# Special Movie Trivia: Identify the movie from this scene description. **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [March 11, 2002, 7:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/special-movie-trivia-identify-the-movie-from-this-scene-description/97533 "2002-03-11T07:44:35Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![kase](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/a5b964/32.png) [@kase](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kase)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2002, 9:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/special-movie-trivia-identify-the-movie-from-this-scene-description/97533/21 "2002-03-12T09:37:24Z")
\*a man and a woman haggles over the price of contact lenses \* Is that "He said, She said? _dougie\_monty #2_ "Mystery of the Wax Museum? these are difficult šŸ™‚ ---
**Author:** ![Sublight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/439d5e/32.png) [@Sublight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sublight)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2002, 3:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/special-movie-trivia-identify-the-movie-from-this-scene-description/97533/22 "2002-03-12T15:28:15Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by detop \* > \*\*- a British officer scolds recruits, then grant them their wish \*\* _Monty Python and the Meaning of Life_ ā€œReeeedinā€™ a book, eh? Marchinā€™ up and down the square not good enough for you, eh? Right! Off you go!ā€ After having sex with the female lead, the male lead goes to the beach outside her house and starts scrubbing himself raw with sand and seawater. ---
**Author:** ![BeerDog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/9d8465/32.png) [@BeerDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BeerDog)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2002, 4:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/special-movie-trivia-identify-the-movie-from-this-scene-description/97533/23 "2002-03-12T16:45:18Z")
> [@](#): > > a mob uses a catapult to hurl flaming projectiles at an apartment building, until the buildingā€™s only inhabitant responds with a large-caliber sniper rifle. Little Charlie Heston in _The Omega Man_, I believe. ---
**Author:** ![detop](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/bcef8e/32.png) [@detop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/detop)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2002, 5:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/special-movie-trivia-identify-the-movie-from-this-scene-description/97533/24 "2002-03-12T17:08:12Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Tenebras \* > **Enjoying a private moment is _Lethal Weapon 2_** Correct. > [@](#): > > _Originally posted by kƤse_ > \*\*a man and a woman haggles over the price of contact lenses > > Is that "He said, She said?\*\* Sorry, no. ---
**Author:** ![Spoonbender](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a8b319/32.png) [@Spoonbender](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoonbender)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2002, 6:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/special-movie-trivia-identify-the-movie-from-this-scene-description/97533/25 "2002-03-12T18:02:54Z")
Can I contribute without answering? _(Spoonbender proceeds to contribute without answering.)_ **Spoonbender1:** Three Americans receuit a mercenary to raid a military base and free two POWā€™s who are scheduled for execution. During the mission, an air raid occurs and the POWā€™s are killed. **Spoonbender2:** Two men carrying groceries hop onto a moving train. \*\*Spoonbender3:\*\*A man nearly falls to his death due to a spelling error. ---
**Author:** ![Jadis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/87869e/32.png) [@Jadis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jadis)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2002, 6:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/special-movie-trivia-identify-the-movie-from-this-scene-description/97533/26 "2002-03-12T18:32:25Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Sublight \* > After having sex with the female lead, the male lead goes to the beach outside her house and starts scrubbing himself raw with sand and seawater. **Gattaca** A respected woman of society appears at the opera, only to be booed by those in attendance. ---
**Author:** ![Sofa\_King](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/58956e/32.png) [@Sofa\_King](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sofa_King)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2002, 6:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/special-movie-trivia-identify-the-movie-from-this-scene-description/97533/27 "2002-03-12T18:32:27Z")
I think **Sublight** ā€™s clue was from _GATTACA_. Hereā€™s one: Axe fight in the mannequin storage room! ---
**Author:** ![lieu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c2a13f/32.png) [@lieu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lieu)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2002, 6:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/special-movie-trivia-identify-the-movie-from-this-scene-description/97533/28 "2002-03-12T18:49:46Z")
Righto **Baldwin** on _Eye of the Needle_. re: - A dozen or so men, some in raincoats, surround a pit and stare in gravely. Hint: A tractor is nearby, ready to cover the pit when theyā€™re through. ---
**Author:** ![detop](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/bcef8e/32.png) [@detop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/detop)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2002, 7:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/special-movie-trivia-identify-the-movie-from-this-scene-description/97533/29 "2002-03-12T19:00:46Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Jadis \* > \*\*A respected woman of society appears at the opera, only to be booed by those in attendance. \*\* Citizen Kane ? ---
**Author:** ![Tretiak](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/a88e57/32.png) [@Tretiak](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tretiak)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2002, 7:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/special-movie-trivia-identify-the-movie-from-this-scene-description/97533/30 "2002-03-12T19:04:45Z")
Well, let me carry this leftover from the Jr. board. - A man saves and then sleepā€™s with his bossā€™ mother. ---
**Author:** ![Labdad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/439d5e/32.png) [@Labdad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Labdad)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2002, 7:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/special-movie-trivia-identify-the-movie-from-this-scene-description/97533/31 "2002-03-12T19:27:13Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by lieu \* > \*\*re: - A dozen or so men, some in raincoats, surround a pit and stare in gravely. > Hint: A tractor is nearby, ready to cover the pit when theyā€™re through. \*\* _ **Hud** _ ---
**Author:** ![lieu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c2a13f/32.png) [@lieu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lieu)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2002, 7:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/special-movie-trivia-identify-the-movie-from-this-scene-description/97533/32 "2002-03-12T19:43:32Z")
Goodā€™n **Labdad**. ---
