opusthepenguin wrote: ↑Tue Dec 08, 2020 1:55 am
The one I kept pre-calling was the scene in Braveheart where a white car drives by in the far background. That one's less easy to explain.
Was it a DeLorean?
Now THAT would have been awesome!
Unfortunately, as I say, the car was white. DeLoreans famously have frames of stainless steel.
I guess I should have checked before burying and buying. Anyway, I declare the old clue a fail for faulty parallelism--am I to cleave to my wife and leave to my parents, or do I leave my parents and cleave my wife?
Those who enjoyed Katherine's wedding night error on Friday can have another laugh at her expense for her having the wrong islands. Too bad she lost or she could have tried for the trifecta tomorrow with the wrong Madonna song or airline.
davey wrote: ↑Mon Dec 07, 2020 10:55 pm
I got interested in Movie Goofs for $400. Is it a goof? Between shots she puts down the croissant and picks up the pancake, which you can see on her plate in the first shot...She's hungry (as anyone who eats a pancake with her hands must be...)! She probably hasn't been getting regular meals....I understand the character has been leading a dissolute life...
I do think there is a continuity goof near the tail end of that clip, she has a pancake with one bite out of it, is putting it into her mouth and taking another bite, then when it next cuts to her, she again has a pancake with a single bite, looking just like the previous one. Now sure she could have swapped pancakes between shots but why take a second bite of Pancake A and then immediately wish to go for a second bite of Pancake B? This is far more of a logical leap than switching from croissant to pancake.
Anyway, how would things have gone if that had been your FJ? Would you have gotten it? In Stephen's position what would you have bet back then?
I didn't get it right, and I went into that ToC planning to stay above $13,000 (if, indeed, my pre-FJ score was above it); in my actual QF I fell from $14,800 to $13,575.
davey wrote: ↑Mon Dec 07, 2020 10:55 pm
I got interested in Movie Goofs for $400. Is it a goof? Between shots she puts down the croissant and picks up the pancake, which you can see on her plate in the first shot...She's hungry (as anyone who eats a pancake with her hands must be...)! She probably hasn't been getting regular meals....I understand the character has been leading a dissolute life...
I do think there is a continuity goof near the tail end of that clip, she has a pancake with one bite out of it, is putting it into her mouth and taking another bite, then when it next cuts to her, she again has a pancake with a single bite, looking just like the previous one. Now sure she could have swapped pancakes between shots but why take a second bite of Pancake A and then immediately wish to go for a second bite of Pancake B? This is far more of a logical leap than switching from croissant to pancake.
Thanks, good catch! It looks like she takes a substantial bite, it's true, but she is a movie star, I'm sure she's a more delicate eater than a normal person...
I do want to make a comment on the $1000 clue in LITERARY VIDEO GAMES. I'll put it in spoilers in case someone plans on playing BioShock one day (and you absolutely should). Spoiler
If you played the first BioShock to completion, you learn that Andrew Ryan is NOT the villain of the game. He is a brilliant, powerful, overly-ambitious, and flawed anti-hero. The first 80% of the game MAKES YOU BELIEVE he is the main villain, and your only main objective is to track him down and kill him. But those of us who have finished the game know that your character is helping the main villain, Frank Fontaine, the entire time, and is forced to quest forward and kill Andrew Ryan against your will. It's an incredible twist and turn of events when you realize this and places BioShock very highly on my list of favorite games.
davey wrote: ↑Mon Dec 07, 2020 10:55 pm
I got interested in Movie Goofs for $400. Is it a goof? Between shots she puts down the croissant and picks up the pancake, which you can see on her plate in the first shot...She's hungry (as anyone who eats a pancake with her hands must be...)! She probably hasn't been getting regular meals....I understand the character has been leading a dissolute life...
