Albino Rover Posted October 18, 2014 Author Share Posted October 18, 2014 Leaderboard Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Albino Rover Posted October 18, 2014 Author Share Posted October 18, 2014 Round 7: Last lines (with a link) I love this round. I've done it a few times before but there have been so many great last lines in movies that I had to do it again. Ten final lines of movies, ten movies to name, one point for each correct answer. At first glance this round may look quite difficult, but if you know a few of them look over your answers again and you might find it easier to get some of the others. 1. “No patty-fingers, if you please. The proprieties at all times. Hold on to your hats.” 2. “Freeze! Drop the fucking gun, buddy. Put the gun down! Don't do it! Drop the gun man! Don't do it! Drop the fucking gun. We're gonna fucking blow you away!” 3. “Ernest Hemingway once wrote, "The world is a fine place and worth fighting for." I agree with the second part.” 4. “...indexed pension, tax exemption, clearing gutters, getting by, looking ahead, the day you die.” 5. "The stars will wheel forth from their daytime hiding places; and one of those lights, slightly brighter than the rest, will be my wingtip passing over." 6. “I heard voices…God have mercy!” 7. “This pen works, and I personally love this pen...” 8. “And I will always be there, old friend.” 9. “Oh, sweet mystery of life, at last I've found you! At last, I know the secret of it all!” 10. “The last time I saw this face was July 4th, 1969. I am very sure that's the man who shot me.” Send your answers to me in a new PM by midnight on Friday. Good luck. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Honest_Man#1 Posted October 20, 2014 Share Posted October 20, 2014 Keep forgetting about this. Will try to remember this week as I know a few after a first glance. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Florentine_Pogen Posted October 20, 2014 Share Posted October 20, 2014 Round 7 sent. Once again, a disaster for me. Think I might have 2 correct. The other 8 are beyond my ken. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Richie95 Posted October 21, 2014 Share Posted October 21, 2014 Like Honest_Man#1, I keep on forgetting about this, although I'm surprised that I'm still not bottom. Yet. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Albino Rover Posted October 24, 2014 Author Share Posted October 24, 2014 Round 7 Answers 1. The Quiet Man 2. Reservoir Dogs 3. Se7en 4. Trainspotting 5. Up In The Air 6. Vertigo 7. The Wolf Of Wall Street 8. X-Men 9. Young Frankenstein 10. Zodiac Mixed results this week. Well done those who spotted the sequence, and a shout to newcomer Clarkston on a perfect debut. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Albino Rover Posted October 25, 2014 Author Share Posted October 25, 2014 Round 8 for the '80s Our very own Christophe has embarked on the next P&B film list, and to wish him well as he counts down our choices for the Top 40 films of a great decade, this round is all about some of the favourites for the list. We went through films of the last ten decades in Round 1, and in a similar format, here are ten '80s screenshots for you. To make it a little easier you just have to name the films this time. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. You have until midnight on Friday. Good luck. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Albino Rover Posted October 31, 2014 Author Share Posted October 31, 2014 4 hours to get them in. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Albino Rover Posted November 1, 2014 Author Share Posted November 1, 2014 Round 8 Answers 1. From 1980, Martin Scorsese's Raging Bull. 2. From 1981, a classic scene from Spielberg's Raiders Of The Lost Ark. 3. From '82, Meryl Streep at her best in Alan Pakula's Sophie's Choice. 4. One of the most iconic films of the decade, De Palma's 1983 modernisation of Scarface. 5. Not Flashdance, but Leone's Once Upon A Time In America. 6. The classic "Marvin Berry" one-sided phonecall from one of the favourites for the number 1 spot, Back To The Future. 7. Mia Sara as Sloane Peterson in Ferris Bueller's Day Off. 8. Another of De Palma's great films, The Untouchables. 9. Cruise and Hoffman in Rain Man. 10. Radio Raheem in one of the bravest films of the decade, Spike Lee's Do The Right Thing. Leaderboard Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Albino Rover Posted November 1, 2014 Author Share Posted November 1, 2014 Round 9: First Lines We've had last lines, so it's only fair I give the opening lines a round too. In exactly the same format as its sister round, you've got ten films to identify from the first line of dialogue/monologue. 1. "The white zone is for immediate loading and unloading of passengers only. There is no stopping in a red zone." 2. "What happened to the old bank? It was beautiful." 3. "When you love someone you've got to trust them, there's no other way. You've got to give them the key to everything that's yours. Otherwise, what's the point? And, for a while, I believed that's the kind of love I had." 4. "There's a hundred thousand streets in this city. You don't need to know the route. You give me a time and place, I give you a five minute window." 