# Identify fifty Eighties movies by a single screenshot each
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/identify-fifty-eighties-movies-by-a-single-screenshot-each/775311
**Category:** Cafe Society
**Created:** [December 21, 2016, 6:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/identify-fifty-eighties-movies-by-a-single-screenshot-each/775311 "2016-12-21T18:36:54Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)
#### Post date: [December 21, 2016, 6:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/identify-fifty-eighties-movies-by-a-single-screenshot-each/775311/1 "2016-12-21T18:36:54Z")
> **[Can You Identify All 50 '80s Movies From Just One Screenshot?](https://play.howstuffworks.com/quiz/blast-the-a-majority-people-wont-be-able-identify-these-50-movies-the-80s-one-screen-shot?mkcpgn=i600007407&utm_source=outbrain&utm_medium=paid&utm_campaign=80sMovies-Screenshots%28desktop%29&utm_term=40344&utm_content=85%25%2BCan%27t%2BIdentify%2BThese%2B50%2BMovies%2Bfrom%2BOne%2BSc&sg_uid=dYWPLpIfRfu1ByFEpGgXEg)**
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> Think you're an 1980s movie buff? Have you seen it all and then some? Take this quiz and prove your knowledge by matching the correct movie title to a picture from just one scene!
The headline says “89% Of People Can’t Identify All 50 '80s Movies From Just One Screenshot. Can You?” Dunno where they got the 89% figure from - I got all but three, and I haven’t even seen at least a dozen of them.
And you?
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### Author:  [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)
#### Post date: [December 21, 2016, 7:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/identify-fifty-eighties-movies-by-a-single-screenshot-each/775311/2 "2016-12-21T19:06:20Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#):
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> Dunno where they got the 89% figure from
They made it up out of whole cloth. If you get all 50, you can have a feeling of superiority, and if you don’t you can feel consoled that at least most other people fail, too. Meanwhile, you provide them with 50 page views to sell to their advertisers, which is the real purpose for the quiz.
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### Author:  [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)
#### Post date: [December 21, 2016, 7:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/identify-fifty-eighties-movies-by-a-single-screenshot-each/775311/3 "2016-12-21T19:20:39Z")
I got through 43 of these before it clogged up my browser. I had three wrong going in that far. I’d be surprised if 11% of people can identify all those movies with one screen shot. The vast majority are gimmies, but there’s a number of movies on there that I’ve never seen or even heard of and wasn’t able to eliminate successfully. (Plus I somehow fucking got the “Heathers” one wrong and I’ve seen that movie several times. I got several right on movies I hadn’t seen!)
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### Author:  [@Inner\_Stickler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Inner_Stickler)
#### Post date: [December 21, 2016, 7:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/identify-fifty-eighties-movies-by-a-single-screenshot-each/775311/4 "2016-12-21T19:32:55Z")
2 wrong and one of those was a misclick.
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### Author:  [@Icarus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Icarus)
#### Post date: [December 21, 2016, 7:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/identify-fifty-eighties-movies-by-a-single-screenshot-each/775311/5 "2016-12-21T19:45:09Z")
1 wrong, I had literally never heard of it (Better Off Dead), and at least in the 80s I was a huge movie buff.
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### Author:  [@bobo\_blesinger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bobo_blesinger)
#### Post date: [December 21, 2016, 7:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/identify-fifty-eighties-movies-by-a-single-screenshot-each/775311/6 "2016-12-21T19:48:57Z")
50/50 That was silly easy.
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### Author:  [@CarnalK](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CarnalK)
#### Post date: [December 21, 2016, 7:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/identify-fifty-eighties-movies-by-a-single-screenshot-each/775311/7 "2016-12-21T19:52:37Z")
Not even going to try. I know I’ll mix up the different Molly Ringwald movies.
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### Author:  [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)
#### Post date: [December 21, 2016, 8:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/identify-fifty-eighties-movies-by-a-single-screenshot-each/775311/8 "2016-12-21T20:01:28Z")
> [@pulykamell](#):
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> …I somehow fucking got the “Heathers” one wrong and I’ve seen that movie several times. I got several right on movies I hadn’t seen!)
Me, too, on both counts. D’oh!
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### Author:  [@Intergalactic\_Gladiator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Intergalactic_Gladiator)
#### Post date: [December 21, 2016, 8:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/identify-fifty-eighties-movies-by-a-single-screenshot-each/775311/9 "2016-12-21T20:40:16Z")
I got to about 30 and I got to the point where I couldn’t see the pic because of all the ads bogging down IE. Chrome wouldn’t work for me either but I got all of them right up until then.
