The World Cup of football film quizzes.

With Euro 08 finishing last night I thought I'd have football as the theme for this week's film quiz. In the true spirit of the beautiful game it will be full of cliches. Obviously clichés should be avoided like the plague. But it's football after all, and football is riddled with them. There are great wet lettuces, sick parrots and giving it 110%. I gave the idea of a quiz of two halves the red card (don't stop me now, I'm in the 6 yard box). Football's a funny old game, and at the end of the day, just when we think it's all over, I'll be gutted, obviously.



Shall we get on with the quiz? BTW, some strong language follows, you have been warned.

Updates:

1. This is the first film produced in Bhutan to be released internationally.
Based on a true story, with the tag line "Buddhism is their philosophy. Soccer is their religion."

Name the film.


2.

Name the film.












3.

Name the film.
cristin got- Bend it Like Beckham









4. [Paul's doorbell is buzzing during the last minute of Liverpool v. Arsenal]
Paul Ashworth: [out a window, not really seeing who it is] Will you please, please, please, please, please just fucking FUCK OFF? You have arrived during the worst sixty seconds of my life, and I really don't want to see you.
[the window slams shut. The visitor is revealed to be Sarah]
Paul Ashworth: [to Steve] Why ask? And what sort of berk would do that? You'd just about forgive an alien visitor from the planet Tharg, but even then, you'd have...
[Paul realizes what he's done and runs to the door]
Steve: Where're you going? You're mad. You might miss something.

Which 1997 film is this exchange from?
Aunty got - Fever Pitch

5. Name the 1981 movie about some inmates in a WW2 prison camp, who have a passion for football and which starred : Sylvester Stallone, Michael Caine, Pelé, Bobby Moore and Osvaldo Ardiles.

6. Another old one, from 1979 a film based on the long running TV series of the same name, name the film these lines come from :
[ Fletcher finally gives in and reads Bunny's letter]
Fletcher: All right, I'll just give you the 'ighlights, all right? 'Dearest Bunny, blah blah blah, blah blah blah, blah blah blah, blah blah blah, blah blah...
[pause as he turns the page]
Fletcher: blah.
Bunny Warren: Blah blah blah what?
Fletcher: It's trivia, Bunny, it's just trivia, it's the weather, her mother's catarrh, she's retiled the lav, the canary's got haemorrhoids, she's met a welder at the Fiesta Club and she's thinking of movin' in with him. All right? Must rush. Can't hang about.
[exits]
Bunny Warren: But...
[pauses]
Bunny Warren: ...we 'aven't got a canary.

7.


Which 2001 Hong Kong film is this?
















8. And I suppose there has to a question about football's dark side. This 2005 film
is less about the football and more about the fighting, it starred Elijah Wood as Matt and had the following lines:

Matt Buckner: What are you guys like an organized political movement or something?
Pete Dunham: No mate, we're a firm. You never heard of a firm in the States?
Matt Buckner: No.
Pete Dunham: Every football team in Europe's got a firm. Some have two. Christ, I forgot how clueless you Yanks are. All you've seen of us the stadium lights on TV innit? Come on. See, West Ham football's medicore... but our firm is top notch and everyone knows it. GSE. Green Street Elite. Arsenal. Great football. Shit firm. The Goolies, Tottenham - shit football and a shit firm. The Yids, they're called. I actually put their main lad through a phonebox window the other day.
Matt Buckner: So basically, firms are gangs?
Pete Dunham: Kind of... but we're a far cry from all that Bloods and Crips bullshit. I mean shootin' a machine gun out of a movin' car at an 8 year old girl. That's just cowardly. See, we might be into fightin' an all that... but it's really about reputation. Humiliatin' another mob in a rumble, doin' somethin' the other firms get to hear and talk about - like a Yank in his first fight

and

Pete Dunham: Fuck it, I will take you with me. You might learn something...
Matt Buckner: About soccer?
Pete Dunham: No mate. Not about soccer, AND FOR FUCK SAKE, STOP SAYING SOCCER!
Aunty got- Green Street

Return of the return of the *drum roll* Monday Movie Quiz

So, apparently someone actually likes the Monday Movie qiuz.

In honour of George Carlin who died today, the quiz today is all about him. He did more film stuff than you think, you know.








1. The main location of this film was in Los Angeles a few blocks from McArthur Park. It was torn down in the late 1980s. While it was open, the marquee of the car wash announced it was featured in this film.

Name the film from 1976.

2. He said - Hi. Welcome to the future. San Dimas, California, 2688. And I'm telling you, it's great here. The air is clean. The water's clean. Even the dirt... is clean. Bowling averages are way up. Mini-golf scores are way down. And we have more excellent waterslides than any other planet we communicate with. I'm telling you, this place is great. But it almost wasn't. You see, 700 years ago the Two Great Ones ran into a few problems. So now I have to travel back in time to help them out. If I should fail to keep these two on the correct path, the basis of our society will be in danger. Don't worry. It'll all make sense. I'm a professional.
Name the film.

3. Another quote - Cardinal Glick: Fill them pews, people, that's the key. Grab the little ones as well. Hook 'em while they're young.

Rufus: Kind of like the tobacco industry?

Cardinal Glick: Christ, if only we had their numbers.
Name the film.

4. Fillmore, the VW Microbus voiced by George Carlin, has license plate '51237'. This is Carlin's birth date; May 12, 1937. But what was the film?

5. He played The Architect in a (not very good film),but name it anyway -

The Architect: The answer is simple. You are the eventuality of an anomaly. You are inexorably seeking a sedulant probability.

Cindy: Sedulant? I uh...

The Architect: Grotesquery?... No?... What about, contingent affirmation?... That's gotta mean somethin...

6. The tagline of the film , in which he was Frank Madras, and you have to name is - The CIA is trailing them. The KGB is tracking them. The phone company is tracing them. The police are chasing them. The cowboys are herding them. And the Indians are hunting them. Are they going to fall for all of that?

The long wait was worth it.

The latest video of Matt and his trademark dancing, here.
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