Forum Games: Movies

I love movies. I spent half of my teenage years working in video stores and watching film after film after film. I also love games. So I thought it would be fun to combine the two. Here's how this will work: I post a recognizable still from a movie that most people will know - except the still has been altered with some filters. The first person to identify the movie correctly gets to post the next image. Sound fun?

Edit: Here's Randy Slavey's ongoing history of the game, with all of the images used to date.

We'll start with an easy one: 

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Permalink Reply by Matt Blum on August 2, 2012 at 9:57am

No, Buckaroo Banzai was MUCH better. I think you're stretching the bounds of the game here, Nathan -- I really don't consider this a movie most people, or even most geeks, have heard of, much less would recognize a picture from. It took me several days to dredge up the memory of the film, and I've got a good head for trivia.

Hint: One of the then-unknown people working on special effects for this film later went on to become a director with an absolutely titanic ego.

 

Permalink Reply by Randy Slavey on August 2, 2012 at 10:16am

I remembered it, but had to google "George Peppard alien lizard man" to get the title. Now, I can't get that image of the snake guy from Dreamscape out of my head. Man, that movie creeped me out as a kid.

Permalink Reply by Nathan Barry on August 2, 2012 at 1:57pm
Really? I thought it was super geeky, with the connection you mention Matt, and the cast, and the aliens, and the models, etc. etc.!
I'd never heard of that Strange Brew movie earlier in the game, and I went for a trickier one as all my others had been guessed so quickly!

Shall I reveal the answer and move on?
Permalink Reply by Rob Keisacker on August 2, 2012 at 2:42pm

Personally, I can't get the one that you posted Nathan, but that is the wonderful world of Geekdom, it is SO wide reaching!  I have spent a long time trying to figure it out, googling, etc....  to decipher your photo.  Yes it takes me out of the guessing game, but it opens up my imagination.  To reveal or not to reveal should be up to you, or to give more clues.  That's just my two cents worth.

Permalink Reply by Randy Slavey on August 2, 2012 at 2:59pm

It's definitely geeky, in the way that THX 1138 or any Ed Wood movie is geeky. I just wouldn't expect most people to recognize a still image from them.

Still, I don't think it was completely out of bounds. Like Matt said, he did finally get it, as did I with a little memory jog from IMDB. It was just way harder than most, and probably doesn't fit the "most people will know" criteria.

Since I did "identify" the movie from the still, even if I identified it as "that George Peppard movie with the big lizard guy", do I get partial credit?

Permalink Reply by Mike Idenden on August 2, 2012 at 2:34pm

I googled that too based on you just to figure out what this was. I've NEVER heard of this movie. Hoping I figure one out without using Google because I've got a few that I would LOVE to post!! *lol*

Permalink Reply by Rob Keisacker on August 2, 2012 at 12:09am

That could be dog food, SPAM, a bunch of possibilities!!!

:)

Permalink Reply by Dennis Boyd on August 2, 2012 at 11:18am

Yep, never would've gotten that

Permalink Reply by Nathan Barry on August 2, 2012 at 3:11pm

OK, let's end this one then. The answer is Battle Beyond the Stars, starring George Peppard, Robert Vaughn, John Saxon and Jon-Boy Walton, directed by Roger Corman, second unit and FX by James Cameron. The dudes in the pic are Nestor - four of many beings who share a collective conscious - and they're eating Hot Dog! The film is basically the Seven Samurai/Magnificent Seven in Space.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0080421/

A staple of my early teens VHS viewing, mostly because of this character:

http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kt7b48wER01qzh56ro1_500.jpg

I guess Randy was closest, so away you go my good man.

Permalink Reply by Randy Slavey on August 2, 2012 at 3:41pm

Permalink Reply by Dennis Boyd on August 2, 2012 at 3:48pm

Bloodsport?

Permalink Reply by Randy Slavey on August 2, 2012 at 3:50pm

"You look like a Jackson." -- had a friend in high school named Jackson. This line never got old.

You got it.

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