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tzikehI am looking for movies or tv shows with any one of the following things in them:
1) Someone calling someone else "Joe". Whether or not the character's name is Joe doesn't matter. (In which movie does Humphrey Bogart say "Hey, Joe, whaddaya know?" - or have I hallucinated that?)
2) People playing games - like Trivial Pursuit, Pictionary, etc. Or people caught up in games, like The Game, Tron, etc.
3) People under pressure and working carefully, or people working together in a highly charged situation and arguing about how to do it. A good example of the first one is Robert Redford in Sneakers, when he has to walk across the room very, very slowly. A good example of the second one is anything where two people are arguing about cutting the red wire or the blue wire.
4) People saying "This is too hard!" or "We're never going to solve this!" or the like.
5) People building weird things out of weird stuff - like the Eiffel Tower out of popsicle sticks, etc.
Thank you, O friendslist!
1) Someone calling someone else "Joe". Whether or not the character's name is Joe doesn't matter. (In which movie does Humphrey Bogart say "Hey, Joe, whaddaya know?" - or have I hallucinated that?)
2) People playing games - like Trivial Pursuit, Pictionary, etc. Or people caught up in games, like The Game, Tron, etc.
3) People under pressure and working carefully, or people working together in a highly charged situation and arguing about how to do it. A good example of the first one is Robert Redford in Sneakers, when he has to walk across the room very, very slowly. A good example of the second one is anything where two people are arguing about cutting the red wire or the blue wire.
4) People saying "This is too hard!" or "We're never going to solve this!" or the like.
5) People building weird things out of weird stuff - like the Eiffel Tower out of popsicle sticks, etc.
Thank you, O friendslist!
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Date: 2006-02-17 11:55 pm (UTC)"Mazes and Monsters" with Tom Hanks, which came out in 1982.
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Date: 2006-02-17 11:57 pm (UTC)Well, just off the top of my head, in Ocean's Eleven there's that wonderful nervous scene where the computer nerdy guy is rewiring stuff back in the back area, and the sweat on his hand has obliterated the code and etc etc.
For "we're never going to solve this?" I don't know what this is all for, if it's for a vid, this won't work, but the bestest example I've ever seen of this is on the extras of Return of the King, where there's a feature about the production folks trying to get the film turned in on time. Apparently they made it by about 7 minutes.
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Date: 2006-02-17 11:59 pm (UTC)2) Vinnie and Amber playing Scrabble in "Sleepwalk" (Wiseguy)
3) Wizards chess in the first Harry Potter movie. (I was thinking of them actually playing on the pieces, not when they're just playing the regular game.)
Many more things, but I have to go catch my bus. *g*
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Date: 2006-02-18 12:01 am (UTC)3) Air Force One (Harrison Ford trying to decide which wires to cut), Tom Cruise descending from the ceiling in Mission: Impossible
I'll update as I think of more.
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Date: 2006-02-18 12:08 am (UTC)(no subject)
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Date: 2006-02-18 12:05 am (UTC)3 and 4) Apollo 13
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Date: 2006-02-18 12:09 am (UTC)And Robert De Niro, also doing a wire-act of sorts, in The Score, being coached by Edward Norton.
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Date: 2006-02-18 12:13 am (UTC)(no subject)
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Date: 2006-02-18 12:13 am (UTC)5) the Eiffel Tower made out of jello -- near the beginning of the movie "American Dreamer" (1984 -- Jo Beth Williams & Tom Conti). Note: this is one of my all time favorite movies, and I haven't seen it in years, and in looking up the year, I see it's now on DVD -- YAY!!!!)
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Date: 2006-02-18 12:59 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-02-18 12:19 am (UTC)Every single damned episode of the A-Team?
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Date: 2006-02-18 12:21 am (UTC)2.) Does Chess count? I can come up with a dozen chess scenes. There's a Stargate episode where Teal'c is caught up in a virtual reality simulation. There's also a Sliders ep like that. (actually if VR games count, I can give you a list) The psuedo-chess game in Star Wars where the pieces beat each other up.
3.) Sentinel has several scenes like this. Both kinds - one where Blair is guiding Jim across a bridge that has pressure plates he needs to avoid and another where they're cutting the bomb wires.
4.) Stargate: Atlantis has lots of these. Rodney likes to whine like that right before he does whatever it is he says he can't do.
5.) Lone Gunmen: Jimmy builds a mock up of a ski mountain out of cotton balls. Do we ever *see* the butter-cow in West Wing?
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Date: 2006-02-18 12:21 am (UTC)My favorite scene from ET - the mashed potatoe mountain.
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Date: 2006-02-18 12:28 am (UTC)3) Er, how about the entire ending of Airforce One? Oh, and that stupid movie where Sean Connery teaches Catherine Zeta-Jones how to be a theif?
5) House of Cards the little girl builds freaky card-structures. Um, how about the mashed potato structure in Close Encounters of a Third Kind?
Hope you have a great weekend!
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Date: 2006-02-18 12:29 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-02-18 12:38 am (UTC)2) There's an MST3K ep where Mike and the bots play Trivial Pursuit. The ever-handy Internet says this is Ep 909: Gorgo.
