Name the Movies

[CalMeacham]

Sometimes, purely by chance, two or more movies appear at the same time with incredibly similar elements. See if you can name the films (without recourse to the Internet Movie data Base):


1.) In these 1988 movies the villain gets run over by a steamroller at the end, yet survives. (Extra credit: There's actually a third movie from that year where the villain gets run over by a steamroller, but he's already dead by then, so you can't tell if he would've survived.)

2.) 1984 movies in which heroine Kate Capshaw sees the villain reach into someone's chest with his bare hand and pull out the beating heart of his victim. Miraculously, the victim survives this, only to be killed shortly thereafter.

3.) 1968 movies in which an alien artifact is dug up. In the distant past, contact with this artifact triggered a step in human evolution, bringing our aqncesters from man0like ape closer to man. The item is still active, and after being uncovered lets out a shrill noise.



Any others?

[Ethilrist]

1. A Fish called Wanda and Who Framed Roger Rabbit?

I know one of each of the other two questions...

[RikWriter]

Sometimes, purely by chance, two or more movies appear at the same time with incredibly similar elements. See if you can name the films (without recourse to the Internet Movie data Base):


1.) In these 1988 movies the villain gets run over by a steamroller at the end, yet survives. (Extra credit: There's actually a third movie from that year where the villain gets run over by a steamroller, but he's already dead by then, so you can't tell if he would've survived.)


The third movie is The Naked Gun I think.

[kidchameleon]

Number two is Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom and Dreamscape.

I have an idea for #3, but I can't quite think of an artifact that quite works that way....

[tdn]

For #2 I'm thinking Temple of Doom and Dreamscape.

[tdn]

Number two is Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom and Dreamscape.

I have an idea for #3, but I can't quite think of an artifact that quite works that way....
Stupid simulpost.

2001: A Space Odyssey would have to be one of them.

[kidchameleon]

Stupid simulpost.

Beat ya by a second. :D

2001: A Space Odyssey would have to be one of them.

Well if you're going to give it out to everyone...

is the other one Planet of the Apes? Charlton Heston is a artifact who can be shrill at times....

[CalMeacham]

Amazing how fast you're getting these! Here's a fourth, which I found out about on this Board:

Early 1930s movies in which a woman is sacrificed by a primitive tribe to a huge gorilla. After the gorilla carries her off, the American expedition sets out to rescue her.

[Spatial Rift 47]

Hmmm .... King Kong is maybe one of those? Dunno the other one though.

[CalMeacham]

Fifth one:


1980s spy dramas in which the plot is to start a war by detonating an atomic device near a NATO base. The movies each star someone who played James Bond.

[Max Carnage]

Amazing how fast you're getting these! Here's a fourth, which I found out about on this Board:

Early 1930s movies in which a woman is sacrificed by a primitive tribe to a huge gorilla. After the gorilla carries her off, the American expedition sets out to rescue her.


Would they be King Kong and [/i]Mighty Joe Young[/i]? Or possibly Son of Kong?

[Morbo]

Fifth one:


1980s spy dramas in which the plot is to start a war by detonating an atomic device near a NATO base. The movies each star someone who played James Bond.

The Fourth Protocol - Pierce Brosnan
Is the other one the one with Roger Moore as an eccentric guy who loves cats? (Best I can do without IMDb)

[CalMeacham]

Would they be King Kong and [/i]Mighty Joe Young[/i]? Or possibly Son of Kong?


Nope. All three movies had the same producers (and actors and crew), and the dates are wrong. Mighty Joe Young was 1949!

The other movie I'm thinking of had no connection with Kong, and I really do think the plot similarity a coincidence.

[Miss Mapp]

3.) 1968 movies in which an alien artifact is dug up. In the distant past, contact with this artifact triggered a step in human evolution, bringing our aqncesters from man0like ape closer to man. The item is still active, and after being uncovered lets out a shrill noise.



