Post 5 movies, TV shows or songs, four of which you love, and one you don't love,

[red dog 1]

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and see if anyone can guess which one you don't love.

Five John Hughes films

1) Sixteen Candles
2) The Breakfast Club
3) Home Alone
4) Planes, Trains, and Automobiles
5) National Lampoon's Vacation

[Harker]

1. I'll go with "Home Alone."

Or am I projecting again?

[red dog 1]

10. No, I loved Home Alone, especilly Joe Pesci & Daniel Stern

[davsand]

2. I guess Home Alone is your "non favorite."

Coen Brother's Films are my list. One of these was not one of my favored films. Can you guess which one?

1) Raising Arizona
2) Miller's Crossing
3) Blood Simple
4) Fargo
5) Burn After Reading



Laura

[Harker]

4. Blood Simple?

[davsand]

5. You got it!

[Harker]

6. Could've been my list! n/t

[leighbythesea2]

3. You don't love

Home Alone
Is my guess.

Im a Steven Soderberg fan.

Erin Brockovich
Traffic
Sex Lies & Videotape
Oceans 11
Oceans 13

[Harker]

8. Was Oceans 13 a bit much?

[leighbythesea2]

23. A bit

My next guess on your list is Sixteen Candles....

[Harker]

24. That's Red's list...

Sounds like a good guess!

[leighbythesea2]

33. Right

The OPs list. I see yours now.
But I've only seen one film, so won't be guessing. Did someone get yours?

[Harker]

39. My Martin Ritt list remains unsettled...

Which one have you seen?

My John Frankenheimer and Jim Jarmusch lists we're settled on the first guesses.

More to come. I am a pretty trivial person.

[leighbythesea2]

43. Norma Rae

These threads are fun bc I realize how many movies I haven't seen.

Very recently decided was going to start viewing by actor i like, four or so, i had not seen. had a long nearly decade period of working so many hours I missed some classic stuff.
Plus i like older films too, so together there's so much....

[Harker]

44. The Academy really, really liked Sally Field...

but I didn't love the film. I've only seen it once though, when it was new, so it's worth a revisit. I'm quite a different person.

I like your approach. It's fun to set up mini-festivals of unseen ones or old favorites.

[leighbythesea2]

45. Rewatched it

Not long ago & I do like it.
Erin Brockovich Is one of my fav movies tho, so especially like the female-takes-on-corporate-advesary story line.

Was overwhelmed thinking how to tackle a lot of movies & still not tons of time.
Now gotta decide which actor to start with....

[Harker]

46. I hope you'll have fun.

Watching a good film is like taking a little vacation, and you might be away for years in only 90 minutes.

[red dog 1]

11. Nope, I love Home Alone

[Harker]

7. I'm quite fond of Martin Ritt...

Edge of the City
The Spy Who Came in From the Cold
Hud
Norma Rae
Hombre

[red dog 1]

13. I'm gonna guess Hombre

(But I'm probably wrong)

[Harker]

15. One of my favorites since childhood.

There are characters and quotes from your other threads that are hanging fire.

[red dog 1]

16. I'm not familiar with the term "hanging fire"

give me some examples (from my other threads)

[Harker]

20. I think "hanging fire" derives from flintlock musketry

where a "flash (of powder) in the pan" results in slow combustion you get "hanging fire".

A lot of my posts remain unsolved mysteries.

[ProfessorGAC]

21. For Those In My Work...

...the meaning is slightly different, yet related.
In reactions involving volatile reagents that carry their own oxygen, a slight loss of nitrogen positive pressure can cause temporary back flow of air through the condenser.
A fire form in the vapor space and just hangs there. It doesn't extend down to the liquid layer & can't travel up the condenser line because the available O2 is consumed to fast.
I've had them last as long as 4 or 5 seconds until I could increase nitrogen flow to choke it out.
I'd guess 25% of chemists have seen at least one hangfire. It is a bit scary & it's critical to get it out before it gets down to the vapor liquid interface. If that happens, it could get right exciting!

[Harker]

22. Either situation offers the sort of excitement that I would cheerfully

do without, Professor.

Luckily for my schoolmates, I never progressed beyond the tabletop Bunsen burner!

[ProfessorGAC]

26. Thankfully, I Never Had A Hangfire...

...in a nitration reaction.
Most of that was grad school work, and very small scale.
A hangfire during fulmination of mercury would be "run & duck" time!
Doing that reaction requires the presence of a solvent (typically ethanol) otherwise a hangfire couldn't happen.
Happened to me with both xylene & phenol present. Dangerous, but not disastrous.

[red dog 1]

27. Mine too, I guess

(Nice to see Groucho back)

[red dog 1]

50. Edge of the City?

[Harker]

52. Loved it.

I know I was supposed to love "Norma Rae", but I didn't.

[Harker]

54. Loved it.

John Cassavetes and Sidney Poitier. Jack Warden.

[Harker]

9. Also, John Frankenheimer...

Ronin
The Manchurian Candidate
The Train
Seconds
Birdman of Alcatraz

[red dog 1]

12. Ronin?

[Harker]

14. Yep!

Didn't love it.

[red dog 1]

28. Yea! I got one!

[Tikki]

17. These:

Stranger Than Paradise
Lost In Translation
The Postman
Something About Mary
Blowup


Tikki

[red dog 1]

18. I'll go with "Lost in Translation" because I didn't like it.

[Tikki]

19. Lost In Translation...I actually get what it was all about.

Something About Mary...not so much.

Tikki

[red dog 1]

29. "He was masturbating! He was masturbating! He was masturbating!"

