One sentence summaries - THE GAME

Cafe Society
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On The Beach?

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Monkeymensch: No and no.
jr8: No.

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Ding! Bang on.

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No, no, and no. No worries about #6 though, it looks like the clue might not be specific enough.

I won’t give an answer for jr8’s because I saw it in the other thread. I won’t give an answer for any of the others because I can’t come up with any good guesses.

(HoviBaby- even Any Given Sunday?)

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knock knock: Phooey.

jr8: Older than that.

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jr8’s is, of course, twoz.

But I love the description.

Just to help me think, here’s an easy one while I work on the hard ones:

Thracian malcontent leads thousands on rampag; crucifixions ensue.

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Spartacus

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  1. Hooligans foil a plan a genius has for cognitive improvement of his compatriots.
    How about Apocalypse Now?

I’ll edit mine a bit:
4. A precocious student-athlete works with a teacher and classmates to fix a problem in his school’s plumbing system.
5. The success of British & American hunters brings about the extinction of a recently discovered species.
6. Monarchy changes “hands” in a nearly bloodless coup after the return of a member of the original dynastic line who was exiled in his youth.

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Yep.

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Is it Jaws?

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knock knock: No no no.

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Yup!

knock knock:

  1. Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
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I’ve still got two floating:

  1. Lost explorer befriends natives, attracts unwelcome attention from authorities.

  2. Confused young man befriends lunatic, learns a lot about himself.

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Is 1 E.T.?

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My #4: A precocious student-athlete works with a teacher and classmates to fix a problem in his school’s plumbing system.

Right on.

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I’m confused. In what way is Jaws (1976) older than On the Beach (1959)? Or did you think I meant Leo Di Caprio’s The Beach (2000)?

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I’ll give away my answers now, along with my hypotheses on why no one got them right.

  1. The success of British & American hunters brings about the extinction of a recently discovered species.
    Reign of Fire. I thought this one would be fairly easy, but there might have been one minor problem: no one else saw the movie.

  2. Monarchy changes “hands” in a nearly bloodless coup after the return of a member of the original dynastic line who was exiled in his youth.
    The Lion King. It appears that too many movies fit this description, and my subtle hints (putting “hands” in quotation marks because lions don’t really have hands; telling Scupper “No worries about #6”) may have been a bit too subtle.

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I’ll give away mine, too.

  1. Powerpuff Girls: The Movie
  2. South Park: The Movie (I’d have though someone would get this one, at least…)