*Guess the Movie Title*

Mandle · Tue 21/04/2015 06:27:52

Quote from: Cassiebsg on Sat 18/04/2015 21:55:10
"movie 6 friends jump on the water and can't return to the boat"

Should've called the movie "Six Darwin Award Winners"...

I mean...seriously...For the whole movie I would be thinking "Good riddance!"...

Domino · Sat 25/04/2015 16:02:56

Open Water 2: Adrift is correct. I actually liked this movie, and is on Netflix right now.

Cassiebsg · Sat 25/04/2015 21:39:16

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Mandle · Sun 26/04/2015 03:13:13

Quote from: Cassiebsg on Sat 25/04/2015 21:39:16
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That's easy!!!

Spoiler

It's from my favorite AGS game of all time!!!

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Cassiebsg · Sun 26/04/2015 15:28:15

ROFL

But wrong.

Okay, no other guesses? Here's a new clue then.

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Cassiebsg · Wed 29/04/2015 19:58:06

Uhm... no guesses? $:-\$

Here's another clue then, this one is a pretty big clue!

Gribbler · Thu 30/04/2015 11:26:45

Until the end of the world?

Cassiebsg · Thu 30/04/2015 17:20:42

Believe it or not, Lisbon isn't at the end of the world.

So, no.

Okay... clues: It's written & directed by W.W. and it's from 1994.

Dead on clue:

Spoiler

Part of the title's name is written on the postcard.

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Quintaros · Thu 30/04/2015 17:33:31

I guess it's Wim Wenders' A Lisbon Story".

Cassiebsg · Thu 30/04/2015 19:09:34

Good guess!

your turn.

Quintaros · Fri 01/05/2015 05:36:32

Well you pretty much gave away the store with clues on that one.

Here's mine:

Quintaros · Mon 04/05/2015 16:54:42

Here's another image from the same movie:

Snarky · Mon 04/05/2015 17:14:15

Hmm, that looks like it might be Catch 22?

Quintaros · Mon 04/05/2015 17:29:59

That's correct.

Snarky · Mon 04/05/2015 18:01:59

Cool.

This is a film I vividly remember seeing at my local movie theater as a kid:

Quintaros · Mon 04/05/2015 19:01:22

Is it Shipwrecked? Of course, you say you vividly remember it and I can just barely remember it, so maybe not.

Snarky · Mon 04/05/2015 20:27:48

It is! Starring the great Gabriel Byrne. Though in Norway it's called Haakon Haakonsen.

And being a Norwegian co-production, I'm sure it was a much bigger deal where I grew up than it was in Canada. (Unless I'm completely misremembering, I think we took a class trip to the cinema to see it.)

In fact, the bit I remember most vividly isn't even in the movie, but only in the book: A guy shipwrecked on a reef builds a raft just out of the bodies of dead sharks he hunts with only a knife, tied together with shark guts. Now that's a kickass adventure game puzzle!

Quintaros · Mon 04/05/2015 21:46:54

Back in 1990, I was a cyncial kid and resisted seeing anything released under the Disney banner. I recall watching this one under duress and only begrudgingly admitting it was pretty good afterwards. I had completely forgotten of its existence until today but as soon as I looked it up on IMDB and saw that it had a Norwegian connection I thought I might be on the right track.

What year was the book written? Was Alan Moore riffing on it when he included the raft scene from Tales of the Black Freighter comic in Watchmen?

Snarky · Mon 04/05/2015 22:08:07

The book was originally published in 1873, as a pretty typical robinsonade (the subtitle is simply "A Norwegian Robinson"). I don't think it's ever been translated into English, so the chance of Moore having read it is pretty negligible. More likely it's just a matter of having a similar idea independently â€" unless they're both based on some other source (real-life or fictional).

The novel is out of copyright and available here in epub format (in Norwegian). The scene in question is in the chapter "Howell og Nelsons mannskap."

Snarky · Fri 08/05/2015 17:14:33

It's technically Quintaros' turn, but since he hasn't jumped in I'll throw out another one: