Name that movie (off-off-topic)

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Originally Posted by monkeywrench133

Name the movie in which Patrick Swayze plays a child pornographer.

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Donnie Darko! Love that movie. :D

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Originally Posted by sweety314

Nooo, isn't it "Cool Hand Luke" (Steve McQueen)?????? The "What we have here is a failure to communicate" quote?


Or am I just waaaaaaaay behind tonite??

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You're not too far behind..... It was "Cool Hand Luke" but it is Paul Newman, not Steve McQueen.

The line from "Cool Hand Luke" was "What we've GOT here, is a failure to communicate". Slightly different.

And Good Job Sheree! I thought everybody forgot about that question.

Okay this thread is great but dang I don't know all these movies so here's one I do know and have loved for years!


From the movie:
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v7...eno/nameit.jpg

An outtake just because I'm a nice person to give you a hint LOL:
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v7...no/outtake.jpg

~~Jo~~

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Originally Posted by monkeywrench133

The line from "Cool Hand Luke" was "What we've GOT here, is a failure to communicate". Slightly different.

And Good Job Sheree! I thought everybody forgot about that question.

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Okay--You got me, I thought I typed in "got" and didn't

Is that Hatarii? (I am not sure if that is the correct spelling) With John Wayne?

Dang you got it LOL. Hatari! is the actual way it was in the movie.

Bit of trivia....a lot of the movie audio track had to be re-dubbed apparantly due to John Wayne's cursing as he wrestled with various animals LOL (in that out take he looks none too pleased!)

Hmmmmmm do I have to resort to....CHICK FLICKS! :P


~~Jo~~

Chick Flicks???!!!!


Looks like I will have to take my ball and go home:)

Yeah, if we go to chick flicks.................I'm outta here!

Anyone got a guess about the book "full metal jacket" is based on? Anyone? Anyone?

I saw the movie many moons ago, but I don't know the book it was base on.

The book is titled "The Short-Timers" by Gustav Hasford. Hasford was a Marine Combat Correspondent in Vietnam, even though he never specifically said so, the book was a memoir of his experience in the Marine Corps. and Vietnam during the Tet Offensive.

Okay--That makes sense, seeing as how Modine's character is also a Marine correspondent. I wonder if private Pyle's killing of the drill sergent and subsequent suicide is based on something that actually happened.

Ok, here's another movie/book tie in, this one should be easy.


What book was "Apocolyse Now" based on? Just title, not author.

Heart of Darkness, Joseph Conrad

Okay, I've got one:

"The 13th Warrior" was based on what book, by what author?

"eaters of the dead" by Michael Crichton.

"Shoot, a fella could have a pretty good weekend in Vegas with all that stuff"

Ok, NOBODY WILL GET THIS ONE!!!! BWAA-HA-HA-HA!!!!!

Name the Movie

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Name the CITY that was originally in the line, AND why they DUBBED "VEGAS" over it.

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Originally Posted by monkeywrench133

"Shoot, a fella could have a pretty good weekend in Vegas with all that stuff"

Ok, NOBODY WILL GET THIS ONE!!!! BWAA-HA-HA-HA!!!!!

Name the Movie

AND

Name the CITY that was originally in the line, AND why they DUBBED "VEGAS" over it.

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Dr. Strangelove or How I Learned to Love the Bomb

Dallas, because it was shot before the Kennedy assassination but changed afterward to be more politically correct.


Sorry, big Kubrick fan. =)

"Well, Mister Bat Guano, if that really is your name!"

Counter question: Dr. Strangelove was the cinematic debut for which actor?

I'll take a guess, just because I know it was one of his early pictures--James Earl Jones?

James Earll Jones



Good Job!!!! Actually, the film's first screening for critics was scheduled for Nov 22, 1963, the exact day JFK shot.

So, what role in the movie was Peter Sellers supposed to play, but wasn't able to because of an injury?

Hmmm.....



I don't think I even have a guess to that one!

It wasn't Jack Ripper was it?

Nope, Peter Sellers was originally supposed to play the pilot of the plane, Major Kong. But when they were shooting a scene in the "bomb bay", Sellers fell out and broke his leg. They brought Slim Pickins in to replace him for that role. That's also why "Dr Strangelove" is in a wheel chair. Those scenes were filmed after Sellers broke his leg.

Dang, I was actually going to guess Major Kong first!

Getting back to "Eaters of the Dead"--What earlier work did Crichton base his novel on?

I give up, I quit reading Crichton a long time ago.


Here's a sneaky one for you: What other movie was Max Schrek, the original vampire in the original vampire movie "Nosferatu" in?

