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This is Round Twenty-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. huh

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.

Also feel free to add comments about the movies or actors mentioned if you like. Part of the fun is saying “Wow, I haven't thought about that movie for years.” or “I love Errol Flynn!”

I will occasionally be posting images with my plays but it is not a requirement and remember the more people who play the more interesting the chains become so jump in.

We will make our goal for Chain27 to exceed the length of Chain24 which lasted for a mind blowing 1660 steps. Previous to Chain24 the record was held by Chain18 which had 1440 steps in it.

Chain16 had 758 steps. Chain3 557 steps. Chain23 445 steps. Chain 22 345 steps. Chain25 had 296 steps, Chain26 had steps, Chain1 had 215 steps, Chain8 201 steps, Chain12 173, Chain20 165, Chain11 163, Chain 17 120, Chain9 118, Chain5 had 111 steps, Chain2 108, Chain10 106, Chain15 103, Chain6 98, Chain21 62, Chain13 23, Chain4 10, Chain14 4, and Chain 19 a record breaking 2 steps.

Since it is still Memorial Day and since I just finished watching it, let's start this chain out with...



[Step 1]

Mathew Modine

Let's keep the Memorial Day theme going with...



[3 steps]

The guy I had a crush on for-ev-er was in that movie! ADAM BALDWIN! I loved him in CHUCK!

It is a bit of a reach, I'll admit, but technically...



...still maintains the Memorial Day link.

[5 steps]

Haven't had a chance to use this actor in a long time:

Rene Auberjonois

Keeping the Memorial Day theme going even though it is the day after with...



...that is the Robert Altman movie, of course.

[7 steps]

Robert Duvall

Keeping our theme going with...



...because I seem to remember that Captain Newman MD was a problem the last trime I played it.

[9 steps]

Martin Sheen

keeping the theme going with...



[11 steps]

Bob Newhart

was in...

HELL IS FOR HEROES

...which keeps the theme going.

[13 steps]

And still trying to keep it alive:

Fess Parker...

We used this one in the last thread but it is well within the rules to play and it keeps the theme going...



[15 steps]

I guess I'll go with another soldier type:

Aldo Ray

The Secret of NIMH

Mina, Mina, Mina I was going to play The Green Berets or The Naked and the Dead to keep the theme going but it is two days past Memorial Day so it might time to let it go.


Wil Wheaton

[18 Steps]

Teen Titans Go! To the Movies!

Kristen Bell

[20 steps]

Veronica Mars!

Jerry O'Connell

[22 steps]

Wil Wheaton is five steps back so he would be a legal play here (the rules require four steps of separation) but there are quite a few people of note in Stand By Me.


Kiefer Sutherland

[24 steps]