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Date: 2006-02-18 01:48 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-02-18 01:05 am (UTC)#1 - Joe Dawson from Highlander (TV show). I was only a casual watcher but I'm betting that some HL vidders, like Killa or Melina, would be able to point out the best scenes if you've something more particular in mind than just the name.
#3 people working together in a highly charged situation and arguing about how to do it - Many a scene with Fraser & RayV in due South have a delightful blend of frustration, exasperation, and affection as they argue about how to solve a problem. In particular, you might try: the courtroom scene where they are trying to defuse the bomb linking them together (Red, White, or Blue); the scene where RayV brings weapons across the border to save Fraser in the Pilot; the scene inside the bank vault (Vault); nearly all of North *g*. For something that has a bitter edge and less humor, there are several scenes in Juliet is Bleeding.
#3 - Nearly every Pros episode has scenes that fit both types. There's a scene where Doyle is dismantling an atomic bomb and Bodie is keeping track of the terrorists in Stake Out. A lovely bit where Doyle dismantles a phone bomb that Bodie has tripped in The Purging of CI5. And a gorgeous bit of tension & humor in both the house-breaking scenes in Backtrack.
#5 - Richard Dreyfus building the Devil's Tower out of mashed potatos in Close Encounters of the Third Kind is a classic.
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Date: 2006-02-18 01:15 am (UTC)#5 - Every episode of MacGuyver! Or if you don't mind mixing animation in with live action clips, Inspector Gadget *g*.
#2 - There's an interesting scene in The Prisoner where a chess game is played with human beings.
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Date: 2006-02-18 01:18 am (UTC)2. Randall and Hopkirk, Deceased has a really good video game shot in a scene that features David Tennant. (Randall is trying to talk to a new client (Tennant) while Hopkirk is playing some cool new race game and being very noisy about it.)
3. There is a good scene in Dark Angel - "Red" where Original Cindy and Logan perform emergency brain surgery on Max by flashlight. Not very well lit but, much tension and much care. Any episode of ER. Any episode of MacGyver. Also - the Cupid episode about the Cosmogenist.
4. Jan in any episode of the Brady Bunch.
5. I can't think of the name of it but, there was a coming of age, coming out as gay movie that came out a few years ago that was very well done. The father of the teen boy in the story was a big Dr. Who fan and every time we saw him he was building dalek models or cyberman costumes or something. It was British.
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Date: 2006-02-18 01:57 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-02-18 01:39 am (UTC)In La femme Nikita there's a MI-like shot where she drops into a laser-armed room and has to lie flat under the lasers. There are a number of "red or blue wire" type scenes in the series, too, and if you wanted I could detail them, though I doubt you have access to the source. Pros also has a quite a few of these types of scenes, which I think taverymate listed above. My all-time favorite working carefully scene would be Sigourney Weaver and Tim Allen going through the choppers. (Which made it hard for me to watch the pendulum scene in the recent Dr. Who!)
Now and Again has a few of those "this is too hard" kind of scenes, especially at the beginning when Michael is in his new body. I assume, also, though that you're looking for digital source?
In Keen Eddie, Monty and Eddie play Rock 'Em Sock 'Em Robots. There's a fair amount of throwing arms up and acting as if it's all too hard. I seem to remember someone building something out of weird stuff, but I'd need to reasearch because I could be wrong.
There's certainly a lot of poker played in BSG and in Magnificent 7, but that's not the same as board games... And checkers in Mag 7. In The Wire, D'Angelo teaches chess to some of the young drug-dealer kids in the hood.
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Date: 2006-02-18 01:53 am (UTC)(no subject)
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Date: 2006-02-18 01:54 am (UTC)1) In Say Anything,, the character played by Lili Taylor has an ex-boyfriend named Joe that she's obsessed with and talks about a lot, and in one scene at a house party, she runs into him in the kitchen and says, "Hi, Joe."
2) There's a courtroom scene in Monty Python's Flying Circus episode 15 (the one with the Spanish Inquisition) where the foreman of the jury breaks into a game a charades with the judge.
And of course there's the scene in Star Wars on the Millennium Falcon where R2D2 and Chewbacca play that chess-like game with the holograms ("R2, let the wookie win").
I'm pretty sure there are video game-playing scenes in War Games.
I know there's a video game-playing scene near the beginning of the movie Big, played by the young Tom Hanks, then another scene playing the same game near the end of the movie, when he's older, actual Tom Hanks.
3) There's a scene in the movie Abyss (did I spell that right?) near the end where Ed Harris' character goes like a two miles down in the ocean to defuse a bomb and has to cut wires according to their color, which was really tricky since the only light he had with him made everything look green. Funny moment of frustration. {g}
4) There's the famous scene of Bill Paxton as a soldier in Aliens after the first alien attack-- "We're never getting out of here! Game over, man, game over!!!"
5) There's an episode of The 4400 in the second season (I don't know the ep. number, but the ep. was titled "Wake Up Call") where all the inmates in an insane asylum start building this huge tower out of all sorts of metallic odds and ends.
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Date: 2006-02-18 02:18 am (UTC)(no subject)
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