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"How much you want for 'em?" (Answered)
Ritabert
(2,915 posts)mahatmakanejeeves
(71,859 posts)Ritabert
(2,915 posts)LisaM
(29,716 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
(2,915 posts)mahatmakanejeeves
(71,859 posts)anciano
(2,372 posts)Jim__
(15,330 posts)Harker
(18,367 posts)FalloutShelter
(14,785 posts)Brother Buzz
(40,721 posts)VGNonly
(8,637 posts)Great movie!
Brother Buzz
(40,721 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
(8,637 posts)could actually speak Russian, though he didn't speak it in the film.
JoseBalow
(9,997 posts)Tommy Carcetti
(44,623 posts)JoseBalow
(9,997 posts)Grits!
VGNonly
(8,637 posts)Harker
(18,367 posts)VGNonly
(8,637 posts)Robert Redford and Will Geer. RIP
Harker
(18,367 posts)I'm going to line up "Jeremiah Johnson" and "Three Days of the Condor" soon.
red dog 1
(33,841 posts)JoseBalow
(9,997 posts)Harvey Keitel in Pulp Fiction
red dog 1
(33,841 posts)This is the 3rd time I posted a reply to you....WTF?
(I hope this one stays posted)
JoseBalow
(9,997 posts)JoseBalow
(9,997 posts)Same character, same movie
JoseBalow
(9,997 posts)red dog 1
(33,841 posts)red dog 1
(33,841 posts)VGNonly
(8,637 posts)We watched it last week...I liked it.
JoseBalow
(9,997 posts)-misanthroptimist
(2,120 posts)Neidermeier to Flounder
Although there are probably other correct answers, too.
JoseBalow
(9,997 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
(9,997 posts)Different character, same movie
JoseBalow
(9,997 posts)red dog 1
(33,841 posts)VGNonly
(8,637 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
(8,637 posts)jgo
(1,042 posts)Wounded Bear
(64,943 posts)jgo
(1,042 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
(64,943 posts)jgo
(1,042 posts)Historic NY
(40,236 posts)Mad_Dem_X
(10,258 posts)Figarosmom
(15,188 posts)DFW
(60,923 posts)The Jessica Lange version
Figarosmom
(15,188 posts)DFW
(60,923 posts)Thats the film where I remember hearing it (spoken by Jeff Bridges).
Figarosmom
(15,188 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
(68,610 posts)Figarosmom
(15,188 posts)boonecreek
(1,565 posts)"The Bride of Frankenstein."
kacekwl
(9,334 posts)Hmmm
I'll have me some of the biggums.
red dog 1
(33,841 posts)"That boy likes me, hmm"
Cyklops
(10 posts)Mad_Dem_X
(10,258 posts)OmegaX
(51 posts)DFW
(60,923 posts)" I was the next man!"
Attilatheblond
(9,546 posts)DFW
(60,923 posts)Harker
(18,367 posts)VGNonly
(8,637 posts)but can they fight?"
Harker
(18,367 posts)VGNonly
(8,637 posts)and seven Carlings"
red dog 1
(33,841 posts)VGNonly
(8,637 posts)and one of them a redhead".
red dog 1
(33,841 posts)mwmisses4289
(5,354 posts)red dog 1
(33,841 posts)mwmisses4289
(5,354 posts)Shermann
(9,075 posts)Niagara
(12,498 posts)Harker
(18,367 posts)Niagara
(12,498 posts)I'm guilty of rewatching this movie as well.
pandr32
(14,307 posts)yourout
(8,930 posts)Harker
(18,367 posts)Niagara
(12,498 posts)VGNonly
(8,637 posts)"So often you won't even notice".
red dog 1
(33,841 posts)"What kind of music do you usually play here?...
...Oh we've got both kinds; country and western!"
JoseBalow
(9,997 posts)but don't step in number two."
Mad_Dem_X
(10,258 posts)I love that movie.
JoseBalow
(9,997 posts)Dean Martin!
