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"How much you want for 'em?" (Answered)
Ritabert
(2,934 posts)mahatmakanejeeves
(71,892 posts)Ritabert
(2,934 posts)LisaM
(29,717 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
(2,934 posts)mahatmakanejeeves
(71,892 posts)anciano
(2,375 posts)Jim__
(15,334 posts)Harker
(18,386 posts)FalloutShelter
(14,803 posts)Brother Buzz
(40,738 posts)VGNonly
(8,646 posts)Great movie!
Brother Buzz
(40,738 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
(8,646 posts)could actually speak Russian, though he didn't speak it in the film.
JoseBalow
(10,018 posts)Tommy Carcetti
(44,625 posts)JoseBalow
(10,018 posts)Grits!
VGNonly
(8,646 posts)Harker
(18,386 posts)VGNonly
(8,646 posts)Robert Redford and Will Geer. RIP
Harker
(18,386 posts)I'm going to line up "Jeremiah Johnson" and "Three Days of the Condor" soon.
red dog 1
(33,871 posts)JoseBalow
(10,018 posts)Harvey Keitel in Pulp Fiction
red dog 1
(33,871 posts)This is the 3rd time I posted a reply to you....WTF?
(I hope this one stays posted)
JoseBalow
(10,018 posts)JoseBalow
(10,018 posts)Same character, same movie
JoseBalow
(10,018 posts)red dog 1
(33,871 posts)red dog 1
(33,871 posts)VGNonly
(8,646 posts)We watched it last week...I liked it.
JoseBalow
(10,018 posts)-misanthroptimist
(2,128 posts)Neidermeier to Flounder
Although there are probably other correct answers, too.
JoseBalow
(10,018 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
(10,018 posts)Different character, same movie
JoseBalow
(10,018 posts)red dog 1
(33,871 posts)VGNonly
(8,646 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
(8,646 posts)jgo
(1,043 posts)Wounded Bear
(64,970 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
(64,970 posts)jgo
(1,043 posts)Historic NY
(40,244 posts)Mad_Dem_X
(10,260 posts)Figarosmom
(15,276 posts)DFW
(60,946 posts)The Jessica Lange version
Figarosmom
(15,276 posts)DFW
(60,946 posts)Thats the film where I remember hearing it (spoken by Jeff Bridges).
Figarosmom
(15,276 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
(68,613 posts)Figarosmom
(15,276 posts)boonecreek
(1,566 posts)"The Bride of Frankenstein."
kacekwl
(9,344 posts)Hmmm
I'll have me some of the biggums.
red dog 1
(33,871 posts)"That boy likes me, hmm"
Cyklops
(10 posts)Mad_Dem_X
(10,260 posts)OmegaX
(51 posts)DFW
(60,946 posts)" I was the next man!"
Attilatheblond
(9,578 posts)DFW
(60,946 posts)Harker
(18,386 posts)VGNonly
(8,646 posts)but can they fight?"
Harker
(18,386 posts)VGNonly
(8,646 posts)and seven Carlings"
red dog 1
(33,871 posts)VGNonly
(8,646 posts)and one of them a redhead".
red dog 1
(33,871 posts)mwmisses4289
(5,386 posts)red dog 1
(33,871 posts)mwmisses4289
(5,386 posts)Shermann
(9,075 posts)Niagara
(12,511 posts)Harker
(18,386 posts)Niagara
(12,511 posts)I'm guilty of rewatching this movie as well.
pandr32
(14,307 posts)yourout
(8,934 posts)Harker
(18,386 posts)Niagara
(12,511 posts)VGNonly
(8,646 posts)"So often you won't even notice".
red dog 1
(33,871 posts)"What kind of music do you usually play here?...
...Oh we've got both kinds; country and western!"
JoseBalow
(10,018 posts)but don't step in number two."
Mad_Dem_X
(10,260 posts)I love that movie.
JoseBalow
(10,018 posts)Dean Martin!
Mad_Dem_X
(10,260 posts)"I don't believe this!"
"Maybe it's a dream!"
VGNonly
(8,646 posts)Mad_Dem_X
(10,260 posts)Harker
(18,386 posts)JoseBalow
(10,018 posts)"Stabbing headache?"
red dog 1
(33,871 posts)Harker
(18,386 posts)Harker
(18,386 posts)TexasBushwhacker
(21,363 posts)"But I was going to make espresso!"
RIP Gene Hackman
The Wizard
(14,005 posts)She is a prostitute.
The Roux Comes First
(2,484 posts)Harker
(18,386 posts)Harker
(18,386 posts)Angleae
(4,829 posts)Harker
(18,386 posts)catbyte
(39,532 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
(18,386 posts)There once was a man from Australia
who painted his arse like a dahlia
NNadir
(38,974 posts)red dog 1
(33,871 posts)(I'm thinking that maybe Noah Cross (John Huston) may have uttered that line)
NNadir
(38,974 posts)red dog 1
(33,871 posts)This makes my day!
Harker
(18,386 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
(18,386 posts)JoseBalow
(10,018 posts)"For a gringo, I'm terrific!"
