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Cut the pith. Here’s your CQ Newsletter.
Hi dear reader. Thanks for being here. Did you know that despite thousands of people playing CineQuote every day, only about a tenth of you are getting the newsletter, and less than half of you are actually opening the newsletter? Of the people who open the newsletter, we’re guessing most of you read some of it. There’s only two ways we can improve these ratios. One, hire a slick PR team to give us a full rebrand, and that probably means making the Newsletter 100% A.I.-composed and firing the human-born newsletter team. Two, if you like what we’re doing here, help spread the word. The more real human beings we get to sign up for this, the more real human beings will open the email, and the more real human beings will read it. In Field of Dreams, James Earl Jones once said, “People will come, Ray.” Well back before he died, we followed him to a Bennigan’s in Iriving, Texas where we then waited 2 hours in the parking lot until he left with his family. Despite famously not signing autographs, we badgered him for a good fifteen minutes until he relented and signed our copy of Swashbuckler on VHS. Then, after talking about our plight regading the newsletter, he said, “People will click, CineQuote guys. Oh yes, people will most definitely click.” He also said something about please stop bothering his family or leaving him in peace, but whatever, we can’t remember the details. Anyway, we hope you like what we’re doing here. Forwarding it over to a friend today to get them to sign up too can’t hurt. Thanks friends.
Sidebar, up until his death we were cautioned about coming within 500 feet of James Earl Jones again after that incident. There exists no public grave site or memorial for us to pay our respects.
Well if you read last week’s newsletter we detailed the after-effects of the turmoil that embroiled one of our headquarters. We won’t rehash it, but we want all those concerned about Chichi our office pangolin to know that he is recovering well. Your cards and donations are appreciated. He should be up and scavenging for termites in the backyard in no time.
Our beloved Chichi is on the mend!
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Alrighty. Let’s talk numbers:
Last Week’s Highlights
Highest Win Percentage95.4% | Lowest Win Percentage64.0% |
Two ends of the spectrum for top and bottom slot this week. One features a former Bond girl in the cast, the other featured an actress whose first film credit was indeed a different Bond movie. One is a long-standing kid lit classic, and the other is James and the Giant Peach. ;)
Players couldn’t be outDahled this week as the Henry “No, not Tim Burton, the other guy” Selick-directed stop motion/live action combo swelled to the highest Win rate of the week. Yet, very few people could remember which sci-fi movie Tom Cruise was in that WASN’T Edge of Tomorrow and ALSO wasn’t Minority Report. They certainly don’t name-drop the title in Oblivion, so you kinda had to just know it. Should this one have been a Sunday Stumper? Maaaaaaaaybe, but given it had “Mr. Hollywood” in it and banked nearly 300 million bucks, we kinda thought it’d be big enough to roll up on a weekday. If you missed this one, you weren’t alone.
 Alethea McGrath as Madame Jocasta Nu, Chief Librarian of the Jedi Archives in | Ace of the Week19.5%"If an item does not appear in our records, it does not exist." |
No favortism here, but Alethea McGrath’s delivery from SWETAOTC (or AOTC if you fancy) is just about as haughty as it gets. Nearly 20 percent is really staggering though given that there’s SO little to go on. Perhaps a waft of John Williams in that quote helped y’all or perhaps y’all got some blistering midichlorilan counts.
Here are the numbers for all the games last week.
Movie | Win % | Ace % |
|---|---|---|
James and the Giant Peach (1996) | 95.4% | 4.2% |
Jarhead (2005) | 88.4% | 2.4% |
Dances with Wolves (1990) | 84.5% | 4.0% |
Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones (2002) | 83.3% | 19.5% |
Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom (2018) | 77.8% | 1.2% |
Pig (2021) | 66.7% | 2.9% |
Oblivion (2013) | 64.0% | 0.6% |
And the rest…………
Jarhead was giving people a hard time (lot of other Iraq movie guesses) until we lent you a jar in that fifth quote. See? Sometimes we aren’t merciless bastards over here.
Holy Tatanka, great score on Dances With Wolves. Whether you got it before or after you heard Kevin Costner’s voice is your business, not ours. Speaking of Costner, what do you think a conversation between Lt. John Dunbar and John Dutton would be like? Could Dunbar even comprehend his gravelly voiced elder?
Well, you only had 7 options to choose from once you realized it was a Jurassic Park movie. Fallen Kingdom pulling a 77.8% perhaps had a dash of luck given how many plausible answers were out there. You’re all very “clever girls.”
Nicholas Cage has stated a few times that Pig is the favorite movie he’s done. He’s also cited Mandy, Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call, Bringing out the Dead, and Joe in the same breath, but none of those feature both bum fights AND truffles. You should definitely check it out if you’re still Pig-less.
CQ Recommends
We recommend ponying up for the Lightning Lane Premier Pass so you can use the cool ball kart thingamabob.
 Mother (2009) | A mother lives quietly with her son. One day, a girl is brutally killed, and the boy is charged with the murder. Now, it’s his mother’s mission to prove him innocent. This really could be the Bong Jong Ho recommendation section, but alas, we’d exhaust the criteria in a couple months. Instead, we’ll dole this out sparingly, like today, in which we’re pushing Mother. The less I say the better, and also given who is behind this movie, you should probably already have it on your watchlist. If anything, this is merely a nudge to move it up the queue. -Sean |
Now THAT’S a harcorde player right there.
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