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CineQuote Newsletter #88

CineQuote Newsletter #88

Do you have what it takes to wield CineQuölnir?

CineQuote.net Team
May 26, 2026

Even ol grumpy cat herself Natalie Portman has to smile!

Happy Memorial Day to your and yours. We took yesterday off to honor the troops, so that’s why you’re getting this delivered hot n’ ready on a Tuesday morning. And just like those suspect Little Caesar pizzas prepared in the back by a sixteen year old kid with no supervision or incentive to excell, CineQuote is a great idea when you’re too tired to make dinner. “But hey!”, you scream into the heavens, “You can’t eat movie quotes!” OH REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEALLLLY? Why don’t you read today’s newsletter and THEN tell us you’re still hungry.

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Alrighty. Let’s talk numbers:

Last Week’s Highlights

Highest Win Percentage

88.9%

Moneyball (2011)

Lowest Win Percentage

56.4%

Cube (1998)

88.9% on MONEYBALL!? Well done. In a manner of speaking, you got on base.

56.4% seems about right for a cybermaxxed, cult classi, confounding, claustrophobic, creepy *corror film. This little movie CUBE swned a Cube sequel, a TV series, and a Japanese remake a couple years ago. Get into the Cube world, you Philistines!

*(Canadian horror film).

Jena Malone as Young Ellie trying to…
(puts sunglasses on)
make contact. (Yeahhhh!)
Contact (1997)

Ace of the Week

14.7%

“This is W9GFO. Do you copy?”

Welcome to the Ace column Jena Malone! Kids say the dardest things, including this astrochatter. We’re kinda astounded y’all zeroed in on this so quickly, as CONTACT only took third overall in the week. We really should have started this clip earlier in her line, with her saying “CQ, CQ”… but we’re shy.

Here are the numbers for all the games last week.

Movie	Win %	Ace %
Moneyball (2011)	88.9%	7.7%
Thor (2011)	86.7%	8.7%
Contact (1997)	81.4%	18.1%
Flashdance (1983)	77.7%	2.4%
How to Train Your Dragon 2 (2014)	70.1%	4.4%
Street Fighter (1994)	68.8%	4.3%
Cube (1998)	56.4%	2.1%

Thor SMASH! Er, rather, THOR DO VERY WELL. Someone else has cornered the market on “SMASH”ing. Chris Hemsworth’s Thor has four movies of his own, four Avengers movies, and he even managed to slip into Doctor Strange, so we understand if you went with any of the other MCU options.

When you think steel mills and dancing, you should think Flashdance. Hearing those keywords should have got ya to Pittsburgh and the great Jennifer Beals, ALTHOUUUUGH in her final dance audition, there’s up to three different body doubles for her big sequence, including a guy who’s really good at break-dancing. See for yourself here . If you can’t see her face when she’s dancing, it probably isn’t Beals.

How to Train Your Dragon 2 made a Smaug-load worth of money, but we certainly didn’t give you enough dragontalk (dragalk?) to help that last 30 percent of you. That’s on us. We drag-pologize. (“dragogize”)

Again, keywords are really important, and famous fighters like Guile, Ken & Ryu, M.Bison are pixelated video game characters that got their feature film adaptation in 1994’s Street Fighter. By and large it’s considered a monumental critical failure, currently 11% on Rotten Tomatoes (ouch!) with no sign of a late surge. The last feature film of the great Raul Julia, the movie’s end credits begin with this title card:

CQ Recommends

We recommend spamming heavy kicks in the air to counter M. Bison’s Psycho Crusher.

Nowhere to Hide (1999)

Detective Woo is on the trail of the mysterious gangster Sungmin, a master of disguise who always manages to elude his pursuers.

Basically no substance in favor of ALLLLLLL STYLE. My god, isn't this just the rainiest, punkest, neo-noir that's ever been made. Tons of fun, even if it makes only quasi-sense.

-Sean

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