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Pretty straightforward. I'll start with three:
1. A high school senior in Chicago plans an elaborate ditch day with his girlfriend and best friend while their unhinged principal chases after them.
2. While investigating the planned destruction of his home world, the heir to the throne is imprisoned on the other side of the universe by a cult leader and has to fight his way back.
3. A high end clothing store in London moonlights as a high tech spy agency and plots to take down a tech billionaire who uses cell phones as part of a world domination plot.
CatMor
(6,212 posts)Number 1 - Ferris Bueller's Day Off
madamesilverspurs
(15,814 posts)falls from the sky.
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flor-de-jasmim
(2,126 posts)Behind the Aegis
(54,044 posts)1. Ferris Bueller's Day Off
2. Thor: Ragnarok (?)
3. The Kingsmen (?)
1. A former fighter pilot fights his own anxieties in order to save a passenger plane from crashing.
2. A scheming governor appoints a new sheriff to a small western town in order to build a railroad.
3. With the help of a convicted cannibal, a rookie FBI agent uses the information he gives her to hunt for a senator's daughter.
longship
(40,416 posts)1. Airplane
2. Blazing Saddles
3. Silence of the Lambs
Initech
(100,129 posts)1. Airplane!
2. Blazing Saddles
3. Silence Of The Lambs
Initech
(100,129 posts)Last edited Mon Apr 16, 2018, 12:02 PM - Edit history (2)
1. A corrupt intelligence agency attempts to seize a scientist's formula that allows one to shrink and expand in size.
2. Facing the end of the world, a young woman finds herself trapped in a psychotic man's doomsday shelter.
3. London's finest police officer is transferred to a small town where he and his new partner investigate a series of horrifying accidents.
4. A small town is encased in a giant dome following a wanton act of stupidity caused by one of their own citizens.
5. Small town cops in the state of Vermont investigate a series of big time crimes while playing pranks on each other.
6. A getaway driver for a gang of criminals uses his taste in music to help him get through the crimes and falls for a waitress.
7. An elite mercenary attempts to find a cure for his incurable cancer and seeks revenge on the man who disfigured him.
8. In order to save a failing gym, the members play for a large cash prize in Vegas against their very well funded competitors.
9. 3 friends try to pay back their employers for their miserable working conditions.
10. An ailing and aging mutant cares for his ailing professor while transporting a young mutant across the border.
TheSmarterDog
(794 posts)1. Innerspace
2. (?)
3. Hot Fuzz
4. (?)
5. Supertroopers
6. Hudson Hawk
7. Deadpool
8. (?)
9. (?)
10. Logan
Initech
(100,129 posts)1. Ant-Man
2. 10 Cloverfield Lane
3. Hot Fuzz
4. The Simpsons Movie
5. Super Troopers
6. Baby Driver
7. Deadpool
8. Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story
9. Horrible Bosses
10. Logan
TheSmarterDog
(794 posts)Along the way he meets his sister, and is pursued by a gov't agent trying to prevent the atrocity - and who we later learn is the kid's real father.
Ron Obvious
(6,261 posts)It doesn't seem to entirely fit, but I've only seen the first one.
sakabatou
(42,198 posts)red dog 1
(27,903 posts)Initech
(100,129 posts)TexasBushwhacker
(20,232 posts)So funny. "Friends don't let friends think".
red dog 1
(27,903 posts)musicians who all become big stars.
lunasun
(21,646 posts)red dog 1
(27,903 posts)DetlefK
(16,423 posts)red dog 1
(27,903 posts)Besides Garofalo, Milo O'Shea, Denis Leary & David O'Hara
A very funny movie...filmed in Ireland.
red dog 1
(27,903 posts)town because all the roads are icy...So they hide the money and wait until they can leave town safely.
DetlefK
(16,423 posts)Hint - "Wichita Falls"
red dog 1
(27,903 posts)by renting a nearby shop and tunneling into the bank from the shop's basement.
backtoblue
(11,347 posts)2. Two reefer smoking college roommates go on an adventure to find special burgers
3. Three high school buddies try to find DB's treasure
4. Oil drillers are sent to space to detonate a bomb in order to save earth
Initech
(100,129 posts)2. Harold & Kumar Go To White Castle
3. ?
4. Armageddon
backtoblue
(11,347 posts)3. Hint
They come across some pot farmers and get saved by Burt Reynolds.
muntrv
(14,505 posts)backtoblue
(11,347 posts)Initech
(100,129 posts)1. An artificial intelligence comes to life and tries to create a human form of itself with the intent of keeping world peace, but things go horribly awry.