2001 and Quatermass and the Pit (I think that's the title. The one with the giant fascist grasshoppers from Mars.)

[CalMeacham]

Is the other one the one with Roger Moore as an eccentric guy who loves cats? (Best I can do without IMDb)


Nope. That one was about detonating a North Sea drilling platform. No nukes. It was, IIRC, ffolkes (I never understood the small "f")

[Hup the Fool]

Fifth one:


1980s spy dramas in which the plot is to start a war by detonating an atomic device near a NATO base. The movies each star someone who played James Bond.

The Fourth Protocol starring Pierce Brosnan and, umm, some other movie

[Hup the Fool]

Crap, I type way too slow.

[detop]

1980s spy dramas in which the plot is to start a war by detonating an atomic device near a NATO base. The movies each star someone who played James Bond.


Octopussy ?

[beetlebrox]

#3: 2001, A Space Odyssey, as mentioned, and indeed Planet of the Apes: Heston finds a human baby doll which lets out a cry as he picks it up, giving him first hint of the true horror hehind his nightmare.

[CalMeacham]

Planet of Apes

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#3: 2001, A Space Odyssey, as mentioned, and indeed Planet of the Apes: Heston finds a human baby doll which lets out a cry as he picks it up, giving him first hint of the true horror hehind his nightmare.


Nope Miss Mapp got it -- 2001 and Quatermass and the Pit (in the U.S., Five Million Years to Earth)





Octopussy ?

Correct!

[sqweels]

"A man turns into an animal, kills another animal, then wakes up naked in a zoo."

That's a quote from an actor who was justifying being in a movie where a parent and child magically trade places.

[Morbo]

Nope Miss Mapp got it -- 2001 and Quatermass and the Pit (in the U.S., Five Million Years to Earth)





Correct!

GRRR! I was deliberately excluding Bond movies.

"A man turns into an animal, kills another animal, then wakes up naked in a zoo."

An American Werewolf in London?

[tdn]

"A man turns into an animal, kills another animal, then wakes up naked in a zoo."
Altered States?

[Wendell Wagner]

6. Mid-1980's films about a young housewife who has a businessman husband who ignores her and who is fascinated by the adventures of a free-spirited young woman. When she falls and hits her head, she gets amnesia and imagines that she *is* the young woman she has been fantasizing about. She gets into real adventures where her life is in danger and begins an affair with a much more exciting man than her husband. Since she has amnesia, neither she nor this man realize that she is married. The adventures end happily with the crooks being caught, but then the woman recovers her memories. Her boring husband wants her to come back home with him and the man she has been having an affair with is willing to give her up, but she realizes that she actually loves this new man, so she chooses to leave her husband for him.

[Wendell Wagner]

Extra credit for number 6. What's the film from a decade and a half later with certain of the elements of these two 1980's films (since it's also about a young housewife in an unhappy marriage who follows the fantasy adventures of a young woman and who gets amnesia and imagines that she *is* the woman of her fantasies and who then has an affair with a more exciting man) but not other elements (since she doesn't have to choose between her husband and the new man after recovering her memory)?

[Dunderman]

7. Three movies from 97/98 that feature a man drawing a picture of an underdressed female (from a live model) using a piece of coal, while looking like he's finally unravelled the mystery of life.

[Lisa-go-Blind]

7. Three movies from 97/98 that feature a man drawing a picture of an underdressed female (from a live model) using a piece of coal, while looking like he's finally unravelled the mystery of life.

Titanic, Great Expectations and As Good as It Gets.

[Dunderman]

Titanic, Great Expectations and As Good as It Gets.
Correct. Impressive.

[Antonius Block]

6. Mid-1980's films about a young housewife who has a businessman husband who ignores her and who is fascinated by the adventures of a free-spirited young woman. When she falls and hits her head, she gets amnesia and imagines that she *is* the young woman she has been fantasizing about....

