Movie Talk (Reverse) Sheep: The Lord of the Rings - The Return of the SHEEP
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Movie Talk (Reverse) Sheep: The Lord of the Rings - The Return of the SHEEP
Movie Talk (Reverse) Sheep: The Lord of the Rings - The Return of the SHEEP
Intro for first-time players
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General Rules
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Game-Specific Rules
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Unless otherwise specified, answers pertain to all of the first five Peter Jackson Tolkien live-action movies (the "franchise"), including the three Lord of the Rings movies (the "LOTR series") and the first two Hobbit movies (the "Hobbit series"), including extended cuts.
"Actor" is a gender-neutral term.
Troll submissions will be thrown out.
Only one dunk is allowed per question. Any additional dunks played will be wasted.
And another reminder: Please send in your answers to me via PM. Place only one answer per line, without numbers or the question itself. If you are playing a slamdunk on a question, add {sd} to the end of the answer, not the beginning. Incorrectly formatted answers will be penalized 20 points right off the bat.
However, slamdunk errors will be granted one "reshoot" and may be corrected via PM once with no penalty. However, revisions simply because you "thought of a better answer" will not be allowed. I may PM you for answer clarification; no response often brings about the least-desirable result.
Note: In general, I prefer not to play my own Sheep games. However, I often reserve the right to play in case turnout is thin, and most of my games attract about eight players each. With that in mind, I don't read my PMs till (1) I've decided not to play or (2) I've submitted my own answers to another player. If you are PMing me a question about the game, please put "Sheep question" in the subject line and don't include it with your answers.
I will take somewhere in the vicinity of 20 participants, and plan on starting sometime when the sixth movie is playing in U.S. theaters.
The Questions
- S: Which is the best movie (disregarding theatrical vs extended)?
- S: Which is the worst movie (disregarding theatrical vs extended)?
- S: What is the best action scene?
- R: Name someone who wears the one true ring of power on-screen.
- S: Who is the most heroic character?
- S: Who is the scariest character/creature?
- S: Who is the most attractive character?
- S: Who was the best-cast actor?
- S: The LOTR series introduced many of us to acting talent we hadn't seen before. Which actor do you wish had had a more prominent career following that series?
- S: What is the most memorable quote?
- S: What is the best musical theme or song?
- R: Name a credited actor in the Hobbit series who reprises a role from the LOTR series.
- R: Name a credited character in the Hobbit film series who didn't appear in the original book The Hobbit.
- S: If you could pick which race you could be in Middle-earth, which would you choose?
- S: If you could live in one place in Middle-earth, where would you choose?
- S: Name a character who dies on-screen.
- S: Which character racks up the most kills?
- R: Name one of the five armies in The Hobbit: The Battle of Five Armies.
- R: Name a member of the Fellowship of the Ring.
- R: Name one of the visitors to Bilbo's house in The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey.
BONUS TIE-BREAKER QUESTION (if necessary; no dunks allowed; closest answer wins): What is the total running time in minutes of the five extended editions?
Last edited by davidh777; 12-15-14 at 10:05 AM.
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Re: Movie Talk (Reverse) Sheep: The Lord of the Rings - The Return of the SHEEP
Great idea, I'm in. To clarify for #9, do you mean "character" instead of "actor"? Like, who is a character we'd like to see the further adventures of?
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Re: Movie Talk (Reverse) Sheep: The Lord of the Rings - The Return of the SHEEP
I'd assume it means whose career did you hope might take off a little more.
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I'm in ... but can I request that we rename the slam dunks to {rings} ? 5 rings ... 5 slams ... seems fitting
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Re: Movie Talk (Reverse) Sheep: The Lord of the Rings - The Return of the SHEEP
Though speaking of redrafting questions, as I was composing this thread, my gmail completely erased all of my questions and notes so I hope the final list of questions captured what I was aiming for.
Ha, fun idea!
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Stupid question:
For #3, do you mean a specific action beat or entire sequences ?
For #3, do you mean a specific action beat or entire sequences ?
Last edited by Kal-El; 12-15-14 at 12:06 PM.
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^ I believe answers are still being submitted so can you please edit answers out of your question?
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I also just realized I totally screwed the pooch on one of my answers I submitted. I was thinking of one character but wrote down another character. And I slam dunked it.
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This looks good! When I saw the thread title, I feared the questions would be ultra-specific that would've required encyclopedic knowledge of the series to answer. Even though I've seen all of the movies (some multiple times), my brain doesn't work that well
How picky are you going to be for #11? I don't know the official names of musical themes (like you'd see listed on a soundtrack). If I describe it so that you know what I'm talking about, will that be good enough?
How picky are you going to be for #11? I don't know the official names of musical themes (like you'd see listed on a soundtrack). If I describe it so that you know what I'm talking about, will that be good enough?
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answers sent. you guys better not pick wrong answers just to make me lose!
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Though as we know, too much knowledge can be a bad thing, and realizing when to use it is a strategy in and of itself.
And by the way, thanks for running the Fantasy Sheep game that stole one of my questions and first-impulse game title. Of course I ended up using the question anyway.
I won't accept "the one that goes dadadaDADAAAA," but otherwise I plan to be fairly liberal. If absolutely necessary, I'll ask you to post a video clip of you singing it just to be sure.
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Re: Movie Talk (Reverse) Sheep: The Lord of the Rings - The Return of the SHEEP
For the record, I haven't submitted answers yet, but I probably will. We do have two new players!
AaronHernandez
achau9598
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DaveNinja
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I'll take it!
AaronHernandez
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wishbone
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DaveNinja
Kal-El
cdollaz
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dhmac
I'll take it!
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I was hoping for more players, but realistically with the holiday coming up we can't wait too long. I'll probably take answers through tomorrow then start Friday, though if nothing comes in today I might change my mind.