| That Goofy Movie Meme |
[21 Feb 2008|03:52pm] |
I couldn't resist and by now you probably know the drill. Ten movies, identified by the quotes below. Be the first to identify a film in comments for eternal fame and glory.
If this were a music quiz, I'd be apologizing for the lack of classical, jazz and, well, pretty much anything beyond fun bubblegum pop. These are the movies that I throw in the DVD player when I'm working and need some background music.
1.) What the hell happened?!?
An explosion of flavor! I'm working with some very unstable herbs!
![[info]](http://p-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) radioactiverich snags one of the more obscure offerings, identifying the kitchen scene in Accepted, one of the better PG teen comedies of the last ten years.
2.)Look, if I wanted cuisine, I'd have gone to Paris, all right?
You can still go to France, mate, it's not too far, it's full of pricks and they hate fucking yanks as well.
mangosteen gets the ID but missed the charm of the totally made of awesomeness that is Formula 51. Assassins, drug dealers, Meatloaf, and Samuel L. Jackson as a hip chemist in a kilt. It rocks.
3.)She also has a very soft skin. The only trouble with snake women is they copulate with horses, which makes them strange to me. She say's she doesn't. That's why I call her "Doesn't Like Horses". But, of course, she's lying.
scholargipsy makes the fair point that I knocked off three of his, so he gets a couple of free ones as well. God knows he had to listen to me talk about Little Big Man often enough. Made in 1970, it's my favorite Dustin Hoffman movie, probably the best western of the period, and a pretty cool adventure movie to boot. Incredibly formative for me. (I still distrust snake women because of it.)
4.)I don't know anyone who could get through the day without two or three juicy rationalizations. They're more important than sex.
Aw, come on! Nothing's more important than sex.
Oh yeah? Ever gone a week without a rationalization?
surrealestate nails it with both actor (Jeff Goldblum) and the movie The Big Chill. This was one of our test tapes when I worked at the TV/VCR repair shop; I've likely seen it well over 100 times.
5.)I was in the room here one day... watchin' the Mexican channel on TV. I don't know nothin' about Pele. I'm watchin' what this guy can do with a ball and his feet. Next thing I know, he jumps in the air and flips into a somersault and kicks the ball in - upside down and backwards... the goddamn goalie never knew what the fuck hit him. Pele gets excited and he rips off his jersey and starts running around the stadium waving it around his head. Everybody's screaming in Spanish. I'm here, sitting alone in my room, and I start crying.
[pause]
That's right, I start crying. Because another human being, a species that I happen to belong to, could kick a ball, and lift himself, and the rest of us sad-assed human beings, up to a better place to be, if only for a minute... let me tell ya, kid - it was pretty goddamned glorious. It ain't the six minutes... it's what happens in that six minutes.
Once again coming through with the retro knowledge that's made him famous the world over, jimmystagger nails the Visionquest reference. Matthew Modine as a high school wrestler, it made me want to be a better person when I was 14 or so.
6.)I love you. And I'm about to boldly go where...many men have gone before.
mdm_sosostris appealed to the judges and got her disqualification lifted for the win on this one, identifying William Miller's declaration of love to a semi-unconscious Penny Lane in Almost Famous. Her steroid test is still pending however.
7.)Oh. It's not easy getting rides. Do you know what I mean? I mean most people are real afraid to pick up hitchhikers. I mean you never know who you might pick up. I mean I could be some crazed slime ball. I mean a real deranged, violent psycho. You know what I mean? I mean a guy who would rip out your heart and eat it just for pleasure. I'm talking about a total maniac. You know what I mean? DO YOU KNOW WHAT I MEAN?
Again, best friend scholargipsy for the point on another movie that defined way too much of my mispent adolescence and likely is the reason I'm the weird romantic with a gift for ambiguity I am now. It's The Sure Thing Gibb. A sure thing...
8.)Okay, I wish you hadn't shot my girlfriends dog. Even though Poe and I were not exactly what you'd call simpatico that's no reason he should've taken two in the chest.
mdm_sosostris grabbed this one fast as well, Michael Douglas as writer Grady Trip in Wonder Boys.
9.)Do you wish Rhett never loved Scarlett? Rick didn't have Ilsa or Harry never loved Sally? Someone once said it's better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all. Succeed or fail, we must make the attempt, it's our nature. Now if it were up to me, as it usually is, I would order this. But its not. Because Claire is right in pointing out the enormous danger potential in any relationship with a man as intelligent but fantastically flakey as Robert. But I must point out the possibilities, the potential, for true love and happiness are equally great. Risk... risk is our business. That's what relationships are all about. That's why we're out there.
10.)There's a bunch of cameras out there right now waiting to make a joke of this, Mick. So you can either stop, give them the sound bite, do the dance. Or you can hold your head up and walk by, and the next time we're in Boston, we'll go out there and work the wall together. Don't help them make a joke out of you.
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