Mad_Dem_X
(10,258 posts)"I don't believe this!"
"Maybe it's a dream!"
VGNonly
(8,637 posts)Mad_Dem_X
(10,258 posts)Harker
(18,367 posts)JoseBalow
(9,997 posts)"Stabbing headache?"
red dog 1
(33,841 posts)Harker
(18,367 posts)Harker
(18,367 posts)TexasBushwhacker
(21,362 posts)"But I was going to make espresso!"
RIP Gene Hackman
The Wizard
(13,994 posts)She is a prostitute.
The Roux Comes First
(2,469 posts)Harker
(18,367 posts)Harker
(18,367 posts)Angleae
(4,829 posts)Harker
(18,367 posts)catbyte
(39,524 posts)Tommy Carcetti
(44,623 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
(15,315 posts)Tikki
Harker
(18,367 posts)There once was a man from Australia
who painted his arse like a dahlia
NNadir
(38,961 posts)red dog 1
(33,841 posts)(I'm thinking that maybe Noah Cross (John Huston) may have uttered that line)
NNadir
(38,961 posts)red dog 1
(33,841 posts)This makes my day!
Harker
(18,367 posts)Last edited Mon Apr 20, 2026, 12:39 PM - Edit history (1)
Edited to add... "Here, Jonesy. Meow. Meow. Jonesy?"
lpbk2713
(43,323 posts)The sub commander to Jonesy the sonar tech.
Harker
(18,367 posts)JoseBalow
(9,997 posts)"For a gringo, I'm terrific!"
Attilatheblond
(9,546 posts)pdxflyboy
(976 posts)n/t
Tbear
(760 posts)Tbear
(760 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
(9,997 posts)JoseBalow
(9,997 posts)"Good, though."
VGNonly
(8,637 posts)Mad_Dem_X
(10,258 posts)VGNonly
(8,637 posts)"Would you like to try our new beef and cheese pot pie on a stick, only $1.99?"
Mad_Dem_X
(10,258 posts)red dog 1
(33,841 posts)Harker
(18,367 posts)Hal Holbrook as Deep Throat.
red dog 1
(33,841 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
(18,367 posts)Angleae
(4,829 posts)Harker
(18,367 posts)I was thinking of "Return of The Pink Panther", 1976.
VGNonly
(8,637 posts)[link:
|Aristus
(72,833 posts)._.
(1,923 posts)"It had to end sometime"..
Phoenix61
(18,936 posts)Harker
(18,367 posts)Melvin, as portrayed by Jack Nicholson.
Phoenix61
(18,936 posts)VGNonly
(8,637 posts)print the legend."
Brother Buzz
(40,721 posts)Shooting the film in Black and White for budget constraints only made the film stronger. John Ford was a genius.
VGNonly
(8,637 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
(9,997 posts)"All gone. Num num is gone."
LSparkle
(12,264 posts)JoseBalow
(9,997 posts)LSparkle
(12,264 posts)Harker
(18,367 posts)Harker
(18,367 posts)VGNonly
(8,637 posts)VGNonly
(8,637 posts)After 50+ years all that I remember are a few words and phrases, can count to ten and some swear words.
Harker
(18,367 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
(8,637 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
(18,367 posts)Paternal side from Ireland more recently, and with little documentation.
VGNonly
(8,637 posts)I checked out her bio, what an intriguing story, thank you so much.
Harker
(18,367 posts)VGNonly
(8,637 posts)Navy Lt. Commander, MS electrical engineer, wintered in the Antarctic, worked with NASA on Apollo missions and Skylab.
Harker
(18,367 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
(18,367 posts)VGNonly
(8,637 posts)VGNonly
(8,637 posts)Harker
(18,367 posts)VGNonly
(8,637 posts)The Manchurian Candidate, Birdman of Alcatraz and Seven Days in May.
My favorite director is Billy Wilder.
Harker
(18,367 posts)Time to get cracking with interlibrary loans!
