Round 32 then, guys. I think Gryphon might be waylaid so I'm getting us started on a new thread again.

Here are the rules as composed originally by Don, iirc.

Player one: Star Wars, Player Two: Mark Hamil, Player Three: Corvette Summer, Player Four: Annie Potts, Player Five: Ghostbusters, etc., etc.

[nemarsde tweak]No repeats within 5 steps and avoid getting caught in a loop with MCU or Fast & Furious movies, for example. Long-running franchises with ensemble casts can allow you go round and round indefinitely.[/nemarsde tweak]

No IMDb please <expect to look up dates of movies with identical titles or spellings of names>. grin

You need to follow the chain as it is drawn, no jumping. If we have Stephen Moyer on the table and someone plays Prince Valiant then the Prince Valiant you have to go out of is the one that had Stephen Moyer in it, no matter how many other movies out there are named Prince Valiant.

A clarification on play. We want to avoid using archival footage. For purposes of our game Dick Clark, Bob Hope, President Kennedy etc. Did not appear in Forrest Gump.

I won't make this a rule but rather a recommendation. Please avoid films that have not been released/aired in the U.S.

And just for the sake of putting it into the written rules mostly for sake of newcomers voice work (animated films) and made-for-TV movies are allowed but not mini-series.

Oh, and the idea is not to stump everyone but to keep the chain going for as long as possible. We play this one on road trips and I don't know why I didn't think to start this up here years ago. It is perfect for the online community because you can jump in whenever and wherever or as often as you want.

It's VE Day, so let's start with:

Saving Private Ryan

Should I go for the private or the captain? Hmmm. Based on the movie I just watched this week that I hope someone plays:

Matt Damon

Dogma

I was about to say Alanis Morrisette but then we'd be starting a new thread again!

Ben Affleck

Armageddon

Bruce Willis

RED

Thanks for keeping thins on track here! AND - Helen Mirren!

I know of at least two movies I've seen her in but couldn't name any of the other cast so I'll sit back here...

I can open this one up!

Hobbs & Shaw

Dwayne Johnson

Ha! I just watched Moana today, but that'd probably be a dead end, so how about Tooth Fairy, that I know another famous person was in.

Julie Andrews

Yes! You went right where I wanted you to!

While I'm tempted to be practically perfect in every way, I think the best bounce is to the star of The Princess Diaries. (The original one.)

Can we be slightly less strict on this? I recognize the need to prohibit this case, but coming in as a new player it was nice only having to look back through a smaller number of pages instead of all 9, especially since the "all" option wasn't available to search the whole thread at once. (How does one activate that on a thread?)

I agree with Aqua, it is hard to keep track.

Plus it'd be nice to bounce off Kevin Bacon every once in a while. I mean, can you imagine once he's played that means a "No Bacon" rule? Riots in the streets!

Sure, no problem, really what we're tying to prevent is being caught in a never-ending loop of MCU movies, but we can keep an eye out for that as we play. I'll tweak the tweak.

OK, so I'm going for:

Anne Hathway

Ella Enchanted!

Cary Elwes!

INCONCEIVABLE!

...

The Princess Bride

Carol Kane

Transylvania 6-5000

<grabbing some popcorn>

Jeff Goldblum

Independence Day
(1996) as David Levinson

Will Smith

Men in Black

Vincent D’Onofrio

Ed Wood

Patricia Arquette

A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors

Robert Englund

Since I don’t want us to end up in an endless Nightmare on Elm Street loop I’m gonna cross my fingers and play something I hope isn't too obscure...

Buster and Billie

(I'm starting to think I killed my first chain.)

<< out, never heard of Buster and Billie

Ditto.

I think you avoided a nightmare loop.

I'm out as well.

Any spectators want to comment?

Sorry no help from me.

Time to kill it, then?

What would Freddie do?

Nevermind. We challenged ourselves with this one, definitely.

C'mon guys... a pretty good movie made in the early 70s. I didn't see it until the early 80s and i was teenager...don't remember it well, but he was in tv show that i liked... i hope this helps

Jan Michael Vincent

The Mechanic (1972)

Charles Bronson

The Dirty Dozen

Should give you 12... well, 11 others to choose from!

Telly Savalas

Kelly's Heroes

Clint Eastwood!

Fun fact. I was once waiting at the MRY airport for a taxi, when a Mercedes pulled up into the "Taxi Only" parking, where the occupant was waiting for his wife to come out. I was debating whether to say anything about the blatant violation of the rules, when I saw the man get out of the car to help his wife put the luggage in the trunk.

It was Clint.

He could probably have afforded the ticket.

Million Dollar Baby

Morgan Freeman

Robin Hood Prince of Thieves

Christian Slater

True Romance

So AquaDyne, you're saying that Clint doesn't drive American??