Extra credit for number 6. What's the film from a decade and a half later with certain of the elements of these two 1980's films...The first two are American Dreamer (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0086886/) (1984) and Desperately Seeking Susan (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0089017/) (1985). The "extra credit" is Nurse Betty (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0171580/) (2000). The amnesiac heroines are played by Rosanna Arquette, JoBeth Williams, and Renée Zellweger respectively, and the reason that RZ doesn't have to make the lover/husband choice is that it's witnessing her husband's murder that causes the PTSD / amnesia, so he's conveniently out of the picture.

[Antonius Block]

In my post immediately above, the order of Rosanna Arquette (DSS) and JoBeth Williams (AD) should be switched. I'd written it correctly at first, and then switched the movie names to go in chronological order without switching the "respective" heroines.

[kidchameleon]

The first two are American Dreamer (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0086886/) (1984) and Desperately Seeking Susan (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0089017/) (1985). The "extra credit" is Nurse Betty (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0171580/) (2000). The amnesiac heroines are played by Rosanna Arquette, JoBeth Williams, and Renée Zellweger respectively, and the reason that RZ doesn't have to make the lover/husband choice is that it's witnessing her husband's murder that causes the PTSD / amnesia, so he's conveniently out of the picture.

Huh, and here I was thinking DSS and "Overboard" with Goldie Hawn, but I guess she didn't replace anyone.

[Wendell Wagner]

Antonius Block writes:

> The first two are American Dreamer (1984) and Desperately Seeking Susan
> (1985). The "extra credit" is Nurse Betty (2000).

Correct.

[want2know]

8. 2 films, one from the 70's, one from the 50's. An extraterrestrial creature in accidentally let on board a spaceship, lurks about the ship killing off crew members one by one, and is finally disposed of by opening an airlock. (I know these aren't close together in time frame--just want to make a point that even great sci-fi films are not above lifting plots.)

[Wendell Wagner]

8. _It! The Terror from Beyond Space_ (1958) and _Alien_ (1979).

[want2know]

8. _It! The Terror from Beyond Space_ (1958) and _Alien_ (1979).
Right!! As good as Alien was, I remember leaving the theater thinking, "I've seen this movie before!"

[Miss Mapp]

Nope Miss Mapp got it -- 2001 and Quatermass and the Pit (in the U.S., Five Million Years to Earth)


Yes! (No wonder I wasn't sure of the title; it's got two of them.)



Here's one for you:

Two early 1960's movies in which a neurotic young lady goes running around a big, spooky house that may possibly contain a ghost or two... or maybe she's just losing her mind.

[want2know]

Yes! (No wonder I wasn't sure of the title; it's got two of them.)



Here's one for you:

Two early 1960's movies in which a neurotic young lady goes running around a big, spooky house that may possibly contain a ghost or two... or maybe she's just losing her mind.
House on Haunted Hill and The Screaming Skull (one of my all-time favorite MST3K's).

[Miss Mapp]

House on Haunted Hill and The Screaming Skull (one of my all-time favorite MST3K's).

Those aren't the two I was thinking of, although they do fit the description.

[Dunderman]

Two mid-80s movies in which River Phoenix plays one of a group of young boys who break into a junkyard and encounter a dog there.

[Sampiro]

Stand By Me (I'm positive of that one) and Indiana Jones & the Last Crusade? (I don't remember a junkyard dog but he was with a group of boys battling grave robbers, lions, snakes and other things so I'll take a guess.)

Either way, the movie in Al Freeman played the murderer of a character he had earlier portrayed on a television miniseries, and the movie in which Katharine Hepburn mentions the prospects of piercing her nipples to hang jewelry and mentions the seizure causing beauty of her bare breasts in youth.

[CalMeacham]

1.) I just wanted to point out that no one has gotten the second 1930s "Ape Runs off with the Girl" picture from my earlier post.

2.) I suspect that the coincidences I've cited really are coincidences (as suggested by the simultaneity or near-simultaneity of the releases), but some of the ones others have listed are, one suspects, cases of imitation. Alien and [N]It! The Terror from Beyiond Space[/B] being a case in point.