VGNonly
(8,637 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
(18,367 posts)Harker
(18,367 posts)Brother Buzz
(40,721 posts)VGNonly
(8,637 posts)Brother Buzz
(40,721 posts)displacedvermoter
(5,283 posts)buzzycrumbhunger
(2,536 posts)CurtEastPoint
(20,164 posts)JoseBalow
(9,997 posts)CurtEastPoint
(20,164 posts)JoseBalow
(9,997 posts)
CurtEastPoint
(20,164 posts)Cloudhopper
(202 posts)CurtEastPoint
(20,164 posts)Cloudhopper
(202 posts)beginning in the mid-60s when I was about 4 years old. But I barely remember that episode.
-misanthroptimist
(2,120 posts)displacedvermoter
(5,283 posts)-misanthroptimist
(2,120 posts)Bogart could bring the dead pan humor like no one else.
CTyankee
(68,610 posts)CTyankee
(68,610 posts)Mad_Dem_X
(10,258 posts)CTyankee
(68,610 posts)It was an interesting and thought provoking film.
Mad_Dem_X
(10,258 posts)I keep meaning to see the entire thing.
CTyankee
(68,610 posts)madamesilverspurs
(16,582 posts)VGNonly
(8,637 posts)...and the cats meow"
Brother Buzz
(40,721 posts)Dave Bowman
(7,603 posts)Easy Rider. 🙂
Brother Buzz
(40,721 posts)Extra points if you can ID the letterman sweater Jack Nicholson is wearing on the motorcycle.
VGNonly
(8,637 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
(40,721 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
(10,394 posts)progressoid
(53,635 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
(10,258 posts)Harker
(18,367 posts)red dog 1
(33,841 posts)Taggart: "I'd say you've had enough!"
Mad_Dem_X
(10,258 posts)Harker
(18,367 posts)Mad_Dem_X
(10,258 posts)Mad_Dem_X
(10,258 posts)Brokeback Mountain
Harker
(18,367 posts)red dog 1
(33,841 posts)VGNonly
(8,637 posts)every spring the toilets explode.
Who delivered the medical school cadavers to the alumni dinner?
VGNonly
(8,637 posts)Killed in Vietnam by his own troops.
VGNonly
(8,637 posts)Last edited Wed Apr 29, 2026, 11:41 PM - Edit history (1)
...Scotts Bar".
Harker
(18,367 posts)Not sure how I missed it before.
Janbdwl72
(334 posts)It's from an older movie, made in the 1960s.
Harker
(18,367 posts)"They call me MISTER Tibbs!"
VGNonly
(8,637 posts)Angleae
(4,829 posts)One of the girls had an imaginary friend, what was the name of the friend?
JoseBalow
(9,997 posts)Harker
(18,367 posts)Indian Agent/Thief to Paul Newman.
Harker
(18,367 posts)Practically the entire script is a series of quotable lines.
Harker
(18,367 posts)tikka
(854 posts)Harker
(18,367 posts)Yep!
a kennedy
(36,910 posts)Mad_Dem_X
(10,258 posts)It sounds so familiar, but I just can't place it.
a kennedy
(36,910 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
(3,604 posts)JoseBalow
(9,997 posts)sammythecat
(3,604 posts)William Holden in Sam Peckinpah's "The Wild Bunch".
JoseBalow
(9,997 posts)Harker
(18,367 posts)Never heard "friendo" elsewhere.
JoseBalow
(9,997 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
(18,367 posts)Like Jell-O.
When you've used it, were you aiming for Bardem level menace?
Harker
(18,367 posts)oasis
(54,503 posts)Mad_Dem_X
(10,258 posts)oasis
(54,503 posts)Janbdwl72
(334 posts)I'll give the answer in a separate thread. Hopefully, someone will take a stab at this.
Harker
(18,367 posts)That's a stab for you.
thucythucy
(9,176 posts)The Wizard
(13,994 posts)Harker
(18,367 posts)Harker
(18,367 posts)lpbk2713
(43,323 posts)Sir Alec Guinness as Col Nicholson.
