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"How much you want for 'em?" (Answered)
Ritabert
(2,915 posts)mahatmakanejeeves
(71,846 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
(71,846 posts)anciano
(2,372 posts)Jim__
(15,330 posts)Harker
(18,366 posts)FalloutShelter
(14,781 posts)Brother Buzz
(40,712 posts)VGNonly
(8,636 posts)Great movie!
Brother Buzz
(40,712 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
(8,636 posts)could actually speak Russian, though he didn't speak it in the film.
JoseBalow
(9,996 posts)Tommy Carcetti
(44,623 posts)JoseBalow
(9,996 posts)Grits!
VGNonly
(8,636 posts)Harker
(18,366 posts)VGNonly
(8,636 posts)Robert Redford and Will Geer. RIP
Harker
(18,366 posts)I'm going to line up "Jeremiah Johnson" and "Three Days of the Condor" soon.
red dog 1
(33,840 posts)JoseBalow
(9,996 posts)Harvey Keitel in Pulp Fiction
red dog 1
(33,840 posts)This is the 3rd time I posted a reply to you....WTF?
(I hope this one stays posted)
JoseBalow
(9,996 posts)JoseBalow
(9,996 posts)Same character, same movie
JoseBalow
(9,996 posts)red dog 1
(33,840 posts)red dog 1
(33,840 posts)VGNonly
(8,636 posts)We watched it last week...I liked it.
JoseBalow
(9,996 posts)-misanthroptimist
(2,120 posts)Neidermeier to Flounder
Although there are probably other correct answers, too.
JoseBalow
(9,996 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
(9,996 posts)Different character, same movie
JoseBalow
(9,996 posts)red dog 1
(33,840 posts)VGNonly
(8,636 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
(8,636 posts)jgo
(1,042 posts)Wounded Bear
(64,940 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
(64,940 posts)jgo
(1,042 posts)Historic NY
(40,236 posts)Mad_Dem_X
(10,258 posts)Figarosmom
(15,176 posts)DFW
(60,923 posts)The Jessica Lange version
Figarosmom
(15,176 posts)DFW
(60,923 posts)Thats the film where I remember hearing it (spoken by Jeff Bridges).
Figarosmom
(15,176 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
(68,609 posts)Figarosmom
(15,176 posts)boonecreek
(1,565 posts)"The Bride of Frankenstein."
kacekwl
(9,331 posts)Hmmm
I'll have me some of the biggums.
red dog 1
(33,840 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
(18,366 posts)VGNonly
(8,636 posts)but can they fight?"
Harker
(18,366 posts)VGNonly
(8,636 posts)and seven Carlings"
red dog 1
(33,840 posts)VGNonly
(8,636 posts)and one of them a redhead".
red dog 1
(33,840 posts)mwmisses4289
(5,351 posts)red dog 1
(33,840 posts)mwmisses4289
(5,351 posts)Shermann
(9,075 posts)Niagara
(12,494 posts)Harker
(18,366 posts)Niagara
(12,494 posts)I'm guilty of rewatching this movie as well.
pandr32
(14,307 posts)yourout
(8,929 posts)Harker
(18,366 posts)Niagara
(12,494 posts)VGNonly
(8,636 posts)"So often you won't even notice".
red dog 1
(33,840 posts)"What kind of music do you usually play here?...
...Oh we've got both kinds; country and western!"
JoseBalow
(9,996 posts)but don't step in number two."
Mad_Dem_X
(10,258 posts)I love that movie.
JoseBalow
(9,996 posts)Dean Martin!
Mad_Dem_X
(10,258 posts)"I don't believe this!"
"Maybe it's a dream!"
VGNonly
(8,636 posts)Mad_Dem_X
(10,258 posts)Harker
(18,366 posts)JoseBalow
(9,996 posts)"Stabbing headache?"
red dog 1
(33,840 posts)Harker
(18,366 posts)Harker
(18,366 posts)TexasBushwhacker
(21,362 posts)"But I was going to make espresso!"
RIP Gene Hackman
The Wizard
(13,991 posts)She is a prostitute.
The Roux Comes First
(2,469 posts)Harker
(18,366 posts)Harker
(18,366 posts)Angleae
(4,829 posts)Harker
(18,366 posts)catbyte
(39,522 posts)Tommy Carcetti
(44,623 posts)"Everyone has a big but. Tell me about your big but."
bobalew
(507 posts)The Ox is slow, but the earth is patient "
Tikki
(15,313 posts)Tikki
Harker
(18,366 posts)There once was a man from Australia
who painted his arse like a dahlia
NNadir
(38,960 posts)red dog 1
(33,840 posts)(I'm thinking that maybe Noah Cross (John Huston) may have uttered that line)
NNadir
(38,960 posts)red dog 1
(33,840 posts)This makes my day!
