Describe only the beginning of a movie and see if anyone knows what movie it is

[red dog 1]

Example;

A man checks into a fleabag hotel and attempts to kill himself by jumping out of the window, but fails to open it and pulls a muscle in his back.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

1. Three college students are in their car with video equipment,

setting out to film a documentary about bear poaching.

[red dog 1]

2. The Blair Witch Project?

(Wild guess)

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

3. Similar, but (hint) not American.

[happybird]

14. Troll Hunter?

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

17. Bingo!

[happybird]

20. Credit to my movie buff coworker

We’ve gone through our whole box of trivia cards, so turned to DU for entertainment.

[Zoonart]

4. The Odd Couple?

[Zoonart]

5. I"ll play...

White text on a dark background rolling to the horizon one a swelling musical theme.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

11. Star Wars

[Zoonart]

12. Yep!

[Doreen]

6. A grandmother starting to tell her grand daughter

tucked in bed a story why it snows.

[drmeow]

7. Edward Scissorhands

[Doreen]

8. you got it.

[yonder]

9. Here's an easy one: Two guys driving down a dark, lonely highway listening to the radio.

The passenger asks the driver "You want to see something scary"?

[Zoonart]

13. Twilight Zone Movie?

[yonder]

15. Yep. That one came up a week or so ago.

Fresh on my mind.

[Zoonart]

19. One of my faves.

[yonder]

26. We thought we had walked into the wrong movie,

until the answer to the question was revealed. What a surprise.

[mikeargo]

10. Eight men have breakfast in a diner

They argue about how much to leave for a tip.

[happybird]

16. Reservoir Dogs

[mikeargo]

25. Correct!

[happybird]

28. Love that movie!

[Zoonart]

18. Los Angeles, November 2019

Night over the city. Flames blossom above refinery stacks.

[happybird]

21. Bladerunner?

Demolition Man is our other guess

[Zoonart]

23. Blade Runner it is!

[happybird]

24. Ha!

That was my answer. My coworker was wrong. I’m lording it over him.

[sarge43]

22. The widow of an owner of a baseball club tells the board her plans for the team. n/t

[gratuitous]

30. Major League

[sarge43]

36. Yes. n/t

[Zoonart]

27. It is nighttime. Two young men leave student housing and cross the quad.

One stops and checks his fly.

[gratuitous]

31. Animal House

[Zoonart]

34. YEA!!!!

[happybird]

29. Family craft night.

They’re making a sword.

[sarge43]

37. Conan the Barbarian? n/t

[happybird]

40. That's it!

[sarge43]

43. Love your description

[Zoonart]

32. Camera tracks in over skyscrapers in the city at night,

It is snowing. Camera centers on a tall building with a giant clock in the tower. It is one minute to midnight.
A window near the clock opens and a man steps out onto the ledge.

[happybird]

47. The Hudsucker Proxy?

[Zoonart]

49. YES!

YAY!

[happybird]

33. Alarm clock goes off

Man jumps on his bed after activating a Rube Goldberg Machine to make his breakfast.

[Zoonart]

35. Pee Wee's Big Adventure.

[happybird]

38. Yep!

[Zoonart]

41. YAY!

[smirkymonkey]

58. Yes! One of my all time favorites!

[happybird]

62. Me, too!

This scared me so much as a kid:

[smirkymonkey]

67. Tell 'em Large Marge sent ya!

I know every word of that movie by heart. I think I have seen it almost 100 times. Honestly! It is one of my favorite personal cult films!

A fan of "Pee Wee's Big Adventure" is a friend of mine!

[gratuitous]

39. Over a montage of classic New York City scenes from the 1950s

The voiceover tells the audience about his life.

[sarge43]

42. My Favorite Year? n/t

[gratuitous]

44. That would be it

I'm not an actor! I'm a movie star!

[sarge43]

45. Nat King Cole singing Stardust mmmm

So is this, ma'am, but sometimes I have to run a little water through it.

[gratuitous]

84. Off topic, but related trivia question re movie soundtracks

What ties together "My Favorite Year," "Arthur," and "The French Connection"?

[Zoonart]

48. LOVE this movie.

[sarge43]

82. With thanks for the memory, gratuitous

[Zoonart]

46. A man in a Hawaiian shirt stands in front of a police screen for a mug shot,

he hold up a placard. *Flash* A woman officer steps out from behind the camera.

[gratuitous]

59. Raising Arizona

Turn to the raht!

