7 Questions

[Spinal]

• What's the most inventive movie death in a horror movie?

• What's the most quotable pay-off line in an action film?

• What's the most perfectly constructed sight gag in a comedy film?

• Who are the most unlikely screen couple in a romance?

• What's the most outrageous prediction for the future made in a sci-fi film?

• What's the most flaw-ridden – but successful – crime scheme?

• What's the best arthouse film that makes no sense whatsoever?


Taken from here. (http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/filmblog/2010/sep/20/film-season-film-guides-genres)

[Russ]

• What's the most inventive movie death in a horror movie? Death by penis, A Serbian Film. Actually, since there's more than one, I guess I should specifiy: the skullfuck thru the eye socket one.


• What's the most quotable pay-off line in an action film? "I'll be back."


• What's the most perfectly constructed sight gag in a comedy film? This one:

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• Who are the most unlikely screen couple in a romance?
Harold and Maude.


• What's the most outrageous prediction for the future made in a sci-fi film? n/a


• What's the most flaw-ridden – but successful – crime scheme?n/a


• What's the best arthouse film that makes no sense whatsoever?Pistol Opera. Either that or Funky Forest.

[Skitch]

• What's the most inventive movie death in a horror movie?
The airbag/pipe in Final Destination 2 was cool.
• What's the most quotable pay-off line in an action film?
"Its just been revoked." :lol:
• What's the most perfectly constructed sight gag in a comedy film?
Major League. Has a few.
• What's the most outrageous prediction for the future made in a sci-fi film?
Equilibrium is pretty far out there. Banning art and emotion and all.
• What's the most flaw-ridden – but successful – crime scheme?
Lock, Stock, and Two Smoking Barrels
• What's the best arthouse film that makes no sense whatsoever?
Pistol Opera, was a good choice. It makes some sense though.


Off the top of my head.

[Grouchy]

• What's the most inventive movie death in a horror movie?
The last twenty minutes of Braindead have a lot. Alternatively, Johnny Depp swallowed by his bed in Nightmare on Elm Street.

• What's the most quotable pay-off line in an action film?
"I lied" from Commando.

• What's the most perfectly constructed sight gag in a comedy film?
This (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rdQ9jh5GvQ8)!

• Who are the most unlikely screen couple in a romance?
WALL-E and Eve.

• What's the most outrageous prediction for the future made in a sci-fi film?
I find this one very hard. I doubt we'll ever see something like Escape from New York in real life, but then again, that movie predicted Twin Tower suicide plane crashing, so...

• What's the most flaw-ridden – but successful – crime scheme?
Bah, basically any American caper movie is like this. The Sting comes to mind.

• What's the best arthouse film that makes no sense whatsoever?
Pistol Opera seems like a popular answer but I haven't seen it - only Princess Raccoon which is a laugh. I'm gonna go with Happiness of the Katakuris.

[Fezzik]

• What's the most quotable pay-off line in an action film?

"Consider that a divorce."


• What's the most perfectly constructed sight gag in a comedy film?

I know it's recent, but Scott diving out the window in Scott Pilgrim vs. the World was amazingly done.


• Who are the most unlikely screen couple in a romance?

I'd have to go with Harold and Maude as well


• What's the most outrageous prediction for the future made in a sci-fi film?

Any Star Trek film. Seriously, I love the movies and the TV show, but a future where the world has stopped using money and all nations fly under one flag and work toward a common good? Sorry. Maybe I'm too cynical, but I can't see that happening.

[Mysterious Dude]

• What's the most outrageous prediction for the future made in a sci-fi film?
I'm only going to answer this one right now: In Things to Come, it is predicted that, in the future, buildings will no longer need to have windows because they will all have electric lights instead.

