Selling Mayhem Trauma Amplifier 3, MM Twen Edition, Sand Stormer + more

Which film is this?

Burt Munro: If you don't follow through on your dreams, you might as well be a vegetable.
Tom: [nods earnestly] What type of vegetable?
Burt Munro: Hah, I don't know... a cabbage. Yeah, a cabbage.

*Based on the true story of Burt Munro. So two of the tag lines for this film were:
Based On One Hell Of A True Story
The extraordinary true adventure of Burt Munro from Down Under

Spoiler: Clues

2005

Director Roger Donaldson
Writer Roger Donaldson
Stars Anthony Hopkins, Diane Ladd, Iain Rea

Spoiler: Plotline

The story of New Zealander Burt Munro, who spent years rebuilding a 1920 Indian motorcycle, which helped him set the land speed world record at Utah's Bonneville Salt Flats in 1967.

 

Spoiler: Answer to last puzzle

The World's Fastest Indian

Trivia:
Burt Munro's children visited the set one day, when, according to writer, producer, and director Roger Donaldson, "Tony (Sir Anthony Hopkins) was having a particularly good Burt day." His performance was so authentic that it moved them to tears.

 

Which film is this?

John Brennan: So, the life and times of Don Quixote, what is it about?
Female College Student: That someone's belief in virtue is more important than virtue itself?
John Brennan: Yes... that's in the there. But what is it about? Could it be how rational thought destroys your soul? Could it be about the triumph of irrationality and the power that is in that? You know, we spend a lot of time trying to organize the world. We build clocks and calendars and we try to predict the weather. But what part of our life is truly under our control? What if we choose to exist purely in a reality of our own making? Does that render us insane? And if it does, isn't that better than a life of despair?

Spoiler: Clues

2010

Director Paul Haggis
Writers Paul Haggis, Fred Cavayé, Guillaume Lemans
Stars Russell Crowe, Elizabeth Banks, Liam Neeson

Spoiler: Plotline

A married couple's life is turned upside down when the wife is accused of a murder.

 

Spoiler: Answer to last puzzle

The Next Three Days

 

Which film is this?

Mr. Green: This is a Sicilian coin. The Sicilian people say, "A big man knows the value of small coin." My friendship is a small coin but it is all I have to offer you.

Spoiler: Clues

1988

Director David Mamet
Writers David Mamet, Shel Silverstein
Stars Don Ameche, Joe Mantegna, Robert Prosky

Spoiler: Plotline

Shoe-shiner Gino is hired to take the rap for a mafia murder. Two-bit gangster Jerry watches over Gino and gives him a weekend to remember.

 

Spoiler: Answer to last puzzle

Things Change
(note great movie but be warned terrible trailer)

 

Which film is this?

Adult Pi Patel: I suppose in the end, the whole of life becomes an act of letting go, but what always hurts the most is not taking a moment to say goodbye.

Spoiler: Clues

2012

Director Ang Lee
Writers Yann Martel, David Magee
Stars Suraj Sharma, Irrfan Khan, Adil Hussain

Spoiler: Plotline

A young man who survives a disaster at sea is hurtled into an epic journey of adventure and discovery. While cast away, he forms an unexpected connection with another survivor: a fearsome Bengal tiger.

 

Spoiler: Answer to last puzzle

Life of Pi

 

Which film is this?

Jonas Cantrell: Tell us what we're dealing with. Shelton was a spy?
Bray: Look, spies are a dime a dozen. I'm a spy. Clyde is a brain. He's a think tank-type guy. His specialty was low-impact kinetic operations.
Nick Rice: That's a hell of a fancy way to say that he kills people.
Bray: We kill people. He figured out how to do it without ever being in the same room. It was his gift, and he was the best. One time, we're tasking this tricky target. I mean, we're usin' cruise missiles and Predators, and we even had a B-2 Bomber flatten this guy's villa with JDAM. Alright, we're burnin' up millions in ordnance and we're gettin' nowhere with this guy. So we call Clyde, and we ask him to solve our problem. Clyde develops a Kevlar thread with a high-tech ratchet made of carbon fiber. Put it in a necktie. Two days later, Mrs. Bad Guy comes home, finds Mr. Bad Guy dead on the bathroom tile, choked to death. What I'm sayin' is, just assume that this guy can hear and see everything that you're doing.
Nick Rice: No. We got him locked away; maximum security.
Bray: He's in jail, it's because he wants to be in jail. He's a born tactician. Every move that he makes, it means something. That cellmate that he killed, what, you think that was random? No. That's a pawn being moved off the board. If I were you, I'd be lookin' for the next piece. Anybody who had anything to do with that case, he's gonna be comin' after you.
Nick Rice: So what are you sayin'? You sayin' we can't stop him?
Bray: Walk into his cell, and put a bullet in his head. Aside from that, no, you can't stop him. If Clyde wants you dead, you're dead.

Spoiler: Clues

2009

Director F. Gary Gray
Writer Kurt Wimmer
Stars Gerard Butler, Jamie Foxx, Leslie Bibb

Spoiler: Plotline

A frustrated man decides to take justice into his own hands after a plea bargain sets one of his family's killers free.

 

Spoiler: Answer to last puzzle

Law Abiding Citizen

 

Which film is this?

Bob Lee Swagger: Suppose I was looking for man who could make a 2200 yard cold bore shot. Who's alive that could do that?
Mr. Rate: Seems I heard about a shot like that being made not too long ago, said the guy's name was Bob Lee Swagger. Never met the man, so I wouldn't know him.
Bob Lee Swagger: Ya, they said that all right.
Mr. Rate: They also said that artificial sweeteners were safe, WMDs were in Iraq, and Anna Nicole married for love.

Spoiler: Clues

2007

Director Antoine Fuqua
Writers Stephen Hunter, Jonathan Lemkin
Stars Mark Wahlberg, Michael Peña, Rhona Mitra

Spoiler: Plotline

A marksman living in exile is coaxed back into action after hearing of a plot to kill the President. After being-double crossed for the attempt and on the run, he sets out for the real killer and the truth.

 

Spoiler: Answer to last puzzle

Shooter

 

Which film is this?

Russian Interregator #2: Every minute you don't tell us why you are here, I cut off a finger.
Emmett Fitz-Hume: Mine or yours?
Russian Interregator #2: Yours.
Emmett Fitz-Hume: Damn!

Spoiler: Clues

1985

Director John Landis
Writers Dan Aykroyd, Dave Thomas, Lowell Ganz
Stars Chevy Chase, Dan Aykroyd, Mark Stewart

Spoiler: Plotline

Two bumbling government employees think they are U.S. spies, only to discover that they are actually decoys for Nuclear War.

 

Spoiler: Answer to last puzzle

Spies Like Us
(A very interesting exam technique )

 

Which film is this?

Mildred Hayes: Wow. When you can't trust the lawyers and the advertising men, what the hell's America coming to, huh?

Spoiler: Clues

2017

Director Martin McDonagh
Writer Martin McDonagh
Stars Frances McDormand, Woody Harrelson, Sam Rockwell

Spoiler: Plotline

A mother personally challenges the local authorities to solve her daughter's murder when they fail to catch the culprit.

 

Spoiler: Answer to last puzzle

Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri