I think #01 is 2001 A Space Odyssey (spoken by Hal the computer) and I got #17 and #22 correct, but I've never been much of a movie goer. Of course, now we watch a lot of TCM. Just finished watching " I love you Alice B Toklas". My DH loves Peter Sellers!
Anyone who watches Turner Classic Movies has seen number 24 numerous times. It's littered with famous quotes and is black and white. Woody Allen did a spoof of it. One of his movies is here too. Nobody understood it would become one of the iconic black and white films when they made it.
Herr Oberkuchen of the other movie plays in this one too. One of the lines in it is "I shall remember to pay it to myself" and of course he kept Sam on.
On number 10 the lead actor has a line "I could never be with a woman who likes Joni Mitchell after being told she could never be with a man who has a boat. The dog's name is Brinkley.
Number 04 is older. It's famous for the way it approached the story. She dives off the boat to get away from her father and ends up meeting this man on the road. At the end her father on the way up the altar to marry someone else tells her that the man she met on the road loves her and that he's parked her car on the other side of the grounds. In the last scene the motel owner buys a cheap trumpet for them as they celebrate.
Number 08 is famous too. It was the only good picture this actor might have made and it really did rock the movie industry at the time. This scene is right at the end and both of the two mens faces are all beaten up. I used a scene from this movie in the sports illustrated interview thing above.
Number 14 had two big actors both hunks playing together in this fun western with the FEMALE star of this movie: "I just want to say one word to you. One word. Plastics." or to make it easier "Are you trying to seduce me Mrs Robinson?"
04. "He thinks I'm a spoilt brat. And he blames you. Oh he's marvellous."
08. "There ain't gonna be no rematch. Don't want one."
10. "Don't cry little shop girl. Don't cry."
14. "Who are those guys?" (Can I move? I'm better when I move. You just keep thinking there Butch. That's what your good at.)
24. "I remember. You wore blue. The Nazi's wore grey."
I just read your description for #4 and it sounds like "It Happened One Night" After you watch so many of those old movies, they start to blend together.
12. "Why? How many men have you slept with? Well, there was Adam, and Alan, and Andrew, and Arnold...wait! I'm still in the 'a's." Well, it sounds like Mae West. Is that close?
I agree with you that's the kind of line Mae West would have said. This was from a later comedy.
Bladerunner is correct. That's 18. I guess I can move to the last part and wrap this up. I put in the trailer link for Baron Von Munchausen which I felt was the hardest one. So 19 are solved.
The movies missed are:
Blazing Saddles Dr Strangelove Swordfish Groundhog Day Love and Death
It's only now that I realize I used the same movie twice. Love and Death has two of the remaining lines.
06. "Misdirection. What the eye sees and the ears hear the mind believes." 11. "Where are the white women at??" 12. "Why? How many men have you slept with? Well, there was Adam, and Alan, and Andrew, and Arnold...wait! I'm still in the 'a's." 20. "Glance side to side. You're doing pretty good for a quadruped. Don't drive angry." 21. "What's the good of building a doomsday weapon when you don't tell anybody????" 25. "That night I had a strange and vivid dream."
By a process of elimination and with your clues, 12 and 25 might be from Life and Death. But then where does the quote about the quadruped fit in? I give up.
Mary, you've gotten a lot of them. It may help to ask yourself if there is a quadruped in one of the remaining two titles?
Dr Strangelove Groundhog Day
In Dr Strangelove Peter Sellers is having a meltdown in his wheelchair regressing to his Nazi days while George C Scott is hyped up about Russians being in the precious war room. Peter Sellers played three different roles in this film about war.
In Groundhog Day Bill Murray gets stuck in the same day over and over and realizes suddenly he has to kill the groundhog to get out of this. He's wrong; but, he does kidnap the groundhog and it's the Phil the groundhog partly driving when they go over the cliff.
That's the one. Harold Ramis' film with the underlying idea that if we don't develop then we are metaphorically living the same day over and over whereupon some of the audience rose up and slew him for pointing that out. Or at least that was one of his fears.
I like film partly because it is cut off the director's floor and the scenes remain the scenes while in real life people don't agree on who meant what and who said what a short time later. That has always driven me nuts and it took a very long time to learn to roll my eyes and get on with it because there was no point in arguing my version of the truth in many forums.
I've learned some valuable things from Alzheimers. In stumbling around sifting through the rubble I learned that half of my friends actually are quite strange and always have been. Their quirks largely didn't bother me when I had my life running like a swiss watch but those same quirks have been the source of tremendous pain to me at different times these last eight years.
The valuable thing I learned was that they make a great thermometer. When I was more in need than I ever imagined I would be and when I went down into that abyss I was abandoned by all but one and that is the simple truth. That hurt so bad I can't express what I felt or tell you how many hours I've spent replaying so many moments of utter destruction of trusts. And for some time now I can't get worked up about it. This is them. I'm more interested in my life these days and they are the canary in the coal mine that proves it.
During these stressful years my smoking crept up high. I've never tried to quit. For three months now I've cut my smoking in half. This is me on withdrawal. Power doesn't lie with them. It doesn't lie in alzheimers. It's mine.
Well, Wolf, that movie quiz was great fun. Thanks for putting it together. While waiting for my pelvis fracture to heal, I've been watching a lot of DVD's. There are many good ones that I've missed over the years. I've just finished watching "Swingers" - new to me - and loved it.