Transcript 2/24/2012 - Matthew Williams

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Last day of Million Dollar Movie Week

Matthew Williams
Mountclair, NJ

Matthew's goal is to see 365 movies a year. Meredith apologizes for putting him off his schedule but hopes that a million dollars will compensate.

Topic Tree: (randomized)
Better Homes and Gardens
Pretty Duckey
Screen Legends
Scary Woman
Super Hunks
Double Duty
Line
The End
Chase Films
Film Fun

Question #1 (Film Fun)
Played by Alan Rickman in the films, who was voted the greatest "Harry Potter" character in a 2011 MTV poll?
A - Draco Malfoy
B - Severus Snape
C - Albus Dumbledore
D - Horace Slughorn

Matthew saw all 8 of the movies after reading all 7 books. "It's an amazing performance," Matthew says.

Spoiler

Answer: B (Severus Snape)
Value: $100
Bank: $100

Question #2 (Chase Films)
"Yule crack up! was the tagline for what Chevy Chase comedy?
A - Spies Like Us
B - Caddyshack
C - Christmas Vacation
D - Funny Farm

Matthew's pretty sure of the answer based on

Spoiler

the punny tagline

.

Spoiler

Answer: C (Christmas Vacation)
Value: $500
Bank: $600

Question #3 (The End)
The Doors song "The End" is played at the beginning and towards the end of which of the following films?
A - The Deer Hunter
B - Platoon
C - Midnight Cowboy
D - Apocalypse Now

Spoiler

Answer: D (Apocalypse Now)
Value: $2,000
Bank: $2,600

Question #4 (Line)
"Boy, I got vision, and the rest of the world wears bifocals" is a famous line from which of these classic Paul Newman movies?
A - Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
B - The Sting
C - Cool Hand Luke
D - The Hustler

The line doesn't sound familiar to Matthew so he decides to jump the question

Spoiler

Answer: A (Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid)
Value: $1,000
Bank: $2,600 (unchanged)

Question #5 (Double Duty)
Who sings the title song and plays the role of Tanya in Tyler Perry's 2009 film "I Can Do Bad All By Myself"?
A - Queen Latifah
B - Whitney Houston
C - Mary J. Blige
D - Jennifer Hudson

Matthew immediately says he'd like to ask the audience on this one.

ATA results

A - 31%
B - 5%
C - 39%
D - 25%

Matthew grimaces as he sees the results. He was originally leaning toward

Spoiler

Mary J. Blige because he didn't think that Queen Latifah was in the movie

. Matthew hasn't seen the movie. He knows that

Spoiler

Jennifer Hudson has acted in a lot of movies lately but he hasn't seen Whitney Houston in anything since the 1990s

. He doesn't want to use his 3rd lifeline so soon so he decides to

Spoiler

go with the audience

.

Spoiler

Answer: C (Mary J. Blige)
Value: $10,000
Bank: $12,600

commercial break

Matthew has been married 5 months and his wife Liz is in the relationship seat. "I love you," she calls out as the camera shows her. There's one item in their home that really needs to be replaced and that's the bed. Currently they're using the one he's had for five years when he was the only one sleeping in it. It's not made for two people and it's a little short. A "California king" is what they would like.

Question #6 (Super Hunks)
Which of these superheroes has never been portrayed in a live action film by an actor named as People magazine's "Sexiest Man Alive"?
A - Iron Man
B - Green Lantern
C - Batman
D - Wolverine

Matthew jokes that his knowledge of the "sexiest man alive" is quite limited. He's leaning toward

Spoiler

Batman, played by Christian Bale. He thinks Ryan Reynolds, who played Green Lantern, has been on there many times, as has Hugh Jackman. On the other hand there's Robert Downey, Jr. - that's right in there with Batman. He's torn between the two

. Matthew would like to say

Spoiler

Robert Downey, Jr. yet he has been around since the 1980s so he's had time to accumuate that title.

Then Matthew realizes that

Spoiler

Val Kilmer and George Clooney have also played Batman in the 90s and "I, myself, married to Liz, think he's a very handsome man

. He finally decides to go with

Spoiler

Robert Downey, Jr.

.

