The Movie Game

[Pigslilspaz]

Letters from Iwo Jima.

Winner!

Gonna say Princess Mononoke

Someone already got it, but correct

[curry1]

I guarantee almost everyone on this forum has seen this.

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It came out the same year as Apocalypse Now!

[shiv]

Is that an Ewok? Return of the Jedi then.

[curry1]

Is that an Ewok? Return of the Jedi then.

Remember that it is only 33:33 into the movie.  It is a dog attacking a girl.

[Penguin]

Lol.  Now that you say it...


Bit of a side tracked story here.

Anyway this year in my AP English class we read Heart of Darkness which is what Apocalypse Now! is an adaptation of, as I am sure you know.  Anyway before we watched the film our teacher gave us about a thirty minute lecture on common works and acronyms used by the military.  Verbatim "CO means Commanding Officer,  LZ means Landing Zone... etc... etc...".  I'm snickering inside because this has all been engrained into me since as long as I can remember.  However in my teacher's defense I do live in the liberal suburbs of DC.

Later on during the movie she explains that "'Charlie' isn't a person but slang for the VC/NVA (I guess some people were confused) and that there were many names used like gook and that probably there are slang names used in the Middle East now. (Which there obviously are)"  Here comes the best part.  When our teacher is explaining what Charlie means and listing some of the other names a girl says,"Yeah, they were also called 'Hueys'."  Me and my friend just lost it.  For some reason it was just timed correctly and I just about started to cry.

We are the future.  The best and brightest of the generation in the best schools in the country.  Can't wait to see what mistakes and history my generation will repeat.

You are the exception to the rule- they can probably name many things that you've never heard of.  Don't assume that just because they can't understand slang from the Vietnam war that they'll mess up the future.  I would have no clue either, had my dad not played Jane's Fleet Command, Hearts of Iron, and other such games with me since I was old enough to read and had the dexterity to hold a mouse (4-5 years old).  Does that make me smarter than everyone else?  Heck no.  Does it make me a potentially better soldier or officer?  No, I couldn't fight my way out of a paper bag, and I'm no longer a fan of blowing other people up with TLAM's, SM2's, and SSN launched ADCAP's according to Blue Water doctrine while hunting the Kuznetsov in the Black Sea, or debating the finer points of defeating an air-defense grid using a combined TLAM and ATGM missle strike.  There, without Google you'll likely be looking at me cross-eyed.  Now you know how they feel.

-Penguin

[Pigslilspaz]

Penguin, play the game, not derail it. lol

[curry1]

You are the exception to the rule- they can probably name many things that you've never heard of.  Don't assume that just because they can't understand slang from the Vietnam war that they'll mess up the future.  I would have no clue either, had my dad not played Jane's Fleet Command, Hearts of Iron, and other such games with me since I was old enough to read and had the dexterity to hold a mouse (4-5 years old).  Does that make me smarter than everyone else?  Heck no.  Does it make me a potentially better soldier or officer?  No, I couldn't fight my way out of a paper bag, and I'm no longer a fan of blowing other people up with TLAM's, SM2's, and SSN launched ADCAP's according to Blue Water doctrine while hunting the Kuznetsov in the Black Sea, or debating the finer points of defeating an air-defense grid using a combined TLAM and ATGM missle strike.  There, without Google you'll likely be looking at me cross-eyed.  Now you know how they feel.

-Penguin

      Now calm down there space cowboy.  I am very familiar with all of those terms.  I am very aware that my classmates are intelligent people and no doubt know things that I do not.  I am sure all of them know things that I don't.  In fact every single person on the planet knows something I don't.  I obviously was being facetious.  It's just that I thought relaying that story would hopefully create some laughs with some of the members of the board.  Don't be too proud of these technological terrors you have imaginary control of.  The difference between the specific weapon systems you have named and a abbreviation like CO or LZ is quite different.  In fact if I said the sentence,"The private saluted his CO at the LZ right after his chopper landed there." anybody could get an understanding of what is meant there.

      I read The Hunt for Red October when I was eight years old and Red Storm Rising right after.  All of those systems are used and explained in heavy detail in those books.  I am not saying you aren't intelligent but I am saying you shouldn't try to wave it around like you are always in some kind of intelligence noodle measuring contest.  You aren't.  No one cares.  Also next time you try to outsmart someone on a forum that has people mainly interested in military weapons you might not want to use everyone's common base of knowledge to prove how you know things that we do not.

[shiv]

I just assumed it was a Star Wars movie....

1979, dog attacks girl in some sort of forest that everyone here would have seen, eh?

[curry1]

I just assumed it was a Star Wars movie....

1979, dog attacks girl in some sort of forest that everyone here would have seen, eh?

Lol it does have to do with space.

[morfiend]

 Possibly the Omen!









   

[curry1]

Possibly the Omen!









   

nope

[caldera]

I figured the lighting would probably give it away.



I guarantee almost everyone on this forum has seen this.

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Come on all post some more!  "Acquire" a copy of a movie and print-screen it.

That is from Moonraker.  What a waste of a hot French chick. 


Love this thread concept!  My all-time favorite movie and easiest one is first:













The last one is tough, but I bet most of you have seen it.  And "Other Means" is only the chapter title, sorry. 

[F22RaptorDude]

That is from Moonraker.  What a waste of a hot French chick. 


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The last one is tough, but I bet most of you have seen it.  And "Other Means" is only the chapter title, sorry. 

omg omg omg I know the last one, isn't it close encounters of the third kind?

[ScottyK]

That is from Moonraker.  What a waste of a hot French chick. 


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The last one is tough, but I bet most of you have seen it.  And "Other Means" is only the chapter title, sorry. 

 1st Aliens  3rd FithElement

[caldera]

Yes and yes. 

omg omg omg I know the last one, isn't it close encounters of the third kind?

Nope.  The only clue I will give is that the movie was made 14 years prior to Close Encounters.