ROUGH MOVIE REVIEWS
SCI-FI & FANTASY BOOKS
I'M THINKING OF A NUMBER
WAYS TO SAY GET LOST
DD!!
200
Not Team Edward nor Team Jacob, The Austin Chronicle "had mosquito bites that were more passionate than" this 2008 film
Twilight
200
"The Sword in the Stone" is the first part of an epic quartet of books by T.H. White that tells the story of this king
King Arthur
200
It's been in use by Heinz since 1896, despite never referring to an actual quantity of anything
57
200
The OED says this word is used to "drive away poultry, birds, or other intruders"; presumably that includes flies
shoo
200
Expressing relief that something's gone, this phrase shows up in both Shakespeare (1609) & Green Day (a few years later)
"Good Riddance"
400
A Letterboxd review of this 2018 Emily Blunt / John Krasinski film: "Why the (bleep) would you have another baby"?
A Quiet Place
400
No relation to the late night host, this sword-slinging barbarian created by Robert E. Howard debuted in the 1930s
Conan the Barbarian
400
It's how many Spartans died fighting the Persian army at Thermopylae, at least according to the title of a 2006 film
300
400
Michael Jackson used this "get lost" phrase as the title of a song about avoiding violence at all costs
beat it
600
On 1994's "North", he wrote, "I hated (the) movie. Hated hated hated hated hated (the) movie. Hated it"; Siskel, also not a fan
Ebert
600
"Contact" is a 1985 novel from this astronomer who taught us about space on his PBS show "Cosmos"
Carl Sagan
600
It's 2 numbers, actually, & together they mean "message received" in radio-speak
10-4
600
Drop the last 3 letters of a way to cook eggs to get this word meaning "depart quickly"
scram
800
Sorry, Ms. Bullock! Rotten Tomatoes' "100 Worst Movies of All Time" included this "2: Cruise Control" & its "laughable dialogue"
Speed 2
800
A Catholic prayer is in the title of this Andy Weir book about a star-bound molecular biologist trying to save Earth
Project Hail Mary
800
In a Proclaimers hit it's the total miles the singer would walk just to be the man who had fallen down at a door after walking that far
1,000 miles
800
Daily Double!!
Expressing relief that something's gone, this phrase shows up in both Shakespeare (1609) & Green Day (a few years later)
1000
An Amazon review of this 2013 film about Solomon Northup somewhat missed the point: "I did not like the treatment of people"; 1 star
12 Years a Slave
1000
Set in Westeros, "A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms" is by this author
George R.R. Martin
1000
Come on, Christmas wasn't that long ago; this number comes right before "geese a-laying"
6
1000
If puns are your thing, instead of saying "Get lost", you might opt for "Make like a tree &" do this
leave