Movie Meme!

[lonelybrit]

How sad is it that I am already looking forward to Wednesday. I want to know what happens next. I want to see what on earth this fandom can pull out of the hat next. Plus of course having a show where there's always a possibility of man snoggage isn't a deterrent to tune in each week :)

Until then! Gakking off eloise_bright:

1. Pick 15 of your favourite movies.
2. Go to IMDb and find a quote from each movie.
3. Post them here for everyone to guess.
4. Fill in the film title once it's guessed.
5. NO GOOGLING/using IMDb search functions.

1) I'm telling you this guy is protected from up on high by the Prince of Darkness.

2) A: Tell my son the time that his father died. Tell him...
B: No. He won't even know your name.
~ Pan's Labyrinth - esmerelda_t

3) I have nightmares about birthday parties.

4) Love is the worst lie one can tell oneself.

5) Well, I'm already going to Hell for kissing you, so I may as well take the scenic route.
~ Latter Days - esmerelda_t

6) I wouldn't bring up Paris if I were you, it's poor salesmanship.
~ Casablanca - theferretgirl

7) All these horrors I've heard of during the Nurnberg process, these six million Jews, other thinking people or people of another race, who perished. That shocked me deeply. But I hadn't made the connection with my past. I assured myself with the thought of not being personally guilty. And that I didn't know anything about the enormous scale of it. But one day I walked by a memorial plate of Sophie Scholl in the Franz-Joseph-Strasse. I saw that she was about my age and she was executed in the same year I came to Hitler. And at that moment I actually realised that a young age isn't an excuse. And that it might have been possible to get to know things.
(This does look an overly long quote, but I have to say, it is the one I remembered most by the time the credits rolled.)
~ Downfall - esmerelda_t

8) Let me tell you something my friend. Hope is a dangerous thing. Hope can drive a man insane.
~ The Shawshank Redemption - chlare

9) A: Did your dad love you?
B: Only when I dressed up like a beer bottle, how about you?
A: Well, he used to beat me in Morse code, so it's possible, but he never said the words.
~ Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang - crystalshard

10) Oh, great. You get the girl, I get the coroner.
~ LA Confidential - eloise_bright

12) Never give up. Never surrender.
~ Galaxy Quest - theferretgirl

13) Dreadful technique! You've confused rays with beams! D! Minus! I'd give you an F, but that would only mean having to see you in summer school.
~ Sky High - crystalshard

14) If might is right, then love has no place in the world. It may be so, it may be so. But I don't have the strength to live in a world like that, Rodrigo.

15) So your life's in the crapper. So you wife is banging a used car salesman - it's humiliating, I know. But goddamnit, Harry, take it like a man!
~ True Lies - x_equals_speed

Comments

[esmerelda-t.livejournal.com]

5 is Later Days and 7 is Downfall.

2 seems awfully familiar and it's bugging the crap out of me.....

[chlare.livejournal.com]

8 is the Shawshank Redemption?

[lonelybrit]

Correct on both counts! *gives you gold star*

#2 comes towards the end of the movie if that's any help?

[lonelybrit]

It is indeed! *hands out gold star* :)

[esmerelda-t.livejournal.com]

aaarrgh! No, I may have to google it, just to set my mind at ease.

[lonelybrit]

Hehe, ponder on it a little, it's very atmospheric :)

[esmerelda-t.livejournal.com]

*cries* all google had was a lot of hits about death.

Someone put me out of my misery and guess it!

[viciouswishes.livejournal.com]

12. Braveheart?

[lonelybrit]

Afraid not - you are assuming I watch films with depth and epic-ness to them. Think far more fun and frothy ;)

[theferretgirl.livejournal.com]

12: Galaxy Quest

[lonelybrit]

*cough*A long time ago, in the underground realm, where there are no lies or pain, there lived a Princess who dreamed of the human world. She dreamed of blue skies, soft breeze, and sunshine. One day, eluding her keepers, the Princess escaped...*cough*

[lonelybrit]

Yes! *hands out gold star*

And a little OT - just finished watching Third Man Out. Am full of so. much. love. There may have been plot, but honestly I didn't really get most of it because I was too smitten by how much Timmy looks just like an AtS S1/S2 Wesley. The glasses, the neatness, the dark hair. Oh my heart... :)

[esmerelda-t.livejournal.com]

Pan's Labyrinth?

[lonelybrit]

YES! *hands out belated gold star* Gosh how on earth did you guess that one =)

[theferretgirl.livejournal.com]

6: Casablanca?

I know! So much squee! I might upload the 2nd movie too if there's an interest. They made a 3rd movie and are pre-producing (whatever that is) movie 4. Timmy/Don love! Timmy's a lot like Wes, except he's far, far more confident then Wes was in S1/2 of Angel.

