Guess the movie by the one-sentence plot summary

[Initech]

We have not done this for a while. I will start with an easy one:

England's loudest rock band heads out on a rather disastrous US tour to promote their new album "Smell The Glove".

[China_cat]

1. Spinal Tap

Can't remember the full name.

[Initech]

3. Close enough. Your turn.

[China_cat]

4. I can't think of anything.

I guess I just don't see enough movies.

[CottonBear]

2. Spinal Tap! n/t

[Richardo]

5. Need to be more obscure: Woman vows revenge on girl who killed her sister.

This one's easy, too. :D

[BurtWorm]

9. Is it the same one as "Girl dreams in technicolor?"

:bounce:

[Richardo]

10. ;-)

[Deep13]

197. delete** wrong place

[TZ]

6. Okay

Young farmhand gets engaged to girl, gets kidnapped by pirates and returns to save girl from marrying evil prince.

[lost-in-nj]

8. Princess Bride

:hi:



lost

[lost-in-nj]

7. The ET's

will destroy the earth because all they see is hate
until 3 words appear on a computer screen......


(one of my fav's)



lost

:hi:

[EstimatedProphet]

161. The Day The Earth Stood Still

[lost-in-nj]

228. nope

but I like that movie to!!!


lost

[BurtWorm]

11. Loser "wins"

[sarge43]

13. Every sports flick ever made. n/t

[BurtWorm]

16. You "win"

;)

[khashka]

12. Ok....

Woman tries to kill herself by mixing her sleeping pills with gazpacho, cuz her older married lover leaves her, but all her friends eat it and pass out.

Khash.

[BurtWorm]

15. Woman on the Virge of a Nervous Breakdown

[sarge43]

14. A woman doesn't understand either of the two men she loved.

For the record, this is the author's summary.

[BurtWorm]

17. Gone with the Wind

?

[sarge43]

18. Excellent, BurtWorm. Have some popcorn ... with real butter. n/t

[BurtWorm]

19. Thanks, sarge

:patriot:

:popcorn:

[pokerfan]

20. Cop works outside the system but gets the job done

[Bunny]

21. Every Dirty Harry movie.

[pokerfan]

22. Dang . Got it in one.

[LynneSin]

23. Some colorful men try to rob a store and the heist goes terribly wrong

:D

[Broken_Hero]

25. 10,000 Miles to Graceland? nt

[BurtWorm]

27. Reservoir Dogs

:smoke:

[LynneSin]

51. You got it

Colorful ie Mr. Pink, Mr. Brown, Mr. White, Mr. Orange etc. etc.

[Richardo]

28. The Heist?

[Richardo]

29. Oceans 11?

[Richardo]

30. Oceans 12?

[BOSSHOG]

24. A real life father and daughter con unsuspecting doops

in depression era Kansas and Missouri. (Hint, its in black and white.)

[Bunny]

26. Paper Moon

[Malikshah]

31. Husband abandons wife while on vacation, leaving her stranded.

She transforms lives of those she meets, whether they want her to or not.

[Iris]

99. please tell!

I've been checking back all evening!

[Malikshah]

130. I'll give a couple more hints. She helps transform people's lives

through magic

In so doing, her own life is transformed and all ends well.

[MountainLaurel]

144. Chocolat?

Just a guess.

:shrug:

[Malikshah]

160. Sorry-- Final Hint. The woman learns to enjoy being painted

while holding fruit.

[EstimatedProphet]

162. Did it take place in Venice?

[Malikshah]

165. Nope-- The United States.

It's one of my favorite movies-- a wonderful character study which has a way of working its way into your mind as you watch it.

Hell, it even has a soundtrack!

[EstimatedProphet]

166. Then I have no idea.

[Malikshah]

167. Does this help? Directed by Percy Adlon.

And I-iiiiiiiiiiiii am callling you... Can you hear me?

[EstimatedProphet]

170. Baghdad Cafe

[Malikshah]

177. Bingo-- Bagdad Cafe it is. My apolgies for the obscurity.

:blush: :blush: :blush:

[WCGreen]

483. That was a good movie.

[krispos42]

179. Overboard!!!

What do I win?

[Iris]

222. That's what I would have guessed if I could have remembered the title!

[krispos42]

249. I had to look it up

I totally blanked out, even though I've seen the movie probably a dozen times! :-)

[Iris]

310. it was a great movie.

I'll have to check it out again soon

[FloridaJudy]

202. Baghdad Cafe!

One of my favorite movies of all time!

[jobycom]

32. A couple has a flat on a rainy night and wind up in a mansion with strange inhabitants,

one of whom is creating a perfect man for his own pleasure, but who in the meantime seduces the couple, murders a charismatic rocker who happens to be the nephew of the professor of the man of the stranded couple, and becomes increasingly bizarre in a musical manner, until his housekeepers capture and kill him for his crimes, revealing that they are all aliens who must return to their home planet in their ship, which turns out to be the mansion itself.

[5LeavesLeft]

33. Well I think I remember

doing the time warp!

[DarkTirade]

36. ... I think that might be considered a 'run-on sentance'.

[jobycom]

164. Is not!

There's a difference between a run-on sentence and a sentence that runs on. :)

[RainDog]

123. Let's do the time warp agaaaaiiin

Rocky Horror

[krispos42]

181. Rocky Horror Picture Show?

Maybe?

[jobycom]

191. Wrong!!

Oh, no, wait, you're right.

