Poorly describe movies and guess what they are

[Janus]

1. Star Wars? *stretch*

yep

5. Deliverance

Nope

6. Rocky Horror Picture Show

yep

 

[Janus]

Correct! for 3) Occam's razor, Arecibo


The African Queen? Don't know is that's what you had in mind, since we've already had that one.

That's it. I missed it being done already.

 

[zoobyshoe]

3. The Tempest in space.

Forbidden Planet

 

[DavidSnider]

Amazing how many movies involved "A trip down a river that ends in a bang", Apocalypse Now would count as well

 

[zoobyshoe]

Schwarzenegger:
1.) Has the same actor for a foe as Mark Hamil did.

2.) Something about his wife makes you think of William Shatner.

3.) Something about his wife is instinctual.

4.) Something witchy about his daughter.

5.) He won't terminate you, but he will make you disappear.

6.)A "King-ly" role.

7.)Bruce Willis starred in The Fifth Element. This Schwarzenegger film had to do with the 26th.

 

[zoobyshoe]

4. The rat symbolizes obviousness

The Departed?

 

[mege]

1. Mathematician finds god, goes crazy
2. Addiction vignettes crescendo into harsh reality
3. Man helps little boy, discovers morbid truth about himself
4. The rat symbolizes obviousness

1) Pi
2) Requiem for a Dream

Same director comment makes it too easy! :p

 

[Janus]

Forbidden Planet

Correct

 

[DavidSnider]

schwarzenegger:
1.) has the same actor for a foe as mark hamil did.
Conan

2.) something about his wife makes you think of william shatner.
Not sure

3.) something about his wife is instinctual.
Total recall

4.) something witchy about his daughter.
Commando

5.) he won't terminate you, but he will make you disappear.
Eraser

6.)a "king-ly" role.
Not sure

7.)bruce willis starred in the fifth element. This schwarzenegger film had to do with the 26th.
Pumping iron

asdf

 

[DavidSnider]

The Departed?

Correct.

 

[DavidSnider]

1) Pi
2) Requiem for a Dream

Same director comment makes it too easy! :p

OK sorry =) But correct

 

[mege]

Schwarzenegger:



1.) Has the same actor for a foe as Mark Hamil did.

2.) Something about his wife makes you think of William Shatner.

3.) Something about his wife is instinctual.

4.) Something witchy about his daughter.

5.) He won't terminate you, but he will make you disappear.

6.)A "King-ly" role.

7.)Bruce Willis starred in The Fifth Element. This Schwarzenegger film had to do with the 26th.

1) [strike]Star Wars[/strike] Conan the Barbarian (brain fart)
2) ?
3) Total Recall
4) True Lies
5) Eraser
6) Red Sonja (? he was a Lord)
7) Pumping Iron (I cheated and had to Wiki this...)

 

[mege]

OK sorry =) But correct

Requiem for a Dream is one of the few movies that has ever made me uncomfortable. I've seen it exactly twice, suggest to all my friends to watch it, but can't stand to watch it again.

Both have great sound tracks IMO.

 

[zoobyshoe]

1) Star Wars

Eh? I'm asking for the Schwarzenegger movie, not the Hamil movie.

3) Total Recall

Yes. Because Sharon Stone, who plays his wife, was well known for her role in Basic Instinct.

4) True Lies

Incorrect.

5) Eraser

Yes.

6) Red Sonja (? he was a Lord)

No.

7) Pumping Iron (I cheated and had to Wiki this...)

Yes.

 

[zoobyshoe]

asdf

Conan and Commando are correct as are the ones confirmed in mege's response.

 

[zoobyshoe]

Schwarzenegger:All answered except these two. #2 is an allusion the actress who plays his wife and a former famous role of hers. 2.) Something about his wife makes you think of William Shatner.

6.)A "King-ly" role. Perhaps better: A "King"-ly role.

 

[blade123]

Requiem for a Dream is one of the few movies that has ever made me uncomfortable. I've seen it exactly twice, suggest to all my friends to watch it, but can't stand to watch it again.

Both have great sound tracks IMO.

I LOVE Requiem. I've seen it many times. It's just as devastating each time I watch it.

Near the end when the film starts scratching out and Tyrone and Harry are in the jail cell always gets to me man. "Somebody ****ing help us please" "My ****ing arm...I can't take it anymore"

That part gets to me, and then when it switches back and forth between all the characters (it starts off with the above scene) and it shows all their fates...man.

It's not even a crying sad. I don't feel the urge to cry, it hits me much much deeper. I'm too devastated to cry really.

 

[S_Happens]

6.)A "King-ly" role. Perhaps better: A "King"-ly role.

The Running Man

 

[mege]

Schwarzenegger:



1.) Has the same actor for a foe as Mark Hamil did.

4.) Something witchy about his daughter.

I don't really know why I typed star wars. I had conan the first time, then refreshed the page accidentally and quickly retyped answers.

For 4 - his daughter in True Lies is Eliza Dushku, whom also played Faith in Buffy. (I will admit I totally forgot that Alyssa Milano was his daughter in Commando)

 

[SpringCreek]

Two more Swarzenegger movies.

