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"Pikachu, I choose you!"

I thought that last one was Johnny Cash, or nobody I knew. This one is indeed a famous quote. Now, if I only knew which famous movie it went with... "A Stranger Calls"????

Richard Gere Pretty Woman Julia Roberts

"I'm sure you're both being very clever, but I'm still not getting it." We agree. "If "George" is a clue, then it could be George of the Jungle, but that wasn't a horror film." You found the only part of that post that was NOT a clue, and went looking for the relevance as a clue. "George" is you, so it was addressed to you. The rest of it was all one clue. And this COULD have been a horror film, especially considering the story upon which it was based. But they chose not to go there enough for the movie to qualify. "Something about St. George COULD be, but not all US kids (these days) would know who that is." OK, there's only so many OLD STORIES that all kids would know, would learn. Even fewer have inspired stories that became movies. Two did- and were eliminated as suspects because of the actors who were in them. (So, it was not "Hansel and Gretel- Witch Hunters" because Jeremy "Hawkeye" Renner was in it. "Snow White and the Huntsman" was not it either because Chris "Thor" Hemsworth was in it.) What stories are LEFT? I guarantee you know the song that was inspired by the story. You've seen cartoons inspired by the story- at least one of them with Bugs Bunny. Figure out which story, then you should have no trouble getting the movie.

Never mind. I don't have time for this, I'm working the swing shift over at Lockheed. I'll see you later.

HEY GEORGE! That's an awful big clue for you. To have!

Raf directly quoted something that was not the movie- but it also reference the old story. I replied with a reference to the same thing. BTW, had it been a reference to a werewolf, there's been a bunch of movies since the turn of the century about werewolves, not the least of which was Benicio del Toro in the remake of the old Universal one with Lon Chaney Jr. I keep mentioning that little kids in the US all grow up learning the old story upon which these movies draw. It's not obscure, we ALL know about this old story. I'm not sure about kids who grew up in other countries. If you figure out the old story, you should be able to figure out the answer. And my reference to actors eliminated one possibility of a movie, which eliminated one old story as the possibility.

If that is so, he's posting in the wrong thread. (It might not be so.)

If not, those either have to be 3 roles one actor played, or 3 actors who shared the same role, for this thread. I have trouble picturing an actor calling himself "The Tender Bar"- but that's no guarantee there isn't one. I mean, Prince named himself an abstract symbol for a decade.

If "The Professor" is how the character is remembered, he may be Professor Roy Hinckley, scoutmaster. If so, that would make this actor "Russell Howard". Was that him?

Andy Garcia was already posted on this page. This limits me to Lou Diamond Phillips La Bamba Joe Pantolione

I'm not going to ask you to go on and take a powder, but I'm hoping George will work it out.

Come on, George, work the clues. Raf has already figured it out.

Selma Blair The Sweetest Thing Cameron Diaz

Ok, next question. This one has nothing to do with sports. Some home video games are more famous than others, and some video game companies are more famous than others. In the 1980s, a new video game company was teetering on the brink of non-existence. They did a "Hail Mary" pass, where they worked on one game, and if it tanked, the company was probably going to fold, and a man who later became known for video game soundtrack composing would have left that field. They titled the video game accordingly. Sales for the game took off, and catapulted the company into the spotlight. They made many other home video games afterwards, including a number of my favorites, for a number of home console formats and PCs. Among the video games they made was a considerable number that would appear to be sequels- despite most of them having no connection to the games numbered before them nor after them. That series is incredibly famous among home video games, and well-known across different platforms. (Fans of the "series" all have their own favorites, and may not be interested in many of the others in the "series.") The names are excellent marketing despite that- although an argument can be made that virtually all of them have titles that make no sense- except for the original. They're still making these games, and one was released in 2023 and another in 2024. (For the curious, the original company is still making them- although they had a merger in the decades since they started, and that's obvious from the name of the company.) I'm looking for the name of the first game, the one that started the franchise, that saved the fledgling company, that is famous despite most of the people who've heard of it never having played it or possibly even SEEN it.

But then, how often do you get a chance to see a post that mentions both a Green Lantern and a classic SNES/Play Station/Nintendo DS video game?

