Poorly describe movies and guess what they are

[Jimmy Snyder]

2. Rich guy robs art museum. Or does he?

The Thomas Crown Affair.

 

[SpringCreek]

The Thomas Crown Affair.

Right

 

[SpringCreek]

1. Scientist goes mad over grandfather's work.

2. Rich guy robs art museum. Or does he? The Thomas Crown Affair

3. British government employee's family motto.

Some hints:

1. There's no escaping destiny.

3. The theme song was garbage, but it had this pretty good line: "There's no point in living if you can't feel alive."

 

[Janus]

Got it.

Okay, a little harder this time.

1. Scientist goes mad over grandfather's work.

Young Frankenstein

 

[Jimmy]

1. Man talks into tape recorder and watches himself.
2. A small, white animal causes a man to soil himself.
3. An average man and a woman who "paints people and fruit and..." end up in the future.

 

[Janus]

2. A small, white animal causes a man to soil himself.

Monty Python and the Holy Grail.

 

[Jimmy]

Monty Python and the Holy Grail.

Yes! Easy one I suppose.

I was trying to find some that haven't been answered yet, but I guess I'll just wait for new clues.

 

[Ken Natton]

I was trying to find some that haven't been answered yet,

Well Jimmy, since you bring it up, no-one ever answered these.

Fruity guy marries an innocent, corrupts her, then reforms leaving her in the gutter.

Famously vain man teams with a shrewd blonde beauty. Together they cause a great deal of trouble.

After she foils the evil intention of their father, she has the responsibility of caring for her younger brother, but survival seems unlikely. Their saviour is someone she might have looked down on but does he know more than she realizes about the true path to happiness?

The last one is not an American film, it’s a British / Australian film so perhaps it was never big in the US. But the other two are Hollywood films and were classics of their time. The actor I am referring to with my ‘Fruity guy’ clue is one of the biggest and many regarded this as his finest performance. And I am very surprised that no-one got the other one. At the time it was released it was X rated because of one scene which now seems so tame.

 

[stevebd1]

Famously vain man teams with a shrewd blonde beauty. Together they cause a great deal of trouble.

Bonnie and Clyde

 

[Ken Natton]

Bonnie and Clyde

Ah ha! Indeed. Warren Beatty was, reputedly, of whom Carly Simon was singing in the song You're So Vain.

 

[SpringCreek]

Young Frankenstein

Yes.

The remaining clue and hint.

3. British government employee's family motto. The theme song was garbage, but it had this pretty good line: "There's no point in living if you can't feel alive."

After watching the opening sequence of this movie, I realized that the line was cut from the song, although it is in the full version of the song. The line also figures prominently in the movie. Still, in all fairness, perhaps another clue is in order.

The movie is set in (in this order): Spain, London, Scotland, Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, the Caspian Sea, and Istanbul.

 

[Ken Natton]

All right, another round of films that maybe no-one will get. These are all Hollywood films that were the centre of water cooler chat when they were released. But not a CGI graphic, not a special effect or a moment of 'action' between them.

It's always the children who suffer. He is thrown into the parenting deep end. She wins the case but finally puts the boy's interests first.

The corniest final scene ever? Ah, but everyone cried. He was spotless in white.

A classic courtroom drama. But the verdict is not the end of it. Everyone in the cinema jumped.

That's no way to cook game! Will he pay the ultimate price for his sexuality?

Alll the women gave a sardonic smile. All the men shifted uncomfortably. In a cafe, in public, she proved her point.

 

[SpringCreek]

It's always the children who suffer. He is thrown into the parenting deep end. She wins the case but finally puts the boy's interests first.

Kramer vs. Kramer

The corniest final scene ever? Ah, but everyone cried. He was spotless in white.

Field of Dreams

Alll the women gave a sardonic smile. All the men shifted uncomfortably. In a cafe, in public, she proved her point.

When Harry Met Sally

 

[stevebd1]

A classic courtroom drama. But the verdict is not the end of it. Everyone in the cinema jumped.

Witness for the Prosecution

 

[Ken Natton]

Kramer vs. Kramer

Yes

Field of Dreams

Not what I was thinking of

When Harry Met Sally

Yes

Witness for the Prosecution

Not what I was thinking of

 

[Jimmy Snyder]

All the men shifted uncomfortably. In a cafe, in public, she proved her point.