1. The Governor ain't got time to bleed.

2. He got the best of everything. His brother got the worst.

 

[DaveC426913]

Two more Swarzenegger movies.

1. The Governor ain't got time to bleed.

2. He got the best of everything. His brother got the worst.

Easy.

Predator.
Twins.

 

[zoobyshoe]

For 4 - his daughter in True Lies is Eliza Dushku, whom also played Faith in Buffy. (I will admit I totally forgot that Alyssa Milano was his daughter in Commando)

Wiki tells me the character of Faith is a "slayer", not a witch. I think this answer would be a stretch compared to Alyssa Milano.

 

[zoobyshoe]

The Running Man

Right! Based on the story by Stephen King.

 

[zoobyshoe]

Schwarzenegger:


All answered except this one. It is an allusion the actress who plays his wife and a former famous role of hers.


2.) Something about his wife makes you think of William Shatner.

Very obscure clue. You'd have to know an interesting but unforgettable, behind the scenes fact about the movie in which she played the role that made her famous long before staring with Schwarzenegger.

 

[SpringCreek]

Easy.

Predator.
Twins.

Got it.

Okay, a little harder this time.

1. Scientist goes mad over grandfather's work.

2. Rich guy robs art museum. Or does he?

3. British government employee's family motto.

 

[Jimmy Snyder]

2. Rich guy robs art museum. Or does he?

The Thomas Crown Affair.

 

[SpringCreek]

The Thomas Crown Affair.

Right

 

[SpringCreek]

1. Scientist goes mad over grandfather's work.

2. Rich guy robs art museum. Or does he? The Thomas Crown Affair

3. British government employee's family motto.

Some hints:

1. There's no escaping destiny.

3. The theme song was garbage, but it had this pretty good line: "There's no point in living if you can't feel alive."

 

[Janus]

Got it.

Okay, a little harder this time.

1. Scientist goes mad over grandfather's work.

Young Frankenstein

 

[Jimmy]

1. Man talks into tape recorder and watches himself.
2. A small, white animal causes a man to soil himself.
3. An average man and a woman who "paints people and fruit and..." end up in the future.

 

[Janus]

2. A small, white animal causes a man to soil himself.

Monty Python and the Holy Grail.

 

[Jimmy]

Monty Python and the Holy Grail.

Yes! Easy one I suppose.

I was trying to find some that haven't been answered yet, but I guess I'll just wait for new clues.

 

[Ken Natton]

I was trying to find some that haven't been answered yet,

Well Jimmy, since you bring it up, no-one ever answered these.

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

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

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?

The last one is not an American film, it’s a British / Australian film so perhaps it was never big in the US. But the other two are Hollywood films and were classics of their time. The actor I am referring to with my ‘Fruity guy’ clue is one of the biggest and many regarded this as his finest performance. And I am very surprised that no-one got the other one. At the time it was released it was X rated because of one scene which now seems so tame.

 

[stevebd1]

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

Bonnie and Clyde

 

[Ken Natton]

Bonnie and Clyde

Ah ha! Indeed. Warren Beatty was, reputedly, of whom Carly Simon was singing in the song You're So Vain.

 

[SpringCreek]

Young Frankenstein

Yes.

The remaining clue and hint.

3. British government employee's family motto. The theme song was garbage, but it had this pretty good line: "There's no point in living if you can't feel alive."

After watching the opening sequence of this movie, I realized that the line was cut from the song, although it is in the full version of the song. The line also figures prominently in the movie. Still, in all fairness, perhaps another clue is in order.

The movie is set in (in this order): Spain, London, Scotland, Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, the Caspian Sea, and Istanbul.

 

[Ken Natton]

All right, another round of films that maybe no-one will get. These are all Hollywood films that were the centre of water cooler chat when they were released. But not a CGI graphic, not a special effect or a moment of 'action' between them.

It's always the children who suffer. He is thrown into the parenting deep end. She wins the case but finally puts the boy's interests first.

The corniest final scene ever? Ah, but everyone cried. He was spotless in white.

A classic courtroom drama. But the verdict is not the end of it. Everyone in the cinema jumped.

That's no way to cook game! Will he pay the ultimate price for his sexuality?

Alll the women gave a sardonic smile. All the men shifted uncomfortably. In a cafe, in public, she proved her point.

 

[SpringCreek]

It's always the children who suffer. He is thrown into the parenting deep end. She wins the case but finally puts the boy's interests first.

Kramer vs. Kramer

The corniest final scene ever? Ah, but everyone cried. He was spotless in white.

Field of Dreams

Alll the women gave a sardonic smile. All the men shifted uncomfortably. In a cafe, in public, she proved her point.

When Harry Met Sally

 

[stevebd1]

A classic courtroom drama. But the verdict is not the end of it. Everyone in the cinema jumped.

Witness for the Prosecution

 

[Ken Natton]

Kramer vs. Kramer

Yes

Field of Dreams

Not what I was thinking of

When Harry Met Sally

Yes

Witness for the Prosecution

Not what I was thinking of

 

[Jimmy Snyder]

All the men shifted uncomfortably. In a cafe, in public, she proved her point.

