A film for every day of the year

[DaveCinzano]

06/11

The Batman

The day after the Riddler's grand scheme

 

[Spandex]

27th March - Taylor enters hibernation at the beginning of Planet of the Apes:

 

[Spandex]

19th June - Douglas Quaid arrives on Mars in Total Recall:

 

[Elpenor]

January 28th

ID - John and Bob and other members of the Shadwell Army, go into the home end at Wapping and have a good old ruck.

 

[Ranu]

Bonnie and Clyde should be May 23rd, not 19th.

 

[scifisam]

18th July - Federico Bahamontes wins the Tour de France, seen on screen in Amelie

 

[Spandex]

21st March - LUH swaps THX's medication in THX 1138:

 

[Santino]

21st March - LUH swaps THX's medication in THX 1138:

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Stupendous George Lucas action. Doing the Lord's work.

 

[Spandex]

I checked Citizen Kane for dates and despite all those newspaper front pages filling up the big screen none of them have a date on. They call this the greatest film ever made? In what kind of a world do newspapers not have the date on the front page? You've let yourself down, Mr Wells, and you've let all of us down.

An apology to Mr Orson Welles: it seems the Washington Inquirer does have the date on the cover:



Which means that Susan Alexander's standing ovation must have happened on 3rd December, if it's in the next day's paper.

 

[Spandex]

19th December - Under 18 All Valley Karate Championships in Karate Kid.

 

[DaveCinzano]

Updated with closest and furthest to completion:

January - 15 done, 16 to go
February - 22 done, 7 to go
March - 15 done, 16 to go
April - 20 done, 10 to go
May - 21 done, 10 to go
June - 22 done, 8 to go
July - 16 done, 15 to go
August - 21 done, 10 to go
September - 15 done, 15 to go
October - 20 done, 11 to go
November - 18 done, 12 to go
December - 15 done, 16 to go

 

[surreybrowncap]

October 30th - Radio Days
A car radio is turned on - Orson Welles's War of the Worlds is being broadcast...

 

[Spandex]

20th December - Patrick Bateman asks Paul Allen "you like Huey Lewis and the News?" In American Psycho.

 

[Spandex]

11th August - Wikus Van De Merwe escapes from MNU Headquarters in District 9:

 

[CNT36]

The Disaster Artist - 24th July 2009 premiere of The Room.

 

[CNT36]

The Final Countdown 6th December 1941 USS Nimitz emerges from a vortex and the crew discover they have travelled in time.

 

[Orang Utan]

The Hunger Games’ Katniss Everdeen’s birthday is on May 8th

 

[Orang Utan]

Superbad’s McLovin’s fake ID says he was born on 3rd June 1981

 

[Santino]

The Hunger Games’ Katniss Everdeen’s birthday is on May 8th

Superbad’s McLovin’s fake ID says he was born on 3rd June 1981

Do either of these days actually feature in the films?

 

[Spandex]

The Hunger Games’ Katniss Everdeen’s birthday is on May 8th

Katniss doesn't celebrate her birthday in the films, however...

The prequel book The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes gives the date of the 10th Reaping as 4th July and implies it happens the same day every year. Although the film doesn't give the date we could assume this is the date of the Reaping.

But 4th July is taken.

After the Reaping Katniss and Peeta are taken to an overnight train to the Capitol and there is a scene of breakfast the next morning, which would be 5th July.

 

[Orang Utan]

Do either of these days actually feature in the films?

Dunno about the first, but the ID is clearly shown in Superbad and is a big part of the plot

 

[Santino]

Dunno about the first, but the ID is clearly shown in Superbad and is a big part of the plot

Doesn't count then. Only days that are actually shown in the film qualify.

 

[Orang Utan]

Doesn't count then. Only days that are actually shown in the film qualify.

Pffft. You know what I think about rules

 

[Orang Utan]

Henry V - 25th October (Battle of Agincourt)

Dammit, same date as Charge Of The Light Brigade

 

[Orang Utan]

oookay, in Rocky 4, Rocky Balboa gives his corner man Paulie a robot for his birthday, much to his chagrin. I can’t remember if the date is specified in the film, but in the Rocky Balboa instalment of the franchise, Rocky visits his grave on his birthday. Does that count?
The date is November 19th.

 

[Santino]

Pffft. You know what I think about rules

It's not rules, it's my authority. You're not on the New Jokes thread now.

 

[Santino]

oookay, in Rocky 4, Rocky Balboa gives his corner man Paulie a robot for his birthday, much to his chagrin. I can’t remember if the date is specified in the film, but in the Rocky Balboa instalment of the franchise, Rocky visits his grave on his birthday. Does that count?
The date is November 19th.

Whose grave on whose birthday? If you know from diegetic evidence that the day being portrayed on screen is 19 November then yes that counts.

 

[Orang Utan]

Whose grave on whose birthday? If you know from diegetic evidence that the day being portrayed on screen is 19 November then yes that counts.

Paulie’s grave on Paulie’s birthday

 

[Orang Utan]

It's not rules, it's my authority. You're not on the New Jokes thread now.

I

 

[Orang Utan]

Forrest Gump’s girlfriend Jenny says she was born in the day of the first nuclear explosion by the US, which was July 16th 1945