Movie Taglines

Answer: A Guy Thing

This romantic comedy starring Jason Lee didn't go very far in the box office.

Answer: Liar, Liar

A comic tour-de-force for Jim Carrey.

Answer: Fearless

Director Peter Weir's other films include "The Truman Show" and "Green Card," and "Dead Poet's Society."

Answer: Halloween

Of course, this refers to Michael Myers.

Answer: Moulin Rouge!

"Moulin Rouge!" was a 2001 movie directed by Baz Luhrmann starring Nicole Kidman and Ewan McGregor. Other taglines include-- "Above all things, this story is about love." "The greatest thing you'll ever learn, is just to love and be loved in return." "Truth-Beauty-Freedom-Love".

Answer: Blade

Stars Wesley Snipes and Kris Kristopherson. Made in 1998 and was the beginning of a great franchise.

Answer: The Fisher King

Stars Robin Williams and Jeff Bridges. One of my favourite movies.

Answer: Little Nicky

Not one of his better films, but still funny. Patricia Arquette also starred opposite Adam Sandler.

Answer: Rounders

Other taglines for "Rounders" included:
All your hopes and dreams...crushed.
Trust everyone... but always cut the cards.
Pick a card, any card.
It's immoral to let a sucker keep his money.

A "rounder" is a person who earns a living by playing cards, particularly poker, and travels extensively to access high-stakes games. In this movie, the rounders are Mike McDermott (Matt Damon) and Lester "Worm" Murphy (Edward Norton). "Rounders" (1998) also starred John Malkovich, John Turturro and Martin Landau. Although the movie generated mixed reviews and was only mildly successful at the box office, it has a cult following among professional poker players.

Answer: The Last Airbender (2010)

This tagline is from "The Last Airbender", a convoluted tale involving Avatars trying to save the last Earth Kingdom by thwarting the Fire Nation from enslaving the Water Tribes. The four nations in the movie are the Fire Nation, the Water Tribes, the Earth Kingdom and the Air Nomads. If one nation eliminates the others, they won't have a shared destiny. If they can find a peaceful way to coexist, the shared destiny will be achieved. That's a pretty lofty tagline for a pedestrian and confusing movie! With a running time of 103 minutes, it seems a lot longer. Starring Dev Patel, Noah Ringer and Jackson Rathbone, this movie is hard to follow, and even harder to care about.

The other three choices listed are also Shyamalan films. "Signs" stars Mel Gibson and Joaquin Phoenix, and is suspenseful tale of mysterious crop circles that could be signs of something.

"Lady in the Water" is another muddled mess starring Bryce Dallas Howard and Paul Giamatti. It involves a writer, played by Shyamalan himself, a swimming pool, and a lady in the water, played by Howard. The twist is easy to guess and this isn't one of the director's best efforts.

My favorite film of Shyamalan's, by far, is "The Sixth Sense". Bruce Willis and Haley Joel Osment are wonderful in this tale of a boy who can see dead people and the psychologist who tries to help him cope.

Answer: You Again

"You Again" was released on September 24, 2010. It is about a young woman who discovers that her brother is about to marry someone who bullied her in high school. Now she wants to prove that he is about to marry someone who is hiding who they really are.

Answer: Weekend at Bernie's

The two morons were played by Jonathan Silverman and Andrew McCarthy, the corpse (Bernie) was played by Terry Kiser, and the plot involved a life-insurance scam, some mobsters, and a lot of lighthearted hijinks involving the body waterskiing, falling off gurneys, getting strangled and shot and poisoned. Great fun for the whole family!

Answer: Speed

Rush hour indeed--a master criminal (Dennis Hopper) placed a bomb on a city bus (in Los Angeles, during morning rush hour, just to make things more complicated) that would explode if the vehicle dropped below 50 MPH. This Jan de Bont film, starring Keanu Reeves and Sandra Bullock, was a surprise hit and catapulted Ms. Bullock to stardom (she'd previously appeared in such movies as "Love Potion No. 9" and "Fire on the Amazon").

Answer: The Hunt for Red October

The 'Red October' ('Krasniy Oktyabr') was a revolutionary new Soviet submarine equipped with a 'caterpillar drive', making it virtually undetectable by NATO or American navies. Captain Marko Ramius (Sean Connery) stole the sub from his country and attempted to flee to America, bringing it with him as a prize to help buy his freedom in a new country. The film was a hit, though critics complained that nothing much happened and that the movie was murky and hard to watch.

Answer: Wayne's World

'Hurl' is, of course, one of Wayne and Garth's favorite phrases in "Wayne's World" (along with 'Not!' and 'Babe-raham Lincoln'). The plot of the movie is the duo's attempts to keep their cable-access program pure and untainted in the face of corporate sponsorship and the growing love between Wayne and rock goddess Cassandra Wong (Tia Carrere).

"Wayne's World" was one of the more successful movies based on characters from Saturday Night Live. In 2008, the stars Mike Myers and Dana Carvey put on their wigs and outfits for the first time in fourteen years, to do a sketch at the MTV Movie Awards.

Answer: Deep Impact

"Heaven and Earth are about to collide." refers to the fact that a massive comet in going to crash into the Earth. The government and army have tried to stop it but it is still coming. Only a few people will survive it, these are picked at random and will live in a underground "ark" for two years. It focuses on the man who discovered it and his fight to let his girlfriend into the "ark". It will take years for the Earth to recover. It stars Elijah Wood, Morgan Freeman and Leelee Sobieski.

Answer: 50 First Dates

"50 First Dates" (2004) stars Adam Sandler and Drew Barrymore. Lucy (Barrymore) suffers from short-term memory loss, but Henry (Sandler) really loves her. So day after day, he tries to impress her, only to be forgotten the next. Will that stop them from sharing true love? The tagline refers to him trying to impress Lucy every, single, day.

Answer: Die Hard

"Die Hard" stars Bruce Willis and in my opinion could quite possibly be the best movie ever. Bruce Willis is John McClane, a New York cop on vacation in L.A. who happens to be in a building when it is taken over by twelve terrorists. McClane is the only one in the building who isn't held hostage, so it is up to him to save the rest of the citizens. This relates to the tagline because McClane is the one cop who is fighting the twelve terrorists, and he enjoys unfair situations like that.

Answer: Commando

"Commando" is the ultimate guy flick, starring Arnold Schwarzenegger as John Matrix, a retired elite commando, who is trying to rescue his kidnapped daughter, Jenny (Alyssa Milano). Jenny is kidnapped, so that Arius (Dan Hedaya), a former Latin American dictator, can force Matrix to kill the current dictator of the country. Arius wants the dictator killed, so that he can reinstate himself in power. Of course, Matrix is not interested in helping Arius, and he goes about rescuing his daughter the only way he knows how, with mass destruction. The movie is full of quirky one liners, and is as humourous as it is action filled. The tag line further depicts Matrix's attitude, to find his daughter at all costs. Matrix is keen to ensure that the kidnappers pay, because his love and bond with his daughter is unrivalled.

Answer: The Matrix

Computer hacker Neo (Keanu Reeves) meets the mysterious Morpheus (Lawrence Fishburne), who informs him that the world he lives in, is not what it seems. 'The Matrix' was the first movie to use 'bullet-time'. The mind-blowing special effects have since been used in both 'Matrix' sequels, 'Charlies Angels' 1 and 2 and 'Swordfish', among others.