Dennis Hopper

My Science Project

Fisher Stevens

Allegedly his favorite car is a 1992 GMC Typhoon that he still drives. But he also has owned an Austin Healy, a Ferrari, and presently drives an electric Fiat.

As for the movie, how about The Grand Budapest Hotel?

Amazing film!

I always liked the AMC AMX actually. A renovated one of those would be perfect for my needs.

Anyway...

Ralph Fiennes

Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

Helena Bonham Carter

Big Fish

Ewan McGregor

That Star Wars Movie That Shall Not Be Named

(Star Wars: Episode I, The Phantom Menace)

Them Star Wars movies that shall not be named!

Liam Neeson

Got a few ideas but don't know if they'd be dead-ends for other actors... so will let someone else go. Clarifying: voice roles count, right?

Voice Roles I believe count, but HIGH SPIRTS!

Good to know! A certain lion probably had more obscure actors in the other roles, but a particular two-faced cop likely would have been good play.

I didn't know Liam was in High Spirits, but I do know that Steve Guttenburg was.

Three Men and a Baby

Was hoping you'd go there, coming back at you with Tom Selleck.

Fun fact. I was sort-of an extra in the final episode of Magnum P.I.

Quigley Down Under

That is a fun fact, AquaDyne. In Hawaii?

Nope, at USNA. Magnum went back to visit places that were part of his backstory.

This is the episode but I can't find a video of it at the moment. Yes, it was part 1 of a 2-part episode but when it aired, they did them both back-to-back.

My classmate in my company, Mike Rose, was Brigade Commander at the time so he got the actual head shot for a few seconds (RHIP). This was him.



I'm somewhere in the mass of mids behind him, but I can't even find myself so don't bother looking. I vaguely recall being in the 3rd row from the back near the right, but that was 32 years ago so my memory may be faulty.

Alan Rickman

He was in Quigley Down Under? Wow! I should have known that!

Since I've set precedent going to Episode I of certain franchises, may as well go to:

Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (for those of you on the right side of the pond; for those of us on the left, s/Philosopher/Sorcerer/g.)

Maggie Smith

I absolutely adore Dame Maggie! While I'd love to go to Downton, I think the chain would be better served in a more exotic location.

Like, say, The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel!

Dame Judi Dench

Casino Royale (2006)

The best Bond film in decades imo.

Guess we better mention Bond then:

Daniel Craig

Do shorts count? I do remember that skydiving thing in the 2012 olympics with the Queen.

But if I recall correctly, pre-Bond Mr. Craig starred alongside someone acting as the Queen in Elizabeth.

He did, and that was Cate Blanchett at her finest.

So Cate Blanchett.

(That Bond/QE2 short clip was the highlight of the London Olympics! Seriously, I can't remember anything else about them.)

Hot Fuzz

Martin Freeman!

Well, that definitely leads to The Hobbit. But it was three movies, and damned if I can't remember their names. I think the first one was an unexpected journey.

OK, looked it up. Got it right.

The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey

Sir Ian Murray McKellen (I admit had to look up his full name to put the 'Sir' in)

The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring

Probably my favourite film of all time after Jaws.

Liv Tyler

She was just in Ad Astra...

So was Donald Sutherland

Oh my! The choices! As tempted as I am to be snowbound, I'm going to leverage a fun fact.

Fun Fact: Mrs. Aqua was on-set and can be seen in the background of a scene in A Time To Kill.

Huh, well then Kiefer Sutherland.

Stand By Me

Richard Dreyfuss

Jaws

Grabbing some popcorn. <munch, munch>

Hey AquaDyne, did you guys get paid for your extra work? I always wondered how prevailent unpaid extras are in the industry.

So, an actor...

Robert Shaw

No, it's all about the fifteen seconds of fame! Or maybe five. Or one. . I think it's extremely common.

With me and Magnum, it was an open invitation to stand around in a formation on camera for the hours it would take for the five-second shot, and many opted not to join, as we wasted so many hours per day doing that already. But for a chance to point at yourself on TV later? Worth the time-waste, I thought. I arrived later and got stuck further back, though, so maybe it wasn't worth it.

With my wife and A Time To Kill, this was a few years before I met her. The filming was in Canton, and her mother managed a movie theatre in Jackson, the nearest big city. Off-duty staff came to watch movies (comped, of course.). That led to her hobnobbing with the director and other staff, who invited them on set for a day of filming. Being a VIP guest of the Director meant all the other "extras" hanging around for the filming thought they were big stars and kept telling them they knew they had seen them in some movie or another.

They did get their faces spritzed with water to look more sweaty. Not that it mattered, they were in the courtroom balcony, so far away from the cameras and often blurred out. This is probably the best shot:


My wife had a crush on Matthew McConaughey, of course, but he (and the rest of the cast) was rather distant, probably trying to remain "in character".

...

And... don't know what else Robert Shaw was in, so continuing to munch popcorn.