Harker
(18,366 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
(18,366 posts)JoseBalow
(9,996 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
(9,996 posts)JoseBalow
(9,996 posts)"Good, though."
VGNonly
(8,636 posts)Mad_Dem_X
(10,258 posts)VGNonly
(8,636 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
(33,840 posts)Harker
(18,366 posts)Hal Holbrook as Deep Throat.
red dog 1
(33,840 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
(18,366 posts)Angleae
(4,829 posts)Harker
(18,366 posts)I was thinking of "Return of The Pink Panther", 1976.
VGNonly
(8,636 posts)[link:
|Aristus
(72,828 posts)._.
(1,923 posts)"It had to end sometime"..
Phoenix61
(18,935 posts)Harker
(18,366 posts)Melvin, as portrayed by Jack Nicholson.
Phoenix61
(18,935 posts)VGNonly
(8,636 posts)print the legend."
Brother Buzz
(40,712 posts)Shooting the film in Black and White for budget constraints only made the film stronger. John Ford was a genius.
VGNonly
(8,636 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
(9,996 posts)"All gone. Num num is gone."
LSparkle
(12,264 posts)JoseBalow
(9,996 posts)LSparkle
(12,264 posts)Harker
(18,366 posts)Harker
(18,366 posts)VGNonly
(8,636 posts)VGNonly
(8,636 posts)After 50+ years all that I remember are a few words and phrases, can count to ten and some swear words.
Harker
(18,366 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
(8,636 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
(18,366 posts)Paternal side from Ireland more recently, and with little documentation.
VGNonly
(8,636 posts)I checked out her bio, what an intriguing story, thank you so much.
Harker
(18,366 posts)VGNonly
(8,636 posts)Navy Lt. Commander, MS electrical engineer, wintered in the Antarctic, worked with NASA on Apollo missions and Skylab.
Harker
(18,366 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
(18,366 posts)VGNonly
(8,636 posts)VGNonly
(8,636 posts)Harker
(18,366 posts)VGNonly
(8,636 posts)The Manchurian Candidate, Birdman of Alcatraz and Seven Days in May.
My favorite director is Billy Wilder.
Harker
(18,366 posts)Time to get cracking with interlibrary loans!
VGNonly
(8,636 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
(18,366 posts)Harker
(18,366 posts)Brother Buzz
(40,712 posts)VGNonly
(8,636 posts)Brother Buzz
(40,712 posts)displacedvermoter
(5,283 posts)buzzycrumbhunger
(2,536 posts)CurtEastPoint
(20,163 posts)JoseBalow
(9,996 posts)CurtEastPoint
(20,163 posts)JoseBalow
(9,996 posts)
CurtEastPoint
(20,163 posts)Cloudhopper
(202 posts)CurtEastPoint
(20,163 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
(68,609 posts)CTyankee
(68,609 posts)Mad_Dem_X
(10,258 posts)CTyankee
(68,609 posts)It was an interesting and thought provoking film.
Mad_Dem_X
(10,258 posts)I keep meaning to see the entire thing.
CTyankee
(68,609 posts)madamesilverspurs
(16,581 posts)VGNonly
(8,636 posts)...and the cats meow"
Brother Buzz
(40,712 posts)Dave Bowman
(7,601 posts)Easy Rider. 🙂
Brother Buzz
(40,712 posts)Extra points if you can ID the letterman sweater Jack Nicholson is wearing on the motorcycle.
VGNonly
(8,636 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
(40,712 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
(18,366 posts)red dog 1
(33,840 posts)Taggart: "I'd say you've had enough!"
Mad_Dem_X
(10,258 posts)Harker
(18,366 posts)Mad_Dem_X
(10,258 posts)Mad_Dem_X
(10,258 posts)Brokeback Mountain
Harker
(18,366 posts)red dog 1
(33,840 posts)VGNonly
(8,636 posts)every spring the toilets explode.
Who delivered the medical school cadavers to the alumni dinner?
VGNonly
(8,636 posts)Killed in Vietnam by his own troops.
VGNonly
(8,636 posts)Last edited Wed Apr 29, 2026, 11:41 PM - Edit history (1)
...Scotts Bar".
Harker
(18,366 posts)Not sure how I missed it before.
Janbdwl72
(334 posts)It's from an older movie, made in the 1960s.
Harker
(18,366 posts)"They call me MISTER Tibbs!"
VGNonly
(8,636 posts)Angleae
(4,829 posts)One of the girls had an imaginary friend, what was the name of the friend?
JoseBalow
(9,996 posts)Harker
(18,366 posts)Indian Agent/Thief to Paul Newman.
Harker
(18,366 posts)Practically the entire script is a series of quotable lines.
