Post a movie trivia question & see if anyone knows the answer without using Google - Part 1

[red dog 1]

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(Guesses are always welcome)


I'll start it off with two questions about Clint Eastwood:

1) What was the first movie Clint Eastwood directed? (answered)

2) What Clint Eastwood movie exceeded its budget even before filming began?

[BOSSHOG]

1. She don't know what she's doing. Oh yes she does.

What Movie? And what was she doing? Out in 1967

[JoseBalow]

2. Washing the car

in Cool Hand Luke

[BOSSHOG]

3. A typical Paul Newman Movie - Outstanding

Here’s another one somewhat similar

Who said “He’s in the car?” Who was “in” the car? Why? What movie?

[Harker]

4. 1... Play Misty For Me?

2...Letters From Iwo Jima?

[ProfessorGAC]

5. Almost Certain Your First One Is Correct

But, I think the 2nd one is Paint Your Wagon. That movie was a financial disaster.
Not Eastwood's fault, though. He was in it but had nothing to do with the production.

[Harker]

6. Ah, good pick, Professor.

I still recall "Wand'rin' Star" being a radio hit in Denver. I just looked into it, and was surprised to see it was released as a 45, b/w "I Talk to the Trees."

[ProfessorGAC]

7. PYW Is Still Considered One Of The Worst Ideas In Movie History

It didn't lose money, but it grossed $30 million in a budget of $21 million.
But, distribution costs were high; the long running time eliminated 2nd views; it was a musical when younger audiences had little attraction to musicals; and that $30 million took nearly 4 years to accumulate.
After it's movie run, residuals were pitiful as TV stations didn't think enough of it to tie up 4 hours of airtime.
It made the studio about 3% after fully absorbed cost.
Not a turkey like Ishtar, but pretty bad.

[red dog 1]

8. For # 1 "Play Misty For Me" is correct...That was the first movie he directed.

For number 2, Nope.
(One out of two ain't bad)

[Harker]

9. I'll settle for that, thanks, red!

[red dog 1]

13. You can always take a guess to answer the other one

[Harker]

14. I suspect ProfessorGAC nailed it.

If not, I'll see if I can kick-start my brain.

[red dog 1]

10. What's the highest grossing American war movie of all time?

[TexasBushwhacker]

11. Who narrated The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1974)?

[red dog 1]

12. "The Cowboy and the Spaceman" was the rejected title for what Academy Award-winning movie

[Harker]

15. According to Bob Falfa (Harrison Ford) in "American Graffiti"...

what color is John Milner's (Paul LeMat) hotrod?

[red dog 1]

16. (Wild guess) PI$$ Yellow?

[Harker]

17. That's half of the mix!

A cross between piss yellow and...

[Mad_Dem_X]

18. "P*ss Yellow and Puke Green"

[Harker]

19. Precisely...

well done Mad_Dem_X!

[red dog 1]

20. During the filming of American Graffiti, Paul Le Mat, Harrison Ford, and Bo Hopkins were claimed to be drunk

most nights and had conducted climbing expeditions to the top of the local Holiday Inn sign.
One actor set fire to George Lucas' motel room.
Another night, Le Mat threw Richard Dreyfuss into a swimming pool, gashing Dreyfuss' forehead on the day before he was due to have his close-ups filmed. (Wikipedia)

[Harker]

21. Happy days for all involved, so it sounds.

[red dog 1]

22. I don't think Richard Dreyfuss was very happy.

[Harker]

23. That crossed my mind as I hit the 'post' button.

[Harker]

24. What were the names of the crew of Nostromo in "Alien"?

Bonus points for coming up with both characters and actors.

[red dog 1]

25. What was the original title of "Reefer Madness"?

[Doc_Technical]

31. Tell Your Children (?)

[jmowreader]

52. That it was

The title card reads "Reefer Madness, formerly 'Tell Your Children.'"

[Emile]

26. What song was played on the radio every morning in Groundhog Day?

[ms liberty]

27. Sonny and Cher, "I got you babe"

[Emile]

29. Yes

[JoseBalow]

28. Sonny and Cher

I Got You Babe

[Emile]

30. Yes

[red dog 1]

32. Name one of the actors who were offered the role of Captain Benjamin Willard in Apocalypse Now but turned it down.

(Martin Sheen ended up playing Capt. Willard)

[Harker]

33. Al Pacino?

Yes, a guess!

[red dog 1]

38. Ding!

Besides Steve McQueen, who was Coppola's first choice, Al Pacino also turned down the role of Willard.

[Harker]

40. I'll be damned!

[VGNonly]

37. Steve McQueen?

[red dog 1]

39. Ding!

Steve McQueen was Coppola's first choice to play Willard, but he didn't want to leave America for three weeks, and Coppola was unwilling to pay his $3 million fee.

