Let's Test Our Movie Trivia Knowledge

[Bandersnatch]

The Ruling Class with Peter O'Toole

Nope. Much more recent.

 

[jedishrfu]

Purgatory?

 

[Bandersnatch]

Not that one either.

Clue: Actual vikings make actual landfall. Odin-Jesus never says a word.

 

[DiracPool]

Time for some arthouse cinema.

Q: Odin-Jesus makes a landfall in purgatory.

A: Valhalla rising?

 

[Bandersnatch]

A: Valhalla rising?

That's the one!

Very weird film, but fun if you don't mind symbolism overload. The trailer might make one think it's all about non-stop visceral combat, but most of it is spent on staring pensively at nothing in particular. Kinda requires at least a passing knowledge of Norse mythology to decipher.

The floor is yours.

 

[DiracPool]

Q: A high speed car chase under an elevated causeway in a major metropolitan city.

 

[jedishrfu]

Q: A high speed car chase under an elevated causeway in a major metropolitan city.

Not enough info but I'll try the French Connection.

 

[DiracPool]

Not enough info but I'll try the French Connection.

Bingo! Obviously there was too much info considering how fast you got it Your go.

 

[Borek]

Q: A high speed car chase under an elevated causeway in a major metropolitan city.

The Blues Brothers.

And prove me wrong

 

[jedishrfu]

The Blues Brothers.

And prove me wrong

Thank you, Borek. There are a dozen more movies with car chases under the ells.

FIRST to ANSWER wins the next toss.Next Movie:

A man decides to leave his job, his colleagues sit and sigh. He tells them he is much too old as they argue the reason and wonder why.

 

[DiracPool]

There are a dozen more movies with car chases under the ells.

Yes, but you picked the one that I was thinking of... Much less than chance odds there. Why did that happen? Huh? Answer that!

Edit: I could have distinguished it by saying that, unlike most other "under the ells" carchases, the French connection scene was not sanctioned by the city. They just grabbed some cameras and did it without a permit. And if you watch, they almost hit a few pedestrians along the way. Damn I miss those outlaw 70's.

 

[jedishrfu]

Yes, but you picked the one that I was thinking of... Much less than chance odds there. Why did that happen? Huh? Answer that!

Edit: I could have distinguished it by saying that, unlike most other "under the ells" carchases, the French connection scene was not sanctioned by the city. They just grabbed some cameras and did it without a permit. And if you watch, they almost hit a few pedestrians along the way. Damn I miss those outlaw 70's.

Yeah it did come to mind first. I think other movies tried to copy it.

 

[Borek]

A man decides to leave his job, his colleagues sit and sigh. He tells them he is much too old as they argue the reason and wonder why.

Sounds like The Man from Earth.

 

[jedishrfu]

Sounds like The Man from Earth.

Yes, you got it. Your turn. Its a great movie even though the acting is a bit stiff.

 

[Borek]

Blind angel gets high after meeting a hot chick.

 

[jedishrfu]

Blind angel gets high after meeting a hot chick.

Barbarella

 

[Borek]

Hard to deny.

 

[jedishrfu]

Hard to deny.

so I got it?

 

[Borek]

Yes.

 

[jedishrfu]

A stranger comes to town, trades some diamonds for money, solves a Celestial Mechanics problem with Separation of Variables and stops the world in it tracks before returning home.

 

[Bandersnatch]

The day the Earth stood still

 

[jedishrfu]

The day the Earth stood still

Yep, your turn.

I really liked the scene with Ben Gazara and Michael Rennie where he demolishes the equation with a few simple checks and slashes then says the rest could now be solved with Separation of Variables something I had just learned at college. There aren't too many films that show real math as such a level.

 

[Bandersnatch]

Q: One with a broken arm teams up with a broken man, to summon Charles Darwin et al. with a hidden goal of facilitating a one-way journey to Morph3us' realm.

 

[jedishrfu]

The Fall (2006) directed by Tarsem Singh based on Yo Ho Ho 1981 play by Valery Petrov

 

[Bandersnatch]

It is.

One of the most beautifully shot films out there.
Your turn.

 

[jedishrfu]

Stranded on an island with a monkey, some beautiful island girls and a big kahuna.

 

[jedishrfu]

Yep, your turn.

I really liked the scene with Ben Gazara and Michael Rennie where he demolishes the equation with a few simple checks and slashes then says the rest could now be solved with Separation of Variables something I had just learned at college. There aren't too many films that show real math as such a level.

oops I meant Sam Jaffe (starred with Ben Gazara in Ben Casey) senior moment.

 

[jedishrfu]

Stranded on an island with a monkey, some beautiful island girls and a big kahuna.

Since nobody guessed, I'll provide another clue the monkey was a space chimp.

 

[Bandersnatch]

Eh, Planet of the Apes, maybe?

 

[jedishrfu]

Eh, Planet of the Apes, maybe?

Nope, it was a popular comedy film in the 60's.

 

[krash661]

is elvis in it ?

 

[jedishrfu]

is elvis in it ?

Nope, but a famous chimney sweep is.

 

[krash661]

lt. robin crusoe, u.s.n.

 

[jedishrfu]

lt. robin crusoe, u.s.n.

Yes, a great and silly movie developed by Walt Disney himslef( see movie credits fot Retlaw Yensid) with Nancy Kwan and Dick VanDyke (Mary Poppins Chimney sweep) based on the classic story of Robinson Crusoe.

So its your turn.

 

[krash661]

hmm, i need to think of one,
if anyone else has one,
go head.