Faye said:
A terrorist bomb is set off in a restaurant. The people in the restaurant (not bombed) continue on, apethetic of the victims.And gave this hint:
In the restaurant bombed, one character mentions to the protagonist why doesnt he do anything about the bombings. He casually remarks that it is his lunch hour.... and that its not his department.Minority Report?

Sorry, nope.

Thanks for opening a new thread btw ^^

Seems to me we need another hint....

The movie is quite old. >10 years old.

Greater than 10 years old as 'quite old.' :geezer:

Bah! 'Quite old' means movies with Cary Grant or Katherine Hepburn or Buster Keaton. :geezer: Harrumph!

I kept it ambiguous for obvious reasons, but fine, the movie is release in the 80s. Its almost as old as me, and relatively, thats pretty old. I also consider any movie before the 90s as quite old.

I don't think this is right, but I never saw the sequal.

Robocop II?

nope, its not any from the Robocop trilogy

Is it Dead Pool?

Nope

Top Secret?

Ok, last clue before I finally pass the torch to someone else.

The protagonist fell in love with a suspected terrorist and later has himself promoted to the department that IS in charge of the terrorist bombings just to find out more information about her.

Brazil?

Yup, bingo. All yours.

A can of paint explodes as a man walks next to it.

Hint: The paint can was shot.

Phone Booth?

Leon? Or was that a paint ball gun.

Paint ball gun Carc

Hint #2: The paint can was shot by The Duke.

The Man who shot Liberty Valance?

I'm unfortunately no good with movies with John Wayne. :(

You got that right, Pilgrim.

Trivia: John Wayne is often imitated with using the term 'pilgrim' -- it comes from The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance.

Your turn DS.

This appears to be prime pickin's for an IJA....

Did someone mention an Impatient Jackass? :D

A woman repeatedly rams another car which took her parking space.

Fried green tomatos?

Yes. Have a fried green turnip.

It is? way to go me! I've never actually seen it, just a few trailers. Okey dokey...... A man is fighting kung fu style with someone else and it gets relayed and is put on a big TV screen.

The Last Boy Scout

Nope.

Mortal Kombat?

The Running Man?

Nope and nope. Hint time: After the fight the man makes his escape by jumpping off the building. Tall enough that he has to use a parachurte.

The Tuxedo?

Nope

Mission: Impossible 3?

This is proving trickier than I would have thought. This film came out in 2001, the reason I know this is because I went to the cinema to see it.

Rush hour?

Nope

Well. since it seems to be so hard I'll give it away, via a cryptic clue, hehe. The title of this film is the same as a reasonably well known chinese book.

The Art of War (the book was by Sun Tzu)

That is from the hint only -- I never saw the movie, only know a movie with that title came out in the past few years.

It was indeed. Shame you never saw it, I love it to bits.

This should be a very easy one....

An old motorcycle jumps over barbed wire.

Hmmm goes for the obvious, The Great Escape?

I told you it was easy....

Go DS.

Two women walk along a platform badly to catch a train?

They walk badly? What does that even mean? :p

One falls off the heels, that help you?

Some like it hot?

'women'? :p

DS, I see you online. Post tha Vukodlak is correct!

I'm too tired to think of a scene myself, so whoever's fastest on the draw can become the next impatient jackass. ;)

Heh, again that would be me! ;)

A boy gets lost in a big crowd of people so climbs on a cart and tries to call out to his mother

Empire of the sun?

Gah, there was me thinking it might prove a little tricky. Sunk it straight up Faye. :)

Hmmm... Darkstrider, was my guess right? I'd still like to know...

Haha, sorry. Was just a wild guess. Thanks.

A man literally drove to the end of his world. He got out of the car, staring in disbelief as he gets a phone call.

Yes it was Vukodlak, sorry I forgot I posted that

Dark city?

Lol! Nope, but I actually intended to put a scene from Dark City.

Truman's show?

No, the 13th Floor.

Bingo, 13th floor. All yours.

After having sex, a woman screams a man's name in her sleep. When questioned about the name the next day by her boyfriend, she tries to pass it off as a woman's name.

^ Absolutely no idea but was there any chance she called my name? :grin:

200 Cigarettes?

High Fidelity?

No and no. Okay, I guess it's kind ofvague so here are some hints: the name that the woman shouts is "Ralph" and she tries to pass it off the next day as short for "Ralphine".

