ABCs at the Movies: The Doubles Round!

[MaineWriter]

The opposite of a glorious opera in color certainly has to be a silent movie in black and white! I suspect gender bending Chinese opera stars are pretty different from vampires, too!

[oilgun]

OVIRI is a biographical film about the artist Paul Gauguin.  Since Gauguin's work continues to inspire us and improve our lives with its beauty and  because he  moved to the sunny tropics to escape the oppressive european artistic environment, surely that makes him a polar opposite of a nocturnal blood-sucking killer.
 

[MaineWriter]

I spent the better part of the afternoon creating a new archive because I was starting to feel like the old one was out of control!

The new archive is in chronological order, with placeholders for every year from 2013 down to 1890. All movies for every year are listed alphabetically within that year (no more breaking out "from the special rounds.") Because the size of the archive is fixed, you can use the [All] feature to open it all at once for searching. Hopefully this will help everyone find played movies quickly and easily. I actually found a few missing movies; those have been added to their respective years. The new archive is up-to-date as of Nosferatu (played in the current round).

I will continue to add the special rounds, as they are played, to the old archive. This is more to keep a record of the game and what has gone on. As noted above, the new archive will be better for searching.

I have the entire archive in an excel spreadsheet and I have to say, it's a beautiful thing! If anyone would like a copy, send me your email address and I will get it right out to you!

Leslie
GameMistress

[MaineWriter]

The ABCs at the Movies Game began in October 2007. We played rounds 2007-1966 "straight"; the first special round came after 1966. The game changed to special rounds only when we finished the "Don't Forget Me" round earlier this month.

Here are the special rounds we have played so far. If there are any that you really liked and would like to play again, let me know. Also, I am always open to ideas and suggestions for rounds so please send them my way!

Wildcard X rule began after round 1983

I didn't keep track of these three rounds, so I don't know when exactly they were played.

Round 2007 Redux 
Countdown
Mega Countdown

The following special rounds are in the order they were played, ending with the one we are inthe midst of.

I Can't Believe This Movie Hasn't Been Played!
The Stars Come Out
Prizewinners!
So Bad It's Good
Guilty Pleasures
Numerology
Working Stiffs
The Sun Never Sets on the British Empire
Musicals
The Heath Ledger Round
The Comedy Round
Round 1979 Redux
Six Degrees of Heath
Round 2008
The Roaring Twenties
Don't Forget Me! (1888-1920; 2009-2013)
We Fought on American Soil
The Count UP! Round
The Count UP! Round No. 2
The Count UP! Round No. 3
Seven Deadly Sins
I'm So Animated
I'm So Colourful
The Critter Round
Polar Opposites

And now, back to our regularly scheduled game! Sorry for the interruptions!

Leslie
GameMistress

[southendmd]

While Paul Gauguin was a French post-impressionist, Jackson Pollock was an American (from Cody, Wyoming) abstract expressionist.

=aside=
Leslie, it's a labor of love and a work of art!
Thank you.

[MaineWriter]

The "draw" in Quick Draw's name didn't refer to his artistic talent; rather, it was his prowess (or lack thereof) for getting his six shooter out of his holster.

There are probably many more differences between Pollock and Quick Draw, but I am all tuckered out from updating the archive and can't think of them right now.   

[oilgun]

AKA: BLUEBERRY



RENEGADE is a gritty, violent and hallucinatory(!) Western based on the popular French/Belgian comic book character of Marshall Mike Blueberry, a former racist who became a defender of the oppressed in the American Wild West.  That's kind of the flip side of the wacky American cartoon character of QUICK DRAW McGRAW.

[southendmd]

The opposite of Blueberry from France  is Salmonberries from Alaska.

IMDb:  A woman who grew up in a small town in Alaska goes to the public library to try and find
out who her parents were. She was brought to town as a baby in a cardboard box with "Kotzebue" on it, which is the name of the town and also the name of the family that founded the town. She eventually befriends the librarian, an East German immigrant who lost her husband while escaping from behind the Iron Curtain. They help each other try to find closure to the events in their past

[oilgun]

The opposite of Blueberry from France  is Salmonberries from Alaska.

IMDb:  A woman who grew up in a small town in Alaska goes to the public library to try and find
out who her parents were. She was brought to town as a baby in a cardboard box with "Kotzebue" on it, which is the name of the town and also the name of the family that founded the town. She eventually befriends the librarian, an East German immigrant who lost her husband while escaping from behind the Iron Curtain. They help each other try to find closure to the events in their past

SALMONBERRIES and BLUEBERRY may be opposites but they both suck! 

[MaineWriter]

A movie about hijacking a subway in New York City has to be the polar opposite of a story of a woman in Alaska searching for her roots!