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CineQuote Newsletter #87

CineQuote Newsletter #87

When you bet it on CineQuote, you can only win.

CineQuote.net Team
May 18, 2026

When you bet it on CineQuote, you can only win.

Good morning beauties, and thanks for sipping your coffee/matcha/Earl Grey/or room temperature tap water (you serial killers you) while you read all the news from CQ that’s fit to digitally print. We were going to make this a physical newsletter that would have been delivered to your door by a kid on a bike, but we still owe him 2 dollars and frankly don’t have it right now (plus he scares us).

We had a fun week seeing new movies, old movies, good ones, bad ones, whatever the hell Hausu is, and then with the rest of the time did some upkeep on ourselves:

finally completed 100 situps (after staring last November)
hit “expensive violin" color grade for our pre-Summer basecoat tan
went down a rabbit hole and watched all the movies about rabbit holes
stocked up on Sunny D in case our kid has cool friends over
tried and failed to get reimbursed on our meal plan box we forgot to cancel
trimmed our sexy bangs
sugared our sexy bronze
electro-zapped our spines into good posture
signed up with a new color theorist
and fixed our hanging-bar so we can get back to sleeping like Michael Keaton in Batman (1989), and no, we don't mean Bruce Wayne, we mean Keaton. The man likes it upside down.

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Alrighty. Let’s talk numbers:

Last Week’s Highlights

Highest Win Percentage

86.0%

¡Three Amigos! (1986)

Lowest Win Percentage

64.7%

Quigley Down Under (1990)

We didn't know at the start of the week how people were going to fare, but seeing ¡THREE AMIGOS! take the top spot gives these little buttercups over here the sweetest smile. Also, probably our favorite comedy that begins with an upside down exclamation mark.

QUIGLEY DOWN UNDER is in crazy territory as it bottomed out the week AND won the Ace rate. We're gonna have to figure out a term for that. In the meantime, give this forgotten Western a look and learn why Mr. Quigley never had much use for a pistol…

Laura San Giacomo as Crazy Cora in
Quigley Down Under (1990)

Ace of the Week

14.7%

“Flower things up, I'll see right through it. so just tell me honestly, are we lost? Nope. I know exactly where we are. That's good. Cause frankly, I was getting a little worried.”

Yes. Only 64.7% of people won this game, but to land above 15% for the Ace rate is astounding. Laura San Giacomo (L.S.G. to her friends, and G.L.S. to dyslexics) had a pretty great 1990, with this and Pretty Woman hitting theaters. Oddly, both movies prominently feature her shooting dingos, yet only in Quigley did those scenes actually make the final cut. Hey, Touchstone Pictures, release the “dingo cut” of Pretty Woman, you cowards!

Here are the numbers for all the games last week.

Movie	Win %	Ace %
¡Three Amigos! (1986)	86.0%	6.9%
Looper (2012)	81.9%	2.8%
Shark Tale (2004)	77.3%	10.0%
Indecent Proposal (1993)	74.8%	4.3%
The Phantom of the Opera (2004)	74.0%	4.9%
Bonnie and Clyde (1967)	73.9%	2.3%
Quigley Down Under (1990)	64.7%	16.5%

Before he took his knives out, Rian Johnson was getting bogged down in time travel science with Looper. Players heard Bruce Willis and seemed to narrow down which jump across space and time he was taking, and if you check his filmography, he’s done several.

Not a lot to say about Shark Tale, but it you got as far as Finding Nemo and couldn't think of any more animated fish movies,…you're gonna need a bigger knowledge of cartoons.

The only thing we're gonna say about Indecent Proposal is that 1 million dollars in 1993 is about 2.3 million dollars today. Given the price of gas, we'd definitely consider taking the money for one night with Robert Redford, given all circumstances. Moving on…

Phantom of the Opera is a movie based on a musical that was based on a silent movie that was based on a book that was based on a historical event / apocryphal tale, and no, that is not a run-on sentence. Also, remember that you won't be able to turn around once you get in the Phantom’s gondola on the way to his lair. The canals are too tight. Wait til you get to his dock. There he can flip a bitch, and get you back safely.

Bonnie and Clyde rob banks, and banks rob everyone. Maybe that's why people liked those two so much.

the infamous Bank President Gang

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Lovely animation done in realistic style coupled with a great story, there's so much to like about this one. And now, being in this column, you're gonna be able to talk to everyone about it!

-Sean

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