# Test Your Movie Knowledge!: Part IIII **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [August 25, 2003, 9:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/test-your-movie-knowledge-part-iiii/197605 "2003-08-25T21:53:48Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![Ilsa\_Lund](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/a6a055/32.png) [@Ilsa\_Lund](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ilsa_Lund)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2003, 4:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/test-your-movie-knowledge-part-iiii/197605/81 "2003-08-26T16:24:52Z")
* * * ## Originally posted by Zeldar Did you see my guess on “Trading Places” by way of the “Hooker” connection? Interesting connection. Ummm, no. It’s not Cpt. Kirk, it’s a likeness of his face. A mask. And a big knife. Halloween! ---
**Author:** ![Horseflesh](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/horseflesh/32/7502_2.png) [@Horseflesh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Horseflesh)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2003, 4:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/test-your-movie-knowledge-part-iiii/197605/82 "2003-08-26T16:45:47Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Ilsa\_Lund \* > \*\*I\_L\_6 is not Ransom. \*\* Oh, I get it. I\_L\_6 = The Patriot? (sneaky) Theme time: HF\_14: “Everything I needed to know about standing tall, I learned from John Lithgow.” HF\_15: “Everything I needed to know about babysitting kids, I learned from Billy Crystal.” HF\_16: “Everything I need to know about flying, I learned from Tim Allen.” ---
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2003, 4:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/test-your-movie-knowledge-part-iiii/197605/83 "2003-08-26T16:46:41Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Homebrew \* > \*\* > > HB\_5 Everything I needed to know about lawn care, I learned from Brendan Fraser. \*\* Gods & Monsters ---
**Author:** ![Homebrew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/c89c15/32.png) [@Homebrew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Homebrew)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2003, 4:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/test-your-movie-knowledge-part-iiii/197605/84 "2003-08-26T16:56:57Z")
You’re reading my mind (except for Dean Cain), **Zeldar**. HF\_16 The Santa Clause ---
**Author:** ![Ilsa\_Lund](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/a6a055/32.png) [@Ilsa\_Lund](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ilsa_Lund)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2003, 5:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/test-your-movie-knowledge-part-iiii/197605/85 "2003-08-26T17:03:35Z")
Not the Patriot, Zeldar! Even Sneakier. ---
**Author:** ![Horseflesh](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/horseflesh/32/7502_2.png) [@Horseflesh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Horseflesh)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2003, 5:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/test-your-movie-knowledge-part-iiii/197605/86 "2003-08-26T17:06:20Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Homebrew \* > \*\*You’re reading my mind (except for Dean Cain), **Zeldar**. > > HF\_16 The Santa Clause \*\* Good guess, but not part of the theme. Because of the way they’re (loosely) connected, there’s only one right answer for each. I hope. ---
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2003, 5:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/test-your-movie-knowledge-part-iiii/197605/87 "2003-08-26T17:08:07Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Ilsa\_Lund \* > \*\*Not the Patriot, Zeldar! > Even Sneakier. \*\* I didn’t guess the Patriot. That was Horseflesh. But I’ll guess The Man With No Face (or whatever it was) just to get another rebuke! ---
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2003, 5:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/test-your-movie-knowledge-part-iiii/197605/88 "2003-08-26T17:10:28Z")
Hey, y’all, as soon as the page flips, could we get a recap of everybody’s hangers? I have zero clue where we are. ---
**Author:** ![Ilsa\_Lund](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/a6a055/32.png) [@Ilsa\_Lund](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ilsa_Lund)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2003, 5:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/test-your-movie-knowledge-part-iiii/197605/89 "2003-08-26T17:25:09Z")
Not the Man with no face, either! I\_L\_6 “Everything I needed to know about hostage situations, I learned from Mel Gibson” ---
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2003, 5:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/test-your-movie-knowledge-part-iiii/197605/90 "2003-08-26T17:41:31Z")
I\_L\_6 serious guesses: Conspiracy Theory Signs However, I don’t really remember any hostage situations in either one. The Negotiator had some hostages, but Mel wasn’t in that. ---
