2684

Back to the Future?

2685

Not Back to the Future.

2686

The Warriors?

2687

O’ Brother Where Art Thou?

2688

Some good guesses here, but no correct ones. Not The Warriors either or O’ Brother Where Art Thou.

  1. Overalls
  2. Anachronisms
  3. Biker gang
  4. Bus ride
  5. Rock & Roll
  6. Sledgehammers
2689

I can remember almost nothing about it, but on the basis of overalls and sledgehammers, Super Mario Bros?

2690

Lucky you…

2691

Not Super Mario Bros. But when I was trying to pick the next movie, one of the options I considered was Wages of Fear, where two of the main characters are Mario and his roommate Luigi.

The actor playing Luigi looks a bit like the more famous Mario.

2692

ls that where the video-game characters took their name from?

2693

I see no other possibility. If I’m not mistaken, Zelda and Link are named after characters from Rififi.

2694
  1. Overalls
  2. Anachronisms: 1980’s version of the 1950’s
  3. Biker gang
  4. Bus ride
  5. Rock & Roll
  6. Sledgehammers
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And @Cormac gets it right, with a picture of one of the main reasons to watch Streets Of Fire. Honorable mention to @BennyProfane coming very close with The Warriors, Walter Hill’s other fantasy urban adventure.

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A few days ago in that weird movie privateering thread @Ginger_Yellow mentioned this game works like a kind of movie club, so I found a movie that not only doesn’t seem to be mentioned often, there were no results at all on the forums when I searched for its name.

  1. Overalls - Willem Dafoe wears leather overalls, for some unexplained reason.

  2. Anachronisms - The 50’s aesthetics are deliberately exaggerated and mixed with 80’s look and sound. Like James Dean with shoulder pads.

  3. Biker gang - The Bombers, the antagonists led by Willem Dafoe.

  4. Bus ride - After escaping the Bombers compound, the heroes commandeer bus from a doo-wop quartet and make their way to safety.

  5. Rock & Roll - The movie is subtitled “A Rock & Roll Fable”. The actual soundtrack is mostly corny 80’s power ballads from the guy who wrote those cheesy Meatloaf songs. The movie still manages to sell them- It may have something to do with Cormac’s picture up there.

  6. Sledgehammers - I don’t know who was the person who came up to Walter Hill and suggested that Willem Dafoe’s bad guy should wear leather overalls, have a name like “Raven Shaddock” and in the final climactic scene he should have a sword fight with the hero, but instead of swords they have hammers. But people like that are why there are still art and joy in this world.

2697

I have to confess I never actually watched this movie, but had stumbled across the videos of Diane Lane “singing” (lipsyncing) those Jim Steinman ballads. Curious to find out about the movie, I read up on it and was thus able to remember it now…

I’m also new to the thread and will give it a bash now!

  1. Shakespeare
  2. Succession
  3. Candle
  4. Mouse
  5. Wall

Hope those elements aren’t not too obscure (or easy?)!

2698

Could it be the Don Bluth adaptation of The Secret of NIMH?

2699

Ran? (pretty sure it’s not that, but that’s my go-to Shakespeare movie)

2700

It’s a movie that is entirely about look and feel. The characters are intentionally one note, and rely on the charisma of the actors to make them interesting. Unfortunately the lead actor is not remotely up to the challenge, but the movie that is going on around him is still, to me, worth watching.

2701

nope.

2702

Maybe I was too obscure with my elements, should I give another hint?

2703

Don’t worry - it’s completely normal not to find the movie with 5 clues. ln general, we give a new clue everyday (you can also decide to add more details to an existing clue instead).
After 10 clues, if nobody has found your movie, you have to pick up a new one (this rarely happens, as the last clues are usually easier than the first ones.)