April 23, 2008

Answers

  1. Raiders of the Lost Ark. In the script, Indy was to have a long fight scene in the bazaar with his whip against a swordsman. Ford was suffering from a bad case of the Hershey Squirts, and filming wasn't going well when the question was asked, "He has a gun, Why doesn't he just shoot him?" CInematic history was made.

    Pat Roach, who appeared in all three movie of the trilogy, appeared twice in ROTLA. He was the giant sherpa who was lit on fire and then shot, and he was the German mechanic who got too lose to the propeller.

    And Indy's hat never fell off in the first movie,although it became a sight gag in the two sequels.


  2. Robocop Noted for its satire on American culture, particularly in the faux commercials, when Robocop was released it set a new standard for gore in a "mainstream" film. It also included a scene that would become something of a Verhoeven trademark, men and women showering together in a locker room. A classic scene involves a low level government employee holding a hostage. While negotiating, the police offer him the newest car, with "Really shitty gas mileage", the 6000 SUX, and they offered to throw in a Blaupunkt.

    Dan O'Herlihy, who played Grigg in The Last Starfighter, played the Old Man.

    Peter Weller, who starred as Buckaroo Banzai, played Murphy, who as Robocop, ate a gel like paste compared to baby food.


  3. The Last Starfighter Gavin O'Herlihy, who played the lost Cunningham child Chuck, is the son of Dan O'Herlihy, who plays Grigg. Incidentally, Nick Castle, who directed, is currently attached to a sequel, supposedly coming out in 2010. With the deaths of Robert Preston and Dn O'Herlihy, this seems to me to be an incredibly bad idea.

  4. Legend Tom Cruise running through the forest in a loin cloth. And to think he went on to the Oscars! Mia Sara appeared on Birds of Prey as Harley Quinn, a sometime sidekick to the joker in the animated Batman series. Belinda Keaton was the character played by Shelley Long in the Ron Howard directed Night Shift. Shelley Long appeared with Tom Cruise in the movie Losin it, where he did to her on a trip to Tiajuana.

    Tony Scott, Ridley's brother, directed Tom Cruise in Top Gun


  5. Labyrinth Not many people know that GAtes McFadden, who played Dr. Beverly Crusher on Star Trek: The Next Generation, is an accomplished choreographer as well. She choreographed the fantasy dance sequence after Sara, played by Jennifer Connelly, at the poisoned apple.

    David Bowie starred as Jared, the Goblin King.


  6. Willow Val Kilmer met and fell in love with Joanna Whalley on the set. He played the roguish warrier Madmartigan while she played the rebellious daughter of the evil queen Bavmorda. Kilmer and Whalley married after the film,a marriage which lasted 8 years.

    Val Kilmers other movies include Top Secret, The Saint, Thunderheart, Red Planet, and of course, Batman Forever.

    Incidentally, Willow also featured another link to Happy Days. Gavin O'Herlihy, Richie's disappearing brother Chuck, played Airk, the redheaded warrior.


  7. TRON The part of Danny Zuko was played on Broadway by Jeff Conaway, who appeared on Babylon 5 as Security Chief Zach Allen. On that show, he reported to Captain John Sheridan, played by Bruce Boxleitner, who played TRON.

  8. Bladerunner Ridley Scott once again, this time directing Harrison Ford, who gets hit butt handed to him in every fight scene in this movie. Ford played the part of Henry Turner in Regarding Henry. Edward James Olmos played Gaff, a fellow Blade Runner who left origami everywhere he went. Olmos went on to play Adama in the SCi Fi channel reimagination of Battlestar Galactica.

    In Blade Runner, Darryl Hannah plays Priss, a pleasure android, who uses her skills for a new, less pleasant purpose.


  9. Dragonslayer The movie Peter MacNichol pretends never happened. In it, he plays a sorceror's apprentice. Caitlin Clarke is his love interest, playing Valerian, a young woman who has spent her entire life pretending to be a man, to avoid being eaten by a dragon.

  10. Ladyhawk Rutger Hauer gets to play the good guy for a change. Matthew Broderick is Mouse, a young thief who escapes from the dungeons of Aquilla

The theme of this puzzle was 80's fantasy and science fiction movies.

And the final tally is:

Lissa 3
Cathy 2
Barry 2
Doug 1

I'm already planning next week's quiz. And on that one, google all you want. Heh.

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