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CineQuote Newsletter #86

CineQuote Newsletter #86

Hey, let's not be doing any 86ing of CineQuote, amirite?!

CineQuote.net Team
May 11, 2026

Grab that CQ and make a mad dash!

Hi gorgeous newsletter readers, thanks for being here. We had to really knuckle down and grind to get this out to you in time on account of mitigating factors (too much travel, televised sports binging, internet outages, podcast catch-up, being trapped at the bus station waiting for Elisabeth Shue to pick us up, home decor renovations, dengue fever, breakdance fighting, having to read the book before we see the movie compulsion, flash flooding, temporary lycanthropy, fridge-cleaning, sending press releases out, and waking nightmares of deceased relatives who were summoners of Paimon.) So, in a word, BUSY.
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Alrighty. Let’s talk numbers:

Last Week’s Highlights

Highest Win Percentage

87.7%

The Transformers: The Movie (1986)

Lowest Win Percentage

57.0%

Young Guns (1988)

Well, we may have taken some liberties on this (true Autobots know what we mean) but in the end, we’re glad a bunch of alien-vehicle-robots reigned in the top spot for the week. And if you are a fan of Boogie Nights, and heard that win quote, it may feel familiar. The power ballad from THE TRANSFORMERS is what Paul Thomas Anderson has Dirk Diggler singing when he’s trying to “go legitimate”.

When ya hear the name Billy the Kid, your mind should steer towards YOUNG GUNS. This was a Brat-Pack adjacent film, featuring 1980s freshmen Emilio Estevez, Kiefer Sutherland, Charlie Sheen, Lou Diamond Phillips, Casey Siemaszko, Dermot Mulroney, and (the “hottest” one) Terence Stamp. Maybe we should have given an extra Billy the Kid/ William Bonney name drop, but know that Young Guns 2 is still out there waiting to be the game of the day, so we are counting on you to get that win rate higher than a bullet hole-ridden 57%.

Martha Wentworth as Madam Mim in
The Sword in the Stone (1963)

Ace of the Week

23.1%

"Sounds like someone sick. How lovely. I do hope it's serious. Something dreadful."

This witchy voice is burned forever in our brain folds, and thus it comes as no surprise that many of you had increased cortisol levels when you heard the cackling warble of Madam Mim. THE SWORD IN THE STONE was a frequent incorrect guess for movies about Arthur, Excalibur, and the Middle Ages in general so y’all can cool your jets on guessing it for awhile. We gave you what you wanted!

Here are the numbers for all the games last week.

Movie	Win %	Ace %
The Transformers: The Movie (1986)	87.7%	4.7%
The Sword in the Stone (1963)	87.4%	23.1%
Diamonds Are Forever (1971)	78.1%	6.2%
Private Parts (1997)	68.7%	2.5%
The Bridges of Madison County (1995)	65.5%	2.0%
Brian's Song (1971)	60.5%	2.9%
Young Guns (1988)	57.0%	8.4%

DIAMONDS ARE FOREVER has a great title song, but probably needed us to mention diamonds in the fifth quote to get this thing to a passing score. This was the Bond movie they had to bait Connery to come back for after he had left the franchise and turned things over to George Lazenby (the Australian). Joke’s on Connery, Lazenby is still alive.

PRIVATE PARTS may have been a tricky title for people to get. The Howard Stern biopic was either something people googled or just knew by that fifth quote. And hey! Next time, no googling!

BRIDGES OF MADISON COUNTY is the sexiest movie ever made, even taking into account Meryl Streep’s “Italian” accent. Why, we DARE you to think about that movie and then NOT start cruising people’s backyards hoping to catch a glimpse of some 65 year old BEEEEEEF.

BRIAN’S SONG was a TV movie (still counts!), and is probably the movie kids watched the most when there was a substitute teacher who had no idea of what to do with class time for the day. At least that’s what happened with the gang at CineQuote. 60.5% is low however, so perhaps for the people who missed it, they forgot the sneaky, helpful advice when it comes to Sunday Stumpers: we often include a word from the title in the last quote.

CQ Recommends

We recommend getting your posse together next time you got into town.

Nouvelle Vague (2025)

A reimagining the making of Jean-Luc Godard's "Breathless" in an exploration creative chaos that shaped the French New Wave.

Richard Linklater’s made some bangers last year, working off the screenplays of others. This, along with Blue Moon, serve as some stout evidence of the way we’d like him to proceed. This is a niche genre; the Making-Of non-documentary, but mon dieu was it fantastic, and I immediately became a fan of the lead Guillaume Marbeck (in his theatrical debut no less, wtf!)

-Sean

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