# Name the Movies **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [April 29, 2005, 5:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-the-movies/301742 "2005-04-29T17:42:49Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2005, 12:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-the-movies/301742/41 "2005-05-02T12:00:51Z")
1.) I just wanted to point out that no one has gotten the second 1930s “Ape Runs off with the Girl” picture from my earlier post. 2.) I suspect that the coincidences I’ve cited really are coincidences (as suggested by the simultaneity or near-simultaneity of the releases), but some of the ones others have listed are, one suspects, cases of imitation. **Alien** and [N]It! The Terror from Beyiond Space\*\* being a case in point. ---
**Author:** ![av8rmike](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/edb3f5/32.png) [@av8rmike](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/av8rmike)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2005, 2:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-the-movies/301742/42 "2005-05-02T14:22:33Z")
> [@Priceguy](#): > > Two mid-80s movies in which River Phoenix plays one of a group of young boys who break into a junkyard and encounter a dog there. _Stand By Me_ and _Explorers_? ---
**Author:** ![Dunderman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ecb155/32.png) [@Dunderman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dunderman)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2005, 2:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-the-movies/301742/43 "2005-05-02T14:37:04Z")
> [@av8rmike](#): > > _Stand By Me_ and _Explorers_? Correct. Mine are too easy, it seems. _The Last Crusade_ isn’t from the mid-80s, doesn’t contain a junkyard and doesn’t even have a dog (which I still find very strange; why wouldn’t they show the dog from which Indy took his name?). ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2005, 2:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-the-movies/301742/44 "2005-05-02T14:43:34Z")
> [@](#): > > The Last Crusade isn’t from the mid-80s, doesn’t contain a junkyard and doesn’t even have a dog (which I still find very strange; why wouldn’t they show the dog from which Indy took his name?). They _do_ have a very brief shot of Indy’s dog in the opening section, as River Phoenix runs into his home to show his father the Cross of Coronado. But if you blink, you’ll miss it. It’s a German shepherd (Alsation), and it even barks as he runs by. By the way, there’s a double joke there. George Lucas always said that Chewbacca was based on his dog, so I’ve always assumed that this dog was meant to represent both Indiana’s namesake and Chewbacca’s inspiration. ---
**Author:** ![Uvula\_Donor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/e19adc/32.png) [@Uvula\_Donor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Uvula_Donor)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2005, 2:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-the-movies/301742/45 "2005-05-02T14:56:34Z")
> [@CalMeacham](#): > > 1.) I just wanted to point out that no one has gotten the second 1930s “Ape Runs off with the Girl” picture from my earlier post. Would it be 1932’s _Murders in the Rue Morgue_? ---
**Author:** ![Dunderman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ecb155/32.png) [@Dunderman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dunderman)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2005, 2:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-the-movies/301742/46 "2005-05-02T14:58:08Z")
This one is even easier than my previous ones, but it has to be mentioned: Three movies from 97/98, filled with scientific, technical and logical errors of ridiculous magnitude, in which a rock from space threatens Earth and flying vehicles are used to save the world. ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2005, 3:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-the-movies/301742/47 "2005-05-02T15:00:43Z")
From \*\* Uvula Donor\*\*: > [@](#): > > Would it be 1932’s Murders in the Rue Morgue? Nope. ---
**Author:** ![Dunderman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ecb155/32.png) [@Dunderman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dunderman)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2005, 3:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-the-movies/301742/48 "2005-05-02T15:00:56Z")
> [@Uvula Donor](#): > > Would it be 1932’s _Murders in the Rue Morgue_? As far as I can remember, _Murders in the Rue Morgue_ doesn’t feature a woman being sacrificed by a primitive tribe to a huge gorilla, nor any American expedition setting out to rescue her. If I’m wrong here, they were quite unfaithful to the book. ---
**Author:** ![Uvula\_Donor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/e19adc/32.png) [@Uvula\_Donor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Uvula_Donor)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2005, 3:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-the-movies/301742/49 "2005-05-02T15:14:02Z")
> [@Priceguy](#): > > As far as I can remember, _Murders in the Rue Morgue_ doesn’t feature a woman being sacrificed by a primitive tribe to a huge gorilla, nor any American expedition setting out to rescue her. If I’m wrong here, they were quite unfaithful to the book. D’OH! I was thinking specifically along “ape runs off with woman” and ignored the “primitive tribe” part. Never mind. :smack: ---
**Author:** ![av8rmike](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/edb3f5/32.png) [@av8rmike](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/av8rmike)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2005, 4:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-the-movies/301742/50 "2005-05-02T16:07:50Z")
> [@Priceguy](#): > > This one is even easier than my previous ones, but it has to be mentioned: Three movies from 97/98, filled with scientific, technical and logical errors of ridiculous magnitude, in which a rock from space threatens Earth and flying vehicles are used to save the world. Hmmm… _Deep Impact_, _Armageddon_, and … _Asteroid_? Here’s a similar one: Two movies, also from the mid-90s, in which hot “magma” escapes to the surface and threatens a family. ---
