Movie Quotes!

Half a lager it is then! Ease his pain is from Field of Dreams but given the scene I don't know which actor it refers to... just picked up that it did (rather than was just an obscure movie reference) from some web-site. Are you going to the Thursday thing in which case you can claim your girlie half then?!

Aw no - I was going to come and read on Thursday but had to pull out for various reasons. But, despite living half a world away (Manchester) I'll be at a do v. soon. So keep £1.50 (allowing for Big Smoke prices) to one side!

Trainspotting .... I hated that movie SOOOOOO much. I laid awake in bed for at least four hours not being able to go to sleep after that. Disturbing as hell. I wrote a short story that night, too, incidentally, about hallucinations! I did really like the surreal scenes (and I always go for those) but there are some ICKY scenes in that film I will never be able to erase from my poor, little brain. (I was grumbling about the McManus thing ... and I haven't seen "The Ususal Suspects" yet even though I'm not much of a big crime-drama fan ... I puts it on mah list.) I saw that first Nolan film! It's called "The Following!" It's excellente! I don't think I would recognize a quote from it, though. It didn't have a plot I would easily remember, well, because it took me so long to figure it out (cause it was out of order) ... and I can't remember the conclusion I came up with. I rented it on DVD and, if I remember right, there is an option on there to watch it in order! Probably wouldn't be as good, though. Nolan's a genius ... though I still have yet to see his "Insomnia."

Hold on Don - aren't you confusing The Following with Memento? It's Memento which plays scenes out of order (backwards) though maybe "The Following" does too. I know one of Memento DVDs has the play-chronologically option. Not mine though. The hallucinogenics in trainspotting annoyed me a bit: it seemed to imply "trippy" stuff is part of the heroin experience. I've never sampled the drug my self, but I understand it's more of a "zonk" than a "wow man look at the colourful goblins". Having said that, I did hallucinate coming off morphine in hospital.

No... I am positive I saw The Following. I even wrote a mini-movie review on it (still waiting to be posted on my website). That's the one about the wacko dude who likes to follow people. Memento was a lot easier to follow because it was played backwards and I think the plot was more memorable anyway ... The Following plays them out of order, but there's no set pattern. Rather we see the beginning bits of the end, bits of the middle, more of the end, beginning, etc. And the reason we know what part of the story it is is through the various changes the main character goes through. He cuts his hair (or shaves or something) at one point and then he gets his face beat up at another point. The thing that bothered me about Trainspotting the most is the face on that dead baby. EEEEEEEeeeeeeeeeeeeeee! It really made me want to hit something. And the fecal matter stuff was just nasty! I will never watch that movie again ... it was just so disturbing. I still liked the hallucinations stuff! I would like to watch a film that is all an abstract hallucination. Geez, I never hallucinated once ... and I don't think I need to. I sometimes create a hallucinogenic experience that I'll imagine through (which is kinda weird, I'll admit). So I have a vivid enough imagination as it is! Hallucinations would probably serve the same purpose except it would scare the bbbjezus out of me.

My friend bought me trainspotting for christmas a few years ago.. i put it on and began watching, but as soon as all the stuff with the baby started happening, i couldnt bear it... i had a tiny baby myself at the time... im not usually a sensitive soul, but as soon as this started i had to switch it off.. havent seen it all the way through yet.

At least you missed the "drug deal" story at the end; didn't really work for me. I still have very fond memories of reading the book - which was a very bleak and powerful depiction of Edinburgh scheme life. I loved the film at the time, but I'm not convinced now: despite the "disturbing" moments, it feels like a bit of throw-away all-lads-together fun and japes to me.

I didn't know Following was on the Momento DVD. Don't have DVD capability (beyond a whirring computer one) in the Worples so, bah! It's not backwards but the parts aren't in sequence - I seem to remember there's a woman who dies and then isn't dead and all that usual stuff. Thought Trainspotting was okay but then I haven't read the book - largely because I can't get Irvine Welch's looming personality out of my head (or heid as he might have it) whenever I think of reading it. Shallow Grave - the bunch's first film - was better in my humble opinion.

I rented Trainspotting not really knowing what it was about. I heard the title before, and knowing that it was Ewan MacGregor's breakthrough role (and I like him a lot), and the quotes on the cover made me pick it up. However, the quotes are VERY misleading. It made it seem like it was a laugh-fest. Which it's NOT. Grr... Perhaps I ought to read the book :) I might enjoy it more. John-- I'm not sure Following is on the Momento DVD.

If a laugh-fest is really what you want, I'd avoid the book!

I'll take the difficult one then.... 6. My favourite Year.

Number 4 is a Beatles film. Well, the second quote was used in a Beatles film anyhow. John Lennon, innit.

Yep, yer right, Paul. It was from "A Hard Day's Night." #$*$&, Liana! And I thought that movie was relatively obscure.

One is 'A Day at the Races'!

1 might be The Sunshine Boys..... These are all obscure to me, don. though...wasn't My Favorite Year the one with Peter O'Toole playing an aging Errol Flynn type character? That was a wonderful movie.

2. zardoz 3. dr. strangelove 5. thelma and louise I really don't know. I'm reaching for all of these.

Hang on a minute: My favourite YEAR. A DAY at the races. A hard DAY's NIGHT. Is there a "time" theme, Don?

No... that's not what I meant. :~~)

Hah! That time thing ... completely involuntary! Okay... here's the score 1 - Day at the Races 2 - ?? (I thought this one would be easy! There's also sort of a time connection here, too. It's not Zardoz :) though I still need to see that one.) 3 - ?? (A very recent movie.) 4 - A Hard Day's Night 5 - ?? (This is a musical.) 6 - My Favorite Year

1: (At the risk of everyone taking the piss out of me) Is this a Carry on film? 3: American Beauty?

