Movie Trivia!

[Reel 2 Reel]

we need to get this forum hoppin'...and I hope this thread does it......


So....take it easy on the board...the one who answers correctly first ...gets to ask the next question....and thats just to be fair to everybody...other than that ..it will become a clusterf%$k reel quick.....And seen how I started it ....Hahaha!...i get to ask the first question.....(Rasberry!) :tongue:

What kind Of car does Skaramanga drive, that flies, ..in the James Bond Movie "The Man With The Golden Gun?"....

Simple ...but a good question to start off with.....

[Punker X]

AMC Matador.. Like the Hornet James stole off the dealer to chase him.

X

[Army]

AMC Matador.. Like the Hornet James stole off the dealer to chase him.

X


Funny that movie was on just yesterday, and I missed the flying Matador :yes:

But my memory is pretty good and I'd say you are right :thmbsp:

[Punker X]

Have admit I saw it within the last month and thought to myself.. now you just don't see AMC's in car chases.

X

[Reel 2 Reel]

So thats a Matador!!....I remember the TV ads back in the 70s for them....

I saw one the other day and thats what sparked this thread idea...first it was just going to be a 'James Bond trivia' thread...but I said to myself.....well anyway....you know the rest of the story....

Well Mikey....you got it first ...so the next question is yours.....

[Punker X]

Alright..

What put the sass in sassafras.

[opt80]

I don't know but it is someting you should never do to a 400 pound frass

Alan

[Andyman]

Hmmmmm....

I googled it and came up with some German lesbian with a monicker of sassafrasslass!!

[Army]

Alright..

What put the sass in sassafras.


Hmmm... I've got noth'in :scratch2:

Another hint maybe :smoke:

[Punker X]

1939 Huge hit. Lyric in a song.

X

[ekimetsok]

What put the sass in sassafras?

Same thing that puts the Ape in Ape-Ricot: COURAGE!

[Chad Hauris]

Minnie the Moocher?

[Punker X]

Ekimetsok.. got it..

Wizard of Oz.. Cowardly Lion singin "If I were King of the forest".

I believe you get the next question.

X

[DanTana]

That particular year Matador was one of the most aerodynamic cars up till then. I believe one of the Allison brothers even ran one for awhile, but had too many mechanical problems with it. AMC wasn't much into racing since the great Mark Donahue raced a Javelin for the Roger Penske team.

[ekimetsok]

Thank you, X. Here's mine:

He couldn't read a note of music, yet was a moderately successful recording artist, but better known as a comic. Appeared as a bass player in a well known big band in a 1942 motion picture. Who am I, who was the band, and what was the movie? :scratch2:

[foetusized]

Jackie Gleason, the Great One. Movie was Orchestra Wives, with the Glenn Miller Orchestra -- Foe

[ekimetsok]

Ding Ding Ding! Correct. :thmbsp: (BTW, the character he played was Ben Beck). Your question, sir?

[foetusized]

What movie includes references to a fictional German band named Autobahn?

[Filmboydoug]

The Big Lebowski. In the film, the lead singer of Autobahn was also in a porno called Log-Jammin. :lmao:

[foetusized]

That's right. He was also a nihilist ("Say what you like about the tenets of National Socialism, Dude, at least it's an ethos."). Your turn, Doug -- Foe

[Filmboydoug]

This film featured a drunk named Walter who owned a boat named Vrolickhied.

Name the movie. BTW, I intentionally slightly misspelled the name of the boat for you googlers.

[Filmboydoug]

OK, here is a hint: This movie is a romantic comedy that uses the Pacific theater of World War II as a backdrop.

[Punker X]

Father Goose.. Cary Grant

X

[Filmboydoug]

Yup X. Go!

[Punker X]

What does Dark Helmet always drink while watching RADAR?

[foetusized]

I think he drank coffee from his Mr. Coffee while he watched his Mr. Radar -- Foe

[Army]

I think he drank coffee from his Mr. Coffee while he watched his Mr. Radar -- Foe


Yup Spaceballs :thmbsp:

[Punker X]

I think he drank coffee from his Mr. Coffee while he watched his Mr. Radar -- Foe

Yup... " I always drink Coffee when I watch Radar".. I guess if you ever really watched Radar for hours you would tend to remember this line.

Go ahead Foetusized... your turn.

X

[foetusized]

Answering the questions is more fun than coming up with them.

The theme song for the original run of the TV game show "You Bet Your Life" came from which movie?

[ekimetsok]

"Hooray for Captain Spalding" from A Night at the Opera.

[foetusized]

Right song, wrong movie -- Foe

[ekimetsok]

Oops. Animal Crackers.

[foetusized]

That's right. Your turn -- Foe

[ekimetsok]

What character said: "Put soybeans in it and market it as a soft drink in the ghetto. We'll put a picture of a rhythm and blues singer on the front and call it Victrola Cola?" :headscrat

[ekimetsok]

Hint: Truth & Soul Advertising

[Filmboydoug]

A wild guess: Dudley Moore as Emory Leeson?

[ekimetsok]

Nope. Hint #2: Came out in '69. To my knowledge, it's never been shown on network TV.

[Mr Natural]

Putney say, The Borman 6 has GOT to have soul!!!!!