Drat the luck. I never saw this movie, but I recently heard that there is a scene in it that was filmed in Katz's deli in NYC. If this is the 'cafe' you are referring to, and if you had called it a deli instead of a cafe, then I would have got it for that reason alone. Anyway, I just checked it out of the library and will watch it tonight.

 

[Ken Natton]

Drat the luck. I never saw this movie, but I recently heard that there is a scene in it that was filmed in Katz's deli in NYC. If this is the 'cafe' you are referring to, and if you had called it a deli instead of a cafe, then I would have got it for that reason alone. Anyway, I just checked it out of the library and will watch it tonight.

My apologies if I was inaccurate. To me, a Deli is a place where you purchase food and drink products for consumption off the premises. They were definitely partaking of the food and drink products on the premises. Hence the famous quote - "I'll have what she's having." That, to me, is a cafe. Perhaps this is just an aspect of local culture.

 

[Jimmy Snyder]

My apologies if I was inaccurate. To me, a Deli is a place where you purchase food and drink products for consumption off the premises. They were definitely partaking of the food and drink products on the premises. Hence the famous quote - "I'll have what she's having." That, to me, is a cafe. Perhaps this is just an aspect of local culture.

Oh, no need to apologize, a sitdown deli is a cafe. I just missed getting one without actually having seen the movie, that's all.

 

[Ken Natton]

Oh, no need to apologize, a sitdown deli is a cafe. I just missed getting one without actually having seen the movie, that's all.

Ah ha. I see. Well I'll tell you what, you tell me what films you haven't seens and I'll... No, that's not going to work is it?

 

[Jimmy Snyder]

Ah ha. I see. Well I'll tell you what, you tell me what films you haven't seens and I'll... No, that's not going to work is it?

No it wouldn't. How about films that you haven't seen.

 

[Ken Natton]

Well, let me see now.

I haven’t seen any of the Star Wars films. Nor any of the Star Trek films. Nor any of the Terminator films, not indeed any Schwarzenegger film. I haven’t seen The Matrix, nor Kill Bill. I have seen Pulp Fiction but I think that might be the only Tarantino film that I have seen. I haven’t seen a significant majority of the films mentioned on this thread. I did see a little bit of Reservoir Dogs, but I admit it was more than I could take. Some years ago I was in a shopping mall when I was stopped and after participating in a survey was offered free tickets to the premier of Arachnaphobia. The lady was most put out when I turned them down.

So, if I was going to take my wife to the cinema sometime soon, whaddya reckon we should go and see? Something that would make us say, ‘So they do make films like that any more!’

 

[Jimmy Snyder]

Well, let me see now.

I haven’t seen any of the Star Wars films. Nor any of the Star Trek films. Nor any of the Terminator films, not indeed any Schwarzenegger film. I haven’t seen The Matrix, nor Kill Bill. I have seen Pulp Fiction but I think that might be the only Tarantino film that I have seen. I haven’t seen a significant majority of the films mentioned on this thread. I did see a little bit of Reservoir Dogs, but I admit it was more than I could take. Some years ago I was in a shopping mall when I was stopped and after participating in a survey was offered free tickets to the premier of Arachnaphobia. The lady was most put out when I turned them down.

So, if I was going to take my wife to the cinema sometime soon, whaddya reckon we should go and see? Something that would make us say, ‘So they do make films like that any more!’

You should poorly describe Kill Bill so I can guess "Kill Bill". That should take care of that.
I just finished watching When Harry met Sally. After 30 minutes of it I couldn't take any more so I fast forwarded to the scene in Katz's Deli which didn't make all that much sense to me and then put it away.

 

[Ken Natton]

You should poorly describe Kill Bill so I can guess "Kill Bill". That should take care of that.
I just finished watching When Harry met Sally. After 30 minutes of it I couldn't take any more so I fast forwarded to the scene in Katz's Deli which didn't make all that much sense to me and then put it away.

But you see, When Harry Met Sally is a human story. It portrays life as it is actually led by real people. Instead of waiting for the car chase, or the vast explosion or the ‘Wow! How did they do that!’ moment, you have to consider whether it serves as any reflection of the life that you lead. And it does! You’ve eaten in that Deli! But all of the women were very well behaved when you were in there, right?

Any way. Here goes.

A portrayal of how men think women are, rather than how women really are. And get this. It isn’t pornography.

I did warn you that I hadn’t actually seen it.

 

[Jimmy Snyder]

A portrayal of how men think women are, rather than how women really are. And get this. It isn’t pornography.

Kill Bill. Although I can't be sure since I haven't seen it.

 

[Jimmy Snyder]

You’ve eaten in that Deli! But all of the women were very well behaved when you were in there, right?

I don't know if this is rhetorical or a direct question to me. Anyhoo, I never actually ate at Katz's deli, I just watched an episode about it on the Food Network and they mentioned the scene in the movie. I did eat at Hershel's East Side Deli in the Reading Terminal Market in Phila. When I walked in the place all the women faked orgasms.