I just won a dollar*!
Apr. 13th, 2011 02:50 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
trinityvixenSome one here at work actually bet against me on a piece of movie trivia. Now, I'm not the greatest at general trivia, but when it comes to casting, my knowledge from about the 1980s onward is impossibly impressive. I think the only time I can remember losing a battle of "I think he/she was in that, actually," was when ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
droidguy1119 said Dan Akroyd was in Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom and I said I didn't think so. (He is. I'd be ashamed, but he's barely in it. He, like, walks Indy to his plane.) This among other reasons is why no one ever wants to play SceneIt with me (beyond the fact that I also have an uncanny ability to win versions of that game concerned with franchises I don't enjoy).
My work colleague, who has known me to be not only a movie buff but pretty much a movie maniac, made the mistake of challenging me on the casting of Deep Blue Sea. I was making the point that no one in those sorts of movies has any real character, and, as such, everyone was referred to in short-hand if they weren't famous. So the cast was "the fish guy," "the bitch," "L.L. Cool J," and "Samuel L. Jackson" when I watched that movie and that is what I remembered.
My coworker, A., held me up, "Wait, wasn't that Morgan Freeman?"
Uh, no. She was so sure that she actually wanted to wager money on it, and, despite my usually adhering my mother's rule of "never bet more than a nickel," I took her up on that challenge. Since we didn't have our internet phones on us, we quizzed the next person who walked into the lunch room--where we were at the time--about the movie. His response? "Isn't that the one where Samuel L. Jackson gets eaten by a shark?"
VICTORY. Of course, victory was not formally declared until we got back to the computer to verify this very unscientific sampling. Made me so happy I was able to blithely ignore what is obviously a bogus rumor (or, if true, a practical impossibility) that Bradley Cooper is going to be The Crow in the remake.
*I didn't actually demand the $1. It was a friendly wager, no matter how smug this LJ post seems.
droidguy1119 said Dan Akroyd was in Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom and I said I didn't think so. (He is. I'd be ashamed, but he's barely in it. He, like, walks Indy to his plane.) This among other reasons is why no one ever wants to play SceneIt with me (beyond the fact that I also have an uncanny ability to win versions of that game concerned with franchises I don't enjoy).My work colleague, who has known me to be not only a movie buff but pretty much a movie maniac, made the mistake of challenging me on the casting of Deep Blue Sea. I was making the point that no one in those sorts of movies has any real character, and, as such, everyone was referred to in short-hand if they weren't famous. So the cast was "the fish guy," "the bitch," "L.L. Cool J," and "Samuel L. Jackson" when I watched that movie and that is what I remembered.
My coworker, A., held me up, "Wait, wasn't that Morgan Freeman?"
Uh, no. She was so sure that she actually wanted to wager money on it, and, despite my usually adhering my mother's rule of "never bet more than a nickel," I took her up on that challenge. Since we didn't have our internet phones on us, we quizzed the next person who walked into the lunch room--where we were at the time--about the movie. His response? "Isn't that the one where Samuel L. Jackson gets eaten by a shark?"
VICTORY. Of course, victory was not formally declared until we got back to the computer to verify this very unscientific sampling. Made me so happy I was able to blithely ignore what is obviously a bogus rumor (or, if true, a practical impossibility) that Bradley Cooper is going to be The Crow in the remake.
*I didn't actually demand the $1. It was a friendly wager, no matter how smug this LJ post seems.