The obvious - King Ralph?

hmm, still nope. okay, i guess I chose to obscure a scene so I'm going to give it away now to anyone that has actually seen this movie.

The protagonist gets really scared when his newlywed wife demonstrates her ability to sing the song "Only You" in several different languages on their wedding day.

Seems like noone has a clue. Perhaps another hint... or another movie?

Just Married?

"My stepmother is an alien" (or whatever the name of that film with Kim Bassinger and Dan Aykroyd was)?

Earth Girls are Easy?

finally, some life :D no, you guys are on the wrong track. it's a comedy but it has nothing to do with aliens. okay, i'm really giving it away with this one: it has something to do with murders.

So I Married an Axe Murderer?

finally :p it was all there guys. murder, marriage and mike myers' fear when she sang only you :D

After a brawl, a man replaces one of his now missing teeth with gum.

Hint - a biography

Erm, wild guess since noone is going for it.

Cinderella Man?

No. Guesses will pick now that everyone is busy at work/school. :nuts:

a better hint? :p

A musical biography almost 30 years old :p

The Buddy Holly Story

I was just waiting for you, T2, because I knew you would get it. :grin:

Am I that predictable with 70's movies?

A woman cuts her own son's hand off.

edit: He was reaching for her beer.
Edit again ... hint: Yugo's (many, many Yugo's) play a major role in the movie.

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... had an incredible cast.

Danny DeVito, Bette Midler, Will Farrell, Neve Cambell, Casey Affleck, Jamie Lee Curtis, ....

Drowning Mona?

Your turn DS.

A man carries another man into water

Big Fish?

Yay! Have a balloon on a stick

Ok.

Jesus hides from the rain under an umbrella...

South Park: Bigger, Longer and Uncut?

Nope. Hint: it's one of those cocktail umbrellas.

err another hint?

Ok, it's a little dashboard figurine of Jesus.

hmm... I doubt it but.. Dogma? I think we'll need another hint :p

The Mexican?

For some reason I have "Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas" in mind, odd as I have never seen the film.

Nope, nope and nope. Another hint? Ok, another scene from the film:

A man throws a cigarette out of the window where something explodes off-screen.

Airplane?

That's the one. And don't call me Shirley!

A corporate tycoon, upon seeing that his orbital weapons platform has been hijacked by an alien and is firing at his research lab, frets about going bankrupt then decides to sit back and enjoy the show - and asks his chauffeur/bodyguard to make him some popcorn. :rolleyes:

The Fifth Element ?

heh, don't think i've seen this one.

No it isn't the Fifth Element.

@ Enagonios - Consider yourself lucky.

ah, it's one of those movies eh :D

I don't imagine that anyone else has seen this turkey yet so I guess another hint is in order.

The film was released Tuesday, direct to video, and undoubtedly was produced to cash in on the hype from another film about the same main character that is to be released in a couple weeks.

Something to do with UltraViolet?

No, nothing to do with UltraViolet.

Then perhaps Aeon Flux?

Ok - Superman? I don't know the exact name but I heard that a new superman TAS film was coming on DVD. Is it not good then?

Well, I might not be right but fits the hints...

Corporate Tycoon = Lex Luthor
Alien = Superman/Braniac
chauffeur/bodyguard = Mercy Graves

Yes, it is the new Superman animated film.

The alien in question was Braniac and not Superman himself although Superman was the intended target of the orbital weapon. Interestingly the orbital weapon was pivoting around 30 degrees to track and fire at Superman who was pretty much stationary at the Luthor Lab. I would expect that level of pivoting from an orbital ray weapon would result in the second shot hitting somewhere in Greenland rather than shifting a few meters away but quite frankly that is a minor sin compared to the film's horrible dialogue.

The film was made to look artistically similar to Superman TAS but it is not part of the same continuity and the characters are written (and in the case of Lex Luthor and Braniac voiced) very differently. Bruce Timm and most of his crew were not involved in the project and quite frankly it shows.

Here (http://www.worldsfinestonline.com/WF/superman/reviews/brainiacattacks/media.php) is a link to some sound clips from the film. They are almost all really, really bad but the last one was particularly painful. It was spoken by Lex Luthor to Superman. Oh, and the "I am so ... happy" one comes from the scene I was describing. The voice acting on that one is absolutely terrible.

