2945

It gives me a very strong Edgar Wright vibe as well. Can we replace the alligator with a goose?

2946

I’m guessing Happy Gilmore.

2947

Happy Gilmore probably has alligators and geese, but it’s not what I’m looking for.

  1. Anger issues
  2. Financial building blocks
  3. Misconnection
  4. Alligator
  5. Pub
  6. Complimentary cup
  7. Glass eye
2948

Well - its not Dennis Hopper in Waterworld so…uh… Last Action Hero?

2949

Oh, I just remembered the Jenga scene in The Big Short – financial building blocks. That’s probably not right either, but The Big Short, that’s my current guess.

2950

OH - that’s definitely it as #7 is in that too.

2951

It very much is right, it is The Big Short. Well done!

  1. Anger issues - Steve Carrel’s Mark Baum / Steve Eisman character has got a bit of a temper.

  2. Financial building blocks - Ryan Gosling’s character uses Jenga blocks to explain the composition of CDOs and enormous default risk to Mark Baum’s hedge fund.

  3. Misconnection - The only reason the above hedge fund gets wind of the danger surrounding CDOs at all is due to Ryan Gosling’s character being mistakenly connected to them when trying to call a different firm in the same building.

  4. Alligator - Only a very minor detail, but the hedge fund goes on a fact finding mission to Florida in order to evaltuate whether there is a real estate bubble. They encounter an alligator in the pool of one of the many abandoned McMansions they find.

  5. Pub - Brad Pitt’s retired trader helps out the kid’s running his local Colorado hedge fund by acting as an imtermediary between them and the large financial institutions that won’t deal with them due to a lack of capital, certifications and reputation. When the market finally tumbles, they need him to sell their short positions and he does so while on vacation in England, sitting in a pub.

  6. Complimentary cup - Christian Bale’s socially awkward Michael Burry is the first of the characters to spot the looming catastrophe and thus needs a financial instrument to short the CDOs at the heart of the housing bubble. Since no such instrument exists, he needs the big investment banks to make him one. The bemused bankers agree to sell him credit default swaps, assuming Burry must be insane to short the market that only ever goes up. When he leaves he awkwardly stops when passing the refreshments, asking if he’s allowed to take home one of the coffe cups for his son.

  7. Glass eye - Besides being on the spectrum, Christian Bale’s character also has a glass eye that sometimes add to the awkwardness of his social interactions.

2952

Christian Bale also had a drum kit and a Dragonlance paperback close at hand. Good for him.

Here’s the next one

  • a rappist
  • Cheerios
  • an unusual album cover
  • a sop to vanity
  • New York City, obviously
2953

Uh… Vanilla Sky?

2954

Hustle and Flow?

2955

No, it’s not Vanilla Sky (or Abre Los Ojos) or Hustle and Flow.

2956

Begin Again?

2957

That’s not the movie and I refuse to follow the order.

2958

Might as well name it as it’s the only album cover movie I can think of: This Is Spinal Tap

2959

Nope, I’m afraid it’s not Spinal Tap, or even This Is The Thamesmen.

  • a rappist
  • Cheerios
  • an unusual album cover
  • a sop to vanity
  • New York City, obviously
  • a wet robe
2960

With the 20:20 game, at least at some point you can be pretty sure you haven’t seen the movie in question and enjoy watching everything unfold from the sidelines.

With this monster of @Buckaroo’s making, there simply is no end to the contortions you put your brain through, just to somehow twist your hazy memory of a movie you saw once that barely fits one clue to match all the others.

2961

Ha ha! That’s true – especially when the clues are so obscure they’re practically encrypted. Until they’re explained, then often they were blindingly obvious.

I will say that this movie is not obscure and there is an excellent chance that almost everyone has seen it.

2962

This is just going off the robe and the album cover (and maybe the Dude eats cheerios in one scene?) but I’ll throw out The Big Lebowski, which as far as a thread-search tells me, has been often guessed but never actually done.

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2963

I can definitely fit most of the clues to it, but New York?

2964

Ahhh, that makes it worse!

Any mention of cereal instantly conjures up the Tarantino-verse, but I just can’t get anything else to fit.