[Auggie]

34. Murders occur over the search for a black statuette

One of my favorites

[sarge43]

35. Ah yes. The Maltese Falcon n/t

[Auggie]

40. Ding, ding, ding...

[DarkTirade]

37. A young nobody rises from obscurity and uses his innate abilities to save everyone from tyrrany.

[Initech]

39. V For Vendetta?

[DarkTirade]

44. I also would have accepted "Star Wars", "Eragon", "Harry Potter", ect. ect. ect. :)

[KSinTX]

158. OK, now name movies you wouldn't have accepted

:hi:

:rofl:

[DarkTirade]

250. I was thinking about narrowing it down by saying 'farmboy' instead of 'nobody'

but that would have only gotten rid of Harry Potter... :P

[XemaSab]

38. Three escaped cons seek treasure.

:P

[JTG of the PRB]

42. O Brother, Where Art Thou?

[XemaSab]

46. .

:thumbsup:

[JTG of the PRB]

47. !

:woohoo:

One of my favorite movies ever!

[Initech]

41. 1870's western meets 1970's Hollywood

[hellbound-liberal]

43. The Outlaw Josey Wales?

[lost-in-nj]

45. Blazing Saddles!!!

YEAH!!!!


great movie


lost

[Initech]

48. Ding ding ding!

I'm working for Mel Brooks! :rofl:

[Initech]

49. Wacky highway cops try to shape up when an opportuntiy to solve a real crime comes up

[XemaSab]

50. Super Troopers?

:shrug:

[Initech]

58. Yup.

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

52. Bumbling comedic duo seek aid of old general to free princess from evil fortress.

[lost-in-nj]

54. Shrek!!!!

:woohoo: :woohoo: :woohoo: :woohoo: :woohoo:


love me some Shrek!!!!



lost

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

56. I don't remember an old general in Shrek.

Good guess though.

[Common Sense Party]

153. Star Wars?

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

176. That is one of two acceptable answers.

[SoxFan]

345. Star Wars (A New Hope)/The Hidden Fortress

The Kurosawa film that Lucas admits was a major influence

[JTG of the PRB]

53. Three actors take their show on the road to perform what they THINK is a show...

...only to discover they have wandered into a dangerous situation with a gang of bad guys oppressing a small village.

[Chan790]

60. The Three Amigos!

[JTG of the PRB]

68. Ding ding ding!

We have a winnah!

[DarkTirade]

70. Jinx!

Or rather, since I said mine in spanish and you said yours in english... "El Jinxo!" :P

[DarkTirade]

61. Los Tres Amigos.

:P

[JTG of the PRB]

69. You, sir, are correct!

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

55. Biologist's chimp friend is sent to military experimentation that'll kill it.

[Initech]

57. That new Bush biography?

[Chan790]

62. Project X

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

66. Yep. (Apropos of nothing, I seriously had the hots for Helen Hunt.)

[Hawkeye-X]

93. I know that movie - Project X

I actually peed laughing at Goofy. I loved Goofy.

[Initech]

59. Eccentric business tycoon dries up oil wells and stabs his investors (and everyone else) in the back

[Chan790]

63. There Will Be Blood.

[Initech]

64. $2 million in cash sets off huge wave of violence that nobody can stop

[Chan790]

65. No Country For Old Men

[Initech]

67. Low-budget film producer cons big-budget star in starring in ultra-low-budget flick

[DarkTirade]

71. Any Kevin Smith movie after Mallrats?

:P

[Initech]

72. HA!

I cant believe no one is getting this one yet... :popcorn:

[Chan790]

75. Bowfinger

[Initech]

79. Ding!

[RainDog]

77. cecille b demented

[nuxvomica]

117. Ed Wood

:shrug:

[Initech]

73. A series of extremely well coreographed fight sequences set in a bar with excellent house band

[Chan790]

76. Roadhouse

[Nicholas D Wolfwood]

431. Kill Bill 1

[nuxvomica]

74. A child helps a man understand why his marriage is failing

:D

[Initech]

96. Every romantic comedy ever?

[nuxvomica]

104. Oh yeah? Name one romantic comedy with that plot.

:P

[Initech]

127. The Sixth Sense?

[nuxvomica]

129. Yes.

:thumbsup:

[Initech]

78. Bowling buddies stumble upon a huge kidnapping and extortion plot

[RainDog]

81. The Big Lebowski!

[RainDog]

80. a guy takes a train to from Cleveland to the wild west

kills a guy, gets shot, runs off, meets nobody along the way, becomes a poet whose words are written in blood, and returns to where he came from.

[RainDog]

149. hint

Nobody. William Blake. Words Written in Blood.

[DarkTirade]

168. Dead Man.

Jeez, be patient. Don't give out hints before people have a chance to get around to reading the original synopsis. :P

[RainDog]

82. Irish guy meets a beautiful woman

goes to work for her on a cruise, plots with her to kill her husband but gets double crossed and framed and it's all so strange he feels like he's in a house of mirrors.

[nuxvomica]

84. The Lady from Shanghai

When I just saw the subject line, I figured it was "The Quiet Man".

[RainDog]

83. A big weekend at a country estate in England

with American film producers and British aristocracy ends with the death of the owner and then an investigation into the murder which reveals all sorts of class and sexual issues that no one wants to admit.

[Diana Prince]

95. Gosford Park?

[RainDog]

107. dingdingding!!

right-o.

[RainDog]

85. A guy visits self-help meetings because he's emotionally void

until he meets a male who gets him to join a violent organization that plots to create total anarchy, but then the guy realizes his friend isn't what he seems.

[Tommy_Carcetti]

87. Uhhhh....what is....Fight Club? nt

[RainDog]

89. ...

[Tommy_Carcetti]

86. Detective attempts to foil plot to assisinate Queen Elizabeth II....

...and convince 56,000 people he is an umpire and world reknown opera singer in the process.

[Initech]

147. Naked Gun!

[Tommy_Carcetti]

187. Hey!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Metl9XrnaJc

It's Enrico Pallazzo!

