a Christmas quiz

[calimac]

If Jon Carroll's quiz is too tough this year, have fun identifying the films in this, the best "clips from a hundred movies" collage I've ever seen. It's a bit over 9 minutes long, so that's an average of about 5 1/2 seconds per film. Ready?

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What I found most pleasurable about watching this, besides the hypnotizing conceit on which it was assembled, was how many of the films I did recognize, and with pleasure. I've seen exactly half of these - a huge hit rate for me as film citations go - and in each case the clip was enough to pin it: mostly through remembering the scene, sometimes through the clue of who was on screen and what they were saying. Only a couple of them I didn't much like, and a full half-dozen are among my all-time favorite movies. And it was often easy enough, too, to recognize the actor in films I hadn't seen. How'd you do?

Comments

[scribblerworks.livejournal.com]

LOL! That's fun!

I knew/recognized 71! Yay me! Of course, of that 71, there were several that I've never actually seen all the way through -- but I know the actors, recognize the contexts, etc.

And I really laughed at the choice for the final one. Hee.

[jpmassar.livejournal.com]

Maybe 20 for sure, another 5 on the tip of my tongue.

I've seen somewhere around 66 of them. With a bit more time and a bit more context, I probably could have named a lot more of the one's I've seen.

[emerdavid.livejournal.com]

When I saw the clip from "This Is Spinal Tap" I didn't even have to hear the dialog!

[vgqn.livejournal.com]

Amusing, though I think I'd only lay claim to about 25.

[benjd.livejournal.com]

This was a lot fun, albeit a bit frustrating because, upon reviewing the answers, I discovered that several of the clips that I did not recognize were from films that I have in fact seen. There were probably at least 15 in that category. Then there were clips where I knew the film but couldn't quite remember its name off the top of my head. For example, I knew the scene with the young Paul Newman and George C. Scott was from the pool shark film with Jackie Gleason but I temporarily blanked on the name. Anyhow, I got somewhere between 40 and 50, but I've seen closer to 60 of these films.

[stevegreen.livejournal.com]

Interesting to note how many of those movies starred Paul Newman, Humphrey Bogart or Jimmy Stewart.