Here (http://www.worldsfinestonline.com/WF/superman/reviews/brainiacattacks/) are a couple reviews from the same site. I personally agree with Bird Boy's review but the other review is only slightly less hostile towards the film.

When the more favourable review states that the film was "a stain on Superman’s shorts as far as I’m concerned" you kind of get the picture of just how bad it is.

I would expect that level of pivoting from an orbital ray weapon would result in the second shot hitting somewhere in Greenland rather than shifting a few meters away...That depends on what orbit the weapon was in. For a GEO, then sure you wouldn't expect that. But a polar LEO, you've got the weapon going completely around the Earth every 90 minutes or so, while the Earth is spinning underneath it! ;)

Gosh, Blackthorne TA is right - I should have been far more diligent in reviewing that scene. ;) :deadhorse:

So I checked it again last night and based upon the positioning of the satelitte relative to the Earth, my best estimate would be that the 30 degree swivel shot should have hit somewhere in Mexico. Amusingly enough the energy weapon swivels right back to its initial position after that shot so apparently Braniac decided to take a break from shooting at Superman and cause some random devestation south of the border.

Interestingly enough, based upon the pattern of fire on the ground scenes I was also able to deduce that the satelitte is apparently capable of moving at tremendous speed (possibly teleportation) and appears to be capable of time travel or some other means of being in two places at the same time. Not only do the beams shift from normally coming in straight vertically to all sort of different angles seemingly at random but it also managed at one point to have two energy beams coming in from two different directions at the same time. It is clearly established that there is only one prototype satelitte and given the angles the damn thing would have to be thousands of kilometers long to manage those two angles at the same time - if it actually had two different energy weapons despite the fact that it clearly appears to be only one. :p

No Clancy Brown either :(

Ok, new scene

A man is talking over his plans for the evening. By himself. In somebody else's bathroom.

Along Came Polly?

Nope.

Hint: his entertaining soliloquy includes references to morality, loyalty, self-preservation and err... maturbation.

Pulp Fiction?

Yeah, it's Pulp Fiction defo.

'Tis at that. Thine turne Enagonios...

Cool. Here's one from the last movie I saw. Should be a giveaway for anyone that's seen this.

A man forgets what he's doing in the middle of a chase, sees the other guy and figures that he's chasing him so he runs at the guy and gets shot at then he runs away realizing that's what he was doing the whole time :D

The Bourne Identity?

Memento.

like i said, it's a giveaway. back to you vukodlak. btw, that movie was frickin amazing.

I think Vukodlak forgot about this. If he doesn't post by tomorrow night, somebody feel free to IJ. Or I may post another one.

I did, thanks for the bump...

A man standing at a broken window, with about 30 laser sights pointed at his chest, shouts to the crowd gathered below...

I was thinking The Recruit but I think he was standing in a doorway in that one.

Ho ho, Terminator 2, except I don't remember the governator shouting to the cops.

Come on, Samuel L Jackson in The Negotiator.

Ah, that's the one T2Bruno... You are in control.

A car plummets off a cliff. As it falls, wings deploy and the car levels out and flys away.

Chitty Chitty Bang Bang?

That rings a bell... I can't quite think... grrr...
I've seen a film where that happens, a few times...

Spy Kids?

Toot Sweet. It is Ian Flemming's Chitty Chitty Bang Bang. Go HB.

p.s., you should also update the Name that TV Show Thread.....

Hooray!

A guy daydreams about beating up his ex-girlfriend's new boyfriend.

High Fidelity

T2Bruno is right. That scene always cracks me up. Your turn.

Sorry, I've been getting ready for a trip early tomorrow morning. I bow out to the first IJA.

IJA:

A man forces another man into a cloth sack at swordpoint.

crap, I know this one :bang:

I've no idea what 'IJA' means and I've no idea what that film is!

IJA stands for Impatient Jack Ass and is the rule that states that if the poster of the question vanishes for more than 24 hours or so, then the next impatient person can take over the thread.

Ah, I see, thanks for shedding light on that.

Caveat: IJA actually works if the person with the acknowledged right answer goes AWOL for 24 hours. Alternatively, if the poster of the question does not say whether one or more guesses is correct within 24 hours, then the first in time that guessed is deemed correct, no matter how dumb-ass and wrong the guess may be.

bumping this up. I think we need a hint kuemps.

All righty then.

Hint: it's an old movie with 'god' starring as the lead.

