Game #186 - The Kentucky Fried Movie

[Janke]

Rule 1:
NO IMAGE HOSTING ON EXTERNAL SERVERS.
Images for the games need to be ATTACHED to the post, and thus uploaded to our server.

Rule 2:
TWO GUESSES PER PERSON PER POSTED PICTURE!!! Those two guesses are not allowed to be in the same post, NOR in a consecutive post.
I.e. you can post one guess, then have to wait for someone else to post: your second guess is not allowed to be immediately following your first guess.

Rule 3:
The WINNER of the game can start a new game IN A NEW THREAD.
NO ONE ELSE (unless yielded so by the winner).

Rule 4:
Once there's a winner, PLEASE post the correct name into the thread (spelled correctly,
and capitalized correctly, and not in italics or bold face.)

Rule 5:
The correct title format is: "Game" / space / "#" / number.
Example: " Game #12" (without the ")
(no space between the # sign and the number!)

Rule 6:
These complete rules (1 to 6) have to be copy&pasted into each new game's first post.


Daniel forfeited his turn after winning the previous game, so here we go - old style :hv20-smilie84: - and I promise to post at least two new screenshots per day, and maybe even some clues...

[peltonwheel]

Blues Brothers

[Janke]

Nope.

[Jim E]

"Mosquito on the Tenth Floor".

Blame google for that!:hv20-smilie84:

[Janke]

LOL! But no...

Hint: Famous director. Some might even say very famous.

[AJUK]

On Her Majesty's Secret Service

[1]

Catch Me If You Can

[Jim E]

Thx-1138.

[Jim E]

THX 1138
Nah...dang! Wrong AR!

[Janke]

None right. Keep guessing; you'll get a new screenshot in 4 hours or so, at around 16:00 UTC.

[Janke]

Ah, one little clue before I leave, re Krute's guess:

Not quite as famous a director as George Lucas, this one only has 1/10th of the number of Google hits...

[paperkut12]

Austin Powers

[Janke]

He's powerless here...

New screenshot, as promised, and a clue:

It appears this movie had a different name in almost every country where it was released.

[AJUK]

Clockwork Orange

[Janke]

No fruit.

Clue: Made a heap in the box office - about 30 times its budget.

Now, I'm taking a beauty nap (I need it!), back around 07:00 UTC.

[paperkut12]

A History of Violence

[Jim E]

Wakey, wakey, Sleeping Beauty, I've got a question for you.:hv20-smilie81:

I often copy and paste screen shots into Photoshop, and apply an "Auto levels" filter, to bring out detail in very dark areas.

When I did that to your first grab, I noticed that the band of dark at the top of the image was completely featureless - no artifacts, no details, not even any film grain. Looked like the standard black letterbox cropping bar, except that there was no matching black bar at the bottom of the grab.

When I cut and pasted just the actual image area of that grab, its AR is 1:1.78.

Then, when I did the same thing to your second screenshot, those black bars showed up at the top and the bottom, as is normal for a letterboxed film. When I cut and pasted the actual image area of that grab, its AR was 1:1.78, also.

So, obviously the first grab went wrong somehow, and the AR of this film is 1:1.78. Right?

[Janke]

Yeah, I'm awake, now! :hv20-smilie84:

Good question. Here's the answer:

I grab the screens from VLC using click&drag software. If the scene is very dark, It's hard for me to see exactly where the frame edges are. However, IMDB says: Aspect Ratio: 1.33 : 1

One interesting thing: When I worked as a theater projectionist (in the 1970s), I noted that prints of Disney's "Aristocats" and "Rescuers" had some shots that were 1:1.33 as well as others, that were hard-matted to 1:1.66. Confusing, to say the least, but at that time, no theaters used 1:1.33 screening anymore. Maybe this can explain those black bars you saw?

This new screenshot shows the entire frame, as played from the DVD.

[Janke]

Checking a bit more, the film was shot in 1:1.33, but it is actually intended for widescreen (but not anamorphic) projection, so yes, what I surmised above was correct.

[Jim E]

Ah, thanks, Janke. Mystery solved.:hv20-smilie77:

[Jim E]

Funny, with the subterranean elevator, the gramaphone, and now the martial arts school, I was beginning to think you were being tricky and posting "Enter The Dragon" again. Can't be, though.....

Can't even be "You Only Live Twice"..... dang......

[Janke]

You are correct. It's neither. ;)

[Pali]

Gramaphone? We called it 'A Record Player.' :)

Karate Kid? No clue, haven't seen it.

[Janke]

Us old geezers call record players "gramophones" (note spelling) or even "phonographs" (note: ho, not or)... :hv20-smilie84:

Next screenshot below - now off for my GF's office X-mas party (spouses or BFs are invited... The smörgåsbord menu spans two full pages!!!)

Will be back before midnight UTC, with a new pic or clue, provided my belly isn't so full that I can't sit down in front of the 'puter...

[Janke]

No new guesses?

Well, here's the next screenshot, and a clue: ZnO

Back again later in the morning, EU time...

[Jim E]

We learned Greek roots and suffixes at school, and the word is derived from the word "gramma" and "phon", or "phono". "Gramma" means "something written", or in other words, "Something written down as a record of something", and "Phon" or "Phono" means "Sound".

From "Gramma" we get telegram, diagram, angiogram, hologram, program, etc etc..

From the root "Phon" we get phonetics, telephone, hydrophone, megaphone, etc etc..

So really, the word should be spelt "Gramaphone", meaning "written (or recorded) in sound". That's why they called vinyl records - "records".

The reason it isn't commonly spelt that way is because Edison's disc player was originally known as a "phonogram", simply as a linguistically-correct word to describe its function. When a bloke named Emil Berliner evolved the flat disc phonogram, he wanted a distinctive trademark for it, so he reversed "phonograph", and came up with "gramophone", retaining the "o" probably to avoid confusing the buying public.... Language experts hated the word spelt with an "o", but the public as usual couldn't care less.

So really, it should be spelt "Gramaphone". :hv20-smilie64:

But nobody listens to me....:hv20-smilie84:

Anyway, more importantly, I have no idea what this movies is..........

[Jim E]

Yes, I do. it's "Kentucky Fried Movie".

[peltonwheel]

The Kentucky Friend Movie

[Jim E]

The Kentucky Friend Movie

Uh-oh, I should have written "The Kentucky Fried Movie".

Well, at first glance it would seem that you've set Janke a dilemma......that is, you would have, if you hadn't written "The Kentucky Friend Movie". :hv20-smilie84:

Will we both be disqualified? Will Krute win by default? Will Peltonwheel ever eat KFC again? Will Janke wish he'd played version 2 after all.... stay tuned....:hv20-smilie79:

[paperkut12]

I would have never guessed. With version 2 at least I have a chance to get some movies guessed right :D.

[Janke]

The Kentucky Fried Movie

... it is! Leaving out the definite article can't disqualify anyone, while a fried friend just might... :hv20-smilie84:

So, Krute is the winner.

I knew somebody would get it from the Zinc Oxide clue! And if not, the next clue would have been "Once, the director made a thriller movie that sold in unprecedented numbers".

- the key word being "thriller", as in Michael Jackson's "Thriller", also directed by John Landis.

That means peltonwheel was incredibly close with his first guess!

And TKFM contains a spoof of "Enter the Dragon", so Krute was just as incredibly close with that guess, too!

(See why I enjoy hosting version 1 so much!)

Here are the rest of the screenshots:

[Janke]

Anyway, more importantly, I have no idea what this movies is..........
- - - (27 minute lapse) - - -
Yes, I do. it's "Kentucky Fried Movie".

You didn't spend those 27 minutes googling, did you? :hv20-smilie84:

[Jim E]

I would have never guessed. With version 2 at least I have a chance to get some movies guessed right :D.

Neither would I have, Papes, except for the fact that I enjoyed Chemistry at school. The symbol "ZnO" stands for Zinc Oxide. When I googled "Zinc Oxide in movies", the very first result I got was "The Kentucky Fried Movie".

But without that clue, I would never have guessed it in a million years.

I agree with you - the old Version 1 is just not as much fun, compared to Version 2.

[1]

See why I enjoy hosting version 1 so much!

Aye, but it also has to be fun to play! :)

I enjoyed your last one. This one, not so much.
Doesn't mean v1 isn't any good though; you've got an excellent track record! :hv20-smilie77:

[Jim E]

The Kentucky Fried Movie

... it is! Leaving out the definite article can't disqualify anyone, while a fried friend just might... :hv20-smilie84:

So, Krute is the winner.

I humbly accept victory over my "fried friend"... c'mon, Peltonwheel, you have to admit that was funny. :hv20-smilie70:

No, Mr Janx, I didn't spend those 27 minutes googling. I sat there, weeping tears of frustration at your deviousness, then decided to forget it and brush up on my English Derivation so I could deliver that grammar lesson.:hv20-smilie64:

Then having finished that, I spotted your ZnO clue and the little light bulb went on over my head, and you know the rest.

New game up in five minutes.

[Janke]

I enjoyed your last one. This one, not so much.

OK, then, next time I win (or, more probably, grab a free-for-all), I'll do a v2. Promise!


I didn't spend those 27 minutes googling

Haaa-haaa, I don't really beliiiieve youuuu - you had already written and posted your grammar lesson, then you spotted ZnO, 27 minutes before you posted your googled answer... Not logical, Spock would say! :hv20-smilie84: :hv20-smilie84: :hv20-smilie84: :hv20-smilie84:

Seriously, recognizing ZnO for what it is, got you the win...

[Jim E]

Haaa-haaa, I don't really beliiiieve youuuu - you had already written and posted your grammar lesson, then you spotted ZnO, 27minutes before you posted your googled answer... Not logical, Spock would say! :hv20-smilie84: :hv20-smilie84: :hv20-smilie84: :hv20-smilie84:

Seriously, recognizing ZnO for what it is, got you the win...

Well, I didn't say I spotted the clue directly after finishing my grammar lesson. Can't remember for how long precisely, but I went downstairs for a break after that Herculean feat of scholarship, and I'm pretty sure I didn't see your zinc clue until I came back and began googling.

Then, having got hot on the trail, I had to check a bit further just to verify I was right, and then posted the answer. So that accounts for the 27 minutes. Honestly, I didn't spend the entire 27 minutes googling.

But I suppose I have to admit I would have spent that long, and longer, googling this one, just to get this answer. You set us a huge challenge this time, O Evil One! :hv20-smilie81:

[peltonwheel]

Ha, I opened up the Name That Movie Game forum and saw the title for this had been changed to "The Kentucky Fried Movie" and two more games posted and immediately went "WTF? I guessed that!" Good job Krute, you must have posted it while I was still googling - I never even saw your guess. I promise I won't fry you, my friend:)

[Jim E]

Ha, I opened up the Name That Movie Game forum and saw the title for this had been changed to "The Kentucky Fried Movie" and two more games posted and immediately went "WTF? I guessed that!" Good job Krute, you must have posted it while I was still googling - I never even saw your guess. I promise I won't fry you, my friend:)

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