[Zoonart]

61. Absolutely!

[OilemFirchen]

50. A winged man is standing atop a tall building.

A youngster in the busy crosswalk below looks up at him.

[happybird]

51. Kick Ass?

[OilemFirchen]

52. Nope. Not in English.

Hint: Nick Cave makes a cameo appearance.

[Zoonart]

54. Wings of desire?

[OilemFirchen]

63. Ja!

[Zoonart]

65. Danke.

[sarge43]

56. Wings of Desire/Der Himmel uber Berlin? n/t

[OilemFirchen]

64. Wieder ja!

[OilemFirchen]

53. Narrator: (Man 1): "He's a dentist from New Jersey." (Man 2): "He travels a lot."

[friendly_iconoclast]

182. The In-Laws?

[OilemFirchen]

185. Correctomundo!

[First Speaker]

55. An unruly crowd at a theater watches a play being performed...

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...which, because of their jeering comments, can barely be heard...

[sarge43]

57. A young girl is herding geese. She stops to watch two men fighting a duel. n/t

[Codeine]

255. That's The Duellists.

Amazing costumes.

[sarge43]

256. Yes. Amazing film and never had the recognition it deserves. n/t

[gratuitous]

60. A woman's impeccably manicured hands dress a man

[Glorfindel]

95. The Big Chill?

Only such scene I can recall.

[gratuitous]

101. Yup

I purposely left out the wrist stitches and "Heard It Through the Grapevine" soundtrack because I thought that would make it too easy.

Trivia fact: Alex (the corpse) was Kevin Costner, whose flashback scenes were deleted in the final cut, leaving just those scenes of his body being dressed in the prologue.

[OilemFirchen]

66. A squire returns to his estate to find a baby in his bed.

[Totally Tunsie]

68. Tom Jones

A personal fav...!

[OilemFirchen]

71. Brilliant!

Mine as well.

[Totally Tunsie]

72. Damn...now I have the theme earworming through my brain!

[Tikki]

69. Highway lawman* pulls over car* that is weaving back and...

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forth on an open *desert road.

*OK it is a Highway Patrol man on a motorcycle.
*OK it is a 1964 Chevy Malibu.
*OK it is the Mojave Desert.

Tikki

[Totally Tunsie]

70. A bus travels over sand dunes. People exit the bus carrying

equipment and props. They all don costumes.

[First Speaker]

75. 8 1/2...?

...that's just a wild guess...

[Totally Tunsie]

76. Sorry - no. But please try again.

[Zoonart]

78. Jesus Christ Superstar.

[Totally Tunsie]

83. Ding! Ding! You got it!

[Zoonart]

86. YAY!

[OilemFirchen]

73. An attorney is interviewing a potential client - a tour bus driver in Chinatown.

[Totally Tunsie]

74. To the sound of someone typing on a manual typewriter,

the camera pans to a cigarette and match, then a champagne flute and a chilling bottle. A man removes the paper from the typewriter, prints "The End" on it and places his document into a battered briefcase. He pops the cork, lights his cigarette and inhales.

[Niagara]

85. Misery.

[Totally Tunsie]

88. Yup - very good!

[First Speaker]

77. God creates the heavens and the Earth...

[jayfish]

79. A Man Clad in Black Body Armor Stages an Assault...

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on a rave being held in the back of a meat processing company.

[Glorfindel]

100. Blade?

[jayfish]

104. Nailed It!

[malthaussen]

80. Railroad construction workers sing a traditional song as they labor... n/t

[jayfish]

81. Sounds Like BS to Me. -NT-

[jmowreader]

168. The workers weren't singing at the beginning of Blazing Saddles

After Lyle demanded a "good ol' work song" Bart belted out "I Get a Kick Out Of You."

[Zoonart]

87. Oh Brother Where Art Thou?

[malthaussen]

103. Never saw that one.

But I'll take a wild guess that they weren't singing "I Get a Kick Out of You."

-- Mal

[red dog 1]

89. 2 guys are sitting in a coffee shop looking out the window...One is complaining about the cold

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weather, while the other one is talking about a theater that is going out of business, and suggesting to his companion that their boss should buy the theater so he could run it.

[MatthewHatesTrump2]

309. Get Shorty?

[Codeine]

90. Three outlandishly-dressed young men

sip from glasses of milk in a stylish drinking establishment.

[Glorfindel]

96. A Clockwork Orange?

[Codeine]

97. Indeed. nt

[Glorfindel]

99. I love that movie, O, my brothers...

nt

[jmowreader]

246. Four.

Alex, Pete, Georgie and Dim.