The Force was with him.
Harker
(18,367 posts)lpbk2713
(43,323 posts)Harker
(18,367 posts)I'm sure we have our favorite outliers, but that really was a great era on all counts.
Harker
(18,367 posts)JoseBalow
(9,997 posts)JoseBalow
(9,997 posts)Same character, same movie
VGNonly
(8,637 posts)Harker
(18,367 posts)CanonRay
(16,337 posts)Harker
(18,367 posts)CanonRay
(16,337 posts)Harker
(18,367 posts)So, I saw it right off!
Mad_Dem_X
(10,258 posts)gladium et scutum
(837 posts)Harker
(18,367 posts)gladium et scutum
(837 posts)Harker
(18,367 posts)a kennedy
(36,910 posts)Nobody has even come close
ha ha, not even a guess.
Harker
(18,367 posts)red dog 1
(33,841 posts)Harker
(18,367 posts)Harker
(18,367 posts)JoseBalow
(9,997 posts)JoseBalow
(9,997 posts)Same character, same movie
red dog 1
(33,841 posts)efhmc
(17,367 posts)VGNonly
(8,637 posts)I feel as big as a damn mountain."
Harker
(18,367 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
(18,367 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
(8,637 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
(18,367 posts)I very much enjoyed "Double Indemnity" again, nudged by you toward a closer look at Billy Wilder.
JoseBalow
(9,997 posts)I quote it in my signature line
VGNonly
(8,637 posts)"I'm too young to be a beatnik, too old to be a hippie".
JoseBalow
(9,997 posts)"Why you gotta mess with the clubs?"
Harker
(18,367 posts)JoseBalow
(9,997 posts)Brother Buzz
(40,721 posts)red dog 1
(33,841 posts)progressoid
(53,635 posts)Harker
(18,367 posts)The only line spoken in this movie.
JoseBalow
(9,997 posts)Ironically spoken by Marcel Marceau
red dog 1
(33,841 posts)JoseBalow
(9,997 posts)red dog 1
(33,841 posts)red dog 1
(33,841 posts)Last edited Sun Jun 14, 2026, 02:53 PM - Edit history (1)
JoseBalow
(9,997 posts)and if you prefer, although there's no point to it, it puts bones in fish."
Harker
(18,367 posts)VGNonly
(8,637 posts)and an out-of-work bum look a lot a like".
JoseBalow
(9,997 posts)VGNonly
(8,637 posts)your lean, mean and not so far in between ".
JoseBalow
(9,997 posts)FalloutShelter
(14,785 posts)Skittles
(173,933 posts)JoseBalow
(9,997 posts)red dog 1
(33,841 posts)Mad_Dem_X
(10,258 posts)LOVE that movie!
red dog 1
(33,841 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
(10,258 posts)JoseBalow
(9,997 posts)red dog 1
(33,841 posts)Harker
(18,367 posts)JoseBalow
(9,997 posts)Slap Shot was always one of my favorites, what a classic!
Harker
(18,367 posts)Newman said it was the most fun to make of his career.
red dog 1
(33,841 posts)VGNonly
(8,637 posts)and I hear also your French".
Harker
(18,367 posts)Harker
(18,367 posts)JoseBalow
(9,997 posts)red dog 1
(33,841 posts)JoseBalow
(9,997 posts)off-the-clock
(345 posts)Angleae
(4,829 posts)Tikki
(15,315 posts)Tikki
red dog 1
(33,841 posts)I think they said that one of their many drummers "Just exploded"
Tikki
(15,315 posts)Both movies were from 1984.
Tikki
JoseBalow
(9,997 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
(15,315 posts)Pop the trunk at your own peril.
Tikki
JoseBalow
(9,997 posts)That's not a clue, that's a total give-away!
Tikki
(15,315 posts)Best god-damn car on the lot.
.
Tikki
Doc_Technical
(3,799 posts)Brother Buzz
(40,721 posts)One of the better spaghetti westerns, but then again, Sergio Leone directed it.