more movies that inspired TV shows (but not the other way around)
Friday Night Lights
Book inspires movie inspires show
Blue Thunder
Has Dana Carvey as JAFO
Napoleon Dynamite
Weirdo outsiders sputter as show
Next: movies about elections
More movies that inspired TV shows (but not the other way around)
MASH*
Different cast, other than Radar.
Animal House
Delta House spinoff flopped hard.
Casablanca
David Soul as Rick? Weird.
ETA:
Movies about elections
The Candidate
Redford is telegenic Senate campaigner.
The Ides of March
Campaign staffers maneuver, scheme, backstab.
Game Change
McCain picks, then regrets, Palin
Next: Films of David Soul
Johnny Got His Gun
WWI vet, multiplihandicapped, relearns communication.
Appointment with Death
So-so, all-star Agatha Christie film.
Rage!
In-prison rapist rehab. TV movie.
Next: successful all-star films.
It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World
Zany hijinks for supersized cast
Ocean’s Eleven
Casino robbery never so cool
Cloud Atlas
A-List actors played multiple roles
Next: All-star films that flopped
At Long Last, Love!
A musical starring Burt Reynolds.
Mixed Nuts
Wish Nora Ephron did better.
Ishtar
One of worst films ever.
Next: technological firsts (can be FX firsts, or first Technicolor film, first 3D, whatever-- even first nighttime location shot).
Titanic
First with actual wreck footage
The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers
First motion capture costar: Gollum
The Matrix
“Bullet time” soon became cliched
Next: Other Keanu Reeves movies
Bram Stoker’s Dracula
Bram Stoker undead vomiting experience.
I Love You to Death
You should have two bullets.
River’s Edge
How does he get work?
Next: “Comeback” films of Golden Age stars and earlier.
Maybe I made this too hard. I’ll do it, then pick something else.
Night of the Hunter
Lillian Gish back playing toughie.
Anastasia
Public accepts Ingrid Bergman’s infidelity.
Sunset Boulevard
Swanson’s real comeback about comeback.
Next: films starring someone who once guest-starred (or played a limited role) on Friends. They could have been famous already, like Brooke Shields, or become famous later, like Paget Brewster.
Ocean’s Eleven
George Clooney
Mr. and Mrs. Smith
Brad Pitt
Mrs. Doubtfire
Robin Williams
Next: Films starring two actresses who supposedly hated each other in real life.
Whatever Happened to Baby Jane?
Famous feuding Crawford and Davis.
Terms of Endearment
Coked-out Winger didn’t endear MacLaine
The Wolf Man
Actress & Actor: Chaney, Ankers.
Next: movies with a real-life married couple, who were already married before signing onto the film. They don’t necessarily have to have played a couple in the film, just acted in it together.
When was Williams on Friends?
movies with a real-life married couple, who were already married before signing onto the film. They don’t necessarily have to have played a couple in the film, just acted in it together.
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Jersey Girl (Ben Affleck and Jennifer Lopez)
Proves Gigli wasn’t a fluke -
Hit and Run (Kristen Bell and Dax Shepard)
Cute couple in fast cars -
Husbands and Wives (Woody Allen and Mia Farrow)
Insert Soon Yi joke here
Next: Movies featuring the Chicago Cubs
Remember, panache - five words each.
In play:
Movies featuring the Chicago Cubs
Back to the Future Part II
Fictional 2015 World Series champs
The Blues Brothers
Jake, Elwood use Wrigley address
Ferris Bueller’s Day Off
On Jumbotron; missed by principal
Next: Movies featuring the Cleveland Indians
Major League
Indians improve to spite owner.
Major League II
Indians are at it again!
Moneyball
Oakland management consults with Cleveland.
Next: movies about unusual baseball teams, or teams with an oddball player. Can be real or fictional.
Mr. Baseball
American ballplayer learns Japanese ways
Bad News Bears
Zany madcap little leaguers. Dreck!
Bad News Bears 2
Inevitable cash-in sequel. More dreck!
Next: Movies starring memorable anti-heroes
Payback
Mel wants his money back
Road to Perdition
Mob hitman, son seek safety
Deadpool
Smartass killer breaks fourth wall
Next: Movies with annoyingly perfect/sanctimonious heroes
MASH: Goodbye, Farewell, Amen*
Hawkey; Oh, my gawd-- Hawkeye.
The Phantom Menace
You want Anakin going Darkside.
The Passion of the Christ
Jesus. I don’t care: Jesus.
Next: movies whose heroes are too flawed to be believable.
You must have seen the remake. See the original from the 1970s with Walter Matthau and Tatum O’Neal. It’s a great movie.
Technically, I think it’s called The Bad News Bears in Breaking Training.
Movies whose heroes are too flawed to be believable
Absence of Malice
Young reporter is stunningly obtuse
Prometheus
Starship crew screws up repeatedly
2001: A Space Odyssey
Hey, don’t forget helmet, Bowman!
Perhaps I’m overly harsh…
Next: Movies with heavies who clearly relish their villainy