Month: January 2003

Now I am annoyed! LD managed to increase his/her/their lead by another 100 points by recognising Mouth (played by Corey Feldman) having the jewels removed from his mouth by Mama Fratelli near the end of the 1985 children’s movie The Goonies. A movie well worth watching as it’s quite funny as the gang try and get One Eyed Willies treasure (and, no, I don’t think that is a reference to part of the male anatomy).

I think I’ve been giving away the points so easily as most of you can remember the films – so let’s go back into the mists of time for this image. And to make it extra difficult to guess, I’ve slightly photo-edited the image. Nothing too major, but hopefully enough to through you off the scent… After all, LD only needs another 120 points to be the first one to claim the prize! I’m actually so confident that this one is going to be extra difficult to guess, that I’m going to offer another 20 points if you can name the actors AND characters shown in the image capture – but if you do guess at them, you’ve also got to get the movie title right at the same time: an guess is either going to be totally correct or incorrect (so, you can guess at the name of the movie and just go for the ‘normal points’ or gamble for the extra 20 points by going for the actors and character names at the same time).

Donations to the prize fund are more than welcome by the way! 🙂

Clues:
27^th Jan 00:36 – The movie is actually black and white. I manually added the color/colour to confuse.

A: Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb. Correctly guessed by Ph33r_m3

I really thought the previous image was going to be extremely hard: it was just a chopping block and part of a womans dress… But that didn’t stop Super Beastmaster from correctly recognising it as the scene in Chicken Run where Mrs.Tweedy is taking Edwina the chicken to be ‘executed’ near the start of the film. Of all the movies that have chopping blocks in them, how was this one so easy to guess? It was meant to be difficult!

I wonder if I’ll be as unlucky at making this image (as it’s round 13 of Guess That Movie) hard to guess. I nearly regretted my taunting of the guesses in the previous image, but lets see if you are as good as you make out! (All I know is that if the guessing continues at the rate, I’m soon going to have to pay for the prizes – donations towards the prize fund are, as always, more than welcome. I’ve just forked out for the new domain name of the new Guess That Movie website (I’ve just gotta wait for the DNS propagation to take place), then I’ve got to allocate some time to write the system to maintain the images (I’m planning on being able to mass-load images into so I once I click “correct guess” the system automatically makes the next one live: ideal for when I’m away from my home machine) then I’ve probably got to pay for the prizes… It’s becoming an expensive little game for me. And then maybe, just maybe, I’ll be able to return my blog to “normal operation”…

I’m going to get some sleep now (I only got 4 hours sleep last night and I’ve just flaked out for another 4 hours and I’m still tired) so there’ll probably be a small gap between the results of this one (I’m hoping it won’t be correctly guessed for a few day), but guess away! If you could also tell why you think it’s the movie you are guessing, it’ll be interesting…

A: The Goonies. Correctly guessed by LD

Yet another hundred points were given out a few minutes ago – this time to LD for correctly recognising (within 30 minutes) Gloria Foster playing the Oracle in The Matrix .

LD’s in the lead now with 280 points as compared with Ph33r_m3’s 265 and “Super Beastmaster”‘s 185 – but it could all change with this image.

Go on you clever clogs – guess this one! Leave a comment of your pathetic guess and watch me laugh at your feeble attempts to guess that movie…

(Why do I get the feeling I’m going to be regretting saying that?)

A: Chicken Run. Correctly guessed by Super Beastmaster.

Another 100 points were given out earlier today as the first guess made on the previous image was not only made within the first twelve hours (only just though – another 30 minutes and 10 points would have been deducted) but Super Beastmaster also correctly guessed it was the Child Detection Agency van from Monsters Inc.

I was hoping that since the Monsters Inc picture was slightly unreadable and it was an ‘extreme closeup’ that it would be vague enough to have a large number of guesses – but observably not. I’m kinda stuck in the middle here as I want them to be difficult enough that people enjoy playing (even though it is for a prize now) and guessing – but not too difficult that they can’t think of anything to guess and get bored. I had the Austin Powers image just about right I think…

Anyway – here’s another image for you to recognise which film it was taken from. Hopefully this one’s vague enough that they’ll be plenty of guesses…

A: The Matrix. Correctly guessed by LD