2. When the United Nations decides that super heroes must be held accountable for their actions, it splits apart the ultimate team of super heroes as to which side they are loyal to.
3. After a gifted surgeon is horrifically injured in a near-fatal crash, he travels around the world seeking a cure for his condition.
4. An impoverished African tribal country is secretly the home to the wealthiest, most technologically advanced nation on earth, whose funding comes from the sale and distribution of a rare metal found only in this country.
5. Congress decides that the creator of a mechanized suit must hand it over to the Pentagon in order for it to become a militarized weapon.
6. A soldier discovers that the intelligence agency he works for has gone rogue amid plots of a tangled conspiracy.
7. A high school student in New York City spends his days trying to woo over the popular girl and his nights fighting crime alongside a popular super hero.
sakabatou
(42,198 posts)1. Avengers: Age of Ultron
2. Avengers: Civil War
3. Doctor Strange
4. Black Panther
5. Iron Man 2
6. Captain America Winter Soldier
7. Spiderman: Homecoming
Initech
(100,129 posts)And yes #6 is correct!
sakabatou
(42,198 posts)sakabatou
(42,198 posts)Last edited Fri Apr 20, 2018, 10:29 PM - Edit history (2)
1. A biker gets powers after crashing his ride.
2. A grim reaper finds a woman who also has similar powers but she's not quite who she says she is.
3. An awful, dangerous power is set loose on a town. Now a magical girl must capture said power before everything is erased.
4. A legendary warrior arises and wants to fight the main hero.
5. A leader rescues a teammate and finally realizes his feelings toward her.
Initech
(100,129 posts)1. Ghost Rider ?
2. Meet Joe Black
3. ?
4. Batman Begins?
5. ?
sakabatou
(42,198 posts)sakabatou
(42,198 posts)Initech
(100,129 posts)Do you think you can get the rest?
DetlefK
(16,423 posts)lunasun
(21,646 posts)petronius
(26,608 posts)Freethinker65
(10,090 posts)lunasun
(21,646 posts)Freethinker65
(10,090 posts)lunasun
(21,646 posts)TheSmarterDog
(794 posts)lunasun
(21,646 posts)DetlefK
(16,423 posts)sakabatou
(42,198 posts)DetlefK
(16,423 posts)yesphan
(1,588 posts)disgruntled by her work and lifestyle decides to make off
with the deposits and winds up staying the night at a shady motel.
DetlefK
(16,423 posts)mahatmakanejeeves
(57,721 posts)and surely many others.
I'm going with the original, with the 1967 Country Squire.
DetlefK
(16,423 posts)DetlefK
(16,423 posts)TheSmarterDog
(794 posts)backtoblue
(11,347 posts)DetlefK
(16,423 posts)backtoblue
(11,347 posts)Initech
(100,129 posts)1. In the old west, a rendezvous at a haberdashery goes horribly awry when everyone is a suspect after a body is found in a snow storm.
2. A woman seeks revenge on her former boss after her entire wedding party is murdered and she is left for dead.
3. During World War II, an elite squad of Jewish soldiers leads the charge against Adolf Hitler in a brutal fashion.
4. A group of anonymous criminals attempting a jewelry store heist barricade themselves in a warehouse while hiding from the police.
5. A middle aged woman gets caught in the middle of a drug deal that could make her a lot of money or have the opposite effect.
6. A German bounty hunter attempts to rescue his wife from an evil plantation owner in the wild west.
geardaddy
(24,931 posts)1. The Hateful Eight
2. Kill Bill
3. Inglorious Basterds
4. Reservoir Dogs
5. Jackie Brown
6. Django Unchained
Initech
(100,129 posts)Yup - all the same director!
geardaddy
(24,931 posts)1. A car salesman hatches a plot to have his wife kidnapped to get money to pay back fraudulent car loans.
2. The violent leader of a street gang is rehabilitated in prison and becomes a weak person with an extreme aversion to violence.
3. A plane full of boy students crashes on an island and they attempt to set up a society that becomes extremely dysfunctional.
4. An aspiring bicycle racer pretends that he is Italian in a small Indiana town.
Initech
(100,129 posts)PoindexterOglethorpe
(25,926 posts)Number 1 is Fargo.
geardaddy
(24,931 posts)KPN
(15,673 posts)1, Fargo
2. American History X?
3. Lord of the Flies
4. Can't remember the name, but it's an old movie - at least 30 years ago I think (if I'm thinking of the right movie).
geardaddy
(24,931 posts)Number two was directed by Stanley Kubrick
KPN
(15,673 posts)Clockwork Orange.
