BlueCC

I also visit here all the time but guessing or researching clues for most of these movies is usually hopeless. I think a great thing would be for people who come here and like playing (but can't begin to guess movies like Passages from James Joyce's Finnegans Wake) to take the wildcards and steer the game in a more accessible direction.

BlueCC

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whotony

I'm relatively knowledgeable in a movie trivia sense but I have no clue on screenshots, plus almost all of these movies are too obscure even though they seem to be acclaimed films for the most part.

Also is it just me or was the name of Finnegan;'s Wake posted in one of the screen shots. seemed like it was too obvious to be the name of the movie.

BlueCC

I think you mean the answers to the clues which were posted after a correct guess was made.

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obscurelabel

As BlueCC noted, I posted the title card after Norm de Plume guessed correctly – sort of a confirmation that he was right.

We’ve had plenty of more recent and/or well known movies. Out of 40 titles starting with “G” (from Page 1 of this thread), I’d count these as pretty mainstream:

Garden State
Get Shorty
Ghost in the Shell (1 and 2)
Ghostbusters (1 and 2)
Gigli
Glitter
Goldfinger
Gone Baby Gone
Gone with the Wind
Grosse Point Blank
Groundhog Day
Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner
The Gumball Rally

That’s 15/40 or 38% that I would say are pretty well known (granted that’s a completely subjective judgement), and I suspect that percentage would hold up for all the titles. Also, this is a movie-oriented board, and the readers are far more familiar with movies that the population at large wouldn’t know at all.

Anyone is welcome to take an available wildcard and post an easier movie, which I think is an absolute remedy to complaints that the movies are too “out there.” However, I think a deterrent to posting easier shots is that they tend to get guessed very quickly, and part of the appeal of the game is (I think) the cat-and-mouse interaction with the other players over the course of posting a number of pictures, which is lost when something gets guessed immediately. That’s why I think I’m going to try the handicapping idea at some point to see if it will give some other players a chance on an easier selection of shots. It may not work at all.

whotony

So if they get guessed in 2 or 3 shots then it gets the game moving more quickly and doesn't have just the same 3 or so people doing all the guessing.

I haven't ventured in here for awhile and didn't See the posts for Wake before the answer, I saw the record soundtrack posted with the name of the movie so I guess that was put there after the correct guess.

Just my opinion, not trying to say anything is wrong here at all.
As I said, mostly pointless for me anyway since I don't do screenshots, So I'll just continue to enjoy looking at the pictures.

Norm de Plume

The Last Shark (1981)?

BlueCC

too early

BlueCC

Norm de Plume

The Count of Monte Cristo (2002)

Wildcard

BlueCC

so much confidence

Norm de Plume

Only because the trailer contains that last shot.

SterlingBen

Norm de Plume

The Black Swan (1942)?

SterlingBen

^No, too early

Dimension X

I'd say I'm one of those who has seen more films than the "population at large" (but fewer than many who post here) and I've only seen about a third of the films listed in the first post in this thread, but looking back at one of the earlier games I've seen right at half of the films (granted, a few of those I've seen in the time since that thread was played). Yeah, it's subjective, but I think the films are getting more "out there" (which is okay now and then, I've done it myself).
Good point. And with as many wildcards as are thrown out there, any of us complaining have no one but ourselves to blame.
Now and then, a better-known film will go unidentified for a while. It's hard to find more than one or two obscure shots from a "classic", but to me that seems more cat-and-mouse than posting lots of shots from some super-obscure film. In the end though, it all comes down to who happens to be looking at the thread that day. You can't tell what image will "click" with someone and set off a memory that points them to the film in question.

SterlingBen

The lead in this movie is a big name.

SterlingBen

obscurelabel

Hey, I can see a screenshot! (They're usually all blocked at work but they must have missed this server).

In honor of this event, I will guess The Mosquito Coast, even though it may not match the other (unseen by me) shots.

SterlingBen

^-- Too late


Next shot will be of the big name main actor

Norm de Plume

I'll just burn off my last guess with The Story of Dr. Wassell (1942).

SterlingBen

^--I mentioned that your first guess was too early but your second guess is a movie from the same year?

Leading Man:

Norm de Plume

I meant 1944. Anyway, it should be easy now.

JumpCutz

His Majesty O'Keefe (1954)?

SterlingBen

This movie was made after WW2 and shot in Fiji except when in China.