[bac0n]

• What's the most inventive movie death in a horror movie?
The lady's eye through the pointy piece of wood kill from Zombi 2 (for its time)

• What's the most quotable pay-off line in an action film?
I could write a book of the most quotable pay-off lines on Arnold Schwarzenegger films alone. For example:

1) "Screw You!" - Total Recall
2) "You're Fired!" - True Lies
3) "You're One Ugly Motherfucker!" - Predator
4) "Wong!" - The Terminator
5) "He had to let off some steam" - Commando
6) "Remember when I said I would kill you last? I LIED." - Commando
7) "Who is your daddy, and what does he do?" - Kindergarten Cop
8) "Now that hit the spot!" - Running Man
9) "Leave ze gun, take zeh Canoleze" - Zeh Godfazzah
10) "Are zose yewer skeez? BOSE UV ZEM?!?!" - Dumbkopf und Dumbkopfa

• What's the most perfectly constructed sight gag in a comedy film?
Opening scene of The Party. And every scene thereafter.

• Who are the most unlikely screen couple in a romance?
Battra & Mothra (Godzilla vs. Mothra: Battle for Earth)

• What's the most outrageous prediction for the future made in a sci-fi film?
Demolition Man predicted that eventually all restaurants would become Taco Bells.

• What's the most flaw-ridden – but successful – crime scheme?
That one scene in that movie where Bill Murray dresses up as a clown, heists a bank, then sneaks out as one of the released hostages.

• What's the best arthouse film that makes no sense whatsoever?
Head!

[megladon8]

• What's the most inventive movie death in a horror movie?

Maybe when the main guy strangles another guy to death with his own intestines in Riki Oh!.


• What's the most quotable pay-off line in an action film?

"Stick around!" from Predator.


• What's the most perfectly constructed sight gag in a comedy film?

I know it's slight, but when Igor hands Dr. Frankenstein his cane so he can hobble down the small flight of stairs in Young Frankenstein.

That makes me howl with laughter every time. Even thinking about it now I'm chuckling a bit.


• Who are the most unlikely screen couple in a romance?

Bill Murray and Scarlett Johansson in Lost in Translation.


• What's the most outrageous prediction for the future made in a sci-fi film?

Hmmm...Fezzik certainly made a good point about the Star Trek films. I'd also say something like The Matrix/Terminator/any "man vs. machine" movie. I really have a hard time believing that any man-made machines would become sentient and turn against us.


• What's the most flaw-ridden – but successful – crime scheme?

Hmmm...maybe Inside Man?


• What's the best arthouse film that makes no sense whatsoever?

I'm partial to Inland Empire.

[MacGuffin]

• What's the best arthouse film that makes no sense whatsoever?

I'm partial to Inland Empire.

You think Inland Empire makes "no sense whatsoever"?

[megladon8]

You think Inland Empire makes "no sense whatsoever"?


No, but it's certainly a maze of a film that requires some deconstructive thought.

I don't think I've ever seen a single movie that actually made "no sense whatsoever" if we're talking about a literal interpretation of those words. That would be like, I dunno...a film that's nothing but a series of random sounds and images or something.

In which case I'd have no real interest in seeing it.

[MacGuffin]

I think Funky Forest would be my choice for the best arthouse movie that makes "no sense whatsoever" because even though I think all movies make sense to some degree, Funky Forest is so oddly structured and edited together that sketches ultimately only make sense individually, as the whole of the movie exists as a promotion of its own utter absurdness.

[Derek]

• What's the most inventive movie death in a horror movie?

I'll go with the lawnmower sequence at the end of Braindead

• What's the most perfectly constructed sight gag in a comedy film?

Almost anything from Playtime, but I'll go with the neighboring apartments at night off the top of my head.

• Who are the most unlikely screen couple in a romance?

Saddam Hussein and Satan from South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut.

• What's the best arthouse film that makes no sense whatsoever?

Cremaster 3 - like Inland Empire, it operates on its own internal logic and tackles fascinating ideas, but yeah, it's fucked up enough to fit here.

[billybreton]

What's the most inventive movie death in a horror movie?
Brain Damage (If you've seen it, you know what scene it is.)

What's the most quotable pay-off line in an action film?
"I you going to shoot, shoot, don't talk" The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly

What's the most perfectly constructed sight gag in a comedy film?
The entire restaurant sequence in Playtime

Who are the most unlikely screen couple in a romance?
N/A

What's the most outrageous prediction for the future made in a sci-fi film?
Warp speed

What's the best arthouse film that makes no sense whatsoever?
Dogstar