Poorly describe movies and guess what they are

[Ken Natton]

Can I have a go?


Fruity guy marries an innocent, corrupts her, then reforms leaving her in the gutter.

Novel chap is a hero to his fellow sufferers because he won’t conform. They think he betrays them and he is only restored to hero status when he loses his life.

Famously vain man teams with a shrewd blonde beauty. Together they cause a great deal of trouble.

Prevailing attitudes make justice impossible, but a father teaches his children the value of dignity and restraint.

Both men would rather the company of almost anyone else on earth, but circumstances force them to work together and each earns the grudging respect of the other.

After she foils the evil intention of their father, she has the responsibility of caring for her younger brother, but survival seems unlikely. Their saviour is someone she might have looked down on but does he know more than she realizes about the true path to happiness?

 

[cepheid]

A young adult receives a piece of jewelry from his uncle and is chased by dark-clothed bullies and a large eye.

This one is fairly obvious so I'm assuming it was just overlooked, but anyway:

The Lord of the Rings

 

[khemist]

nvm i was way late.

 

[Argentum Vulpes]

Dr. Strangelove

*In a heavily stilted German accent*

"Mien Führer, I can walk!"

In others words correct. Well 3 should be easy now.

 

[zoobyshoe]

Well 3 should be easy now.

"He rode a bomb" would refer to Slim Pickens, but he was in a lot of westerns.

 

[TurtleMeister]

Movie 1) Sirius falls from the sky
Movie 2) A retired professor checks her mail box, but must return less than one minute later to check it again.
Movie 3) A cowboy tells a movie producer who he must choose to play a leading role.

 

[Argentum Vulpes]

"He rode a bomb" would refer to Slim Pickens, but he was in a lot of westerns.

True, I guess to make it less vague I'll add:

This director had a expertise for advertising a sequel, but they never formed.

 

[zoobyshoe]

True, I guess to make it less vague I'll add:

This director had a expertise for advertising a sequel, but they never formed.

The clue means nothing to me, but I'm going to guess Blazing Saddles, just because it was a hit movie.

 

[zoobyshoe]

Both men would rather the company of almost anyone else on earth, but circumstances force them to work together and each earns the grudging respect of the other.

Yours are difficult.

This one might refer to The Defiant Ones, or, also with Sidney Poitier, In The Heat Of The Night.

 

[Argentum Vulpes]

The clue means nothing to me, but I'm going to guess Blazing Saddles, just because it was a hit movie.

"Somebody's got to go back and get a s*** load of dimes!"

You are correct. Mel Brooks had in most of his movies drops/songs about the sequels to the current movie. Of course is was just a joke.

 

[Argentum Vulpes]

...
Movie 2) A retired professor checks her mail box, but must return less than one minute later to check it again.
...

It sounds like The lake house, however the only other movie I can think of involving mail is You've got mail.

 

[TurtleMeister]

It sounds like The lake house, however the only other movie I can think of involving mail is You've got mail.

Nope. A few more hints: It's a physical mail box. When she checks it, she is being watched by the movies main character. She wrote the book that the main character is reading.

 

[Ken Natton]

Yours are difficult.

This one might refer to The Defiant Ones, or, also with Sidney Poitier, In The Heat Of The Night.

Funny isn't it, I thought I'd made some of them too easy. I suppose its all a matter of whether you know them or not. Yes, Sidney Poitier and Rod Steiger were the two gentlemen struggling to get on In the Heat of the Night that I was thinking of.

 

[zoobyshoe]

Funny isn't it, I thought I'd made some of them too easy. I suppose its all a matter of whether you know them or not.

Yeah, I reread them several times and nothing came to mind. I decided I must not be familiar with any of them.

 

[SpringCreek]

Novel chap is a hero to his fellow sufferers because he won’t conform. They think he betrays them and he is only restored to hero status when he loses his life.

Cool Hand Luke?

Prevailing attitudes make justice impossible, but a father teaches his children the value of dignity and restraint..

To Kill A Mocking Bird?

 

[Ken Natton]

Cool Hand Luke?

Yes.

To Kill A Mocking Bird?

And yes.

