Movie Quiz 35

[caffeinated]

Ready to quiz?

There are eight screenshots below, most of which should be fairly recognizable if you've seen the movies. The question is: which of the movies can you identify?

Please answer with movie numbers only, not titles.

Enjoy!

As usual, I'll post the answers Sunday morning-ish.

 

[technovapir]

Well I thought I was on a roll cuz I knew 1,2 & 3. But that was it. The rest are unknowns!!!
Can't wait for the clues to start!!!

 

[bobsyeruncle]

Got 'em. Thanks caff.

 

[Loveridden]

Tough one!! I know #6, and MIGHT know #2....

 

[Norry]

Only know #1 this week. I'm pretty sure I've seen some of the others and since I recognize a lot of the actors I could cheat and look them up on google but I'm gonna be a good girl and try using my brain for a while first. LOL

Thanks Caff....

 

[caffeinated]

Bumping and hinting...

#1: This is the 1968 movie version of a 1965 Neil Simon play. Two years later, it began a five-year run as a very successful TV series. Also, the character on the left has the same first name as a certain trash-barrel-dwelling muppet.

#3: Judge: What is a yute?

#5: In the dystopian future of this movie's setting, corporations control the world. This movie's title is the name of an ultra-violent sport in which players are often critically injured or killed. "Stars" are not tolerated in this game because suppressing individuality and individual freedoms are the corporate goals. So, as "Jonathan's" unparalleled success in the game begins to give him the power of star, it is determined that he must be eliminated.

#7: The two actors pictured, along with an additional female lead, all play con men. In fact, a perfectly legitimate alternate title for this movie could be, "The Con Men."


Hope these help!

 

[bobsyeruncle]

Any more players? Anyone? Anyone?

 

[technovapir]

I've figured out #5 now, but I need a little clue for 4 & 6...they're driving me crazy!

 

[bobsyeruncle]

Hints. Select the text to reveal the clues if you need 'em.

1. The mess in the kitchen is apparently just the start. After 40 years of that crap, you've got Grumpy Old Men. As a side note, anyone remember the tv episode where F---- is in court representing himself and he demonstrates, on a blackboard, how when you "assume", you make an "a-s" out of "u" and "me"?!
2. Dom Cobb is a skilled thief, the absolute best in the dangerous art of extraction, stealing valuable secrets from deep within the subconscious during the dream state, when the mind is at its most vulnerable.
3. An inexperienced lawyer uses his expertise from a previous career as a mechanic to vindicate his clients, the Karate Kid and some other guy: two "yoots" unwittingly caught up in an unfortunate event.
4. Hector is an ordinary man who's moving to a new house with his wife. One evening, while he's looking through his binoculars, he sees a naked girl in the woods. He decides to go there just to find that same girl laying on a rock. Suddenly, a man with a pink bandage covering his face, stabs Hector in his arm with scissors... Oh, and time travel is involved as well.
5. Kind of a cross between the ancient Aztec sport of Tlatchtli and extreme roller derby where some of the players actually ride motorcycles.
6. This poor guy has apparently not slept for a year! (No wonder Batman was so grumpy. )
7. John Cusack is a small-time hustler. It runs in the family. Unfortunately, he really hasn't got the constitution for it when the hustle goes wrong.
8. That's a toy car, not a jack, you see positioned at, um, the bottom (hee hee) of the x-ray. The guy from the movie was actually killed much later by a different car. You kind of wonder why more deaths didn't happen sooner. There's certainly no end to the dangerous (and gross) opportunities to make that happen. It was a controversial MTV show prior.

 

[technovapir]

Thank you Bobs, that helped. I think I may have figured some more of them out!

 

[caffeinated]

Answer time!

1. The Odd Couple
2. Inception
3. My Cousin Vinny
4. Timecrimes (Los cronocrímenes)
5. Rollerball (1975)
6. The Machinist
7. The Grifters
8. Jackass the Movie

Thanks for playing!

