Friday (movie quotes) edition: Wha’ Happened?
Posted on February 22nd, 2008 – 8:21 AMBy Michael Rand
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So we could talk about Johan on the cover of SI, the Wolves’ one-point loss to the Spurs, high school state tournament season (we’ll be over at Xcel in a little while for some girls’ hockey action) or various other things. But this is Friday. And that means it is once again time to test your movie knowledge. Complete answers will be posted around noon in the comments.
1. How do you write women so well? … I think of a man, and I take away reason and accountability.
2. I miss you more than Michael Bay missed the mark, when he made Pearl Harbor. / I miss you more than that movie missed the point, And that’s an awful lot, girl.
3. What a lemon! One minute it’s running like a top, and the next it’s broken down on the side of the road. And I can’t fix a car like this, because I don’t have the tools! And even if I did have the tools I don’t know if I could fix a car like this!
4. I’ve about got another 500 quid here. Why don’t I just give you all this money, and you tell me what your real name is, Alice. …
I promise. Thank you. My real name is plain Jane Jones.
5. So, as just a guy who gave another guy a sandwich, you have any philosophical tips or anything, for a guy on a-kind of- road trip?
6. Billy, I have four words for you: “Listen to the Woman.”
7. Someday, and that day may never come, I’ll call upon you to do a service for me. But, until that day, accept this justice as a gift on my daughter’s wedding day.
8. And there is the account of the hanging of three men, and a scuba diver, and a suicide. There are stories of coincidence and chance, of intersections and strange things told, and which is which and who only knows? And we generally say, “Well, if that was in a movie, I wouldn’t believe it.”
9. Take this quarter, go downtown, and have a rat gnaw that thing off your face! Good day to you, madam.
10. It’s probably just a food baby. Did you have a big lunch?
Fasola-link! Summer in Antarctica.
46 Responses to "Friday (movie quotes) edition: Wha’ Happened?"
1. As good as it gets
As usual, I’m sure I’m not allowed to play.
1) Great line. I’m reminded of this often.
2) Forgot about this one, but it makes sense.
3) Saw this once a long time ago and I already forgot about this line. I know RandBall has a mancrush on Wes Anderson.
4) I suggest watching this movie on a first date. That, or Deliverance.
5) Haven’t seen it, want to though. I’ve heard its good.
6) One of RandBall’s favs apparently. Probably for the wardrobe.
7) I expected the service to be something more. 
RandBall just loves any movie made by an Anderson.
9) My Uncle was micro waving our socks and the dog threw up on the couch for an hour.
10) Yep.
Honestly, I was like 6-4 this week. To be fair, it was a much more obscure week of lines.
Open question to one and all, men and women but mostly women I guess…but first off, I hope # 4 above was Jane Jones not a simple typo “Jim Jones” since I just hurled what I was drinking…but on a more subjective and intensely serious subject, why do women, at the Maw of America or shopping anywhere, when out of the rich English vocabularly, use only two words to describe almost any coat, pair of shoe ..anything ! ..those words being “Oh, that’s “cute and adorable” ” never just “cute” mind you nor “adorable” as freestanding adjectives, but “cute and adorable” as some word molecule frozen in their minds. Follow any two women (without getting arrested) and see. It’s maddening. No matter the IQs of the 2 women, it’s like hearing 2 Barbies talk as one…canaries, I say..
Randball: Letting P3 take the joy out of everything!!!
Stu and Rand get dissed in LA: http://www.insidesocal.com/tomhoffarth/archives/2008/02/whatever_happen.html
Stu instantly wins COW for going National with the Huntdown!
#2 is from Team America.
#4 is Closer.
#7 is The Godfather (nice classic line, Randball)
And, dang it, I know #8 - I just can’t think of the dang title. This is going to be one that keeps me from doing real work all morning. Thanks a lot.
The Erickson Hunt Down got some decent national love. Awful Announcing and Sports by Brooks picked up on it, too.
jama, I removed no such joy from the premises !! But haven’t U too noticed this “cute and adorable” lazy language disease..or wondered if it was curable. Listen to your significant or insignificant other on the phone and you’ll see now that I have opened your eyes, but it was not searing pain I intended for your eyes by their opening….
These RandBall movie quote posts are quite entertaining…as long as you like chick flicks as much as Rand. Look at today’s list:
1 - Chick Flick with Jack Nicholson
2 - Chick Flick with puppets
3 - Wes Andersen’s first Chick Flick
4 - International Chick Flick
5 - Chick Flick I haven’t seen
6 - Chick Flick that is also an entertaining sports movie
7 - Only non-Chick Flick on the list
8 - Long, drawn out Chick Flick with Tom Cruise
9 - Classic Chick Flick starring the wife from “Yes Dear”
10 - Feel good Chick Flick of 2007
Ty raises a good point–I thought the point of the Friday Movie Quotes edition was to be humorous, not show off the proprieter’s expansive knowledge of chick flicks…
Ty: Classic stuff. Seriously loving it.
I’m bad, I’m nationwide.
Uncle Buck’s a chick flick? I did not know that.
And if there’s a more frustrating movie on earth than Magnolia, I haven’t seen it.
Rand: I think the biggest question is when you are going to share your thoughts on the movies you have seen over the past three weeks. I am expecting a full breakdown of “27 Dresses”, “Definitely, Maybe” and “Fool’s Gold”. Which Chick Flick was the best of the three? Did any of them actually make you cry? Please, rank these three recent movies based on your extensive Chick Flick background. Thanks!
If women/girls use “cute and adorable” as a substitution for speech (Duh, does that ever happen ?), what recurring phrase do men use to describe everything from boats to babes…hint: “boss” and “bithchin’” have been common in and out of movies for years.