ENRICO PALLAZZO!!! ENRICO PALLAZZO!!! ENRICO PALLAZZO!!!

[RainDog]

88. A guy loses his bike and has to go to the basement of the Alamo to get it back.

easy, huh?

[BurtWorm]

126. ...

[skygazer]

324. Pee Wee's Big Adventure!

Of course.

[RainDog]

90. A guy has to go back to the past

to find the location and identities of members a super secret organization so that, in the future, a bio-terror disaster can be averted.

[Diana Prince]

112. 12 Monkeys

[RainDog]

119. yowza. we have a winnah

[RainDog]

91. An aging mobster's girlfriend has a low-down brother

who the mobster puts out a hit on by using his right hand man, who is also in love with the girlfriend.

[RainDog]

148. a hint

quote: I'm praying to you! I can't die! I can't die... out here in the woods, like a dumb animal! In the woods, LIKE A DUMB ANIMAL! Like a dumb animal! I can't... I can't... I CAN'T DIE OUT HERE IN THE WOODS!... like a dumb animal. I can't... die!

[Initech]

173. The Low-Down Dirty Shame?

[RainDog]

183. nope

[volstork]

239. Miller's Crossing

LOVE those Coen bros!

[RainDog]

92. A "very friendly" woman goes to the big city

to participate in a contest, along with quite a few others with their own odd stories. She meets many boyfriends along the way but still loves her nebbish hubby no matter what... him and her dog.

[Iris]

100. was her name Debbie?

[RainDog]

105. LOL. No. it's Cookie

[RainDog]

448. hint

dog show

[bamacrat]

94. Animal loving man wrongfully jailed, must rely on his friends to make bail.

[JTG of the PRB]

235. Half Baked?

[bamacrat]

246. You got it!

Pot head

:smoke:

[Perry Logan]

97. "Nothing the fuck happens."

That would be "A Scanner Darkly"--a total clinker from the normally-brilliant Richard Linklater, based on a story from the normally-brilliant Phillip K. Dick, filled with normally-awesome actors. Go figure.

[Initech]

98. A Canadian dentist learns that an ex-convict has moved next door.

[Ava]

101. the whole nine yards

love that movie :hi:

[Initech]

102. Stupid idiots find creative ways to hurt themselves.

[Ava]

106. The Darwin Awards

love that movie.. love joseph fiennes more!

[Initech]

108. Uh... no that wasnt the one I was thinking of.

I said "hurt" not "kill". :evilgrin:

[Ava]

122. ah... regardless it is an awesome movie

my second guess would be jackass

[Initech]

125. Jackass The Movie was the one I was thinking of.

[nuxvomica]

109. That's one of those movies I'm always recommending

It's an awful lot better than it sounds.

[Ava]

124. yup.. awesome movie

and my dream guy stars in it :rofl:

[Diana Prince]

103. She's not getting married she's getting even

Abba music is essential.

[ceile]

294. Muriel's Wedding

[Diana Prince]

339. Winner!

Sorry it took so long to reply

[RainDog]

110. a guy gets hired to bankrupt a company

but invents something, you know, for kids! and makes tons of money while a female reporter goes undercover to figure out what he's up to.

[nuxvomica]

114. The Hudsucker Proxy

[RainDog]

118. we must like a lot of the same movies! you're gooood. :)

[nuxvomica]

120. I love that movie

It's like the Coen Brothers either make unwatchable movies or masterpieces. I think Hudsucker, O Brother Where Art Thou and Fargo are the latter.

[RainDog]

111. 2 guys want to get greasy hamburgers

[Initech]

113. Harold & Kumar Go To White Castle

[Initech]

115. Bumbling idiots try to save their business by competing for $50K in Las Vegas

[hughee99]

141. Dodgeball

[Richardo]

206. HA! I read that 'Dodgers'

:crazy:

[greenbriar]

116. surprised? I couldn't be more surprised if I woke up with my head sewn to the carpet

this one should be easy

[Common Sense Party]

154. Man expects large Christmas bonus so he can put in a swimming pool

Gets jam instead. Dim-witted brother-in-law kidnaps the penny-pinching boss.

[krispos42]

182. National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation

:woohoo:

[Initech]

121. 3 dorky teenagers with a fake ID on a quest for booze elude dumb cops, drunken frat boys

[BarenakedLady]

163. Superbad.

Just call me McLovin'

[RainDog]

128. A pair of crooks get together

but the mother of one of them wants her kid to work with her to pay off a debt to a gangster. she's willing to do anything to do this. anything.

[Malikshah]

131. Grifters

:)

[RainDog]

132. I'm impressed

I love that movie, too.

Jim Thompson's books are great pulp, to me... this movie seemed to get it.

[RainDog]

133. A white kid is taken in by Native Americans

but keeps going back and forth between the two cultures.

[Common Sense Party]

157. Little Big Man?

[RainDog]

185. yes!

[RainDog]

134. A girl gets lost

and three unusual friends help her find her way home.

[Common Sense Party]

155. Follow the yellow brick road.

[RainDog]

135. A dissolute woman is convinced to spy on Nazis.

[RainDog]

136. Two women conspire to kill the husband of one

but that woman has a weak heart and can't take the strain when a detective tries to find out who killed her husband. She starts to wonder if he's even dead.

[RainDog]

150. hint

this movie is French but was remade as an english-language movie

[FloridaJudy]

203. Diabolique

[RainDog]

151. hint

Ingrid Bergman

[FloridaJudy]

260. "Notorious" eom

[ceile]

295. n/t

[RainDog]

137. While a woman and her two children wait for her husband to return from war,

they start hearing strange noises in their house, seeing ghosts and try to survive until the war is over.

