Cinema in a blender, a movie mash-up: combine two or more movie titles that share a word to create a brilliant new meta-movie. Do it alone or with others, in the car, over dinner, or instead of uncomfortable conversations about relationships. Whenever and however you play, post your answers here for the world to share. This is the beginning of a beautiful friendship. It really ties the room together.
New York cabbie Pete Robbins (Michael Sarrazin) shares a house with invisible dragon Elliott (voice of Barbra Streisand). Acting on a tip from another driver, Pete decides to invest in pork bellies, but needs $3000. Elliott decides to get the money by dealing with various disreputable characters: loan sharks, cattle rustlers, and Pete's abusive adoptive parents
It's been a bad week for Pepa. Her lover Ivan left her, and his psycho ex-wife is hounding her. Her doctor tells her she's pregnant. Her best friend Candela is wanted by the police for her association with terrorist. And to top it off, after a close encounter with an alien spaceship, she just can't stop growing. But can her now-Brobdingnagian stature help her find Ivan, protect Candela, and foil a terrorist plot?
Attack of the Fifty-Foot Woman on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown
The Dollanger children move to their grandparents' summer home under the condition, imposed by their stern grandmother (Louise Fletcher), that they remain sequestered in the attic and never venture downstairs. Their strange new life of implied incest and sugared donuts is threatened when an invading force of extraterrestrials also moves into the attic. Mayhem ensues. Memorable scenes of oldest daughter Cathy (Kristy Swanson) going all Slayer on the ETs.
In the crumbling town of Atlantastan, a city in a nation rife with civil unrest, a couple, Scarlett O'Hara (Carol Burnett) and Mahatma Gandhi (Ben Kingley), fall passionately in love while fighting on separate sides of the war. She is on the side of the rich land and slave owners that built the lustrous country into a desirable mecca for all the rich to enjoy. He fights for the unification of all the people of the land so that everyone may live peacefully in loving peace with enough love and peace to share forever and ever. Sadly, they cannot reconcile their vast differences, so she hires a sharp-shooting hitman named Rhett Butler (Clark Gable) to assassinate Ghandi. Scarlett and Rhett fall in love and run away to the West Indies, where they find out what it's really like when people don't get along.
The budding romance between a lovelorn television producer and Al Gore experiences a rude awakening when they realize there are only fifty years before this planet swallows all trace of humanity. This news both frightens and stimulates the lovers, inspiring an urgent passionate ardor which sparks enough energy to harness the weather and return conditions to the proper atmospheric comfort-level. Things get ugly when they realize that their parting will result in the annihilation of all humankind.
A pair of alien children (AnnaSophia Robb and Alexander Ludwig), apparently abandoned by their parents on Earth to try and avert an invasion, enlist the help of a pair of cowboys (Heath Ledger and Jake Gyllenhaal) and a cabbie (Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson) to help them evade the evil forces hunting them and get them back home. But an unusual bond develops between the cowboys, leading to a night of passion that the children shouldn’t have been allowed to watch, and which makes the cabbie strangely thoughtful.
An offbeat comedy vampire romance about unrequited love in the eternal damnation of preternatural immortality. A young bloodsucker, wintering in Alaska, meets a sweet native girl named Summer. They hit it off and spend many hours together just hanging out and getting really into each other... until she finds out his deep, dark secret: he is a bloodthirsty freak-of-the-ever-after. Also, she can't commit. Though she loves our hero, she is not 'in love' with him. He spends the rest of eternity wooing her through back streets and dark alleys in the nightlife of space and time, sucking all the joy out of everything.
Miss Beatrix Potter is a young woman whose mother has forbidden her to enter the local school of sorcery. However, the temptation is too much. She applies, is accepted, and attends the school where she learns all about wishing and mycology. When an amorous changeling half-rabbit/half-man named Harry begins chasing her about campus, Miss Potter uses all of her powerful education to transform herself into a scarecrow and frighten him away.
A single mother working as a hotel maid (Jennifer Lopez) is mistaken for a nuclear physicist by a visiting senatorial candidate (John Lithgow). She falls in love, he gets her a grant for some plutonium, which her son (Christopher Collett) uses to build an atomic bomb for a high school science fair. Tense standoff as Lithgow and Collett try to defuse his bomb while surrounded by the army, and Lopez confesses her true identity, fearing that the gulf between her and Lithgow is too broad for them to cross.
The premise of The Manhattan Project is that a high school student builds an atomic bomb for a science project. There’s a lovely 80’s style montage of him spending weeks doing the research near the beginning of the movie. Of course, he didn’t have the InterWebs to help him. This is the result of three minutes of searching on YouTube.
When young Jennifer Cavelleri-Ripper (Ali McGraw) dies of leukemia, her husband, General Jack D. Ripper, driven insane by grief, blames her illness on Russian contamination of the water supply and launches an atomic attack on the Soviet Union. Peter Sellers plays multiple roles (including a priest and an oncologist) and a young Tommy Lee Jones debuts as a bomb-riding cowpoke.
A heartwarming story of the warlike Henry V (Harrison Ford) who, after being shot in the head at the battle of Agincourt, recovers to find he no longer fits into his previous ambitious, self-centered life. He turns to longtime companion, Falstaff (Robbie Coltrane), to help him find a way to reconnect with his family and nurture the caring king that he has become.
Womanizing photographer Connor Mead (Matthew McConaughey) is invited to his brother Arthur’s (Tony Shalhoub) wedding in a glass house left to them by their crazy uncle Cyrus (F. Murray Abraham). The night before the wedding, it is revealed that the house is actually a complex machine powered by the ghosts of Connor’s ex-girlfriends designed to open a portal to hell and teach Connor how to be a truly caring man.
