Movie Quiz 51

[caffeinated]

Happy Friday! Here, have a quiz!

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..

Good luck!

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

 

[CcaT]

Holy cow, I'm 8 for 8 on this one!

 

[Loveridden]

Hard ones for me!! I know #6 of course and I have a very good guess what #7 is lol

 

[bobsyeruncle]

Got 'em. Thanks, caff.

 

[technovapir]

I know most of them this week. I love #5! I'm not sure about # 7 though. Hmm. Thanks Caff!

 

[Elphaba13]

I've got 1, 4, 5 and 6. Others look familiar.

Thanks Caff!

 

[vaporgalinfla]

I know 1, 6, and 7, but some of the other look familiar, especially 8. I hope I have time tomorrow to do some google searches! Thanks Caff!

 

[caffeinated]

Time for a few hints:

#1: While clearly inspired by Coppola's The Conversation, an earlier Antonioni film provided the "template" for both this movie and its title.

#2: Soldiers in a psychic military unit flex their paranormal powers to dubious effect.

#3: Robotic, rough-hewn dolls are the stars of this movie. Each one has a number in its back, and possesses specific knowledge and a particular skill or purpose. Together, they are on a mission to save the world, even though there are no humans left.

#4: Well, from the looks of the screenshot, you might think it's a movie about making a movie about NASA's moon landings. But it's not...... Or is it?



OK, I need to stop there and go run some errands. Hope these helped!

 

[evilfrog]

Yep, got all of these

5 is tricky because it is from a series, but I'm pretty sure I know which one this is from.

Interesting. I never really thought about 1 getting inspiration from the Conversation. I knew the Antonioni connection... That director is always stealing from earlier films . This one isn't bad. Much better then his version of Vertigo.

 

[bobsyeruncle]

More hints if you need 'em:

1. John Travolta is a movie sound effects technician who's recording sounds for a low-budget slasher film and captures audio of an assassination involving a presidential candidate. Nancy Allen is the woman he rescues from the crime.
2. There is a New Age hypothesis that it's possible to psychically kill a certain farm animal just by looking at it. The film is a comedy about the military application of that and other psychic forces.
3. A scientist uses alchemy to create nine homunculus-like ragdolls known as Stitchpunks using portions of his own soul to deal with a terrible military weapon called the Fabrication Machine.
4. The first manned mission to Mars develops a serious problem that involves extricating the astronauts from the mission, sending off an empty ship and faking the Mars landing in a studio for the public. The astronauts are in trouble when their ship burns up upon returning and no one is supposed to know the astronauts aren't on it.
5. Number two in a series of classic comedic films about a bumbling french inspector.
6. A movie based on the first of a series of popular vampire novels. The author, born Howard O'Brien (her parents were a little strange), has written a series of gothic horror novels about vampires, witches, mummies and Jesus.
7. Well, it sounds like a fast hawaiian train, but the movie is actually a stoner comedy named after a rare strain of mary-jane. (Hee hee, that rhymes *cough* ). From the producer who brought you Superbad and Knocked Up.
8. A parasitic extraterrestrial life-form assimimilates other organisms and then imitates them on an antarctic research station. This is a remake (and truer to the book than the first film). There was another film made last year as a prequel to this one.

 

[caffeinated]

This week's answers:

1. Blow Out
2. The Men Who Stare at Goats
3. 9
4. Capricorn One
5. A Shot in the Dark
6. Interview with the Vampire: The Vampire Chronicles
7. Pineapple Express
8. The Thing (1982)

Thanks for playing, everybody!

 

[bobsyeruncle]

Thanks, caff.

 

[evilfrog]

I think Shot in the Dark is the best Pink Panther movie. If this shot had been from any of the others I wouldn't have known which one it came from