Movie Quiz 49

[caffeinated]

Is it Friday again already? Wow, the past week just flew by for me! I guess it's time for another quiz then, eh?

There are eight screenshots below. Most of them should be fairly recognizable if you've seen the films. So, which of these movies can you identify?

Please answer with movie numbers only, not titles..

Happy Friday, and good luck!

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

 

[bobsyeruncle]

Got 'em. Thanks, caff.

 

[evilfrog]

ha! Rupert Pupkin

 

[technovapir]

Well, I only know #4 at first glance. Several of them look familiar, time to put on the thinking cap...

 

[caffeinated]

I'm gonna try the two-word clue thing again...

1. Eloi, Morlocks
2. double-barrelled
3. Orgasmatron booths
4. Thor D'Onofrio
5. Schroder's debut
6. comic adaptation
7. talking dog
8. Rupert Pupkin

Not the greatest clues, I know. But I hope they help!

 

[technovapir]

Thanks Caff! OK, now I know a few more. Clue#1 made me say D'oh!!! I should have known that!

 

[bobsyeruncle]

More hints if you need 'em:

1. Director George Pal was a close friend of fellow animator Walter Lantz, ever since Lantz did some cut-rate Woody Woodpecker work for Pal's Destination Moon. As tribute, Pal tried to include Woody Woodpecker references in all his subsequent films. In the scenes where the Eloi are having a good time, every so often you can distinctly hear the "Woody Woodpecker" laugh.
2. A self-confident young card sharp who loses £500,000 to a powerful crime lord in a rigged game of three card brag. In order to pay off his debts, he and his friends decide to rob a small-time gang next door. What follows is a confusing trail of money, guns and various interested criminals.
3. A nebbishy health food store owner is cryogenically frozen and then awoken to an inept totalitarian future in a film that's a comedic tribute to Benny Hill and Bob Hope.
4. A teenage Elizabeth Shue is looking after the neighbors' kids when she gets a call to pick up her desperate friend. Driving with the kids in tow, a series of mishaps causes them problems getting away from small-time criminals, retrieving the car and getting back home before anyone notices anything's amiss in this comedic adventure.
5. A horse-trainer and ex-boxer with gambling debts is trying to make a comeback and be a good example to his son, a young Ricky Shroder. This one's a weeper.
6. The movie's based on a series of Toronto-based Manga novels about a young man with no ambition trying to win over his dream girl by defeating her ex-boyfriends videogame style. Well, I would think the shot of the band Sex Bob-omb would pretty much give this one away.
7. Residents of a tight-knit Italian-American neighbourhood in The Bronx are living in fear of a real-life serial killer. Things get ugly in the summer of 1977 New York when people try to guess who the killer might be before David Berkowitz is caught. The "f" word is used twice as often as in Scarface making the film #2 on the all-time list behind "F---" the documentary.
8. An aspiring stand-up comedian (De Niro) with more ambition than talent kidnaps Jerry Lewis to get onto his popular talk show and break into show business.

 

[caffeinated]

And this week's answers are...

1. The Time Machine (1960)
2. Lock, Stock, and Two Smoking Barrels
3. Sleeper
4. Adventures in Babysitting
5. The Champ
6. Scott Pilgrim vs. the World
7. Summer of Sam
8. The King of Comedy

Thanks for playing, guys!

 

[bobsyeruncle]

Thanks, caff.

 

[Elphaba13]

Tough one this week. I only knew the first two!