Kat’s Film and Book Reviews

Okay, remember last week’s quotation?  It was won by Abby, who correctly guessed Back to the Future. Good job, Abby!

Here’s the original Back to the Future trailer, though it doesn’t have last week’s quotation in it.

Now, for the new quotation!  Ready?

Fasten your seatbelts.  It’s going to be a bumpy night.

Okay, last time we had a longish quotation, then we had several hints, but nobody got the book quotation.  Here’s what it was:

Along the road there came a stranger in a land where strangers were rare and suspect.  He walked up to the door of a crumbling farmhouse and hammered.  After a long moment, a light blinked on somewhere in the house and a young woman appeared, drawing a cheap mail-order bathrobe tightly about her.  She opened the door a crack and her sleep-swollen face winced with fear as she stared at the apparition on her doorstep.  He was over six feet tall and dressed entirely in black.  He wore a black suit, black tie, a black hat, and black overcoat, with impractical black dress shoes covered with mud.  His face, barely visible in the darkness, sported a neatly trimmed mustache and goatee.  The flashes of lightning behind him added an eerie effect.

“May I use your phone?” he asked.

The clues were:

• was originally written in the 70’s
• is non-fiction
• had a  movie based in it a few years ago.

The answer is…The Mothman Prophecies, by John Keel.  And I have to say, I think my friends in West Virginia could have gotten that if they’d thought about it.

Anyway, here’s another one for next week.  This one includes a special shout-out to my dad, since I got the quotation from a book I borrowed from him.

She was not quite what you would call refined. She was not quite what you would call unrefined. She was the kind of person who keeps a parrot.

I’m sorry I’ve been neglecting all of you this week. The good news is that I’ve been working on a well-paying writing assignment, but the bad news is that I haven’t given my blogs the love they deserve. And the Oscar noms got released this week and everything!

So, Annie guessed it. Last week’s quotation was Gary Cooper as Lou Gehrig in 1942’s Pride of the Yankees. Best baseball movie ever. Here’s the clip:

Here’s actual footage of the Iron Horse and his farewell speech. It’s cut a little, but I wonder why they didn’t use his “I’ve got an awful lot to live for” line.

This week’s quotation is going to be fun. I think it might be one of those things where if you know it, you really know it, but if you don’t, you might be lost. We’ll give it a shot. Tell you what, if nobody knows by Wednesday, I’ll give you a clue.

This is not occult science. Our beliefs are fairly commonplace and simple to understand. Humankind is simply materialized color operating on the 49th vibration. You’d make that conclusion walking down the street or going to the store.

…and yes, I know it’s Tuesday.  I crashed Sunday afternoon and slept for about 3 hours, and then yesterday the kids were home all day.

So, the score stands at Annie 1, Nancy 1.  And here’s our new quotation:

You ever seen a grown man naked?