This is Round Thirty Six of the Neverending Movie Chain. Feel free to jump in anywhere you want, post once or post as often as you want just don't reply to yourself.
For any new folks joining in <and new folks are definitely encouraged to do so>...
We start by naming a movie, the next player to jump in has to name an actor in that film and the next to follow him/her has to name a different movie that actor was in.
EX:
Player one: Star Wars, Player Two: Mark Hamil, Player Three: Corvette Summer, Player Four: Annie Potts, Player Five: Ghostbusters, etc., etc.
Repeats are allowed but discouraged and there has to be a distance of at least five steps before you use a movie or an an actor a second time. 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.
Kicking this off with one of the best movies of 2019:
1917
Agree to disagree with you on this one, but it did have Richard Madden in it!
I did say "one of"!
He was also the Prince in the recent Disney live-action
Cinderella.
Cate Blanchett was in it too. She's not a very good baddie though. Eeyuck! Remember her in Kingdom of the Crystal Skull?
She made a much better heroine in The Monuments Men
I loved her in JOJO RABBIT (now that was one of the best movies of 2019!)
Taika Waititi played imaginary Hitler, I know that much.
Well I know he wrote the screenplay for Moana and was in a few Avengers movies but not which ones, so unless I'm forced to guess, I'll wait for someone more certain.
Angrboða would know this one.
I don't want the
game to
end so I'll guess tomorrow if nobody answers earlier.
OK, nobody's jumping up so I'm going to gamble. Pretty sure I've seen Taika in one or more of the Thor movies, but not sure which one. So I'll go with the last one that pretty much brought back everyone from every Avengers movie ever, and is therefore highly likely to be correct:
Avengers: Endgame
The obvious Michael Cain continuation is, of course... DEATHTRAP
Huh, I was sure someone would say Christopher Plummer... but Jane... Hmmm AUSTENLAND
Wasn't Jane Seymour Henry VIII's third wife? I didn't know she was in a movie.
But she was in SIX.But seriously, waiting for this to get back to Disney films.
I haven't seen Austenland. Don't even know what it's about; haven't seen a trailer. So I'm drawing a blank, I'm afraid.
I presume it's about Jane Austen.
In any case, I'm out.
I think it's time to stick a fork in this game and start a new one. Mina, care to do the honors?
not gonna let you off that easy.... Kerri Russell was in Austenland
Star Wars : The Rise of Skywalker
C'mon, what film hasn't Oscar Isaac been in, in recent years?
Well, obviously Star Wars : The Force Awakens.
I just watched him last week in Casino Royale
(which I would have started the next game with if we hadn't gotten a rescue from Austenland!)
Austenland was a lovely movie! (still upholding my choice!) But Eva Green was in Casino...
Can I just say this, Eva Green is smoking hot. OK, now I got that out of the way I need to think of a film she's in, with someone
else in who's equally recognisable...
Kingdom of Heaven anyone?
Would you be referring to
Orlando Bloom?
I would!
Orlando was in The Three Musketeers (2011)
So was Luke Evans, among my favorite Broadway actors making their rounds the Disney movie scene.
Enchanted
It is acceptable as a man to say I love that movie?
James Marsden's been in a fair bit of stuff.
Yes Neil. Yes it is... For I love it too. Princess Giselle is awesome. And, since Mina knows of my Enchanted love already (and it was her devious choice of Julie Andrews that triggered Aqua's Disney love), I will carry us forward with X-Men where he played Cyclops. He was in all those original movies but we will go with the first one
So many to choose from but Hugh Jackman stands out!
hmmmm, so many to choose from....no, no that's technically a TV show and that's a DVD of a stage production....
Real Steel there that'll work
Well, there was a robot, a kid and an estranged wife but beyond that I can't tell ya.
would it help if I mention that 3 of the people in it are in the Marvel MCU, one of which has also been in Wolverine Origins?
Ant-Man!
(To clarify: the original, not the one with the Wasp, aka Evangeline Lily, although if she was in the original was she the Wasp?)
Jeff Daniels. He's been around, hasn't he. Really enjoyed his character in The Newsroom series.
To go obvious or not? Ah, heck with it.
Bruce Willis.
Even more obvious:
Die Hard
Less obvious from Die Hard, but acting immortality in my book:
Alan Rickman
Robin Hood Prince of Thieves
The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen
OK, don't blame me but I only know two other actors in that film. One is Stuart Townsend, who I only know because he was originally cast as Aragorn in The LOTR Trilogy then when the film-makers saw him in costume thought "Nah-uh!" and Viggo was brought in at short notice. So not him.
The other is the well-known Australian actor, Richard Roxburgh. He was fine as Moriarty in LXG but it was his portrayal of other iconic, Victorian-era villain, in a blockbuster movie around the same time that raised a lot of eyebrows (because it was pretty terrible!).
I think I know of which movie you speak -- the character I'm more sure of, the title not so much. So I'll hope someone else can step up.
Van Helsing- Roxburgh played Dracula- I think this was the very next movie he made after League of Extraordinary Gentlemen early to mid 2000s
this choice will provide two really easy outs for whoever is next up
Jupiter Ascending. His most dodgy performance, up there with Roxburgh's Dracula.
Eye candy Channing Tatum was in that one!
He was also in The Lego Movie as the voice of Superman.
I remember Nick Offerman in that one!
Parks and Rec! Er.... uh, we should be allowed to do TV shows!
But I know he was a DEA agent in We're the Millers
Will Poulter. He's been in a ton of big budget stuff.
He played Eustace in The Voyage of the Dawn Treader, which was my favorite of the books, but the movie fell far short of my expectations.
Simon Pegg was a voice in that movie!
And no Simon Pegg movie is better than "Shaun of the Dead"!
I loved his performance in The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel (and the original, but the second offers more directions to go)
Should I?? Hmmmm... Dame Maggie Smith
Hera
Clash of the Titans
Kurt is Snake in Escape From New York
Which had Lee Van Cleef in it.
The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly
Great movie!
I just saw John Malkovich in a different movie this weekend. Can you name it?
Not that one, but it was a great flick. Helen Mirren was among the A-listers.
Helen Mirren is amazing... and she was also in Collateral Beauty. That movie always makes me cry when watching it...
Dang, now I want to watch that agin. Will has done some great emotionally-intense movies, but I'm not choosing him. Instead, I'll go with:
Keira Knightley
The best Guinivere
in
King Arthur
I think I know Lancelot's actor but damned if I can spell it. That Welsh guy. I'll let someone else try.
Actually, I think Ioan would be hard to place in another movie so I'll go with Mads Mikkelsen, who's been in a lot more big budget stuff.
Ah, Bond's nemesis in Casino Royale, but since we've been there, I'll posit his other role that I know: Rogue One.
I cannot resist....
Diego Luna
Hmm, some interesting choices!
I know he was Casanova in a recent TV movie but didn't hold a candle to David Tenant's performance a decade prior. He was also one of the several people playing Inigo Montoya in the COVID "Home Movie" remake of "The Princess Bride" but I'm not sure that qualifies (although there were a ton of actors we could have chosen!!)
I do remember him in a rather funny scene in
The Terminal, though, revolving around the main character's mispronunciation of "cheat" as "chit"
Cher? She's in it. Not a great actress, nor has she been in a lot, but it should get us somewhere.
Does her "Turn Back Time" music video count?
I know some of her older movies but she was recently in
Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again
She was the voice of the Witch in Brave!
In honor of All Hallows, my fav creepy Emma Thompson movie...
DEAD AGAIN
I know Robin Williams was in that.
Ben Stiller, of course.
Michelle Pfeiffer, of course!
Since it is still Halloween here.... Buffy the Vampire Slayer (1992)
I'm sensing that nobody else wants to continue the Halloween theme here?
Not a Reubens fan, so no idea what else he is in.
obviously you could get stuck in the pee wee herman movies and die a quick death there...
but he has been in a lot of things- does a lot of voice work now.
But a favorite movie of mine is spoof on superheroes called Mystery Men- it was based on a comic book series and i have a few of those as well. Reubens played 'The Spleen'
so, do superhero costumes count as keeping the halloween theme going?
Of all the various costume directions I would have thought to go, that wasn't one of them! I was thinking of this one:
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In costume with his friends:
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It would have doubled as a seasonal transition, too! Alas.
As for Mystery Men, I think I can only remember two other names from that. One I've used before so I'll go to the other: Geoffrey Rush.
Waay! Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales
I think that's the wrong film, Mina. Orlando Bloom was in the 2011 movie with the airships, Oliver Platt was in the 1993 Disney movie...
with Kiefer Sutherland.
Nemarsde you are right... darn it!
I think that means you start the next round, Mina.
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