OK. Had one of those “Cat on the keyboard” moments, and the previous post went up before I could give the next challenge. Here it is: Films with really gratuitous product placement.
Terminator 2: Judgement Day
Hasta la vista, Subway Sandwiches???
Skyfall
Bond drinks beer since when?
Wayne’s World
Product placement scene - hilarious subversion!
Next: Sci-fi films set completely on Earth (bonus points for non-apocalyptic flicks)
Back to the Future
Marty gets back in picture.
The Fly
“Had a funny white head.”
The Bride of Frankenstein
They had a castle-destroying lever?
Next: Films set entirely, or almost entirely, in Indiana.
Breaking Away
Bloomington teens plan their future.
A League Of Their Own
Women’s baseball team scores big.
A Christmas Story
Ralphie shoots his eye out.
**Next: ** Werewolf movies.
Werewolf movies.
The Wolf Man (1941)
Lon Chaney, Claude Rains; perfectamundo
The Wolfman (2010)
Anthony Hopkins loses his head
Werewolf in a Girl’s Dormitory
Don’t ever, Ever, EVER bother
Next: Non-Romero zombie movies
Pride and Prejudice and Zombies
Young women hunt husbands, zombies.
Shaun of the Dead
Ordinary guy is “chosen one.”
28 Days Later
Humans catch simian virus. Symbolic?
Next: Movies based on Dashiell Hammett novels.
The Maltese Falcon
A boid to die for.
The Glass Key
Crime, politics a bad mix.
The Thin Man
Not the guy you think.
Next: Coen Bros. films.
The Big Lebowski
Rug pulls the room together.
O Brother, Where Art Thou?
The Odyssey in Depression South.
Fargo
Kidnapping goes so hilariously wrong.
Next: Bette Midler films.
Hawaii
Her first, as “Passenger” (1966)
The Rose
Janis Joplin she definitely ain’t
Ruthless People
My favorite bitchy Midler role.
Next: Historical movies that actually tried to get the facts right.
All the President’s Men
Accurate if book was accurate.
Black Robe
Missionary priest tries to survive.
Apollo 13
Really suspenseful despite outcome known.
Next: Lothaire Bluteau films.
OK, so, sadly, he’s not as well-known as I thought. I’ll do it, then pick an easier topic.
Jesus of Montreal
Best Christian allegory film ever.
Black Robe
Missionary work can be scary.
I Shot Andy Warhol
Based on true story. Really.
Next: Ray Harryhausen FX films.
The Seventh Voyage Of Sinbad
Evil wizard summons stop-motion monsters!
Jason And the Argonauts
Ancient Greeks fight stop-motion monsters!
One Million Years B.C.
Caveman battle against stop-motion dinosaurs!
Next: Films appropriate for Mardi Gras.
Abbott and Costello Go to Mars
Wrong-way rocket lands in NO.
Mardi Gras
Pat Boone as VMI cadet.
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Holiday for Sinners*
Natives New Orleans face crises.
Next: modern retellings of classics-- that is, works at least 100 years old, and made into a straightforward movie once-- or fairy tale.
Clueless
Austen romance reset in Lotusland
A Christmas Carol
George C. Scott: great Scrooge
A Cock and Bull Story
Tristram Shandy reinterpreted, and how!
Next: Movies about American politics
Mr. Smith Goes To Washington
Jimmy Stewart learns to filibuster.
Of Thee I Sing
Kaufman musically roasts election process.
The Candidate
Redford goofs and gets elected.
Next: the Oeuvre of Helen Mirren.
Excalibur
She, Williamson hated each other.
The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover
Steamy affair leads to death.
The Queen
Nailed royal persona, not appearance.
Next: Films of Fred Thompson.
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Films of Fred Thompson.
The Hunt for Red October
Russians: No plan, no dump.
Cape Fear
Ex-con terrorizes his ex-lawyer’s family
In the Line of Fire
Only very slightly like JFK.
Next: Susan Sarandon films.
Rocky Horror Picture Show
She wants to be di-i-irty.
Thelma & Louise
Susan, Geena go out driving.
*Pretty Baby *
Brooke Shields’ Mom’s a whore.
Next: movies with clowns
Shakes the Clown
Not who you’d wanna hire.
Freaks
Still pretty bizarre, even now.
Clownhouse
Sam Rockwell’s 1988 movie debut.
Next: Movies featuring a major character named William, Bill or Billy.