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KillerB wrote:

jdaw1 wrote:You’re out because the rules prohibit you from guessing.

I'm out because I am prohibiting myself from guessing.

I assume that was a guess.

Me next. The Pink Panther?

DRT wrote:

KillerB wrote:

jdaw1 wrote:You’re out because the rules prohibit you from guessing.

I'm out because I am prohibiting myself from guessing.

I assume that was a guess.

Me next. The Pink Panther?

No -it was a reply, not a guess.

That was never a guess. Somebody else to guess before DRT. (Go on, guess Pink Panther!)

Pink Panther

KillerB wrote:Pink Panther

You're out! - You said it - you can't go back. It's a rule. Please, JDAW, tell him it's a rule!

DRT wrote:

KillerB wrote:Pink Panther

You're out! - You said it - you can't go back. It's a rule. Please, JDAW, tell him it's a rule!

It's not a rule, I unprevented myself from guessing.

KillerB wrote:Pink Panther

Wrong.

DRT may guess now.

KillerB wrote:

DRT wrote:

KillerB wrote:Pink Panther

You're out! - You said it - you can't go back. It's a rule. Please, JDAW, tell him it's a rule!

It's not a rule, I unprevented myself from guessing.

I hereby file a motion for a Section 43b Ruling by the TPF One Quiz at a Time Independent Adjudicator*.


Section 43b states: the Independent Adjudicator shall be a TPF Admin who is not the Chief Admin or the Admin who makes the rules of the quiz.

I typed "French humour" into google and my web browser returned a fatal error. Will try another route.

This was not a guess.

DRT wrote:I typed "French humour" into google and my web browser returned a fatal error. Will try another route.

This was not a guess.

I put "French Comedy" and got a list of 49, more than half of which weren't actually French. Only one of the others I recognised - "Amelie", which I'd already guessed. I only tried Pink Panther to annoy you. Really, this is an impossible quiz.

French humour - whatever will Julian think of next?

KillerB wrote: whatever will Julian think of next?

Whatever it is I sincerely hope he doesn't post it here. This thread is disturbing enough without that.

Green Card (on the basis that any film staring Donald Depardieu is as funny as any real French film could ever be - i.e. not funny at all)

DRT wrote:Green Card (on the basis that any film staring Donald Depardieu is as funny as any real French film could ever be - i.e. not funny at all)

Donald?

In which case - Cyrano de Bergerac.

No and no.

jdaw1 wrote:I’ll join the film theme. There are several film comedies that are excellent, including the obvious Monty Pythons. But one of my favourite films from this genre is French. Yes, an award-winning French film not about Sartre, sex or smoking!

So you know:

• Comedy;
• Python-esque;
• French;
• Award-winning.

There can’t be many of those, but, because I’m nice, here’s another:

• Released in a year with very few declarations.

KillerB wrote:

DRT wrote:Green Card (on the basis that any film staring Donald Depardieu is as funny as any real French film could ever be - i.e. not funny at all)

Donald?

Donald is French for Gerard. Don't you know anything?

jdaw1 wrote:No and no.

jdaw1 wrote:I’ll join the film theme. There are several film comedies that are excellent, including the obvious Monty Pythons. But one of my favourite films from this genre is French. Yes, an award-winning French film not about Sartre, sex or smoking!

So you know:

• Comedy;
• Python-esque;
• French;
• Award-winning.

There can’t be many of those, but, because I’m nice, here’s another:

• Released in a year with very few declarations.

My first guess qualified on every level, apart from the name of the film.

Buffet Froid

DRT wrote:My first guess qualified on every level, apart from the name of the film.

1972 had many more than ‟very few” declarations.

Nor Buffet Froid.

If I have another guess which is disallowed because no one else has had a guess since my last guess does that count as a guess that lets me have another guess?

No.

jdaw1 wrote:No.

M. Hulot's Holiday?

The Visitors?

Tango?

Chocolat?

(Ignores all the clues but posted to help others who might want to have a more sensible guess.)

(If this game can even be called sensible.)

KillerB wrote:The Visitors?

Les Visiteurs: impressively funny French comedy, Python-esque, award-winning, released 1993.

ARK’s turn.

DRT wrote:Tango?

The 1993 Patrice Leconte film? Also excellent, but not quite as funny.

I've just had a ghost film returned to me - which one?

Ghostbusters?

jdaw1 wrote:Ghostbusters?

No

Ghost?

The Amityville Horror?

No and no - newer than Ghost and the original Amityville, older than the remake.

The Others?

Glenn E. wrote:The Others?

Correct - Glenn's on.

Nicole Kidman playing a woman totally losing it over 'The Others' being in her large country house and mucking up her war-time existence with her kids, whilst her husband is at the front. Nobody else really gets a look in as Kidman takes over the whole film creating tension from a deteriorating sanity. Slow-moving but also a slow-burner.

KillerB wrote:Glenn's on.

Glenn, is the answer 11th July 1987?

The Others is a good movie, but I agree that it is rather slow. I'm not quite sure how to classify it either, as it's not tense enough to be a thriller, not scary enough to be horror, and not fast enough to be action. I suppose it is in some ways the purest form of drama, untainted by other cinematic styles.

DRT wrote:Glenn, is the answer 11th July 1987?

That would be the answer to one potential question, but not the one I had in mind.

Continuing the movie theme, my favorite movie of all time is from (by all accounts) a poor Port year. So bad, in fact, that I have only ever seen 2 references to Port from that year and both were of questionable veracity.

Which movie?

The Sting?

DRT wrote:The Sting?

An excellent movie and one that I have enjoyed more than once, and from an appropriately lackluster Port year, but no not my favorite. I'm old, but I'm not that old.

(Besides, everyone knows that the Casa de Santa Eufemia 30-yr old White Port is actually a 1973 Colheita.)

I have another year and another guess. C'mon people, guess away!!!

Get Carter?

jdaw1 wrote:Get Carter?

A movie that I have often heard is very good, but which I have not seen.

The remake would have been closer to the right age.

On Golden Pond?

DRT wrote:On Golden Pond?

You're fired.

You're riding off into the sunset genre-wise, but getting closer on the year.

I killed the thread.

Resuscitate with more clues?

So, to summarise:

What is Glenn's favourite film?

CLUES TO DATE
1) From a poor port year - only two references see to ports from this year and both of those reports were of questionable veracity
2) Not the Sting (1973) - younger than this
3) Not Get Carter (1971) - the remake (2000) would be closer in age
4) Not On Golden Pond (1981) - wrong genre but closer in age

THINKING
Poor port years since 1980: 1984, 1993

Films in 1993

I guess Fatal Instinct...

AHB wrote: THINKING
Poor port years since 1980: 1984, 1993

I would rule out 1980 on the basis there were 37 declarations, almost all of which were the shippers classic blends.

1984 had 19 declarations, mostly SQVPs

1993 had one, and two others claimed by broadbent in error (as recently confirmed by the relevant shippers)

Schindler's List?

Age of Innocence?

Sleepless in Seattle? (I really, really hope this is wrong - I am only including it for geographical reasons )