**Author:** ![JeffB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jeffb/32/188_2.png) [@JeffB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JeffB)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2002, 8:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/special-movie-trivia-identify-the-movie-from-this-scene-description/97533/33 "2002-03-12T20:45:44Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by NDP \* > A man (and the camera) is hung upside down as heā€™s being interrogated about a serious crime involving a very important person (whoā€™s also the interrogatorā€™s boss.) _Elizabeth_, when Walsingham (Geoffrey Rush) is interrogating the priest. ---
**Author:** ![thinksnow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thinksnow/32/2849_2.png) [@thinksnow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thinksnow)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2002, 9:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/special-movie-trivia-identify-the-movie-from-this-scene-description/97533/34 "2002-03-12T21:08:12Z")
> [@](#): > > \*\*Spoonbender3:\*\*A man nearly falls to his death due to a spelling error. \*Indiana Jones: The Last Crusade \*(Jahova isnā€™t spelled with a ā€œJā€ or something like that) **snow 1** : The movie ends as it begins, with the road blowing up under the cars. **snow 2** : One rober/hostage taker dies, the other gets to go free courtesy of a pale lizard. ---
**Author:** ![betenoir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/258eb7/32.png) [@betenoir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/betenoir)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2002, 9:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/special-movie-trivia-identify-the-movie-from-this-scene-description/97533/35 "2002-03-12T21:22:08Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by detop \* > \*\* > > Citizen Kane ? \*\* No, I think itā€™s Dangerous Liaisons. I canā€™t think of anything really good. I think Iā€™ll save my turn for later. ---
**Author:** ![dougie\_monty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/439d5e/32.png) [@dougie\_monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dougie_monty)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2002, 9:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/special-movie-trivia-identify-the-movie-from-this-scene-description/97533/36 "2002-03-12T21:55:00Z")
_Originally posted by kƤse_ [QUOTE] [D]ougie\_monty, [is] #2 ā€œMystery of the Wax Museum?ā€ \* No; itā€™s a rather bizarre knock-off of _House of Wax,_ titled _Mill of the Stone Women,_ which I saw in the Torrance Drive-In, in 1963. A millerā€™s daughter has leukemia; with the help of a local doctor who has lost his medical license, the miller has local girls abducted and killed, and takes their blood to keep his own daughter alive. Naturally, the heroā€™s girlofriend has just the right blood composition to keep ā€œElthieā€ alive indefinitely. But there is a catch: The doctor wants to marry Elthie. The miller refuses to allow this; in the fight that ensues the vial with the vital serum (the heroā€™s girl is imprisoned but still alive) gets smashed and Elthie, of course, dies on the spot. The miller loses his reason and sets fire to the place; among other things, the rope holding the carousel control burns and snaps in two, causing the wax-coated corpses to roll along the track burning. One of the last shots in the movie is one corpseā€™s face in flames, and an eyeball falling out. UGH!! ---
**Author:** ![kase](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/a5b964/32.png) [@kase](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kase)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2002, 10:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/special-movie-trivia-identify-the-movie-from-this-scene-description/97533/37 "2002-03-12T22:28:12Z")
Ewwwww. LOL Gotta rent that one dougie\_monty šŸ˜‰ _may I? Itā€™s probably too easy_ : A man robs a store, runs for the police with the loot under his arm and gets a lift from a truckdriver who tells him: Boy, You got a panty on your head. šŸ™‚ ---
**Author:** ![detop](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/bcef8e/32.png) [@detop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/detop)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2002, 1:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/special-movie-trivia-identify-the-movie-from-this-scene-description/97533/38 "2002-03-13T01:02:10Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Sublight \* > \*\* > > _Monty Python and the Meaning of Life_ > > ā€œReeeedinā€™ a book, eh? Marchinā€™ up and down the square not good enough for you, eh? Right! Off you go!ā€\*\* Sorry, I missed that one earlier, no itā€™s not the correct answer (and I think it was in _And now for something completely differentā€¦_. In any case, it was not a British officer in the Monty Python sketch, it was a NCO šŸ˜ƒ ). ---
**Author:** ![panamajack](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/47e85d/32.png) [@panamajack](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panamajack)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2002, 1:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/special-movie-trivia-identify-the-movie-from-this-scene-description/97533/39 "2002-03-13T01:08:49Z")
> [@](#): > > A man robs a store, runs for the police with the loot under his arm and gets a lift from a truckdriver who tells him: Boy, You got a panty on your head. Yes, too easy ā€“ _Raising Arizona_ A quick one from me : Freddie Prinze, Jr. & Seth Green get a young girl drunk at a party, her father gets really upset and decides to go for a walk outside. ---
**Author:** ![NDP](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ndp/32/55_2.png) [@NDP](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NDP)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2002, 7:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/special-movie-trivia-identify-the-movie-from-this-scene-description/97533/40 "2002-03-13T07:09:40Z")
> [@](#): > > A man (and the camera) is hung upside down as heā€™s being interrogated about a serious crime involving a very important person (whoā€™s also the interrogatorā€™s boss.) > > **Elizabeth** , when Walsingham (Geoffrey Rush) is interrogating the priest. Ding! Ding! Ding! Ding! Ding! You are correct! NDP 3 is **Memento**. Still out there: a young Englishwoman washes her motherā€™s headstone. (Hint: itā€™s a scene that happens fairly early in the movie.) Iā€™ll add one more: NDP 4 - A restaurant manager orders his chef to put the same amount of blueberries in each muffin. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/special-movie-trivia-identify-the-movie-from-this-scene-description/97533.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/special-movie-trivia-identify-the-movie-from-this-scene-description/97533.md?page=3)