 

[SpringCreek]

1. Childhood sled
2. How many bullets?
3. That call home is probably long distance
4. Is he dead or alive?
5. It's people
6. Ancient roman clothing

2. Dirty Harry
3. ET
6. Gladiator

 

[SpringCreek]

Rocky, Raging Bull or The Hammer

1). Baldwin brother with a big gun
2). Same actor plays a president, foreign officer, and a crazed scientist
3). He rode a bomb and is now riding a horse
4). 80's action actors
5). Was going to save Orion, not so much
6). Japaneses version of Shadowrun
7). Here is my Flair!
8). Too good in the big city, man this small town is messed up
9). A small speed bump slows down a large machine
10). That is Mark Hamill?!? No way it sounds nothing like him!

4. The Expendables
8. Footloose

 

[SpringCreek]

I think most to this point have been answered correctly...


I have a few:

1) A boy enjoys violence, then is forced to watch it.

2) The golden record holder comes looking for daddy.

3) A deaf, dumb and blind kid is good at pinball.

4) A musician gets revenge for his death.

5) A guy almost breaks his parents up before he's concieved.

6) An assassin gains the emperor's trust by eliminating the other assassins.

7) A riverboat ride into the heart of darkness.

8) The non-animated adventures of a talking-K9 and a person.

9) Batman discovers feelings.

5. Back To The Future

 

[BobG]

Heaven Can Wait


Movie 1) Moron becomes friends with a mouse
Movie 2) Moron is murdered by his best friend

Both (badly)describe the movie version of Of Mice and Men, and, The Green Mile.

Both of your answers would be a good answer for the second one, but Mice and Men was the movie I was thinking of.

First one might be a little obscure, since the movie's pretty old (late 60's). The book was more famous. He even gave the mouse flowers.

 

[BobG]

8) The non-animated adventures of a talking-K9 and a person

A Boy and His Dog

 

[DaveC426913]

An uplifting story about a disabled guy who wanders through the desert and finds an arm.

Spoiler

127 hours - watched backwards

 

[DR13]

2. Dirty Harry
3. ET
6. Gladiator

Yes
Yes
No (the clue is a hint to a famous quote)

 

[SpringCreek]

1. Moron runs. Changes lives.

2. He slaps soldier. Then battles bulge.

3. Broken-hearted nightclub owner gets second chance at love. Chooses friendship instead.

4. Two old friends fight and fish a lot. More of same in sequel.

5. Lawyer's betrayed client gets education and tattoos in prison. Seeks revenge via dog poisoning, piano wire, boat mayhem, etc.

I just watched #5 and it is quite intense. Great acting and directing.

 

[Jimmy Snyder]

Boy meets girl. Boy gets girl. Boy loses girl. Boy gets girl back.

 

[SpringCreek]

No (the clue is a hint to a famous quote)

Ancient Roman clothing...toga? Animal House?

 

[SpringCreek]

Boy meets girl. Boy gets girl. Boy loses girl. Boy gets girl back.

I think I've seen that one. Is it the one where the boy loses the girl because of a misunderstanding?

 

[Argentum Vulpes]

4. The Expendables

Yes, but I can't think of a good quote to go with this movie.

8. Footloose

Nope, wrong decade, both when the movie takes place and filmed, and wrong continent where it takes place.

1. Moron runs. Changes lives.

2. He slaps soldier. Then battles bulge.

3. Broken-hearted nightclub owner gets second chance at love. Chooses friendship instead.

4. Two old friends fight and fish a lot. More of same in sequel.

5. Lawyer's betrayed client gets education and tattoos in prison. Seeks revenge via dog poisoning, piano wire, boat mayhem, etc.

I just watched #5 and it is quite intense. Great acting and directing.

1). Forest Gump

4). Grumpy old men, Grumpier old men (the sequel)

5). Double Jeopardy

 

[Argentum Vulpes]

An interesting side for this thread.

A song/music video about a piece of stage equipment.

 

[Willowz]

A man falls and tells a long story to a girl who also fell.

 

[mege]

I think most to this point have been answered correctly...


I have a few:

1) A boy enjoys violence, then is forced to watch it.
A Clockwork Orange
2) The golden record holder comes looking for daddy.

3) A deaf, dumb and blind kid is good at pinball.
Tommy
4) A musician gets revenge for his death.

5) A guy almost breaks his parents up before he's concieved.
Back to the Future
6) An assassin gains the emperor's trust by eliminating the other assassins.

7) A riverboat ride into the heart of darkness.
Apocalypse Now!
8) The non-animated adventures of a talking-K9 and a person.
A Boy and His Dog
9) Batman discovers feelings.

