It's the 20:20 Movie Frame Game of 2019!

[Tin_Wisdom]

It is indeed Star Crash, the 1978 Italian knock-off of Star Wars directed by a guy who never saw the movie (but read the Italian translation of the novelization). @tomchick has it.

There is an old Gaelic proverb: Na coimhead air filmichean a thathar a ’moladh air cairteal gu trì, and this movie proves I should have listened to that ancient wisdom.

The forty, in which Robert Tessier (who had a very successful run as bad guys in US TV and movies later) falls out of his chair.

The sixty, in which the filmmakers really try (and utterly fail) to introduce Harryhousen-like effects into the movie. These two robots were shown sloooowly turning their heads from side-to-side for like 90 seconds in an effort to make them look menacing. Not so much.

It should be said that the filmmakers were HUGE fans of the “Sinbad” movies, which is why they cast Caroline Munro… and why the useless robots are carrying scimitars in a sci-fi movie.

The eighty, in which Count Zarth Arn lectures to a minion. While watching the movie, I was 90% sure that Zarth Arn was played by Ron Jeremy, but no: it’s Joe Spinell.

Not great frames. I honestly thought the movie was in excess of two hours… but I guess it just felt that way.

We narrowly missed (in the 80) seeing Christopher Plummer phone in his one day’s worth of work as the Galactic Emperor. He was being paid $10K per day, so the director flew him out to Rome for one long day’s filming, then handed him his ticket home.

We also missed a super-young David Hasselhoff as Prince Simon.

And alas, the first frame is the only one where we get to see Caroline Munro in her leather bikini. The one real tragedy of this film is that they made it with the intention of selling it to the US market, so rather than having Munro in a bikini throughout the film as the gods intended, she’s wearing stupid plastic translucent coveralls OVER the bikini for more than half the film… in the hope that would make it easier for prudish US TV networks to buy and air the movie. Sigh.

[Woolen_Horde]

Wow, Caroline Munro was quite the looker in the 70s.

[tomchick]

In what movie will you see this at the 20:20?

-Tom

[Woolen_Horde]

I could have sworn we’ve done Laggies before.

Yes, #1358 on the list.

Tom, the list is life.

[tomchick]

You know, it didn’t occur to me to even check the list for Laggies. I mean, c’mon, second rate Lynn Shelton has been done? What’s even left? Okay, lemme go dig up some obscure horror movie from last year.

BTW, if anyone would have gotten Laggies, it’s you. They’re all shots of Keira Knightley.

-Tom

[Woolen_Horde]

Yeah, you’re going to sneak one of Keira Knightley’s ouvre past me?

I’m the one who got London Boulevard from that 20:20 shot that showed nothing more than a driveway gate and a distant shot of a douchbag manspreading in the distance.

And, yeah, second-rate Lynn Shelton, but Keira really looks amaaaazing in this movie. And it’s filmed entirely in Seattle. Those are like my two favorite things!

[tomchick]

Okay, let’s see if you can all stop watching your Lynn Shelton movies to tell me the movie in which you’ll see this at the 20:20?

-Tom

[tomchick]

In what movie will you see this at the 40:40?

-Tom

[tomchick]

In what movie will you see this at the 60:60?

-Tom

[tomchick]

In what movie will you see this at the 80:80?

-Tom

[Navaronegun]

Sheriff Lobo - Mighty Dark (2019 Re-imagining of the Claude Akins series as a dark…and I mean DARK…police procedural)?

[dwinn]

Christine 2: Christines

[Soren_Hoglund]

With cinematography like that, it’s definitely a recent movie, and that mouth could only belong to James Badge Dale. But I haven’t seen this one.

[tomchick]

Well, at least you recognize James Badge Dale. I don’t know what the deal is with the rest of the jokers in this thread.

The frames were from a decent “dudes hiding out in a warehouse” post-Reservoir Dogs movie called The Standoff at Sparrow Creek. Pretty solid mystery with a great cast, but then the ending happens, and hoo boy, does it go full-on dumb. Viewer caution advised.

So I guess I’m the big loser here. Again! For my next attempt, let me go find some Star Wars movie or something you guys might recognize.

-Tom

[tomchick]

In what movie will you see this at the 20:20?

-Tom

[Skipper]

Looks like Adam Sandler and David Spade. The Do-Over?

[tomchick]

Ha ha, you saw/recognized The Do-Over. At least you didn’t guess Grown Ups. But it is indeed The Do-Over, as you would never know from this extremely unhelpful 40:40.

Here’s a long shot of Sanlder, Spade, and the random hottie they cast in an obligatory chick role.

And finally here’s the evil Euro-villain about to torture Sandler.

Sadly, he’s foiled and the only torture is performed against those of us who watched The Do-Over. Although I do enjoy watching David Spade playing hapless schmucks, because it reminds me of Tommy Boy.

Over to you, @Skipper.

-Tom

[Skipper]

It wasn’t horrible but it wasn’t really that great either. Like you I mostly watched it for David Spade.

Now on to a new 20.

[MrTibbs]

Is it the Schlesinger spy film The Falcon and the Snowman?

[Skipper]

Indeed it is, MrTibbs, you knocked it out of the park on the first at bat. It’s a long running movie, based on the true story and starring the very young versions of some later big hitters, namely Timothy Hutton and Sean Penn.

The 40, a very young Sean Penn:

The 60:

The 80:

The 100:

The 120:

The aforementioned Schlesinger played the film quite well, allowing the young stars to shine, in my personal opinion. And we take a roller coaster ride along with them, knowing that the end of the ride is going to be rough.