From Russia With Love

Sean Connery

Thanks for sharing AquaDyne!

Not sure if it was Don or Ex who would play this whenever he could, but...

The Man Who Would Be King

Christopher Plummer

The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo

I don't actually remember who played Lisbeth in that version. And since we had Bond already, I'll go with good old Stellan Skarsgard, which gives us a couple of big movie franchises to play with.

Cinderella (2015)

Oh hell. I was barely paying attention when the youngsters watched that.

Lily James was in it but what the heck else has she been in other than TV?

Ah but wait, Hayley Atwell had a cameo and I will never forget that one franchise movie she was in in that red dress.

Nem, Lily has been in a lot of movies actually But I do know HaYley Atwell was in...

Christopher Robin

So was Jim Cummings, one of my favorite voice actors! Voicing is what Jim does best!

I'm out, no idea who he is

Mina, you're totally right! Looks like she's been in more movies than Hayley Atwell. I only watched The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society during lockdown actually. Decent film, just a touch overlong.

Alas, although I think Jim Cummings is the voice of Winnie the Pooh, I'm not sure where we can go from here.

The Tigger Movie?

Yes, he's been Pooh and Tigger since 1988, but that's just one of his roles. You could probably pick any recent (last 30 years) animated movie at random and he'd have voiced one of the characters in it. He's like the Kevin Bacon of animated voice acting! Disney, WB, Dreamworks, he's hit them all.

Unfortunately, while there were big-name stars in many of the other movies he's voiced, I'm not so sure about others in the Tigger movie.

OK, let's take a mulligan.

Forget The Tigger Movie then.

If you're correct, AquaDyne, there's a good chance of landing an animated film with a more well known cast by picking one at random.

So, I can never remember which films are Disney and which are Pixar any more, but Dreamworks haven't done quite so many animated works.

Was Jim Cummings in Shrek?

Mina- Jim Cumminings? You know the voice. He is Winnie the Pooh for 30+ years, and Tigger for the last 20 I believe. He is one of the most prolific and well known voice actors alive right now.

Oh bother! you guys have really boxed yourself in with this one...

but after i sat and had a think in my thotful spot I realized I could give you a narrow window to get out of this blustery day!


He did a couple voices in Disney's 1992 animated feature Aladdin- the one i remember specifically was the Captain of the guards who chased our hero around the streets of Agrabah, named Razoul- the other was a merchant, name escapes me right now- but it was a great scene where jasmine has to pretend that she is crazy and that the monkey abu is the sultan so she isn't recognized as the princess. Love love love my disney stuffs

ALADDIN (1992) is your next movie

Phew!

Robin Williams

Neil- but to answer another question i do believe Jim Cummings had a minor voice role in Shrek- a guard or the captain of farquaad's guard...

For Robin Williams, I'll go to Night at the Museum.

As for Jim Cummings, yes he was in Shrek (captain of the guard). I remember him as "Ed" the hyena in Lion King, and he took over Scar from Jeremy Irons. That would have lead to James Earl Jones but y'all missed that chance. My favorite character he voiced was "Ray" the firefly in Princess and the Frog. He was in the Incredibles series, Toy Story series, Monsters Inc, Jungle Book, Hunchback, Wreck it Ralph, the original Alice in Wonderland as the Cheshire Cat.

Non-disney credits besides Shrek include Despicable Me and Minions, Gnomeo and Juliet, Secret life of Pets, a few others I'm not aware of I'm sure.

PP well the only voice actors I generally follow are Frank Welker, Mindy Cohn, Grey DeLisle I am sure I would recognize a few others like "That's the voice of *** in ***" but really would not know who they were.

Owen Wilson was also in Night at the Museum.

He had a scene in Around the World in 80 Days (2004)

Jackie Chan

Forbidden Kingdom

Love that movie! Michael Angarano

In honor of Don - Sky High

Kurt Russell

Escape from L.A.

Steve Buscemi

Hotel Transylvania

Adam Sandler

I love this movie.... Just Go With It

Jennifer Aniston, of course!

We're the Millers!

Taking a risk here... I know at least one direction that will open this up, not sure about the other actors...

Will Poulter

Couple of directions we could take with this one... Actually, I pick a third direction that's much more recent and topical.

Detroit

I'm wondering if anyone else has seen that movie, 'cause I haven't.

No-one remember the movie posters even? The trailers? Will Poulter wasn't the lead.

I'm out.

By me.

There was a movie called Detroit?

Yes, it's the latest Katheryn Bigelow film, released in 2017 in theatres.

Wish I had seen it. Or knew it existed.

Sorry, no help here. I never heard of that movie.

Damn, I thought everyone would remember that one, the trailers were on TV, posters outside the cinema, the whole works.



I thought someone would play John Boyega or Anthony Mackey, and that would lead us onto some nice easy Star Wars or Marvel movies.

Ah well, I guess that ends this round.