Would You Like To Play a Game?
I seem to be watching a lot of retro movies about punk rock lately, and saw Hard Core Logo this week.
It was billed as a ‘darker, edgier Spinal Tap,’ but really it was more interesting than that. I guess it was an easy way to bill a psuedo-documentary about a faded punk band. It’s a shame because who really needs a darker, edgier Spinal Tap? This movie was better than that. And it wasn’t terribly funny, so it must have disappointed those people who were looking for that.
Anyway, at one point in the movie they played the same road game that my family often played during those long drives from Iowa to Miami. Someone named a country and then the next person named another country whose first letter was the same as the last letter of the previous country. You probably played it too, remember?
England…Dominican Republic…Columbia…then the run of countless countries whose names begin and end with the letter A.
But instead of countries they played with cool movies.
So I thought maybe we could play here, using the posts.
Here are the rules, with a few arbitrations to prevent fights later on:
I’ll start the game:
It was billed as a ‘darker, edgier Spinal Tap,’ but really it was more interesting than that. I guess it was an easy way to bill a psuedo-documentary about a faded punk band. It’s a shame because who really needs a darker, edgier Spinal Tap? This movie was better than that. And it wasn’t terribly funny, so it must have disappointed those people who were looking for that.
Anyway, at one point in the movie they played the same road game that my family often played during those long drives from Iowa to Miami. Someone named a country and then the next person named another country whose first letter was the same as the last letter of the previous country. You probably played it too, remember?
England…Dominican Republic…Columbia…then the run of countless countries whose names begin and end with the letter A.
But instead of countries they played with cool movies.
So I thought maybe we could play here, using the posts.
Here are the rules, with a few arbitrations to prevent fights later on:
1) First letter of your movie begins with the last letter of previous movie. Articles do not count. (Otherwise, we’ll have a glut of A’s and T’s.)
2) No Repeats! No Do-over's!
3) Movies have to be cool by your standard, not anyone else’s.
4) If you want to critique someone’s choice, you have to start by playing your turn, not a suggestion for what their turn should have been. That included stuff like ‘I LOVE THAT ONE!’ I swear to god, I’ll delete any post that does not move the game forward, you sons of bitches.
5) Yes, porn titles do count.
6) You can place as many entries as you want, but someone else has to go between each of your entries.
7) If two people submit entries simultaneously, the entry that appears first will be the path taken. The second entry will be ignored. (Better Luck Tomorrow!) If it gets missed and people start playing off the second entry, then just keep the game moving. The first responder will get his reward in the next world.
8) If someone makes a wrong entry, either not naming a movie or not beginning with the last letter of the previous, ignore it and take your turn.
9) Numbers and symbols would be spelled out. 12 Monkeys would be appropriate for the letter T.
I’ll start the game:
Posted @ 8:45 AM
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6/03/2005
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Citizen Ruth
6/03/2005
Hairspray
6/03/2005
Y tu mama tambien
6/03/2005
Nesferato
6/03/2005
The Others
6/03/2005
Sex Lies and Videotape
6/03/2005
Election
6/03/2005
nine and a half weeks
6/03/2005
Spice World
6/03/2005
Dr. Strangelove, or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the A-Bomb
6/03/2005
Better off dead
Nesferato should be Nosferato. Got caught up in the later vowels and missed the obvious one.
6/03/2005
Donnie Darko
6/03/2005
Out of Sight
6/03/2005
To Kill a Mockingbird
6/03/2005
You Can Count on Me
6/03/2005
Evil Dead
6/03/2005
Dead Man Walking
6/03/2005
Kill Bill
(I went with the first response above, as stated in the rules)
6/03/2005
(Monty Python's) Life of Brian
I decided the title begins with "Life" -- just as I would call "National Lampoon's Animal House" simplyl "Animal House."
6/03/2005
National Lampoon's Animal House.
Wassupper.
6/03/2005
Edward Scissorhands
6/03/2005
Sense and Sensibility.
I do *so* think it's cool.
6/03/2005
Silkwood
6/03/2005
yellow submarine
6/03/2005
The Piano
6/03/2005
Oklahoma!
Well, someone had to post a gay musical...
6/03/2005
Ameilie!
6/03/2005
Year of Living Dangerously
6/03/2005
Young Frankenstein
6/03/2005
Napoleon Dynamite
6/03/2005
Elf.
I heart Will Ferrell.
6/03/2005
Frida
6/03/2005
Apocolypse Now
6/03/2005
Welcome to the Dollhouse
6/03/2005
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
6/03/2005
The Daytrippers
6/03/2005
Schindler's List. Schindler's list, baby.
(Although I could have gone with Shine.)
6/03/2005
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6/03/2005
two hundred cigarettes
and sorry georgia, but rules are rules.
6/03/2005
What's Eating Gilbert Grape?
6/03/2005
Even Cowgirls Get the Blues
6/03/2005
Saturday Night Fever
6/03/2005
The River's edge
6/03/2005
The Elephant Man
6/03/2005
Newsies :)
6/03/2005
Notorious
I just saw I spelled Nosferatu incorrectly twice. Brilliant.
6/03/2005
Spaceballs
6/03/2005
Safe
Toph, we said cool movies.