I don't know, but I have to say I love Nosferatu!! Max Schrek is just plain creepy.

sorry I never came back to this post, I had a minor family crisis to deal with last night.


Incidentally, the work I was referring to was Beowulf.

Max Schrek, Huh?

Hmmmm...........

It wasn't "Metropolis" was it?

Wasn't Beowulf an 8th century story of a serial killer in England? I'm reading a book on serial killers right now and the author mentioned Beowulf in passing, nothing detailed.

and no, it wasn't "Metropolis", good guess though.

I suppose it could be viewed as a story about a serial killer. It's about a Danish warrior/chieftain who rids the land of a man-eating monster called Grendel, and much later in life slays a dragon and dies from its venomous bite. Crighton took the basic outline of the story, and tried to make it plausible--rather than a man eating monster called Grendel, it became a group of man-eating people called the Wendol; Beowulf became Buliwyf, and so forth.

Okay, not Metropolis, huh?

Was it a cameo appearance in Dracula starring Bela Lugosi, or something like that?

Ok, as I said, it was a sneaky question, the answer is......................None. Maxx never did another movie. In fact, there are no records of Maxx's existence before or after the movie. That, along with the fact that Maxx wasn't really wearing much make-up in the film (he naturally was that unpleasant looking) lead to the rumor/myth that he really was a vampire. These myths were the basis for the 2001 movie "Shadow of the Vampire" with John Malkovich and Willem Dafoe.

I wonder if that was even his real name, or a stage name. "Schrek" is the German word for "fright" or terror.

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Originally Posted by cassandra

"Well, Mister Bat Guano, if that really is your name!"

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wasnt that used in BAT-THUMB?

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Originally Posted by monkeywrench133

Ok, as I said, it was a sneaky question, the answer is......................None. Maxx never did another movie. In fact, there are no records of Maxx's existence before or after the movie. That, along with the fact that Maxx wasn't really wearing much make-up in the film (he naturally was that unpleasant looking) lead to the rumor/myth that he really was a vampire. These myths were the basis for the 2001 movie "Shadow of the Vampire" with John Malkovich and Willem Dafoe.

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Geez.. now he's even creepier. I remember reading that the natives of the town the film was made in were very superstitious about him

Metropolis was a weird movie. I like old silent movies though.

Yes, so do I. The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari is another creepy one.

But nothing tops Nosferatu on the creepiness scale. Another one that looks like it would be creepy is London After Midnight with Lon Chaney, but no known copies of the film survive, just still photographs.

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Originally Posted by ErikH

Yes, so do I. The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari is another creepy one.

But nothing tops Nosferatu on the creepiness scale. Another one that looks like it would be creepy is London After Midnight with Lon Chaney, but no known copies of the film survive, just still photographs.

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I'll have to check those out.

Lon Chaney had a lot of talent.. it's too bad that one movie didn't make it.

He did one called The Unknown where he plays a criminal hiding out in a circus as an armless knife thrower. Chaney spent weeks with his arms strapped behind his back, learning to eat and drink with his feet to play the role. Definitely worth checking out.

I already stumbled across that one on my search. Definitely want to check that out.

Here's one:


"You just shot an unarmed man."

"Well he should have armed himself if he's gonna decorate his saloon with my friend."

Clint Eastwood in "the unforgiven"

Wow!, you're quick!

IS that a Kolchak: Night Stalker avatar you're sportin there??

Thanks,

Here's one: In "Taxi Driver", who played the crazed husband in the back of Robert DeNiro's cab, talking, graphically, about shooting his wife?

Yep, it's Kolchak. One of my favorite shows as a child.

Crazed husband...........


Hmmmmmmmmm.....

I vaguely remember the scene, but I haven't seen the movie in years.

I'm afraid I don't even have a guess.

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Originally Posted by ErikH

Yep, it's Kolchak. One of my favorite shows as a child.

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Hyeah - pre X-Files weirdness investigated - was a good show.

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Originally Posted by ErikH

Crazed husband...........


Hmmmmmmmmm.....

I vaguely remember the scene, but I haven't seen the movie in years.

I'm afraid I don't even have a guess.

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I'll give you two hints

1) he's short

2) he's a house-hold name.

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Originally Posted by monkeywrench133

I'll give you two hints

1) he's short

2) he's a house-hold name.

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LOL...would that be Danny DeVito? I can picture him doing a role like that.

Joe Pesci comes to mind, but I don't recall him being in the movie.

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Originally Posted by JLC

LOL...would that be Danny DeVito? I can picture him doing a role like that.

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Nope, Good Guess though!

It was the director............................Martin Scorsese.