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Movie Quiz Vol. 2

2007-07-22T05:21:23Z

Hello everyone,

Now that we’ve moved to a new forum please do not think the old one is lost. It’s still there and can be browsed at your leisure, you just can’t add any new comments to it.

Here it is: Old forum, Movie Quiz Vol. 1

So we continue as normal with our movie quiz. I’ll repost the start of the quiz in the previous forum:

On the 26th of November 2007, Ataris wrote:

It’s quite simple actually, I post a picture from a movie and the person who comes with the right answer posts a new picture. However, there are a couple of rules:

- The person who posted the picture need to confirm a right answer before a new picture can be posted
- To keep the quiz going, the person who came with right answer has to post a new picture within 3 days of confirmation, or else anyone can post a new picture
- If possible the movie the picture is taken from should be available for most people
- If the correct answer hasen’t been posted within 2-3 days after the picture was posted you need to come with either a hint or post another picture from the same movie.
- The aspect ratio should not differ a lot from the original aspect ratio. Furthermore the pictures shouldn’t be manipulated.

The rules listed above can be adjusted if necessary.

Pictures can be uploaded at http://imageshack.us/
Modified by Ardvark: any website is good, flickr, fotopic, your own site, anything as long as you can post a link to it.

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Modified by Ardvark:
This is the list of all movies which have been used so far. I will try and keep this updated, and they are currently in order of being guessed right. Please note that there is NO rule against re-using a movie!

Also there has been a little change in the rules:

I’ve noticed some people would like to participate but refrain from doing so because winning would mean they’d have to post a screenshot.
I can understand posting screenshots may be somewhat of a hassle for people, especially if you don’t have a place on the internet to dump them on (or don’t know how to). Or maybe you’re just out of ideas on what to post.

For this reason I’d like to suggest that if you want to guess the picture but don’t want to post a screenshot, you just add

“Free-for-all”

after your guess.

This “free-for-all” signal will mean that (if the guess was right) whoever wants to post the next screenshot can do so.

Oh, and recently we went from 1 movie to 3 movies at the same time. So chances are you’ll know at least one of them!

Anyway, the list so far can be found in the second post. HAVE FUN!!!

The “WHO ARE YOU?” Thread

2007-07-23T09:07:31Z

Our previous forum had a meet and great thread, and consider this a spot to remind folks who you are, what you like, or anything else under the sun that will stimulate conversation, debate and other things film (or books, music, media) related.

(Old Forum “Who Are You” thread: http://twitchfilm.net/forum/index.php?topic=74.0)

In the old forum, I used to go as “Triflic” but since it is one registration for Main site and Forum, I’m now going under my real name.

I’m the guy who spends far too much time in the TWITCH forum, and occasionally posts reviews or news on the main page.

Age: 32
Offspring: 2
Spouse: 1
Dayjob: Materials Scientist
Occasionally moonlights as: Programmer of quasi-public film screeings in home Cinema.
Origin: Canadian
At this Exact Moment: Mississauga, ON
Last Theatre Visit: Sunshine
Last DVD: Weeds - Season 1
Last CD listened to: The Fountain - OST
Last food consumed: Blueberry Bagel
Last recreational substance: Patagonia Lager
Last Two Novels: Cormac McCarthy’s “The Road” and “No Country For Old Men”
Cinema Tastes: Just about everything, but especially Guy Maddin Films, Silent Cinema, Chris Doyle lensed films (esp. wkw and Z.Yimou), worldwide art-house and ‘trash’—particularly films that fuse art house and blockbuster mentalities successfully (eg The Fountain, Pan’s Labyrinth, The Show Must Go On, Right At Your Door)
Hanging around Twitchfilm: Pretty much since Day 1.

What’s Everyone Listening To?

2007-07-24T12:31:55Z

I really enjoyed learning about other forumites’ musical tastes and wound up picking up quite a few new favorites thank to everyone. Here we go again…

(old thread right here)

I’ve been re-visiting a few classics lately - “Let It Bleed” by The Rolling Stones (solid album end-to-end - “Monkey Man” is a very under-appreciated track - hearing it pop up on an episode of “Entourage” made me dig out the CD); “Odyssey and Oracle” by The Zombies (another album which rates as a great listen from beginning to end - they never really re-captured what made this first LP work so well IMO); “Moby Grape” by Moby Grape (if you have any appreciation for late ‘60s rock and roll buy this album NOW - really amazing, criminally unknown).

What about everyone else???

Black text on white bg option please

2008-08-27T01:37:48Z

I know it looks cooler how it is (love how my avatar blends in so well) but it’s very quickly fatiguing to read. I saw a couple posts about this in the welcome thread, sorry if it seems selfish to create a new topic.

I use this as a bookmarklet in my toolbar to zap every page I visit. May be useful to others. Create a new bookmark and paste this into the location field.

If it doesn’t make it through the wash here, you can find more at


https://www.squarefree.com/bookmarklets/zap.html

Oh man, sorry about creating horizontal scroll. Admin, kill it if you want to.

Hey Insiders! … TIFF, WFF ?

2008-09-01T11:21:44Z

What do those stand for? And ...

The Obituary Thread

2007-07-25T05:58:03Z

Ulrich Muehe, star of the Oscar-winning German movie The Lives of Others, has died at the age of 54, officials in the town where he lived said Wednesday. The actor died of stomach cancer on Sunday.

54 - oi! And supposedly he was in talks to have some role in the next Haneke film.

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By The Way, here is a link to the previous forums Obit Thread: (http://twitchfilm.net/forum/index.php?topic=1297.0)

Need help identify movies

2008-08-21T14:22:20Z

Could anyone help me identify these 2 movies? They look familiar but my bad memory doesn’t say anything, boo!