[Malikshah]

140. OK-- The Others. One of Nicole Kidman's best roles.

It was a twist for me.

No one has yet answered mine above thread. I fear I need to give more hints.

[RainDog]

152. one of the few "scary movies" I like

she's not a favorite of mine, either, but I thought she was excellent in this role.

[harmonicon]

138. ok

A long time ago, in some other galaxy, Luke Skywalker, Han Solo, and some other people and droids did some sorta shit which concluded with Luke destroying a space station called the Death Star.

[RainDog]

139. Space Ghost?

[hughee99]

142. Farce about a British diplomat to a West Indian island nation

who finds his idyllic existence thrown into chaos when a large American drilling company finds a huge source of natural mineral water there.

[Lydia Leftcoast]

476. Our Man in Havana?

:shrug:

[OmahaBlueDog]

493. No... I almost threw out the one sentence plot of OMIH

"A vaccum cleaner salesman is recruited into espionage and, finding nothing to report, sends a drawing of a vaccum cleaner saying it's a secret weapon"

Great movie: Alec Guinness, Maureen O'Hara, Ernie Kovacs, Burl Ives, Noel Coward. Filmed on location right after the revolution. NOT available on DVD.

[Initech]

143. San Diego TV news reporter is replaced by younger, prettier news reporter

[AlCzervik]

145. You stay classy San Diego.

Anchorman.

[Initech]

146. Cab driver picks up hit man and unwittingly takes him around LA while he kills people.

[KSinTX]

156. Collateral?

N'est ce pas?

[Initech]

159. A man must save his town from a self-created catastrophe that finds the town under a glass dome.

[racaulk]

169. The Simpsons movie?

:)

[Initech]

171. A woman seeks revenge on her former boss and co-conspirators.

[racaulk]

192. Kill Bill

That one's easy. I love that movie! :hi:

[Initech]

172. Dark satire about what happens when the wrong people have their finger on the trigger.

[bikebloke]

175. Dr. Strangelove ?

[SoxFan]

347. W

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/W._%282008_film%29

[Tommy_Carcetti]

174. Man wakes up thousands of years in the future only to realize mankind has gotten stupider

?

[Malikshah]

178. Idiocracy?

Electrolytes... it's what your body craves!

[Tommy_Carcetti]

184. But why do plants crave it? n/t

[Bucky]

180. Their role model couldn't get into orbit, but they could, given the right PR men.

This movie nearly made someone president.

[FloridaJudy]

245. "The Right Stuff" eom

[Tommy_Carcetti]

186. A seasoned call girl is offered a way out of the business if she uncovers a blackmail ring

If you have no idea (and I'm guessing you don't, because I wouldn't), check my copycat thread of the day for today. :)

[ceile]

231. Could it be....Watch?

[Tommy_Carcetti]

265. It could be! It is!

Not to be confused with "Rent"

[Tommy_Carcetti]

188. A failing president attempts to drum up a bogus war with a certain innocuous country

And, no, it isn't the George W. Bush story. :)

Nor is it the movie that may first come to your mind, the one that spun a political phrase.

[mochajava666]

189. Canadian Bacon?

At first I thought "Wag the Dog", but that's probably the political phrase you referred to.

[Tommy_Carcetti]

200. You nailed it!

[KansDem]

190. I'll try: "Go behind the scenes of a California teen-beauty pageant"

Hmmm?

[Initech]

194. Little Miss Sunshine?

:shrug:

[KansDem]

201. No...

"Smile" (1975)

One of my favorites and a real treat! :D

[racaulk]

193. A poor couple kidnap a rich woman for ransom, but her husband hates her and refuses to pay.

[BarenakedLady]

Ruthless People

[racaulk]

198. Yup!

:hi:

[DarkTirade]

251. One of the funniest movies to come out of the 80s

right after Ghostbusters and Real Genius, IMO. :)

[Initech]

195. FBI agent and KGB agent fight for contents of mysterious briefcase

[Initech]

196. TV reporter films documentary about American life and streaks through hotel lobby.

[FloridaJudy]

204. Borat!

[Initech]

199. Police officer with mulitple personalities eludes authorities who want him committed

[FloridaJudy]

207. Me, Myself, and Irene.

[FloridaJudy]

205. A lot of people

Seem to come to unpleasant ends around this "Mama's boy".

[Tommy_Carcetti]

208. Psycho?

[FloridaJudy]

213. Righto!

[Initech]

209. Singer-songwriter takes a long, hard walk to fame after a childhood tragedy

[YDogg]

212. Walk the Line?

[Initech]

215. Close.

[YDogg]

218. Walk Hard?

[Common Sense Party]

247. Ray.

[jobycom]

293. The Charles Manson Story?

[Initech]

210. Computer hacker discovers his world is a computer program and works to defeat it.

[YDogg]

211. Tron?

[Initech]

214. No, more recent.

[YDogg]

216. The Matrix?

[Initech]

217. Yup.

[SoxFan]

346. Hipster Tron

[Initech]

219. Controversial crime fighters try to stop elaborate terrorist plot orchestrated by Kim Jong Il

[Tommy_Carcetti]

223. Team America

[Initech]

220. War is declared on Canada after kid kills himself imitating stunt he saw in movie

[Tommy_Carcetti]

224. South Park: Bigger, Longer and Uncut

[Withywindle]

221. Four kids come out of the closet and discover that God is a furry.

[ceile]

226. Lion, the wich and the wardrobe

[Withywindle]

243. DING DING DING

:thumbsup:

[Initech]

225. Two ethnically mismatched cops team up to find the kidnapped daughter of a Chinese consulate.

[ceile]

227. Rush Hour

[Initech]