Drat the luck. I never saw this movie, but I recently heard that there is a scene in it that was filmed in Katz's deli in NYC. If this is the 'cafe' you are referring to, and if you had called it a deli instead of a cafe, then I would have got it for that reason alone. Anyway, I just checked it out of the library and will watch it tonight.

 

[Ken Natton]

Drat the luck. I never saw this movie, but I recently heard that there is a scene in it that was filmed in Katz's deli in NYC. If this is the 'cafe' you are referring to, and if you had called it a deli instead of a cafe, then I would have got it for that reason alone. Anyway, I just checked it out of the library and will watch it tonight.

My apologies if I was inaccurate. To me, a Deli is a place where you purchase food and drink products for consumption off the premises. They were definitely partaking of the food and drink products on the premises. Hence the famous quote - "I'll have what she's having." That, to me, is a cafe. Perhaps this is just an aspect of local culture.

 

[Jimmy Snyder]

My apologies if I was inaccurate. To me, a Deli is a place where you purchase food and drink products for consumption off the premises. They were definitely partaking of the food and drink products on the premises. Hence the famous quote - "I'll have what she's having." That, to me, is a cafe. Perhaps this is just an aspect of local culture.

Oh, no need to apologize, a sitdown deli is a cafe. I just missed getting one without actually having seen the movie, that's all.

 

[Ken Natton]

Oh, no need to apologize, a sitdown deli is a cafe. I just missed getting one without actually having seen the movie, that's all.

Ah ha. I see. Well I'll tell you what, you tell me what films you haven't seens and I'll... No, that's not going to work is it?

 

[Jimmy Snyder]

Ah ha. I see. Well I'll tell you what, you tell me what films you haven't seens and I'll... No, that's not going to work is it?

No it wouldn't. How about films that you haven't seen.

 

[Ken Natton]

Well, let me see now.

I haven’t seen any of the Star Wars films. Nor any of the Star Trek films. Nor any of the Terminator films, not indeed any Schwarzenegger film. I haven’t seen The Matrix, nor Kill Bill. I have seen Pulp Fiction but I think that might be the only Tarantino film that I have seen. I haven’t seen a significant majority of the films mentioned on this thread. I did see a little bit of Reservoir Dogs, but I admit it was more than I could take. Some years ago I was in a shopping mall when I was stopped and after participating in a survey was offered free tickets to the premier of Arachnaphobia. The lady was most put out when I turned them down.

So, if I was going to take my wife to the cinema sometime soon, whaddya reckon we should go and see? Something that would make us say, ‘So they do make films like that any more!’

 

[Jimmy Snyder]

Well, let me see now.

I haven’t seen any of the Star Wars films. Nor any of the Star Trek films. Nor any of the Terminator films, not indeed any Schwarzenegger film. I haven’t seen The Matrix, nor Kill Bill. I have seen Pulp Fiction but I think that might be the only Tarantino film that I have seen. I haven’t seen a significant majority of the films mentioned on this thread. I did see a little bit of Reservoir Dogs, but I admit it was more than I could take. Some years ago I was in a shopping mall when I was stopped and after participating in a survey was offered free tickets to the premier of Arachnaphobia. The lady was most put out when I turned them down.

So, if I was going to take my wife to the cinema sometime soon, whaddya reckon we should go and see? Something that would make us say, ‘So they do make films like that any more!’

You should poorly describe Kill Bill so I can guess "Kill Bill". That should take care of that.
I just finished watching When Harry met Sally. After 30 minutes of it I couldn't take any more so I fast forwarded to the scene in Katz's Deli which didn't make all that much sense to me and then put it away.

 

[Ken Natton]

You should poorly describe Kill Bill so I can guess "Kill Bill". That should take care of that.
I just finished watching When Harry met Sally. After 30 minutes of it I couldn't take any more so I fast forwarded to the scene in Katz's Deli which didn't make all that much sense to me and then put it away.

But you see, When Harry Met Sally is a human story. It portrays life as it is actually led by real people. Instead of waiting for the car chase, or the vast explosion or the ‘Wow! How did they do that!’ moment, you have to consider whether it serves as any reflection of the life that you lead. And it does! You’ve eaten in that Deli! But all of the women were very well behaved when you were in there, right?

Any way. Here goes.

A portrayal of how men think women are, rather than how women really are. And get this. It isn’t pornography.

I did warn you that I hadn’t actually seen it.

 

[Jimmy Snyder]

A portrayal of how men think women are, rather than how women really are. And get this. It isn’t pornography.

Kill Bill. Although I can't be sure since I haven't seen it.

