3687

@Gordon_Cameron got it right, it is Starman, the movie about what would happen if Karen Allen fell in love with E.T. No seashells are involved.

  • Phone home? - The starman, played by Jeff Bridges, is an alien explorer that got stranded on earth, and contacts his home planet to arrange for a ride back. It really does parallel E.T. in a lot of ways, and if I understand the history correctly, Columbia Pictures passed on the the E.T. script in favor of Starman.

  • Body double - After crash landing on earth, the alien hovers over to Jenny’s (Karen Allen) house and clones himself a body from her dead husband’s genetic remains.

  • Poor hospitality - In the intro, the Voyager space probe is found by aliens who find inside it an invitation to visit earth. They send a scout ship that is promptly shot down, then the U.S. government tries to capture the alien so they can dissect it for research.

  • Cartography - The alien/Jeff Bridges describes his job as “Making maps”.

  • Home movies - After getting to Jenny’s house, the alien sees the home movies she was watching, of herself and her dead husband, and decides to take Jeff Bridge’s form.

  • Public toilet etiquette - Jenny and the alien go on a road trip to reach the landing spot for his trip home. On the way their they stop at a gas station where the alien needs to figure out things like “Don’t stare at strangers while they’re pissing”.

  • Resurrection - If you have a Jesus figure in your movie, he needs to perform some miracles. Aside from his incarnation as clone of a dead man, the alien also brings several creatures back to life.

3688

Good one, a giveaway for me would have been something like, “Yellow light, go!” That’s the most memorable scene from that movie floating around in my brain.

3689

Yellow light go, very fast.

3690
  1. Big plans
  2. Jazz man
  3. Dented windshield
  4. Packed nightclub
  5. Flash drive
3691

Does anyone totally bust his ass on a chair? Collateral?

3692

Collateral it is.

3693

Gah, I watched Starman two weeks ago.

3694

Here’s the next one:

  • Girls, girls, girls
  • Weirdirector
  • Frustration
  • A gauzy perception
  • Outsiders become insiders, perhaps
3695

I’m lazy: who directed The Martian?

3696

Ridley Scott.

3697

For the record, not The Martian.

3698

The Skin I Live In?

3699
  • Girls, girls, girls
  • Weirdirector
  • Frustration
  • A gauzy perception
  • Outsiders become insiders, perhaps
  • No. Antipodes, of/not España.
3700

Picnic at Hanging Rock?

3701

Earth Girls Are Easy

3702

I really need to rewatch that. It was part of the Film Studies curriculum, but that was 35+ years ago…

3703

Correct!

The clues are here, and at least, unlike the movie, they point to a resolution:

  • Girls, girls, girls

An all-girls boarding school that suddenly contains fewer girls

  • Weirdirector

Peter Weir directs a weird one

  • Frustration

What the fuck happened to those kids?

  • A gauzy perception

A hazy view suitable for woolgathering or wandering off from the group, brought about by literally draping gauze in front of the camera.

  • Outsiders become insiders, perhaps

Maybe these European invasive species shouldn’t be wandering around their non-native habitats! Maybe they’ll be picked off and devoured by predators that would make the Crocodile Hunter blanch, or slip into the Dreamtime they know nothing about, or get picked up by flying saucers, or get sucked down into the living rock itself.

  • Antipodes of España, not España.

“The Far Side Of The World”, to coin a phrase that maybe Weir would know something about.

It was pretty good! I thought the recent remake, stretched out to miniseries length, was also pretty good! And it was only relatively recently that I learned that they were based on a novel. I thought it was a true story! (I might have been thinking about the “dingo ate my baby” movie.)

You win, @Ginger_Yellow !

3704
  1. Glasses
  2. Fancy moves
  3. Surprising facts
  4. Experiment
  5. Kierkegaard
3705

Wayne’s World?

3706

Kierkegaard makes me think Woody Allen. Love and Death?