5. "Random thoughts for Valentine's day, 2004. Today is a holiday invented by greeting card companies to make people feel like crap." 6. "We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the drugs began to take hold." 7. "Oh my God, I got the most fucked up thing I been meaning to tell you..." 8. "What came first, the music or the misery?" 9. "Hunger strike, eh? How long has this been going on?" 10. "All right, so this is the world and there are five billion people on it. When I was a kid there were three. It's hard to keep up." PM your answers to me by midnight on Friday. Good luck. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Albino Rover Posted November 8, 2014 Author Share Posted November 8, 2014 Round 9 Answers I don't know if any of you actually noticed this, but since the link in Last Lines was the last 10 letters of the alphabet, First Lines had to have the first 10! 1. Airplane! 2. Butch Cassidy & The Sundance Kid 3. Casino 4. Drive 5. Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind 6. Fear And Loathing In Las Vegas 7. Good Will Hunting 8. High Fidelity 9. It Happened One Night 10. Jerry Maguire Leaderboard Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Albino Rover Posted November 8, 2014 Author Share Posted November 8, 2014 Round 10: In A Galaxy Far, Far Away... Since we've been working backwards from last lines to first lines, before the first line you sometimes get a bit of reading to do, in the form of a prologue or an opening quote. Your challenge in this round is to identify each film from its written introduction. I used the most famous example for the title. Here are ten others to get. 1. No man's life can be encompassed in one telling. ...What can be done is to be faithful in spirit to the record and try to find one's way to the heart of the man… 2. 'War has rules. Mud wrestling has rules. Politics has no rules'. - Ross Perot 3. At 600 km above planet Earth, the temperature fluctuates between +258 and -148 degrees Farenheit. There is nothing to carry sound. No oxygen. No air pressure. Life in space is impossible. 4. [title word] n. 1. A soft, moist, shapeless mass of matter. 2. A magazine or book containing lurid subject matter and being characteristically printed on rough, unfinished paper. 5. THIS IS A TRUE STORY. The events depicted in this film took place in Minnesota in 1987. At the request of the survivors, the names have been changed. Out of respect for the dead, the rest has been told exactly as it occurred. 6. In 1941 China and Japan had been in a state of undeclared war for four years. A Japanese army of occupation was in control of much of the countryside and many towns and cities. ...Now their time was running out. Outside Shanghai the Japanese dug in and waited... for Pearl Harbor. 7. The machines rose from the ashes of the nuclear fire. Their war to exterminate mankind had raged for decades, but the final battle would not be fought in the future. It would be fought here, in our present. Tonight… 8. 1757. The American colonies. It is the 3rd year of the war between England and France for the possession of the continent. Three men, the last of a vanishing people, are on the frontier west of the Hudson river. 9. In May 1980, Fidel Castro opened the harbor at Mariel, Cuba with the apparent intention of letting some of his people join their relatives in the United States... It soon became evident that Castro was forcing the boat owners to carry back with them not only their relatives, but the dregs of his jails. Of the 125,000 refugees that landed in Florida an estimated 25,000 had criminal records. 10. Centuries ago, a legendary inter-dimensional being known as Zordon came to the city of Angel Grove to establish a command center for his never-ending struggle against evil… the noble master sought six extraordinary teengagers and gave them the power to transform into a superhuman fighting force. In time of great need, the young heroes could use their powers to call upon colossal assault vehicles known as Zords... Send your answers in a new PM to me by midnight on Friday. Good luck. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Albino Rover Posted November 14, 2014 Author Share Posted November 14, 2014 Remember to get your answers in by midnight. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Albino Rover Posted November 15, 2014 Author Share Posted November 15, 2014 Round 10 Answers 1. Gandhi 2. The Campaign 3. Gravity 4. Pulp Fiction 5. Fargo (and, of course, it isn't a true story.) 6. Empire Of The Sun 7. The Terminator 8. The Last Of The Mohicans 9. Scarface 10. Mighty Morphin Power Rangers: The Movie (well done if you got that one, especially if you were born between, say, 1980 and 1997.) Leaderboard Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Albino Rover Posted November 15, 2014 Author Share Posted November 15, 2014 Round 11: Pairs of Pairs Robert De Niro and Al Pacino were famously both in two great films, The Godfather Part II and Heat. (Let's just forget about Righteous Kill and try to get on with our lives.) This week I'm giving you ten more pairs of films which a pair of stars have in common. Name the stars- a point for each pair (half a point if you can only name one.) 1. The Pianist and King Kong 2. Boogie Nights and Traffic 3. Thelma & Louise and Reservoir Dogs 4. Pulp Fiction and Hairspray 5. Jackie Brown and The Other Guys 6. Batman & Robin and Kill Bill Vol. 1 7. Inglourious Basterds and 12 Years A Slave 8. Ray and Django Unchained 9. Shakespeare In Love and The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel 10. One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest and The Shining Send your answers in a new PM to me by midnight on Friday. Good luck. