snagged from dickumbrage, whose selections were so tough I couldn't guess any of them! I tried to make mine pretty easy.
Go to IMDB.com and look up 10 of your favorite movies.
Post three or four official IMDB "Plot Keywords" for each.
Hey guys, guess the movies!
1. lightbulb, chess, sabotage
2. parallel world, bathing, bad smell, train
3. poncho, undertaker, massacre
4. playboy, world domination, bouillabaisse
5. pest control, vicar, full moon
6. paranoia, costume party, mother son relationship
7. all male cast, gardening, motorcycle, machine gun
8. domineering mother, cigarette, psychiatry, brazil
9. telephone call, split screen, man pretending to be gay
10. rocket car, musician, escaped mental patient
ETA: if you want a hint, here's one more keyword for each movie:
1: number in title
2: witch
3: mule
4: spoof
5: vegetable
6: solitaire
7: tunnel
8: ugly duckling
9: interior decorator
10: sequel mentioned in end credits
ETA again: here are the answers, including kudos to those who guessed! Highlight the text to read the answers:
- Stalag 17 Georg and Kevin!
- Spirited Away
- Fistful of Dollars close enough: Georg, Lisa, Kevin and anonymous!
- Our Man Flint Lisa and Kevin!
- Wallace and Grommit in the Curse of the Were Rabbit Georg and Bummble!
- The Manchurian Candidate Georg and Kevin!
- The Great Escape Georg and Kevin!
- Now, Voyager also accepted Kiss of the Spider Woman from Kevin
- Pillow Talk Georg, Lisa and Kevin!
- The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai in the Eighth Dimension Georg and Phil!
12 Comments
#1 could be X3, I suppose. I'm being a bit liberal on my interpretation of "light bulb".
Crikes -- I can only do #10 (Buckaroo Banzai). Then again, I don't know many movies.
Half of #8 ("Would that be #4? hahahah!") sounds like Brazil, but the cigarette (and maybe the psychiatry) rule that out.
Phil: you got #10! #8 is the one that I don't know if people will get, because it's a movie that I really love but maybe not as many people have seen it. (Besides, I would never use "brazil" as a clue for Brazil! ha!)
Lee: no, that's not it! I have another clue for #1, but it wouldn't help because it also applies to X3. Maybe I should add extra clues for all of them:
1: number in title
2: witch
3: mule
4: spoof
5: vegetable
6: solitaire
7: tunnel
8: ugly duckling
9: interior decorator
10: Phil got it already!
#9, that one with doris day talking on the phone in the bath to... was it rock hudson?
is #3 a clint eastwood movie?
is #4 austin powers?
#3 and #9 -- yes! #4 is the movie Austin Powers was ripping off ("homage" if you want to be nice :)
Yikes, these are difficult!
I only recognize nr 8, which is Brazil I think - and could nr 5 possibly be Wallace & Gromit and the Curse of the Were Rabbit?
I have a feeling I should know more of these... I love the keywords for nr 2, those are brilliant!
Ah, if nr 3 is a Clint Eastwood movie, is it the one with a nun in it?
(although I can't remember a massacre, but I don't think I've ever seen the whole movie)
Called something something sister Sarah... Three mules for sister Sarah?
#1 is Stalag-17, which I got without the second hint.
The hint tells me that #6 is Manchurian Candidate.
#7 sounds like The Great Escape, but I wouldn't have narrowed it down without the second hint.
Is #8 Kiss of the Spider Woman?
#9 is Pillow Talk, I'm pretty sure, and again I got that without reading the comments.
What does it say about you that at least three of your favorite films are prison(camp) movies?
Bummble: you got #5! yay! #8 isn't Brazil, but that's a good guess! That's a kind of tricky one, it's an old movie that I love.
I seriously didn't think these would be hard. I tried them on Georg and he got them all right away, so I thought they were too easy! I guess that's what happens when you live with someone for 10 years and you know what movies they like :)
Anonymous: Three Mules for Sister wasn't the one I was thinking of, but the keywords might apply equally to it now that I think about it. If there's an undertaker in it, I'll give you that one!
Kevin: You got 1, 6, 7 and 9!
The list of movies is somewhat skewed because I was trying to pick movies that I thought people would have a chance of recognizing. For instance I didn't list Theodora Goes Wild because I may be the only person who reads this who's ever seen it (except maybe Kip). I blew it with #8 so I'm just going to give that one: it's Now, Voyager. The keywords might apply equally to Kiss of the Spider Woman so you get that one too!
#4 must be In Like Flynt then-- of course, you just watched those!
Actually, I'm not sure if Kiss of the Spider Woman qualifies for "ugly duckling"--it's been too long since I've seen it to remember.
I found #2 by actually checking the keywords on IMDB, and it's obvious in retrospect. What a wonderful film.
I wasn't sure which Sergio Leone/Clint Eastwood film was #3 until I looked up "undertaker"--I thought that the cemetary scene in The Good, The Bad, and the Ugly might have qualified. (That's my favorite of their films.) The one you chose is good, too.
And I was pretty sure that I knew #4 based on the discussion, but I've never actually seen it. It is, however, the only film on the IMDB to have the keyword "bouillabaisse".