229. Guy takes night job guarding popular New York attraction and discovers strange things happen.

[lost-in-nj]

230. Night at the Museum

lost

[Ava]

232. Night at the Museum

[Initech]

233. Guy spends his Christmas Eve fighting terrorists in downtown Los Angeles high rise.

[JTG of the PRB]

236. Die Hard!

[Initech]

234. Department store robbing Santa gets caught by store detective and wise-cracking kid

[Initech]

237. A random assortment of insane stunts and vomit-inducing gags.

[baldguy]

244. Jesus Camp

[Initech]

238. A man with no recollection of his past discovers that he is a deadly government agent.

[FloridaJudy]

241. Bourne Identity eom

[Inchworm]

240. I wanna play..but..

I ain't reading a brazillion posts to see if its's been done :D

:hi:

[Monk06]

242. Polish Jew hides out in Hitler Youth Academy.

[petronius]

255. Europa Europa? (nt)

[petronius]

257. A space shuttle brings back a load of alien vampires, and a hot woman

spends pretty much the entire movie walking around naked.

[moggie]

428. Lifeforce

[Common Sense Party]

248. A sandman seeks sanctuary in a place with no thirty-somethings.

[Initech]

252. A writer and his unhinged attorney take a suitcase full of narcotics to the desert

[petronius]

253. Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas? (nt)

[Initech]

254. Teenager plans elaborate ditch day with his two friends and a '68 Ferrari

[Common Sense Party]

259. Bueller? Bueller? Bueller?

[Initech]

256. Disfunctional family takes cross-country road trip and finds out the horror of teen beauty pagaents

[crimsonblue]

258. Little Miss Sunshine

A boy's mother is accidentally killed by his friend, who later saves children's lives and perishes in the process.

[petronius]

261. WWII veteran arrives in a small town to deliver a medal, and uncovers a terrible secret.

[OmahaBlueDog]

494. Bad Day at Black Rock

[petronius]

262. Powerful familes vie over a crucial desert resource, leading to the overthrow of an empire.

[DarkTirade]

268. Which version, the original, or the sci-fi miniseries?

:P

[petronius]

272. You're good - I thought omitting the scifi element would make the challenge last

at least a couple of minutes. :)

(And I was thinking of the original; I'm ashamed to admit I never saw the miniseries...)

[DarkTirade]

275. I saw the second miniseries for the Dune book (or books, I don't remember) after the first.

but not the first miniseries. :P

I actually just got the book from the library since I'm a sci-fi geek and I figured it's about damn time I read it. But I've been too busy with the end of the school year, and the fact that I'm trying to read several other books at the same time so I've barely gotten into it.

[petronius]

263. Star-crossed lovers live out their lives in (post-) revolutionary Russia.

[Tommy_Carcetti]

266. Dr. Zhivago

[petronius]

273. That's the one... (nt)

[Jeff In Milwaukee]

264. Idiotic President starts a war for no damned good reason...

[Tommy_Carcetti]

267. Farhenheit 911

[Jeff In Milwaukee]

270. Or "Duck Soup"

Take your pick...Although Rufus T. Firefly seems a lot smarter than George W. Bush.

[Tommy_Carcetti]

269. 12 year old's grandfather dies and leaves him a professional baseball team. nt

[Tommy_Carcetti]

409. Anyone? Anyone?

[moggie]

419. Ferris Bueller's Day Off

Oh wait, that wasn't a question?

[Tommy_Carcetti]

271. After kidnapping a family, a pair of bandits come across a Mexican bar with a dark secret nt

[petronius]

274. The way I remember that one is: "Salma Hayek dances with a snake, and other stuff happens."

;)

[Tommy_Carcetti]

276. That's actually a much better description of it.

Quite possibly the sexiest thing I ever saw.

And best of all, she doesn't have to talk at all.

[Initech]

277. London police officer gets transferred to backwards village run by constant surveillance

[Tommy_Carcetti]

279. Hot Fuzz nt

[Initech]

278. Two angels go on a killing spree after finding a loophole that will allow them to get back to Heaven

[RainDog]

289. Dogma

[Initech]

280. Cubicle dwellers scheme to steal money from their corrupt boss after one has religious revelation

[Tommy_Carcetti]

282. "You know, the Nazis had pieces of flair they made the Jews wear...."

My favorite quote to use whenever anyone proves Godwin's Law.

[Initech]

281. Bad intelligence reports lead to a Special Ops unit getting their asses kicked by refugees

[Tommy_Carcetti]

283. Black Hawk Down?

[Initech]

284. Ding ding ding!

[Initech]

285. Two brothers travel to Germany for Oktoberfest and find themselves in firece drinking competitions

[Tommy_Carcetti]

287. I never saw it, but could it be...

Beerfest?

[Tommy_Carcetti]

286. Lonely soldier makes friends with the local indian tribe on the frontier.

[Initech]

290. Last Of The Mohicans?

[Tommy_Carcetti]

291. Close.....

Came out around the same time.

[ceile]

297. Dances w/ Wolves?

[Tommy_Carcetti]

298. There you go. n/t

[Initech]

288. Man recieves mysterious computer disc and is suddenly the target of every surveillance agency

[ceile]

296. Enemy of the State?

[Initech]

292. Two stoners head to Hollywood to get production of a movie based on them shut down

[petronius]

312. Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back

[Initech]

299. Rookie cop exposes prostitution ring where the hookers are made up to look like movie stars.

[Tikki]

300. L A Confidential......

yes?/no?

[Initech]

301. A woman falls for a guy who turns out to be the Grim Reaper

[ceile]

302. Meet Joe Black

[Z_I_Peevey]

303. Drifter mistaken for hit man, then meets the real hit man

[Initech]

304. Shoot 'Em Up?

[Z_I_Peevey]

307. Nope.

Another sentence. Drifter mistaken for hit man, takes the money and tries to warn the intended victim.

