Oops. Just realized I had the plot wrong for the last one. Let’s make it…
The DaVinci Code
I’m sighin’ for the scion.
Movies that feature a duck
Howard the Duck
George Lucas still deeply ashamed.
Monty Python and the Holy Grail
Weigh with a witch, milord!
Charlotte’s Web
Pig, spider become good friends.
Next: Lloyd Bridges movies
The Talk of the Town
Grant, Colman and Lloyd Bridges
Mr. Whitney Had A Notion
He invents the cotton gin.
I Am Joe’s Heart
A Reader’s Digest movie short
Next: Oscar Levant films
Ben Bernie and All the Lads
His screen debut, in 1924.
Rhapsody in Blue
Was himself in Gershwin biopic.
An American in Paris
Played a bohemian pianist, naturally.
Next: Mark Wahlberg films
Boogie Nights
Big Dick leads to Sorrow
The Italian Job
No way to treat Minis
Rock Star
The Metal God was Gay?
Next: Lets do Akira Kurosawa!
Ran
Kurosawa takes on King Lear.
Rashomon
This one established a genre.
Seven Samurai
Much remade; original is best.
Next: “You shouldn’t have taken that shortcut” films.
I can’t think of three. Anyone else?
"You shouldn’t have taken that shortcut" films.
(Broadening the definition of “shortcut” to apply to more than just distance)
The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers
Cirith Ungol: BAD shortcut idea.
Superman III
Pryor fakes kryptonite using…nicotine?!
Click
Sandler skips the boring parts.
Next: Films whose plots revolve around mistaken identity.
The Wrong Man
Fonda almost imprisoned for life.
A Midsummer Night’s Dream
Puck instigates the wrong crushes.
Life of Brian
Not messiah, just naughty boy.
Next: Literal “Don’t take the shortcut” movies (ie, Wrong Turn)
Wrong Turn
Almost heaven, West Virginia? No.
The Wizard of Oz
Let’s… go around poppy field.
The Stand
Lincoln Tunnel is pretty scary.
Next: Movies about or featuring Abraham Lincoln.
Movies about or featuring Abraham Lincoln.
Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter
Historically accurate except for vampires
Young Mr. Lincoln
Fonda’s Lincoln’s early lawyer years
Blue and the Gray
Epic miniseries of civil war
Next: Movies where the talent involved in making it (writer, actors, director, etc.) did not get along.
Fitzcarraldo
Herzog, Kinski fought like wildcats.
Gone with the Wind
George Cukor fired as director.
The Shining
Duvall dreaded Kubrick’s mind games.
Next: Movies that had unexpected on-set romances.
Time After Time
McDowell & Steenburgen later married.
Mr. & Mrs. Smith
Jennifer Aniston wasn’t too happy.
Cleopatra
Divorces all around for everyone.
Next: Movies with clowns
Les enfants du Paradis
Depressed Clown told “watch yourself.”
Killer Klowns from Outer Space
Space clowns terrorize small town.
The Greatest Show on Earth
Circus life by Mr. DeMille.
Next: movies that offer solution to unsolved crime.
Murder by Decree
Holmes identifies Jack the Ripper.
Silkwood
Eeeevil energy company killed her.
JFK
Everyone but Oswald did it!
Next: Nathan Lane movies
The Producers (2005)
Original was less stagey, ironically
The Birdcage
Hollywood remakes French sex farce
The Lion King
Disney does Hamlet rip off
Next: Movies that have been, or should have been, lampooned by MST3K
This Island Earth
Best (only?) ovipositor gag evah!
Manos: The Hands of Fate
They mocked poor Torgo mercilessly.
Mighty Jack
Flying submarine comes to rescue!
Next: Movies based on Oscar Wilde stories.
The Canterville Ghost
Premium choice role for overacting.
The Portrait Of Dorian Gray
Degenerate lech stays young preternaturally.
The Importance Of Being Earnest
Archetypal British Comedy Of Manners.
Next: Jack Lemmon films
Lady Windermere’s Fan:
Fan left behind: confusion ensues.
The Picture of Dorian Gray:
Don’t look in the attic.
The Canterville Ghost:
Ghost hopes descendant is brave.
Next: 1980s “Disease of the Week” TV movies.
Rivkah, look just above your post each time to make sure you aren’t ninja’d. Thanks!
1980s “Disease of the Week” TV movies
The Boy in the Plastic Bubble
Very early John Travolta role.
Sybil
Sally Field wears unattractive glasses.
Small Sacrifices
Farrah Fawcett is messed-up mom.
And since it was missed…
Next: Jack Lemmon films