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Post by katina2nd on Jan 19, 2008 20:45:28 GMT -6
The film is directed by one of your favorites, Michael Bay. Ah yes Mr Bey, director of such classics as Bad Boys 1&2, and of course his never to be forgotten masterpiece, a film that's seared forever into ones memory, his magnum opus, the superb "Pearl Harbour." <cough> Now I'm picturing a guy with a big smarmy grin setting out to save mankind [ again ] in Bey's Sci-Fi epic "Armageddon."
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Post by Siren on Jan 22, 2008 19:44:26 GMT -6
LOL! You remember him so well, kat, I think it must be a "love/hate" thing with you two. Lol!
You're right on the money, kat - "Armageddon".
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Post by katina2nd on Jan 23, 2008 23:39:57 GMT -6
Right, this is from memory but I think it's pretty accurate .....
"Ma, are you sure there are no Piranha in here?"
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Post by Siren on Jan 26, 2008 16:46:40 GMT -6
A hint, please, kat? Genre, fer instance? Maybe a star or 2?
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Post by katina2nd on Jan 26, 2008 22:02:07 GMT -6
A hint or two, okay I can manage that no worries I reckon Siren.
Genre, guess it would be action/adventure, and among the cast were Tony Goldwyn [ the lead ] plus Minnie Driver, Glenn Close, Nigel Hawthorne, Lance Henriksen and Rosie O'Donnell. Taylor Dempsey *Taylor Who?* spoke the aforementioned quote.
Another clue, it's a bit of a trick question this one, despite the excellent cast you wouldn't realise who they were unless you were really observant.
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Post by Siren on Feb 5, 2008 20:43:12 GMT -6
Man, kat, a great cast there, but I'm stumped. I'm not sure I've seen this one, but I'll keep plugging. Is this an animated film?
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Post by katina2nd on Feb 8, 2008 0:40:22 GMT -6
Right on the money as usual Siren, it is an animated film [ Disney ] from the very late nineties, so you shouldn't need a memory like an Elephant to remember it.
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Post by Phalon on Feb 8, 2008 23:16:39 GMT -6
Oooo....I'm thinking that elephant with the captial "E" is a clue, yes? But damn, I don't have a memory like one, because although I've probably sat through every Disney animated movie at least once, this does not ring a bell at all.
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Post by katina2nd on Feb 9, 2008 22:01:37 GMT -6
Spot on Lady P, twas indeed a clue.
Come on, you've almost got it, you'll go Ape if you don't come up with the answer now.
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Post by Phalon on Feb 11, 2008 22:03:45 GMT -6
Such excellent clues, Katina, and I've still not a one.....so I checked with my panel of experts, (LX and BP), and after much deliberation they came up with Tarzan II.
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Post by katina2nd on Feb 12, 2008 1:16:46 GMT -6
You can inform your panel of experts they're correct Lady P, well sorta, it was from the original Tarzan, the scene where baby Tantor is testing the water.
"Yes dear, there are no Piranha in Africa" was the reply from Mom.
Take it away Lady P ................ or the girls.
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Post by Phalon on Feb 14, 2008 6:57:21 GMT -6
<standing in for the girls> This one's from a quirky little romance.
"They used to be fat and juicy and now they're twisted. They had their lives stolen. Well, they taste sweet, but really they're just humiliated grapes."
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Post by katina2nd on Feb 15, 2008 1:00:42 GMT -6
Great quote Lady P but no idea from what I'm afraid, couldya perhaps give us a period?
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Post by Phalon on Feb 15, 2008 5:50:17 GMT -6
It was released in the early nineties.
Kinda on a side note - I don't think it'll help much in the clue department - but the grape quote was a reference to a movie the lead actor in this film was in before making this film, and the quote in this film was referenced in a more recent film that starred the same actor.
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Post by Siren on Feb 15, 2008 22:28:12 GMT -6
Hmmmm...
How about a clue as to our leading actors. Please?