Bonus question: The Korova Milkbar sold milk with drugs in it. What were the names of the drugs, and which one were Alex and his droogs drinking?

[Codeine]

248. Vellocet, synthmesc, and drencrom.

Spelling approximate.

[jmowreader]

249. Yes it was!

I did some checking...

"Vellocet" is the Nadsat word for stimulants. It's probably methamphetamine.
"Synthemesc" is, naturlich, SYNTHEtic MESCaline.
"Drencrom" is Nadsat for "adrenochrome," which is the oxidation product of adrenaline. According to Hunter Thompson's Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, this stuff will totally fuck you up.

[backtoblue]

91. A car full of stoners

....get pulled over. They say they are going to the border for french fries and gravy.

[backtoblue]

92. Black and white parody of Reefer Madness

Experimental marijuana is the "bees knees".

[red dog 1]

178. Pineapple Express?

[backtoblue]

179. This is the bees knees!

You got it

[backtoblue]

93. A teenage girl is bow hunting in the woods

[Glorfindel]

98. The Hunger Games?

[backtoblue]

102. You got it

[Glorfindel]

107. yay! nt

[backtoblue]

94. Young man plays video game in his apartment

A neighbor comes in crying and gets really sick. She attacks him, and is hit with a toilet lid. (Twice)

[jayfish]

105. Total Guess,...

Shaun of the Dead?

[backtoblue]

106. Nope

Getting warm though

[Harker]

117. Zombieland.

My favorite Bill Murray film.

[backtoblue]

118. Yep!

It's one of my favorites too.

[red dog 1]

108. Movie opens on a children's birthday party

A hired professional photographer asks "Hey, who's the big birthday girl, huh?

"Me!' answers the girl at the head of the table.

[red dog 1]

109. A million stars wink in the night desert sky...An insect, one of those big, multicolored four-winged

jobs, glides effortlessly on the breeze, wafting along through the crisp desert air.
The insect dips, it banks, it does loop-the-loops..and then SPLATS unceremoniously against the windshield of a white van that's tearing down the road.

[Angleae]

113. Men in Black?

[red dog 1]

114. Correctamundo!

[red dog 1]

110. A man who has worked for an insurance company in Omaha for many years is retiring

He is forced to take a hard look at his wife, his life and his relationship with his estranged daughter, who is about to be married.

[friendly_iconoclast]

184. About Schmidt

[red dog 1]

202. You saw "About Schmidt"?

[Mendocino]

281. I saw about Schmidt.

Kathy Bates naked...

[red dog 1]

300. Oh God, that's horrible just to remember!

(Kathy Bates naked)

[red dog 1]

111. A car drives up to a small-town bank and stops. A woman is in the driver's seat and a man is in

the passenger seat.
A police car pulls up, the officer gets out, and walks over to the car and tells the woman that she can't park there.
The man tells the officer that he has a broken foot, shows him the cast,and asks if they could park there just for a few minutes.

[lpbk2713]

120. Charley Varrick

I knew it was Matthau but I had to think a while to come up with the movie title.

[red dog 1]

126. Ding!

[red dog 1]

129. "Nadine was a hell of a driver, Charlie!"

[lpbk2713]

130. Matthau's best take was in another movie. He didn't even have any dialogue.

At the end of the movie Martin Balsam sneezed and Matthau
very slowly opened the door and gave him a "gotcha" look.

[red dog 1]

153. The Taking of Pelham One, Two, Three?

[lpbk2713]

155. That's it.

It was the final scene.

[red dog 1]

112. A quiet, low-key, middle-class suburbanite's peaceful, dreary life changes when a younger couple

move in next door.

[MatthewHatesTrump2]

119. Neighbors?

[red dog 1]

125. Ding!

[red dog 1]

115. A woman drives up to the entrance of a fancy hotel, gets out of her car & tells the attendant

she won't be there long.
Then she goes inside the hotel lobby, looks around, and sees a man wearing glasses.
He asks if she's Carol, and introduces himself as Michael.
It's a blind date set up by her friends.
He suggests that they have a drink before dinner, and she agrees.
Just then, a bell hop comes up to him and hands him a message.
He looks at the message and tells her that he has to go up to his room to make a phone call, and invites her up.
She agrees, and they go up to his suite, where he goes straight to the phone to make his call.
She wanders through the adjoining bedroom to the bathroom.
When she comes out, she hears voices coming from the other room.
A man is talking to Michael, and she waits in the bedroom for a while, listening.
She is able to hear the entire conversation, including one of the visitor's name.
Then, a gun shot is heard, and she immediately hides behind the door in the darkened bedroom.
She stays hidden for a while, and only leaves the bedroom when she's sure the visitors are gone.
Then she goes out into the main room, glances briefly at Michael's body, and leaves the hotel suite.

