Mutated Movies after the Bomb II Quiz

Answer: The Hateful Eight Below

"The Hateful Eight" is directed by Quentin Tarantino. Kurt Russell plays John "The Hangman" Ruth who is taking his female prisoner, Daisy Domergue (Jennifer Jason Leigh), to Red Rock to be hanged. In "Eight Below", a storm is closing in and eight sled dogs are left at an Antarctic weather station because there is not enough room for them on the escape plane. Seven dogs manage to get off their leashes and spend months trying to survive. Six dogs manage to survive before being rescued by their owner.

Answer: Galaxy Quest for Fire

In "Galaxy Quest" the TV transmissions of a "Star Trek" like TV series are picked up by an alien race and mistaken for historical documents of real life. The aliens enlist the help of the TV series cast to help them in a battle with their enemy. In "Quest for Fire", a clan of cave people's fire goes out and because no one in the clan knows how to create fire, must take a trek into the wilderness in order to find it.

Answer: The Color of Money Monster

In "The Color of Money" Paul Newman resurrects the character Edward "Fast Eddie" Felson from the movie "The Hustler". Eddie is in the liquor business now and runs into a young, hot shot 9-ball player named Vincent (Tom Cruise), and decides to teach him how to hustle pool on their way to a 9-ball tournament in Atlantic City.

In "Money Monster", TV financial expert Lee Gates (George Clooney) and his crew get taken as hostages on live TV by an investor who went bankrupt due to Gates's advice and a glitch in the trading system.

Answer: Mad Max Steel

"Mad Max" is the first of the "Mad Max" (also known as "The ROad Warrior") movie series. It was followed up by "Mad Max 2" (1981), "Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome" (1985) and "Mad Max: Fury Road" (2015). "Mad Max 2 was also called "The Road Warrior". Mel Gibson starred as Max in the first three movies and Tom Hardy took over the role in "Fury Road".

The 2016 movie "Max Steel" is based on an action toy and animated TV series of the same name.

Answer: Con Air Bud

In "Con Air" Nicolas Cage plays a discharged army ranger who gets put in prison for killing a man attacking his wife. He is paroled after eight years and while riding back home on a prison transport plane, the plane is hijacked by the prisoners being transported.

The movie "Air Bud" spawned five movies with Bud, a golden retriever, playing a variety of sports. It also spawned seven spin-off "Air Buddies" movies.

Answer: End of Days of Thunder

In "End of Days", Jericho Cane (Arnold Schwarzenegger), a former New York Police detective gets caught up in a religious battle between good and evil and has to save a girl from being chosen to conceive the son of Satan by New Year's Eve 1999. In "Days of Thunder", rookie stock car driver Cole Trickle (Tom Cruise) has a major crash on the track and falls in love with his doctor played by Nicole Kidman.

In his return to the track, Trickle manages to get over his fears of having another crash and ends up winning the Daytona 500.

Answer: Captain Blood Diamond

In "Captain Blood", physician Peter Blood (Errol Flynn) is unjustly arrested while treating an English Lord who is charged with treason. Blood is exiled
but escapes captivity and becomes a notorious pirate. He later returns to the English colony he escaped from to fend off an invasion by French ships. The movie "Blood Diamond" is about the selling of diamonds from war torn countries in Africa and the profits being used to fund the wars and keep the slave mines running.

Answer: Forever Young Frankenstein

The movie "Forever Young" tells the story of a pilot who believes his girlfriend will soon die so he agrees to participate in a freezing experiment only to find out after being revived fifty three years later that his girlfriend didn't die. The 1974 movie "Young Frankenstein" ranks number thirteen on the American Film Institute's top 100 comedies of all time.

Answer: Raging Bull Durham

"Raging Bull" is filmed entirely in black and white and is a biographical film about the fighting years of middle and light-heavy weight boxer Jake LaMotta. Robert De Niro won the Best Actor Oscar for his role as Jake LaMotta. "Bull Durham" tells the story of aged catcher Crash Davis (Kevin Costner) and rookie pitching sensation Ebby Calvin "Nuke" LaLoosh. Crash is picked up by the Durham Bulls, a Carolina League ball club, so that he can nurse maid Ebby into becoming a premier Big League pitcher.

Answer: Bronco Billy Madison

"Bronco Billy" is about a wild west show cowboy played by Clint Eastwood who winds up hiring well-to-do socialite Antoinette Lily (Sondra Locke) to be the stunt woman in his show. Antoinette is running away from and being pursued by a man she is supposed to marry but can't stand. "Billy Madison" is the story of a hotel owner's spoiled adult son who has to repeat grades kindergarten through twelfth grade in order to prove to his father that he is not too stupid to take over the family business.