{"id":964,"date":"2007-05-03T13:51:17","date_gmt":"2007-05-03T13:51:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/?p=964"},"modified":"2007-05-03T13:51:17","modified_gmt":"2007-05-03T13:51:17","slug":"name_that_scifi_film","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/2007\/05\/03\/name_that_scifi_film\/","title":{"rendered":"Name That Sci-Fi Film!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Well, that last one<\/a> was depressing, wasn’t it? Sorry about that… how about a game to try and break out of the funk?
\nJohn at SF Signal<\/a> put this little exercise together:<\/p>\n

I went to IMDB and looked up 15 movies. Listed below are four official “Plot Keywords” for each movie.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Your job: Name these movies!<\/p>\n

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  1. Stripper Dancing With Snake \/ Owl \/ Broken Finger \/ Killer Robot<\/li>\n
  2. Future \/ Visceral \/ Claustrophobic \/ Impregnation<\/li>\n
  3. Messiah \/ Wuxia Fiction \/ Young Boy \/ War<\/li>\n
  4. Skin Care \/ Future Noir \/ Paraplegic \/ Perfection<\/li>\n
  5. Saving The World Mission \/ Extraterrestrial \/ Space Travel \/ Alien Space Craft<\/li>\n
  6. Advertising \/ Attempted Murder \/ Clairvoyant \/ Eye Surgery<\/li>\n
  7. Very Little Dialogue \/ Surrealism \/ Astronaut \/ Talking Computer<\/li>\n
  8. Prophecy \/ Cat \/ Subway \/ Cyberspace<\/li>\n
  9. Sunglases \/ Tabloid \/ Cat \/ Spoof<\/li>\n
  10. Cryogenics \/ Post Apocalyptic \/ Horseback Riding \/ Beach<\/li>\n
  11. Human Versus Computer \/ Gladiator \/ Frisbee \/ Video Game<\/li>\n
  12. Revenge \/ Spacecraft \/ Sandstorm \/ Midlife Crisis<\/li>\n
  13. Evolution \/ Prejudice \/ Wheelchair \/ New York City<\/li>\n
  14. End Of Civilization \/ Bikini \/ Big Ben \/ Inventor<\/li>\n
  15. Robot \/ Scientist \/ UFO \/ Washington Monument<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/blockquote>\n

    Give it a try, kids, then check yourself against my answers after the break.<\/p>\n


    \nMy answers:<\/p>\n

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    1. Blade Runner<\/i><\/li>\n
    2. Gattaca<\/i><\/li>\n
    3. Minority Report<\/i><\/li>\n
    4. 2001: A Space Odyssey<\/i><\/li>\n
    5. The Matrix<\/i><\/li>\n
    6. Planet of the Apes<\/i><\/li>\n
    7. Tron<\/i><\/li>\n
    8. X-Men<\/i><\/li>\n
    9. The Time Machine<\/i><\/li>\n
    10. The Day the Earth Stood Still<\/i><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

      I’m not too proud to admit that even I<\/i> have no idea what some of these (presumably) well-known SF movies might be, but I blame the clues more than my own abilities. For instance, what the hell is wuxia fiction<\/i> (item #3)? Short of consulting Google (which would be cheating), I have no choice but to admit defeat. Still, I guess 10 out of 15 is fairly good, isn’t it? How did you do?<\/p>\n

      I’ll update this entry in an hour or so with all the correct answers…<\/p>\n

      Update:<\/b> I’ve placed John’s correct answers in the comments below. Scroll down to see them, and thanks for playing…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

      Well, that last one was depressing, wasn’t it? Sorry about that… how about a game to try and break out of the funk? John at SF Signal put this little exercise together: I went to IMDB and looked up 15 movies. Listed below are four official “Plot Keywords” for each movie.   Your job: Name […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-964","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-film-studies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/964","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=964"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/964\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=964"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=964"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=964"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}