Bit of light, wholesome family fun for you all on this pissy, piddly Saturday afternoon. Having been laid up sick for the last week I've had naught to do but work my way through a sizeable number of DVDs (always a pleasure).
Anyway, the below stills/grabs are from some of these. Gaze at them, study them, click on & embiggen them. Then, after careful consideration (or no consideration at all if you prefer), hit me with your best guesses. The guesser who gets the most right will win my nerdy admiration (plus, perhaps, some virtual prize or other).
On with the show.
Further clues or stills will be forthcoming if needs be. Get busy…sure what else would you be doing on a Saturday?
Update 05/10/08 - New images added. It's easy now. Easy peasy. One of my cats just got three right and it spends most of its life asleep (or licking its balls). Come on humans.
I haven’t a notion what any of them are. However, I’m the first person to comment. Does that win me a prize?
October 5th, 2008 at 10:49 amNo. 1 looks like art critic Robert Hughes lurking in the bushes outside Damien Hirst’s mansion, with murder on his mind, while No. 2 & 3 could be from a polygamous version of Brokeback Mountain.
No. This is not a place for compromise. It is an arena of ultimate combat…with…er…DVD screen grabs.
Your guesses, while humorous, are some way wide of the mark - as you’ll be no doubt astonished to hear. This thing is obviously tougher than I thought!
Some more images needed perhaps.
October 5th, 2008 at 7:02 pmThere we go. A shiny new image for each film. Turn yer brain boxes up to 11.
October 5th, 2008 at 7:40 pmFirst two are from The Devil Rides Out (AKA the best film Hammer ever made).
I spotted two from A Clockwork Orange (numbers 7 & 8), and numbers 5 and 6 might be from The Adventures of Robin Hood, but it’s been too long since I’ve seen that to know for sure. Don’t know the Western at all, I’m sorry to say.
October 8th, 2008 at 3:51 pmGive that man a biscuit. 1 is the marvellous Devil Rides Out (best Black mass/Outdoor orgy scene ever). 3 is The Adventures of Robin Hood. 4 is Clockwork Orange (that’s the back of Malcolm McDowell’s head in the second image).
I’ll throw in two more images for 2 & 5 and leave it at that. Thought the Western might catch people out, but 5 is mega-famous and much-seen.
October 8th, 2008 at 8:17 pmOk, so the key to the third image for number 2 is to find out who the actor sitting in the midst of the “Indians” is (and why his character is welcome there). Get that and you’re home.
None of the 3 pictures for number Five show main characters in the film in question. Picture 3, however, does show someone who’s a featured actress (and not just an extra). She had a bigger (in all senses) part in one of this director’s other biggest hits.
I realise that the grabs for Five make it look like a middle-American indie movie, but it really ain’t!
October 8th, 2008 at 8:42 pmThe Western’s still stumping me, although the actor looks like Paul Newman to my increasingly weak eyes.
I’m totally drawing a blank on the last one, too.
And it’s nice to see Aubrey Morris in the first Clockwork Orange still, because, well, it’s always nice to see Aubrey Morris. When it comes to unwholesome leering, the only person who could possibly out-leer Morris would have to be Michael Gough. It’s a shame they never had a contest.
October 8th, 2008 at 9:12 pmAubrey’s finest moment is when he clamps his hand tightly around McDowell’s balls as they lay on Alex’s bed. And he (McD) in his white Y-Fronts. He reduces Alex’s delinquent menace to zero whenever he pops on screen.
As for the Western - it’s not Paul Newman. Get those eyes tested. You may not have seen the film in question but its lead is stupendously famous. This is comfortably the best picture he ever made.
October 8th, 2008 at 10:11 pmStarted new job this week so have been quite stressed out.
The two remaining films are Flaming Star, staring the one and only Elvis Aaron “I seen the flamin’ star o’ death” Presley and Terminator 2, Judgment Day.
October 8th, 2008 at 10:59 pmAubrey Morris gives away the Clockwork Orange thing. His was an awesome part, ooer.
October 8th, 2008 at 11:00 pmcopernicus, Stressed out or no you have completed the set. Right and right.
Number Five, picture 3, is of course Jenette Goldstein - a.k.a the ferociously aggressive Vasquez of Aliens fame (here playing a soon to be dead foster mother to John Connor).
Flaming Star, though remembered chiefly as an Elvis vehicle, is a fine Western in its own right. Presley is actually pretty (or, even, very) good in it as a “half breed” misfit. An under-appreciated gem.
Winner: Jason
October 8th, 2008 at 11:09 pmRunner-up: copernicus
Everyone else: Nowhere…