DISMANTLE WHARF

I haven't won one yet. I knew a couple but was late to the thread.

I thought Taken was a pretty good guess but apparently not.

:/

I only knew Snipes's head but alas, I too was too late.

i think the first person to figure it out by 'cheating' should get to choose the next pic

Guys did we just ABANDON movies thread out of our collective shame at not knowing what this movie is???

Okay, I will submit my cheat-answer: is this "The World's Greatest Sinner"?

I want this thread to continue!!!!!!! Let Claire win by cheating if that is how it must be

I am prepared with a new movie still once [mention]Evan.V.N.S.J.[/mention] officially acknowledges that I have "won"

Ye s that's the one

I thought for sure someone here would recognize this movie! ! I'm sorry I keep fucking this game up

You're not fucking it up! If anything you're TOO GOOD

Here's my go:

Should I be making ties out of flags?

My guess is: Real.

The forum says that "guess the movie" is my most active thread and I have basically never guessed a movie.

Nashville?

Nope!

Hint: it’s a documentary

I don't know it! Hands on a Hard Body?

Give us another hint

This looks too old to be Hands on a Hard Body! Seems v 70s to me.

It’s 70s!

It won an ACADEMY AWARD for best documentary film

Is it Marjoe, and the scene is from a revival tent?

Yes!!! Bocko wins

Nice! I've never heard of that movie!!

This movie is fantastic. It’s about a child who was raised in the evangelical church to be a tiny boy pastor by his fervently religious/ruthless capitalist parents. He was a religious novelty in his youth and even conducted wedding ceremonies when he was six. By the time he’s in his twenties he’s fully a turned-on hippie guy who has abandoned the church, but he and his friends decide to make a documentary about how easy it is to bamboozle people into thinking you’re a holy man. He goes back on the tent revival circuit and gives these INCREDIBLE sermons, and is just raking in cash. Everything is shot handheld and Marjoe (he’s named after Mary and Joseph) talks the crew through everything they can expect from the evangelical culture, all the tricks of the trade and the scams he’s learned over the years from other tent revival pastors. It’s a wild glimpse into both hippie culture and American evangelical culture—they visit churches all over the US, from black gospel congregations (where Marjoe is like “the music is amazing”) to full-on speaking in tongues stuff.

There is no way I would have guessed this movie if not for your hint and Google. I'm going to try to lob a softball...

yourfriendclaire wrote: ↑Sun May 10, 2020 1:55 pm This movie is fantastic. It’s about a child who was raised in the evangelical church to be a tiny boy pastor by his fervently religious/ruthless capitalist parents. He was a religious novelty in his youth and even conducted wedding ceremonies when he was six.

this is a very brain-dead response to this but i bet the people who made the children's cartoon Gravity Falls watched this documentary. one of the main antagonists in the show is like a megalomaniac child pastor named lil gideon. it's a great show... for kids ... and grownups too

Haha. We watched a few episodes because Korn had piano students who were like I WANNA PLAY THE GRAVITY FALLS SONG!!! It was cute and fun. I'd watch more.

And I guess it goes without saying that this doc is now also on my list?

m o l l y wrote: ↑Mon May 11, 2020 3:09 am I WANNA PLAY THE GRAVITY FALLS SONG!!!

It's really catchy! I whistled along with it every episode

Do you refer to him as "Korn" often? I did a confused double-take thinking Bakersfield's finest were teaching piano...

I secretly hoped you would. It amuses me to refer to him as Korn in writing. I do not believe I have ever called him Korn in person, no.

Kron

[mention]RCH[/mention] It's your turn!

OK, I'm ready now!

Feast on this:

omg I know I know this
I know I have seen this
......ARRRRGH it is breaking my brain

is it the movie PHANTASM??? That seems prob wrong but is what came to mind

p.s. what a GREAT AND FUN image, good call dude!!!

Ritchey, I'm sorry but.......... You're correct!!!

I just saw it last night, amazing film, huge. Gonna watch all the rest of them now (4 total, released between 1978–2016). JJ Abrams remastered it, so maybe he's trying to get in on the franchise and another one will come out.

PS How cool is old buddy's ice cream man with leather vest look?

WOW!!!! I AM SO EXCITED I WON!!!! THANK YOU TO EVERYONE WHO MADE THIS POSSIBLE

It is such a weird, wonderful film. We watched it because Gary got it on VHS from the media sale at his job, I believe he paid one dollar for it or else it was free. I had no idea there were more of them nor that the franchise continued up into the present day NOR that JJA remastered the orig!!! I truly thought of it as a weird 78 film lost to the sands of time. This is huge info for me; I am also putting these on the list. If JJA made a new one it would be so fun.

Ok now I gotta think of a good one, damn

his look is so good

Spoiler: for a movie so unique and evidently largely improvised/written on the fly, the tuning fork thing is so satisfyingly technological. Abstract and specific enough to be believable, like taking the concept of resonance to a wild level. Simple special effects used to create something that really feels out-of-this-world!

I dunno if this one will be way too easy or way too hard--YOU TELL ME

Night of the MF Hunter!

Hell yeah!!!

Now this is what I call table tennis!

Who will capture THIS flag?

I confess to having done a small amount of sleuthing on this one but I believe it is Steven Spielberg's "Duel"

Either that or Maximum Overdrive

NAW it’s gotta be duel

Evan is MF right—DUEL (1971) is correct!

Take it away, good sir.

I'll start with what I first thought the last one might have been heh

Sorry for poor quality

TWO LANE BLACKTOP

Ahahahah that was fast

You got it!

HUZZAH

Ok here's my new one:

Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans

Nope!!!
Good guess but when you learn the real answer you will laugh at this guess as I just did

Aquaman

hot damn, the one day I don't check the board is the one day I would have known some of these!

that's definitely aquaman.

It looks like Patrick Wilson but despite him being underwater a lot in that movie I don't think it's Aquaman

Does he go underwater in the Phantom of the Opera movie?