 

[technovapir]

Thank you Caff!
I haven't seen the Machinist or the Grifters or Timecrimes.
More good stuff to add to the list.

 

[Loveridden]

Ahhhhh got #2 with ur clue, it wasn't what I originally thought....

hahahaha should have gotten #8!!

 

[caffeinated]

Thank you Caff!
I haven't seen the Machinist or the Grifters or Timecrimes.
More good stuff to add to the list.

Though all three movies are good, and well-worth watching, from best to worst I’d have to go with The Grifters, The Machinist, then Timecrimes.

Timecrimes is quirky and fun, but it's also heavily flawed, (like pretty much every movie involving time travel). The Grifters is a widely-overlooked gem that is well-written and very well-acted. And The Machinist is remarkable in several ways, not least of which is the spectacle of a 115-ish pound Christian Bale in the lead role.

hahahaha should have gotten #8!!

My wife couldn’t get #8, so I asked her, “What movie would have a scene with a doctor examining an x-ray of a toy car in somebody’s ....?”

She answered immediately, “It’s gotta be Jackass.”

 

[evilfrog]

The Grifters.... I am really ambivalent about that movie. Great acting, well crafted.... it just didn't have the right feel to me. Of all of the Thompson adaptations, it is perhaps my least favorite. Serie Noir, After Dark My Sweet, The Killer Inside Me, Coup De Torchon, and his screenplay to Paths of Glory all seem to capture the mood of his writing better. The Getaway has the same problem for me.
A Hell of a Women and the Killer Inside Me are my favorites among the books, though Pop 1280 and Grifters are good too.

Sorry I missed this quiz. Never saw the Jackass movie, or the Machinist. The former I don't mind missing, but I will see the latter at some point. I just missed the TimeCrimes director's latest film (Extraterrestrial) at the Portland Film Festival a couple weeks ago It's always hard to decide which movies to see.

 

[caffeinated]

The Grifters.... I am really ambivalent about that movie. Great acting, well crafted.... it just didn't have the right feel to me.

It’s been a long time since I’ve seen it, (on VHS, no less!), but I recall being pleasantly surprised by how good it was.

Of all of the Thompson adaptations, it is perhaps my least favorite. Serie Noir, After Dark My Sweet, The Killer Inside Me, Coup De Torchon, and his screenplay to Paths of Glory all seem to capture the mood of his writing better. The Getaway has the same problem for me.
A Hell of a Women and the Killer Inside Me are my favorites among the books, though Pop 1280 and Grifters are good too.

It's not something that I'm proud of, but the fact is I don’t read novels. Although it’s been years since the last time I tried to read one, novels usually act like a powerful sedative with me, and they tend to put me to sleep fairly quickly. So, I can’t really comment on your opinions of the adaptations. Of the stories you mentioned, the only one I’ve actually seen is The Grifters. The Killer Inside Me, (2010 version w/Casey Affleck), is currently occupying the 4th slot in my Netflix queue.

Sorry I missed this quiz. Never saw the Jackass movie, or the Machinist. The former I don't mind missing, but I will see the latter at some point. I just missed the TimeCrimes director's latest film (Extraterrestrial) at the Portland Film Festival a couple weeks ago It's always hard to decide which movies to see.

Well, at least it appears that you actually go out to the theater to see movies. Pretty much the only time I do that is when I’m taking my kids to a matinee. Otherwise, probably 99.9% of my movie watching is done in my living room.

RE: Jackass – It is what it is. Either you find their antics and stunts funny and entertaining, or you don’t. More often than not, I find myself laughing a lot when I watch these guys.

RE: Extraterrestrial – I intend to see this, and I’m waiting for it to show up on Netflix. Hopefully it’ll be available by this summer.

 

[Elphaba13]

We love the machinist, and bought it. If you liked it, you have to see momento, starring guy pierce. One of my favourite movies of all time.