[VGNonly]

41. I remember that McQueen could be a hard-ass

for casting. In Butch & Sundance he wanted to play Sundance and wanted the film credits as "The Sundance Kid and Butch Cassidy". The studio said no, McQueen walked. (supposedly)

[Harker]

34. What is the only X rated film to win an Oscar for Best Picture?

[JoseBalow]

35. Midnight Cowboy had an X rating when it was released

Before there was NC-17 rating

[Harker]

36. Yes!

[VGNonly]

42. Martin Scorsese had to trim

Goodfellas to eliminate some scenes to avoid a NC-17 rating.

[VGNonly]

43. In this 1990 film,

Sean Penn, Alec Baldwin, Tom Cruise and Val Kilmer were all considered. The role ended up going to a relative newcomer, who was it?

[Harker]

44. Kevin Costner?

[VGNonly]

45. As far back as I could remember,

I always wanted to be a gangster!

[Harker]

46. That flitted through my mind, but I couldn't make it work.

[red dog 1]

47. Goodfellas?

I think Henry Hill (Ray Liotta) uttered that line near the beginning of the movie.

[red dog 1]

48. In "No Country for Old Men" what was Woody Harrelson's character's name?

[VGNonly]

49. Carson Wells

What the real-life name of the actor killed in the office by Anton Chigurh?

[red dog 1]

50. Carson Wells is correct.

Did you see my reply # 47?

[VGNonly]

56. I did.

Some trivia-In the film There Will Be Blood, it was being filmed at the same area and time as No Country For Old Men. The derrick fire scene caused some much black smoke that NCFOM had suspend some filming.

[JoseBalow]

51. "An attempt at humor?"

Steven Root

He was the judge in Idiocracy, and the Swingline stapler guy in Office Space.

[VGNonly]

55. He was also the blind radio station manager

in Oh Brother Where Art Thou.

[JoseBalow]

57. He was in Dodgeball too

[jmowreader]

53. In "Up in Smoke," what kind of drums did Chong play?

[red dog 1]

54. Red ones?

[red dog 1]

58. In what Steve Martin movie did Meat Loaf play a main character?

[red dog 1]

60. Who was Quentin Tarantino's original choice to play Hans Landa in "Inglourious Basterds"?

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(He later changed his mind & chose Christopher Waltz, who won an Oscar for Best Supporting Actor)

[VGNonly]

61. Leonardo Dicaprio??

[red dog 1]

64. Yes!

[VGNonly]

65. I total guess.

QT seems to have frequent collaborators/stock players quite often in his films.

[JoseBalow]

62. Harvey Keitel?

[red dog 1]

63. Good guess, but it was Leo DiCaprio

Harvey Keitel was in a lot of QT's movies.

[JoseBalow]

70. "You shoot me in a dream, you better wake up and apologize."

[VGNonly]

71. Lotsa cream, lotsa sugar.

[Brother Buzz]

66. What actor played three different roles in two kinda, sorta, war movies

[Harker]

67. Peter Sellers.

[Brother Buzz]

68. Yep - The Mouse that Roared (1959) and Dr. Strangelove (1964)

I just realized the two films were shot five years apart. I saw the Mouse that Roared on television soon after it was released, but didn’t catch Dr. Strangelove until the early seventies.

[Harker]

69. I'm pretty sure I didn't see either one until about that time.

MTR as a TV rerun, Dr. Strangelove on a big screen at a university film fest, though I was but a 11 or 12-year-old.

[Harker]

72. Adam West was considered for the role of James Bond in what film?

[Angleae]

73. On her majesty's secret service?

[Harker]

74. That's not it, but a sound, commendable effort.

[VGNonly]

75. Who turned down the Dirk Diggler role

in Boogie Nights?

[sdfernando]

76. Here is a somewhat obscure quote

"Just cause people wanna eat the burger doesn't mean they wanna meet the cow"

[JoseBalow]

77. " I can get a good look at a T-bone by sticking my head up a bull's ass, but I'd rather take a butcher's word for it."

[sdfernando]

78. Yours is from Tommy Boy

Said by Chris Farley.

[JoseBalow]

79. Indeed it is!

He was quoting his father, Brian Dennehy (Big Tom.)

[VGNonly]

80. "Did you hear it, it's a funny squeaky sound?"

What film?

[VGNonly]

81. How many martinis did C.C. Baxter (Jack Lemmon) drink

in The Apartment? (based on the olive count)

[red dog 1]

82. What was John Ritter's last movie?

(Before he died)

[red dog 1]

83. What actor turned down the role of gangster Vinnie Antonelli in "My Blue Heaven"?

(Steve Martin ended up playing the lead role of Vinnie)