Nova wrote:

Nova wrote:

#21: A former CIA agent (or is he?) turned gun for hire and a band of hand-picked men rampage across Europe. . . killing Nazis.

Hint:  Each and every one of you owes me one hundred nazi scalps.

Time's up; nobody got this one.

The answer is: Roninglorious Basterds

#23) Sean Penn, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Judge Reinhold, Christopher Lambert, and Sean Connery star in this action-comedy as an unlikely group of immortal southern California high-school students love, party, and chop each others' heads off.

The Dark Knight's Tale?

#25 It seems everyone in Baton Rouge is unhappy in the bedroom.  They can't get it up, they're anorgasmic, they're cheaters -- everyone is dysfunctional.  Enter a quirky young French woman who is always thinking about things like how many people are having an orgasm right now.  She makes it her business to solve everyone's erotic problems by playing matchmaker and documentarian with the help of her trusty camcorder.  At the end, everyone is still miserable, but at least the French girl hooks up thanks to determination and an offbeat scavenger hunt.

Careful; this one is non-Ashnodian.   But worth it.  Hint: has nothing to do with Ebichuman.

Nope, but you're on the right thematic track.

Amelie is indeed half of it   The other half requires you to mispronounce Amelie.  It shares its director with Ocean's Eleven, but I won't tell you which Ocean's Eleven. 

Sex, Amelies, and Videotape?

#26 Hired to track down a robot who has not finished his necessary servitude, Val Angel encounters the robot's lover and their child-of-unnatural-origins. What will happen when Val realizes the awful truth and is forced to confront horrible notions of service, duty, love, and whether the devil eating eggs in monstrous ways makes up for his tendency to deliver stock jokes? Notorious for its Bernadette Peters sex scene.

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Nova wrote:

Something something Heartbeeps

Yes. (Though, the fact Heartbeeps is the part you got first, amuses me.)

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Decrescent Daytripper wrote:

#26 Hired to track down a robot who has not finished his necessary servitude, Val Angel encounters the robot's lover and their child-of-unnatural-origins. What will happen when Val realizes the awful truth and is forced to confront horrible notions of service, duty, love, and whether the devil eating eggs in monstrous ways makes up for his tendency to deliver stock jokes? Notorious for its Bernadette Peters sex scene.

Angel Heartbeeps (?)

satyreyes wrote:

#27 A talented young engineer and his friends try to escape their benighted coal town in Soviet Russia by commandeering vehicles that go very low and very high.  The main character ends up in Florida.  (And this is portrayed as a good thing.)  The film is based on a suspense novel by Tom Clancy whose title, "Hutt Bronsky, Defector Hero," is an anagram of the film's title.

The Hunt for Red October Sky.




#28 A leader of a group of child Rangers is appointed with the highest annual achievement a male can earn. When he attempts to make a turn his group into a national organization, he is met with a doppelgänger of an antagonist, who stops his dream on the state-level and urges him to return to his obscenely-violent previous pastime.

Nope, not even close. I can assure you that these are movies that have been created. Think harder.



Edit: For a hint, the movie titles flow in that one is replaced by a portion of other, making it fit the same as it had originally. It also keeps the number of syllables of the whole the same. For instance, X is 13 syllables (not actual count), Y is 5 syllables (again, not actual), X-X∂+Y=Z, Z is 13 syllables. I'm not sure exactly how better to explain it. If another hint is required, I'll return.

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Hmm.  #28 avoids the word "boy" so studiously that I feel certain that Boy Scout(s) is in the title.  IMDB suggests "The Last Boy Scout," but that movie doesn't seem to fit the clues.  (No actual boy scouts, evil twins, or local organizations.)  Just leaving this here in case it rings any bells for anyone.

Okay, minor hint, let's see...


1939.

satyreyes wrote:

Ohh.  Haha.  Sort of the opposite of the Boy Scouts, then.  Working on it.

Edit: I knew I should have actually watched Der Untergang instead of just watching clips of it on YouTube.  Wikipedia indicates that it matches part of the clue very well: its protagonist, a member of the Hitler Youth, is decorated with the Iron Cross.  And certainly being a member of the Hitler Youth could qualify as an "obscenely violent former pastime."  So Der Untergang, possibly going by its English title Downfall, could be half of it.

Woah, totally different direction. Granted, World War II began in 1939, but that's not the event I was referencing, nor is it truly an "event."

Try: (2007)1939

Edit: If no one gets it by tomorrow morning, I'll call it a wash, post, and make another one that's truly Ashnodian.

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