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Famed archaeologist/adventurer Dr. Henry "Indiana" Jones is determined to improve himself while he looks for love, in a year in which he keeps a personal diary and steals the Crystal Skulls from the Soviets. 

Indiana Jones's Diary

Cheat sheet Bridget Jones's Diary | Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull

Contributor jane

There actually is an Indiana Jones's Diary - a replica of his diary from The Last Crusade, I think. The guy who made this seems to have no knowledge of how funny it is. (And okay, maybe it's only funny to us. "Dear Diary, does this fedora make me look fat?")

This Ain't Gonna Be Easy!

Famed archaeologist/adventurer Dr. Henry "Osmosis" Jones is called back into action when he becomes entangled in a Soviet plot to uncover the secret behind mysterious artifacts known as the Crystal Skulls. Trouble is, he's only a single cell... and a cartoon.

Osmosis Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull 

Cheat sheet Osmosis Jones | Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull

Contributor piman25

Don't!

Stuntman Mike (Kurt Russell) is a compassionate young man raised in an orphanage and trained to be a doctor, who leaves to see the world and kill people with his car. Michael Caine co-stars as an ether-huffing abortionist with a semiautomatic fake leg.

Grindhouse Rules

Cheat sheet Grindhouse | Cider House Rules

Contributor jane

Take Your Best Shot... 'Cause It Might Be Your Last!

True story of Buford Pusser (Sean Penn), a death row inmate who is released thanks to the efforts of Sister Helen Prejean (Susan Sarandon). In an attempt to give new meaning to his life, he returns to his crime-ridden Tennessee hometown and runs for sheriff, vowing to clean up the corruption. Needless to say, his old partners in crime are not happy. 

Dead Man Walking Tall 

Cheat sheet Dead Man Walking | Walking Tall 

Contributor dave and sam

By Grabthar's Hammer!

The alumni cast of a cult space TV show have to play their roles as the real thing when a race of grunting neanderthals needs their help finding a new fire source.

Galaxy Quest for Fire

Cheat sheet Galaxy Quest | Quest for Fire
Contributor scott

Have You No Sense of Decency, Sir?

This Academy Award®-winning biopic follows the enigmatic, charismatic, and uproariously funny Edward R. Murrow (Robin Williams) from the corridors of Washington, D.C. to the jungles of Southeast Asia as he pursues his twin careers as investigative reporter and iconoclastic Air Force deejay. The grunts love him. The brass? Not so much.

Goodnight, and Good Morning Vietnam

Cheat sheet Good Night, and Good Luck | Good Morning Vietnam
Contributor dave

Stretch?

While starring in a musical stage version of the Elephant Man and falling in love with Emma Thompson, Jeff Goldblum single-handedly cleans up a small town of corruption and racism with nothing more than a big stick.

The Walking Tall Guy

Cheat sheet The Tall Guy | Walking Tall
Contributor piman25

The Eye of Sadako

Bonus!

In a small village on the island of Hokkaido, Japan, a young Hobbit named Frodo has been entrusted with an ancient Videotape. Now he must embark on an epic quest to the Cracks of Doom (heh... he said crack) in order to destroy it... in only seven days.

Lord of the Rings: Fellowship of the Ringu

Cheat sheet Lord of the Rings: Fellowship of the Ring | Ringu (The Ring)
Contributor mish and phil (suggesting that great minds may be a dangerous epidemic)

The Japanese are really scary.

Under The All-Seeing Eye of Sauron

A disfigured Michael Caine leads a valiant assembly of Rohirrim and Gondorians back into Kafiristan to overthrow the dark lord and avenge Sean Connery's death, aided by the wizard Kipling.

Lord of the Rings: The Return of the Man Who Would be King

Cheat sheet Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King | The Man Who Would Be King
Contributor rick

First encounter with Gollum?

Bloodthirsty Lust for Human Flesh!

A zombie plague threatens the thriving 1970s porn industry, and Dirk Diggler is the man to stop it!

Boogie Nights of the Living Dead

Cheat sheet Boogie Nights | Night of the Living Dead
Contributor jenny

Come Up and See Me Sometime!

Mae West and W. C. Fields drink, trade barbs, and investigate certain anatomical anomalies. (You may have to have yourself detailed after seeing this one.)

My Little Chicka-Deep Throat

Cheat sheet My Little Chickadee | Deep Throat (Deep Throat is not listed in IMDB. Does anyone know why? I know it exists. I saw it in college. Don't tell my mom.)
Contributor dave

Lest our interest in Deep Throat disturb, remember that it was actually a really important film... even though they didn't intend it to be.

Innocent Until Proven Fabulous!

A transexual punk rock girl from East Berlin is called to be a juror in a murder trial. Using music and her trans-feminine wiles, she slowly manages to convince the others that the case is not as obviously clear as it seemed in court, and also that everyone is not as male or female as they seem on the surface. E. G. Marshall pops a vein in his forehead.

Hedwig and the 12 Angry Men

Cheat sheet Hedwig and the Angry Inch | 12 Angry Men
Contributor jane

How Hedwig convinces the other jurors...

Are You Now or Have You Ever Been?

Charlie Logan (Dane Cook) must defend himself against the House Unamerican Activities Committee if he wants to keep the girl he loves. This movie is famous for the astoundingly blue language in Logan's testimony.

Good Night and Good Luck Chuck

Cheat sheet Good Night and Good Luck | Good Luck Chuck
Contributor christian

Dane Cook loves the movies. (Warning: Not safe for work unless you work in a porn store.)