I like to point out sometimes what Regis Philbin used to say- "It's only easy if you know the answer." When it comes to movies, we each have our own favorites and movies we've seen- and some of those may be remarkably obscure. My favorite of the truly obscure movies was filmed in France (AFAIK), and was filmed in French. (I watched it with subtitles.) The movie takes place in France in the past, and plays with a local legend most non-French would not know. One advantage to watching the movie with the original audio is getting the nuances. In one scene, a veteran soldier appears. He's lost his right hand in a war, and now has to rely on using his left hand for everything. (He has a special pistol that's been constructed to wrap around his left forearm so he can fire one-handed.) He gets drunk and rude. When someone does the inevitable and starts to rein him in, he withdraws, but first he asks if he was being "gauche." In English, that means rude, oafish, but in French, it also means left-handed or the left-hand (a parrying dagger for the left hand to accompany your right-handed rapier is called a "main-gauche".) OK, the relevance of this movie here is that, early in the movie, the filmmakers could not resist making a nod to something as a bit of an inside joke. If you're looking for that sort of thing, it's easy to spot, but if you're focusing on a serious movie, the reference can go unnoticed-and probably does for most people. That movie aside, other movies have focused entirely on that which the nod, the reference, was referring. It's an old story, an incredibly famous story, one that has had versions in the US, in Europe, and more modified forms in Asia. At least one song has been released- and covered- that was based on that old story. At least one party game is loosely based, or inspired by, that story. The movie in question is one of them, of course. As for the movie in question (FINALLY WE GET TO THE MOVIE!), it came out in the current century. Most of the cast are not that well known, but among those that are is Gary Oldman. (Looking up his filmology is cheating...) One user review claims the movie tries to be a number of things, but fails at all of them. It makes a nod at trying to pick up the fans of the "Twilight" movies, but not much of one, mainly putting in a love triangle. It tries to be a sexier take on the old story, but doesn't ever seem to get sexy. It tries to be a horror film, but, again, it never seems to get there. The characters are uninteresting and dull, the sets are obviously soundstages when location shooting would have enhanced the atmosphere. Worse, an 80s film already covered some of this ground. While it wasn't great, it succeeded at being what it tried to be, which was SOME of these things, not ALL of these things. The movie in question tried to be ALL of these things at the same time, and ended up being NONE of these things. The movie in question has a name that makes it very obvious which story it's based on, as any U.S. child should be able to tell you. For the curious, the same old story was the idea behind 3 other movies (no kidding, 3 of them.) In fairness, I'd heard of one of those (for some value of "movie.") The titles of all 3 make a nod to it, as does the movie in question. The other one I'd heard of has a slightly less obvious nod in the title, but the connections are obvious in the "movie" itself. That one has a release date of 2010. The other 2 I'd never heard of until just now. One came out in 2003 and the other came out in 2016. The 2003 movie seems to have been a little European flick that got decent reviews despite its low budget (and, apparently, lack of marketing to the Western Hemisphere.) The 2016 film seems to have been made in the US on a tiny budget, and apparently looks like a film made by a film student who was bad at it. Despite similarities in the titles, those aren't the movie in question. The movie in question had lots of marketing, had at least a few recognizable movie stars. None of them, as far as I can tell, are known for making any Marvel movies like "the Avengers" or anything, not even the eponymous character. (Although I suppose, some lawyer somewhere might argue that this movie's title does not refer to a character, they would be wrong, as any kid in the US could tell you.) So, which movie was this?

I mentioned they included a love triangle. I said nothing about the movie either including a vampire or being any kind of comedy.

No, no.

I like to point out sometimes what Regis Philbin used to say- "It's only easy if you know the answer." When it comes to movies, we each have our own favorites and movies we've seen- and some of those may be remarkably obscure. My favorite of the truly obscure movies was filmed in France (AFAIK), and was filmed in French. (I watched it with subtitles.) The movie takes place in France in the past, and plays with a local legend most non-French would not know. One advantage to watching the movie with the original audio is getting the nuances. In one scene, a veteran soldier appears. He's lost his right hand in a war, and now has to rely on using his left hand for everything. (He has a special pistol that's been constructed to wrap around his left forearm so he can fire one-handed.) He gets drunk and rude. When someone does the inevitable and starts to rein him in, he withdraws, but first he asks if he was being "gauche." In English, that means rude, oafish, but in French, it also means left-handed or the left-hand (a parrying dagger for the left hand to accompany your right-handed rapier is called a "main-gauche".) OK, the relevance of this movie here is that, early in the movie, the filmmakers could not resist making a nod to something as a bit of an inside joke. If you're looking for that sort of thing, it's easy to spot, but if you're focusing on a serious movie, the reference can go unnoticed-and probably does for most people. That movie aside, other movies have focused entirely on that which the nod, the reference, was referring. It's an old story, an incredibly famous story, one that has had versions in the US, in Europe, and more modified forms in Asia. At least one song has been released- and covered- that was based on that old story. At least one party game is loosely based, or inspired by, that story. The movie in question is one of them, of course. As for the movie in question (FINALLY WE GET TO THE MOVIE!), it came out in the current century. Most of the cast are not that well known, but among those that are is Gary Oldman. (Looking up his filmology is cheating...) One user review claims the movie tries to be a number of things, but fails at all of them. It makes a nod at trying to pick up the fans of the "Twilight" movies, but not much of one, mainly putting in a love triangle. It tries to be a sexier take on the old story, but doesn't ever seem to get sexy. It tries to be a horror film, but, again, it never seems to get there. The characters are uninteresting and dull, the sets are obviously soundstages when location shooting would have enhanced the atmosphere. Worse, an 80s film already covered some of this ground. While it wasn't great, it succeeded at being what it tried to be, which was SOME of these things, not ALL of these things. The movie in question tried to be ALL of these things at the same time, and ended up being NONE of these things. The movie in question has a name that makes it very obvious which story it's based on, as any U.S. child should be able to tell you. So, which movie was this?

"This is gonna replace CD's soon; guess I'll have to buy The White Album again.""You here to make fun of me too? " No, ma'am. We at the FBI do not have a sense of humor we're aware of. May we come in?" "Sure." "Did he say anything to you? "Yeah, that the world is coming to an end." "Did he say when?" "So what do you think? "Whew! Very interesting. She got a whole 'Queen of the Undead' thing going on... "What about the body?" "Great body..." "The dead body."

That's a magma flow that pours down like a wave. The other possibility is a magma flow that pours down and resembles glowing ropes as it flows. That's called "pahoehoe" which means "rope-like." This was explained once on "Standard Deviants", a show that me and maybe a few dozen people watched. "Aa" was also the name of a Green Lantern from "Stoneworld". "Pahoehoe" was also the name of an attack by rock monsters in the JRPG "Chrono Trigger." That about covers everything I know on the subject.

Al Pacino the Devil's Advocate Keanu Reeves

Easily- we would call them the Cincinnati Red Sox instead of the Cincinnati Reds.

Groundhog Day Brian Doyle Murray Wayne's World