Thursday, May 17, 2007

Movie Plots & Tribulations of a Meme Kind

Rachel of Pereiraville tagged me with a very interesting meme:



Pick out ten favorite movies, then look them up at IMDb. In the overview at the top of each movie’s page, there are “Plot Keywords,” usually five of them. (Plus more, if you click the link.) Take the first five, and post them. Then the rest of us get to play movie buff and see if we can guess them.

Let's see if you can figure them out:

1. Dracula; Gunfight; Synthetic Blood; Redemption; Engineer
Sundown: Vampire in Retreat
(1991) Starring David Carradine; Bruce Campbell; Deborah Foreman; M. Emmet Walsh; Morgan Brittany
2. Naval Battle; Plague; Whist; Yellow Fever; Megalomaniac
Captain Horatio Hornblower, R.N.
(1951) Starring Gregory Peck; Virginia Mayo; Christopher Lee
3. Pinball; Greek Mythology; Remake; Animated Sequence; Artist
Xanadu
(1980) Starring Gene Kelly; Olivia Newton-John; Michael Beck; Joe Mantegna
4. Independence Day; Father; Fourth Of July; Missing Child; Medical Doctor
Asteroid
(1997) Starring Michael Biehn; Annabella Sciorra; Don Franklin; Michael Wetherly; Anthony Zerbe
5. Speech; Singing In Shower; Dog; Locker Room; Stroke
Dave
(1993) Kevin Kline; Sigourney Weaver; Frank Langella; Ving Rahmes; Ben Kingsley
6. Absurd Violence; TV Show In Film; Disturbing; Bizarre; Phone
Videodrome
(1983) Starring James Woods; Deborah Harry
7. Space; Astronaut; Mirror; Space Travel; Spacecraft Accident
Doppelganger
(1969) Starring Roy Thinnes
8. Artificial Intelligence; Computer; Mathematics; Nuclear Threat; Scientist
Colossus: The Forbin Project
(1970) Starring Eric Braeden; Susan Clark; Marion Ross
9. Castration; Mansion; Hanging; Decapitation; Slasher
April Fool's Day
(1986) Starring Deborah Foreman; Jay Baker; Tom Heaton
10. Cocktail Party; U.S. Air Force; Torero; Count Down; General
Fail-Safe
((1964) Starring Dan O'Herlihy; Walter Matthau; Henry Fonda; Larry Hagman; Ed Binns

1. the Bug
2. Sticks
3. Matt
And whoever else would like to play along.

Now I guess I need to find out if we are ever suppose to post the answers.

10 comments:

Anonymous said...

Is #8 War Games?

(And I'm posting answers below the fold on mine.)

Stephani said...

Is number seven Apollo 13???? That is the only one that I could guess. None of the others look familiar to me but I am not a big action movie watcher. lol! I will probably go "DUH" when you post the rest of the answers. lol! lol! lol!

loonyhiker said...

Is #6 the local news channel? Oh sorry, that's not a movie.
Is #7 2001 A Space Odyssy?
I don't know what #9 is but it sounds preeettty scary!

Anonymous said...

no clue from the stuff they show...

Batman battles dracula for #1?

Anonymous said...

And please tell me what #3 is...with the pinball thingee I keep thinking of the musical 'Tommy', but that doesn't match the Greek Mythology part.

Anonymous said...

hubby guesses:
1. Sundown: The Vampire in Retreat
4. Independence Day
8. War Games

Anonymous said...

Well the bug got the first one right. Sorry, no luck on 4 or 8.

Anonymous said...

Well of course. Now that you've posted the answers Tink it's all perfectly obvious isn't it?

It would probably have helped if I'd actually seen more than one of those movies. Then again...maybe not.

Anonymous said...

Sorry I didn't get here in time to try and guess. I think the only movie I've seen of those was Dave - so I'm thinking I would've had a hard time guessing. :-)

Anonymous said...

Wow. Never seen any of these :-(