 

[Jimmy Snyder]

You’ve eaten in that Deli! But all of the women were very well behaved when you were in there, right?

I don't know if this is rhetorical or a direct question to me. Anyhoo, I never actually ate at Katz's deli, I just watched an episode about it on the Food Network and they mentioned the scene in the movie. I did eat at Hershel's East Side Deli in the Reading Terminal Market in Phila. When I walked in the place all the women faked orgasms.

 

[Ken Natton]

Kill Bill. Although I can't be sure since I haven't seen it.

Yes. Well done.

I did eat at Hershel's East Side Deli in the Reading Terminal Market in Phila. When I walked in the place all the women faked orgasms.

That place sounds like it’s worth a visit. How would I find it, say from Market Street East Station?

 

[Jimmy Snyder]

That place sounds like it’s worth a visit. How would I find it, say from Market Street East Station?

Market Street East Station is at 11th and Market, Reading Terminal Market is officially at 12th and Market. You can either go 3,436,267 blocks west, or 1 block east. However, the address is misleading. If you are on the corner of 12th and Market, walk north past Filbert St., The market is on your right (east side of 12th St.) Inside you will find dozens of restaurants of all types along with butchers, bakers, and candlestick makers. It's something like a food court but much larger. Herschel's Deli is sort of in the middleish of it. They don't have seating as such, however, there is a public seating area right in front of it.

By the way, for anyone who hasn't been to the Reading Terminal Market, definitely go if you get a chance. If for some odd reason you don't eat there, at least go to listen to the jingle, the rumble and the roar.

 

[Ken Natton]

So, you see, I have learned something worthwhile. The circumference of planet Earth is exactly 3,436,268 blocks.

Perhaps no-one cares, but for what it is worth, the films I was referring to in post #51 that nobody has guessed were Jack Lemmon (fruity guy, geddit?) in Days of Wine and Roses, and Jenny Agutter in Walkabout.

For the three as yet unguessed from post #187, here’s some further clues.

That corny final scene has been often referenced, including by The Simpsons.

The classic courtroom drama was written by the same guy that wrote the film from which Sharon Stone’s most infamous scene comes.

As is the one with dubious culinary methods which scene has begat a whole new term for the troublesome type of woman thus portayed.

 

[Math Is Hard]

A portrayal of how men think women are, rather than how women really are. And get this. It isn’t pornography.

So, men see us as assassins?

 

[Ken Natton]

So, men see us as assassins?

Oh dear, now I’m in trouble. I did say that I hadn’t actually seen the film. I suppose that what I was referring to is the impression I had from trailers and reports about it that I did see that the central female character displayed a very masculine type of aggression. But don’t worry, I’m not doubting that you could kick my head in any day of the week. My feeling is that the film is the product of and is targeted at male fantasy. That’s all.

This is all your fault Snyder. If you’d bothered to go and watch that film, I wouldn’t be in this mess.

 

[Jimmy Snyder]

This is all your fault Snyder.

If I wanted to hear that kind of talk, I'd have married you.

 

[Ken Natton]

If I wanted to hear that kind of talk, I'd have married you.

Oh Jimmy. I have a vision of a little cottage in the Pennsylvanian countryside. Just you and me. Then I could blame you for all my shortcomings.

Hmmm! That’s a good one. The Pennsylvanian countryside. Big city culture clashes with a simpler, more ancient lifestyle. And a secret, spontaneous dance to a sixties classic.

 

[SpringCreek]

The remaining clue and hint.

3. British government employee's family motto. The theme song was garbage, but it had this pretty good line: "There's no point in living if you can't feel alive."

After watching the opening sequence of this movie, I realized that the line was cut from the song, although it is in the full version of the song. The line also figures prominently in the movie. Still, in all fairness, perhaps another clue is in order.

The movie is set in (in this order): Spain, London, Scotland, Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, the Caspian Sea, and Istanbul.

Here's the full version of the song. This is the band's own video. The video is not from the movie, just the song is. The name of the band is Garbage.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eI7KxEerCYo

 

[Pythagorean]

They get the score but everbody dies.

 

[mege]

Oh Jimmy. I have a vision of a little cottage in the Pennsylvanian countryside. Just you and me. Then I could blame you for all my shortcomings.

Hmmm! That’s a good one. The Pennsylvanian countryside. Big city culture clashes with a simpler, more ancient lifestyle. And a secret, spontaneous dance to a sixties classic.

Oh, oh... that's For Richer or Poorer ;)