I do think there is a continuity goof near the tail end of that clip, she has a pancake with one bite out of it, is putting it into her mouth and taking another bite, then when it next cuts to her, she again has a pancake with a single bite, looking just like the previous one. Now sure she could have swapped pancakes between shots but why take a second bite of Pancake A and then immediately wish to go for a second bite of Pancake B? This is far more of a logical leap than switching from croissant to pancake.
Thanks, good catch! It looks like she takes a substantial bite, it's true, but she is a movie star, I'm sure she's a more delicate eater than a normal person...
But she's not playing a movie star. She's playing a hungry hungry hooker.
opusthepenguin wrote: ↑Tue Dec 08, 2020 1:55 am
The one I kept pre-calling was the scene in Braveheart where a white car drives by in the far background. That one's less easy to explain.
I had looked to see if this was cited anywhere, but couldn't find it ... I was watching the mini-series Shogun which takes place in the 17th Century, and as they're showing a boat docking, way back in the distance you can see a motor boat puttering across the harbor.
opusthepenguin wrote: ↑Tue Dec 08, 2020 1:55 am
The one I kept pre-calling was the scene in Braveheart where a white car drives by in the far background. That one's less easy to explain.
My pre-calls were the close-ups of Peter O'Toole laughing uproariously in The Lion in Winter, with all his metal fillings gloriously on display on the big screen, and the sight of Kenny Baker peering out of Artoo Detoo's shell when the droid "wakes up" in the Jawa's salvage ship hold in SW: A New Hope. Both were really clear and garnered a lot of attention during the first runs of the films. Alas, neither made the cut.
The Star Wars goof made it to the original VHS release, but was fixed in subsequent versions.
I'm not the defending Jeopardy! champion. But I have played one on TV.
I'm giving myself credit for "screwed" instead of "wrenched."
I said "vacancy," but I wonder if "opening" should also be acceptable? I feel like I've heard that used in both contexts too
There's a joke to be made about "the biggest peacetime evacuation in US history" after I eat certain foods...
Pretzel Logic is also the name of my fourth-favorite Steely Dan album
The tide is high and I'm holdin' on...
Chicago? Time for Sufjan Stevens. Oh Columbia! But what would Frank Lloyd Wright say?
Coryat: $49,200. This was a great board for me.
J: 28R/1P/1W. 4/5 on Bridges (I, too, said the GW Bridge) and Video Games.
DJ: 28R/1P/1W. 4/5 on Planetary Extremes (I said Mercury instead of Venus) and Movie Goofs (I have never seen Blade Runner).
FJ: Missed. I said "auroch," which on further research appears to be what a few authors have identified with the creature, but KJV translates the Hebrew as "unicorn."
TenPoundHammer wrote: ↑Mon Dec 07, 2020 9:10 pmThere's a British Museum?! I saw absolutely no TOM in that clue whatsoever.
If you're not aware of the existence of the British Museum I suppose it's more difficult, but "Bloomsbury District" should lead you to London, and the presence of moai might remind you of the British Museum's uncomfortably seedy history regarding artifacts obtained via what can only be called colonial looting (the Elgin Marbles are a better-known example).
Rackme32 wrote: ↑Tue Dec 08, 2020 2:26 am
Is anyone else sick and tired of game shows mentioning the Bible and other religious nonsense books and presenting them as indisputably true?
Sheeeeeeeeesh.
Yeah, how dare they ask about literature...I have it on good authority Middle Earth never existed either!
opusthepenguin wrote: ↑Mon Dec 07, 2020 10:13 pm
Stinker of an FJ clue... in the KJV but not in other translations...
Thanks for pointing this out. If anyone asks, I now have a perfectly good excuse for missing this FJ. Of the four or five Bibles in my house none are KJV
Euphonium wrote: ↑Wed Dec 16, 2020 10:38 am
I said "vacancy," but I wonder if "opening" should also be acceptable? I feel like I've heard that used in both contexts too
The category was EMPTY WORDS, with three of the responses being etymologically derived from the Latin vacuus (empty) or vacare (to be empty). I suspect they'd reject "opening" as a response on that clue, because it doesn't fit the category.