Chain 50 started with Into the Woods, which my local theatre is putting their own twist on next month. I'm attending a rehearsal tomorrow as one of the benefits of being a show sponsor.
I'll start Chain 51 with the most recent ensemble cast movie I saw... on Netflix, but it was in theatres first.
Glass Onion - A Knives Out Mystery
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.
More power to all y'all who liked Knight and Day. I like my movies either realistic or fantasy and struggle with those who pretend to be realistic but require too much theatrical suspension of disbelief.
Anyway, Julia Roberts was awesome in a lot of movies, the least awesome of which (but will give lots of connections elsewhere) was the Ocean's series. I'll go with the original (and the best, although not a high bar to beat), Ocean's Eleven.
Need someone with some credits to get outside the Brat Pack /John Hughes movies- but it might still take a couple rounds to get out of this little spiral. Who knows, right? Not sure this is the right choice either.
Huh. I know a more recent Netflix movie (or three) she played in and another actor with whom I have a connection, but I'm afraid that would go to a dead end.
So let's go to the ensemble cast with lots of choices to escape another teen movie.
About the only other person in that movie. So Bruce Willis... want to avoid Travolta, and a bunch of action movie stars, plus no monkey movies or hawk movies. Best to go with
I hope that is a sequel to Best Exotic Marigold Hotel and they kept most the cast. Gere wasn't in it but Bill Nighy was. So I'll go with that and hopefully not break the chain.
Great we go from his role as a con man pretending to be a pilot to his role as a billionaire who moonlighted as a pilot and who had a thing for Cate Blanchett's character
A movie you played before led in by a Dustin and led out by a Robin... but we'll let Julia Roberts sprinkle some her leftover fairy dust and see where we go.
For the record, I like the rules that it's okay to revisit a movie or actor after 5 rounds, and I also like that we try to create different pairs at the crossover.
The recent Ticket to Paradise film is on my list of things to go see but I somehow managed to miss it in the theatres. Is it streaming yet?
Going to join Aqua eating popcorn. For now anyway. I just watched the trailer and do have a new link for this chain. Is that against the rules? Rules only restrict IMDB nothing about looking up the trailers.
Miales, I think that would go under the NO category. Sort of like googling Cast of <movie title>, which I always assumed was a no-no (except to get release date of the movie you are already playing). But, what's the ruling form the peanut gallery though?
Gryph, thanks. The end song is now going through my head. Total earworm. I do know several of the actors in that one however. A bit of trivia, this movie is one of my grandmother's favorites.
Dyan Cannon was in it with a few other actors that I like (including Tuesday Weld) but I am going with Dyan as the most likely to keep this chain going.
But, what's the ruling form the peanut gallery though?
I think it's simple: don't go looking for the answer.
If you accidentally come across the answer in the course of your normal life (you get served the trailer as an ad while browsing RPG sites) that shouldn't be disqualifying.
Hollywood Montrose is the character's name in both Mannequin movies- actor's name was Meshach Taylor, whom I remember most from Designing Women. Mina responded correctly and so the chain isn't broken.
Kristy Swanson plays the lead role in this... And this was a terrible movie. IMHO- your mileage may vary
WE cross posted- i will leave mine here as it is the same actress... just for the editorial commentary that took my a whole 5 minutes to write
Yes the Hollywood post was more for Aqua so he'd know the best darn character in that film series. Also you are correct. He was best known for Designing Women and other work on TV. Not so much for the big screen though.
So it's been a few days. This was a little known movie in 1993. And it was notable for only one thing (other than the lead actress who also starred in another 90s cult(?) film)
I would say the chain was broken- anyone else want to weigh in?
Generally no posting of names, trailers, or posters that show who might have been involved in the movie.
This game is to test knowledge of movies and actors without prompts or hints.
Don would, and frequently did, post the character / actor he was using so people had a face to go along with the name, but no overt hints about what else they had been in.
As for the movie that broke the chain... The Thing Called Love was a box office bomb. Quite literally. Made only about $1 million in 1993. That's give or take 200,000 tickets. It really went under the radar until River Phoenix died two months later at the Viper Room while out partying with his girlfriend and costar of the movie, Samantha Mathis. So the movie was his last movie released before he died (note he had 2 movies released posthumously in 1994 and 2013).
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