Spoiler

Answer: A (Iron Man)
Value: $3,000
Bank: $15,600

Question #7 (Scary Woman)
In the 1987 movie "Fatal Attraction," Dan begins his ill-fated relationship with Alex at a launch party for a what?
A - exercise manual
B - cookbook
C - home repair guide
D - celebrity memoir

Matthew has seen this movie and knows that there's a running joke between Dan and a colleague but Matthew can't remember what it was about. He knows it's not

Spoiler

a celebrity memoir or a home repair guide, so he's leaning toward the others, more strongly toward cookbook

. He can't channel the running joke.

Spoiler

Answer: A (exercise manual)
Value: unrevealed
Bank: $1,000 (consolation prize)

commercial break

Millionaire Question of the Day
Wich of these '80s movie titles is also a weather phenomenon caused by electrical discharge in the atmosphere?
A - White Nights
B - St. Elmo's Fire
C - Vision Quest
D - Tequila Sunrise

Spoiler

B (St. Elmo's Fire)

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Question #1 (Film Fun)
Played by Alan Rickman in the films, who was voted the greatest "Harry Potter" character in a 2011 MTV poll?
A - Draco Malfoy
B - Severus Snape
C - Albus Dumbledore
D - Horace Slughorn

Matthew saw all 8 of the movies after reading all 7 books. "It's an amazing performance," Matthew says.

Spoiler

Answer: B (Severus Snape)
Value: $100
Bank: $100

Rickman is amazing. I still think it was fate that made Rowling start writing HP at the exact right time for Rickman to play Snape.

Question #3 (The End)
The Doors song "The End" is played at the beginning and towards the end of which of the following films?
A - The Deer Hunter
B - Platoon
C - Midnight Cowboy
D - Apocalypse Now

Spoiler

Answer: D (Apocalypse Now)
Value: $2,000
Bank: $2,600

Midnight Cowboy's the only one of these I've seen. Apocalypse Now would make sense based on the title, but you never know what music goes with what. I'll JTQ, these are all pretty old for the audience to know the answer to this one.

Question #4 (Line)
"Boy, I got vision, and the rest of the world wears bifocals" is a famous line from which of these classic Paul Newman movies?
A - Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
B - The Sting
C - Cool Hand Luke
D - The Hustler

The line doesn't sound familiar to Matthew so he decides to jump the question

Spoiler

Answer: A (Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid)
Value: $1,000
Bank: $2,600 (unchanged)

Sure helps to have seen the movie a zillion times. Did I mention that parts of Butch Cassidy were shot within a dozen miles of where I'm sitting right now?

Question #5 (Double Duty)
Who sings the title song and plays the role of Tanya in Tyler Perry's 2009 film "I Can Do Bad All By Myself"?
A - Queen Latifah
B - Whitney Houston
C - Mary J. Blige
D - Jennifer Hudson

Matthew immediately says he'd like to ask the audience on this one.

ATA results

A - 31%
B - 5%
C - 39%
D - 25%

Matthew grimaces as he sees the results. He was originally leaning toward

Spoiler

Mary J. Blige because he didn't think that Queen Latifah was in the movie

. Matthew hasn't seen the movie. He knows that

Spoiler

Jennifer Hudson has acted in a lot of movies lately but he hasn't seen Whitney Houston in anything since the 1990s

. He doesn't want to use his 3rd lifeline so soon so he decides to

Spoiler

go with the audience

.

Spoiler

Answer: C (Mary J. Blige)
Value: $10,000
Bank: $12,600

Yay, Audience! ATA.

Question #6 (Super Hunks)
Which of these superheroes has never been portrayed in a live action film by an actor named as People magazine's "Sexiest Man Alive"?
A - Iron Man
B - Green Lantern
C - Batman
D - Wolverine

Matthew jokes that his knowledge of the "sexiest man alive" is quite limited. He's leaning toward

Spoiler

Batman, played by Christian Bale. He thinks Ryan Reynolds, who played Green Lantern, has been on there many times, as has Hugh Jackman. On the other hand there's Robert Downey, Jr. - that's right in there with Batman. He's torn between the two

. Matthew would like to say

Spoiler

Robert Downey, Jr. yet he has been around since the 1980s so he's had time to accumuate that title.

Then Matthew realizes that

Spoiler

Val Kilmer and George Clooney have also played Batman in the 90s and "I, myself, married to Liz, think he's a very handsome man

. He finally decides to go with

Spoiler

Robert Downey, Jr.

.

Spoiler

Answer: A (Iron Man)
Value: $3,000
Bank: $15,600

Double Trouble -- Knowing the sexiest man alive and which of them played whom. JTQ.

