Name the Movie (Weird Actor Pairings)
Submitted by AJDaGreat on Sun, 02/02/2003 - 04:27
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- Sam Rockwell and French Stewart (Harry from "3rd Rock")
- Lisa Kudrow and Debbie Reynolds - Mother, thanks to lbangs
- Glenn Close and Martin Short - Mars Attacks, thanks to DaveMog
- Angela Lansbury and Danny Kaye - The Court Jester, thanks to dgeiser13
- Drew Barrymore and Goldie Hawn - Everyone Says I Love You, thanks to DaveMog
- Lloyd Bridges and Grace Kelly - High Noon, thanks to temporary
- Jennifer Jason Leigh and Jack Lemmon (oooh, lbangs, if you don't get this one...) - Short Cuts, thanks to, of course, lbangs
- Don Ameche and Eddie Murphy (2 different movies) - Trading Places [and Coming to America], thanks to listology47
- Elliot Gould and James Coburn - The Muppet Movie, thanks to temporary
- Anna Nicole Smith and O.J. Simpson - Naked Gun 33 1/3, thanks to riffraff
- Boris Karloff and Jack Nicholson - The Terror [and actually also The Raven], thanks to stumpy
- Jim Varney and Tim Allen - Toy Story, thanks to stumpy
- Orson Welles and Peter Sellers - Casino Royale, thanks to DaveMog
- Albert Brooks and Meryl Streep - Defending Your Life, thanks to lbangs
- Spencer Tracy and Ethel Merman - It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World, thanks to stennie
- Martin Landau and Alan Alda - Crimes and Misdemeanors, thanks to lbangs
- Art Garfunkel and Anthony Perkins - Catch-22, thanks to stumpy
- Michael McKean and Kevin Bacon (2 different movies; hey, you knew Kevin Bacon had to show up here SOMEWHERE) - 1 is the Big Picture, thanks to riffraff
- Richard Benjamin and George Burns - Sunshine Boys, thanks to stennie
- Paul Newman and Dennis Hopper - Cool Hand Luke, thanks to stumpy
- Christopher Walken and Tom Hanks - Catch Me If You Can, thanks to lbangs
- Steve Martin and Sandra Bullock - The Prince of Egypt, thanks to temporary
- Will Ferrell and Kirsten Dunst - Dick, thanks to geek
- John Lithgow and Jeff Goldblum - Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai, thanks to riffraff
- Marlene Dietrich and William Shatner - Judgment at Nuremberg, thanks to stennie
- Robert DeNiro and Joe Pantoliano - Midnight Run, thanks to riffraff
- Jackie Mason and Dyan Cannon - Caddyshack II, thanks to riffraff
- Gene Wilder and Donald Sutherland - Start the Revolution Without Me, thanks to temporary
- Walter Brennan and Leslie Nielsen
- Ben Affleck and Matt Damon (I know, I know. Who would ever think to pair these two? It'd be the strangest thing ever. But believe it or not, not only have these two been in a movie together, there have been 6 movies that they've co-starred in! Imagine that. Can you name them all?) - Glory Daze, School Ties, Chasing Amy, Good Will Hunting, Dogma, Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back, thanks to AAA
Author Comments:
I've noticed that I steal my best games from one person: so thanks a lot, dgeiser13! I liked his list so much that I had to clone it. Now, my pairs don't exactly follow all the same rules as the ones in his list, but they're still pretty recognizable.
I actually didn't intend this, but in retrospect, virtually every one of these movies is a comedy, because there are so many weird actor pairings.
Cloned From:
Don Ameche and Eddie Murphy-
one has to be Trading Places
Kevin Bacon and Michael McKean-
I would guess likely JFK
Gene Wilder and Donald Sutherland-
possibly Silver Streak?
DA + EM - Yeah, and I'll just give you credit for both, because the other one isn't really fair. Don Ameche and Ralph Bellamy had very minor roles in Eddie Murphy's "Coming to America", playing the Dukes, who are now bums living on the street. But Ameche's appearance in "Coming to America" really isn't enough to qualify him for this list.
I'm afraid that Michael McKean wasn't in "JFK" and Donald Sutherland wasn't in "Silver Streak." Good guesses though, and you have the honor of being the first correct response on this list.