Marty, I am Your Father

Marty McFly gets caught up in an interstellar conflict while trying to get laid. And he thought the Libyans were bad! Little did he know that the Dr. Emmet Brown was actually Obi Wan Kenobi, and the girl Marty had the hots for was his mother...no, wait, his sister. Meanwhile, Darth Vader must use the thrust capacitor to reverse the crappiness of Episodes 1-3.

The Empire Strikes Back to the Future

Cheat sheet The Empire Strikes Back | Back to the Future
Contributor chrisandpiph, rechan, and jenny

Hey, Kids! Let's Put on a Show!

Mickey Rooney and Judy Garland star as music loving Jedi knights who unite the kids of their home planet behind a dream to join Luke Skywalker's band. While raising the money for their effort, they experience the ups and downs of growing up - first love, giant slug-like members of the town establishment, and getting betrayed by Lando Calrissian and frozen - and eventually realize what's really important: kicking Empire ass.

The Empire Strikes Up the Band

Cheat sheet The Empire Strikes Back | Strike Up the Band
Contributor jane

Since we couldn't find any footage of Mark Hamill sitting in with Bill Mumy's band The Jenerators, we give you this. There is so much wrong here, we can't even begin to catalog it.

If You Want Blood, You Got It!

A valiant independent music store battles against an oppressive national chain, fleeing from their frozen ice planet location pursued by Darth Rex Manning. Stars Liv Tyler as Chewbacca.

Empire Records Strikes Back

Cheat sheet The Empire Strikes Back | Empire Records
Contributor rick

Thursday Three-Way Strikes Back!

Every Thursday is Three-Way Day at My Left Footloose! Enjoy three related My Left Footloose movies for the price of one. Tell your friends you're having a three-way and let 'em wonder who with.

This week, it's all about a certain rather slow sci-fi sequel with a plucky young Jedi-wannabe and his small, wrinkly, green mentor. Finally the fifth crappiest Star Wars movie has found its level!

Empire Records Strikes Back
The Empire Strikes Up the Band
The Empire Strikes Back to the Future

And for your Jedi viewing pleasure, here's a lovely post from Cute Overload.

I Guess That Was Your Career in the Woodchipper

Strapped for cash, an Irish immigrant (Tom Cruise) plots to have his girlfriend (Nicole Kidman) kidnapped for ransom by a bumbling pair of criminals. But the scheme is soon uncovered by the pregnant Chief of Police who, driven to distraction by their atrocious fake Irish accents, throws them all in a wood chipper.

Fargo and Away

Cheat sheet Fargo | Far and Away
Contributor dave

Well, yeah.

Cruising in the Nineteenth Century

A young man flees to pre-Mann-Act Oklahoma with his landlord's daughter and becomes a super-macho barehands boxer. Also, a bunch of people try to capture several bridges in a war. What - like this makes any less sense than Far and Away made originally?

A Bridge Too Far and Away

Cheat sheet A Bridge Too Far | Far and Away
Contributor sam

The Buck Stops Here

One man show about US President Harry Callahan, a man with little regard for the rules but who always gets results. Even with a Republican Congress.

Give 'Em Hell Dirty Harry

Cheat sheet Give 'Em Hell Harry | Dirty Harry
Contributor scott

Did You Come Six Times, or Only Five?

A tough San Francisco cop (Clint Eastwood) goes on a blind date with a ditzy blonde (Meg Ryan). She fakes an orgasm in a deli. He freaks out and blows her head off.

When Dirty Harry Met Sally

Cheat sheet When Harry Met Sally | Dirty Harry
Contributor dave

I'll have what she's having.

No Matter Where You Go, There He Is.

While babysitting his brother's kids, Uncle Buck (John Candy) invents the oscillation overthruster which allows him to make giant pancakes by way of the 8th dimension. The Red Lectroids from Planet 10 are after this device for their own evil ends (which include the violation of Buck's annoying and petulant niece), and it's up to Buck and The Hong Kong Cavaliers to stop them. McCauley Culkin costars as the overthruster.

Uncle Buckaroo Banzai

Cheat sheet Uncle Buck | The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension
Contributor scott

No

Get In Your Mouse, And Get Out Of Here.

During a babysitting accident, John Candy and his nieces and nephew are frozen in suspended animation for 500 years. They awake in a black and white world of the future where the sparks coming out the backs of space-ships always go down. This art deco future is ruled by the ruthless Killer Kane. Of course, Candy's petulant niece wants to date him.

Uncle Buck Rogers

Cheat sheet Uncle Buck | Buck Rogers
Contributor scott

Thursday Three-Way: Eighties Teen Angstravaganza!

Every Thursday is Three-Way Day at My Left Footloose!
Enjoy three related My Left Footloose movies for the price of one. Tell your friends you're having a three-way and let 'em wonder who with.

This week, it's an Eighties Teen Angst Three-Way, so break out your Bonnie Belle Lip Smackers and distressed leather bomber jackets and get ready to drive dad's Porche into the lake.

Risky Monkey Business
Pretty in Pink Flamingos
Can't Buy Me Strangelove

Ed's Note: Speaking of Dad's waterlogged Porche, this year is the 25th anniversary of the Brat Pack breakthrough Risky Business. Remember when Tom wasn't apeshit and Curtis Armstrong made every movie better?

It's the Economy, Stupid

When William Jefferson Clinton and chaperone George Stephanopoulos find themselves in Washington, DC, with rooms without views, fellow guests James Carville and wife Mary Matalin step in to remedy the situation. Meeting the Carvilles could change Bill's life forever but, once back in Arkansas, how will his experiences in Washington affect his plans for his marriage?

The War Room With a View

Cheat sheet The War Room | A Room with a View
Contributor scott