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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]

Lost Boys, natch!

"We panicked in the face of the enemy!"

Unfortunately if I remember correctly we haven't had much luck with either of the two Coreys, so lets go with...


Dianne Wiest

[26 steps]

The Odd Life of Timothy Green

Jennifer Garner

[28 steps]

Catch Me If You Can

Leonardo DiCaprio

[30 steps]

Johnny Depp

[32 steps]

Lone Ranger

I usually go with Berry Pepper here or even Helena Bonham Carter but lets go ahead and give...


Armie Hammer

... a try. I can think of at least one big film he has been in since this one.

[34 steps]

I really dislike this movie and most of of my ire is on what Johnny Depp did to Tonto. But the one thing that it did accomplish was the re-establishing in my mind just how amazingly appropriate the William Tell Overture is for westerns and running horses and chase scenes even though it was written for something completely different. Kudos to whoever it was decided back in 1933 to associate that particular piece of classical music with the Lone Ranger radio show, which BTW started at WXYZ here in Detroit as did the Green Hornet.

[Fromm Wikipedia: The finale of the Overture, often called the "March of the Swiss Soldiers" in English represents the opera's climax. And while there are no horses or cavalry charges in it, this segment is often used in popular media to denote galloping horses, a race, or a hero riding to the rescue. Its most famous use in that respect is as the theme music for The Lone Ranger; that usage has become so famous that the term "intellectual" has been defined as "a man who can listen to the William Tell Overture without thinking of the Lone Ranger."]

He has been in a few, like Man From Uncle

[The Lone Ranger and The Man from U.N.C.L.E. were two of my very favorite TV shows growing up. And if you twisted my arm and made me pick my favorite TV show ever it would be a tie between The Man from U.N.C.L.E. and the original Magnum P.I. so it may come as something of a surprise that I do not dislike The Man from U.N.C.L.E. nearly as much as I do The Lone Ranger. And even though Illya is an out of control thug, and the direct opposite of what he was intended to be, the movie still has the right feel. It is flighty, fun, and flirty and while I could have done with a little less flighty that is how people have come to see the 60s. And Arnie Hammer cannot be held responsible for the flim's interpretation of Illya Whereas Disney let Johnny Depp run hog wild over the Lone Ranger and for most part get 'the feel' totally wrong. IMO.]


Henry Cavill

[36 steps]

I have more to say about Henry Cavill but will have to hold it until the next movie is played.

I am assuming we have an absence of players happening here rather than a block.

Stardust

Peter O'Toole

[38 steps]

Okay, here is what I have to say about Henry Cavill but didn't want to go ahead and blurt out in case someone wanted to play one of the DC movies. I don't blame him for Dark Superman that was a directorial/producer decision but I did find him rather wooden even in that rather limited role, a trait I also notice in Immortals so I found myself quite surprised when I was liking his version of Napoleon Solo. Armie Hammer was not the Illya Kuryakin we knew and loved and Alicia Vikander was not, though no fault of hers, April Dancer so it all fell on Henry Cavill to be Solo and I think he pulled it off relatively well, enough to carry the film.

High Spirits

Steve Guttenberg

[40 Steps]

Private valentine: Armed and Dangerous

Vivica A. Fox

[42 steps]

Independence Day

Just to mix things up a bit let's play...


Bill Pullman

[44 steps]

John Candy

[46 steps]

Wagons East

Ed Lauter

[48 steps]

The Longest Yard (1974)

Let's go with someone who does not show up on these lists all that often (or so it seems to me)...


Burt Reynolds

[50 steps]

Hustle (The older one... back in the 70's I think)

Ben Johnson

[52 steps]

Victor McLaglen

[54 steps]

Barry Fitzgerald

[57 steps]

Charles Ruggles

One of Mina's favorites...


That is the original 1961 edition.

[59 steps]

Rosalind Russell

[62 steps]

I've always liked:

John Qualen...

[65 steps]

Vera Miles

[67 steps]

Katharine Ross

[69 steps]

Strother Martin

[71 steps]

Martha Hyer

[73 steps]

William Holden

Born Yesterday!

Judy Holliday

[76 steps]

Dean Martin

[79 steps]

Ann-Margret

Bye Bye Birdie!

Janet Leigh

[82 steps]

Halloween H20: 20 Years Later

Jamie Lee Curtis

[84 steps]

You Again

Kristen Bell

[86 steps]

When in Rome...

It may have been what the critics call but mindless, but I found myself liking this one...


Josh Duhamel

[88 steps]

Love, Simon

This one is by me.

I haven't seen it, but I did see a preview and think I know one actor who is in it. I'll put in a submission is no one else is more confident of their answer.

Jennifer Garner

[91 steps]

Matt Davis

[93 steps]

Kate Bosworth

[95 steps]

We aren't stuck are we?