[First Speaker]

149. Dressed to Kill...?

[red dog 1]

154. Sorry, no.

[Harker]

116. An infantryman slogs his way forward

under machine gun fire. Pinned down in a shell crater, he looks up at the sound of two aircraft in combat above...

[red dog 1]

169. The Big Red One?

Saving Private Ryan?

[Harker]

171. WWI... and they're biplanes above...

[red dog 1]

177. You didn't mention biplanes before.

[Harker]

188. I said, "aircraft" initially.

Then was more specific.

Directed by John Guillerman. Great Jerry Goldsmith score!

[red dog 1]

180. All Quiet on the Western Front?

[Harker]

187. No...

[red dog 1]

181. Was it directed by Stanley Kubrick?

[Harker]

186. Nope.

[red dog 1]

200. Sergeant York?

[Harker]

203. Sorry, Red...

It's from 1966. Color. From a novel by Jack Hunter.

[Mendocino]

251. The Blue Max

[Harker]

258. Yes.

A mediocre film, but a favorite of mine.

[Mendocino]

279. I agree that it's so-so,

but the flying sequences are breathtaking, albeit not historically accurate. More like 1930s crop-dusters with no ammo belts. But as you mentioned, the great score by Jerry Goldsmith soars.

[uriel1972]

121. The pre-dawn light tentively

pierces the mist. An American soldier stumbles through the boggy battlefield. A German soldier approaches him unarmed. "Der Krieg ist zu ende!", he cries.

[lpbk2713]

122. The Big Red One.

...

[uriel1972]

123. indeedy!

[Paladin]

132. OUTSTANDING WWII movie! (nt)

[red dog 1]

124. In the Mediterranean Sea, fishermen rescue an American adrift with two gunshot wounds in his back

They tend to his wounds and find he has no memory of his identity.

[Niagara]

131. The Bourne Identity.

[red dog 1]

134. Yes

[red dog 1]

127. A Native American man is running in slow motion, his long black hair trailing in the wind.

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He wears only buckskin pants and a bone choker around his neck.
Legs and arms churning, the man runs with antelope grace, backlit by the sunrise, bounding toward us..Running..his heart pounding..and then the runner soars, like an eagle, airborne.
All the while Indian drums can be heard, along with singing voices.

[red dog 1]

128. On a battleship out in the ocean, a Chief Petty Officer is told to report to the Captain.

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(The CPO is a cook)

[Paladin]

133. "The Caine Mutiny"? (nt)

[red dog 1]

135. It's just after dawn...It's a jungle all around and in a foul-smelling swamp, a small bubble rises

to the surface, then another...Suddenly, a form begins to emerge from the water.
It's a helmet, water and mud pour off revealing a set of beady eyes.
Printed on the helmet are the words "Gook Killer"
The head emerges, revealing that the toug- looking soldier beneath has very long hair and a beard.
He has no shirt on, only bandoliers of ammunition.
His body is painted in an odd camouflage pattern.

[red dog 1]

136. A soldier in a military facility is being observed through a two-way mirror smoking marijuana and

revealing in his euphoria what he hates about the army.
A high-ranking officer closes the project and deems marijuana illegal.

[MrScorpio]

137. A pair of Egyptologists discover some hieroglyphs that depict the end of the world.

[uriel1972]

138. heh the Fifth Element?

[MrScorpio]

139. That was easy wasn't it?

[uriel1972]

140. yeppers one of my favourite films at the time...

[red dog 1]

141. An elderly priest is on an archaeological dig in the ancient city of Hatra in Iraq...There he finds

an amulet that resembles a demon.

[uriel1972]

142. heh exorcist:)

[red dog 1]

152. Yes!

[uriel1972]

158. too easy :)

[jmowreader]

143. A truck driver gets arrested for the contents of his load

[Mendocino]

288. Smokey and The Bandit?

[jmowreader]

291. Yup

[jmowreader]

144. A security guard sees a white substance bubbling out of the ground

He tastes it and makes the decision to sell it.

[jmowreader]

145. Dozens of men have their heads quickly shaved

[First Speaker]

148. Full Metal Jacket...?

[jmowreader]

150. Yes

It's probably the beginning of any movie that has a Marine boot camp sequence, though.