10: Naked Gun 33 1/3: The Final Insult
18: The Big Picture
20: Easy Rider?
24: The Adventures of Buckaroo Bonzai: Across The 8th Dimension
26: Midnight Run
27: Caddyshack 2
Well done! All right except for #20. Aack, no time to update the list now, I'll give you credit later, riffraff.
Alright, just find this list. Let's see...
2. Mother
7. :) Short Cuts
14. Defending Your Life (GREAT film)
16. Crimes and Misdemeanors
That's all off the top of my head.
Shalom, y'all!
L. Bangs
Nice - all correct. And yes, "Defending Your Life" is indeed a GREAT film.
Here's a great one.
Name TWO films with Sean Connery and Gert Frobe.
Bonus: Name TWO films with Gert Frobe based on Ian Fleming books.
Shalom, y'all!
L. Bangs
Didn't Gert Frobe play Goldfinger in "Goldfinger"? That'd be one of the films with Sean Connery and one of the films based on Ian Fleming books, but I don't know the other two.
That's one correct on both! :)
Good luck on the rest!
Shalom, y'all!
L. Bangs
30. Chasing Amy, Good Will Hunting, Dogma, Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back, and... Well, that's a few. I cheated and looked up the other two. Hmmm... Also another answer from up there. And sadly enough, I don't really remember ever hearing of it... :(
Great quiz.
Shalom, y'all!
L. Bnags
Yeah, the last two are hard. I actually just saw the first Affleck / Damon collaboration in Hebrew school the other day. (Whoops, forgot to write it up on my "Damn" list. Oh well, I had already seen it.) And the other Affleck / Damon one, I've never heard of. Thanks for the "great quiz" remark, "L. Bnags."
11. The Terror, 1963. Nicholson's first I believe.
17. Catch 22, 1970
20. Cool Hand Luke, 1967
29. Talk of the Town, early forties w/Debbie Reynolds
and... 12. is Toy Story if you're talking voices only.
Good job! #12, #17, and #20 are correct. For #11, I was actually thinking of "The Raven", but you are correct that Nicholson and Karloff were in "The Terror" together, so I'll give you credit (although it was not Nicholson's first). "Talk of the Town", however, is wrong; I think you must be thinking of a different movie. "Talk of the Town" does not star Debbie Reynolds, but the correct answer to #29 does.
A few of these I think I know:
Glenn Close/Martin Short in Mars Attacks (I shouldn't know this movie - I hated it)
Goldie Hawn and Drew Barrymore in Everyone Says I Love You
Orson Welles and Peter Sellers in Casino Royale (another dud)
Paul Newman and Dennis Hopper in Cool Hand Luke
Am I right? And do I get a prize?
Well done! All correct, except I gave credit to stumpy for the last one. But I'm afraid the only prize is the satisfaction of being right.
Hey, "Casino Royale" wasn't THAT bad. I actually haven't seen "Mars Attacks" or "Everyone Says I Love You", but I created the question thanks to the wonders of the IMDB. (and of course, "Cool Hand Luke" was a great movie)
Actually, Stumpy beat me on #20. I didn't even read the responses first.
I'd say #4 is The Court Jester.
It is indeed!
21 - I've yet to see it, but from all the talk, this has to be Catch Me If You Can.
Shalom, y'all!
L. Bangs
Naturally
23 - Dick
New here and new at this. Here goes...
6. "High Noon"
9. "The Muppet Movie" with Bob Hope and Richard Pryor, an even stranger pair.
22. The animated "Prince of Egypt".
28. "Start the Revolution Without Me".
You and geek are right on all counts. Good show!
RE: Ben and Matt
Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back
School Ties
Good Will Hunting
Dogma
Chasing Amy
Glory Daze
I rock! I read an article several months ago (might be a year or so, actually) that listed the films. I'm not sure if there are more, but these are the ones I remember.
Nice going, AAA.
the "I rock!" was ironic, I swear. (shifts eyes and pulls at collar)
Richard Benjamin & George Burns is The Sunshine Boys
Dietrich and Shatner is Judgment at Nuremberg
Spencer Tracy and Ethel Merman -- is that Mad x5 World?
All correct! Sorry I missed this for a couple weeks, stennie.