I have to check dates. Pretty sure this one came out before either of those. By the way, the title character has a name. However, his name is not the title of the movie.
What do I mean by that? Well, for example (not this movie), Tom Hanks played the title character in The Man With One Red Shoe, but that wasn't his name. Arnold Schwarzenegger played The Running Man, but that wasn't his name. This movie is similar. The title refers to a specific character, but that character's name is not the title of the movie.
I just checked it: This movie came out nine months before Wall Street, so it would allegedly be the first to feature a cell phone. However, Wall Street used it a bit more extensively. Also, I hear Magnum Force used a cell phone too. I have my doubts, but not worth it.
But you're not going to remember that either way.
What you will remember is the age of the non-title character being raised as an issue, by that character, repeatedly. Humorously. Punctuated with an expletive.
1."Hello, and welcome to "TV Car Trivia!" First question, who was the driver of a '73 Firebird? Uh, Otto?"
2."Uh, Jim Rockford, "Rockford Files"."
3."Gimme "Columbo"."
4."A Peugeot convertible."
1."What color?"
4."Gray."
5."How do you know that?"
4."'Cause I love that show."
5."Man, I got three words for all of y'all: Get a life!"
6."What's on Magnum P.I.'s license plate?"
7."ROBIN-1"
4."Wait, wasn't Robin that faggoty guy that always hung with him?"
8."Naw, that was Higgins. That was Higgins."
2."Hey, hey, ten points for our fearless leader. Sway, how about giving us the Bill Bixby trifecta?"
3."Drove a Corvette in "The Magician", a Ford pickup truck in "The Incredible Hulk", and in "The Courtship of Eddie's Father", he walked. "
This remake did well enough in the box office, but I can't help think part of
that was due to the advertising. One supporting character was made to look like
a main character with most of the screen-time.
This is one of the appearances in media of the "coroner with an iron stomach" type of thing. When one character
answers the phone, he's at work in a crematorium. He puts down his sandwich- on the corpse- to answer
the phone.
"If his unpleasant wounding has in some way enlightened
the rest of you as to the grim finish beneath the glossy veneer of
criminal life, then his injuries carry with it an inherent nobility, and
a supreme glory. We should all be so fortunate.
You say 'poor Toby'? I say 'poor us'. "
Cast includes Delroy Lindo, Christopher Eccleston, Giovanni Ribisi, Arye Gross,
Robert Duvall, Angelina Jolie, and Nicolas Cage.
"You ever feel bad about any of this?"
"Hell, no. I'm Robin Hood, man. I rob from the rich and give to the needy."
"You mean the poor."
"No, like I said, the needy. 'Cause brother, we need this car."
1."Hey, man, that was as easy as pie!"
2."I'm a veteran, son."
3."Get outta the car, b*, or I'm gonna blow your brains out!"
2."You gotta be sh*ing me..."
3."Do I have shoot you, d* it?"
*WHAM*
3."D*!"
2.*WHAM*"You lazy, half-@$$ bully! Any @$$h* can pull a gun on somebody! You don't know the first thing about stealing a car! Boy! You need a role model!"
"Without disappointment you cannot appreciate victory."
"Did Eleanor tell you that?"
"Don't touch nothing! You can't negotiate turns. You can't signal properly. You can't maintain speed. You can't parallel park. Hell, you can't drive, honey. Sh*, I can't swim, I know I can't. So you know what I do? I stay my black @$$ out the pool!"
"Air One. we're over the pursuit."
"Suspect has increased speed to 120."
"Maintain visual, Air One."
"140 miles an hour."
"Do NOT lose him."
"This is an A-Star, sir, not an Apache."
"I just stole fifty cars in one night! I'm a little tired, little WIRED, and I think I deserve a little appreciation!"
" Shut it off!"
"You got 30 seconds to consider your options."
"SHUT IT OFF!"
"One, you kill me, they kill you, your brother dies anyway.
Two, you lie, you accept the job, you run, I hunt you down, I kill you, I kill your brother, and I kill your mother for the aggravation you cause me.
Three, you accept the job, you steal some cars, you make some money, and you be a big brother.