I filled in the correct ones. 6 and 9 I figured were a little harder - but I thought 2 and 4 would be pretty easy!

Some hints (decade the year was released):

2a) 1970s
4a) 1990s
6a) 2000s
9a) 2000s

 

[Ken Natton]

Okay, a description for which untold number of films could apply:

Any resemblance to the actual historical events is purely coincidental.

 

[mege]

1. Moron runs. Changes lives.

2. He slaps soldier. Then battles bulge.

3. Broken-hearted nightclub owner gets second chance at love. Chooses friendship instead.

4. Two old friends fight and fish a lot. More of same in sequel.

5. Lawyer's betrayed client gets education and tattoos in prison. Seeks revenge via dog poisoning, piano wire, boat mayhem, etc.

I just watched #5 and it is quite intense. Great acting and directing.

2) Patton
3) Cocktail

 

[Ken Natton]

1. Moron runs. Changes lives.

I'm thinking Forrest Gump. And get this. I've never seen the film.

 

[zoobyshoe]

First one might be a little obscure, since the movie's pretty old (late 60's). The book was more famous. He even gave the mouse flowers.

Flowers for Algernon?

 

[zoobyshoe]

.5. Lawyer's betrayed client gets education and tattoos in prison. Seeks revenge via dog poisoning, piano wire, boat mayhem, etc.

I just watched #5 and it is quite intense. Great acting and directing.

Cape Fear?

 

[MATLABdude]

How about this?

1. Guy with ADD gets TV station (step 2:?, step 3: profit!) and resorts to PBS-esque tactics to keep it on the air in the face of adversity.
   

2. Is this the real life?
   Is this just fantasy?
   Caught in a landslide,
   No escape from reality...

3. A boy and his whale

Okay, so 2 and 3 are probably degenerate...

Spoiler

1. Weird Al's UHF
2. The Matrix trilogy (or Inception)
3. Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home (or Free Willy)

 

[SpringCreek]

1). Forest Gump

4). Grumpy old men, Grumpier old men (the sequel)

5). Double Jeopardy

1. Yes
4. Yes & Yes
5. No

 

[TurtleMeister]

My three movies were popular, so I guess my clues were too difficult. This should help a lot:

1) Everything in his life is fake. Even the star Sirius.
2) Don't watch this movie if you have leporiphobia.
3) Amnesiac has lesbian affair.

 

[SpringCreek]

2) Patton
3) Cocktail

2. Yes. I wouldn't give a hoot in hell for a man who lost and laughed. [Patton quote]
3. No. Hint: The Germans wore gray. She wore blue.

 

[SpringCreek]

I'm thinking Forrest Gump. And get this. I've never seen the film.

Yes, but Argentum Volpes already got it.

 

[mege]

How about this?

1. Guy with ADD gets TV station (step 2:?, step 3: profit!) and resorts to PBS-esque tactics to keep it on the air in the face of adversity.
   
2. 
   
3. A boy and his whale

Okay, so 2 and 3 are probably degenerate...

Spoiler

1. Weird Al's UHF
2. The Matrix trilogy (or Inception)
3. Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home (or Free Willy)

Shouldn't 3 be more like a girl and her whale? :p

 

[SpringCreek]

Cape Fear?

Bingo! De Niro and Scorsese.

 

[Ken Natton]

Yes, but Argentum Volpes already got it.

Apologies to Argentum Volpes.

 

[SpringCreek]

1) Everything in his life is fake. Even the star Sirius.

The Truman Show

 

[mege]

My three movies were popular, so I guess my clues were too difficult. This should help a lot:

1) Everything in his life is fake. Even the star Sirius.
2) Don't watch this movie if you have leporiphobia.
3) Amnesiac has lesbian affair.

2) Donnie Darko

 

[DaveC426913]

2) Donnie Darko

Or Wallace & Grommit.

 

[TurtleMeister]

The Truman Show

correct

2) Donnie Darko

correct

Or Wallace & Grommit.

I haven't seen that one.

Only one left:

3)A cowboy tells a movie [strike]producer[/strike] director who he must choose to play a leading role. Amnesiac has lesbian affair.

 

[mege]

Or Wallace & Grommit.

My original thought - with just his second clue, was Alice in Wonderland!

 

[DR13]

Ancient Roman clothing...toga? Animal House?

Got it