Guess the allusion

[burneyfan]

Aaaaaand the minute I type all that crap, I think: A Wife Confesses? A long shot, I think...I doubt everyone guessing has seen it, as you suggested earlier.

[funkybusiness]

Odds Against Tomorrow?

[burneyfan]

Odds Against Tomorrow?

Oh, nice guess...I love that film.

[funkybusiness]

Odds Against Tomorrow?

Oh, nice guess...I love that film.

I opposite of love that film?

[burneyfan]

Odds Against Tomorrow?

Oh, nice guess...I love that film.

I opposite of love that film?

Well, it's still a nice guess! It's no dealbreaker film for me...I'll still associate with you (whether that's a good thing or not, I'll leave you to determine, ha ha). Say you hate Ugetsu, though, and the gloves will come off.

[funkybusiness]

Oh, nice guess...I love that film.

I opposite of love that film?

Well, it's still a nice guess! It's no dealbreaker film for me...I'll still associate with you (whether that's a good thing or not, I'll leave you to determine, ha ha). Say you hate Ugetsu, though, and the gloves will come off.

Ugetsu? Eeehh...

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Just kidding

[PeacefulAnarchy]

Odds Against Tomorrow?

Yes that one.

[funkybusiness]

Okay give me a couple minutes. No cats!

[Kasparius]

Okay give me a couple minutes. No cats!

My cats, Holmes and Watson, want you to know that they couldn't care less about your clue.

[funkybusiness]

Expression One: How to cut a rug.
Impression One: A deceiving pulse.
Expression Two: A woman, his woman, left on a bed.
Impression Two: Salt seeps from the earth. All luck.

[Local Hero -- aka MestnyiGeroi]

Cryptic!

I don't know. Each line makes me think vaguely of possibilities, but no one film I can think of yet pulls the clues together.

The expression-impression alternation makes me think either someone making facial expressions or sending messages, and someone else receiving and responding. Or it makes me think of expressionism and impressionism.

No idea. But I'll just randomly throw out Satantango.

[funkybusiness]

Not Satantango.

The reception/response is the right angle, but mostly interpretation. It's a film that requires some interpretation.


Clue two: Everybody was kung-fu fighting. Well, not quite kung-fu. and not quite fighting. But those outfits!

[funkybusiness]

Clue three: A loose adaptation. Alex is in it. I don't think it's gay at all.

[funkybusiness]

Oh and it looks like you haven't checked it Local. Sorry.

[Local Hero -- aka MestnyiGeroi]

Oh and it looks like you haven't checked it Local. Sorry.

I'll leave it to my worthier colleagues, then.

[Pretentious Hipster]

What happened to this thread...

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[Local Hero -- aka MestnyiGeroi]

Funky's clues are still orbiting the Earth ...

[funkybusiness]

Spoilers. It was Beau travail. Happy birthday, Local!

[Local Hero -- aka MestnyiGeroi]

Spoilers. It was Beau travail. Happy birthday, Local!

Thank you! And that movie is queued up as one of the next few movies I see, actually.

[funkybusiness]

Spoilers. It was Beau travail. Happy birthday, Local!

Thank you! And that movie is queued up as one of the next few movies I see, actually.

It's a perfect film. Hope you like it. Do you want to go next or...?

[Pretentious Hipster]

And all we needed were my tears to resurrect this thread.

I don't participate here, I just felt like 1 upping the pics of begging animals.

[funkybusiness]

And all we needed were my tears to resurrect this thread.

I don't participate here, I just felt like 1 upping the pics of begging animals.

I didn't mean to make you cry. Also, 1-up success.

[Local Hero -- aka MestnyiGeroi]

Go, go, funky. Cleanse your clues in the ablutions of Arthur's tears and go.

[funkybusiness]

Me then? Alright.

Clue 1: A prequel often thought of as a sequel embeds itself more into the stylistic tradition its creators originally imagined while garnering almost no praise in the process. Mini-clue: Also seen as racist.

[Kasparius]

Spoilers. It was Beau travail. Happy birthday, Local!

Thank you! And that movie is queued up as one of the next few movies I see, actually.

Have you seen Godard's Le petit soldat? The main character from that is a character in Beau travail. Both played by the same actor, Michel Subor.

[Kasparius]

Me then? Alright.

Clue 1: A prequel often thought of as a sequel embeds itself more into the stylistic tradition its creators originally imagined while garnering almost no praise in the process. Mini-clue: Also seen as racist.

Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom?

[funkybusiness]

Me then? Alright.

Clue 1: A prequel often thought of as a sequel embeds itself more into the stylistic tradition its creators originally imagined while garnering almost no praise in the process. Mini-clue: Also seen as racist.

Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom?

Bingo! Clue seems self-explanatory but here's this anyway.

Temple of Doom is in fact a prequel to Raiders of the Lost Ark, not a sequel as people seem to think. The original idea for the Indiana Jones series was to make a film version of pulp action stories from the 30s and 40s, very unrealistic, over the top, caricaturistic, and well, pulpy. I think the second film is more successful in that regard than the first (even if they are Nazis in RotLA!). and don't get me started on how shitty that Sean Connery one is. blech.

[Kasparius]

Which means it's my turn... Argh....

Clue number 1: This tom is cock blocking Jerry, and I ain't talking about the mouse.

[Local Hero -- aka MestnyiGeroi]

Spoilers. It was Beau travail. Happy birthday, Local!

Thank you! And that movie is queued up as one of the next few movies I see, actually.

Have you seen Godard's Le petit soldat? The main character from that is a character in Beau travail. Both played by the same actor, Michel Subor.

Yes, I have, long ago. Was he the one

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suffocated?

[funkybusiness]

Thank you! And that movie is queued up as one of the next few movies I see, actually.

Have you seen Godard's Le petit soldat? The main character from that is a character in Beau travail. Both played by the same actor, Michel Subor.

Yes, I have, long ago. Was he the one

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suffocated?

Yep.

[AdamH]

Gonna bump a few of these game threads as they've got inactive.

[PeacefulAnarchy]

Which means it's my turn... Argh....

Clue number 1: This tom is cock blocking Jerry, and I ain't talking about the mouse.

Is the a clue # 2?

[AdamH]

Which means it's my turn... Argh....

Clue number 1: This tom is cock blocking Jerry, and I ain't talking about the mouse.

Any more clues?

[Kasparius]

Which means it's my turn... Argh....

Clue number 1: This tom is cock blocking Jerry, and I ain't talking about the mouse.

Any more clues?

Clue Number 2: (I had to guess my own clue number 1 to remember what film it was, it's been that long )

Nick and Nora's pooch seems to have been dognapped by another dysfunctional couple.

[Local Hero -- aka MestnyiGeroi]

The Awful Truth?

[AdamH]

Time to start this up again? Was a good topic.

[AdamH]

Time to start this up again? Was a good topic.

Didn't work last time so will try again.