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Albino Rover Posted November 21, 2014 Author Share Posted November 21, 2014 A few hours to go before the deadline. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Albino Rover Posted November 22, 2014 Author Share Posted November 22, 2014 Round 11 Answers 1. Adrien Brody and Thomas Kretschmann 2. Don Cheadle and Luis Guzman 3. Harvey Keitel and Michael Madsen 4. John Travolta and Christopher Walken 5. Samuel L. Jackson and Michael Keaton 6. Vivica A. Fox and Uma Thurman 7. Michael Fassbender and Brad Pitt 8. Jamie Foxx and Kerry Washington 9. Judi Dench and Tom Wilkinson 10. Scatman Crothers and Jack Nicholson Leaderboard Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Albino Rover Posted November 22, 2014 Author Share Posted November 22, 2014 Round 12: Roger's Picks The documentary Life Itself was released in the UK last week. The film depicts the life and career of one of the most famous, knowledgeable and influential film critics the world has seen, and this round is a tribute to him. Roger Ebert reviewed over 10,000 films in his life, which ended last year. Over 300 of those films received the Ebert "Great Movie" stamp of approval, but for the prestigious 2012 Sight & Sound poll he managed to narrow it down to a top 10- and here they are. For each I've provided a screenshot and an excerpt from Roger Ebert's review. A point for each one you can identify. 1. It says to us: We became men when we learned to think. Our minds have given us the tools to understand where we live and who we are. Now it is time to move on to the next step, to know that we live not on a planet but among the stars, and that we are not flesh but intelligence. 2. Herzog does not hurry their journey, or fill it with artificial episodes of suspense and action. What we feel above all is the immensity of the river and the surrounding forest- which offers no shore to stand on because the waters have risen and flooded it. 3. ...one of the greatest of all films, because it pushes beyond the others, into the dark places of the soul. It is not about war so much as about how war reveals truths we would be happy never to discover. 4. Its surface is as much fun as any movie ever made. Its depths surpass understanding. I have analyzed it a shot at a time with more than 30 groups, and together we have seen, I believe, pretty much everything that is there on the screen. The more clearly I can see its physical manifestation, the more I am stirred by its mystery. 5. There may be no such thing as the sweet life. But it is necessary to find that out for yourself. 6. And in an age when special effects were in their infancy, and a “stunt” often meant actually doing on the screen what you appeared to be doing, Keaton was ambitious and fearless. He had a house collapse around him. He swung over a waterfall to rescue a woman he loved. He fell from trains. And always he did it in character, playing a solemn and thoughtful man who trusts in his own ingenuity. 7. ...the most painful and heartrending portrait of jealousy in the cinema- an “Othello” for our times. It's the best film I've seen about the low self-esteem, sexual inadequacy and fear that lead some men to abuse women. 8. Does anyone go to a movie to watch the style? Well, yes. An elegantly refined style like Ozu's places people in the foreground; he focuses on the nuances of everyday life. His is the most humanistic of styles, removing the machinery of effects and editing and choosing to touch us with human feeling, not workshop storytelling technique. 9. ...film of vast ambition and deep humility, attempting no less than to encompass all of existence and view it through the prism of a few infinitesimal lives. 10. ...we feel hearts being torn apart: They are both slaves of an image fabricated by a man who is not even in the room... Send your answers in a new PM to me by midnight on Friday. Good luck. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Albino Rover Posted November 26, 2014 Author Share Posted November 26, 2014 A couple of days left to get your answers in. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Albino Rover Posted November 29, 2014 Author Share Posted November 29, 2014 Round 12 Answers 1. 2001: A Space Odyssey 2. Aguirre, Wrath Of God 3. Apocalypse Now 4. Citizen Kane 5. La Dolce Vita 6. The General 7. Raging Bull 8. Tokyo Story 9. The Tree Of Life 10. Vertigo Quite a tricky round, reflected in the turnout. Here's the leaderboard: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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