GAME: Guess Movie by Screenshot! *COMPLETED*
Submitted by lukeprog on Fri, 08/20/2004 - 02:28
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- COMPLETED! - many thanks and congratulations to all the players, especially to Imposter who got 12 of them!
- This game you can't cheat via the IMDB. And, I didn't even name the image files after the movie. Difficulties indicated by star rating, * being the easiest, **** being the hardest. Enjoy!
*** The Great Train Robbery - guessed by Cosgrove
*** King Kong - guessed by openstacks
*** Safety Last! - guessed by Imposter
***** La Jetee - guessed by 0dysseus
* Rush Hour - guessed by xfanatic50
**** Plan 9 from Outer Space - - guessed by Imposter
** The Iron Giant - guessed by Imposter
*** Vertigo - guessed by Imposter
***** The Old Mill - guessed by Cosgrove
*** The Hidden Fortress - guessed by Imposter
*** American Splendor - guessed by Imposter
**** Malena - guess by Jim
***** Casablanca - guessed by Imposter
** A Clockwork Orange - guessed by Imposter
*** The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari - guessed by Imposter
**** Brazil - guessed by Imposter
*** Paths of Glory - guessed by Imposter
*** The Transporter - guessed by cmonster
*** Monster's Ball - guessed by Rushmore
** Dr. No - guessed by Imposter
Author Comments:
Guess away! I'll keep adding more entries as the ones I've put up get guessed. My apologies to 56k users. I'll probably stop adding at 20 images just so it doesn't get too big, then start a new one.
I guess Jim has a big decision to make on whether he wants to alienate all his 56k members with more lists like this. (The "recent updates" page continues to jerk down while you're trying to read it.)
I'm truly sorry for greasing the hinges of Pandora's Box by introducing my list of "images" and sparking this latest trend. Nothing personal lukeprog.
Woah! Woah! Woah! A few lists like this one isn't going to turn away all 56kers! 99.9% of lists on Listology are still all text, and even if 20% became image-heavy, most 56kers I know are used to waiting on sites like MSN or Yahoo or IGN or CNN or whatever, and won't be turned off by the image-heavy lists. Or, they can simply ignore those and still enjoy all the quicker-loading ones.
Please don't apologize - I personally don't mind the occassional image list. The images are all stored elsewhere, so it doesn't affect my bandwidth. It will scroll off the "recent updates" page soon enough, and 56K users can toggle whether images should be displayed in their browser if it's unbearable in the meantime. If it becomes a problem I'll devise some other solution, but for now it's the exception rather than the norm.
*MY* complaint is that the images aren't numbered, so it makes answering a pain. :-) I did see Malena, Casablanca, The Iron Giant, Brazil, and The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari on there though.
Yup, numbers added after Imposter's post (who posted just before you).
Who, alas, beat you to Casablanca, The Iron Giant, Brazil, and The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari.
Just looking out for the little guy. I guess most everybody has switched to something faster by now. In the meantime, I'll have what lukeprog is having ~;^) Hahaha! Damn boy! I've never seen anyone put out so much content in so little time. Good stuff too!
glad you like, but I'm hardly going to keep up this pace much longer :-)
BTW, that'd be Raisin Bran and Wheat Thins I'm having.
Jim, listing the MINUTE a message was posted really comes in handy for these games!!!!
3 - Safety Last?
7 - The Iron Giant?
10 (or around there) - The Hidden Fortress
Next one - American Splendor
Two after that - looks like Renault and Strasser; Casablanca?
Next one - A Clockwork Orange
Cabinet Of Dr. Caligari?
Brazil?
6 - Plan 9 From Outer Space
8 - Vertigo
damn dude, with the likes of your prowling about, I'm gonna have to make these harder :-) Nice work!!!!
lol you even changed the properties name! dang lloll..not that i was going to cheat ;]
properties name? I didn't think the process I was using transferred any metadata at all...
Hey Luke, great game!
17. Paths Of Glory
20. Dr. No
18-Monsters Ball?
I assume you meant #19.
yeah sorry
so what did you mean by properties name in the above post?
no when you click right click you can go to "properties" and see where it came from but as you explain at the top you changed it.
did you save it on your computer then change the name?
Yeah, I edited them all on my PC first so I could crop them (in some instances) and make them 200 pixel width (for most).
I'm using Opera. Does IE give out metadata when you do click image properties?
on, just gives out the adrress and your custom save name
Hints:
#1, #4, and #9 are shorts.
#4 is 2-3 movie/people relationships away from #16 (for example, The Ten Commandments is related to Seven Samurai in that Yul Brenner, a star of The Ten Commandments, also starred in The Magnificent Seven, which was a remake of Seven Samuari).
I'm REALLY surprised someone hasn't gotten #5 or #14 yet, I'm not giving a hint for those :-)
Oops, Yul Brynner.
I think I answered #14 in my first post above.
d'oh! I'm a moron. Sorry.
Then #4 would have to be La Jetee... not that I've seen it, I've just read about it.
Okay, hold up. How the hell would you know that without even seeing the movie? :-)
Terry Gilliam is one of the few directors that I regard with a capital Awe. His source material is unspeakably brilliant: Bros. Grimm, Hunter S. Thompson, Malory, Raspe/Münchhausen/Bürger and Immermann, McGoohan and Orwell, Lewis Caroll, and Malory again. That doesn't include his feints at material by Cervantes, Gaiman & Pratchett, Twain, Dickens, Moore and Dick as well as the upcoming Cullin, perhaps. As it always is with Gilliam, the outcome will be in doubt up until the last moment. You have to love a director who can inspire "Losing the Light," "The Hamster Factor" and "Lost in La Mancha." So I know *of* Chris Marker's "La Jetee" but I've never actually seen it.
So being 2-3 degrees separated from Brazil could'a meant source material for another Gilliam film. I remembered the animals on the surface from 12 Monkeys, knew that La Jetee was a B&W short and I was able to make the contextual leap from there. This is all a big set up for one of my many high school quiz team stories: we were on some television show and got into the "Brontes" category and the question started "Heathcliff and Cathy on the moors..." but I buzzed in like a demon with "Wuthering Heights!" My English teacher was so proud I didn't have the heart to tell her that I'd never read anything by any Bronte. However, I had heard the Kate Bush song "Wuthering Heights" and was extrapolating from the lyrics. What makes this anecdote tragic is the fact that I had no idea who Kate Bush was back then. But I did have two Pat Benatar albums and on one of them she did a cover version of the song.
Oh Pat, when I think of all that you have taught me... Love truly is a battlefield.
Wow, good detective work, then!
Well... accidental work at best.
Is #5 Rush Hour?
hurray!
Number 2 isn't King Kong, is it?
It IS!!!
18. The Transporter?
yup!
#1 is "The Great Train Robbery". And #9 is a Disney short -- I think it's called "The Old Mill". Great short, BTW...
Nice! Good work! Yes, it is a great short, isn't it?
#1 The Great Train Robbery
Curses on you Cosgrove! Beat me by two minutes. Grrrrr!!!
Hehe, yes, and Imposter beat Jim to a couple of 'em by only two minutes, earlier. Close calls!