Movie Quiz 52

[caffeinated]

Happy Quizday, everybody!

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.

 

[bobsyeruncle]

Got 'em. Thanks, caff.

 

[technovapir]

I only know 2,3 & 8. I don't know what movie 7 is, but I want to see it!

 

[Loveridden]

I know 1,3,4 & 8!! More than I usually know!! lol - and I want to know what #7 is...

 

[vaporgalinfla]

I know 2 and 3! 7 looks famiiar; I'll try to figure it out.

 

[bobsyeruncle]

#7? Hannibal Lector has transferred all of the evil to his dummy.

 

[CcaT]

2,3, 5, 6, and 8 for me.

And #4 kinda has me freaked out...

 

[caffeinated]

Here are a few hints:

#1: Not all teenagers who acquire superpowers are interested in becoming heroes. As shown in this film, angst, rage, and social awkwardness can push some in the opposite direction.

#4: When dentists' kids get braces, apparently they get the most elaborate headgear imaginable. And when that same child is essentially forbidden from eating candy, he can go on to build a corporate empire out of his rebellion.

#6: A long-lost spaceship, sent out to experiment with faster-than-light travel, has resurfaced. A salvage crew boards the empty ship and soon begins to discover that it has been somewhere beyond space. This movie's title is the name of that ship.

I need to head out and run some errands, so I'm gonna stop there. I hope these clues help!

 

[CcaT]

6 was a good one and I'm surprised more folks didn't recognize it.

I've got #1 now with the hint.

 

[bobsyeruncle]

More hints if you need 'em:

1. A recent film about teens who aquire telekinetic abilities and later, develop full-blown super powers.
2. ♫ I see trees of green........ red roses too
   I see em bloom..... for me and for you
   And I think to myself.... what a wonderful world. ♫
3. Two women looking to get away from it all for a couple of days, run into various chauvinists and their peaceful vacation plans turn into numerous problems with the law.
4. Johnny Depp, channeling Michael Jackson, assaults flawed children with sweet-tasting traps.
5. Somehow, I don't think the real outlaws from the old west were ever this charming.
   ♫ ... Nothin' seems to fit. Those raindrops are fallin' on my head, they keep fallin'... ♫
6. In astrophysics, it's the area around a black hole that marks the point of no return.
7. Anthony Hopkins becomes a successful magician because of his routine with a ventriloquist dummy. Unfortunately, his relationship with the dummy becomes unhealthy to the point of murder.
8. Distopian sci-fi film about society on the brink of collapse due to two decades of human infertility. The UK, the last known stable nation, becomes a militarized police state in response to a deluge of immigrants seeking asylum. There's also action shown documentary newsreel style.

 

[caffeinated]

More hints if you need 'em:

1. A recent film about teens who aquire telekinetic abilities and later, develop full-blown super powers.
2. ♫ I see trees of green........ red roses too
   I see em bloom..... for me and for you
   And I think to myself.... what a wonderful world. ♫
3. Two women looking to get away from it all for a couple of days, run into various chauvinists and their peaceful vacation plans turn into numerous problems with the law.
   [*] Johnny Depp, channeling Michael Jackson, assaults flawed children with sweet-tasting traps.
4. Somehow, I don't think the real outlaws from the old west were ever this charming.
   ♫ ... Nothin' seems to fit. Those raindrops are fallin' on my head, they keep fallin'... ♫
5. In astrophysics, it's the area around a black hole that marks the point of no return.
6. Anthony Hopkins becomes a successful magician because of his routine with a ventriloquist dummy. Unfortunately, his relationship with the dummy becomes unhealthy to the point of murder.
7. Distopian sci-fi film about society on the brink of collapse due to two decades of human infertility. The UK, the last known stable nation, becomes a militarized police state in response to a deluge of immigrants seeking asylum. There's also action shown documentary newsreel style.

LOL!! Clue #4 is perfect!!

Adding quiz image for easy page 2 reference:

 

[Elphaba13]

Thanks for the hints. Before them I only had 2. Now I've got 6.

 

[caffeinated]

Here are this week's answers:

1. Chronicle
2. Good Morning, Vietnam
3. Thelma & Louise
4. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
5. Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
6. Event Horizon
7. Magic
8. Children of Men

Thanks for playing, everybody!

 

[bobsyeruncle]

Thanks, caff.

 

[technovapir]

Thanks Caff!
I should have known Event Horizon & Charlie & the Chocolate factory...I'm slipping!

 

[vaporgalinfla]

Thanks Caff! I should have known #8.