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1. I turned on Turner Classic Movies to watch what I thought was the sequel to "The Lion King". Instead, I got a medieval drama with Peter O'Toole and Katharine Hepburn in which O'Toole's character was trying to choose which of his sons would become the King of England after he died. I really enjoyed it, but it had nothing to do with lions and was not the animated sequel I expected. What was it?
2. After that Turner Classic Movies gaff, I went to the video rental store to pick out my next movie. I rented an animated film that appeared to be about Japanese royalty. I'd been tricked again. It was a rich, environmental tale about a cursed warrior and a young woman raised by wolves. But nobody with that name was to be found (except twice as a nickname). So, which movie was it?
3. Eek! I really messed up this time. I rented what I thought would be a cute animal movie for my baby-sitting charges. It turned out to be a really violent crime caper where everyone had a color in their names. I had to stop it quickly. What did I accidentally show them?
4. Okay, now I'm feeling really stupid. Since I liked "Ben-hur" and the chariot racing in that one, I picked out a movie whose title suggested more of the same, 'Chariots of Fire'! How could I possibly go wrong with this one? Well, I did it again. There were no chariots on fire in this one, though it had some good music. What was the subject of this Best Picture winner?
5. Um...yeah, I feel really embarrassed about this one, but I'll tell it anyway. After the previous fiasco, I tried a foreign movie that appeared to be about clothes. It turned out that the way the title of this war movie was pronounced in its native tongue. It sounded like the English translation of the word, and mispronouncing it led to my confusion. So, what was the original title and its translation?
6. Ha! I finally got to pull one over on someone else! I suggested that my little brother watch a certain movie with me. He took one look at the title and said, "No, it's too girly." I persuaded him to watch the first twenty minutes, and he was hooked into the adventure/comedy/fantasy/parody film. He especially loved the "battle of wits" and the Billy Crystal moments. Which classic film from the 80s is his new favorite?
7. Oh no! I've done it again! I wanted a documentary this time and picked up a movie that seemed like it could only be about a South American country. Boy, was I wrong. I got a dystopic view of the future where the governor from "Pirates of the Caribbean" dreamed he could fly. Robert De Niro was in a few scenes as well. The song with the same name did appear in the movie--which one?
8. So, after seeing that vision of dystopia, I remembered that I'd always liked a good "The world is coming to an end" movie and picked one (by title, of course) accordingly. Well, you guessed it, this movie had nothing to do with the end of the world. Instead, I lost myself in a Vietnam war movie with beautiful cinematography, napalm, and The Doors. In it, an Army captain was sent up the river to assassinate a renegade officer. And I think Marlon Brando was in it, but I couldn't quite tell because his character stayed hidden in shadows during his few scenes. What great movie did I just discover?
9. Okay, so I was only half-tricked on this one. There was a character with the title name in the picture--but it was a boat, not royalty! Katharine Hepburn and Humphrey Bogart were in this hot, buggy movie about a drunkard escorting a missionary down a river while trying to avoid the Germans. What was it?
10. That's it! From now on, I'm checking the summaries of the movies I rent before I watch them! Once again, I thought I was getting a cute animal movie...until I saw a man slice open a woman's eyeball in the first scene! The rest of the sixteen-minute film contained many disconnected plot threads and scenes, including a man wearing a nun's garb while riding a bicycle, a car running over a woman, and a man dragging around two grand pianos full of dead donkeys. Salvador Dalí worked on this black-and-white surrealist movie. What was it?
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