Attilatheblond
(9,578 posts)pdxflyboy
(978 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
(10,018 posts)JoseBalow
(10,018 posts)"Good, though."
VGNonly
(8,646 posts)Mad_Dem_X
(10,260 posts)VGNonly
(8,646 posts)"Would you like to try our new beef and cheese pot pie on a stick, only $1.99?"
Mad_Dem_X
(10,260 posts)red dog 1
(33,871 posts)Harker
(18,386 posts)Hal Holbrook as Deep Throat.
red dog 1
(33,871 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
(18,386 posts)Angleae
(4,829 posts)Harker
(18,386 posts)I was thinking of "Return of The Pink Panther", 1976.
VGNonly
(8,646 posts)[link:
|Aristus
(72,850 posts)._.
(1,925 posts)"It had to end sometime"..
Phoenix61
(18,938 posts)Harker
(18,386 posts)Melvin, as portrayed by Jack Nicholson.
Phoenix61
(18,938 posts)VGNonly
(8,646 posts)print the legend."
Brother Buzz
(40,738 posts)Shooting the film in Black and White for budget constraints only made the film stronger. John Ford was a genius.
VGNonly
(8,646 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
(10,018 posts)"All gone. Num num is gone."
LSparkle
(12,264 posts)JoseBalow
(10,018 posts)LSparkle
(12,264 posts)Harker
(18,386 posts)Harker
(18,386 posts)VGNonly
(8,646 posts)VGNonly
(8,646 posts)After 50+ years all that I remember are a few words and phrases, can count to ten and some swear words.
Harker
(18,386 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
(8,646 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
(18,386 posts)Paternal side from Ireland more recently, and with little documentation.
VGNonly
(8,646 posts)I checked out her bio, what an intriguing story, thank you so much.
Harker
(18,386 posts)VGNonly
(8,646 posts)Navy Lt. Commander, MS electrical engineer, wintered in the Antarctic, worked with NASA on Apollo missions and Skylab.
Harker
(18,386 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
(18,386 posts)VGNonly
(8,646 posts)VGNonly
(8,646 posts)Harker
(18,386 posts)VGNonly
(8,646 posts)The Manchurian Candidate, Birdman of Alcatraz and Seven Days in May.
My favorite director is Billy Wilder.
Harker
(18,386 posts)Time to get cracking with interlibrary loans!
VGNonly
(8,646 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
(18,386 posts)Harker
(18,386 posts)Brother Buzz
(40,738 posts)VGNonly
(8,646 posts)Brother Buzz
(40,738 posts)displacedvermoter
(5,318 posts)buzzycrumbhunger
(2,551 posts)CurtEastPoint
(20,170 posts)JoseBalow
(10,018 posts)CurtEastPoint
(20,170 posts)JoseBalow
(10,018 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
(2,128 posts)displacedvermoter
(5,318 posts)-misanthroptimist
(2,128 posts)Bogart could bring the dead pan humor like no one else.
CTyankee
(68,613 posts)CTyankee
(68,613 posts)Mad_Dem_X
(10,260 posts)CTyankee
(68,613 posts)It was an interesting and thought provoking film.
Mad_Dem_X
(10,260 posts)I keep meaning to see the entire thing.
CTyankee
(68,613 posts)madamesilverspurs
(16,586 posts)VGNonly
(8,646 posts)...and the cats meow"
Brother Buzz
(40,738 posts)Dave Bowman
(7,627 posts)Easy Rider. 🙂
Brother Buzz
(40,738 posts)Extra points if you can ID the letterman sweater Jack Nicholson is wearing on the motorcycle.
VGNonly
(8,646 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
(40,738 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
(53,655 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
(10,260 posts)Harker
(18,386 posts)red dog 1
(33,871 posts)Taggart: "I'd say you've had enough!"
Mad_Dem_X
(10,260 posts)Harker
(18,386 posts)Mad_Dem_X
(10,260 posts)Mad_Dem_X
(10,260 posts)Brokeback Mountain
Harker
(18,386 posts)red dog 1
(33,871 posts)VGNonly
(8,646 posts)every spring the toilets explode.
Who delivered the medical school cadavers to the alumni dinner?
VGNonly
(8,646 posts)Killed in Vietnam by his own troops.
VGNonly
(8,646 posts)Last edited Wed Apr 29, 2026, 11:41 PM - Edit history (1)
...Scotts Bar".
Harker
(18,386 posts)Not sure how I missed it before.
Janbdwl72
(341 posts)It's from an older movie, made in the 1960s.
Harker
(18,386 posts)"They call me MISTER Tibbs!"
VGNonly
(8,646 posts)Angleae
(4,829 posts)One of the girls had an imaginary friend, what was the name of the friend?
JoseBalow
(10,018 posts)Harker
(18,386 posts)Indian Agent/Thief to Paul Newman.
Harker
(18,386 posts)Practically the entire script is a series of quotable lines.
Harker
(18,386 posts)tikka
(855 posts)Harker
(18,386 posts)Yep!
a kennedy
(36,925 posts)Mad_Dem_X
(10,260 posts)It sounds so familiar, but I just can't place it.
a kennedy
(36,925 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
(10,018 posts)sammythecat
(3,604 posts)William Holden in Sam Peckinpah's "The Wild Bunch".