Life of Brian?

Not LoB, but the same year. The movie I'm thinking of has the lead actor's same distaste for the telephone company that I have.

Oh, God.

Wrong movie, right actor. George Burns is the lead male. His co-star was a very 'pretty baby'. ;)

A man forces another man into a cloth sack at sword point. Once the man is in the sack, his captor reveals the sword is collapseable.

Ah, you're combining several movies in your hints. George Burns and Brooke Shields only starred in one movie together -- Just You and Me, Kid.

I had a big crush on her and saw all her movies -- I don't remember that movie much though (and not that scene).

That's the one.

Three blue moons.

Hint: The lights were blue, making the moons blue.

Grease?

That would be it. I love the announcement the next day: experts in the FBI to identify that sort of thing....

Your turn.

You're joking. That was the biggest speculator guess ever. I must be right on your wavelength. Great clue. I won't be able to come up with anything as good.

An old man plucks a speeding arrow out of the air.

robin hood, men in tights

Bumping this up just in case HB forgot about it. Did I get it right? If HB doesn't respond by tonight I'm going to assume I'm correct (which I'm actually pretty confident of :p ) and post the next one.

You confidence, misplaced. Must try again, find answer somewhere else.

Karate Kid? :skeptic:

Remo Williams?

whaaa? Well if magpie or T2 haven't guessed what you had in mind I think the scene should be given a few more details then because I can say for a fact that, as it is, this scene happened in Robin Hood: Men in Tights when Cary Elwes' old manservant pulled the arrow out of the air just as it was about to hit him.

You, Magpie, wrong answer, no arrows in Karate Kid. But you on right track. You train more, you get better answer.

So it's part II or III, then? :hmm:

Ah, young Magpie-san, you train hard, but you still no balance. No arrow in Karate Kid II or Karate Kid III. I go visit monastery and maybe you have right answer when I come back.

The Next Karate Kid?

Ah, you Kuemper-san, you good student. You see Miyagi practice zen archery in monastery in The Next Karate Kid. You now ready to become teacher. Now your turn to ask question. We now YOUR students. Teacher say, student do.

You see Miyagi practice zen archery in monasteryDeductive logic, actually. You were very specific about it not being the other 3 Karate Kid films.

A spy infiltrates a building by climbing out of the toilet.

Johnny English?

No, but it is a British movie...and 'spy' is a loose term for the person I'm describing, but saying his/her actual job would be a give away (I think).

Ghost dog?

Goldeneye?

No and no. The 'spy' is a paparazzo in a musical movie circa 1997.

Weekend Edition[tm] hintage: the stars of the film were bright between 1996 and 1999 and are better known by there 'band' nicknames.

Ah, must be Spiceworld.

Never saw the movie, probably never will.

It is. You know what we want, what we really, really want T2Bruno.

A man gives a lesson to a young punk on how to use a butterfly knife.

For some reason, Steven Seagal comes to mind, but the name of the film escapes me...

EDIT: Exit Wounds?

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Under Siege?

Crocodile Dundee?

That would be my guess as well:
"Careful. He's got a knife"
"You call that a knife?" *shing* "THIS is a knife"
:D

Face/Off?

For some reason, Steven Seagal comes to mindMy thoughts, too, but I have a guess:

Above the Law?

No on all counts. Neither the user of the knife, nor the guy giving the lesson is known for martial arts.

The key is the butterfly knife. It's a flashy form of folding knife:

The Balisong or Butterfly Knife is a form of folding pocket knife with two handles that counter-rotate around the tang. It is an ingenious design that, when closed, has a blade that is completely covered. When a well-made Balisong is open and the two handles are locked together, it is as strong and reliable as a fixed blade knife.

This is so on top of my tongue! I know I've seen this somewhere, but where!?

Carlito's way?

No.

Hint: It's a musical. :D

West Side Story? :skeptic:

The Sound of Music! The part where Mr. von Trapp kills the nanny Maria and anyone who sings along with her.

Wait. That was the wishful thinking I had while watching the film. Sorry. My bad.

No, neither of those. This came out in the 80's.

Grease.

Grease was in 1978. Maybe Grease II?

No to both. The movie also sported a fight scene where the hero and villian squared off using sledge hammers.

Streets of Fire?