[Coventina]

146. Phoenix Arizona, afternoon, the camera pans the downtown skyline

zeros in on a window, where a couple is post-coitus...

[First Speaker]

147. Psycho

[Coventina]

151. Winner!!

[red dog 1]

156. Two guys are siphoning gasoline from their next-door neighbor's car..One then goes to work at

a movie studio, while the other searches around the room for something to smoke.

[jmowreader]

159. Cheech and Chong's Next Movie

[red dog 1]

165. Correctamundo!

(Very funny flick)

[jmowreader]

167. This may be the single funniest scene ever put on film

[red dog 1]

170. "I can get laid with this, huh?"

Extremely funny scene, possibly funniest ever, like you say.

[Niagara]

157. A wild rabbit is grazing and foraging on wild grass and plants.

A Saint Bernard spots the rabbit and starts chasing it. The rabbit runs for it's life for what seems forever and eventually escapes through a hallow log and enters a crevice. The dog sticks his head into the crevice and barks awaking a nest of bats. One of the bats bites the Saint Bernard on the nose.

[uriel1972]

160. CUJO!

[Niagara]

161. Correct!

[Algernon Moncrieff]

162. August, 1962 was a stormy time for France.

"August, 1962 was a stormy time for France. Many people felt that Charles DeGaule had betrayed the country by giving independence to Algeria. Extremists, mostly from the army, swore to kill him in revenge. They banded together in an underground movement and called themselves the O. A. S."

[uriel1972]

163. Day Of The Jackal

[Algernon Moncrieff]

164. In memory of the recently departed Michael Lonsdale

If you have not seen the film, this scene is iconic....

[red dog 1]

166. A man in a holiday costume is sitting at the end of a crowded bar."Hey, can I get another drink here

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He shouts to the bartender.

[Mad_Dem_X]

214. Bad Santa?

[red dog 1]

220. Ding!

(Funniest Christmas movie ever)

[Brother Buzz]

172. An intoxicated person is arrested for destroying municipal property

[lpbk2713]

173. Cool Hand Luke

...

[Brother Buzz]

174. Sometimes nothing can be a real cool hand

[lpbk2713]

175. "I don't believe we ever had one of them in here before."

Ptu.

[Mendocino]

252. Parking meters?

What we got here...

[Brother Buzz]

257. It was filmed in the Stockton, California, area

A crew went down to Florida and filmed the shit out of a Florida prison camp, then returned to Northern California and recreated it. They even imported a boatload of that 'moss' to hang in the trees.

[Mendocino]

287. Dennis Hopper,

Warren Finnerty and Lew Askew costarred. They were also all in Easy Rider together.

[red dog 1]

176. Four men are in a boat out on the water...It's very dark, and they don't have any lights on

There is another boat, larger than their boat, it has it's lights on and is looking for them.
"Shh"
"What?"
"Listen!"
"Oh my God!..Jesus Christ!"
"They're gone!..Let's go!"
"Listen, Listen!"
"They're coming back now!"
A man's voice can be heard coming from the other boat:
"Steckler!..Steckler!"

[Harker]

189. The screen is black. A man speaks...

"I believe in America..."

[lpbk2713]

194. Godfather

...

[Harker]

195. Certo.

[lpbk2713]

196. Bonasera, Bonasera.

What have I ever done to make you treat me so disrespectfully?

[Harker]

197. You come to my home on the day of my daughter's

wedding and you ask me to do murder.

[Harker]

190. A walking man comes to a fork in the road.

There he throws a stick in the air, allowing its resting alignment to indicate his way forward.

[Codeine]

253. Sanjuro.

Mifune and Kurosawa made the greatest team.

[Harker]

263. Yes.

You can say the same for Shimura Takashi and Nakadai Tatsuya.

[Codeine]

264. Shimura Takashi is in everything.

Talk about ubiquitous.

[Harker]

265. He's a big favorite for me.

Rashomon tonight, as I introduce my sweetheart to Japanese film.. Red Beard next.

[DFW]

191. Rainy day, Georgia, Civil War, five Reb soldiers on horseback meet a man in the middle of the road

Strange things happen.

[uriel1972]

192. Timecop?

[DFW]

193. That's it. "A friend of the Confederacy" who just happened to have a laser-guided machine gun n/t

[UnderThisLaw]

198. A gigantic flying stone head vomits guns to a waiting populace

[Harker]

199. Were you... in an altered state? n/t

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[red dog 1]

201. Interior of a nightclub, singers onstage singing the song "We Are Family"...A man walking around

the tables asks another man, "Agador, where is Starrina? She goes on in five minutes!"

