Annie's Choice. Jeeeeezus. Yikes.

Is it Conan the Barbariannie?

Ohhh, that's where the wizard comes from.  I was going to say, I didn't think Hitler was a wizard, but maybe in the musical version.  Thank God; this answer is much less horrifying.

#37: Sylvester Stallone and Nicolas Cage must stop Mr. T from launching a poison attack on San Francisco. Together they lead a desperate assault on the terrorist stronghold on Alcatraz Island.

edit: fixed the quiz number

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satyreyes wrote:

Er, I haven't started to try to figure these out yet, but I think they are actually #35 and #36 respectively?

Page 4 ends with #35, so I think they are #36 and #37. I've fixed mine.

Satyr, yes.

And I don't know what happened with the numbering. My fault. Or gremlins.


Is #37, The Rocky III?

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Inspired by frakking Annie's Choice (that's going to haunt me now):

#38 Based on a classic poem, a Thugee sadist, aged and infirm, is at the mercy of British officers he abused in their childhood, and their Indian water-bearer, whom they now beat themselves, in a perverse cycle of violence. Notable for its sudden omissions and lack of anticipated closure to many key scenes and situations.

Well, I already knew the first one was going to be Gunga Din, but due to some lack of imagination on my part I'm still having trouble with the second one.  As an aid to others, Gunga Din is the 1939 film; it covers the classic poem, the Thuggee and British officers, and the Indian water-bearer.  It does not cover the sadism and abuse, the perverse cycle of violence, or the sudden omissions or anticlimax.

Annie Get Your Gunga Din.  Now see there's an Annie who you could put up against a Nazi.

No, but seriously, I dunno.  I've been through Wikipedia's complete list of films released in 1987 several times now, and there's nothing that's even close to working.  I give up!  But just to contribute something, let me add one to the hopper:

#39 A cult of devil-worshiping scientists contrives to help a dark power impregnate their neighbor so that they can kidnap the infant and use it to learn the meaning of life.  But her swearing, perverse child instead escapes and runs amok with animatronic robots.  The moral of the story is to be suspicious of strange pendants and skis on stairways, as both are likely to attack your reproductive organs.

And one more for good measure.  This one is not Ashnodian: one movie title is infixed within the other.

#40 Freshly escaped from jail and hard up for money, the protagonists undertake a long comedic road trip through the Jim Crow South to return to their home, only to find that it will soon be foreclosed if its present occupant can't pay her taxes.  The only way to raise the money, it seems, is to start a bluegrass/soul fusion band -- and hopefully win back the main character's wife's heart in the process.  This musical's sadly underacclaimed soundtrack includes such notable tunes as "Down to the River to Catch the Katy" and "Minnie the Man of Constant Sorrow."

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Decrescent Daytripper wrote:

Times up! Gunga Din a Glass Cage seemed more guessable to me than it turned out to be.

Wow, never heard of that one.  It was listed by its Spanish title on the lists I was consulting.  It sounds like a good movie to feel miserable with. 

DD wrote:

satyreyes wrote:

#39 A cult of devil-worshiping scientists contrives to help a dark power impregnate their neighbor so that they can kidnap the infant and use it to learn the meaning of life.  But her swearing, perverse child instead escapes and runs amok with animatronic robots.  The moral of the story is to be suspicious of strange pendants and skis on stairways, as both are likely to attack your reproductive organs.

Rosemary's Baby Geniuses? (If it's not, why did you make me think of Baby Geniuses? But thanks for the other reminder; gonna put on that tonight.)

No problem!  This was an easy prompt to write; the only difference between the movies is that one of them was inspired by Satan, and the other is Rosemary's Baby.

DD wrote:

satyreyes wrote:

#40 Freshly escaped from jail and hard up for money, the protagonists undertake a long comedic road trip through the Jim Crow South to return to their home, only to find that it will soon be foreclosed if its present occupant can't pay her taxes.  The only way to raise the money, it seems, is to start a bluegrass/soul fusion band -- and hopefully win back the main character's wife's heart in the process.  This musical's sadly underacclaimed soundtrack includes such notable tunes as "Down to the River to Catch the Katy" and "Minnie the Man of Constant Sorrow."

Oh, Blues Brothers, Where Art Though?

Hell yes!  This is my favorite movie that never existed.

Decrescent Daytripper wrote:

#41 A popular singer is kidnapped by a man who can invade your dreams and her manager pays an ex-lover and an underdoggy Johnny Depp to get her back. Turns out, more than a decade before, parents in the city had killed the man for murdering children and now it's going to take all the shotguns, tough-talking, and duels with sledgehammers that can be managed to finally shut down this sweater and overalls-wearing nightmare.

Nightmare on Elm Streets of Fire!

#43: Two Olympic runners, one Christian, one Jewish, must steal Russia's mach 3+ super-interceptor.

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Crystalline_Dream wrote:

Nova wrote:

#43: Two Olympic runners, one Christian, one Jewish, must steal Russia's mach 3+ super-interceptor.

Chariots of Firefox?

Yep!