Guess The Screenshot (Mobile Data Unfriendly)

Mizu_Ger

dark crystal wrote: »

Is it Separate Lies?

Yeah, that's it. Well done. That was a difficult one.

One left:

4. It's a Korean film from the last 10 years. The profession in the picture is part of the title...

delbertgrady

The President's Barber.

Based solely on the clue.

Mizu_Ger

delbertgrady wrote: »

The President's Barber.

Based solely on the clue.

Yeah, that's the one. It's worth a watch!

delbertgrady

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scouttio

8. Hot Fuzz

Mizu_Ger

2. looks like a Carry On film. God knows which one!!

4. Dog Day Afternoon
5. Schindler's List
6. The Firm
7. First Blood
9. Shine
10. Twister

delbertgrady

Mizu_Ger wrote: »

2. looks like a Carry On film. God knows which one!!

4. Dog Day Afternoon
5. Schindler's List
6. The Firm
7. First Blood
9. Shine
10. Twister

Well done, and to Scouttio too for Hot Fuzz.

It's not a Carry On film, but the rest are correct.
Only the first three are left now, which are certainly the trickiest ones.

Mizu_Ger

Is 3 Hope and Glory? (complete guess!)

delbertgrady

Not a bad guess, but it's set a bit later.
Post-War, Austerity Britain: 1947, to be precise.

rednik

delbertgrady wrote: »

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Flash Gordon

delbertgrady

Very well done! It's the opening (post-titles) scene of Flash Gordon. Robbie Coltrane makes a very brief appearance as "Man at airfield".

Riskymove

delbertgrady wrote: »

Not a bad guess, but it's set a bit later.
Post-War, Austerity Britain: 1947, to be precise.

is that the one where they raise a pig at home for food? cant think of name

Mizu_Ger

delbertgrady wrote: »

Well done, and to Scouttio too for Hot Fuzz.

It's not a Carry On film, but the rest are correct.
Only the first three are left now, which are certainly the trickiest ones.

Is that Terry Scott in the phone box? That's what made me think of Carry On.

dark crystal

Riskymove wrote: »

is that the one where they raise a pig at home for food? cant think of name

A Private Function.

ThirdMan

the purple tin wrote: »

Here are some old ones I don't think anyone got yet

#1 is centred around a boys relationship with a dog (not his dog btw)

It's The Mighty Celt. I actually answered this a few days ago, but you must have missed my post. It was driving me nuts for ages. I initially thought it was Mickybo & Me, but I done a bit of snooping around and came across it.

delbertgrady

Well done to Riskymove for figuring out the film and Dark Crystal for remembering the name. It is indeed A Private Function.
The headscarf man in the phone booth is probably best remembered for playing the central role in a long-running British legal drama from the late 1970s to early 1990s.

Mizu_Ger

delbertgrady wrote: »

Well done to Riskymove for figuring out the film and Dark Crystal for remembering the name. It is indeed A Private Function.
The headscarf man in the phone booth is probably best remembered for playing the central role in a long-running British legal drama from the late 1970s to early 1990s.

So it's Leo McKern...... I've no idea what film it is now!

delbertgrady

McKern and the cult members are out to recover an item that's crucial to a sacrificial ceremony that they wish to perform. The item has ended up in the possession of a well known musician...

brian_t

delbertgrady wrote: »

McKern and the cult members are out to recover an item that's crucial to a sacrificial ceremony that they wish to perform. The item has ended up in the possession of a well known musician...

Help!

delbertgrady

It is indeed The Beatles' Help!
Well done.

Mizu_Ger

I would never have got that one.

delbertgrady

Well, I try to get a balance. For each set of ten, I usually have two or three that are a bit more "obscure".
Mind you, I'm still wondering what the hell Zeek12's last remaining two are.

delbertgrady

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Mizu_Ger

delbertgrady wrote: »

Well, I try to get a balance. For each set of ten, I usually have two or three that are a bit more "obscure".
Mind you, I'm still wondering what the hell Zeek12's last remaining two are.

I wasn't criticising your choices. It'd be no fun if they were all easy! I'm just not familiar with that film at all.

delbertgrady

Mizu_Ger wrote: »

I wasn't criticising your choices. It'd be no fun if they were all easy! I'm just not familiar with that film at all.

Ah, I know. A Beatles nut would have probably identified Help! immediately, but could have been struggling with some of the ones you got outright.

Zeek12

10. The Help

delbertgrady

10 is Jessica Chastain in The Help. Well done.