[petronius]

308. I cheated (google), but I'm glad I did - sounds like that movie deserves

to be in my netflix queue...

[Z_I_Peevey]

321. Yes, it's very good.

Very noir, IIRC.

[Initech]

305. New York cab driver / fomrer marine carries around human weapon that could stop a deadly asteroid

[petronius]

306. The Fifth Element (?)

[Tikki]

309. There is only one gallon of gasoline left in the United States...

many people live in their cars and wear jogging suits.
The Native North Americans have a product that has made them wealthy
but America (government) needs money or it will go bankrupt.

[Initech]

311. Man inherits large sum of money but only if he marries in 24 hours

[ceile]

443. The Bachelor

[Initech]

313. Man has amnesia but tattoos on his back provide clues to recent memories

[Tommy_Carcetti]

315. Memento.

[Initech]

314. Flamboyant Formula 1 driver becomes America's newest racing sensation

[Tommy_Carcetti]

316. Box Office Poison?

I mean, Speed Racer?

[Initech]

318. No, it stars Will Ferrell

[Tommy_Carcetti]

327. Oh, Talledga Nights.

That was my second choice.

[Initech]

317. Husband and wife team up to rob stores to pay the bills

[Z_I_Peevey]

334. Fun with Dick and Jane,

the good version, of course.

[Initech]

319. Husband and wife discover that each other is a deadly assassin and their next target is each other

[PunkinPi]

322. Mr. & Mrs. Smith? nt

[underpants]

320. Egotistical ass falls for girl but then they break up and he learns about life and love

so as to run back to her (or her to him) and they fall back hopelessly endlessly in love

Now I AM going to give you a hint

[PunkinPi]

323. That's easy...

Jerry McGuire

[underpants]

326. YES!

would also have accepted

Top Gun
Days of Thunder
Cocktails
A few Good Men
Rain Man

[PunkinPi]

343. touche!

:rofl:

[Initech]

325. Woman accumulates huge collection of bridesmaids dresses despite having never been a bride herself

[underpants]

328. 27 Dresses

and someone explain to me who wants Katherine Heigl standing next to them on THEIR weding day and in EVERY SINGLE photo on THEIR wedding day

:shrug::eyes:

[Initech]

329. Conspiracy theorist thinks there is money to be found in the Egyptian pyramids

[Initech]

330. Slacker decides that its time to get off the couch and kill some zombies

[Tommy_Carcetti]

331. Shawn of the Dead.

Funny movie.

[Tommy_Carcetti]

332. Choice of chicken or fish endangers travelers' lives.

[Initech]

333. Stop calling me Shirley!

[Tommy_Carcetti]

336. The fog is getting thicker.....

.....and Leon's getting LAAAAARRRRGGGGEEEERRRRRR!!!!

[Initech]

335. Kids go to brainwashing facility in South Dakota run by relatively insane woman

[Rhythm]

355. Jesus Camp?

[Tommy_Carcetti]

337. Mutant takes on Exxon Valdez loving bad guy n/t

[Initech]

338. Spiderpig?

[Tommy_Carcetti]

340. Keep guessin'

[Z_I_Peevey]

341. On Deadly Ground?

[Tommy_Carcetti]

342. Getting cooler. n/t

[Richardo]

352. Waterworld

[Tommy_Carcetti]

402. Bingo.

[Doc_Technical]

344. Radiation gets the blame again as monsters run amok.

n/t

[Initech]

357. Ghostbusters?

[JTG of the PRB]

373. Every Godzilla movie ever made?

[Initech]

348. Two idiots take cross-country road trip from Rhode Island to Colorado to deliver a briefcase

[madeline_con]

351. Sideways? n/t

I can't spell!

[Initech]

354. This movie is not about wine.

[madeline_con]

356. I know! I know!

But I googled it, so no fair saying.

[Recovered Repug]

391. Dumb & Dumber?

[Initech]

349. Two slackers come up with a rather unusual way of sleeping with women

[madeline_con]

350. The Wedding Crashers n/t

spell edit

[madeline_con]

353. Man spends time off the grid, meets eccentric friend.

[raouldukelives]

361. Box of Moonlight?

[madeline_con]

363. Yes! I love that flick. n/t

[raouldukelives]

366. Yay! Me too! n/t

:)

[madeline_con]

367. I looked up your user name. Cool.

[RainDog]

358. a guy is wrongfully convicted for a crime

he goes to jail, confronts the corrupt guards and admires a movie poster.

[madeline_con]

365. To Kill a Mockingbird?

[RainDog]

371. nope

more recent than that

[madeline_con]

375. The Green Mile?

[RainDog]

378. VERY close

[madeline_con]

383. Duh. Shawshank Redemption!

We have to watch it every time we discover it while surfing.

[RainDog]

359. A guy has an affair with a girl and her mother

[Initech]

368. Psycho?

[RainDog]

372. LOL. nope.

it was an actor's first starring role.

[madeline_con]

384. Grandma, too?

[RainDog]

389. not that I know of

the woman who played the mother was only a few years older than the guy. oh what a surprise.

[RainDog]

416. hint (don't read if you don't want a hint)

plastics

[Lydia Leftcoast]

487. Duh! The Graduate

I'd be drummed out of my generation if I couldn't get that one.

[RainDog]

360. A guy moves to take a job

on the advice of a friend, but when he arrives he finds the friend has died the day before in a car accident. the guy doesn't think it was an accident.