**Author:** ![Miss\_Mapp](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miss_mapp/32/369_2.png) [@Miss\_Mapp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miss_Mapp)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2005, 4:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-the-movies/301742/51 "2005-05-02T16:40:03Z")
> [@av8rmike](#): > > Hmmm… _Deep Impact_, _Armageddon_, and … _Asteroid_? > > Here’s a similar one: > Two movies, also from the mid-90s, in which hot “magma” escapes to the surface and threatens a family. One of them is _Dante’s Peak_. I forget the name of the other, but it was set in LA, and emergency workers could stand remarkably close to the supposedly intensely hot lava. I’m surprised that nobody’s got my two movies by now, especially considering that both films have been mentioned in another thread very close to this one… ---
**Author:** ![Acsenray](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/acsenray/32/4519_2.png) [@Acsenray](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Acsenray)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2005, 4:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-the-movies/301742/52 "2005-05-02T16:51:29Z")
> [@CalMeacham](#): > > Nope. That one was about detonating a North Sea drilling platform. No nukes. It was, IIRC, **ffolkes** (I never understood the small “f”) I think it has to do with Welsh. My understanding is that in the Welsh language, “ff” is a single letter separate from “f” and the uppercase version of “ff” is “ff.” Writing it as “Ff” would mean that it is “f” followed by another “f,” not “ff.” Or something like that. If that’s completely off the mark, then there is also the case that it results from the fact that in some mediaeval-era scripts, uppercase “f” looked just like “ff,” rather than like “F” and for some vague conceit, some people with names beginning with an “F” have chosen to write it as “ff” to make it look old-timey. ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2005, 4:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-the-movies/301742/53 "2005-05-02T16:55:14Z")
> [@](#): > > Quote: > Originally Posted by av8rmike > Hmmm… Deep Impact, Armageddon, and … Asteroid? > > Here’s a similar one: > Two movies, also from the mid-90s, in which hot “magma” escapes to the surface and threatens a family. > > One of them is Dante’s Peak. I forget the name of the other, but it was set in LA, and emergency workers could stand remarkably close to the supposedly intensely hot lava. The other one has to be **Volcano** (“The Coast is Toast” was the tag. Although, as Mike Nelson pointed out, it was only a small section of LA that was actually toast.) ---
**Author:** ![want2know](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/50afbb/32.png) [@want2know](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/want2know)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2005, 6:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-the-movies/301742/54 "2005-05-02T18:08:00Z")
> [@CalMeacham](#): > > 1.) I just wanted to point out that no one has gotten the second 1930s “Ape Runs off with the Girl” picture from my earlier post. > > 2.) I suspect that the coincidences I’ve cited really are coincidences (as suggested by the simultaneity or near-simultaneity of the releases), but some of the ones others have listed are, one suspects, cases of imitation. **Alien** and [N]It! The Terror from Beyiond Space\*\* being a case in point. White Pongo. ---
**Author:** ![Dunderman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ecb155/32.png) [@Dunderman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dunderman)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2005, 6:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-the-movies/301742/55 "2005-05-02T18:21:22Z")
> [@av8rmike](#): > > Hmmm… _Deep Impact_, _Armageddon_, and … _Asteroid_? Yup. > [@](#): > > Here’s a similar one: > Two movies, also from the mid-90s, in which hot “magma” escapes to the surface and threatens a family. _Dante’s Peak_ and _Volcano_? ---
**Author:** ![av8rmike](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/edb3f5/32.png) [@av8rmike](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/av8rmike)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2005, 6:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-the-movies/301742/56 "2005-05-02T18:30:51Z")
Yep, those are the two I was thinking of. If I’d said “two movies in which a volcano erupts”, that would have pretty much given one away. 😛 ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2005, 6:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-the-movies/301742/57 "2005-05-02T18:31:15Z")
> [@](#): > > White Pongo. Still not there. ---
**Author:** ![LindyHopper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/ebca7d/32.png) [@LindyHopper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LindyHopper)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2005, 8:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-the-movies/301742/58 "2005-05-02T20:32:22Z")
> [@Miss Mapp](#): > > Yes! (No wonder I wasn’t sure of the title; it’s got two of them.) > > Here’s one for you: > > Two early 1960’s movies in which a neurotic young lady goes running around a big, spooky house that may possibly contain a ghost or two… or maybe she’s just losing her mind. _The Haunting_ and _Psycho_? ---
**Author:** ![Miss\_Mapp](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miss_mapp/32/369_2.png) [@Miss\_Mapp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miss_Mapp)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2005, 10:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-the-movies/301742/59 "2005-05-03T10:23:12Z")
> [@LindyHopper](#): > > _The Haunting_ and _Psycho_? _The Haunting_ is one! _Psycho_, no. ---
**Author:** ![42fish](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/4/b487fb/32.png) [@42fish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/42fish)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2005, 3:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-the-movies/301742/60 "2005-05-03T15:02:07Z")
> [@Miss Mapp](#): > > _The Haunting_ is one! _Psycho_, no. Is “Repulsion” the other one? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-the-movies/301742.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-the-movies/301742.md?page=4)