AdamGG
(1,297 posts)Quite a bit earlier than that. Based on a book by Anthony Burgess.
Initech
(100,129 posts)1. A day in the life of two convenience store clerks who deal with oddball customers both inside and outside the store.
2. A ne'er do well and his best friend attempt to crash his girlfriend's father's game show in an effort to win her back and spend the week in Florida.
3. God assumes human form in an effort to get a long-lost descendant of Jesus to stop two angels from instigating the end of the world during the grand re-opening of an old church.
4. A psychopathic preacher and his congregation take in and torture troubled youth while the federal investigation against them goes horribly awry.
5. Two stoners take a cross country journey to attempt to halt the production of a movie being made about a comic book that was based on them.
6. A comic book writer develops a crush on a female comic book writer only to discover that she's in a relationship with another woman.
7. A reporter for a blog goes to report on a man creating unusual experiments on humans and winds up being the subject of said experiment.
8. After attending their high school reunion, a ne'er do well and his best friend attempt to make their own fame by producing their own adult-themed movie.
9. After being forced to spend the night at their parents' place of business, two teenage girls discover the shocking truth about what really goes on after the business closes for the night.
1. Clerks
3. Dogma
Initech
(100,129 posts)DetlefK
(16,423 posts)petronius
(26,608 posts)Initech
(100,129 posts)1) Clerks
2) Mallrats
3) Dogma
4) Red State
5) Jay & Silent Bob Strike Back
6) Chasing Amy
7) Tusk
8) Zack and Miri Make A Porno
9) Yoga Hosers
All Kevin Smith movies!
TlalocW
(15,393 posts)Transported to a surreal landscape, a young girl kills the first person she meets then teams up with three strangers to kill again.
1930s Professor has unusually productive sabbatical
TlalocW
Wizard of Oz
Indiana Jones
AdamGG
(1,297 posts)1. A stranded tourist befriends local youth, but then becomes ill and yearns for his homeland.
2. Wildlife impinges on holiday weekend festivities and then a few people undertake a mission to correct the problem.
3. Businessman exploits laborers, but then develops a moral conscience about their welfare.
petronius
(26,608 posts)backtoblue
(11,347 posts)The bag breaks inside her and she suddenly has access to all of her brain capabilities.
sakabatou
(42,198 posts)backtoblue
(11,347 posts)sakabatou
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sakabatou
(42,198 posts)during an escort mission. By going after this person, the captain becomes a fugitive.
Initech
(100,129 posts)1) A group of well off men decide to start their own fraternity when one of them buys a house on a college campus.
2) A chauvinistic reporter for a local TV station is forced to change with the times after management announces a major change in the regularly scheduled programming.
3) When the NBA and a minor organization announce that they are going to merge, one owner will pull out all the stops to save his team.
4) A professional race car driver's world is turned upside down when a ruthless new competitor joins the league.
5) Two ne'er do wells are forced to share the same roof when one's dad marries the other's mom.
6) A rising country music star must grapple with fame and fortune as he confronts the demons of his past with hardcore drugs and pursues his one true love.
7) A fashion designer recruits a former star to help him carry out the assassination of a prime minister.
8) Two brothers must find a way to save their father's ranch after it becomes the dispute of a drug lord.
jmowreader
(50,580 posts)red dog 1
(27,903 posts)And they not only have to share the same roof, but the same room, because John C. Reilly's drums have their own room.
Initech
(100,129 posts)"You're wearing tuxedos to interview for a job that requires you to clean bathrooms!"
JDC
(10,144 posts)1) Old School??
6) A Star is Born
Initech
(100,129 posts)JDC
(10,144 posts)6) Walk Hard
Initech
(100,129 posts)Initech
(100,129 posts)1) Old School
2) Anchorman: The Legend Of Ron Burgundy
3) Semi-Pro
4) Talladega Nights: The Ballad Of Ricky Bobby
5) Stepbrothers
6) Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story
7) Zoolander
8) Casa De Mi Padre
muntrv
(14,505 posts)red dog 1
(27,903 posts)Forced to work long hours, she has no choice but to leave her son in the care of their new neighbor, a retired curmudgeon with a desire for alcohol and gambling.
