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Related: Culture Forums, Support ForumsTime for the "Guess the Movie From The ScreenShot" Game.
Here's how it works. Someone posts a screenshot. In the replies to that screenshot people guess what movie it's from. If no one guesses right, or even worse no one even has a clue and tries to guess, then additional screenshots should be posted in the replies as hints until the movie is guessed.
To make the game fun it's best to pick shots that don't show obvious things like the face of famous movie stars that were in the film, but do convey information about significant things from the film so that people who know the film well can guess.
Picking scenes that have basically no information (like some random street shot) kind of sucks, as does using super obscure movies that no one has seen (my opinion). I think it's good to post additional shots as hints especially if people just aren't getting it.
I usually get screenshots by playing the movie on my computer either with Netflix, Amazon Prime, or the streaming program for my cable TV service. I pause at the shot that I chose, and take a screenshot. Then I trim the extra bits on the edges with Microsoft Paint and upload to an image hosting site (imgur in my case).
Mayberry Machiavelli
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Skittles
(153,209 posts)Mayberry Machiavelli
(21,096 posts)Skittles
(153,209 posts)I *LOVE* that movie
Mendocino
(7,513 posts)You want bigger bread?
Mayberry Machiavelli
(21,096 posts)Dr. Strange
(25,925 posts)jpak
(41,760 posts)Mayberry Machiavelli
(21,096 posts)They really WERE coming to get Barbara.
jpak
(41,760 posts)OK - your're right
Mayberry Machiavelli
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Mayberry Machiavelli
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Number9Dream
(1,563 posts)Mayberry Machiavelli
(21,096 posts)jpak
(41,760 posts)Mayberry Machiavelli
(21,096 posts)NightWatcher
(39,343 posts)jpak
(41,760 posts)sylvanus
(122 posts)jpak
(41,760 posts)And they did not include the Side Effects - Jimmy Elison died from an un-diagnosed medical condition a year earlier (I think).
I was more than a little peaved at this omission.
yup
Mayberry Machiavelli
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And if you guess this movie you will never have to demonstrate your command of movie trivia in any other way ever again.
jpak
(41,760 posts)Mayberry Machiavelli
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I wanted a screenshot, and they gave me one... for my sins.
jpak
(41,760 posts)I knew it
Mayberry Machiavelli
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jpak
(41,760 posts)who wuz eaten in Aliens 3...by the Christ
NightWatcher
(39,343 posts)Mayberry Machiavelli
(21,096 posts)NightWatcher
(39,343 posts)Mayberry Machiavelli
(21,096 posts)The Will Geer Colonel guy passed the shrimp and told Martin Sheen's character something like "if you eat this you will never have to prove your courage in any other way".
When Sheen's assassin begins his journey there's a line about "I wanted a mission and they gave me a mission... for my sins" or something.
Mendocino
(7,513 posts)Apocalypse Now?
Mayberry Machiavelli
(21,096 posts)jmowreader
(50,566 posts)CurtEastPoint
(18,668 posts)jpak
(41,760 posts)CurtEastPoint
(18,668 posts)6000eliot
(5,643 posts)I'll go you one better, the kid is listening to Mott the Hoople's "All the Way from Memphis."
CurtEastPoint
(18,668 posts)Then Alice opens the front door and yells 'Socorro SUCKS!'
CurtEastPoint
(18,668 posts)Mayberry Machiavelli
(21,096 posts)CurtEastPoint
(18,668 posts)pinboy3niner
(53,339 posts)Don't peek at the image url, which gives it away. I was too lazy to find my own screenshot, or I would have picked one of her, in her robes, pouring a drink in her chambers.
Mayberry Machiavelli
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Mendocino
(7,513 posts)?
Upthevibe
(8,075 posts)pinboy3niner
(53,339 posts)that's correct. Of course, I didn't bother to hide the url.
Mayberry Machiavelli
(21,096 posts)Mayberry Machiavelli
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Mayberry Machiavelli
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skypilot
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Mayberry Machiavelli
(21,096 posts)Mayberry Machiavelli
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pinboy3niner
(53,339 posts)Just because I heard the title of that comedy movie, which I didn't see.
Mayberry Machiavelli
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skypilot
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Tripper11
(4,338 posts)Mayberry Machiavelli
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Frank Cannon
(7,570 posts)Second guess would be Jacob's Ladder.