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"How much you want for 'em?" (Answered)
Ritabert
(2,945 posts)mahatmakanejeeves
(71,911 posts)Ritabert
(2,945 posts)LisaM
(29,720 posts)Now I have to see how many of those would be more humourously answered by just saying "Melania"!
Morbius
(1,233 posts)What he means is Old Testament, Mr. Mayor, real wrath-of-God type stuff... Fire and brimstone coming down from the skies. Rivers and seas boiling. Forty years of darkness. Earthquakes, volcanos. The dead rising from the grave. Dogs and cats living together - mass hysteria!
Ritabert
(2,945 posts)mahatmakanejeeves
(71,911 posts)anciano
(2,375 posts)Jim__
(15,335 posts)Harker
(18,390 posts)FalloutShelter
(14,805 posts)Brother Buzz
(40,744 posts)VGNonly
(8,650 posts)Great movie!
Brother Buzz
(40,744 posts)The story was set on a fictional New England island, but filmed in Mendocino and Fort Bragg in Northern California. Early morning scenes with the sun rising in the Atlantic had to be shot in the late afternoon with the sun setting in the Pacific.
Emergency! Everybody to get from street!
VGNonly
(8,650 posts)could actually speak Russian, though he didn't speak it in the film.
JoseBalow
(10,029 posts)Tommy Carcetti
(44,625 posts)JoseBalow
(10,029 posts)Grits!
VGNonly
(8,650 posts)Harker
(18,390 posts)VGNonly
(8,650 posts)Robert Redford and Will Geer. RIP
Harker
(18,390 posts)I'm going to line up "Jeremiah Johnson" and "Three Days of the Condor" soon.
red dog 1
(33,880 posts)JoseBalow
(10,029 posts)Harvey Keitel in Pulp Fiction
red dog 1
(33,880 posts)This is the 3rd time I posted a reply to you....WTF?
(I hope this one stays posted)
JoseBalow
(10,029 posts)JoseBalow
(10,029 posts)Same character, same movie
JoseBalow
(10,029 posts)red dog 1
(33,880 posts)red dog 1
(33,880 posts)VGNonly
(8,650 posts)We watched it last week...I liked it.
JoseBalow
(10,029 posts)-misanthroptimist
(2,137 posts)Neidermeier to Flounder
Although there are probably other correct answers, too.
JoseBalow
(10,029 posts)That line wasn't in Animal House. Good guess, though!

Another hint: "It tastes like the back of a fucking L.A. school bus."
JoseBalow
(10,029 posts)Different character, same movie
JoseBalow
(10,029 posts)red dog 1
(33,880 posts)VGNonly
(8,650 posts)Ned Ryerson
"You wanna throw up here, or you wanna throw up in the car?"
(One of my all-time favorite movies....I've probably watched it 20 times)
VGNonly
(8,650 posts)jgo
(1,043 posts)Wounded Bear
(64,982 posts)jgo
(1,043 posts)The full quote may help-
"Some people call this hell, but you're still in Oklahoma Territory... Save your breath. I don't know who hung you or why, but if you're innocent, the judge will set you free. And if you're not, we'll have to take the trouble to hanging you again."
Wounded Bear
(64,982 posts)jgo
(1,043 posts)Historic NY
(40,248 posts)Mad_Dem_X
(10,261 posts)Figarosmom
(15,292 posts)DFW
(60,953 posts)The Jessica Lange version
Figarosmom
(15,292 posts)DFW
(60,953 posts)Thats the film where I remember hearing it (spoken by Jeff Bridges).
Figarosmom
(15,292 posts)When he's in jail for the murder of Richard Crenna and he realizes Kathleen Turner didn't die in the boathouse explosion and had set him up from before even meeting him.
CTyankee
(68,614 posts)Figarosmom
(15,292 posts)boonecreek
(1,566 posts)"The Bride of Frankenstein."
kacekwl
(9,351 posts)Hmmm
I'll have me some of the biggums.
red dog 1
(33,880 posts)"That boy likes me, hmm"
Cyklops
(10 posts)Mad_Dem_X
(10,261 posts)OmegaX
(51 posts)DFW
(60,953 posts)" I was the next man!"
Attilatheblond
(9,586 posts)DFW
(60,953 posts)Harker
(18,390 posts)VGNonly
(8,650 posts)but can they fight?"
