I'm back. And I'm bugged.

[captainsblog]

Whew. THAT was a week. My first time outside the county in 2008 and I more than made up for it with 150 miles or more a day on the ol' odometer, four days straight. Much of it in snow of various amounts, intensities and directions (straight down, straight on, sideways, not snowing at all but the wind blowing an ice rink across my path). Is it spring yet?

Anyway.

What's bugging me, for present purposes, isn't politics (although it is), the economy (likewise) or anything else significant. It isn't even our 800-pound bumblebee, which is still around; Eleanor caught her (she decided it was a worker and, thus, female, rejecting my "drunk and disorderly" assessment of it being a he) and relocated her to some plants she's wintering in a heated lit area in the cellar. She even named her- "Sam," in honor of an even bigger cockroach who used to live in the cellar of the downtown Rochester Sibley's store when she worked there, and who was big enough, legend had it, to drive his own Buick to work each day.

No, it's a movie we watched, and not even the movie itself, but the opening montage that comes on it and all films issued on DVD by MGM. I've seen this damn thing a gagillion times and can't, for the life of me, remember hardly any of the movies, and sometimes even the actors, who appear in its 10-second life.

I was gonna screencap it and post the stills here, but the opening title/chapter/whatever of a DVD is designed not to be paused or passed, so I couldn't. I could, however, find a full version of the thing on YouTube:

Thelma and Louise, check. Rain Man, check. Fargo, check. But what the hell movie had that Playboy bunny wheelie-popping motorcycle at the end, and who are the others and what are they in?

Since everybody likes a good challenge, I'll screen comments.  No prizes other than respect and admiration, mainly because, duh, I don't know the answers.

So g'head. In the words of one regular Flister, Guess The Movies!

Comments

[princesskraehe.livejournal.com]

The last one is Legally Blonde. Typical 'let's embarrass the main character by tricking her into thinking a formal party is a costume party' treatment (see also Bridget Jones's Diary).

[captainsblog.livejournal.com]

Thank you. THANK YOU. My brain feels better already.

[baseballchica03.livejournal.com]

The playboy bunny thing is Reese Witherspoon in Legally Blonde, which is actually a surprisingly good movie.

[captainsblog.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I just got back from bagelling and that was the one that got got:)

Any guesses on the flyin motorcycle?

[baseballchica03.livejournal.com]

Ok, I watched more closely, and they are (in order):

James Bond of some sort (probably Goldeneye); Thelma and Louise; Rain Man; Silence of the Lambs (?? - never seen it but it seems likely); The Great Escape (Shame on you! That's Steve McQueen!); one I don't know; another one I don't know but probably some Vietnam movie; Fargo; Legally Blonde; and ROCKY HOW DO YOU NOT KNOW ROCKY WHEN YOU SEE IT?

[captainsblog.livejournal.com]

I was 99.9 sure on Rocky at the end, but, you know, they ran those loopy things through the clip so it threw me off a little.

I'm more interested in how this kind of stuff works my brain. A Friend with very similar music interests ran a lyrics meme the other day and, as usual, I sucked at it- even with it being limited to first lines and with a one-per-artist limit. When they wound up being guessed, I kept going, "duh!"

On the other hand, if you give me a three-note riff from a song, even one I haven't heard in years, more often than not I'll get it. But a similar length of video clip? Not so much. There's got to be some potent stuff in music tied to memory (which is kind of the point of the newest Oliver Sacks book, which I'm dying to read when Eleanor finishes it).

[baseballchica03.livejournal.com]

Hehehe, I was only teasing you. That Rocky one is a blurry, weird choice of shot. But still... How many movies have flying motorcycles in them? Harry Potter excepted. :-p

Aaaaaaand now Sheryl Crow is stuck in my head. Great.

[captainsblog.livejournal.com]

How many movies have flying motorcycles in them?

Well, one at least. (http://www.philadelphiaweekly.com/articles/15264) (Scroll down for the Andy Samberg photo; I saw a preview for this the other day on Somethingorother Cable Network.)

I think you win, btw.

(What brought Sheryl Crow on, btw? "All I Wanna Do Is Soak Up The Sun You're My Favorite Mistake All My Songs Sound the Same" is connected to motorcycles?

[baseballchica03.livejournal.com]

*sings* Like Steve McQueen, all I need's a fast machine and everything'll be all right.

PS - The war one that no one can seem to get is Platoon. Check it:

http://www.impawards.com/1986/posters/platoon.jpg

[captainsblog.livejournal.com]

I think that's all of them (other than nobody being quite sure which Bond film was the first).

Well played:)

[headbanger118.livejournal.com]

The bunny is from Legally Blonde. Is the motorbike from The Great Escape? The end is from Rocky I think, also there is Pierce Brosnan as James Bond, Silence of the Lambs, and I can't figure out the guy in armo.

[captainsblog.livejournal.com]

Yeah, that last one's the tough nut, it seems. It looks Stallonish. One of the Rambos (Rambi?), maybe?