6/03/2005
Emmitt Otter's Jugband Christmas
(These ARE cool movies...you must have had a terrible childhood...)
6/03/2005
Savannah Smiles
6/03/2005
The Sound of Music
6/03/2005
Caddyshack
6/03/2005
Kung Fu Hustle
6/03/2005
Erin Brockovich
(Kentucky Fried Movie is NOT cooler than Emmitt Otter)
6/03/2005
Hedwig and the Angry Inch
6/03/2005
Heidi
6/03/2005
I Heart Huckabees
6/03/2005
Supersize Me
6/03/2005
easy rider
6/03/2005
Raising Arizona
6/03/2005
After Hours
6/03/2005
Adaptation (weird i was just typing raising arizona)
6/03/2005
Saved
6/03/2005
Dazed and Confused
6/03/2005
Deconstructing Harry
6/03/2005
Yojimbo
6/03/2005
O Brother Where Art Thou
6/03/2005
The untouchables
6/03/2005
Thirteen conversations about one thing
6/03/2005
Goonies
6/03/2005
Spirited Away
6/04/2005
Yentl
ok, i went there
6/04/2005
Lake Placid
6/04/2005
Dead Man
(not to be confused with Dead Man Walking)
6/04/2005
North by Northwest
6/04/2005
Twister
(the last movie I ever saw in the theater with my entire family)
6/04/2005
Real Genius
6/04/2005
Scotland, PA
6/04/2005
Airplane!
6/04/2005
Empire of the Sun
6/04/2005
A Nightmare on Elm Street
J. Depp always comes through in a fix!
6/04/2005
To Live and Die in LA
6/04/2005
Akira
6/04/2005
The Astronaut's Wife
6/04/2005
Everybody's All American
6/04/2005
The Nightmare Before Christmas
6/04/2005
Superman II
6/04/2005
Orlando
6/04/2005
O Brother Where Art Thou
6/04/2005
Once Upon a time in China
OK, Todd seems to be intentionally picking movies that have already been named, and georgia is doing it by accident. We will accept James' Orlando and go from o.
6/04/2005
Over the Top
(The Stalone Arm-Wrestling movie now on DVD)
6/04/2005
About a Boy
6/04/2005
The Year of Living Dangerously
Okay, so Mel Gibson is so crazy-deranged-out right now, but what makes this movie is that woman playing a man!
rob -- didn't feel like logging in
6/04/2005
You Can't Take It With You
6/04/2005
Unfaithful
6/04/2005
Lolita
6/04/2005
Alien
6/04/2005
The Neverending Story
6/04/2005
The Young Poisoner's Handbook
6/04/2005
Kissing Jessica Stein
6/04/2005
Nashville
6/04/2005
Ed Wood
6/04/2005
Dogfight
6/04/2005
Torch Song Trilogy
6/04/2005
Young at Heart
6/04/2005
The Triplets of Belleville
6/04/2005
The Emerald Forest
6/04/2005
Trick
6/04/2005
Kalifornia
6/04/2005
The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert
6/04/2005
Another Country
6/04/2005
You've Got Mail
Hey! Parker Posey was in it!
6/04/2005
Lawrence of Arabia
Damian, You should be ashamed of yourself, first for seeing you've got mail, and then for admitting it.
6/04/2005
About Schmidt
Erik, I see everything with Parker in it. Even if it is swill unrealistic romance with T. Hanks and M. Ryan.
6/04/2005
This Boy's Life
6/04/2005
eXistenZ
6/04/2005
A Zed & Two Noughts
Probably my favorite movie.
6/04/2005
A Streetcar Named Desire
6/04/2005
Escape from Planet of the Apes
6/04/2005
Some Like It Hot
6/04/2005
Trainspotting
6/04/2005
Go
6/04/2005
Office Space
6/04/2005
Everyone Says I Love You
6/04/2005
The Unbearable Lightness of Being
6/04/2005
Garden State
6/04/2005
Everything you wanted to know about sex*
*but were afraid to ask
(I think we should count the x as the last letter)
6/04/2005
Xanadu
6/04/2005
The United States of Leland
6/04/2005
Dr. No.
Sorry about that O Brother citation...
6/04/2005
The Opposite of Sex
6/05/2005
Xizao
(Mandarin title, released in the states as "Shower")
Perhaps a bit too sentimental to really be called cool. Still an excellent movie.
6/05/2005
One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest
6/05/2005
Taxi Driver
6/05/2005
Run Lola Run
6/05/2005
Nick of Time
6/05/2005
Empire Records
6/05/2005
SLC Punk
6/05/2005
Killer Klowns From Outer Space
6/05/2005
eXistenZ
6/05/2005
Elizabeth
(I used eXistenZ yesterday, so I continued with "E")
6/05/2005
Hudsucker Proxy, The
6/05/2005
Young Einstein
6/05/2005
Notting Hill
6/06/2005
Love Actually
6/06/2005
Year of the Horse
(A Neil Young Rockumentry)
6/06/2005
Electric Dreams
6/06/2005
Sex in the city (does this count?)
6/06/2005
Yi yi
6/09/2005
I Shot Andy Warhol
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