[av8rmike]

Two mid-80s movies in which River Phoenix plays one of a group of young boys who break into a junkyard and encounter a dog there.
Stand By Me and Explorers?

[Dunderman]

Stand By Me and Explorers?
Correct. Mine are too easy, it seems.

The Last Crusade isn't from the mid-80s, doesn't contain a junkyard and doesn't even have a dog (which I still find very strange; why wouldn't they show the dog from which Indy took his name?).

[CalMeacham]

The Last Crusade isn't from the mid-80s, doesn't contain a junkyard and doesn't even have a dog (which I still find very strange; why wouldn't they show the dog from which Indy took his name?).


They do have a very brief shot of Indy's dog in the opening section, as River Phoenix runs into his home to show his father the Cross of Coronado. But if you blink, you'll miss it. It's a German shepherd (Alsation), and it even barks as he runs by.


By the way, there's a double joke there. George Lucas always said that Chewbacca was based on his dog, so I've always assumed that this dog was meant to represent both Indiana's namesake and Chewbacca's inspiration.

[Uvula Donor]

1.) I just wanted to point out that no one has gotten the second 1930s "Ape Runs off with the Girl" picture from my earlier post.

Would it be 1932's Murders in the Rue Morgue?

[Dunderman]

This one is even easier than my previous ones, but it has to be mentioned: Three movies from 97/98, filled with scientific, technical and logical errors of ridiculous magnitude, in which a rock from space threatens Earth and flying vehicles are used to save the world.

[CalMeacham]

From Uvula Donor:


Would it be 1932's Murders in the Rue Morgue?


Nope.

[Dunderman]

Would it be 1932's Murders in the Rue Morgue?
As far as I can remember, Murders in the Rue Morgue doesn't feature a woman being sacrificed by a primitive tribe to a huge gorilla, nor any American expedition setting out to rescue her. If I'm wrong here, they were quite unfaithful to the book.

[Uvula Donor]

As far as I can remember, Murders in the Rue Morgue doesn't feature a woman being sacrificed by a primitive tribe to a huge gorilla, nor any American expedition setting out to rescue her. If I'm wrong here, they were quite unfaithful to the book.

D'OH! I was thinking specifically along "ape runs off with woman" and ignored the "primitive tribe" part.

Never mind.

:smack:

[av8rmike]

This one is even easier than my previous ones, but it has to be mentioned: Three movies from 97/98, filled with scientific, technical and logical errors of ridiculous magnitude, in which a rock from space threatens Earth and flying vehicles are used to save the world.
Hmmm... Deep Impact, Armageddon, and ..... Asteroid?

Here's a similar one:
Two movies, also from the mid-90s, in which hot "magma" escapes to the surface and threatens a family.

[Miss Mapp]

Hmmm... Deep Impact, Armageddon, and ..... Asteroid?

Here's a similar one:
Two movies, also from the mid-90s, in which hot "magma" escapes to the surface and threatens a family.

One of them is Dante's Peak. I forget the name of the other, but it was set in LA, and emergency workers could stand remarkably close to the supposedly intensely hot lava.



I'm surprised that nobody's got my two movies by now, especially considering that both films have been mentioned in another thread very close to this one...

[Acsenray]

Nope. That one was about detonating a North Sea drilling platform. No nukes. It was, IIRC, ffolkes (I never understood the small "f")

I think it has to do with Welsh. My understanding is that in the Welsh language, "ff" is a single letter separate from "f" and the uppercase version of "ff" is "ff." Writing it as "Ff" would mean that it is "f" followed by another "f," not "ff." Or something like that.

If that's completely off the mark, then there is also the case that it results from the fact that in some mediaeval-era scripts, uppercase "f" looked just like "ff," rather than like "F" and for some vague conceit, some people with names beginning with an "F" have chosen to write it as "ff" to make it look old-timey.

