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Obfuscations of Movie Titles #2

Translate these long-winded phrases into the titles of well-known movies.
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Last updated: March 27, 2020
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Obfuscation
Movie
Adult male Homo sapiens composed of the element with atomic symbol Fe
Iron Man
The daughter of the monarch whose nuptials are pending
The Princess Bride
0.5 x 102 monochromatic hues not fully white or black
Fifty Shades of Grey
Circulatory organ whose fear response is at lower than normal levels
Braveheart
Cycle of terrestrial rotation dedicated to the species Marmota monax
Groundhog Day
The ability of humans to perceive the natural world that exists beyond the
five typical methods for doing so
The Sixth Sense
Insanely affluent people from east of the Urals
Crazy Rich Asians
Extended military engagements of the gravitationally-bound masses of celestial plasma
Star Wars
My parent's sibling's child whose given name is Vincent
My Cousin Vinny
Location in which the remains of companionship animals are subterraneanly interred
Pet Sematary
The firearm which is completely devoid of garments
The Naked Gun
Visually locating the locomotives
Trainspotting
The future state will include the presence of sanguinal fluid
There Will be Blood
Narrative concerning the objects designed for the amusement of prepubescent humans
Toy Story
Visage disfigured by a healed wound
Scarface
The social organization devoted to the initial repast of the day
The Breakfast Club
The period of unease subsequent to abnormally high C2H6O consumption
The Hangover
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Level 84
Mar 27, 2020
Great quiz. My brain hurts.
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Level 77
Mar 27, 2020
Tried "Vinnie" several times before I could think of alternate spellings.
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Level 80
Mar 27, 2020
After Vinnie didn't work, I thought I'd misunderstood. Any chance of allowing that as a type-in?
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Level ∞
Mar 27, 2020
Vinnie will work now.
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Level 68
Oct 11, 2020
Would you consider also accepting "Cousin Vinnie", without the "My"?
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Level 74
Feb 7, 2021
"My" is in the clue, so I'd say that should be a big enough hint to include it.
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Level 72
Oct 18, 2023
Well it wasn't for me.
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Level 71
Mar 27, 2020
This is one of the best of these kinds that I've seen. Future state of sanguinal fluid literally made me laugh out loud.
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Level 79
Apr 18, 2022
That was my favorite, too!
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Level 66
Mar 27, 2020
These were great! Masterpieces, just wanted to let you know :)

Some were actually tóó clever for me, needed more studying to decipher them. (I guess if I was into movies I would have recognized some faster). It is definitely one to reread afterwards to appreciate it fully :)

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Level 66
Mar 27, 2020
Me reading the formula as glucose instead of alcohol didnt help, crash, sugardip, withdrawl and other attempts, only a few questions later I was back on track. Missed 5 in a row from hangover.
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Level 75
Oct 11, 2020
I'm glad I'm not the only one who thought that was sugar. (I'm blaming it on the three weeks of high school chem class I missed when I had a severe case of rubeola - or maybe it's the 50+ years that have passed since I took that class.)
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Level 60
Jun 23, 2022
I thought it was methane, but glucose would have been my second guess.
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Level 88
Mar 28, 2020
#5 could also be the Tom Cruise film War of the Worlds, which is what I tried first. Maybe accept that as an alternate?
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Level 72
Apr 2, 2020
"Masses of celestial plasma" can only really apply to stars, not worlds, I'd argue.
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Level 71
Jul 21, 2020
"Gravitationally-Bound Masses of Celestial Plasma" could be taken to mean masses which are bound gravitationally to celestial plasma, AKA planets orbiting stars.
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Level 72
Apr 11, 2020
This series of quizzes does amuse me QM. I had no idea what marmota monax was, tried Day of the Jackal, then thought I'd nailed it with Day of the Triffids. Not to be.
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Level 60
Jul 1, 2020
You have a weird idea of what "well known movie" is, imho.
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Level 66
Oct 10, 2020
Pretty well every one of those movies was up for or has won a popular award, so fairly well known I'd say.
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Level 82
Oct 10, 2020
All of these are well-known movies.
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Level 78
Oct 10, 2020
I'm not into movies at all, but I've heard of all of these and seen about half of them.
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Level 82
Oct 11, 2020
Many were huge cultural phenomena. Many won multiple awards. Many grossed millions of dollars. Many are quoted or referenced all the time in other media.

I've definitely heard of all of them and I've seen all but 50 Shades and Crazy Rich Asians. A bunch of these I've seen many times. Groundhog Day, The Princess Bride, and Star Wars I've probably seen at least 30-40x each. Iron Man, Braveheart, the 6th Sense, My Cousin Vinny, and Toy Story have to be close to those numbers. The only movie I think I've seen more than The Princess Bride is the 1986 The Transformers.

