The movie frame game

Bill · 2010-12-12T10:43:22.000Z

TomChick:

Man, I have no idea, but I’m just going to take a guess that it’s Mike Tyson and the shot is from The Hangover. But I don’t remember anything that up close and stylistic in The Hangover.
   -Tom

That was my exact thought process and conclusion too.

Djscman · 2010-12-12T12:55:16.000Z

Bill:

That was my exact thought process and conclusion too.

I"m afraid you’re both wrong. It’s certainly not Mike Tyson and it’s not The Hangover. Or the Wire.

tomchick · 2010-12-12T13:52:05.000Z

XtienMurawski:

I can see me being wrong, though. I haven’t seen Stuck, so the last car feels too cheap for me. I imagined the car was driven by a rich woman and thus would have to be a Lexus or somesuch. Don’t know why I imagined this…I just did.

You only get half credit, since I all but gave it away. But, yeah, it’s Stuck. And if you’ve given up on Stuart Gordon – I certainly had! – Stuck is reassuring to see.

POTENTIAL STUCK SPOILERS FOLLOW:

Stuck is based on a true story, although Gordon doesn’t stick (ha ha!) very closely to it. In the real event, there was actually a racial dimension that isn’t in the movie. In the actual event, a black woman in Texas was driving under the influence when she hit a white man, who got lodged in the windshield. Rather than get him help, she parked the car in her garage and left him there. He died the next day. She burned the car and body, and wasn’t arrested until months later after boasting to friends that she’d hit a white man.

Gordon changes a lot of the facts in the interest of making the movie about the two characters. It’s not a great movie, but it’s miles and away better than Gordon’s other recent stuff. And like Rear Window and Misery, it does a good job of anchoring the action around an incapacitated character.

So, there you go. Stuck.

  -Tom

WhollySchmidt · 2010-12-12T14:28:58.000Z

SPOILERS.

tomchick · 2010-12-12T14:47:54.000Z

I can’t tell if you’re joking, but the stuff I wrote is about the story that inspired the movie, and isn’t in the movie itself. I guess it’s a spoiler in the same sense that the news is a spoiler for 127 Hours, Fair Game, and United 93. Anyway, spoiler warning added.

 -Tom

VSys114 · 2010-12-12T15:42:55.000Z

TomChick:

I can’t tell if you’re joking, but the stuff I wrote is about the story that inspired the movie, and isn’t in the movie itself. I guess it’s a spoiler in the same sense that the news is a spoiler for 127 Hours, Fair Game, and United 93. Anyway, spoiler warning added.
 -Tom

Don’t talk about United 93 I haven’t seen it yet!

russellmz00 · 2010-12-13T19:22:15.000Z

Djscman:

Bill was Killed, so here’s another frame:

eight legged freaks?

Djscman · 2010-12-14T09:39:13.000Z

russellmz00:

eight legged freaks?

No. Here’s another frame. It may give the game away.

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ChristienMurawski · 2010-12-14T11:32:58.000Z

Is that Devil in a Blue Dress?

I need another half credit victory to post again.

-xtien

WhollySchmidt · 2010-12-14T12:25:38.000Z

TomChick:

I can’t tell if you’re joking, but the stuff I wrote is about the story that inspired the movie, and isn’t in the movie itself. I guess it’s a spoiler in the same sense that the news is a spoiler for 127 Hours, Fair Game, and United 93. Anyway, spoiler warning added.
 -Tom

Sorry, it was a (cheap) joke.

TimElhajj · 2010-12-14T17:38:24.000Z

Djscman:

No. Here’s another frame. It may give the game away.

That looks like Public Enemies? Kapow!

Djscman · 2010-12-15T00:46:47.000Z

XtienMurawski:

Is that Devil in a Blue Dress?

I need another half credit victory to post again.

-xtien

Now you have a half credit surplus. It was Devil in a Blue Dress, a movie that should have gone in the 3x3: Movies that Deserve a Sequel thread.

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tomchick · 2010-12-27T00:51:49.000Z

I believe we’re all caught up (Tomasch is never going to tell us what his movie is with the Spanish furniture), and I’ve got two points from getting The Stunt Man and Serbian Film. So here’s one of my next two movies. I’m afraid this one might be pretty obscure, but here goes:

Unfortunately, the shot is from a pan-and-scan edit of the movie, hence the terrible aspect ratio. :(

-Tom

tomchick · 2010-12-27T01:03:32.000Z

And here is a shot from a second movie:

EDIT: Solved by Dingus

-Tom

madkevin · 2010-12-27T07:50:46.000Z

Two complete stumpers. I’ll take a wild guess that the first one is The Passenger, but I’m sure that’s wrong.

John_Many_Jars · 2010-12-27T08:13:25.000Z

The first one is definitely Beer (“Whip out your Norbeckers!”), which Tom has name-dropped many times on the forums, but the second I’m less sure of. The Incredible Mr. Limpet?

VSys114 · 2010-12-27T09:06:39.000Z

TomChick:

And here is a shot from a second movie:

-Tom

Throw Mama from the Train

tomchick · 2010-12-27T13:56:43.000Z

Wrong on The Passenger, Beer, Incredible Mr. Limpet, or Throw Momma from the Train.

 -Tom

serling · 2010-12-27T14:21:25.000Z

TomChick:

I believe we’re all caught up (Tomasch is never going to tell us what his movie is with the Spanish furniture), and I’ve got two points from getting The Stunt Man and Serbian Film.

Whelp. I timed out for a while there. Sorry!

The movie is called Fermat’s Room. The last screencap I took looks like this:

Djscman · 2010-12-27T15:36:06.000Z

TomChick:

And here is a shot from a second movie:

-Tom

Is that Jackie Brown? I don’t know if the lighting is throwing off Pam Grier’s usual skin complexion.