Zeek12

5. Patriot Games?

delbertgrady

It is Patriot Games. Sean Bean on the left, Anne Archer driving the car. Well deduced.

Zeek12

These were a bit obscure so to help jog the memory, I've added another shot from #6 at the bottom. Once you get that one you should be able to work out #1 based on the clues from before!

Zeek12 wrote: »

I don't think these were got yet.
Another clue for #1: one of the main stars was posted by someone else here (in shot from a different film) within the last 3 days!

Some clues for the ones still left:

1. A darkly comic crime film from the early 90's. The writer/director went on to receive acclaim for another movie later that decade which was similarly dark but humorous

6. A bit of an obscure shot from a very well known 90's movie which had an all star cast - one of whom was the lead actor in movie 1 above!

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Ryaller

1. is Tootsie

delbertgrady

Zeek12 wrote: »

These were a bit obscure so to help jog the memory, I've added another shot from #6 at the bottom. Once you get that one you should be able to work out #1 based on the clues from before!

6 is Glengarry Glen Ross.
Is 1 Carlito's Way?

delbertgrady

Ryaller wrote: »

1. is Tootsie

Well done.

Zeek12

delbertgrady wrote: »

6 is Glengarry Glen Ross.
Is 1 Carlito's Way?

Correct on 6, well done.

1 is not Carlito's Way...it doesn't feature Pacino at all.

scouttio

3 there is friends with benefits?

delbertgrady

Miami Blues, starring Alec Baldwin and directed by George Armitage, who went on to direct Grosse Pointe Blank.
This may not be right, but it does add up with all your clues. The imdb is my friend on this one.

delbertgrady

scouttio wrote: »

3 there is friends with benefits?

Yes it is. Well spotted.

dark crystal

2. Eyes Wide Shut

Zeek12

delbertgrady wrote: »

Miami Blues, starring Alec Baldwin and directed by George Armitage, who went on to direct Grosse Pointe Blank.
This may not be right, but it does add up with all your clues. The imdb is my friend on this one.

Correct. Excellent sleuthing!

It is indeed George Armitage's Miami Blues co-starring Fred Ward (who had been posted here in a shot from The Right Stuff a few days ago).
If you haven't seen this one but liked Grosse Point, you should give it a watch. Dark, occasionally violent....and very funny!!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ITjw1de5TrA

delbertgrady

dark crystal wrote: »

2. Eyes Wide Shut

Correct - well done.

Zeek12 wrote: »

Correct. Excellent sleuthing!

It is indeed George Armitage's Miami Blues co-starring Fred Ward (who had been posted here in a shot from The Right Stuff a few days ago).

The initial Glengarry still was annoying the hell out of me, and it took a second shot to make me realise what it was. I've never seen Miami Blues, but Grosse Pointe Blank is a classic. To add insult to injury, I did stumble across Miami Blues as a possible answer several days ago, while conducting some sleuthing based on your initial clues, but I cannot remember for the life of me how I ended up there. It certainly wasn't through the Mamet. Oh well.

delbertgrady

Five down, five to go:

delbertgrady wrote: »

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rednik

delbertgrady wrote: »

Five down, five to go:

Is 8 All the right moves ?

Zeek12

delbertgrady wrote: »

The initial Glengarry still was annoying the hell out of me, and it took a second shot to make me realise what it was.

It wasn't an easy shot to be fair. But it was about the only one I could get that didn't feature the office and/or any of the main cast (which would have been a giveaway)

delbertgrady

rednik wrote: »

Is 8 All the right moves ?

Yes it is - well done.

Zeek12 wrote: »

It wasn't an easy shot to be fair. But it was about the only one I could get that didn't feature the office and/or any of the main cast (which would have been a giveaway)

It was one of those shots that was very familiar to me, but I just couldn't place it.
Which, I suppose, is the whole challenge of the thread anyway... :P

DeepBlue

9. Three Days of the Condor

delbertgrady

DeepBlue wrote: »

9. Three Days of the Condor

Correct. Redford's bike outside the American Literary Historical Society.

Zeek12

Bit of a random guess....is 6. Chariots of Fire?

delbertgrady

Always worth a guess... it is Chariots of Fire.

Zeek12

delbertgrady wrote: »

Always worth a guess... it is Chariots of Fire.

1920's setting + waving Union Jacks helped narrow it down a bit:)

delbertgrady

Zeek12 wrote: »

1920's setting + waving Union Jacks helped narrow it down a bit:)

Yeah, but it doesn't have men in white t-shirts and shorts running along a beach, so it wasn't immediately obvious. :P