satyreyes wrote:

I don't have the answer yet -- I suspect half of it of being Town & Country -- but I just wanted to say that my last made-for-TV movie did not make a single dollar at the box office.

That's no good.

One if the two is a movie that was a seasonal indulgence of some of the no-longer-posting-so-much forum members. And was not the financial failure.

Decrescent Daytripper wrote:

And, Crystalline Dream, the ball, I believe, is yours.

*takes the ball*

I hope this isn't too easy, but:

#44: In this classic film, three misfit guys attempt to save their city by exorcising the poor, cowardly spirit of a man who died behind a brick wall.

Crystalline_Dream wrote:

Decrescent Daytripper wrote:

And, Crystalline Dream, the ball, I believe, is yours.

*takes the ball*

I hope this isn't too easy, but:

#44: In this classic film, three misfit guys attempt to save their city by exorcising the poor, cowardly spirit of a man who died behind a brick wall.

Since this seems to be taking a while, I'll offer a hint: The first film of the mashed-up title was released in 1944, and the second was released 40 years later in 1984.

satyreyes wrote:

Rereading the clue after all this time, Ghostbusters leaped out in that special "how did I not think of it before" way.  I had never heard of the 1944 film, but it sounds like fun to watch!  #44 is The Canterville Ghostbusters.

*ding ding* Correct!
I definitely reccommend The Canterville Ghost! Like I said, it's a classic. I used to not be one for black-and-white films, but my mother sat me down in the living room and forced me to watch it. I'm glad she did!

Here are hints, because someday someone might want to revive this thread and I had nearly forgotten what the answers were myself

#45: The entire clue applies to both movies.  (Reminder that the solution here is non-Ashnodian.)
- (Narrows the field of movies.)  [Both movies were released this year.]
- (Narrows the field of books.)  [As far as the books from the early 1900s, if you grew up in America then you have heard of both of them.]
- (More about the protagonists.)  [As far as the ordinary men, they both go by assumed names that help them fit into their new environments.  (One wants to sound less ethnic; the other just uses a particularly appropriate nickname.)]
- (Sledgehammer hint.)  [One of the men believes in a green city; the other believes in a green light.]

#46: Parts of the clue apply to one movie, the rest to the other.
- (About Movie #1.)  [Another 2013 release.  Would probably fail the Bechdel Test by Step 2.]
- (About Movie #2.)  [A 1989 adaptation of a stage play.  Would probably fail the Reverse Bechdel Test by Step 2.]
- (About Movie #1.)  [The title is an anagram of TAME FELONS, which is a pretty accurate description of the main character's job.]
- (About Movie #2.)  [The title is an anagram of MANAGE LESS TOIL, which is a particularly bad description of what the main characters do.]

Ding and ding!  And the thread breathes a sigh of relief

Atropos wrote:

(#47) A small town struggles with budgets, ecological lobbyists, the ambitions of a minor government official, teen sex, and suicide in this TV show spun off from another series and a film.

The Parks and Rec of Being a Wallflower?

Thank God for Wikipedia.  #47 should be Ken Parks and Rec.    Is Ken Park a good movie?

#48 This screen adaptation of a Swedish thriller, a Mamoru Hosoda film, and an Norton Award-winning fantasy novel (in that order) tells the amazing story of its title character, a bisexual computer hacker who builds a fantastical boat in order to relive a few days of high school to make them play out the way she wants.  This she accomplishes with the help of such colorful comrades as a boy from the future who wants to go out with her, an embroiled magazine publisher turned detective, and a wyvern who is also a library.

(Very non-Ashnodian.)

satyreyes wrote:

Thank God for Wikipedia.  #47 should be Ken Parks and Rec.    Is Ken Park a good movie?

I didn't even see this. Sorry.

I liked it, but it's got a lot of potential to make you uncomfortable. You may also find it pretentious. I think my enjoyment of it, being a white kid in a suburb, comes from how it tears down conventional images of white kids in suburbs.

The Girl Who Leapt Through Time With the Dragon Dragon Tattoo Who Circumnavigated Fairlyand in a Ship of her Own Making?

#49 A made for TV movie about witches, directed by a rock musician, with Meg Foster and James Van Der Beek, it follows a young radio DJ who falls for a man whose teaching career was destroyed after he went to prison, convicted of raping a student, leading them both inexorably towards what may be the rise of the devil, himself, and his unholy disciples, or just a bunch of petty, awkward teenage girls venting their frustrations at the wrong people. Lots of small-city evil, untrustworthy father figures, surreal sexual imagery, blood, and wicca riffs.

49. Is it "The Lords of Salem Falls"?

#50 In this film starring a sadly recently deceased actor, England is thrown into chaos by the king's preference for his male lover over his queen.