[CalMeacham]

Quote:
Originally Posted by av8rmike
Hmmm... Deep Impact, Armageddon, and ..... Asteroid?

Here's a similar one:
Two movies, also from the mid-90s, in which hot "magma" escapes to the surface and threatens a family.



One of them is Dante's Peak. I forget the name of the other, but it was set in LA, and emergency workers could stand remarkably close to the supposedly intensely hot lava.



The other one has to be Volcano ("The Coast is Toast" was the tag. Although, as Mike Nelson pointed out, it was only a small section of LA that was actually toast.)

[want2know]

1.) I just wanted to point out that no one has gotten the second 1930s "Ape Runs off with the Girl" picture from my earlier post.

2.) I suspect that the coincidences I've cited really are coincidences (as suggested by the simultaneity or near-simultaneity of the releases), but some of the ones others have listed are, one suspects, cases of imitation. Alien and [N]It! The Terror from Beyiond Space[/B] being a case in point.
White Pongo.

[Dunderman]

Hmmm... Deep Impact, Armageddon, and ..... Asteroid?
Yup.
Here's a similar one:
Two movies, also from the mid-90s, in which hot "magma" escapes to the surface and threatens a family.
Dante's Peak and Volcano?

[av8rmike]

Yep, those are the two I was thinking of. If I'd said "two movies in which a volcano erupts", that would have pretty much given one away. :p

[CalMeacham]

White Pongo.



Still not there.

[LindyHopper]

Yes! (No wonder I wasn't sure of the title; it's got two of them.)



Here's one for you:

Two early 1960's movies in which a neurotic young lady goes running around a big, spooky house that may possibly contain a ghost or two... or maybe she's just losing her mind.The Haunting and Psycho?

[Miss Mapp]

The Haunting and Psycho?

The Haunting is one! Psycho, no.

[42fish]

The Haunting is one! Psycho, no.

Is "Repulsion" the other one?

[Miss Mapp]

Is "Repulsion" the other one?

No. The other film, like The Haunting, features a scene where the heroine runs around the house (in her nightgown both times, IIRC), with all sorts of slanty camera angles and fish-eye distortions to indicate that she's gone over the edge.

Plus, both my movies are scary in black & white. :)

[MidnightRadio]

Two early 1960's movies in which a neurotic young lady goes running around a big, spooky house that may possibly contain a ghost or two... or maybe she's just losing her mind.The Haunting and The Innocents.

[MidnightRadio]

Plus, both my movies are scary in black & white. :)Oh, and although I'm sure I'm right about the movies you were thinking of, The Haunting and Repulsion were both in black and white. Or did you mean that Repulsion wasn't scary? (If that's what you meant, I agree, it wasn't. The ironing scene was hilarious, though I expect it was meant to be creepy.)

[Miss Mapp]

The Haunting and The Innocents.

Got it!

Oh, and although I'm sure I'm right about the movies you were thinking of, The Haunting and Repulsion were both in black and white. Or did you mean that Repulsion wasn't scary? (If that's what you meant, I agree, it wasn't. The ironing scene was hilarious, though I expect it was meant to be creepy.)

It was a kind of hint/in-joke. I only meant that both films were mentioned over the weekend in another thread: What Black and White movie scared you but good? (http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=314558) When I saw that, I was sure someone would guess my two movies right away (see my message at the top of this page).

No criticism of Repulsion was intended.

[MidnightRadio]

I opened that thread specifically so I could mention The Innocents, but someone beat me to it.

[Rilchiam]

2.) 1984 movies in which heroine Kate Capshaw sees the villain reach into someone's chest with his bare hand and pull out the beating heart of his victim. Miraculously, the victim survives this, only to be killed shortly thereafter.


Temple of Doom and Dreamscape were given as answers, but to be precise, Kate Capshaw wasn't in that particular scene in Dreamscape. Dennis Quaid was the one who gasped "You sick bastard!" (which never fails to crack me up).