27 Dresses was no Fever Pitch. … Actually and thankfully, I’ve not seen any of those three. Though Dave MN admitted to seeing Fool’s Gold. Let’s get the full report from him.
Though Dave MN admitted to seeing Fool’s Gold
Correction: he admitted to seeing 27 Dresses, he anticipated seeing Fool’s Gold.
How about this one,
“I’ll do him!”
Butt Sluts III
Good ones, Poopster, I saw “27 Dresses”, actually I got up and looked into other theaters alot after being guilted into this piece o’ shit. Apparently, most reviewers agreed..this quote from Google,
“As of February 19, 2008, the review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes reported that 37% of critics gave the film positive reviews, based on 112 reviews.[2] Metacritic reported the film had an average score of 47 out of 100″
The only chick flicks I usually like involve chicks enjoying other chicks…by playing chess, of course. What did you think I meant ?
Hey. Watch the language. I’ve got a family.
I’m making a prediction right now: eventually, Stu is going to blow up nationwide and leave all us small-timers behind. I’m talking about like Rick Reilly before Rick Reilly was Rick Reilly, if that makes sense.
Rand: It’s funny that you mentioned Fever Pitch. Another “baseball” movie that was actually a Chick Flick, just like your fav Bull Durham. I’m assuming the Freddie Prinze Jr/Jessica Biel masterpiece Summer Catch is also in your top five.
Seriously about Bull Durham though. There were some great baseball moments in the movie “He hit that fastball like he knew I was going to throw it.” “He did, I told him.”, but the majority of the movie was a Chick Flick. I mean how different was it from Thelma and Louise? Costner simply “pitch hit” for Geena Davis and Tim Robbins tried to play the role of Brad Pitt’s character. Sure, Bull Durham was released three years before Thelma and Louise, but why let that get in the way of a good argument? Actually, I think the working title for Thelma and Louise was Bull Durham 2 - A Long Road Trip…
The Marth: your check is in the mail.
As long as we’re fawning, Jon’s doing fantastic work on the Preps blog, particularly his thorough breakdown of the pep bands.
Who knew GOB Bluth’s theme music is to state girls hockey what “Crank That” is to Roughkat?
I thought Fever Pitch was about soccer. What are you guys talking about this base-ball?
Stu - I love how musicians can mask vulgar acts/terms for street slang. The first time I realized this was Vanilla Ice’s “Having a Roni” when I was in 6th grade.
Do we have a reasonable explanation for why the State Hockey Tournament teams no longer get to make music videos that are shown at intermission?
Tons of mullets using hockey sticks as guitars as they headbang in their respective school’s hallways to “Thunderstruck”. I loved that. Bring it back.
I thought it was about “Fever Bitch”, a girl I met in the Keys long ago. I nevr could forget about her ’til I got a dose of penicillin at health Partners.. Now THAT girl was cute and adorable. At least, I and a few others must have thought so. Sorry, roughkat, about the language, but you should password this site somehow….
Roughkate: agreed, as I had a similar experience with the Glenn Miller Orchestra’s “My Girl Madge Is Showing Some Ankle (Mad Humpin’).”
(/I am old)
I think the password should be 1-2-3-4-5. I’ll be able to remember that since it’s the same as on my luggage.
“Panama” Van Halen ~ 1984. It was an epiphany.
rough, I think a better way would be to change your name ever so slighly as in “roughkate” or “roughkat2″…Just look at mine which I cleverly change to “Peter Pan Paul Poop” at times..
“Eye of the Tiger”- Survivor. Best entry song EVER.
Well either that or “My Girl”.
The EP wrestling team always ran onto the mats at home meets to “Lunatic Fringe”…I never really understood why.
The EP wrestling team always ran onto the mats at home meets to “Lunatic Fringe”…I never really understood why.
Rent Vision Quest. All will become clear.
Does anyone have the number for the show Cheaters? Michael Rand is officially cheating on all posters on this blog.
Rand is just showing how that blog can jump when a real professional gets hold of it. (/goulet)
Fever Pitch is about soccer. It’s a memoir written by Nick Hornby (About a Boy, High Fidelity). It was then turned into a film starring Colin Firth.
A few years ago, The Farrely Brothers adapted it into a baseball chick flick starring Jimmy “I laugh when I’m not supposed to” Fallon. So technically, everyone is correct.
#2 - Team America: World Police
…And now, now you’ve gone away
And all I’m trying to say is
Pearl Harbor sucked, and I miss you
I need u like Ben Affleck needs acting school
He was terrible in that film
I need u like Cuba Gooding needed a bigger part
He’s way better than Ben Affleck
And now all I can think about is your smile
and that [redacted] movie too
Pearl Harbor sucked and I miss you
Why does Michael Bay get to keep on making movies?
I guess Pearl Harbor sucked
Just a little bit more than I miss you
answer key (if you couldn’t interpret Ty Webb’s key):
1. As good as it gets
2. Team America, World Police
3. Bottle Rocket
4. Closer
5. Broken Flowers
6. White men can’t jump
7. The Godfather
8. Magnolia
9. Uncle Buck
10. Juno
Ryan - The Fever Pitch you speak of never happened.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0119114/
or are you talking about the one with Jimmy Fallon?
Best song ever,
Y.M.C.A.
Village People.
Ryan - good one. I remember reading something about it in some hip movie magazine article - Uncut or Empire - on Colin Firth while traipsing across Merry Olde. Mainly I remember turning to my traveling companions and announcing Colin Firth had hooked up with Meg Tilly - which elicited a collective groan. We had no idea who Colin Firth was but we were fans of Hornby and Meg.
Had to have been better than the Fallon one.