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### Author:  [@Kamino\_Neko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kamino_Neko)
#### Post date: [December 21, 2016, 9:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/identify-fifty-eighties-movies-by-a-single-screenshot-each/775311/10 "2016-12-21T21:10:15Z")
> [@bobo\_blesinger](#):
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> 50/50 That was silly easy.
Same. The only one I even had to think about was Better Off Dead, which I’ve never seen, but knew John Cusack was in it, and recognized him.
I got The Road Warrior without even seeing about 2/3 of the screencap (the page was loading slow, so I had another window open atop it).
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### Author:  [@Ike\_Witt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ike_Witt)
#### Post date: [December 21, 2016, 9:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/identify-fifty-eighties-movies-by-a-single-screenshot-each/775311/11 "2016-12-21T21:14:21Z")
How do you get it to advance? I can only answer the first question and then nothing happens.
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### Author:  [@guizot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/guizot)
#### Post date: [December 21, 2016, 9:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/identify-fifty-eighties-movies-by-a-single-screenshot-each/775311/12 "2016-12-21T21:19:18Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#):
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> "89% Of People Can’t Identify All 50 '80s Movies From Just One Screenshot. . .
And that’s a good thing. If the progress continues, we’ll get it up to 100%, and we’ll be able to forget they ever happened.
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### Author:  [@pool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pool)
#### Post date: [December 21, 2016, 9:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/identify-fifty-eighties-movies-by-a-single-screenshot-each/775311/13 "2016-12-21T21:19:58Z")
50/50, honestly there was 2 or 3 I just guessed but I could at least make an educated guess from the actors shown. It is too easy because these mostly don’t seem to be randomly chosen stills from the film, but promotional shots and pictures that were used on posters and such. The only one I truly had no clue was Heathers, which I had never seen and only heard the name before, but I accidentally clicked on the right answer.
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### Author:  [@Kamino\_Neko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kamino_Neko)
#### Post date: [December 21, 2016, 9:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/identify-fifty-eighties-movies-by-a-single-screenshot-each/775311/14 "2016-12-21T21:52:58Z")
> [@Ike\_Witt](#):
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> How do you get it to advance? I can only answer the first question and then nothing happens.
I had to open it in Chrome.
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### Author:  [@Ike\_Witt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ike_Witt)
#### Post date: [December 21, 2016, 10:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/identify-fifty-eighties-movies-by-a-single-screenshot-each/775311/15 "2016-12-21T22:07:06Z")
> [@Kamino\_Neko](#):
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> I had to open it in Chrome.
I am using Chrome. I also tried Firefox. No love ☹
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### Author:  [@snfaulkner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/snfaulkner)
#### Post date: [December 21, 2016, 10:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/identify-fifty-eighties-movies-by-a-single-screenshot-each/775311/16 "2016-12-21T22:39:01Z")
Missed “Once upon a time in America”.
> [@CarnalK](#):
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> Not even going to try. I know I’ll mix up the different Molly Ringwald movies.
Don’t worry, they make it stupid easy with the multiple choice. There will only be one Molly Ringwald choice in the four to choose from.
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### Author:  [@Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Left_Hand_of_Dorkness)
#### Post date: [December 21, 2016, 10:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/identify-fifty-eighties-movies-by-a-single-screenshot-each/775311/17 "2016-12-21T22:46:00Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#):
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> The headline says “89% Of People Can’t Identify All 50 '80s Movies From Just One Screenshot. Can You?” Dunno where they got the 89% figure from
They got it from “Clickbait Titles For Dummies.”
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### Author:  [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)
#### Post date: [December 21, 2016, 11:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/identify-fifty-eighties-movies-by-a-single-screenshot-each/775311/18 "2016-12-21T23:39:24Z")
> [@Ike\_Witt](#):
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> I am using Chrome. I also tried Firefox. No love ☹
You are probably running an ad blocker. I had to disable mine to do it. Which feels dirty, but for the sake of the thread and morbid curiosity, I did.
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### Author:  [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Just_Asking_Questions)
#### Post date: [December 22, 2016, 12:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/identify-fifty-eighties-movies-by-a-single-screenshot-each/775311/19 "2016-12-22T00:11:53Z")
I got 48/50. The two I missed, I’d never seen.
So the clickbait headline was corect. I could not get 50. BFD.
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### Author:  [@Ponch8](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ponch8)
#### Post date: [December 22, 2016, 12:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/identify-fifty-eighties-movies-by-a-single-screenshot-each/775311/20 "2016-12-22T00:16:58Z")
> [@Ike\_Witt](#):
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> How do you get it to advance? I can only answer the first question and then nothing happens.
Same here, meaning I got a perfect score (1/1). I recognized Falcor the luck dragon immediately.
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