A few clues

[girlyswot]

For the film meme here. The unguessed quotes are:

3. "How old do you have to be before you know the difference between right and wrong? Do you have to be eighteen? Do you have to be eighteen before you can bring yourself to own up to a lie? There are soldiers of eighteen old enough to be left to die on the side of the road! Did you know that?"
This is the most recent film on the list, which came out within the last 12 months. I cried all the way through it.
Atonement, guessed by brownfach

5. "I said, I said I saw your dad on "Fantasy Island"!"
I love this film - it's pretending to be an action movie, but really it's a romantic comedy with guns. A lot of guns. In unexpected places.
Mr and Mrs Smith, guessed by bookish327

8. "It's not "show friends." It's show *business*."
One of Tom Cruise's best films (though he didn't say this line).
Jerry Maguire, guessed by dogstar101

10. Character A: "Plato, in Greek! Not easy." Character B: "Don't you think so?"
I'm not really surprised no one else knows this. It's my most-watched film and it was Helena Bonham Carter's first role.
Lady Jane guessed, brilliantly, by tdu000

11. "I do this in the name of sports-watching, romantically-minded men; a maligned, misunderstood minority."
A romantic comedy in which perspective really matters. The US title is different from the UK title. This line is spoken by a man behind the customer help desk at Heathrow. Same lead actor as number 9.
Martha Meet Frank, Daniel and Laurence, guessed (sort of) by tdu000

15.Character A: "Anyway, what's that saying about the sea and there being plenty of fish in it?" Character B: "Ah, yes, but I couldn't possibly marry a fish. I'd be sure to land an old trout."
Film of a play. Not sure if this line was in the original. Might be.
An Ideal Husband, guessed with A LOT of help, by tdu000

And don't forget there are extra bonus points for anyone who can tell me the movie trivia link between #5 and #13 (Mansfield Park). Well done to bookish327 who correctly worked out that Jonny Lee Miller who starred in Mansfield Park was once married to Angelina Jolie who starred in Mr and Mrs Smith. I feel that you deserve a prize. Would you like a story? Give me characters/prompts/whatever and I'll see what I can do.

Well done, everyone!

Comments

[gabrielladusult.livejournal.com]

Considering how much I like all the other movies on your list, I'm amazed that Mr. and Mrs. Smith is on there since I really loathed it. The Admiral and I looked at each other at the end of it and said, "Well, it's a good thing they're both so pretty, because that was terrible!"

That's ok. I think the Admiral and I are the only two people in the world who didn't love Pirates of the Carribean either.

There's always something.

[girlyswot.livejournal.com]

I didn't expect to enjoy it when I watched it by accident the first time. Maybe if you like action films it's not a good one (I wouldn't know) but I think that as a romantic comedy it works brilliantly. The onscreen chemistry between Brad and Angelina is sizzling and I love the bits with the marriage therapist.

[gabrielladusult.livejournal.com]

I don't know -- I guess I'm just old enough to prefer Prizzi's Honor. Even though I definitely prefer Brad Pitt to Jack Nicholson!

[tdu000.livejournal.com]

Nope, my brother loathed it and hated the sequels even more. His daughter made him take her. So that's three of you.

[gabrielladusult.livejournal.com]

I will probably rent the sequels because I didn't hate it quite as much and just hate not knowing what everyone else is talking about...but I'll wait until the Admiral is gone, because he won't set eyes on another minute of it.

[tdu000.livejournal.com]

I enjoyed the first one but found the second rather disappointing and fell asleep (at the cinema in the afternoon!) during the third, even though the wonderful Geoffrey Rush was back. I know what you mean about wanting to know what people are talking about.