Movie Quiz 55

[caffeinated]

Happy Friday, guys!

I didn't have time to gather screenshots for another themed quiz, so I went with more of a scattershot approach this week. I should be able to get a theme together for next week, though.

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..

Enjoy!

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

 

[bobsyeruncle]

Got 'em. Thanks, caff.

 

[technovapir]

Thanks Caff! I know 2,4 & 5. I'm assuming 5 is the first one. I think there was a sequel? I didn't bother to see it.

 

[bobsyeruncle]

Yeah, 5 and 7 are the first ones. I didn't bother with the sequels either. Or I just completely forgot about #5 II.

 

[technovapir]

I'm not even sure I made it all the way through #5...I think I fell asleep both times I tried to watch it.

I feel like I should know #3. Hopefully tomorrows clues will pry it out of my brain...

 

[caffeinated]

A few hints...

#1: "The Duke," in the screenshot, has jumped bail, and his bail bondsman has dispatched two bounty hunters to track him down and bring him back to L.A. Hilarity ensues. "Here come two words for you: Shut the *eff* up."

#7: The actor playing the title character, pictured in the screenshot, was killed on the set while making this movie. Unbeknownst to the filmmakers, one of the prop guns, loaded with blanks of course, had an actual bullet fragment lodged in its barrel. When the gun was fired during a shootout scene, the actor was shot and fatally wounded.

#8: On a particularly hot summer day in the Bedford-Stuyvesant area of Brooklyn, tensions rise to an explosive conclusion. One of the main characters, a pizza delivery guy named Mookie, is also the movie's writer and director.

I'd like to put up another clue or two, but I really need to get out and run a bunch of errands.

Hope these help!

 

[Darthvong]

I know all of em except 6.

 

[technovapir]

Thanks for the clues! Now I know all of them except 3 6 & 8.

 

[bobsyeruncle]

More hints if you need 'em:

1. Robert De Niro is a bounty hunter assigned to bring Charles Grodin (pictured) back to L.A. Grodin crossed a mobster by embezzling $15 million from him which makes De Niro's assignment tricky in this action-comedy.
2. Viggo Mortensen (pictured) is the owner of a small-town diner whose criminal past comes back to haunt him after he kills two robbers in self defence in this adaptation of a graphic novel.
3. In this new adaptation of an early Elmore James western, Christian Bale (pictured) is an impoverished rancher who accepts an assignment to get the outlaw Russell Crowe on to the train headed for the territorial prison.
4. Walter Matthau (pictured) is a Transit Authority police lieutenant dealing with 4 armed men who've hijacked a subway train and are holding seventeen passengers hostage. The code names of the hijackers: Mr. Blue, Mr. Green, Mr. Grey and Mr. Brown were an inspiration for Reservoir Dogs.
5. An African bushman from an isolated tribe attempts to get rid of an evil discarded Coca-Cola bottle by taking it to the edge of the world.
6. The story of the events after a drug deal, told from three different points of view: Simon, a small-time dealer selling E from a grocery store who goes off to Vegas; Ronna, who covers for Simon at the store and desperately needs extra cash; and Adam and Zack (pictured), two soap opera actors who agree to help the police trap Simon in order to get their own drug possession charges dropped.
7. The character Eric Draven (pictured) is a rock musician who is revived from the dead to avenge his own murder, as well as that of his fiancé. Tragically, an accident on set killed the actor before he finished the film.
8. The story of a neighborhood's simmering racial tension, which comes to a head and culminates in tragedy on the hottest day of the summer. The black director also plays a role as the unambitious young man who works by delivering for an Italian pizzeria, owned by Danny Aiello, in the middle of a black neighbourhood in Brooklyn to help support his latina girlfriend and their son.

 

[caffeinated]

Late-night thread bump, and thanks to bob for posting the clues.

 

[caffeinated]

Here are this week's answers:

1. Midnight Run
2. A History of Violence
3. 3:10 to Yuma
4. The Taking of Pelham 123 (1974)
5. The Gods Must Be Crazy
6. Go
7. The Crow
8. Do the Right Thing

Thanks for playing!

 

[bobsyeruncle]

Thanks, caff.

 

[technovapir]

Thanks for the clues Bobs !

Thanks for the quiz Caff! I've never even heard of #6 "Go".

 

[caffeinated]

Go is a pretty good movie, IMO. It's not without its flaws, but it's definitely worth 90-ish minutes of your time.

 

[vaporgalinfla]

I missed this week's movie quiz. I loved #1 and #4. I think I've seen Midnight Run at least three times.

 

[caffeinated]

Midnight Run is my favorite Robert De Niro comedy.... Well, except for The King of Comedy, but that's a comedy of a very different sort.

Let me rephrase the first part of that: Midnight Run is the best conventional comedy Robert De Niro has made, IMO.

I really didn't like Analyze This, and I never saw its sequel. And I have a very low threshold of tolerance for Ben Stiller, so I never watched any of the Meet the Parents / Fockers / Whatever movies either.