Harker
(18,390 posts)VGNonly
(8,650 posts)and seven Carlings"
red dog 1
(33,880 posts)VGNonly
(8,650 posts)and one of them a redhead".
red dog 1
(33,880 posts)mwmisses4289
(5,393 posts)red dog 1
(33,880 posts)mwmisses4289
(5,393 posts)Shermann
(9,075 posts)Niagara
(12,529 posts)Harker
(18,390 posts)Niagara
(12,529 posts)I'm guilty of rewatching this movie as well.
pandr32
(14,307 posts)yourout
(8,937 posts)Harker
(18,390 posts)Niagara
(12,529 posts)VGNonly
(8,650 posts)"So often you won't even notice".
red dog 1
(33,880 posts)"What kind of music do you usually play here?...
...Oh we've got both kinds; country and western!"
JoseBalow
(10,029 posts)but don't step in number two."
Mad_Dem_X
(10,261 posts)I love that movie.
JoseBalow
(10,029 posts)Dean Martin!
Mad_Dem_X
(10,261 posts)"I don't believe this!"
"Maybe it's a dream!"
VGNonly
(8,650 posts)Mad_Dem_X
(10,261 posts)Harker
(18,390 posts)JoseBalow
(10,029 posts)"Stabbing headache?"
red dog 1
(33,880 posts)Harker
(18,390 posts)Harker
(18,390 posts)TexasBushwhacker
(21,365 posts)"But I was going to make espresso!"
RIP Gene Hackman
The Wizard
(14,006 posts)She is a prostitute.
The Roux Comes First
(2,486 posts)Harker
(18,390 posts)Harker
(18,390 posts)Angleae
(4,829 posts)Harker
(18,390 posts)catbyte
(39,536 posts)Tommy Carcetti
(44,625 posts)"Everyone has a big but. Tell me about your big but."
bobalew
(509 posts)The Ox is slow, but the earth is patient "
Tikki
(15,322 posts)Tikki
Harker
(18,390 posts)There once was a man from Australia
who painted his arse like a dahlia
NNadir
(38,980 posts)red dog 1
(33,880 posts)(I'm thinking that maybe Noah Cross (John Huston) may have uttered that line)
NNadir
(38,980 posts)red dog 1
(33,880 posts)This makes my day!
Harker
(18,390 posts)Last edited Mon Apr 20, 2026, 12:39 PM - Edit history (1)
Edited to add... "Here, Jonesy. Meow. Meow. Jonesy?"
lpbk2713
(43,326 posts)The sub commander to Jonesy the sonar tech.
Harker
(18,390 posts)JoseBalow
(10,029 posts)"For a gringo, I'm terrific!"
Attilatheblond
(9,586 posts)pdxflyboy
(979 posts)n/t
Tbear
(761 posts)Tbear
(761 posts)The line is fromJimmer as he woke while his buddies were trying to get him to fart to jolt Jeff Daniels (the Buckless Yooper) out of his stupor.
Greatest fart scene ever from a fine movie depicting life in a UP deer camp.
JoseBalow
(10,029 posts)JoseBalow
(10,029 posts)"Good, though."
VGNonly
(8,650 posts)Mad_Dem_X
(10,261 posts)VGNonly
(8,650 posts)"Would you like to try our new beef and cheese pot pie on a stick, only $1.99?"
Mad_Dem_X
(10,261 posts)red dog 1
(33,880 posts)Harker
(18,390 posts)Hal Holbrook as Deep Throat.
red dog 1
(33,880 posts)I recently read Bob Woodward's book about Deep Throat, "The Secret Man," and Mark Felt never actually said, "follow the money."
(But they stuck the line in the movie anyway)
Harker
(18,390 posts)Angleae
(4,829 posts)Harker
(18,390 posts)I was thinking of "Return of The Pink Panther", 1976.
VGNonly
(8,650 posts)[link:
|Aristus
(72,850 posts)._.
(1,926 posts)"It had to end sometime"..
Phoenix61
(18,939 posts)Harker
(18,390 posts)Melvin, as portrayed by Jack Nicholson.
Phoenix61
(18,939 posts)VGNonly
(8,650 posts)print the legend."
Brother Buzz
(40,744 posts)Shooting the film in Black and White for budget constraints only made the film stronger. John Ford was a genius.
