Competition time, again.
on Aug 01 in Uncategorized by DanA couple of months ago I held a competition where I ran a bunch of taglines for films through babel fish, then asked you to identify the movie from the garbled mess that came out the other end.
It was too easy. This time I’m hopefully going to make things a little more difficult.
Now pay attention: I am giving you five questions, each of which consists of three taglines to separate movies. But it doesn’t stop there, oh no. In the cast of each movie there is an actor who has worked with a member of the cast of the other two movies in the set in order to make yet another super bonus movie.
Look, stop whimpering. It’s very simple, for example:
Q1a: Six reasons why the west was wild
A: Young Guns (actor: Kiefer Sutherland)Q1b: She brought a small town to its feet and a huge corporation to its knees.
A: Erin Brockovitch (actor: Julia Roberts)Q1c: One kid. One town. One chance.
A: Footloose (actor: Kevin Bacon)Super Bonus movie: Flatliners (staring Kiefer Sutherland, Julia Roberts, Kevin Bacon)
As usual there will be prizes for correct answers. And as usual these prizes will be crap. Anyone who identifies the movie to a tagline will get a freshly minted copy of my latest Now That’s What I Call Dan Imposing His Musical Taste On Others CD. Anyone who identifies a super bonus movie will get a copy of my Now That’s What I Call Rather Amusing comedy compilation CD. And anyone who is able to identify the overarching theme for all five super bonus movies will get a glittering mystery prize which may or may not be an iPod. Actually it’s highly unlikely to be an iPod but I just want to generate some excitement.
As usual I insist on everyone participating here. Even if you are just passing through after searching google for the Brisol Stool Chart, take a few minutes out of your hectic poo classifying schedule and have a bash at the quiz. You know you want to.
The closing date is midnight Wednesday 8/8/07.
1a: A murdered wife. A one-armed man. An obsessed detective. The chase begins.
1b: Imagine having this guy for a friend
1c: Don’t Panic
2a: A motion picture destined to offend nearly two thirds of the civilized world. And severely annoy the other third
2b: Welcome to Japan, Mr. Bond
2c: Big Cops. Small Town. Moderate Violence
3a: In order to break the code, one man will have to break all the rules.
3b: The man with the hat is back. And this time, he’s bringing his Dad.
3c: In a world of 1s and 0s…are you a zero, or The One?
4a: His story will touch you, even though he can’t
4b: An adventure as big as life itself
4c: Loving you is like loving the dead
5a: A temptingly tasteful comedy for adults who can count.
5b: De Mented, De Ranged, De Ceptive, De Palma
5c: His whole life was a million-to-one shot.
I’m not expecting anyone to get them all right, it’s probably going to be more of a team effort. Good luck, and let’s be careful out there.
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The overall theme is “hard.” You lost me around 1B.
Pah, a lot of them are easy peasy lemon squeezy. Although question 5 is a bit of a bugger.
1a: The Fugitive
1b: Drop Dead Fred
1c: The Hitch-hikers Guide to the Galaxy
2a: Life of Brian
2b: You Only Live Twice
2c: Hot Fuzz
3a: National Treasure
3b: Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
3c: The Matrix
4a: Edwards Scissorhands
4b: Big Fish
4c: Corpse Bride
5a: Ten.
5b: Raising Cain
5c: Rocky
Now all we need are the links…
Bloody hell it’s happened again!
We’d like to know if we have # 3 correct, please?
3a: National Treasure – Sean Bean
3b: Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade – John Rhys-Davies
3c: The Matrix – Hugo Weaving
Link : Fellowship of the Ring (Lord of the Rings)
(and thanks to Pandora for the jump-start!)
What? Did Pandora get the titles right? Well, that saves me a lot of work, doesn’t it?
We may also have # 1 and # 4 figured out; are these correct?
1a: The Fugitive – Harrison Ford
1b: Drop Dead Fred – Carrie Fisher
1c: The Hitch-hikers Guide to the Galaxy – Warwick Davis
Link – Return of the Jedi (Star Wars)
4a: Edwards Scissorhands – Johnny Depp
4b: Big Fish – Deep Roy
4c: Corpse Bride – Helena Bonham-Carter (or Christopher Lee)
Link – Tim Burton’s Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
We have WAY too much time on our hands! But we are really enjoying this challenge.
Oh… I got the first bonus movie.
1a Harrison Ford
1b Carrie Fisher
1c Warwick Davis
MOVIE: Return of the Jedi
Agggh… Lise is right on my tail.
How about this one:
5a. Ten – Dudley Moore
5b. Raising Cain – John Lithgow
5c. Rocky – Burgess Meredith
And the bonus movie is: Santa Claus: The Movie
Woo-hoo! I just have to win something.
Pandora got all the taglines right, and between them Phil and Lise have got the bonus movie for 1, 3, 4, and 5.
Just number two left and the overarching theme.
You people are just too clever. Maybe I should write the questions in Chinese next time.
I’m stumped.
Maybe they’re all from New Line Cinema?
We think we that we have number 2 figured out:
2a: Life of Brian
Actor: John Cleese
2b: You Only Live Twice
Actor: Sean Connery
2c: Hot Fuzz
Actor: Jim Broadbent
Link: Time Bandits
We have a guess for the overarching theme. It is five super bonus movies contain short people (ewoks, elves etc)?
Hurrah!
You truely are queen of the movie quiz Lise. The theme is indeed short people. Time bandits gave it away really.
I haven’t watched that film in ages.
I’ll email all the people who got correct answers shortly in order to dole out prizes.
well, crap. i really should be checking your posts daily, shouldn’t i…
It is my belief that everyone should be checking my posts hourly Bon Bon. In that way we may yet live to see peace between Israel and Palestine in our lifetimes.
Well maybe my lifetime anyway, you are quite old after all.
Was rather enjoying your latest game until I cheated and read the answers and found the underlying theme to be dwarves.
I’m scared now that they may be behind everything an my irrational fear may be quite sensible after all. I’m not going to be able to sleep now. They’re watching.
i never should admited i was born in the kennedy administration.
no matter. you’re going down, hughes.
big men fall hard.