Movie Quiz 77

[caffeinated]

Ready for a new Movie Quiz, everyone? One that uses really for-real movies instead of TV shows? Good, because that's precisely what I've got for you! Have a look below, and see for yourself.

The thread will run its course for a week or so, and I'll bump it with hints and whatnot as needed. I expect I'll be posting the answer key sometime early next week.

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?

Good luck, guys!

Please answer with movie numbers only, not titles..

 

[MEANZ06]

I know #2, 3 & 6. As a movie junkie I would like to know the titles to the others...

 

[bobsyeruncle]

Got 'em. Thanks, caff.

 

[vaporgalinfla]

Thanks Caff!

 

[caffeinated]

Bumping and hinting…

#1: In the 1970s, there was a deluge of “disaster films,” largely propelled by the unexpectedly huge box office success of the movie Airport in 1970. The movie in the screenshot is one of these star-studded popcorn flicks from 1974, and features such luminaries as Steve McQueen, Paul Newman, Fred Astaire, and Faye Dunaway (inside the glass elevator in the screenshot, center-left), along with a host of other very familiar faces.

#2: Perhaps a screenshot showing Christoph Waltz and Jamie Foxx would make this 2012 Quentin Tarantino film more easily identifiable?

#3: These two characters have a chance encounter in a stolen police car, and end up working together to solve the mystery at the center of this 1976 comedy-thriller, (using the term “thriller” loosely). That’s the original Willy Wonka in (very poorly done) blackface on the left, and if you don’t recognize the man on the right, your knowledge of stand-up comedy history is sorely lacking.

#4: In this 1988 sci-fi/action movie, (which spawned a short-lived TV series by the same name), a race of intelligent, extraterrestrial humanoids, (the “Newcomers”), have become stranded on Earth. The story is set in Los Angeles, where the Newcomers are being integrated into human society, and some of them have taken to crime. James Caan is an L.A.P.D. detective, and he has a new partner, Mandy Patinkin as Newcomer “Sam Francisco.”

Hopefully, some of you will find these helpful!

 

[vaporgalinfla]

Thanks for the hints! For sure, I've seen #1 and #3. #6 and #8 look very familiar...

 

[bobsyeruncle]

It's slow this week. Are there any lurkers with questions?

 

[vaporgalinfla]

I know #8! I've not watched it yet, but I have it saved on Amazon. I knew it looked familiar. So, is it worth watching?

 

[vaporgalinfla]

I remember #6! I knew that the scene looked familiar!

 

[caffeinated]

I know #8! I've not watched it yet, but I have it saved on Amazon. I knew it looked familiar. So, is it worth watching?

I'd say the general consensus would be no, it's not worth watching. Personally, I'd disagree with that sentiment, though.

I think audiences were expecting it to be a shoot-em-up, action-crime movie, when it's really more of a well-paced political allegory. The movie is not without its flaws, (cloying allegorical references, for example), but look past them and you'll find a pretty good movie, overall.

 

[caffeinated]

Time for another round of hints, perhaps?

#5: This controversial 2001 Japanese movie has a lot in common with The Hunger Games, which was published in 2008. Even though Hunger Games author, Suzanne Collins, claims she was unaware of the existence of the book that spawned this film, or the film itself, I don't really believe her. As an aside, having recently re-watched this movie, I think the way that the graphic depiction of extreme violence in movies has escalated since this was released has kind of taken the teeth out of this film, rendering it somewhat tame. It's still a good watch, though.

#6: This 1979 Al Pacino movie is largely about a young, ethical lawyer's battle against the massively corrupt legal system in Baltimore, Maryland. And the whole trial is out of order!!

#7: The screenshot for this 1983 movie shows Dan Aykroyd and Albert Brooks in a scene from the brief-but-memorable opening sequence for the film. Aykroyd, a hitchhiker, is picked up by Brooks and, after singing along to an 8-Track playing Creedence Clearwater Revival's "Midnight Special," they play a game of "identify the old TV show theme song." "Hey, you wanna see something really scary?"

#8: Brad Pitt, James Gandolfini, and Ray Liotta star in this hitman crime movie about what happens to small-time criminals when they rob a high stakes card game being run by a "protected" mafia member. As I mentioned in an earlier post, (and fully realizing that this part probably doesn't function well as a clue), the movie is primarily a very, very thinly disguised political allegory.

So, that's what I've got for hints this week. I'll post the answers in a couple of days.

 

[vaporgalinfla]

I'd say the general consensus would be no, it's not worth watching. Personally, I'd disagree with that sentiment, though.

I think audiences were expecting it to be a shoot-em-up, action-crime movie, when it's really more of a well-paced political allegory. The movie is not without its flaws, (cloying allegorical references, for example), but look past them and you'll find a pretty good movie, overall.

We watched the movie last night and thought it was pretty good!

 

[caffeinated]

One last bump... Answers coming tomorrow night.

Any more players?

 

[caffeinated]

Answers ahoy!

1. The Towering Inferno
2. Django Unchained
3. Silver Streak
4. Alien Nation
5. Battle Royale
6. ...And Justice for All
7. Twilight Zone: The Movie
8. Killing Them Softly

Thanks for playing!

 

[bobsyeruncle]

Thanks, caff.

 

[vaporgalinfla]

Thanks Caff! I've not seen Django Unchained; it sounds like a good movie!