[RainDog]

449. hint

post-war Vienna

[RainDog]

362. Two guys secretly join an all-female band to escape mobsters

hilarity ensues

[madeline_con]

364. Some Like it Hot?

[RainDog]

370. yep

[RainDog]

369. A Mexican Narcotics Agent on his honeymoon

get caught up in an investigation after a bomb goes off at the border.

[CBHagman]

411. The one, the only...

...A Touch of Evil.
Get a load of this cast:

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0052311/

[RainDog]

374. A guy's kid becomes friends with a neighbor's kid

so they all start hanging out, but then the guy discovers the neighbors are terrorists so they kidnap his kid and frame him for a crime.

[madeline_con]

376. The Bridge to Tarabithia?

[RainDog]

379. no. surburban terrorists

[Downtown Hound]

508. Arlington Road.

[RainDog]

377. A reporter witnesses an assassination

then gets killed - so her ex-boyfriend tries to find out who killed her and he uncovers a right wing shadow government that uses him as the patsy for another murder.

[Initech]

387. Breach?

[RainDog]

390. nope

[Lydia Leftcoast]

478. The Parallax View?

:shrug:

[madeline_con]

380. Kid is chased by evil bunny. Warps time.

[Initech]

386. Too easy - Alice In Wonderland

[BornBlue]

417. Donnie Darko

Fantastic Film!

[madeline_con]

466. Yes!

[madeline_con]

381. Guy becomes meth addict while avenging wife.

[madeline_con]

382. Three women fall hopelessly in love with new guy in town.

[Recovered Repug]

392. If he happens to be a "horny little devil", its

Witches of Eastwick.

[Initech]

385. Guy learns that police captain is a transexual former NFL linebacker

[madeline_con]

465. The world According to Garp?

[Initech]

474. Uh no. This one stars Jim Carrey.

[Initech]

388. Mischevious fraternity is placed under super-secret probation after a series of pranks go awry

[Tommy_Carcetti]

405. Animal House

[RainDog]

393. After nine children are murdered

the criminal gangs in a city decide to hunt down the killer before he ruins business for the rest of them, since the police are cleaning up all kinds of crime in their hunt for the killer.

[moggie]

418. M

Fantastic performance from Peter Lorre.

[RainDog]

394. A magazine publisher becomes a 1st amendment cause celebré

after he gets sued for making up a story about a prominent moralist.

[Tommy_Carcetti]

403. People vs. Larry Flynt.

[RainDog]

395. A girl sets out to find her little brother after she is sent to live with her grandparents

[RainDog]

450. hint

selkies

[RainDog]

396. Four women rob banks after financial hardship makes them desperate

but the manager where they work steals their money. when they go to him to find it, he is killed in self-defense but the police are on to them so they decide to rob a bank where the boyfriend of one of them works.

[RainDog]

397. A toy wants to become a boy after his body starts growing at unexpected times.

[Tommy_Carcetti]

407. Pinnochio?

[RainDog]

398. A mediocre student who loves extracurricular activities falls in love with

his teacher and makes friends with an eccentric wealthy guy who also loves the teacher.

[Tommy_Carcetti]

404. Rushmore.

[RainDog]

399. A girl and her mother join her stepfather, who is a military man

The girl starts to spend more and more time in a fantasy world as her real life situation becomes increasingly brutal and hopeless.

[ceile]

441. Pan's Labyrinth

[khashka]

400. Successful fashion designer by day

prostitute by night, stalked by a psycho.


Great movie, but only makes sense in the X-rated version.


Khash.

[Political Heretic]

401. Eccentric genius mathematician discovers 216 digit number that drives him to the brink of madness

One of my favorite movies of all time.

[Tommy_Carcetti]

406. A Beautiful Mind

[Cessna Invesco Palin]

408. Pi. n/t

[Political Heretic]

414. That's it!! :D

[Tommy_Carcetti]

410. Explosion places three mens' lives in peril and derails their intended mission. nt

[YankeyMCC]

413. Apollo 13

[CBHagman]

412. Respectable Japanese salaryman becomes obsessed...

...with ballroom dancing.

One of the classics of the 1990s.

[moggie]

422. Shall we dance?

[CBHagman]

423. We have a winner, callers.

Oh, yeah.


http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0117615/




Slow, slow, quick!

[Mendocino]

415. Idealistic young man travels America to find himself....

only to die in a bus.

[moggie]

420. Young woman enriches others' lives through pranks and kind acts

But can she find love herself?

[CBHagman]

425. Mais oui!

It's Amelie.

[moggie]

426. Isn't she adorable?

It's probably my favourite French film.

[CBHagman]

429. Lovely Audrey Tautou.

Amelie was a terrific role for her, and I also thought her parts in A Very Long Engagement and Happenstance were very appealing. She's a gold-digger in Priceless, which is in theaters in the U.S. at this writing.

[moggie]

421. Engineers' extra-curricular research leads to amazing discovery

Namely, how to give everyone in the audience a massive headache.

[Initech]

433. Good Will Hunting?

[moggie]

436. Nope

This was a much lower budget flick.

[Lil Missy]

424. Man keeps calling babysitter. Asks, "Have you checked the children?"

[ceile]

445. When a Stranger Calls

That movie scared the crap out of me when I was a kid.

[Lil Missy]

453. It scared the crap outta me too!

:scared:

[moggie]

427. Decent Henry Fonda sweats with eleven other guys in a room

[RainDog]

434. 12 angry men

[moggie]

438. Correct

One of the best one-room films ever.

[Initech]

430. Outlaw held prisoner is being transferred via train to the state capital only to escape

[RainDog]

435. The Fugitive

[Initech]

432. Horror movie about serial killer who is obsessed with horror movies

[raouldukelives]

452. Fade to Black

Oh for the days of 80's slasher flicks. Now they show stuff on TV 100 times worse than the R rated flicks I had to sneak into as a kid.