JoseBalow
(10,018 posts)Harker
(18,386 posts)Never heard "friendo" elsewhere.
JoseBalow
(10,018 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
(18,386 posts)Like Jell-O.
When you've used it, were you aiming for Bardem level menace?
Harker
(18,386 posts)oasis
(54,532 posts)Mad_Dem_X
(10,260 posts)oasis
(54,532 posts)Janbdwl72
(341 posts)I'll give the answer in a separate thread. Hopefully, someone will take a stab at this.
Harker
(18,386 posts)That's a stab for you.
thucythucy
(9,176 posts)The Wizard
(14,005 posts)Harker
(18,386 posts)Harker
(18,386 posts)lpbk2713
(43,326 posts)Sir Alec Guinness as Col Nicholson.
The Force was with him.
Harker
(18,386 posts)lpbk2713
(43,326 posts)Harker
(18,386 posts)I'm sure we have our favorite outliers, but that really was a great era on all counts.
Harker
(18,386 posts)JoseBalow
(10,018 posts)JoseBalow
(10,018 posts)Same character, same movie
VGNonly
(8,646 posts)Harker
(18,386 posts)CanonRay
(16,342 posts)Harker
(18,386 posts)CanonRay
(16,342 posts)Harker
(18,386 posts)So, I saw it right off!
Mad_Dem_X
(10,260 posts)gladium et scutum
(837 posts)Harker
(18,386 posts)gladium et scutum
(837 posts)Harker
(18,386 posts)a kennedy
(36,925 posts)Nobody has even come close
ha ha, not even a guess.
Harker
(18,386 posts)red dog 1
(33,871 posts)Harker
(18,386 posts)Harker
(18,386 posts)JoseBalow
(10,018 posts)JoseBalow
(10,018 posts)Same character, same movie
red dog 1
(33,871 posts)efhmc
(17,406 posts)VGNonly
(8,646 posts)I feel as big as a damn mountain."
Harker
(18,386 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
(18,386 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
(8,646 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
(18,386 posts)I very much enjoyed "Double Indemnity" again, nudged by you toward a closer look at Billy Wilder.
JoseBalow
(10,018 posts)I quote it in my signature line
VGNonly
(8,646 posts)"I'm too young to be a beatnik, too old to be a hippie".
JoseBalow
(10,018 posts)"Why you gotta mess with the clubs?"
Harker
(18,386 posts)JoseBalow
(10,018 posts)Brother Buzz
(40,738 posts)red dog 1
(33,871 posts)progressoid
(53,655 posts)Harker
(18,386 posts)The only line spoken in this movie.
JoseBalow
(10,018 posts)Ironically spoken by Marcel Marceau
red dog 1
(33,871 posts)JoseBalow
(10,018 posts)red dog 1
(33,871 posts)red dog 1
(33,871 posts)Last edited Sun Jun 14, 2026, 02:53 PM - Edit history (1)
JoseBalow
(10,018 posts)and if you prefer, although there's no point to it, it puts bones in fish."
Harker
(18,386 posts)JoseBalow
(10,018 posts)VGNonly
(8,646 posts)and an out-of-work bum look a lot a like".
JoseBalow
(10,018 posts)VGNonly
(8,646 posts)your lean, mean and not so far in between ".
JoseBalow
(10,018 posts)FalloutShelter
(14,803 posts)Skittles
(174,017 posts)JoseBalow
(10,018 posts)red dog 1
(33,871 posts)Mad_Dem_X
(10,260 posts)LOVE that movie!
red dog 1
(33,871 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
(10,260 posts)JoseBalow
(10,018 posts)red dog 1
(33,871 posts)Harker
(18,386 posts)JoseBalow
(10,018 posts)Slap Shot was always one of my favorites, what a classic!
Harker
(18,386 posts)Newman said it was the most fun to make of his career.
red dog 1
(33,871 posts)VGNonly
(8,646 posts)and I hear also your French".
Harker
(18,386 posts)Harker
(18,386 posts)Last edited Tue Jul 14, 2026, 10:19 AM - Edit history (1)
JoseBalow
(10,018 posts)red dog 1
(33,871 posts)JoseBalow
(10,018 posts)off-the-clock
(345 posts)Angleae
(4,829 posts)Tikki
(15,322 posts)Tikki
red dog 1
(33,871 posts)I think they said that one of their many drummers "Just exploded"
Tikki
(15,322 posts)Both movies were from 1984.
Tikki
JoseBalow
(10,018 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
(10,018 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
(40,738 posts)One of the better spaghetti westerns, but then again, Sergio Leone directed it.
VGNonly
(8,646 posts)Harker
(18,386 posts)VGNonly
(8,646 posts)I seem to remember something about Bozo in that film.
Harker
(18,386 posts)VGNonly
(8,646 posts)describing Herb Stempel/John Turturro.
Harker
(18,386 posts)Paul Scofield was exceptional as Mark Van Doren, I think..
VGNonly
(8,646 posts)JoseBalow
(10,018 posts)One of my favorites!
I posted another Arsenio movie quote in this thread, but from a different film.