[Mendocino]

282. The Birdcage

walking like John Wayne...

[red dog 1]

298. Ding!

Great & very funny film!

[red dog 1]

299. Gene Hackman in drag

[Stuart G]

204. An animal is running around a kitchen, and

hits something and everything comes crashing down.

[uriel1972]

231. who killed Roger Rabbit?

[Stuart G]

236. Yes, of course ....

[Stuart G]

205. An angel is talking about someone, and we start following that someone's life.

(sorry I got it wrong in previous post.....oh, oh...I had better hide

I was referring to ...."It's a Wonderful Life".......yep that one got away...

[Stuart G]

206. A couple of men are talking about very important items, One says to another, "plastics."

[red dog 1]

219. The Graduate?

[Stuart G]

221. Yes, Of course...If I recall, then one throws something in a fish tank and the movie begins.

Or, something like that...??

A really great movie in my opinion. Also, the beginning of Dustin Hoffman's movie career.

[red dog 1]

222. And a great soundtrack by Simon and Garfunkel

[Stuart G]

223. I had forgot that, Yes, you are correct. K and R post 222 above!!

[jmowreader]

303. That's not how The Graduate starts

"A young man flies into Los Angeles International Airport, rides the moving walkway to the baggage carousels, retrieves his one suitcase, and smiles as he walks through the automatic door."

[Stuart G]

207. A woman is in a space ship capsule sleeping, and is awakened by a couple of men who found the

capsule drifting in outer space.

[uriel1972]

211. Aliens?

[Stuart G]

217. Yes indeed...!! I saw the first one, "Alien" in a movie theater, whenever it

came out. I remember to this day, I that one scared me. So when the second one came out, I waited
to play it on that new video tape machine, discussed in another post below, and that one scared the
fu**ing sh** out of me too. It was masterfully directed, but there is are many scenes in that movie,
that even if you know what is coming, you will barf. :barf:

...That movie, Aliens, is perhaps my most frightening film ever.

[Stuart G]

208. An insect is talking about a wooden puppet.

[uriel1972]

212. pinocchio(sp?)

[Stuart G]

215. Yes, that is it...I cannot spell either...I've been corrected many many times.

[Stuart G]

210. A woman checks into a motel and is taking a shower and is attacked.

[uriel1972]

213. psycho?

[Stuart G]

216. Of course, that is it...But I have to admit when I saw it in 1960..I couldn't sit throught he whole

movie...I still cannot watch that incredible scary movie, after I got my first video tape machine,
I watched the last 5 minutes.....still scared the s**t out of me. That director was really something..
You know who directed ? Don't You?

I just looked it up...The whole movie is 1 hour 49 minutes long...I still won't sit through that ...I wonder
how much you would have to pay me to sit through that? Don't know & don't care...

[red dog 1]

218. In Dublin, A young man is wandering through a huge outdoor flea market that includes people

selling their wares, including clothes, DVDs, television sets, and even live horses.
He goes up to one of the tables and takes out some DVDs he has and shows them to the guy behind the table...The guy's not interested...The young man walks on and goes to another table, where a woman is selling t-shirts..He takes a t-shirt out of his shoulder bag and shows it to her, but she's not interested in it...He then gets on a bus, is recognized by an acquaintance, and pulls out more of the DVDs he has, which catches the interest of several young people on the bus.

[MatthewHatesTrump2]

229. The Commitments

[uriel1972]

232. my first thought, but I had doubts...

[red dog 1]

234. Correctamundo!

[red dog 1]

224. A young couple is seated next to the window in a coffee shop...The place is crowded.

The young man has a slight, working-class British accent and is smoking a cigarette.
The waitress comes over and asks, "Can I get anybody anymore coffee?"
The young woman says, "Yes, thank you."

[lpbk2713]

225. Pulp Fiction

...

[red dog 1]

226. Ding!

[red dog 1]

227. A man sits in a prison cell and narrates how he has committed the perfect robbery.

In New York, masked robbers, dressed as painters and using variants of the name "Steve" as aliases, seize control of a Manhattan bank and take the patrons and employees hostage.

[uriel1972]

233. Hmmm I didn't think it was a cell, but a small

room nonetheless. I know the movie, just can't remember the name. Jodie Foster, George Clooney and was it Laurence Fishbourne?

[red dog 1]

235. It was a prison cell

Jodie Foster was in it, but not George Clooney, or Lawrence Fishbourne (Who is he?)