**Author:** ![lost4life](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c4cdca/32.png) [@lost4life](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lost4life)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2003, 5:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/test-your-movie-knowledge-part-iiii/197605/91 "2003-08-26T17:42:17Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Ilsa\_Lund \* > \*\*Not the Man with no face, either! > > I\_L\_6 “Everything I needed to know about hostage situations, I learned from Mel Gibson” \*\* Did anyone say Lethal Weapon? There’s a definite hostage situation in that… ---
**Author:** ![Homebrew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/c89c15/32.png) [@Homebrew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Homebrew)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2003, 6:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/test-your-movie-knowledge-part-iiii/197605/92 "2003-08-26T18:49:09Z")
**Hangers** HB\_2 “Everything I needed to know about playing softball, I learned from Dean Cain” _Hint_ He gets a phone number from the catcher after hitting a home run. _Another Hint_ Dean Cain plays a _gay_ character. HB\_3 “Everything I needed to know about camping, I learned from James Purefoy” _Hint_ “I know this pub that serves real Guinness.” **New** HB\_6 “Everything I needed to know about the song _Wildfire_, I learned from Bruce Willis” ---
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2003, 7:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/test-your-movie-knowledge-part-iiii/197605/93 "2003-08-26T19:04:27Z")
HB\_6 sounds like “In Country” ---
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2003, 7:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/test-your-movie-knowledge-part-iiii/197605/94 "2003-08-26T19:08:22Z")
Hangers \*\*\*\*\*\*\* Z\_7 “Everything I needed to know about digging for buried treasure in the yard, I learned from Anthony Franciosa.” Z\_13 “Everything I needed to know about causing a fire in an apartment across the street by shooting a book, I learned from Charles Bronson.” Z\_15 “Everything I needed to know about visiting crime scenes for literary purposes, I learned from David Duchovny.” Z\_16 “Everything I needed to know about stripping a car’s doors off in a parking garage, I learned from Ryan O’Neal.” ---
**Author:** ![r.j.a](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/5daacb/32.png) [@r.j.a](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/r.j.a)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2003, 7:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/test-your-movie-knowledge-part-iiii/197605/95 "2003-08-26T19:21:31Z")
Is HB\_6 “Hudson Hawk”? If I’m right, though, I only guessed it through second-hand knowledge. ---
**Author:** ![r.j.a](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/5daacb/32.png) [@r.j.a](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/r.j.a)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2003, 7:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/test-your-movie-knowledge-part-iiii/197605/96 "2003-08-26T19:25:23Z")
RA\_1 Everything I needed to know about enormous keyboards, I learned from Tom Hanks. RA\_2 Everything I needed to know about enormous beached stingrays, I learned from Marcello Mastroianni. ---
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2003, 7:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/test-your-movie-knowledge-part-iiii/197605/97 "2003-08-26T19:26:16Z")
RA\_1 Big RA\_2 La Dolce Vita? ---
**Author:** ![MonkeyMensch](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/82dd89/32.png) [@MonkeyMensch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MonkeyMensch)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2003, 7:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/test-your-movie-knowledge-part-iiii/197605/98 "2003-08-26T19:50:45Z")
Z\_13 “Everything I needed to know about causing a fire in an apartment across the street by shooting a book, I learned from Charles Bronson.” _Telefon_? MM\_2: “Everything I needed to know about geology, I learned from Ryan O’Neal.” ---
**Author:** ![r.j.a](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/5daacb/32.png) [@r.j.a](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/r.j.a)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2003, 8:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/test-your-movie-knowledge-part-iiii/197605/99 "2003-08-26T20:06:53Z")
Zeldar - La Dolce Vita, yes. Although I confess I’m not positive it was a stingray. Rod ---
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2003, 8:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/test-your-movie-knowledge-part-iiii/197605/100 "2003-08-26T20:09:36Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by MonkeyMensch \* > \*\*Z\_13 “Everything I needed to know about causing a fire in an apartment across the street by shooting a book, I learned from Charles Bronson.” > > _Telefon_? > > \*\* **MonkeyMensch** , you’re the second one now to try Telefon, so I’m going to go ahead and reveal my movie. _The Mechanic_ has Bronson teaching tricks of the assassin trade to young Jan Michael Vincent. At some point Bronson goes to a great deal of trouble with photographs and floor plans to decide the way to off this old dude across the street is to use some acid wrapped in bubble gum on the burner of his gas stove, as well as some knockout drops in his tea to get the room full of gas fumes. Then with a scoped rifle and a book with an incendiary device in the bookshelf, Bronson shoots a silenced bullet into the book causing the apartment to blow up and look to investigators as an accident. Now, was that Telefon or The Mechanic? Whichever, this clue is dead now. 🙂 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/test-your-movie-knowledge-part-iiii/197605.md?page=4) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/test-your-movie-knowledge-part-iiii/197605.md?page=6)