Thanks a bunch.

New Mastheads

2007-09-07T18:02:22Z

I didn’t see a thread for masthead submissions like there was in the old forum so I figured I would just start one up. I had some free time and cooked up a few.

The Brothers Bloom

My Blueberry Nights

The Buried Forest

Cocktail

No Country For Old Men

The Darjeeling Limited

I’m Not There

Help Me Eros

My Life to Live (Vivre sa Vie)

Lust, Caution

Monday

Natural City

Paranoid Park

Persepolis

Ploy

Secret Sunshine

Shoot ‘Em Up

Sisters

Lady Snowblood

Sukiyaki Western Django

Swallowtail Butterfly

Sweeney Todd

Tears of the Black Tiger

What Time is it There?

Volver

Water

Know where I can find a new remote for my Malata DVD player?

2008-08-06T19:44:33Z

Several years ago, I bought a Malata DVP-520, and it’s been a great DVD player. Unfortunately, the remote has been dropped one too many times, and just doesn’t work anymore. I’ve tried a universal remote, to no avail. So, does anyone know where I can buy a new remote, either a Malata remote or something comparable?

Anita’s “whities” remark, and racism in general.

2008-07-18T02:16:16Z

Anita Wong was kind enough to give us a review if John Woo’s epic “Red Cliff” and Todd posted it on the main page, but boy did it start a discussion when she decribed she [i]” ...stopped watching John Woo films when he started working with the whities”.

That comment sparked quite a debate in the comments. As things tend to keep civil here at Twitch, it didn’t turn into a yelling contest or a match in throwing insults, so I’m reposting all of it here.

Reader Comments

Dudley
07/17/2008 @ 7:05am
“working with the whities”?

I’ve been visiting this site on a daily basis for years and this is the first time I’ve been offended. Replace “whities” with any other racial slur, would it still be ok? Accept one racial slur and you make others easier to accept. Before you jump to any conclusions my family comes from China.

Rhythm-X
07/17/2008 @ 9:09am
I almost posted the entire lyrics to James Kochalka Superstar’s “Don’t Trust Whitey” just for the hell of it, but I decided against it. I’ll summarize; be careful around white people. They might be up to something nefarious at any given moment.

What does this have to do with RED CLIFF? Not much.

Ardvark
07/17/2008 @ 10:39am
I enjoyed both the review and cpa314’s comments immensely, both are valuable for me to get an idea for this film. I can see how a baby-saving scene would seem suspicious.

As for the ‘whitey’ remark, two things:

1: At no time did I get the idea this was meant as a serious racial slur. It is a reference to the opinions of some VERY angry Chinese people who saw their favorite director move to the US to pursue a career that wasn’t catering to them, his oldest fans.

2: Being white, I actually laughed when I read that. “Whitey” has been the cause of a great many problems throughout history, compared to which this one is so minor that it hardly feels worth mentioning.
I thought it was rather witty actually, pulling the issue of John Woo going West completely out of proportion.

About racism in general: I think the APM count (assholes-per-million) is roughly the same for all people, regardless of color, religion, sexual preference, nationality or historical context, so you can’t really use any of those to judge an individual.

Anyway, about the novel: what is the best of the known English translations? I’m VERY interested in reading this!

The Visitor
07/17/2008 @ 11:53am
actually i was immediately reminded of the Sly & The Family Stone song, Don’t Call Me Nigger, Whitey.

misteresh
07/17/2008 @ 12:02pm
Stopped reading at “I stopped watching John Woo films when he started working with the whities.”

Ardvark
07/17/2008 @ 12:07pm
Remember, with her whitie remark Anita Wong also refers to a childhood memory, possibly during her teenage years, when people in general are anything but politicaly correct.

ChevalierAguila
07/17/2008 @ 12:14pm
Instead of whities i would have just said “overpaid hollywood zombies” Van Damme, Cage, Travolta and the likes are just awful actors, regardless of their skin color.

The Visitor
07/17/2008 @ 12:15pm
not looking to turn this into a debate about race, but Aardvark is right. being someone from the Chinese community, i can tell you that there are some racial terms here that are equal to or worse than “whitey”. “gwai loh” for example, is a widely used Cantonese term in Hong Kong and other Cantonese-speaking communities. “gwai” means “ghost” or “devil” or “demon.” but it has sort of become an affectionate term nowadays. some of my Caucasian friends even happily identify themselves as “gwai loh"s!

but still, i admit i had to do a double take when i read that sentence in the review.

fudduf
07/17/2008 @ 2:57pm
for christ’s sake this is a site which is into cult/exploitation films, if you can’t handle “whitey” why are you here in the first place? chill out, people.

Collin Armstrong
07/17/2008 @ 3:24pm
The whitey comment was in bad taste, but I didn’t take offense and didn’t think any was meant.

Regarding Woo’s Hollywood output, HARD TARGET is a small bit of gonzo genius. There’s some amazing stunt work and cinematography on display, and a decent performance from Van Damme (that’s *really* saying something). Keep in mind the man was new to Hollywood and working in the English language for the first time. I too would love to see the full director’s cut released so I can replace my uber-grainy boot.

I’ve been pretty cool toward the rest of his Hollywood output, and stopped watching after MI 2. I’m looking forward to RED CLIFF - thanks for the write-up!

indiemaker0583
07/17/2008 @ 3:35pm
Enough with the “whitey” comments. Seriously, if you’re offendend by that, you are on the wrong site. It was a simple joke. (......)

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