A high school hottie, the eponymous Beth (that cheerleader chick from Heroes), goes into a blue funk when her much-older boyfriend Gerry (that Scottish dude who was the Phantom of the Opera) dies of a brain tumor. Then she finds a series of notes he'd written to her, which gradually lead her to a new romance with nerdy valedictorian Denis (some guy I've never heard of before).
A dissolving fifteen year marriage is saved when the most dangerous universal crime forces kidnap a couple (Albert Finney and Diane Keaton) to a quiet Moonbase Waste Disposal Plant.
During the Great Depression, a funeral-chasing con artist (Ryan O'Neal) who sells bibles to widows, finds himself stuck with an orphaned child who may or may not be his own. On his way to deliver the child to her aunt, the grifter continues to sell bibles to grieving widows until he knocks on the door of one and falls in love with her sister, Cher.
A sweet waitress (Keri Russell) falls deeply in love with a football hero played by Warren Beatty and makes him a special pie to which he has an allergic reaction, and he dies just before an important game. When he gets to heaven, the football hero meets James Mason (portrayed by Andy Griffith) who insists he return to life in a new body (Nathan Fillion) and find out what made that pie so dang scrumptious!
A young florist (Nia Vardalos), who has a strict five date limit with men, finds herself attracted to Alphonse Capone (Jason Robards), who is establishing himself as Chicago's number one mob boss. Will there be a sixth date, or a bloodbath?
A sequel to end all sequels! Max Rockatansky travels to post-apocalyptic Hollywood to seek his fortune and fame as a rock and roll star. He arrives only to discover that he must first battle Tina Turner for dominion over the one and only stage left in the entertainment ghost town. With the assistance of Russ Meyer, Roger Ebert, and a host of all-girl rock bands, Max succeeds in his fight and saves a bunch of orphaned children while he's at it.
A bitter, heartbroken drifter (Mel Gibson) escorts a married couple (Audrey Hepburn and Albert Finney) on their second honeymoon through the post-apocalyptic Australian outback. The disenchanted guide must endure the couple's 10 years marriage memories of infidelity, spats, rites of passage, and fashion trends, while defending them from gasoline pirates and cannibals.
A boy and girl face the challenge of the world's last frontier, Australia, in Walkabout... demonstrating that parts of Australia were a wasteland long before Mad Max's time.
Private detective Phillip Marlowe (Humphrey Bogart) is hired by the invalid General Sternwood (Charles Waldron) to investigate the suicide of his son. Marlowe insinuates himself into the weekend-long wake hosted by the dead son’s friends at a North Carolina house, and uncovers a twisted tale of deviant sex and unfulfilled potential.
Bacall calls Bogey’s bluff (and the police station) in the wonderful prank call scene from The Big Sleep. Nice bantering dialogue, and very nice timing.
Norman and Ethel Thayer (Henry Fonda and Katherine Hepburn) are busy trying to sort out their complicated relationship with their daughter, Chelsea (Jane Fonda), when a madcap group of British tourists (Sid James, Kenneth Williams, Joan Sims, Barbara Windsor, and the rest of the Carry On gang) show up, mistakenly believing the area is a nudist camp. Hilarity and heartwarming reconciliations ensue.
A group of locals in a college town yearn to define their identities and start their lives, so they tune up their bicycles and go on a cross-country kidnapping and crime spree culminating in a brutal gun battle on the field of the local bike racing track.
The Way of the Gun is chock-full of great lines from memorable characters, horrifying beer-bottle-fu, perhaps the best way to deter a kidnapper I’ve even seen, and a ransom so big that James Caan calls it “a motive with a universal attachment.” Plus the he film stands out for no better reason than they break Sarah Silverman’s nose in the first five minutes. But they weren’t joking when they titled this film. There is some serious gun-fu in this one, and none of it is that stupid John Wu/Chow Yun Fat flying through the air in slow motion while doves fly by as you shoot two pistols akimbo, only to land, throw the empty guns away, and whip two more out of your ass, which clearly has a gun cabinet in it. In The Way of the Gun, walls are shot through, cover isn’t what it appears to be, bullet proof vests don’t cover enough, and amateurs can kill you if you blink... all of it shot in real-time to give it that frantic feel of a gunfight between guys who know what they are doing. ~Scott
The new owner of the Cleveland Indians, in an effort to lose badly enough that she can move the team, puts together a hodge-podge of washed-up ballplayers and fictional characters. Despite her interference, the deft coaching of Allan Quatermain (Sean Connery), experience of veteran pitcher Jake Taylor (Tom Berenger), and invisibility of shortstop Rodney Skinner (Tony Curran) unite to turn the losing team around. Fantastic finale as, in the ninth inning, Pedro Cerrrano (Dennis Haysbert) uses voodoo to summon the Nautilus out of center field, allowing Captain Nemo (Naseerudding Shah) to catch what would have been a home run.
If you haven’t checked out the original comic book series of The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, you’re missing out on something wonderful. Here’s Alan Moore, the writer, talking about the book, an only being a little bit scary.
Astronaut Sam (Johnny Depp) is the only resident of a helium-mining station on the Moon. Or at least he thinks he is. But when he starts seeing other people - an auto mechanic named Benny and his schizophrenic sister Joon - he wonders if the isolation is affecting his sanity. Are they hallucinations? Aliens? As he begins to fall in love with Joon, and the barren lunar surface inexplicably begins to resemble Spokane's Riverfront Park, Sam ultimately must face a brain-boggling personal revelation: that he will grow up to become Captain Jack Sparrow.
Remember the episode of How I Met Your Mother when this was the only song that could play in the Pontiac Fiero's tape deck? Run this clip and the tune will get stuck in your head for at least twelve hours. Guaranteed.
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