Question #7 (Scary Woman)
In the 1987 movie "Fatal Attraction," Dan begins his ill-fated relationship with Alex at a launch party for a what?
A - exercise manual
B - cookbook
C - home repair guide
D - celebrity memoir

Matthew has seen this movie and knows that there's a running joke between Dan and a colleague but Matthew can't remember what it was about. He knows it's not

Spoiler

a celebrity memoir or a home repair guide, so he's leaning toward the others, more strongly toward cookbook

. He can't channel the running joke.

Spoiler

Answer: A (exercise manual)
Value: unrevealed

I'm outta there.

[earendel]

Last day of Million Dollar Movie Week

Matthew Williams
Mountclair, NJ

Matthew's goal is to see 365 movies a year. Meredith apologizes for putting him off his schedule but hopes that a million dollars will compensate.

A movie a day for an entire year? Quite an ambitious goal, and hard to do if one is employed or has any other interests.

Question #4 (Line)
"Boy, I got vision, and the rest of the world wears bifocals" is a famous line from which of these classic Paul Newman movies?
A - Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
B - The Sting
C - Cool Hand Luke
D - The Hustler

The line doesn't sound familiar to Matthew so he decides to jump the question

Spoiler

Answer: A (Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid)
Value: $1,000
Bank: $2,600 (unchanged)

I'd do the same thing. I would have leaned toward D.

Question #5 (Double Duty)
Who sings the title song and plays the role of Tanya in Tyler Perry's 2009 film "I Can Do Bad All By Myself"?
A - Queen Latifah
B - Whitney Houston
C - Mary J. Blige
D - Jennifer Hudson

Matthew immediately says he'd like to ask the audience on this one.

ATA results

A - 31%
B - 5%
C - 39%
D - 25%

Matthew grimaces as he sees the results. He was originally leaning toward

Spoiler

Mary J. Blige because he didn't think that Queen Latifah was in the movie

. Matthew hasn't seen the movie. He knows that

Spoiler

Jennifer Hudson has acted in a lot of movies lately but he hasn't seen Whitney Houston in anything since the 1990s

. He doesn't want to use his 3rd lifeline so soon so he decides to

Spoiler

go with the audience

.

Spoiler

Answer: C (Mary J. Blige)
Value: $10,000
Bank: $12,600

I know very little about Tyler Perry movies in general and wouldn't have thought that Mary J. Blige was an actor as well as a singer. I probably would have used my second JTQ here.

Question #6 (Super Hunks)
Which of these superheroes has never been portrayed in a live action film by an actor named as People magazine's "Sexiest Man Alive"?
A - Iron Man
B - Green Lantern
C - Batman
D - Wolverine

Matthew jokes that his knowledge of the "sexiest man alive" is quite limited. He's leaning toward

Spoiler

Batman, played by Christian Bale. He thinks Ryan Reynolds, who played Green Lantern, has been on there many times, as has Hugh Jackman. On the other hand there's Robert Downey, Jr. - that's right in there with Batman. He's torn between the two

. Matthew would like to say

Spoiler

Robert Downey, Jr. yet he has been around since the 1980s so he's had time to accumuate that title.

Then Matthew realizes that

Spoiler

Val Kilmer and George Clooney have also played Batman in the 90s and "I, myself, married to Liz, think he's a very handsome man

. He finally decides to go with

Spoiler

Robert Downey, Jr.

.

Spoiler

Answer: A (Iron Man)
Value: $3,000
Bank: $15,600

ATA and hope. I figured it wasn't Batman becase of the number of actors who have portrayed the character. Beyond that I couldn't make a choice.

Question #7 (Scary Woman)
In the 1987 movie "Fatal Attraction," Dan begins his ill-fated relationship with Alex at a launch party for a what?
A - exercise manual
B - cookbook
C - home repair guide
D - celebrity memoir

Matthew has seen this movie and knows that there's a running joke between Dan and a colleague but Matthew can't remember what it was about. He knows it's not

Spoiler

a celebrity memoir or a home repair guide, so he's leaning toward the others, more strongly toward cookbook

. He can't channel the running joke.

Spoiler

Answer: A (exercise manual)
Value: unrevealed
Bank: $1,000 (consolation prize)

And I walk. I thought it might be "cookbook" because of the rabbit incident later in the movie.