Harker
(18,366 posts)tikka
(854 posts)Harker
(18,366 posts)Yep!
a kennedy
(36,908 posts)Mad_Dem_X
(10,258 posts)It sounds so familiar, but I just can't place it.
a kennedy
(36,908 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
(9,996 posts)sammythecat
(3,604 posts)William Holden in Sam Peckinpah's "The Wild Bunch".
JoseBalow
(9,996 posts)Harker
(18,366 posts)Never heard "friendo" elsewhere.
JoseBalow
(9,996 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
(18,366 posts)Like Jell-O.
When you've used it, were you aiming for Bardem level menace?
Harker
(18,366 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
(18,366 posts)That's a stab for you.
thucythucy
(9,176 posts)The Wizard
(13,991 posts)Harker
(18,366 posts)Harker
(18,366 posts)lpbk2713
(43,323 posts)Sir Alec Guinness as Col Nicholson.
The Force was with him.
Harker
(18,366 posts)lpbk2713
(43,323 posts)Harker
(18,366 posts)I'm sure we have our favorite outliers, but that really was a great era on all counts.
Harker
(18,366 posts)JoseBalow
(9,996 posts)JoseBalow
(9,996 posts)Same character, same movie
VGNonly
(8,636 posts)Harker
(18,366 posts)CanonRay
(16,336 posts)Harker
(18,366 posts)CanonRay
(16,336 posts)Harker
(18,366 posts)So, I saw it right off!
Mad_Dem_X
(10,258 posts)gladium et scutum
(837 posts)Harker
(18,366 posts)gladium et scutum
(837 posts)Harker
(18,366 posts)a kennedy
(36,908 posts)Nobody has even come close
ha ha, not even a guess.
Harker
(18,366 posts)red dog 1
(33,840 posts)Harker
(18,366 posts)Harker
(18,366 posts)JoseBalow
(9,996 posts)JoseBalow
(9,996 posts)Same character, same movie
red dog 1
(33,840 posts)efhmc
(17,364 posts)VGNonly
(8,636 posts)I feel as big as a damn mountain."
Harker
(18,366 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
(18,366 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
(8,636 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
(18,366 posts)I very much enjoyed "Double Indemnity" again, nudged by you toward a closer look at Billy Wilder.
JoseBalow
(9,996 posts)I quote it in my signature line
VGNonly
(8,636 posts)"I'm too young to be a beatnik, too old to be a hippie".
JoseBalow
(9,996 posts)"Why you gotta mess with the clubs?"
Harker
(18,366 posts)JoseBalow
(9,996 posts)Brother Buzz
(40,712 posts)red dog 1
(33,840 posts)progressoid
(53,635 posts)Harker
(18,366 posts)The only line spoken in this movie.
JoseBalow
(9,996 posts)Ironically spoken by Marcel Marceau
red dog 1
(33,840 posts)JoseBalow
(9,996 posts)red dog 1
(33,840 posts)red dog 1
(33,840 posts)Last edited Sun Jun 14, 2026, 02:53 PM - Edit history (1)
JoseBalow
(9,996 posts)and if you prefer, although there's no point to it, it puts bones in fish."
Harker
(18,366 posts)VGNonly
(8,636 posts)and an out-of-work bum look a lot a like".
JoseBalow
(9,996 posts)VGNonly
(8,636 posts)your lean, mean and not so far in between ".
JoseBalow
(9,996 posts)FalloutShelter
(14,781 posts)Skittles
(173,927 posts)JoseBalow
(9,996 posts)red dog 1
(33,840 posts)Mad_Dem_X
(10,258 posts)LOVE that movie!
red dog 1
(33,840 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
(9,996 posts)red dog 1
(33,840 posts)Harker
(18,366 posts)JoseBalow
(9,996 posts)Slap Shot was always one of my favorites, what a classic!
Harker
(18,366 posts)Newman said it was the most fun to make of his career.
red dog 1
(33,840 posts)VGNonly
(8,636 posts)and I hear also your French".
Harker
(18,366 posts)Harker
(18,366 posts)JoseBalow
(9,996 posts)red dog 1
(33,840 posts)JoseBalow
(9,996 posts)off-the-clock
(345 posts)Angleae
(4,829 posts)Tikki
(15,313 posts)Tikki
red dog 1
(33,840 posts)I think they said that one of their many drummers "Just exploded"
Tikki
(15,313 posts)Both movies were from 1984.
Tikki
JoseBalow
(9,996 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
(15,313 posts)Pop the trunk at your own peril.
Tikki
JoseBalow
(9,996 posts)That's not a clue, that's a total give-away!
Tikki
(15,313 posts)Best god-damn car on the lot.
.
Tikki
Doc_Technical
(3,799 posts)Brother Buzz
(40,712 posts)One of the better spaghetti westerns, but then again, Sergio Leone directed it.