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More than 60 gizmos were grafted onto the main character;'s body. In the source material, that number os a LOT higher,

Nope. If you know where to look, you can see Gandalf's sword multiple times. I don't know where to look.

It was a sci-fi show centered on a newspaper... Anyway. The creator of this series once sent a note to one of the stars. "Everyone hates you!" the note read. It was a compliment. The runner up to play one of the principal male roles was instead cast as a sadistic villain in several seasons. It's hard to tell who the lead character is in any given season other than the first. Yes, it's an ensemble. But more to the point, main characters tend to die with alarming regularity. Has won more prime time emmy awards than any other show. Including Frasier.

The villain in this movie shows his face. Like, makes no effort to conceal it whatsoever. Very different from the source material. In the sequel (in when he's played by a different actor), the audience does not get to see his face at all. True to the source material. Based on an 80s cartoon. All the principal roles are recast for the sequel. Now because too much time had passed, but because the original was a disaster and no one wanted to be a part of future installments. The sequel did feature a catchy tune over the closing credits sung by Rose Falcon, whose father, Billy, you may have heard of.

I'm right here. Hello? #3 is Friday the 13th #4 is The Chronicle.

It was either A Study in Scarlet or The Sign of Four. In any event, I was thinking Sherlock Holmes as well.

Ok, so the cousins one is Friday the 13th, and the newspaper one is The Chronicle. I am stumped on the rest.

Mark Wahlberg The Other Guys Will Ferrell

Capital. I will now promptly forget that information, as it is of no practical use to me.

Fun fact: If you look carefully enough, My Blue Heaven is a sequel to Goodfellas. This, on the other hand, is Sgt. Bilko

Abeegnale is the one that did it for me. I did not know the rest.

And here I thought I was being subtle. Yes, The Other Guys, starring Will Ferrell and Mark Wahlberg. I was going to start making references to Guy Smiley, Guy Ritchie, Family Guy, the Cable Guy... But The Other Guys is correct.

Ok. It's a buddy cop movie, so it's comedic with action. All four main actors are famous: The guys who are the hero cops who die early are Dwayne Johnson and Samuel L. Jackson. But ________, who typically filled out the paperwork after the hero guys solve the crime, are also very, very well known, A-list actors, each of whom has marquee status. They have appeared in at least two other movies together that I know of... not playing these characters, though. In fact, one of them was in an Oscar winning movie a few years earlier. Again, he played a cop. And he came REALLY close to uttering the name of this movie when he said, "I'm the guy who does his job. You must be ___________." Guy Pearce is not in this movie. And (this has nothing to do with the movie) the line in the Jimi Hendrix song that is constantly misheard is "Excuse me while I kiss the sky." You know, because people hear that line and think he said something else. Come on, guys, you got this. Or do I need to get other people involved?

Save the day, solve a crime. Who cares. Same difference. Please note that I subtly changed the wording of the clue a few minutes ago. The change should serve as a big fat hint.

Ok, go back to the first clue: The guys you expect to solve the crime at the center of the story die very quickly, leaving the crime to be solved by... [Title]

Right idea. Wrong movie.

Penn, Hanks, Stallone, Cruise, Willis, Gibson, Pitt, Connery, Douglas... Are not the stars of this movie. I don't even think they have cameos, but I haven't checked. Ok, go back to the first clue: The people you expect to solve the crime at the center of the story die very quickly, leaving the crime to be solved by... [Title]

nope.

Leonardo DiCaprio

indeed

The movie stars Samuel L. Jackson and The Rock, who are not the stars of this movie.

Did Talk-To-Text fail you on that one? because if it did, yeah, that would be another quote from the same movie. To which I would respond, "Hit him back!" If it's not a talk to text fail, then no, the movie has nothing to do with a chemistry teacher.

Two very well known actors play, what else, badass cops who are willing to do anything to catch the bad guys. They are the best cops in their department, and everyone knows it. They get on the boss' nerve, but he knows he can count on them. They are awesome. They die very quickly. With them out of the way, solving the crime at the heart of the film is up to ... [the title]. *** In one scene, the cops that the movie is actually about go into the boss's office. The District Attorney is in there with the boss. You might recognize him. He played the District Attorney in Dirty Harry. ***

One of my all time favorites: "We have a few special years with our children, when they're the ones that want us around. After that you're going to be running after them for a bit of attention. It's so fast Peter. It's a few years, and it's over. And you are not being careful. And you are missing it." *** "When are you gonna stop acting like a child." "I am a child." "Grow up."

oh, yeah. i was kidding. sorry. my turn.