27/50, without knowing the names of all the films in the NFR. Are we spending enough time being hypnotized by movie screens?
One question that I question: “This gritty inductee released in 1967 includes a scene at a drive-in, where you can see another inductee playing on the screen. What are the two films?” Well, okay, I’ve seen 6 of the 8 films listed and, of those 6, “The Graduate” was the least gritty for me. So I didn’t select that choice. And I still got an incorrect answer. For the quiz’s “answer” I had seen both of those films.
Did anyone else get that question wrong? Its included scene is inside a movie theater, where the characters in question are semi-successful at keeping their voices down, to prevent their being heard by the other patrons. So where is the drive-in?
WHAT!? I got that wrong for exactly that reason. I haven’t seen Bonnie and Clyde, but knowing when it’s set I figured drive-in movies weren’t popular yet (if they even existed at all).
Awesome – total guess, but I nailed that one. I figured since half the movie is spent driving around, it was a natural. Don’t remember the drive-in scene, though. “Gritty”? Yeah, I guess you could call it a gritty movie, sort of; weird word to describe the movie, though.
Yes! I did get that “Shop around corner” right – I think I saw some of “You’ve Got Mail” on a plane. It was about e-mail and Tom Hanks and the Ryan were a dick and a yeast infection, respectively, is all I can remember. Didn’t seem at all like “The Shop,” though, and fuck me if I’m going to fucking find out what that menopausal masturbatory aid was about, so don’t tell me.
As well as getting the same score as AuntiePam upthread I agree with her criticism of the quiz. Too many NFR induction questions. Sometimes it seemed we were taking part in a quiz on the National Film Registry rather than one on movies.
I wouldn’t bank on it either. More “dusty” for me. And “sweaty”, at least when Faye Dunaway is on screen. “Gritty”? More for “Woman in the Dunes”, but it’s from 1964 and is Japanese. So for US 1967 with drive-in possibilities, “Clambake”? “Barefoot in the Park”?
Anyway, here’s to Bess Flowers, Edmund Mortimer, Charles Lane, and all others who I’ve enjoyed seeing on screen – you always register favorably with me. Happy 2012 and beyond.
I got 29 correct (58%), which is a bit dismal considering I just saw These Amazing Shadows, a documentary about the National Film Registry, in the theater a few weeks ago. It’s a fascinating documentary, full of great clips and information. I knew very little about the National Film Registry going in. I thought I knew more about it going out but my score indicates otherwise. Still, I didn’t know that it was created in response to Ted Turner’s colorizing movies, to restore and preserve films (and documentaries and home movies and experimental films and animated films and short films) for future generations. They don’t just pick names to add, they actually restore (most of) the movies etc. chosen.
The trailer for the movie is on the main page. I just now discovered all these great outtakes from the film. I’ll be spending some time watching them.
That’s a bit unfair. It says right on the page “For this quiz, we’ve picked little-known facts about some of the films in the National Film Registry at the Library of Congress.” It’s no different than going to the Academy Awards site, taking a quiz about Oscar nominees/winners then being upset that it only included Oscar nominees/winners.
Ha, I missed that one. I chose The Ten Commandments.
Nah. There’s a difference between questions about some films in the Registry, and
questions about the Registry and the films commemorated or preserved within it. Don’t you find?
I stand by my statement, since the quote says the questions are about the films, not about the registry. I could answer a question about Taxi Driver, I could care less when it was “registered”.
Comparable questions from the Academy Awards would be “Who presented the award for Best Picture 2003?” It says nothing about the film that won the award, it’s merely some jerkoff self-important boasting by the Academy, as though them giving an award to the movie was more significant than the movie itself.
I felt the most ambiguity when they asked about “highest earning” films. I assumed they weren’t talking about earnings adjusted for inflation, but I wasn’t positive.