The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,947 posts)red dog 1
(27,903 posts)But "As Good As It Gets" is one of my favorite movies....I've probably seen it at least 20 times.
red dog 1
(27,903 posts)"lockout" of his entire undefeated team for poor academic performance.
sakabatou
(42,198 posts)I haven't seen the film, just some blurbs way back when.
red dog 1
(27,903 posts)Samuel L. Jackson stars in this very good movie.
red dog 1
(27,903 posts)It really did happen.
red dog 1
(27,903 posts)and plotting against the rich, snotty young brats at a nearby rival camp
JDC
(10,144 posts)Bill Murray's first movie
sakabatou
(42,198 posts)A cop finds out a conspiracy between a company and a machine they built.
AJT
(5,240 posts)sakabatou
(42,198 posts)red dog 1
(27,903 posts)all the while staying two steps ahead of investigating detectives..because all the evidence points to him.
muntrv
(14,505 posts)that it is not as easy as it seems.
sakabatou
(42,198 posts)lapfog_1
(29,239 posts)1. A tiny bankrupt European country declares war on the US and sends an invasion force who happen to steal a new atomic weapon, US surrenders.
2. A simple-minded gardener is thrown out on the streets after his employer dies, gets hit by a car and after many misunderstandings becomes an economic "genius" and potential President.
3. An inept French policeman accidentally recovers a valuable stolen jewel.
4. The dying words of a thief spark a madcap cross-country rush to find some treasure.
red dog 1
(27,903 posts)lapfog_1
(29,239 posts)1. The Mouse that Roared
2. Being There
3. The Pink Panther
4. It's a Mad Mad Mad World
red dog 1
(27,903 posts)AdamGG
(1,297 posts)red dog 1
(27,903 posts)offers him a home and enrolls him in a nearby high school, where he grows into a blue-chip football player who eventually becomes an All-American college player and first round NFL draft pick. (Based on a true story)
muntrv
(14,505 posts)red dog 1
(27,903 posts)The Blind Side was nominated for an Oscar for Best Picture.
Sandra Bullock won an Oscar for her performance in the movie, as well as other awards as well
Initech
(100,129 posts)Last edited Mon Apr 23, 2018, 09:47 AM - Edit history (2)
1) A down on his luck wannabe rock star steals his best friends' substitute teaching job at a private school and teaches a group of straight laced students the rock n roll lifestyle.
2) While rehearsing for a movie about the Vietnam War, a group of hot headed actors is kidnapped by drug lords while their megalomaniacal producer threatens to end their funding.
3) A man attempts to recruit a legendary guitar player to start a band in the hopes of writing the ultimate song that will stop the devil in his tracks.
4) When the UN decides that the leader of a small 3rd world country must be held accountable for his crimes, he travels to New York City and is stripped of his power and must live among the city's inhabitants.
5) A small town must fend for itself after a wanton act of stupidity from one of their own citizens causes their entrapment.
6) The owner of a failing gymnasium recruits his misfit membership to take on the very well funded gym across the street to earn the cash needed to pay off the gym's outstanding debts.
7) A popular reporter in a third world country takes a road trip across the United States in an effort to find "the real America " and marry the woman of his dreams.
8) After running unopposed for several elections, a representative suddenly finds that he has a challenger and uses extremely dirty tactics to win at all costs.
9) Four friends plan the ultimate bachelor party, but when things go horribly awry, they must retrace their steps to find the groom and get back to the wedding in time.
10) A British spy is working undercover when his mission is blown and he is forced to team up with his brother who happens to be a soccer hooligan.
red dog 1
(27,903 posts)[Thanks for posting this thread ]
Initech
(100,129 posts)Initech
(100,129 posts)1) School of Rock
2) Tropic Thunder
3) Tenacious D In: "The Pick Of Destiny"
4) The Dictator
5) The Simpsons Movie
6) Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story
7) Borat: Cultural Learnings Of America For Make Benefit Glorious Nation Of Kazakhstan
8) The Campaign
9) The Hangover
10) The Brothers Grimsby
red dog 1
(27,903 posts)suspicion of the people around him.
[Hint - This movie has an all-star cast]
The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,947 posts)red dog 1
(27,903 posts)Initech
(100,129 posts)1) In a futuristic Los Angeles where mutants live among humans, a human cop must team up with a mutant in order to prevent a disaster involving a large weapon.
2) Two journalists at Harvard turn the satire world upside down by turning the school's satire newspaper into a humor empire that goes global.
3) A huckster uses his standing as a popular touring musician to swindle the elderly out of their retirement money using a series of pyramid schemes.
4) Facing the end of the world, a group of scientists orbiting the earth test out a system that could provide earth with an unlimited energy source.