How many syllabills, Mario????
How many syllabills, Mario????
How many syllabills, Mario????
How many syllabills, Mario????

[ekimetsok]

Yes, indeed Mr. Natch'L....Putney Swope! You may now step up to the plate and have at it.

[Mr Natural]

"Dad, I was swimming in a rainbow with millions of babies... ...and they was naked... ...and then all of the sudden I turned into a perfect smile!"

[Mr Natural]

wow - not one guess??
here are some character pics:

[Filmboydoug]

Greasers Palace

[Mr Natural]

Greasers Palace
Dude!
my all time favorite movie.
when it first came out I went to see it like 10 times in a row. We would sit in the theatre with my friends and laugh hysterically while all the other people would give us strange looks and move to other seats.
"If Ya feel...ya healed!!"
"I can crawl again....I can crawl again....I can crawl again...."


Your turn D!

[Filmboydoug]

This hilarious satire marked the debut of James Earl Jones.

Dan Blocker (Hoss from Bonanza) was up for a role but the idea was rejected by his agent who thought the script "Too Pinko".

[Mr Natural]

I know this one but I will defer to someone else.
Guess I am a well of useless information and trivia :scratch2: :D


Damn Rooskies!

[Andyman]

Wow, and I just caught the end of this earlier this week........

Dr Strangelove!!

[Filmboydoug]

Correct-o-mundo! Peter Sellers was at first supposed to play 4 roles. Slim Pickens replaced him as major Kong due to an ankle injury. Pickens was not given the entire script and was not told it was a farce, and was told to play the role straight.

Go Andyman!

[Andyman]

Got lucky on that one; there's been some good stuff here.

Let's hope this one isn't too easy.

Who's film debut featured him tying an old woman into a wheelchair and shoving her down a flight of stairs??
Name the actor and the film.

[DanTana]

That too is one of my all time favorite movies, it is probably the roles all the actors in it are known for. When Peter Sellers was Dr. Strangelove, sitting in his wheelchair and strangling himself, I nearly died laughing. Sterling Hayden was perfect as the General Ripper gone mad, George C. Scott in his best ever role. There are so many classic lines in that movie, "Sap and impurify my natural bodily fluids", "Nuclear war toe-to-toe with the Russkies", "Mein Fuhrer, I can walk!!!." Stanley Kubrick didn't make a ton of movies, but everyone he did make is a classic.

[Filmboydoug]

And of course: "Gentlemen! You can't fight in here! This is the war room!"

[Andyman]

Wow, a whole day and no guesses???

Here's a clue: It's a 40's film noir classic.

[Andyman]

Damn, didn't think this would be a thread killer???????

It was Richard Widmarks' debut as the psychotic killer Tommy Udo in the 1947 classic "Kiss of Death" which was a horrible POS remake a few years back with that Caruso dude from NYPD Blue and Nicholas Cage :yuck:

I'll post something easier in a bit

[RussinOhio]

What movie resurrected the old Vista-Vison film format.....as a viable method for shooting special effects?


(Movies such as "Ben-Hur" were shot in Vista-vision....the format became obselete until...UNTIL????)

[Reel 2 Reel]

Im gonna go out on a limb here and guess....

LOTR!.....

[dnewma04]

It depends how recent you are talking. It was used for special effects by Lucasfilm for A New Hope and continues to be used in that application still. Not sure if (m)any films used it exclusively in the last 40 years.

[RussinOhio]

Yes, dnewmaO4!

Star Wars (A New Hope) 1977.

Vista-vison cameras were rebuilt and integrated with a computerized motion-control system for photography of model spaceships. Actors were still filmed with traditional Panavision.
Lucas was warned by "old school" effects people that the type of effects he wanted...the illusion of fast moving spaceships...would have a "strobe" like effect on the image. The ships would appear to move in a herky-jerky kind of motion.
The ILM crew hired by GL new that the old obselete vista vision format would eliminate this problem since the film moves horizontaly through the shutter as it is exposed.

It was a milestone in special effects photography

After Star Wars...every movie & TV show with special effects....such as fast moving spaceships & aircraft...adopted the system.
I'm not an expert on these things at all....I just finished a good book detailing the history of Industrial Light & Magic (ILM). I found the book interesting.

[Whatever1]

Ther ia a very bad scfi movie that at the end had a male vocalist sing "She's not there" in a low bluesy style. What was the movie ?

[old_tv_nut]

Yes, dnewmaO4!

The ILM crew hired by GL new that the old obselete vista vision format would eliminate this problem since the film moves horizontaly through the shutter as it is exposed.



This explanation sounds VERY hokey, since the fim in ANY movie camera is stationary while it is being exposed - otherwise, stationary objects would leave very objectionable streaks. However, if the special effects camera and the models were in motion during the exposure of each frame (as they would be in real-world scenes), you would get more or less normal motion blur, reducing the strobe effects. Maybe that is what they meant?

[RussinOhio]

The spacecraft models remain absolutely still during filming. It is the camera that moved, giving the illusion of a moving object.

If interested in the subject....find a copy of the book "Industrial Light & Magic: The Art Of Special Effects"....by Thomas G. Smith.

EVERYTHING you'd ever want to know about filming effects in the original movie.

Russ