’t warn you.
We here at CQ mark next Sunday as a religious holiday, so don’t be surprised when we roll into work Monday morning with a Rambo game that’s comprised of just Stallone grunting five different ways.
Oh, and we might be cooking up a little Oscar surprise… Stay in the know by clicking your little News tab on the CineQuote app when you see a new notification. ;)
Lastly, two weeks ago we unveiled the Triple Play for our Members! As promised here’s another one.
This is a Member-Exclusive game. If you want to give it a shot, click that profile tab and help support this plucky little underdog of a mobile game by becoming a Member for $5 a month (less than a quarter a day.) Thank you, thank you, thank you! We would really love to see ya onboard.
Alrighty. Let’s talk numbers:
Last Week’s Highlights
Highest Win Percentage90.0%  Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy (2004) | Lowest Win Percentage49.3%  The Reader (2008) |
We would like to extend to you an invitation to the pants party. Namely, the 90% of you who got this without really hearing much from the lead actor. We didn’t want to slap a Ron Burgundy quote on you and then have you coin toss between this and the sequel, so we opted for the last quote to be about the new “lady-anchor” Veronica Corningstone, which was the main plot of the first movie. If you didn’t succeed on this one, there are literally hundreds more quotes we will pull for the next time ANCHORMAN shows up.
THE READER wound up being the movie Kate Winslet won Best Actress for at the 2009 Oscars (as she “predicted”) but did that help players this week for the Sunday Stumper? Not really, as it stumbled to a paltry 49.3% win rate. The Reader was the last film for producers Anthony Minghella and Sydney Pollack, both of whom died prior to its release, and it featured Nazi concentration camps, pedophilia, illiteracy, suicide, and Bruno Ganz, so you know, a real crowd-pleaser. Maybe 49% is fitting, as there really were no real winners in this movie.
As for the rest…
LADY AND THE TRAMP had both the sequel and the remake to trick players, and still got 88%, which affirms that classic Disney always dominates here.
TOOTSIE did nearly 20 percentage points better than the first time it showed up on CineQuote. You’re getting better at this, people!
A CLOCKWORK ORANGE struggled a bit considering its one of Stanley Kubrick’s most well-known films, that said, viddy well, little brother. Viddy well.
BILL & TED’S BOGUS JOURNEY did not have an “excellent” score this week. Thus, no electric air guitar will be permitted. Stop doing it if you had already started…
The problematic THE LEGEND OF BAGGER VANCE double-bogeyed to a lame 68% win rate, but who we want to give a silent nod of respect to is everybody who submitted guesses of Star Wars Episode 1 - The Phantom Menace, and whether you were joking or not.. Wesuh get whatcha wazzu tinking!
 The amazing Paul F. Tompkins as the MC of the 2nd Annual Kitty Cat Vogue cat show in | Ace of the Week12.2%“Oh, look out. Next up, it's Whiskerus Maximus.” |
We have to take this as a moral victory that a Will Ferrell comedy ONLY got an 12.2% Ace Rate. We doubt very highly there’s a movie of his from this genre that we’d be able to stump players on enough to get this down to the 5% neighborhood. Alas, for the true San Diegans who Aced this, we owe you a bottle of Sex Panther.
Here are the numbers for all the games last week.
CineQuote Movie | Win % | Ace % |
|---|---|---|
Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy (2004) | 90.0% | 12.2% |
Lady and the Tramp (1955) | 88.8% | 9.0% |
Tootsie (1982) | 87.9% | 3.1% |
A Clockwork Orange (1971) | 73.6% | 6.3% |
Bill & Ted's Bogus Journey (1991) | 73.0% | 11.3% |
The Legend of Bagger Vance (2000) | 68.4% | 3.2% |
The Reader (2008) | 49.3% | 2.0% |
CQ Recommends
If you’re around in a few hundred years, we recommend enrolling at Bill & Ted University!
 The Company of Strangers (1990) | A busload of women become stranded in an isolated part of the Canadian countryside. As they await rescue, they reflect on their lives through a mostly ad-libbed script. Sometimes I have to go a little bit off the well worn path of cinema to unearth a recommendation. I operate that you know of 99% of the great movies out there, so this little nook is often saved for the titles that aren’t front and center. All that to say, this quiet little movie featuring non-actors isn’t for everybody. Nothing happens, it dances perilously close to boredom at times, and yet this movie is an absolute dear. -Sean |
We recommend getting in good with Tony.
Become a CQ Member and we will forever nudge you the last meatball. What does being a CQ Member mean?
• access to the Triple Play mini game, available every newsletter
• access to the last fourteen days of movies (no more missing games on account of being on vacation, in jail, on the run, etc!)
• info on where the movie of the day is streamable or rentable (Netflix, Hulu, Prime, etc.)
• special MEMBERS-EXCLUSIVE Packs to play (like the current Vampire Movie Pack)
• and a cozy, eternal nook in our hearts
Just go to your Profile tab and hit SUBSCRIBE to sign up!
Got a recommendation? Got CineQuote ideas? Get in touch: [email protected]
And check out our friends over at the Unkind Rewind Podcast. Many of the movies they cover show up on CineQuote sooner or later. Just sayin…
Follow us on social media for daily hints and shenanigans using the links below!