I'd guess Streets of Fire also but iirc it wasn't a musical. unless you call a young and very hot diane lane singing :love:

I'm guessing Cry Baby, even if I haven't seen the film, on the basis of a)it's a musical b)IIRC it's got some street gangs or at least young punks c) it's a John Waters film, which would explain the quirkiness of a sledgehammer fight in a musical

The only problem is that it premiered in 1990, but that would make it made in the 80's...

It was a pseudo-musical billed as 'a rock-and-roll fantasy.' A slightly misleading clue....

Your turn nior.

Streets of Fire... heck, all I can really remember was those guys singing "I Can Dream About You". Still loved that song though. :grin:


Ok here goes...

A biker dude stands on the table a belted out quite a performance in front of a handful of guys dressed like they're going to a Halloween party.


Clue: I'm just streatching T2Bruno's musical.

bumping this up. hint?

The Rocky Horror Picture Show?

Sorry HB, wrong guess.

Hint: I think it's a late 70's or early 80's show. It's about music, and the group had reach pop-icon status internationally. They are like boy bands in the sense that they sing and dance to catchy tunes but definitely not boys. You may not love their music but I think it's safe to say that the majority of us here in this thread knows who they are.

Saturday Night Fever?

^ Nope, not the Bee Gees. This group were the star of the movie.

Head?

Monkees?

Nope and nope... btw you're suppose to guess the movie title not the group that starred in it. :grin:

Another hint: The title of the movie is also the title of one of their hit song.

Can't stop the music, starring the VIllage People?

Finally. Your turn Ara.

Wheee :D

A hotel maid is asked to fetch the purse of a woman taking a bath.

Maid in Manhattan?

Nope. Dunno if it has s a similar scene, but it is not the one I have in mind.

hint?

Maid to Order?

Nope.

Hint: The maid gets clobbered with a champagne bottle.

Ocean's 11 (either one)?

Nope

THis movie starred Antonio Banderas, although he is not involved int he scene :p

4 rooms?

Nope.

Femme Fatale?

Yup. Femme Fatale :D

Does that mean i'm up?
I'll make it easy.

A man has his entire right arm severed by a shotgun blast.

Robocop?

Although I think it was just the hand...

Yep it was robocop, he loses the whole arm in the Director's Cut.

Yay!

A man signs a contract using another man's back as support. When he finishes, he stabs the other man with the pen, leaving the contract attached to this man's back.

It's The Running Man!

kuemper wins Arnie's sweaty spandex suit!

Your turn. :thumb:

kuemper wins Arnie's sweaty spandex suit!:sick:

A man pulls a cucumber out of his pants at the airport metal detector.

This is Spinal Tap. Very funny film.

Yes.

okey doke...... Two people are going through a swamp and the girl gets swallowed up by a pit of quicksand. To save her the guy she is with slashes a nearby vine and dives with it into the pit. He then manages to crawl up the vine with the girl to escape.

I know I've seen this...

The Princess Bride?

Indeed it is. After Kuemper posting a scene from a film with Christopher Guest, I couldn't help choosing another.

A scarf falls gently over a katana and is sliced in half by it's own weight.

the bodyguard

Grrrrr :bang: I have seen this. But from which movie? Maybe Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon?

Hero?

Actually I think Enagonios has it: Kevin Costner's character is showing Whitney Huston's char how sharp the sword he owns is by taking the scarf from around her neck and dropping it onto the blade...

I thought this was in Kill Bill also, but maybe not.

Enagonios is correct. Kevin removes Whitney's sheer scarf and lets it fall gently over the blade.

I'm sure that happens in a few films. But whatever.

Maybe, but imo the Bodyguard is really the movie where it's memorable.

okay, haven't really seen any good ones in a while so i'll use an old one.

a guy dislocates his own shoulder in order to get out of a straightjacket, just to win a bet.

That's definitely Mel Gibson, Lethal Weapon. Can't remember which one but I'm pretty sure it's the one with South Africans as villains (one of them was supposedly responsible for killing MG's wife).

Extending my answer further... Lethal Weapon 3.

verrry close, even got the villains right, but not quite it i'm afraid :p

Then it's Lethal Weapon 2. :grin:

thats the one. your turn

I felt a little bad for doing 2 guesses in a row. So here's an easy one.


Girl goes into a church and sat in the confession booth. After a brief discussion with the "priest", she gets out of the her booth to see who the "priest" was only to find a silver bullet.

replacement killers?