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Level 75
Dec 1, 2020
Kal I swear you must live in a dimension with like 80 hours in a day, having apparently done almost everything so many times...!
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Level 82
Mar 8, 2021
From 1979 - 2018 or so I did live a pretty full life. Since then I've slowed down. But... that means I've got more time to watch movies.
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Level 82
Jun 22, 2022
but... also... those movies listed are among the ones I have watched the most times in my entire life. Like I said, I think I've seen The Princess Bride more times than any other movie possibly excepting the old animated Transformers movie which I watched so many times as a child that the VHS tape broke.
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Level 65
Oct 10, 2020
Really enjoyed this one - thank you for a very clever quiz.
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Level 82
Oct 10, 2020
Was the Wolfpack drinking ethanol?
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Level 78
Oct 10, 2020
Shouldn't "Insanely affluent people from east of the Urals" be "Insane affluent people from east of the Urals"?
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Level 88
Oct 10, 2020
I guess it depends on how you interpret the actual movie title. Your version works for when crazy and rich are used as separate descriptive terms. However it could also be perceived as crazy-rich, where crazy provides emphasis to rich, just as insanely does for affluent in the given clue. So really it works either way, and the clue is fine as is IMO. In any case I guessed it without trouble.
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Level 82
Oct 10, 2020
knid's interpretation is correct.
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Level 68
Oct 11, 2020
For some reason, "Crazy Rich Cypriots" wouldn't work.
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Level 65
Jan 11, 2022
Cyprus is my favorite East-of-the-Urals country! It's so far east of the Urals!
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Level 75
Jun 26, 2022
Additional evidence of the correct interpretation: both adjectives modifying the same noun would generally require a comma, which is absent.
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Level 76
Oct 19, 2023
Not necessarily, especially with only two adjectives. For instance, you'd say "quick brown fox" rather than "quick, brown fox" and "cranky old man" instead of "cranky, old man." I mean, the title is still definitely intended to be "Asians who are crazy rich," just this evidence doesn't affect that interpretation one way or the other.
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Level 88
Oct 10, 2020
These are so great! I love this sort of quiz.
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Level 59
Oct 10, 2020
wow how is the average score 10
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Level 51
Oct 10, 2020
"Closely Watched Trains" should be acceptable for "Visually locating the locomotives."
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Level 56
Oct 11, 2020
it really shouldn't
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Level 51
Oct 16, 2020
Why? That's the first film I thought of, and fits the "obfuscation" pretty well.
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Level 78
Apr 14, 2021
Ha ha, from the Czechoslovak New wave of moviemakers in 1966. Obviously.
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Level 85
Dec 6, 2021
Closely Watched Trains was my first thought too.
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Level 76
Oct 19, 2023
That title doesn't fit the grammar of the clue, though. "Visually locating the locomotives" is looking for a present participle to match "locating." For your title to match, it would have to be "Closely Watching Trains."
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Level 55
Oct 13, 2020
Fun, but quite difficult.
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Level 52
Jul 13, 2021
we learned ethanol as c2h5oh in chemistry class so that last one took me a while
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Level 77
Sep 3, 2021
I tried "Crash" for the last one. I kept thinking that C6H22O11 was sugar so clearly C2H6O was also some kind of sugar? Never dawned on me that it was alcohol.
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Level 79
Apr 18, 2022
Fun and very challenging!
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Level 80
Jun 22, 2022
Narrative concerning the objects designed for the amusement of prepubescent humans: 'childs play' is no real wrong answer because it is a narrative about an object for children
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Level 77
Jun 22, 2022
Child’s Play would ignore the “narrative” part of the clue. The obfuscation is about each word in the title, after all.
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Level 72
Jun 22, 2022
I was also convinced it was "Child's Play" until that didn't work, but I thought about how it was not "Child's Play" and was able to come up with the right answer.
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Level 66
Jun 22, 2022
This is what happens when someone learns how to use a thesaurus.
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Level 72
Jun 22, 2022
it's a minor thing, but shouldn't "Homo sapiens" be singular since it's Iron Man and not Iron Men.
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Level 65
Jun 23, 2022
Homo sapiens is singular in Latin, meaning "wise man". The plural would be homines sapientes
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Level 66
Oct 19, 2023
Nope. The singular of Homo sapiens is Homo sapiens.
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Level 19
Jul 24, 2023
i both had fun with this quiz and learned a lot from the clarifications in the comments. my favorite quiz type so far.
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Level 43
Oct 20, 2023
I tried "Scarred Face" for Scarface and spotting/seeing trains for Trainspotting.