5) When wealthy twin children are suddenly left without parents, they go to live with their deranged uncle while waiting the fate of their parents' vast fortune and taking care of their infant sister.
struggle4progress
(118,379 posts)2. What Happened at the Waffle House (as told by the NRA)
3. Assange Visits Harrod's
red dog 1
(27,903 posts)of more than 20 years.
(Based on a true story)
Initech
(100,129 posts)1) A clerk working at an electronics store reimagines his romantic life after a poker night with his buddies makes him realize that he doesn't have one.
2) A group of misfits travel across space to seek out a powerful stone that can stop a ruthless villain from destroying a civilized planet before its' too late.
3) A bumbling police officer stumbles upon the crime of the century when the city of Los Angeles hires his department to protect a state visit.
4) What starts out as a quest to get fast food turns into a wild road trip across the state in order to satisfy a craving that can't otherwise be satisfied.
5) Two police officers befriend an awkward teenager after his job to get the alcohol supply for a wild high school graduation party goes horribly awry.
6) A spy travels the world to seek an elusive female intelligence officer who may be the key to help stop a network of terrorists plotting against the United States.
7) During the Cold War, a female British assassin is sent deep into Berlin to help recover a list of potential undercover agents that was stolen by a rogue agency.
8) A space scavenger joins a resistance army that is helping to take down a powerful entity that is bent on destroying the galaxy.
9) Filling in for a deceased insurance agent, a naive employee travels to the big convention where he learns that a plot to undermine the entire industry is unfolding right before his eyes.
10) A straight laced fraternity and a wild fraternity play pranks on each other while their hot headed dean threatens to stop the latter in their tracks.
11) In an effort to hold the perfect family road trip, an everyman from Chicago is determined to pull out all the stops in order to get some much needed bonding time with his wife and kids.
12) After being frozen for 30 years, a police officer is thawed out and goes after the ruthless criminal mastermind who put him there in the first place.
13) A former ex marine who now works as a New York City cab driver is recruited by the head of his former unit to help stop a sinister corporation from fulfilling an ancient prophecy that could have devastating consequences.
red dog 1
(27,903 posts)Is # 11 National Lampoon's Vacation?
Initech
(100,129 posts)Initech
(100,129 posts)1) The 40 Year Old Virgin
2) Guardians Of The Galaxy
3) The Naked Gun: From The Files Of Police Squad!
4) Harold & Kumar Go To White Castle
5) Superbad
6) Mission Impossible: Rogue Nation
7) Atomic Blonde
8) Star Wars Episode VII: The Force Awakens
9) Cedar Rapids
10) National Lampoon's Animal House
11) National Lampoon's Vacation
12) Demolition Man
13) The 5th Element
Wolf Frankula
(3,604 posts)while covering the 'good life'. Lots of scotch gets drunk.
Wolf
red dog 1
(27,903 posts)1) Where the Buffalo Roam
2) Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
Wolf Frankula
(3,604 posts)It's full of people swilling scotch, because it's expensive and they want to show they can afford it.
Wolf
red dog 1
(27,903 posts)I think Hunter S. Thompson's favorite drink was Scotch
red dog 1
(27,903 posts)angel823
(409 posts)Angel in Texasperated
red dog 1
(27,903 posts)Good movie.......Unexpected ending.
red dog 1
(27,903 posts)police lieutenant fights the local mob.
Neither one likes each other, so that makes them a "dream team" as they clean up the town with slugfests and shoot-'em-ups.
red dog 1
(27,903 posts)a crime he didn't commit.
red dog 1
(27,903 posts)Initech
(100,129 posts)red dog 1
(27,903 posts)who survive earn the right to go fight in the Vietnam War.
Response to red dog 1 (Reply #154)
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Initech
(100,129 posts)Muse sampled this movie on their last album "Drones":
red dog 1
(27,903 posts)The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,947 posts)and lets him take the rap for it.
2. A journalist covering a rebellion in southeast Asia has an affair with an embassy employee who passes classified information to him.
3. An advisor to a king is tried and executed when he refuses to obey the king and thereby compromise his principles.
red dog 1
(27,903 posts)to live his dream.....as a hairdresser.
Initech
(100,129 posts)Cornball movie, but funny & worth seeing.
[The only Adam Sandler movie I ever liked]
sakabatou
(42,198 posts)Initech
(100,129 posts)sakabatou
(42,198 posts)Hint: this is animated
sakabatou
(42,198 posts)red dog 1
(27,903 posts)as bodyguard for a 9-year-old girl.
red dog 1
(27,903 posts)terrestrial visit.