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Post by Phalon on Feb 16, 2008 7:51:18 GMT -6
This is hard - I think that any clues about the actors will immediately give it away.
The leading man, (swoooooon), is considered a very versatile actor, but perhaps it can be said he is type-cast as always playing an eccentric....and in this film his character is no different. Totally charming character, but completely off-the-wall.
The lead actress has done a lot of television, movies, and even a bit of producing, I think. Aside from this movie, I remember her best in an excellent film, playing a saucy young woman who ends up adding a very secret ingrediant to the sauce.
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Post by katina2nd on Feb 17, 2008 8:33:59 GMT -6
That wouldn't be Christopher Walken you're describing would it Lady P?
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Post by Phalon on Feb 17, 2008 12:14:54 GMT -6
No, not Christopher Walken.
This actor, though oh-so-swoon-worthy, does not appear so in his latest film - but he did receive an Oscar nomination for it, for playing a character anything but charming.
The movie I quoted from got no awards, but was nominated for a Golden Globe. I guess ironing grilled cheese sandwiches, though charming, is not the stuff of award-winning movies.
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Post by katina2nd on Feb 18, 2008 20:34:07 GMT -6
Ah'ha, nominated for an Oscar, that should help, we have George Clooney, Daniel Day Lewis, Tommy Lee Jones, someone else who I can't recall, and last but not least we have Johnny Depp. Let's review the clues again ....... charming, versatile, eccentric and apparently gets your motor racing, ummmm could it possibly be jolly Captain Jack Sparrow himself, aka Johnny Depp? [ Should have known from all the swooning ] The earlier excellent clue referenced "What's Eating Gilbert Grape" but I still can't place the film the quote is from. Trying to recall a film of his from around that period that got a Golden Globe nomination in which he played a "totally off the wall" character with a penchant for ironing grilled cheese sandwiches, sounds like it could be "Benny and Joon" ........ or maybe "Ed Wood" ........ or possibly something else. I'll go with B&J. Phew that was an effort.
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Post by Mini Mia on Feb 18, 2008 23:24:09 GMT -6
I believe you're right, Kat. I've never seen "Benny and Joon" but I did stop on it once and remember his ironing cheese sandwiches. I've often wondered how they would turn out. Seems they'd taste a bit funny.
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Post by Phalon on Feb 19, 2008 7:44:29 GMT -6
And Katina gets it with "Benny and Joon". I woulda thought all my "swooning" would have given it away right off the bat....you know how I've got it bad for the captain of that depp sea adventure.
Joon was played by Mary Stewart Masterson, who I best remember as Idgie from Fried Green Tomatoes.
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Post by katina2nd on Feb 19, 2008 23:20:38 GMT -6
I believe you're right, Kat. I've never seen "Benny and Joon" but I did stop on it once and remember his ironing cheese sandwiches. I've often wondered how they would turn out. Seems they'd taste a bit funny.
Guess I had a pretty fair chance of being right then Jox, couldn't imagine there would be a stack of films where they iron cheese sandwiches. Don't know how they'd taste, but they would be a bit flat I would guess. And Katina gets it with "Benny and Joon". I woulda thought all my "swooning" would have given it away right off the bat....you know how I've got it bad for the captain of that depp sea adventure. Joon was played by Mary Stewart Masterson, who I best remember as Idgie from Fried Green Tomatoes. Yeah should have been a dead giveaway Lady P, all that swooning, the back of the wrist pressed to the forehead, surely had to be JD who evoked that kind of response.
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Post by katina2nd on Feb 21, 2008 21:16:33 GMT -6
Here we go, an old'un and a good'un ........
"Stop interrupting and I'll tell you what happened. After you left I went out after you. That's when I came upon the Black Knight."
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Post by Siren on Feb 23, 2008 17:39:43 GMT -6
Hmmm...action film or a comedy?
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Post by katina2nd on Feb 24, 2008 5:53:49 GMT -6
Definitely action, a swashbuckler I guess you'd call it, lot's of sword play and derring-do.