2. Jurassic Park, I believe.....

Yeehaaw, I batting 1000% wrong! Now beat that! Zardoz was actually quite good, though it got panned unmercifully at the time.

Liana is right on #2. I just interviewed the paleontologist who consulted for that movie and the sequels. It was the highlight of my journalistic career. I also got knowledge that they're doing a 4. But he didn't know who was going to star in it. :( Oh well. #3 is currently no. 5 at the UK box office (Ehh... thought some of youse might've seen it.) #5 is a song sung about Marion the Librarian I've heard of that movie, too. Maybe I'll rent it tonight. (I know they have it, I've seen it sitting on the shelf -- the DVD version, no less).

3 is Daniel Day Lewis at the end of Gangs of New York

YAY, Norman! and #5 is from none other than "The Music Man" ...I guess I'm the only one who's seen that movie soooooo many times.

New Batch! (Someone can request others if they want. I don't have the monopoly... I'm getting most of these from IMDB.com for accuracy's sake, case yer interested.) 1. "I am the author. You are the audience. I outrank you!" --from same film-- "You have exactly ten seconds to change that look of disgusting pity into one of enormous respect." 2. "I saw my whole life as if I had already lived it. An endless parade of parties and cotillions, yachts and polo matches. Always the same narrow people, the same mindless chatter. I felt like I was standing at a great precipice, with no one to pull me back, no one who cared... or even noticed." 3. "Lah-de-dah." 4. Man: I told you I would always come for you. Why didn't you wait for me? Woman: Well... you were dead. Man: Death cannot stop true love. All it can do is delay it for a while. 5. "I know your head aches; I know you're tired; I know your nerves are as raw as meat in a butcher's window. But think what you're trying to accomplish. Think what you're dealing with. The majesty and grandeur of the English language, it's the greatest possession we have. The noblest thoughts that ever flowed through the hearts of men are contained in its extraordinary, imaginative, and musical mixtures of sounds. And that's what you've set yourself out to conquer -----. And conquer it you will." 6. "Just when I thought you couldn't get any dumber, you go and do something like this.....and totally redeem yourself! " 7. (In hopes to stump Liana) "I was sorry about the girl, but found some relief in the reflection that she had presumably during the weekend already undergone a fate worse than death. " 8. (Another one that I hope Liana won't get.) "The next time you try to climb the ladder around here Ponty, you're gonna see the seat of my pants."

3. Annie Hall

7: Kind Hearts and Coronets

6: Dumb and dumber (best moment in that film!)

Yes....yes...and yes! (Good one on KH&C, John ... that one's relatively obscure... And I agree w/ Paul on the Dumb and Dumber thing :-)

Justyn....that brings you up to about 777%! :~)))

1: The Producers 2: Titanic Oh I'll stop cheating now. You shouldn't have revealed your source Don. That search engine is oh so tempting. (I did know the Dumb and Dumber one though.)

Is Kind Hearts that obscure? It's a brilliant film - nicely dark and perfectly pitched.

I like Kind Hearts, too ... perhaps it's more obscure in KS ... though I guess among my peers, any film older than 1985 is obscure! That's one of the few movies that I can watch over and over and over, etc. Yep... you got them right, Paul! But just for cheating, you have to come up with some other ones. (Can't cheat on #8 though, 'cause that was recited from memory...and wasn't on imdb.com!)

Okay here's a couple (from memory, so don't shout if I misquote slightly) ; from a few of me faves... a) "Phil? Phil Conors? I thought that was you!" b) "You're a real tough guy, McManus. But do me a favour...get out of my f**king face!" c) [on suppositories] "Fer all the good they did me, I may as well've stuck em up ma erse!" d) [harder this] "Remember Sammy Jankis"

a is groundhog day, d is memento

Go Jon! F**k me, that was quick. Okay, b and c still up for grabs. (I give up on Don's - without the help of a search engine anyway)

B -- Has got to be ... Braveheart? C -- No idea. But I'll guess Trainspotting.

Argh! I know what it is NOW! ... but I have to admit that I haven't seen it. *grumbles in self pity knowing that is a famous picture*

A pint if anyone can claim to have seen Christopher Nolan (director of Memento)'s first film. The story was rubbish but it looked good. Can you guess what is yet without the IMDb?

Trainspotting is (ding!) correct. They were of course heroin suppositories. Don, which one you grumbling about? Is it B? (Not Braveheart of course) ... have you been looking at databases you naughty boy?

Is C the Usual Suspects? There's a bit where McManus and the other boys are shouting? Is it from that?

Fanfare! Nice one Jon. Yes, it's when Redfoot - the LA fence - is getting grief off McManus for double-crossing them. Redfoot delivers the quote in rather cool fashion, flicking a lit ciggy but att him. Just cheated (what's wrong with me?) on that Nolan film. I'm pretty sure I haven't seen it. Damn - I could just taste that cold pint.

The extra "t" was meant for the end of "but", not "at". Obviously.

The Nolan film was on such limited release that I only saw it when I was stood up in central London on a rainy Thursday and headed up to the Curzon Soho and got a ticket for the next film. It's in black and white and looks low-budget beyond that. The McManus quote is tied up with 2 other films in the same scene. One is: who's the gimp? and the other is: ease his pain? because of the actors involved - they'd been involved with these earlier productions. Cos I'm fairly tipsy... you can redeem the still-on-offer-pint by getting both the films.

Right. "Who's the gimp?" is near to "Where's the gimp?" from pulp fiction - said by Zed, who is played by the same actor who plays Redfoot - who says "Who's the gimp?" in Usual Suspects referring to Verbal, I think (Spacey of course). Erm. "Ease his pain?" ??? Dunno. Can you make it half a lager. (Or wring out the bar towel if I got the first one wrong.)