Do you know what films have given us the following quotes?"What we have here is a failure to communicate."
"Excuse me while I whip this out."
"Would somebody get this walking carpet out of my way?"
"I don't know why they call this stuff Hamburger Helper, it does just fine by itself."
And how are you at movie trivia?In
The Blues Brothers why are Jake and Elwood "puttin' the band back together"? In
Airplane!, which dinner was poisioned: the fish or the chicken? True or False: Diane Keaton won the Academy Award for Best Actress for her performance in
Annie Hall.
For the movie buff and video hound,
What's that From? provides hours of entertainment. You can test your knowledge with more than 1,000 quotes and questions from more than 250 contemporary films--from Academy Award winners to cult classics. Also included are bonus questions on actors and directors, special categories on individual actors, movies, and themes (Wester, baseball, sequels), plus a section devoted exclusively to Academy Award-winning performances.
It's all here in the ultimate tribute to the great movies of the seventies, eighties, and nineties from
National Lampoon's Animal House to
When Harry Met Sally So the next time you hear someone say, "It's just a flesh wound, " you will not have to ask
"What's that from?"
Reader Reviews
This review is from: What's That From?: The Ultimate Quiz Book of Contemporary Movie Lines (Paperback)
This was not at all what I expected. The format is a bit confusing at first, and the the fact that not one line listed under Mel Brooks was ever spoke by him in a movie just set me off. He wrote the lines, but that's not the point. In addition, many of the lines are so generic/obscure as to be pointless, uninteresting and thus no fun. There is some interesting stuff, but when we played guessing games from it over the holidays, we quickly lost interest. I would not recommend this book and hope that there is something better out there.
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