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Quotables #109: The Collective Cinema of Kevin Bacon
Continuing our Collective Cinema Quotable game, we've decided to pick the movies of Kevin Bacon. Each of the following quotes or snippets of dialogue are spoken by Bacon. Your job is to guess which movies they're from.

Bacon: "From the oldest of times, people danced for a number of reasons. They danced in prayer... or so that their crops would be plentiful... or so their hunt would be good. And they danced to stay physically fit... and show their community spirit. And they danced to celebrate." And that is the dancing we're talking about. Aren't we told in Psalm 149, "Praise ye the Lord. Sing unto the Lord a new song. Let them praise His name in the dance"? And it was King David - King David, who we read about in Samuel - and what did David do? What did David do? ...What did David do? ..."David danced before the Lord with all his might... leaping and dancing before the Lord." Leaping and dancing! Ecclesiastes assures us... that there is a time for every purpose under heaven. A time to laugh... and a time to weep. A time to mourn... and there is a time to dance. And there was a time for this law, but not anymore. See, this is our time to dance. It is our way of celebrating life. It's the way it was in the beginning. It's the way it's always been. It's the way it should be now.
Movie 1:
Man: What are we looking at?
Bacon: They plead guilty; we drop the conspiracy and conduct unbecoming. Twenty years, they're home in half that time.
Man: I want twelve.
Bacon: Can't do it.
Man: They called the ambulance, Jack.
Bacon: I don't care if they called the Avon lady. They killed a Marine.
Man: Rag was tested for poison. Lab report, autopsy all say the same thing: maybe, maybe not.
Bacon: The Chief of Internal Medicine for the Guantanamo Bay Naval Hospital says he's sure.
Man: What do you know about code reds?
Bacon: Oh, man. Are we off the record?
Man: You tell me.
Bacon: Look, I'm going to give you the twelve years. Before you get yourself into any trouble tomorrow, I think you should know that the platoon commander, Lieutenant [name deleted] held a meeting with the men and specifically told them not to touch [name deleted].
Man: We playing hoops tomorrow night?
Bacon: Do we have a deal?
Man: I'll talk to you when I get back.
Movie 2:
Bacon: Okay. "Hey, Sean, how was your day?" Oh, me? I'm tired of wishing things made sense. I'm tired of caring about some dead girl, and there's just gonna be another one after her. Sending killers to jail is just sending them where they've been heading all their dumb, pathetic lives. The dead are still dead.
Movie 3:
Man: What I need to know is why. Why are you telling us this?
Bacon: 'Cause that motherfucker Kennedy stole that motherfuckin' election, that's why. Nixon was gonna be one of the great presidents 'til Kennedy wrecked it up. Got niggas running around askin' for their damn rights. Why do you think we got all this crime nowadays? He promised those motherfuckers too goddamn much, you ask me.
Movie 4:
Bacon: Oww! Goddamn this piece of shit!
Man #1: Hey! This piece of shit's going to get you home! That's 'cause that's the only thing we've got left, Jack.
Bacon: Well, what are you saying, Fred?
Man #1: Oh, I think you know what I'm saying.
Bacon: Now, wait a minute... all I did was stir those tanks.
Man #1: What was that gauge reading before you hit the switch?
Bacon: Hey, don't tell me how to fly the damned CM, alright? They brought me in here to do a job, they asked me to stir the damned tanks, and I stirred the tanks!
Man #1: You didn't know what you were doing, do you?
Man #2: Jack, quit kicking yourself in the ass.
Bacon: This is not my fault!
Man #2: No one is saying it is. If I'm in the left-hand seat when the call comes up, I stir the tanks.
Bacon: Yeah, well, tell him that.
Man #1: I just asked you what the gauge was reading, and you don't know!
Man #2: Alright, we're not doing this, gentlemen. We are not going to do this. We're not going to go bouncing off the walls for ten minutes, 'cause we're just going to end up back here with the same problems! Try to figure out how to stay alive!
Movie 5:

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