VGNonly
(8,650 posts)John Wayne
James Stewart
Lee Marvin
Vera Miles
John Carradine
Lee Van Cleef
Andy Devine
Woody Strode
Strother Martin
Denver Pyle
John Qualen
Vera Miles is still living, almost 96. John Qualen was in Casablanca and in a very memorable role; Muley in The Grapes of Wrath.
JoseBalow
(10,029 posts)"All gone. Num num is gone."
LSparkle
(12,264 posts)JoseBalow
(10,029 posts)LSparkle
(12,264 posts)Harker
(18,390 posts)Harker
(18,390 posts)VGNonly
(8,650 posts)VGNonly
(8,650 posts)After 50+ years all that I remember are a few words and phrases, can count to ten and some swear words.
Harker
(18,390 posts)the first with Inge Sargent, Austrian former Burmese princess. Very interesting woman. My second year teacher was a dead ringer for the magician on the "Agents of Fortune" record sleeve. I brought my copy in one day, and everyone saw the resemblance but him.
My in-laws are German citizens, born in Germany in the 30s, green card holders since the late 50s.
I'm less accomplished than I ought to be, but I get by.
Swear words are a good thing to know.
VGNonly
(8,650 posts)My grandpa was from coastal Germany near the Dutch border. He could speak both German and Frisian. My fraternal people were from Switzerland/Germany in the early 1830s. I have a smattering of English/Scottish, but I'm about 95% Germanic.
Harker
(18,390 posts)Paternal side from Ireland more recently, and with little documentation.
VGNonly
(8,650 posts)I checked out her bio, what an intriguing story, thank you so much.
Harker
(18,390 posts)VGNonly
(8,650 posts)Navy Lt. Commander, MS electrical engineer, wintered in the Antarctic, worked with NASA on Apollo missions and Skylab.
Harker
(18,390 posts)Pretty quiet, and an all around nice guy.
Between the Universities and the plethora of scientific labs, governmental agencies, etc. Boulder was packed with a lot of smart, creative people. I was very fortunate to be friendly with many, and friends with some.
Harker
(18,390 posts)VGNonly
(8,650 posts)VGNonly
(8,650 posts)Harker
(18,390 posts)VGNonly
(8,650 posts)The Manchurian Candidate, Birdman of Alcatraz and Seven Days in May.
My favorite director is Billy Wilder.
Harker
(18,390 posts)Time to get cracking with interlibrary loans!
VGNonly
(8,650 posts)were The Fortune Cookie with Jack Lemmon and Walter Matthau, their first pairing. Another was One, Two, Three with James Cagney, an absolute madcap comedy.
Harker
(18,390 posts)Harker
(18,390 posts)Brother Buzz
(40,744 posts)VGNonly
(8,650 posts)Brother Buzz
(40,744 posts)displacedvermoter
(5,318 posts)buzzycrumbhunger
(2,561 posts)CurtEastPoint
(20,170 posts)JoseBalow
(10,029 posts)CurtEastPoint
(20,170 posts)JoseBalow
(10,029 posts)
CurtEastPoint
(20,170 posts)Cloudhopper
(202 posts)CurtEastPoint
(20,170 posts)Cloudhopper
(202 posts)beginning in the mid-60s when I was about 4 years old. But I barely remember that episode.
-misanthroptimist
(2,137 posts)displacedvermoter
(5,318 posts)-misanthroptimist
(2,137 posts)Bogart could bring the dead pan humor like no one else.
CTyankee
(68,614 posts)CTyankee
(68,614 posts)Mad_Dem_X
(10,261 posts)CTyankee
(68,614 posts)It was an interesting and thought provoking film.
Mad_Dem_X
(10,261 posts)I keep meaning to see the entire thing.
CTyankee
(68,614 posts)madamesilverspurs
(16,588 posts)VGNonly
(8,650 posts)...and the cats meow"
Brother Buzz
(40,744 posts)Dave Bowman
(7,636 posts)Easy Rider. 🙂
Brother Buzz
(40,744 posts)Extra points if you can ID the letterman sweater Jack Nicholson is wearing on the motorcycle.
VGNonly
(8,650 posts)There's a rumor that Captain America (Peter Fonda) and Billy (Dennis Hopper) were based on Roger Mcguinn and David Crosby respectively.