The guy who spoke the lines was playing an English Knight, but had the most distinctive American accent one could imagine.
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Post by Siren on Mar 4, 2008 19:51:35 GMT -6
Hmmmm...
Gosh...English knight with an American accent - first instinct is the wretched Kevin Costner version of "Robin Hood", except you said it's an old movie (and a good one, which lets Kevin out on both counts, IMO!). I don't know my English legends well enough to know who encountered the Black Knight. So, how about a hint on one of the stars?
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Post by Phalon on Mar 9, 2008 8:52:27 GMT -6
Hhhmmmm......I seem to remember John Wayne playing such a character. I don't know what role, or what movie - I don't think I even saw the movie, except for a clip, but it sticks out in my mind only because I thought it was kind of ridiculous watching him play an 'English' character with no attempt at an English accent, (which probably would have been just as ridiculous if he had).
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Post by katina2nd on Mar 10, 2008 7:23:11 GMT -6
Hmmmm... Gosh...English knight with an American accent - first instinct is the wretched Kevin Costner version of "Robin Hood", except you said it's an old movie (and a good one, which lets Kevin out on both counts, IMO!). I don't know my English legends well enough to know who encountered the Black Knight. So, how about a hint on one of the stars? Yeah not the greatest version of RH that's for sure, not real keen on slapstick comedy mixed in with my drama, which is what Alan Rickman was going for, and if Kevin's accent wasn't bad enough then Christian Slater's was downright painful to the ears, sheesh they could have at least made an attempt you'd think. A hint to one of the stars, okay then, the leading lady, whose most famous role was probable one in which she only had about twenty minutes of screen time before meeting an unpleasant fate, was married to an actor who made several films with Burt Lancaster, their daughter is an actress who had the title "scream queen" for a while at the beginning of her career. Cast your mind back to another [ very ] recent thread and think funny hairdo, not on the leading lady but the leading man.
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Post by katina2nd on Mar 10, 2008 7:25:10 GMT -6
Hhhmmmm......I seem to remember John Wayne playing such a character. I don't know what role, or what movie - I don't think I even saw the movie, except for a clip, but it sticks out in my mind only because I thought it was kind of ridiculous watching him play an 'English' character with no attempt at an English accent, (which probably would have been just as ridiculous if he had). Nope not The Duke Lady P, though I'm sure his accent wouldn't have been any more "un-English" then the actor who spoke the aforementioned lines.
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Post by Siren on Mar 12, 2008 22:11:48 GMT -6
Hmmmm... Gosh...English knight with an American accent - first instinct is the wretched Kevin Costner version of "Robin Hood", except you said it's an old movie (and a good one, which lets Kevin out on both counts, IMO!). I don't know my English legends well enough to know who encountered the Black Knight. So, how about a hint on one of the stars? Yeah not the greatest version of RH that's for sure, not real keen on slapstick comedy mixed in with my drama, which is what Alan Rickman was going for, and if Kevin's accent wasn't bad enough then Christian Slater's was downright painful to the ears, sheesh they could have at least made an attempt you'd think. A hint to one of the stars, okay then, the leading lady, whose most famous role was probable one in which she only had about twenty minutes of screen time before meeting an unpleasant fate, was married to an actor who made several films with Burt Lancaster, their daughter is an actress who had the title "scream queen" for a while at the beginning of her career. Cast your mind back to another [ very ] recent thread and think funny hairdo, not on the leading lady but the leading man. Ah - I think I have it now (thanks to plenty of help from the Katmeister). Let's see..that would be Janet Leigh (who was married to Tony Curtis, dad of Jamie Leigh Curtis), who co-starred with the very cute Robert Wagner as the dude with the silly hairdo, "Prince Valiant". I think. I think the thing that bothers me most about Kev's "Robin Hood" was his thinking that an English accent was unnecessary. What utter arrogance!
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