(Don't touch Mary's brother's ear)

[Harker]

25. And there's Jim Jarmusch...

Ghost Dog
The Limits of Control
Mystery Train
Dead Man
Down by Law

[red dog 1]

31. The Limits of Control?

[Harker]

32. I felt badly abused.

[red dog 1]

30. Bill Murray movies

1) Lost in Translation
2) Ghostbusters
3) Groundhog Day
4) What About Bob?
5) Meatballs

[leighbythesea2]

34. Challenging

List.
Going with What about Bob?

[red dog 1]

37. Nope. loved it.

[leighbythesea2]

42. Lost in Translation

[red dog 1]

77. That's the one!

[leighbythesea2]

35. John Cusack Films

Better Off Dead
High Fidelity
Grosse Pointe Blank
American Sweethearts
The Grifters

[red dog 1]

36. Grifters?

[leighbythesea2]

41. No

I loved it. And a lot of 90s film noir.

[red dog 1]

60. High Fidelity?

[leighbythesea2]

63. Loved

High Fidelity. Saw a specoal showing of it with John Cusack question and answer, afterwards.

[red dog 1]

66. American Sweethearts?

[leighbythesea2]

69. Yes

It just falls flat for me. In spite of good people in it.
Much of his work has quirkiness, which i like the best.

[red dog 1]

38. Elvis songs

1) Promised Land
2) In the Ghetto
3) Viva Las Vegas
4) Return to Sender
5) Jailhouse Rock

[Harker]

40. "In the Ghetto" was written by Mac Davis, oddly enough...

but I'll go with the frivolous "Viva Las Vegas", although "Elvis" and "ghetto" don't mesh.

[red dog 1]

48. You got it, Hark

Viva Las Vegas is my least favorite Elvis song.

In the Ghetto, showcases what a deep, rich voice Elvis had.

(Thanks for that info about In the Ghetto)

[Harker]

51. Trivia people need to stick together, Red.

Mac Davis also said that he was once told he needed to come up with a song with a hook... which led him to write "Baby Don't Get Hooked on Me."

[Harker]

47. Science Fiction time...

Star Wars
Alien
Bladerunner
Day the Earth Stood Still (1951)
The Thing (1951)

[red dog 1]

49. Bladerunner?

(I didn't like it very much)

[Harker]

53. One of my big favorites!

[red dog 1]

55. Not "The Day the Earth Stood Still"?

[Harker]

56. Love it!

'51 was a good year for SF.

[red dog 1]

57. Don't tell me you didn't like Star Wars

[Harker]

58. I saw it on the big screen when it came out.

Stoned... Haven't seen it since.

[red dog 1]

59. I saw "2001" on the big screen when it came out

I had eaten a "cookie" right before the movie started, and by the intermission, I was whacked!
(it was a great trip)

[Harker]

62. Now that's an Odyssey.

[leighbythesea2]

70. Kinda love this

Bc I've never watched it start to finish.
I never admit this bc its religion to some.

I have nothing against it, will have to try the whole movie...

[red dog 1]

61. Five films Clint Eastwood starred in

1) Unforgiven
2) True Crime
3) American Sniper
4) Million Dollar Baby
5) Dirty Harry

[leighbythesea2]

64. Guessing

True Crime

[red dog 1]

65. Good guess

The movie itself wasn't bad, but Clint had something wrong with his throat or something, so his never really "spoke".
He whispered all his lines.

[leighbythesea2]

68. Really

Pure guess. I had not seen it. Poor guy.

Have seen, or heard about the others on the list from Clint fans, except for that one. Figured it wasnt a good sign.

[red dog 1]

71. I'm a Clint fan

I just didn't like "True Crime" because he had to whisper all his lines, for whatever reason.

[Initech]

67. 5 2022 albums:

1. Bloodywood - Rakshak

2. Red Hot Chili Peppers - Unlimited Love

3. King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard - Omnium Gatherum

4. St. Paul & The Broken Bones - The Alien Coast

5. Beach House - Modern Love Stories

[red dog 1]

72. Bloodywood?

[Initech]

73. Bloodywood is an awesome metal band from India.

[red dog 1]

74. 5 now-defunct bands

) Dear Mr. Fantasy - Traffic
2) Going Down - The Monkees
3) Little Girl - Syndicate of Sound
4) Saga of the Low Down Let Down - Sopwith Camel
5) I'm Going Home - 10 years After

[red dog 1]

78. HINT: It's not The Monkees song

[Going Down is their best song, imo]

[red dog 1]

75. One-word titled TV shows

1) MASH
2) Friends
3) Bewitched
4) Batman
5) Seinfeld

[red dog 1]

79. HINT: It's not Seinfeld

[leighbythesea2]

80. Bewitched?

I liked. But not the husband actor switch out.

[red dog 1]

82. Nope, not Bewitched

(Interesting that all 3 actors who played Darrin were named Dick)

[leighbythesea2]

83. Friends

Is my 2nd guess. As its quite diff than Seinfeld.

[red dog 1]

84. WinnerWinnerChickenDinner!

[leighbythesea2]

85. Yay

Love chicken dinners

[leighbythesea2]

81. 5 2020 Concerts I had tickets, or plans for:

1) Daniel Romano
2) Sturgill Simpson
3) New Order
4) BTS
5) Rolling Stones

[red dog 1]

86. Five songs by The Kinks

1) You Really Got Me
2) All Day And All Of The Night
3) Come Dancing
4) Waterloo Sunset
5) A Well Respected Man