[discntnt_irny_srcsm]

302. That would be Inside Man

Denzel and Clive acting, Spike directing.

[red dog 1]

307. That's it!

[red dog 1]

228. It's early morning...A man is asleep in a tent until the radio alarm goes off.

He fumbles around for the knob and turns the alarm off.
Then he fumbles around for a microphone on a shelf near his bed.
He puts the needle down on a record which is already on a record player and says into the mic:
"Attention camp senior staff, counselors, and counselors in training, please rise for our national anthem."

[red dog 1]

230. A police officer is sitting in his office, a television set is on.The phone rings and he picks it up

"Chief Whitlock,", he says into the phone.
(caller) "Chief Whitlock, it's...it's Ann...Ann Marie Harrison..Somebody just broke into my house!"
(Chief Whitlock) "All right, be right over, ma'am"

[jmowreader]

274. A man drives to a prison to watch a hanging.

[Harker]

278. The Dirty Dozen.

[jmowreader]

292. It wasn't the most pleasant way to spend the evening.

[Harker]

293. Especially for Pvt. Gardner...

the "object of the exercise."

[Stuart G]

237. There is a group of dinosaurs in the jungle or woods and the camera pans around..

I think there is an .."earthquake"...and then??

[uriel1972]

260. Transformers: Extinction? drawing a long bow here

[Stuart G]

271. Nope....

[Stuart G]

238. A senator has just died and the question is who will replace the person who died?

A group of the leaders get together to pick the next senator..

[hfojvt]

314. a total Boy Scout

Mr. Smith Goes to Washington

[Stuart G]

316. Yes, You are correct...In the end, Mr. Smith is "the leader"...not just any scout..

[Stuart G]

239. There is a scene at a baseball game and we see the star, who is a reporter watch the game

and then go out with his girl friend. Then they go back to the reporter's house and we meet his two aunts who raised him. The story continues in that house..(I think the city was New York, not sure)

[Stuart G]

240. We view a very old indian and he tells his story about his life and he eventually

fought with General Custer.

[Harker]

259. Little Big Man.

[Stuart G]

270. Yes....absolutely....

[Harker]

273. Only saw it once... at the theatre. n/t

[Stuart G]

241. There is a scene inside a museum or huge home with lots of art objects and there is a

horrible fire and the film goes on from there..

[Stuart G]

242. There is a scene of a murder in Chicago and two witnesses who saw it know they

got to leave town and go to Florida to get away from the gang that committed the murder..These two
ride the train and the story continues from there..(train ride, getting to Florida...meeting people etc. etc.
etc...(hint: a drop dead gorgeous, beautiful actress stared in this film)

[Stuart G]

243. A couple of very poor ranchers go into a Texas town to try to get some strong, powerful,

cowboys to fight a gang that has taken over the ranchers home area..(very bad evil gang),,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, some outstanding music in this one...(late 50s)(as well as a top notch group of actors, and the evil gang leader is also outstanding..

[Codeine]

254. The Magnificent Seven? nt

[Stuart G]

267. Yes...You got it...

[Stuart G]

244. A young accountant comes to the door of a play writer's office and tries to enter...

but the play writer is fooling around with some older women and the accountant interrupts
the play writers fun. (the play writer fools around with older women in order to get money to produce
his plays..)

[jmowreader]

247. The Producers

[Stuart G]

268. Yes....

[Stuart G]

245. A group of very rich men bet on whether or not a man could go around the world

in a certain time frame..

[uriel1972]

261. Around the World in Eighty Days

[Stuart G]

269. Yes...Yes..and Yes...!!!

[Rabrrrrrr]

250. A totally black screen, and then the logo of the movie studio slowly brightens.

Good luck!

[uriel1972]

262. oddball guess, but Coming to America?

[Rabrrrrrr]

266. The one I'm thinking of also ends with a long scrolling list of people involved

in making the movie.

[Tommy_Carcetti]

272. An old man with a facial scar sits by a fire speaking a thick pidgin dialect.

Speaks about the "fangy devil."

The scene then shifts to the 1800s and a man walking down a beach to meet with a doctor, played by the same actor as the old man in the preceding scene.

[jmowreader]

275. Two men drive an ice cream truck to the beach.

[Harker]

276. A man watches from behind a boulder

as a suspicious mustang examines a watering hole.

[Harker]

277. As a rusty windmill creaks...

three men at a desolate rail station await the arrival of a train.

