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And this needs to be clarified: The publisher in the original movie is the killer. I did not mean to leave any room for the possibility that he wasn't. In the remake, the publisher is ... closely associated with the military

Let me rephrase something. The remake wasn't so much a remake as it was an updated adaptation of the novel that used the same source material as the original. You know how West Side Story was basically Romeo and Juliet? Yeah, same thing. So in this case: The original has the same name as the source material (a novel. Not trying to hide that). The "remake" has a different name and recycles the same general plot while changing the setting, characters and most other elements of the story... but the basic outline of the plot is the same: a powerful person kills someone and seeks to frame an innocent person, then employs the aid of an underling without realizing that underling is the person he's trying to frame. The lead actor and the actual killer in the remake were considered for the movie version of "The Fugitive" before Harrison Ford and Tommy Lee Jones were cast. Personally, I could see it, but Tommy Lee Jones, man.

Jack Bauer and President David Palmer were only together in the same place for one episode. The President was a central character in every season. Not the same president. You're up.

He knows his writer. He doesn't know that's the person he's trying to frame. Explaining how this is possible gives away too much of the plot. Both movies involve a person in a position of power enlisting a subordinate to find "the real killer" (a person who is, in fact, being framed for murder), not realizing the subordinate IS the person they are trying to frame.

The lead actor on this series has said the format/conceit, not he, was the real star. In every season except the first, someone played a particular public official. The character wasn't always the same, but the office was. A college drinking game requires players to drink whenever the lead character said "damn it!" Two of the main characters from the first few seasons are depicted as having a professionally close relationship, so it may surprise to realize that they actually appeared together (not counting split screens) in exactly one episode.

Dr. Who

I'll take either the original or the remake, though they are not similar to each other except the most basic plot elements. The original was in black and white. The lead character was a writer framed for murder by his publisher. The remake maintains the murder and the overall subordinate/supervisor framework (pun intended) of the plot. In both movies, the actual killer does not know the identity of the person he is framing and, in fact, enlists that person to help with the cover-up. The remake adds a twist ending in keeping with the new characters and setting.

Did the lead character ever play first base? At least according to a familiar joke?

I think you may be right. Felt like years

Yup

" I don't scratch my head unless it itches and I don't dance unless I hear some music." *** "Only kin's allowed in here." "Alice, are you blind? Don't you see the family resemblance? That's my brother." *** "What are you?" "Mobile, agile, hostile!" "What is pain?" "French bread!" "What is fatigue?" "Army clothes!" "Will you ever quit?" "No! We want some mo', we want some mo', we want some mo'!"

Three. We're talking about people who didn't need to know that, right?

They telegraphed John's fate for years. I liked the finale and how it resolved the previous storylines that we thought were long settled.

Sounds like Casablanca, though I cannot name the spoof.

Captain America: Civil War

Josh Brolin played Thanos. Snap. Thanos. No? Ok.

My hint was "oh SNAP"

Oh snap, I think I know this one...

I guess that was easier than I thought it would be. Very well known director [John Carpenter]. But his films don't exactly attract Oscar nominations. Except for this one: the lead [Jeff Bridges] was nominated for Best Actor. The director made this movie because he thought it would be received better than his last movie [The Thing], which flopped at the box office. Today both are considered classics, though the previous movie [The Thing] is perhaps a little better known. A little. [The prior movie had a sequel of sorts [it was actually a prequel in 2011 with the same title because why not]. This movie had a sequel tv series, though it did not do well [Starman on tv starred Robert Hays as the alien and Christopher Daniel Barnes, later to be known as the movies' Greg Brady, as his son.]. To the best of my knowledge, the only Best Actor nominee [Jeff Bridges] for a role that was not human. In his natural form, the main character is basically energy, a ball of light. The script was proposed to the same studio that made another movie about a non-human [E.T.]. The studio chose the other movie, which was VERY well received by critics and was a monster hit (monster is not a clue, but I suppose it could be, but no, not really). So anyway... The main [title] character's origin is never revealed. Generally, yea [He's a Starman]. Specifically, no. And George is up.

Very well known director. But his films don't exactly attract Oscar nominations. Except for this one: the lead was nominated for Best Actor. The director made this movie because he thought it would be received better than his last movie, which flopped at the box office. Today both are considered classics, though the previous movie is perhaps a little better known. A little. [The prior movie had a sequel of sorts. This movie had a sequel tv series, though it did not do well]. To the best of my knowledge, the only Best Actor nominee for a role that was not human. In his natural form, the main character is basically energy, a ball of light. The script was proposed to the same studio that made another movie about a non-human. The studio chose the other movie, which was VERY well received by critics and was a monster hit (monster is not a clue, but I suppose it could be, but no, not really). So anyway... The main [title] character's origin is never revealed. Generally, yea. Specifically, no.

You were in my pre adolescent fantasies? Creepy. By the way, MD says hi.

I used to think I was a critical thinker. The more I think of it, the more I question that. Learning logical fallacies and recognizing when you've employed them is humbling.

Gad, you love that movie

And the Birds of Prey show was represented in Crisis. Felt like it needed to be said.

I have no recollection of Dana Plato being in anything other than Diffrent Strokes and my pre adolescent fantasies. But the other two were in Exorcist II: The Utter Waste of Celluloid. At least, that's what is SHOULD have been called.