Name That Still!

**Frownland** · 07-17-2012, 07:28 PM

I don't know if this should go in the Games, Lists, and Polls subforum, but I had a fun idea for a movie game and the Media subforum seemed appropriate. If I chose incorrectly, feel free to move it there, mods. A lot of films--especially noir--have fantastic and almost immediately recognizable cinematography that translates into great snapshots or stills.

How the game works: each person posts a still (use photobucket or something so that people won't be able to cheat and look at the link for the IMDb or something like that) and the person after them names the film that it's from. Simple as that. Maybe I'll work out a scoreboard when I have enough time and if this thread takes off (I'm sure that a few MB film buffs will partake).

First still:

Enjoy!

Scoreboard:
Limetless--1
Janzsoon--1
Engine--1
bob.--0
Frownland--0

bob. · 07-17-2012, 07:47 PM

repulsion?

Limetless · 07-17-2012, 07:54 PM

Psycho?

**Frownland** · 07-17-2012, 08:22 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by bob.

repulsion?

Good guess, but no.

Quote:

Originally Posted by Limetless

Psycho?

You got it!

Uhm, I guess that I'll pick another. Try to post some of your own next time? Or whatever I haven't thought out the rules yet.

Still #2:

**Janszoon** · 07-17-2012, 09:44 PM

The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari?

Engine · 07-17-2012, 10:12 PM

#2 is way too easy for grown folk. Dig deeper.

edit: I like the game. Here's mine. Go

**Frownland** · 07-17-2012, 10:55 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Janszoon

The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari?

Yup that's right.

Quote:

Originally Posted by Engine

#2 is way too easy for grown folk. Dig deeper.

Yeah, I wanted to do some rather obvious ones at the start so that it wouldn't kill the thread. I don't know where that picture is from though. Frownland: 0

Engine · 07-17-2012, 11:16 PM

Maybe I picked one that's too difficult. I know it well but maybe you'd have to be a semi-big fan of 1940s film noir to guess mine. That's a hint. Can you see the name that I gave the jpeg? If so, that's another clue.

Thom Yorke · 07-18-2012, 08:36 AM

There was actually a thread on this a while ago but it seemed to have died out, which is a shame.

Engine · 07-19-2012, 12:01 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Claudioren

The first image that is being posted is very touching. The eyes are killing and expressing some pain and grief. Don't you think so! I really wish if it would have been in color mode it would be really amazing. I hope am I right and if I am wrong you r free to say anything.

Um, what?

Anyway, since you're all so interested the film is called Scarlet Street, directed by Fritz Lang and published in 1945. The actress in the picture is Joan Bennett. Calm down.

07-17-2012, 07:28 PM	#1 (permalink)
Frownland SOPHIE FOREVER Join Date: Aug 2011 Location: East of the Southern North American West Posts: 35,548	Name That Still! I don't know if this should go in the Games, Lists, and Polls subforum, but I had a fun idea for a movie game and the Media subforum seemed appropriate. If I chose incorrectly, feel free to move it there, mods. A lot of films--especially noir--have fantastic and almost immediately recognizable cinematography that translates into great snapshots or stills. How the game works: each person posts a still (use photobucket or something so that people won't be able to cheat and look at the link for the IMDb or something like that) and the person after them names the film that it's from. Simple as that. Maybe I'll work out a scoreboard when I have enough time and if this thread takes off (I'm sure that a few MB film buffs will partake). First still: Enjoy! Scoreboard: Limetless--1 Janzsoon--1 Engine--1 bob.--0 Frownland--0 __________________ Studies show that when a given norm is changed in the face of the unchanging, the remaining contradictions will parallel the truth. d e a f b o x Last edited by Frownland; 07-19-2012 at 09:55 AM.

07-17-2012, 07:47 PM	#2 (permalink)
bob. Still sends his reguards. Join Date: Jun 2010 Location: Trying to get out of the cat town.... Posts: 5,039	repulsion? __________________ A kiss is the beginning of cannibalism. Reach out, pierce the fine fabric of the sheltering sky, take repose.

07-17-2012, 07:54 PM	#3 (permalink)
Limetless Groupie Join Date: Jul 2012 Posts: 14	Psycho? __________________ 23 seconds to love

07-17-2012, 09:44 PM	#5 (permalink)
Janszoon Mate, Spawn & Die Join Date: May 2007 Location: The Rapping Community Posts: 24,593	The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari? __________________ A Night in the Life of the Invisible Man Time & Place 25 Albums You Should Hear Before the Moon Crashes into the Earth and We All Die last.fm

07-17-2012, 10:12 PM	#6 (permalink)
Engine air quote Join Date: Jun 2009 Location: pollen & mold Posts: 3,108	#2 is way too easy for grown folk. Dig deeper. edit: I like the game. Here's mine. Go Attached Thumbnails __________________ Like an arrow, I was only passing through. Last edited by Engine; 07-17-2012 at 10:20 PM.

07-17-2012, 11:16 PM	#8 (permalink)
Engine air quote Join Date: Jun 2009 Location: pollen & mold Posts: 3,108	Maybe I picked one that's too difficult. I know it well but maybe you'd have to be a semi-big fan of 1940s film noir to guess mine. That's a hint. Can you see the name that I gave the jpeg? If so, that's another clue. __________________ Like an arrow, I was only passing through.

07-18-2012, 08:36 AM	#9 (permalink)
Thom Yorke Music Addict Join Date: Jan 2011 Posts: 1,848	There was actually a thread on this a while ago but it seemed to have died out, which is a shame.