8 a.m. Friday Morning. The cars are on the boat, or your brother's in the coffin."
In 1941, Fritz Lang produced a movie that was about a plot to assassinate Adolph Hitler. The U.S. was not at war with Germany at the time, and the movie, "Man Hunt," was the first American made film about an assassination attempt against a foreign leader who was in power at the time.
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Why didn't you say that 2 days ago Mr. Wolf? Your right Rottie, They are pretty good. Makes it tough on me to get my 2 cents in.
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I was way off going with "The Terminal", except that it didn't have any articles of clothing in the title. I assume WordWolf is correct, but I'm not familiar with it. But that's not unusual.
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What do I mean by that? Well, for example (not this movie), Tom Hanks played the title character in The Man With One Red Shoe, but that wasn't his name. Arnold Schwarzenegger played The Running Man, but that wasn't his name. This movie is similar. The title refers to a specific character, but that character's name is not the title of the movie.
This movie spawned three sequels.
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I just checked it: This movie came out nine months before Wall Street, so it would allegedly be the first to feature a cell phone. However, Wall Street used it a bit more extensively. Also, I hear Magnum Force used a cell phone too. I have my doubts, but not worth it.
But you're not going to remember that either way.
What you will remember is the age of the non-title character being raised as an issue, by that character, repeatedly. Humorously. Punctuated with an expletive.
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Is this "the Last Action Hero"?
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No
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The second character's age, and closeness to retirement, is a recurring theme. His repeated line... "I'm too old for this $#!+"
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I kept picturing the character as very young.
Not Danny Glover alongside the "LETHAL WEAPON."
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1."Hello, and welcome to "TV Car Trivia!" First question, who was the driver of a '73 Firebird? Uh, Otto?"
2."Uh, Jim Rockford, "Rockford Files"."
3."Gimme "Columbo"."
4."A Peugeot convertible."
1."What color?"
4."Gray."
5."How do you know that?"
4."'Cause I love that show."
5."Man, I got three words for all of y'all: Get a life!"
6."What's on Magnum P.I.'s license plate?"
7."ROBIN-1"
4."Wait, wasn't Robin that faggoty guy that always hung with him?"
8."Naw, that was Higgins. That was Higgins."
2."Hey, hey, ten points for our fearless leader. Sway, how about giving us the Bill Bixby trifecta?"
3."Drove a Corvette in "The Magician", a Ford pickup truck in "The Incredible Hulk", and in "The Courtship of Eddie's Father", he walked. "
This remake did well enough in the box office, but I can't help think part of
that was due to the advertising. One supporting character was made to look like
a main character with most of the screen-time.
This is one of the appearances in media of the "coroner with an iron stomach" type of thing. When one character
answers the phone, he's at work in a crematorium. He puts down his sandwich- on the corpse- to answer
the phone.
"If his unpleasant wounding has in some way enlightened
the rest of you as to the grim finish beneath the glossy veneer of
criminal life, then his injuries carry with it an inherent nobility, and
a supreme glory. We should all be so fortunate.
You say 'poor Toby'? I say 'poor us'. "
Cast includes Delroy Lindo, Christopher Eccleston, Giovanni Ribisi, Arye Gross.
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I know that this was done before (possibly in Name that Flick), but I can't think of the title.
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1."Hello, and welcome to "TV Car Trivia!" First question, who was the driver of a '73 Firebird? Uh, Otto?"
2."Uh, Jim Rockford, "Rockford Files"."
3."Gimme "Columbo"."
4."A Peugeot convertible."
1."What color?"
4."Gray."
5."How do you know that?"
4."'Cause I love that show."
5."Man, I got three words for all of y'all: Get a life!"
6."What's on Magnum P.I.'s license plate?"
7."ROBIN-1"
4."Wait, wasn't Robin that faggoty guy that always hung with him?"
8."Naw, that was Higgins. That was Higgins."
2."Hey, hey, ten points for our fearless leader. Sway, how about giving us the Bill Bixby trifecta?"
3."Drove a Corvette in "The Magician", a Ford pickup truck in "The Incredible Hulk", and in "The Courtship of Eddie's Father", he walked. "
This remake did well enough in the box office, but I can't help think part of
that was due to the advertising. One supporting character was made to look like
a main character with most of the screen-time.
