Shot by Shot

Correct movie guesses: Mikko A, tmantones, Moe
Correct connections: Mikko A, tmantones, Moe

Congrats to ctod and vistavision — they tied for first place!

Apologies for forgetting to change the shot that turned out to be The Patriot. I’d give everyone a bonus point, but that would change nothing.

Here’s a quick recap of the movies this month:

• No. 1 was “Black Sheep” (Penelope Spheeris, 1996). Add it to your Netflix queue.
• No. 2 was “Dick” (Andrew Fleming, 1999). Add it to your Netflix queue.
• No. 3 was “The Dead Zone” (David Cronenberg, 1983). Add it to your Netflix queue.
• No. 4 was “Star Wars: Episode III — Revenge of the Sith” (George Lucas, 2005). Add it to your Netflix queue.
• No. 5 was “Mysterious Skin” (Gregg Araki, 2005). Add it to your Netflix queue.
• No. 6 was “2010″ (Peter Hyams, 1984). Add it to your Netflix queue.
• No. 7 was “Escape from New York” (John Carpenter, 1981). Add it to your Netflix queue.
• No. 8 was “Office Space” (Mike Judge, 1999). Add it to your Netflix queue.
• No. 9 was “Sliding Doors” (Peter Howitt, 1998). Congrats to Moe — she’s the only one who got it right. Add it to your Netflix queue.
• No. 10 was “Sneakers” (Phil Alden Robinson, 1992). Add ‘Sneakers’ to your Netflix queue.
• No. 11 was “Close Encounters of the Third Kind” (Steven Spielberg, 1977). Add it to your Netflix queue.
• No. 12 was “Miller’s Crossing (Joel Coen, 1990). Add it to your Netflix queue.
• No. 13 was “To Live and Die In L.A.” (William Friedkin, 1985). Add it to your Netflix queue.
• No. 14 was “Dark City” (Alex Proyas, 1998). Add it to your Netflix queue.
• No. 15 was “Shawshank Redemption” (Frank Darabont, 1994). Add it to your Netflix queue.
• No. 16 was “Latter Days” (C. Jay Cox, 2003). Add it to your Netflix queue.
• No. 17 was “The Killing” (Stanley Kubrick, 1956). Add it to your Netflix queue.
• No. 18 was “Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone” (Chris Columbus, 2001). Add it to your Netflix queue.
• No. 19 was “House of Sand and Fog” (Vadim Perelman, 2003). Add it to your Netflix queue.
• No. 20 was “Muppets from Space” (Tim Hill, 1999). Add it to your Netflix queue.
• No. 21 was “Titanic” (James Cameron, 1997). Add it to your Netflix queue.
• No. 22 was “The 13th Warrior” (John McTiernan, 1999). Add it to your Netflix queue.
• No. 23 was “Dancer in the Dark (Lars von Trier, 2000). Add it to your Netflix queue.
• No. 24 was “Event Horizon (Paul W.S. Anderson, 1997). Add it to your Netflix queue.
• No. 25 was “The Game” (David Fincher, 1997). Add it to your Netflix queue.
• No. 26 was “Lost in Translation” (2003, Sofia Coppola). Add it to your Netflix queue.
• No. 27 was “The Patriot” (Roland Emmerich, 2000). Add it to your Netflix queue.
• No. 28 was “Reversal of Fortune” (Barbet Schroeder, 1990). Add it to your Netflix queue.
• No. 29 was “Planet of the Apes (Tim Burton, 2001). Add it to your Netflix queue.
• No. 30 was “Stargate” (Roland Emmerich, 1994). Add it to your Netflix queue.

And here’s the final scoreboard:

The Christmas quiz will start some time Wednesday. We’ll go from there.

7 correct guesses so far.

This shot is worth one point. Here are the rules. Here’s the three-point shot and the two-point shot from the same movie.

6 correct guess so far.

This shot is worth one point. Here are the rules. Here’s the three-point shot and the two-point shot from the same movie.

6 correct guesses so far.

This shot is worth one point. Here are the rules. Here’s the three-point shot and the two-point shot from the same movie.

5 correct guess so far.

This shot is worth one point. Here are the rules. Here’s the three-point shot and the two-point shot from the same movie.

14 correct guesses so far.

This shot is worth one point. Here are the rules. Here’s the three-point shot and the one-point shot from the same movie.

7 correct guesses so far.

This shot is worth one point. Here are the rules. Here’s the three-point shot and the two-point shot from the same movie.