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John Wilson
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 - posted 07-15-2002 08:41 PM      Profile for John Wilson   Email John Wilson   Send New Private Message       Edit/Delete Post 
I just wonder how many were tempted to put Raiders down anyway and hope for the best...

Brad, what do you think I am...some sort of FANATIC or something???

Seriously though Brad...can you really do that?


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Bobby Henderson
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 - posted 07-15-2002 09:48 PM      Profile for Bobby Henderson   Email Bobby Henderson   Send New Private Message       Edit/Delete Post 
No offense to the posters so far in the actual contest thread, but I do have to say that some of the examples so far are rather vague and quite forgettable as far as quality movie quotes go.

At least one of Brad's examples "*****, Booby, I'm your white night," is a unique enough film quote that it will jar anyone's memory who has seen it already.

Anyway, if the quotes are too vague, then it may allow a handful of participants or maybe even one or two to monopolize the thread. Meanwhile many others will just tune out. Like I said, I think the quotes have to be good quality quotes and not just a throwaway thing someone might have said in any number of movies.

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Dave Williams
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 - posted 07-15-2002 10:27 PM      Profile for Dave Williams   Author's Homepage   Email Dave Williams   Send New Private Message       Edit/Delete Post 
Well we cant just use only quotes used in the press releases, but I agree there has to be some sort of rule on just how memorable a qoute should be.

For instance, maybe it has to be some sort of turning point in the film, or something so memorable that it made the whole world laugh for a minute or two.

Credit to john though, I do remember the night shift qoute, NOW, that he said it was night shift. I just watched that movie not three months ago and I kept thinking it was kevin spacey in big kahuna. BUT I DONT GUESS..... I KNOW....

very little, but i know...

as for the new one thats there, I can count about thirty movies given the time where a qoute nearly as close was used, but I know I know the movie it came from, and I know it cannot be that obscure.

John, you are the movie man... i bow to you..

Dave

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John Wilson
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>>At least one of Brad's examples "*****, Booby, I'm your white night," is a unique enough film quote that it will jar anyone's memory who has seen it already.<<

Exactly. I myself had no idea what that was from. But I do remember other quotes from movies within the alotted time frame of 1980 onwards.

It's just what you know...you may not, but someone else probably will.

If no-one gets today's, I'll move forward into the years or post something like 'How can I be the One? I work in a pizza parlour!' to give someone else a go.

No offense taken here, but it's not really my fault if others don't know it...is it? They have to be from major release movies (tick) since 1980 (tick).

Now, back to the game...

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Brad Miller
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 - posted 07-16-2002 06:11 AM      Profile for Brad Miller   Author's Homepage   Email Brad Miller       Edit/Delete Post 
Well, part of the fun is to TRY and stump the other members, but again it can't just be any old random sentence from a movie. It should be humorous or memorable in some fashion, but preferably not from the trailer or tv ads. That being said, once I actually get my first quote (so far I haven't known ANY of them) I'll start attacking with my own unique quotes. Lookout John, I need a Film-Tech T-shirt too!

By the way John, that "boobie" quote was from a little known film called "Die Hard". If I had've put the character's name "Hans" instead of a blank, that would have given it away almost immediately.


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John Wilson
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 - posted 07-16-2002 10:22 AM      Profile for John Wilson   Email John Wilson   Send New Private Message       Edit/Delete Post 
Never heard of it.

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Steve Guttag
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The scary thing is...while I haven't been following the thread, after looking it over, I knew most, if not all, of John's quotes...not so much the others!

I quote many lines out of NIGHT SHIFT...a great Ron Howard movie, in my opinion. It was also a Dolby Stereo film when they weren't more than 20% of all features. It also pretty much launched Michael Keaton's career.

Staying alive is a film that I also know just because I ran it (in 70mm no less).

Steve

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John Wilson
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T'aint nuthin' scary about that Steve.

Night Shift is also a favourite of mine. If there was ever a career launched by an entrance into a film, it would be singled out as Keaton's entrance into the morgue 'singing' Jumpin' Jack Flash. I have been hoping now that it is on DVD that Warners would re-release the CD soundtrack but nothing yet. I LOVE Rod Stewart's (original, folks) version of That's What Friends Are For in the credits. I could never understand why they never released it as a single...then years later they did, but with Dionne Warwick and friends and it stayed at number one for what seemed like months. I have a great LPP on 16mm...I should crank that boy up again soon.

BTW, I'm glad my Romancing The Stone quote was picked so fast by Dave. I switched everything off and went to bed then while I was lying there I remembered it wasn't a bus station he was going to take her to, it was a telephone.

What would happen in instances such as those, Brad?


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Dave Williams
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That is a good question. What if the qoute you give you think is perfect, but then later you realize it is off by a word or two?

Although, I got the qoute as Romancing the Stone is one of my all time favorite films.

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Steve Guttag
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Hey I have an LP of the NIGHT SHIFT soundtrack (I think). "Ah that Barney Rubble, what an actor!"

Steve

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Dave Williams
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 - posted 07-19-2002 12:24 AM      Profile for Dave Williams   Author's Homepage   Email Dave Williams   Send New Private Message       Edit/Delete Post 
This is for Chad S..

My qoute was not exact because of an extra "p" in the word sappling?

ARE YOU ON CRACK?

It has long been established on this forum that I cannot spell. My qoute was exact booby!


Really chad, how technical do you want the game to get?


Brad? People are starting to put all kinds of things in addition to the qoute post. Shouldn't we stick to just the answer and the new qoute? I thought that was the intention of it. Plus, what about giving it it's own forum, making it easier to identify when members log on?

Dave

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John Wilson
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Hey Steve

You wanna sell that LP? I'm buying.

Email me.

John

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Steve Guttag
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I'm sorry John...it is a Northern hemisphere LP, it spins clockwise, unlike you Aussie types!

Steve

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Chad Souder
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Dave -
I just meant that my quote response wasn't exact to your quote, technically, because in my quote, sapling was spelled different. Seeing as how they're quotations and all, I was noting the difference.

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Dave Williams
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Chad, I was joking.

But really, spelling is not a deal breaker in the rules, either in qoute or answer. In fact, the qoute doesn't even have to be exact. JUst really damn close.

Dave

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