This is one of the appearances in media of the "coroner with an iron stomach" type of thing. When one character
answers the phone, he's at work in a crematorium. He puts down his sandwich- on the corpse- to answer
the phone.
"If his unpleasant wounding has in some way enlightened
the rest of you as to the grim finish beneath the glossy veneer of
criminal life, then his injuries carry with it an inherent nobility, and
a supreme glory. We should all be so fortunate.
You say 'poor Toby'? I say 'poor us'. "
Cast includes Delroy Lindo, Christopher Eccleston, Giovanni Ribisi, Arye Gross,
Robert Duvall, Angelina Jolie, and Nicolas Cage.
"You ever feel bad about any of this?"
"Hell, no. I'm Robin Hood, man. I rob from the rich and give to the needy."
"You mean the poor."
"No, like I said, the needy. 'Cause brother, we need this car."
1."Hey, man, that was as easy as pie!"
2."I'm a veteran, son."
3."Get outta the car, b*, or I'm gonna blow your brains out!"
2."You gotta be sh*ing me..."
3."Do I have shoot you, d* it?"
*WHAM*
3."D*!"
2.*WHAM*"You lazy, half-@$$ bully! Any @$$h* can pull a gun on somebody! You don't know the first thing about stealing a car! Boy! You need a role model!"
"Without disappointment you cannot appreciate victory."
"Did Eleanor tell you that?"
"Don't touch nothing! You can't negotiate turns. You can't signal properly. You can't maintain speed. You can't parallel park. Hell, you can't drive, honey. Sh*, I can't swim, I know I can't. So you know what I do? I stay my black @$$ out the pool!"
"Air One. we're over the pursuit."
"Suspect has increased speed to 120."
"Maintain visual, Air One."
"140 miles an hour."
"Do NOT lose him."
"This is an A-Star, sir, not an Apache."
"I just stole fifty cars in one night! I'm a little tired, little WIRED, and I think I deserve a little appreciation!"
" Shut it off!"
"You got 30 seconds to consider your options."
"SHUT IT OFF!"
"One, you kill me, they kill you, your brother dies anyway.
Two, you lie, you accept the job, you run, I hunt you down, I kill you, I kill your brother, and I kill your mother for the aggravation you cause me.
Three, you accept the job, you steal some cars, you make some money, and you be a big brother.
8 a.m. Friday Morning. The cars are on the boat, or your brother's in the coffin."
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It's Summer, so I'll be out of reach til Monday.
You can wait for me or work some things out,
depending on the thread.
As for this thread, consider me vanished in the next minute.
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Ok, that was "GONE IN 60 SECONDS."
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Here's a question with an EASY and a HARD answer.
HARD question.
Help! I'm a fish! In this animated story, a scientist's experiment
turns 3 children into fish. Among the voice actors in the English dubbing
(of the Danish film) were Alan Rickman and Terry Jones.
What was the name of the English language release?
EASY question.
In this partly-animated story, a man somehow wished himself into the
form of a fish.
What was its name?
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The EASY one was one of my favorite movies, as a child. I'll see if anyone else gets it (or the hard one!).
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Go ahead, George.
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"The Incredible Mr. Limpet" is the easy one.
George
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For the other,
"A Fish Tale" was the name for the US release. Odd, since the title was
"Help, I'm a Fish!" from when it was made and released in Denmark.
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Fred Astaire
Bing Crosby
Gene Kelly
Peter Lawford
Liza Minnelli
Donald O'Connor
Debbie Reynolds
Mickey Rooney
Frank Sinatra
James Stewart
Elizabeth Taylor
George
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Sounds entertaining
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It does, doesn't it? ;)
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That's Entertainment
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Correct. :)
George
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In 1941, Fritz Lang produced a movie that was about a plot to assassinate Adolph Hitler. The U.S. was not at war with Germany at the time, and the movie, "Man Hunt," was the first American made film about an assassination attempt against a foreign leader who was in power at the time.
This movie was the second.
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We need more clues... :)
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