Brother Buzz
(40,744 posts)But I cant visualize George participating in football.

Dennis Hopper totally nailed David Crosby, but the jury is is still out on the Fonda/Mcguinn connection.
FM123
(10,396 posts)progressoid
(53,656 posts)Such a funny line! So MANY funny lines from Galaxy Quest!
Cloudhopper
(202 posts)Response to red dog 1 (Original post)
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Mad_Dem_X
(10,261 posts)Harker
(18,390 posts)red dog 1
(33,880 posts)Taggart: "I'd say you've had enough!"
Mad_Dem_X
(10,261 posts)Harker
(18,390 posts)Mad_Dem_X
(10,261 posts)Mad_Dem_X
(10,261 posts)Brokeback Mountain
Harker
(18,390 posts)red dog 1
(33,880 posts)VGNonly
(8,650 posts)every spring the toilets explode.
Who delivered the medical school cadavers to the alumni dinner?
VGNonly
(8,650 posts)Killed in Vietnam by his own troops.
VGNonly
(8,650 posts)Last edited Wed Apr 29, 2026, 11:41 PM - Edit history (1)
...Scotts Bar".
Harker
(18,390 posts)Not sure how I missed it before.
Janbdwl72
(344 posts)It's from an older movie, made in the 1960s.
Harker
(18,390 posts)"They call me MISTER Tibbs!"
VGNonly
(8,650 posts)Angleae
(4,829 posts)One of the girls had an imaginary friend, what was the name of the friend?
JoseBalow
(10,029 posts)Harker
(18,390 posts)Indian Agent/Thief to Paul Newman.
Harker
(18,390 posts)Practically the entire script is a series of quotable lines.
Harker
(18,390 posts)tikka
(855 posts)Harker
(18,390 posts)Yep!
a kennedy
(36,927 posts)Mad_Dem_X
(10,261 posts)It sounds so familiar, but I just can't place it.
a kennedy
(36,927 posts)I just cant and well talk again when you totally give up. It was a classic. 1999. And thats all Im giving ya.
sammythecat
(3,605 posts)JoseBalow
(10,029 posts)sammythecat
(3,605 posts)William Holden in Sam Peckinpah's "The Wild Bunch".
JoseBalow
(10,029 posts)Harker
(18,390 posts)Never heard "friendo" elsewhere.
JoseBalow
(10,029 posts)I agree, "friendo" is pretty distinct to this film. I figured that'd be the clue that gives it away.
I've used "friendo" a few times in the wild, I like it!
Harker
(18,390 posts)Like Jell-O.
When you've used it, were you aiming for Bardem level menace?
Harker
(18,390 posts)oasis
(54,533 posts)Mad_Dem_X
(10,261 posts)oasis
(54,533 posts)Janbdwl72
(344 posts)I'll give the answer in a separate thread. Hopefully, someone will take a stab at this.
Harker
(18,390 posts)That's a stab for you.
thucythucy
(9,176 posts)The Wizard
(14,006 posts)Harker
(18,390 posts)Harker
(18,390 posts)lpbk2713
(43,326 posts)Sir Alec Guinness as Col Nicholson.
The Force was with him.
Harker
(18,390 posts)lpbk2713
(43,326 posts)Harker
(18,390 posts)I'm sure we have our favorite outliers, but that really was a great era on all counts.
Harker
(18,390 posts)JoseBalow
(10,029 posts)JoseBalow
(10,029 posts)Same character, same movie
VGNonly
(8,650 posts)Harker
(18,390 posts)CanonRay
(16,343 posts)Harker
(18,390 posts)CanonRay
(16,343 posts)Harker
(18,390 posts)So, I saw it right off!
Mad_Dem_X
(10,261 posts)gladium et scutum
(837 posts)Harker
(18,390 posts)gladium et scutum
(837 posts)Harker
(18,390 posts)a kennedy
(36,927 posts)Nobody has even come close
ha ha, not even a guess.
Harker
(18,390 posts)red dog 1
(33,880 posts)Harker
(18,390 posts)Harker
(18,390 posts)JoseBalow
(10,029 posts)JoseBalow
(10,029 posts)Same character, same movie
red dog 1
(33,880 posts)efhmc
(17,415 posts)VGNonly
(8,650 posts)I feel as big as a damn mountain."