[Mendocino]

286. Once Upon a Time in the West.

[Harker]

290. Second best acting job by a fly.

[Mendocino]

280. Three guys are driving at night.

The passengers are dozing, they hear some thumps. They think they may of hit a deer.

[Harker]

283. Goodfellas.

[Harker]

284. Gotta borrow a knife to

get the deer paw outta the grill.

[Mendocino]

285. No paw...

a hooooff.

[Harker]

289. ...

[Harker]

294. A drunken young man drops to the sidewalk to play

with a wind-up monkey, tucking it in under a piece of newspaper before curling up to sleep.

[Mad_Dem_X]

304. Rebel Without A Cause!

[Harker]

305. Right!

This thread has awakened some fond cinematic memories.

[Harker]

295. A young man loses control of the motorized

scooter he's riding as he approaches the entrance of a drive-in restaurant.

[red dog 1]

297. American Graffitti?

[Harker]

301. You rock (around the clock), Red!

[red dog 1]

306. Actually, it was an educated guess

(I love that movie)

[Harker]

308. Have a popsicle! n/t

[Harker]

296. A man makes occasional whooping sounds as he

flips through a stack of b&w photos of a man and a woman having sex. Then he tosses them in the air, and punches a wall.

[red dog 1]

310. A young couple is sitting together on a hill overlooking the Atlantic Ocean.

The man says to the woman, "You have no idea how much I love you."
The woman replies, "Yeah?'
The man replies, "Yeah..Will you stay with me no matter what?"
The woman replies, "Of course, Charlie"

[red dog 1]

311. A man dressed in a tuxedo is standing in the wings of a theater watching actors perform on stage

After the last line is read, the audience erupts in applause.
"Bravo! Bravo!"
Shouts come from the audience.."Author! Author!"
The actors turn to smile at the man standing in the wings.
He seems dazed, unable to take it all in.
He is gently nudged toward the stage by two other men in tuxedos.
As he heads towards the stage the applause is deafening.

[red dog 1]

312. Movie opens on a car towing another car in the snow...soon a large trucker's cafe appears,

and the driver parks in the lot.
He goes inside, looks around, and spots two men seated side-by-side at a table.
He goes over and introduces himself, then says:
"Shep Proudfoot said...."
He's interrupted by one of the men:
"He said you'd come at 7:30...What gives?"
The man replies, "Aw, I'm sorry, Shep told me 8:30, it was a mix-up, I guess."
The other man asks, "You got the car?"
"Yeah, you bet..It's out in the lot there," the man replies.

[intrepidity]

319. Fargo? nt

[red dog 1]

320. That's it!

(I've probably seen Fargo 30 times)

[red dog 1]

313. The scene...a London hotel room....A man, his wife, and 9-year-old daughter are playing Monopoly

"With a hotel, that's ." says the girl, then adds, "I'm tired," and goes into an adjoining bedroom.
The wife goes into the bathroom.
A knock on the door, the man opens it and says "Yes?"
A hotel employee has a table with a bottle of champagne and some candles.
"Oh, yeah," says the man, "bring it on in."
The hotel employee leaves.
The wife comes out of the bathroom and says, "Candles?..Champagne?.I wish I'd thought of that."
"One of us had to," the husband replies..."Is she asleep?"
"What about your speech?" the wife asks.
"I'll wing it," the husband replies.

Next scene, the man is finishing giving a speech to a crowded room.
While at the same time, the wife and daughter are outside Buckingham Palace.
The girl stares at the Queen's Guard standing as sentry, looking straight ahead.
She does a couple of dance steps and looks at him to see what he does.
He stands there, not moving, eyes straight ahead.
"I'm sure he's impressed," the mother says.

[hfojvt]

315. a green square is flashing in the upper left corner, we hear beeping and a phone dialing

a man answers

[intrepidity]

318. The Matrix? nt

[red dog 1]

317. The scene....a crowded airport....Two strangers, both men, accidentally bump into each other

"You Okay? the first man asks the second man.
"I'm fine, mate. Don't worry about it." the second man replies.
"Enjoy L.A." the first man says and they both head off in different directions.
Next scene is outside the airport.
A cab driver is sitting in his cab, window down.
A man stops and asks him "Hey pal, where can I catch a shuttle?"
"Back there," the cab driver replies, pointing behind him.
Soon, a young woman with a briefcase gets into the cab.
"Where to?" the cab driver asks.
"Downtown...312 North Spring street," she replies.
"Downtown," the cab driver repeats out loud to himself, and begins to drive away from the curb.