[RainDog]

437. Struggling writer in NYC is fascinated by a party girl

and falls in love.

[Initech]

460. As Good As It Gets?

[RainDog]

462. nope

hint - the party girl has a cat who never gets a name.

[Lydia Leftcoast]

484. Breakfast at Tiffany's!

:-)

[RainDog]

439. Struggling writer #2 in NYC falls in love with his neighbor

and learns about the heartbreaking secret that destroys her

[RainDog]

440. A holocaust survivor has 2 wives and a girlfriend who wants him to marry her

[RainDog]

442. An East Berlin kid's mother wakes up after years in a coma

and, to keep her from having a heart attack, he pretends East Germany is still under communist rule by re-creating that life.

[Lydia Leftcoast]

477. Good-Bye Lenin

:shrug:

[RainDog]

444. A Polish guy living in France gets deported back to Poland

by his cruel and beautiful wife. There he becomes a millionaire and plots revenge on the wife he still loves.

[CBHagman]

454. Zbigniew Zamachowski and Julie Delpy in...

...White.

[RainDog]

455. I love this movie - the entire trilogy -

also The Decalogue.

[RainDog]

446. A man who has lived his whole life on one small estate

is forced out into the world where he is mistaken for a great sage instead of the clueless infant that he is.

[CBHagman]

469. Perhaps we've seen all the same movies.

You're talking about Being There.

[RainDog]

447. A boy who has problems in school and whose parents provide a

hellish environment, gets sent away but escapes into...

[mtnester]

451. Disastrous marriage finally ends with husband rearranging cupboards

[Initech]

456. Man experiencing midlife crisis experiments with narcotics and takes job at fast food restaurant

[RainDog]

463. American Beauty

[Initech]

457. Guy hears strange voices in his head and thinks a novelist is trying to kill him

[Initech]

458. Struggling screenwriter has hard time making script from book based on flowers

[RainDog]

464. Adaptation

[Initech]

459. Futuristic military society goes to war with bug planet after entire city is wiped out

[OmahaBlueDog]

499. Starship Troopers

[Initech]

461. State troopers go undercover in the Irish mafia and learn of each other's violent pasts

[OmahaBlueDog]

495. The Departed?

[Initech]

467. British intelligence agent travels to the far ends of the globe to gamble on high stakes poker game

[Lydia Leftcoast]

480. Casino Royale?

:shrug:

[Gonzo Gardener]

468. This film depicts a surprise staging of a play...

that is performed in a brothel for the playwright and his lover with images of the playwright's exploits at the brothel interwoven with scenes of the play and ending with a decapitation.


:popcorn:

[RainDog]

472. Marat-Sade?

[Gonzo Gardener]

473. Nope...

Hint: A main character of the play performs the dance of the seven veils.

[Initech]

470. Prisoners hijack plane meant to transport them to maximum security facility

[OmahaBlueDog]

491. Con-air

[Initech]

471. Vietnam general has to assissante renegade with a messianic complex

[Lydia Leftcoast]

479. Apocalypse Now?

:shrug:

[drmeow]

475. Co-workers become international criminals

to get stinking rich by exploiting holes in the fabric of the universe until they get caught by a rival to their boss and then rescued by their boss.

[Lydia Leftcoast]

481. Two 13-year-old girls stalk a concert pianist who is having an affair

with the mother of one of them.

(Hint: The young actress who played one of the girls grew up to own a major Republican PR agency.)

[OmahaBlueDog]

490. The Secret World of Henry Orient?

[Lydia Leftcoast]

504. No secret, just "The World of Henry Orient"

:-)

[Lydia Leftcoast]

482. A couple deals with alcoholism, first his, then hers

(The theme song of this movie was sung by Andy Williams)

[OmahaBlueDog]

492. The Days of Wine & Roses?

[Lydia Leftcoast]

505. You got it!

:toast: :-)

[Lydia Leftcoast]

485. A former concert pianist is reduced to playing in a sleazy bar

(Hint: It's in French.)

[Lydia Leftcoast]

486. A mother and daughter are raped by soldiers in wartime Italy

:-(

[Lydia Leftcoast]

488. A man tries to stop his ex-wife's upcoming wedding

Hint: One of the many great movies of 1939.

[Lydia Leftcoast]

489. Slave trained as a gladiator leads a rebellion

Hint: Does NOT star Russell Crowe.

[Initech]

496. Everyman takes his family from Chicago to Los Angeles to visit a theme park

[OmahaBlueDog]

498. Vacation

[OmahaBlueDog]

497. For three men, the Civil War wasn't Hell... it was practice.

[Initech]

500. Archaeologists working in Egypt accidentally uncover ancient being

[Lydia Leftcoast]

506. The Mummy?

:shrug:

[OmahaBlueDog]

501. Ad agency accidentally runs ads for a nonexisent product called VIP, which they then have to invent.

[Initech]

502. Santa smokes, drinks, beats up kids, and robs his employers blind

[OmahaBlueDog]

507. Bad Santa

[MnFats]

503. western style bandits realize their tme is ending, decided to die

...in unbelievably violet and bloody battle agaisnt Mexican army

[Initech]

509. Jersey mob boss seeks psychiatric help after experiencing anxiety attacks

[Haole Girl]

513. Analyze This?

[Initech]

510. Two idiots sneak a nuclear weapon through airport security in Miami, other idiots try to stop them

[Initech]

511. Hockey player turned professional golfer seeks PGA championship

[Initech]

512. Atlantic City detective learns that the boxing match he was assigned security for was rigged

[Initech]

514. Random yahoos inflict punishment on themselves via insane stunts for entertainment purposes