OK - this is ONLY the movies - I will work on the matches/partials in a bit. I just wanted Frank to weigh in on the movies.
Game #177: Now Playing at the Multiplex
Identify the 90 movies in the clues below. (Every other clue is a quotation.) Then, match them into 44 triples and one group of four according to a Tangredi, or principle you must discover for yourself.
Eighteen movies will be used twice, seven movies will be used three times, two movies will be used four times, and two movies will be used five times. No movie can be matched with itself.
I’ve tried my damnedest to avoid alternate matches, but we all know how that usually turns out.
Apparently not.
1. BIRTH OF A NATION
2. HANNAH AND HER SISTERS
3. The record for most Oscars won by a foreign language film – four – is held jointly by Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon and this earlier Swedish movie.
4. THE BIG LEBOWSKI
5. THE ROSE TATTOO
6. KING KONG
7. FLASHDANCE
8. THE WOMEN
9. ONCE UPON A TIME IN AMERICA
10. HIDDEN FIGURES
11. M BUTTERFLY
12. PEE WEE'S BIG ADVENTURE
13. JACK THE BEAR
14. ONE FLEW OVER THE CUCKOO'S NEST
15. COAL MINER'S DAUGHTER
16. THE WIND AND THE LION
17. THE SEVEN FACES OF DR. LAO
18. JULIE & JULIA
19. BABES IN TOYLAND
20. THE LETTER
21. FROM HELL IT CAME
22. BLOW UP
23. TWENTY THOUSAND YEARS IN SING SING
24. “He is no driver, he is the undertaker.”
25. DARLING LILI
26. FLIGHT OF THE NAVIGATOR
27. RIDING IN CARS WITH BOYS
28. NOTES ON A SCANDAL
29. THE GOLD RUSH
30. ARSENIC AND OLD LACE
31. MURDER SHE SAID
32. TOOTSIE
33. THE FEARLESS VAMPIRE KILLERS
34. WINGS OF DESIRE
35. SUMMER OF SAM
36. NAKED GUN 2/12: SMELL OF FEAR
37. DOWN AND OUT IN BEVERLY HILLS
38. JOE VS. THE VOLCANO
39. PSYCHO BEACH PARTY
40. GONE GIRL
41. FORT APACHE: THE BRONX
42. SHAMPOO
43. 10 TO MIDNIGHT
44. THE BRIDE CAME C.O.D.
45. VALIANT IS THE WORD FOR CARRIE
46. LEGENDS OF THE FALL
47. WILD IN THE COUNTRY
48. SUDDENLY LAST SUMMER
49. FRIDAY THE 13TH: JASON TAKES MANHATTAN
50. THEY SHOOT HORSES DON'T THEY
51. THE TRUTH ABOUT CATS AND DOGS?
52. SLUMDOG MILLIONAIRE
53. THE COMMITMENTS
54. “Is it possible that we got so wasted last night that we bought a lifetime supply of pudding and then totally forgot about it?”
“I'd say it's entirely possible.”
PUNCH DRUNK LOVE?
55. MONA LISA SMILE
56. THE WOLF OF WALL STREET
57. THE TOWN THAT DREADED SUNDOWN
58. THE LOVELY BONES
59. MANTRAP
60. “The Americans are fools. I offered my services, they refused. So did the East. Now they can both pay for their mistake.”
“World domination. The same old dream. Our asylums are full of people who think they're Napoleon. Or God.”
DR. NO (GOLDFINGER?)
61. THE POSTMAN ALWAYS RINGS TWICE
62. ALADDIN
63. SHINE ON HARVEST MOON
64. TRAINSPOTTING
65. THE PRIVATE LIVES OF ELIZABETH AND ESSEX
66. TOUCH OF EVIL
67. RADIO FLYER
68. BASIC INSTINCT
69. Otto Preminger’s decision to release this film without a Production Code seal of approval led to the temporary withdrawal of United Artists from the MPAA – and, eventually, to American filmmakers being allowed more freedom to explore taboo topics.
ANATOMY OF A MURDER (THE MOON IS BLUE?)
70. FENCES
71. MAGIC IN THE MOONLIGHT
72. STAR TREK III: THE SEARCH FOR SPOCK
73. COLLATERAL DAMAGE
74. JURASSIC PARK
75. One of the most memorable deaths in any slasher film was the stabbing of a sorority girl with a glass unicorn in this movie.
SCREAM? (2? 3? 4? ETC.?)
76. BOYZ IN THE HOOD
77. A famous comedian claimed that the hardest acting he ever had to do was trying to look totally inept at boxing in this movie.
78. THE HATEFUL EIGHT
79. SPAWN OF THE NORTH
80. WOMAN UNDER THE INFLUENCE
81. THE LIBERTINE
82. YOUNG FRANKENSTEIN
83. GIGI
84. THE ROAD WARRIOR
85. CAGED HEAT
86. HEATHERS
87. THE LITTLE WORLD OF DON CAMILLO
88. BOB & CAROL & TED & ALICE
89. THE GENERAL
90. IT HAPPENED ONE NIGHT