Harker
(18,390 posts)Is it "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest"?
I read the novel in 75, then watched the film in early January 1976 while I was a freshman at college.
Harker
(18,390 posts)1973. His quiet enthusiasm was contagious, and I'd bet that he made a very fine teacher.
A bookshop owner for whom I worked as an adult had been college roommates with Brad Dourif.
VGNonly
(8,650 posts)it netted $163m. One of three films in history that received the big five; Best Picture, Director, Actress, Actor, and Adapted Screenplay. The others were It Happened One Night 1934 and The Silence of the Lambs 1991.
Harker
(18,390 posts)I very much enjoyed "Double Indemnity" again, nudged by you toward a closer look at Billy Wilder.
JoseBalow
(10,029 posts)I quote it in my signature line
VGNonly
(8,650 posts)"I'm too young to be a beatnik, too old to be a hippie".
JoseBalow
(10,029 posts)"Why you gotta mess with the clubs?"
Harker
(18,390 posts)JoseBalow
(10,029 posts)Brother Buzz
(40,744 posts)red dog 1
(33,880 posts)progressoid
(53,656 posts)Harker
(18,390 posts)The only line spoken in this movie.
JoseBalow
(10,029 posts)Ironically spoken by Marcel Marceau
red dog 1
(33,880 posts)JoseBalow
(10,029 posts)red dog 1
(33,880 posts)red dog 1
(33,880 posts)Last edited Sun Jun 14, 2026, 02:53 PM - Edit history (1)
JoseBalow
(10,029 posts)and if you prefer, although there's no point to it, it puts bones in fish."
Harker
(18,390 posts)JoseBalow
(10,029 posts)VGNonly
(8,650 posts)and an out-of-work bum look a lot a like".
JoseBalow
(10,029 posts)VGNonly
(8,650 posts)your lean, mean and not so far in between ".
JoseBalow
(10,029 posts)FalloutShelter
(14,805 posts)Skittles
(174,039 posts)JoseBalow
(10,029 posts)red dog 1
(33,880 posts)Mad_Dem_X
(10,261 posts)LOVE that movie!
red dog 1
(33,880 posts)(Director Roger De Bris in a dress asks) "And what do you think, Mr. Bloom?'
(Leo Bloom answers) "Where do you keep your wallet?"
Mad_Dem_X
(10,261 posts)JoseBalow
(10,029 posts)red dog 1
(33,880 posts)Harker
(18,390 posts)JoseBalow
(10,029 posts)Slap Shot was always one of my favorites, what a classic!
Harker
(18,390 posts)Newman said it was the most fun to make of his career.
red dog 1
(33,880 posts)VGNonly
(8,650 posts)and I hear also your French".
Harker
(18,390 posts)Harker
(18,390 posts)Last edited Tue Jul 14, 2026, 10:19 AM - Edit history (1)
JoseBalow
(10,029 posts)red dog 1
(33,880 posts)JoseBalow
(10,029 posts)off-the-clock
(345 posts)Angleae
(4,829 posts)Tikki
(15,322 posts)Tikki
red dog 1
(33,880 posts)I think they said that one of their many drummers "Just exploded"
Tikki
(15,322 posts)Both movies were from 1984.
Tikki
JoseBalow
(10,029 posts)I'm trying to think of films where people explode...
Is it The Beyond?
That's pretty obscure, but definitely a cult classic in like a spaghetti-horror trilogy from the 80s.
Tikki
(15,322 posts)Pop the trunk at your own peril.
Tikki
JoseBalow
(10,029 posts)That's not a clue, that's a total give-away!
Tikki
(15,322 posts)Best god-damn car on the lot.
.
Tikki
Doc_Technical
(3,800 posts)Brother Buzz
(40,744 posts)One of the better spaghetti westerns, but then again, Sergio Leone directed it.
VGNonly
(8,650 posts)Harker
(18,390 posts)VGNonly
(8,650 posts)I seem to remember something about Bozo in that film.
Harker
(18,390 posts)VGNonly
(8,650 posts)describing Herb Stempel/John Turturro.
Harker
(18,390 posts)Paul Scofield was exceptional as Mark Van Doren, I think..
VGNonly
(8,650 posts)JoseBalow
(10,029 posts)One of my favorites!
I posted another Arsenio movie quote in this thread, but from a different film.