[esmerelda-t.livejournal.com]

yay! You know, I was reading an article about Del Torro in a film magazine earlier otherwise you'd probably be getting a phone call right about now along the lines of "Tell Me!" :)

[lonelybrit]

Yes again! *hands out second gold shiny star*

OH HE'S SO LOVELY! Definitely interest here. I looked on Amazon and was mightily peeved to find the DVDs aren't available as Region 2. Bah! As you say, he's kind of like early!Wes but with confidence and absolutely secure in the knowledge that he's adored. Plus the whole line of 'I want you find someone... fat, with a really small penis' had me on the floor. Just adored how it's not the main point of the story, it's just the detective's happy partner happens to be a man. It's like seeing, finally, an unashamedly happy Wesley being cherished like he should be. Lovely :)

[theferretgirl.livejournal.com]

Weeeeh!

Isn't it great?! That line had me on the floor too. Timmy deff has a flair for sarcasm too. "Excuse me while I go *out* my dog for the better of us all" And Donald brought him flowers, so much Awwwww.... Okay, there was much Awwww, the entire movie.

[lonelybrit]

Hehe, don't worry, I know how annoying it is when you can remember something but can't place it, so you'd have had my sympathies :)

[lonelybrit]

"Excuse me while I go *out* my dog for the better of us all"

Hehe, oh yes, that too was an awesome line. It was also nice seeing, for one, the private eye getting a completely understanding partner who didn't get all hissy over being abandoned on the kerb to call a taxi. Not entirely convinced by them both so readily calling each other 'sweetheart' but details details *waves aside* Plus of course there was pretty Anubis playing the gay republican, so my fannish cup was more than overflowing by the end. Might have to try and seek the books out now :)

[theferretgirl.livejournal.com]

Oh I *loved* the endearments to bits. Being together for over 6 years, I can buy that. They're adorable. And part 2 has a great angst scene.

I cannot understand that there's not more squeeage over this on my mostly Slashy Friends-List. That's simply un-acceptable.

[ok2nv-theoracle.livejournal.com]

That's my future husband, Sebastian Spence. He's been on everything. First Wave, Dark Angel, SG-1, BSG, Supernatural

He is quite yummy in the Strachey mysteries. Can't wait to see the next two!

[lonelybrit]

Ah, so he'll have to share the duties with Barrowman then? ;) I'm tempted to go back and look again at his eps on SPN. Apparently he was a demon, and pretty evil is always, well, pretty :)

[ok2nv-theoracle.livejournal.com]

Spence is The Future Mr. Oracle #5. Barrowman was #12, until he and Scott made it official. I ♥ him, but not enough to go to jail for gay bigamy. ;Þ

Yeah, I had no idea he was gonna be on SPN. It was at the end of the first season, so when I saw his name in the open credits, I started jumping up and down shouting, "NEW FAVORITE SHOW!!! NEW FAVORITE SHOW!!!!"

Then, what do they do with him? They hardly let him speak at all before they shoot him with the Colt.

*shakes head*

What a waste.

[lonelybrit]

*ponders a Spence/Barrowman sandwich* Nope, you're right, probably very pleasant but not worth the years of cold time.

I know. TV writers. Honestly. Idiots. I did recently check in again with SPN, nad whilst I did enjoy it, I was mildly miffed that every. single. one. of my favourite characters had bitten the dust.

They should ship him over to Torchwood. I'm sure RTD and co could come up with something more fitting for a man of his talents *nods*

[eloise-bright.livejournal.com]

10 is L.A. Confidential. That Mike off of Neighbours, he done good. *g* First L.A. Confidential, and then Memento.

Also this? Well, he used to beat me in Morse code, so it's possible, but he never said the words.

I have no idea what film it's from, but that it made me fall off my chair laughing. That's good writing, that is.

[lonelybrit]

Yes it is, and yes he did! These Neighbours folks, they're taking over slowly but surely... :)

It's a fun film, very very tongue in cheek and, as you say, very well written in terms of snappy dialogue and witty one-liners. Hopefully someone will guess it so I can pass the title on without too much fuss!

[x-equals-speed.livejournal.com]

I got a few of the ones that've been got. I love galaxy quest :D The only new one I can add is that (15) is True Lies.

I want to know what (9) is from though, it's an awesome quote :D

[lonelybrit]

True lies is spot on! *hands over gold star*

I'll give it until end of work tomorrow, then I'll put up the names not guessed so far. #9 is a very fun movie which I recommend to one and all :)

[crystalshard.livejournal.com]

I think I know a couple of these. Let's see . . .

#9 - Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang

#13 - Sky High

[lonelybrit]

YES! Hurrah! *hands out two gold stars*

[crystalshard.livejournal.com]

*wears stars proudly*