A film for every day of the year
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Orang Utan
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Do they mention the date on Murtaugh’s 50th in Lethal Weapon?
SpookyFrank
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March 22nd - Birth of James T Kirk - Star Trek (J.J. reboot)
Yeah, I was going to use that to get Wrath of Khan on the list but changed my mind.
Spandex
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Orang Utan
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Think they’ve got them all here - fill your boots: On This Day
Does it happen on screen though? Does it happen on screen? That's the criterion, you big orange lump.
Orang Utan
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I don’t know - are we supposed to rewatch all of the films or summat?
Orang Utan
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Anyway, check that Letterboxd link - they’ve saved you the bother
scifisam
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How fun.
Orang Utan
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Have you read it?
scifisam
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I've looked at it, yes. There's not a lot of reading to do. It's just a list of movies so that we can go oh well, game over, bye! As if nobody else could just google the same things you did rather than try to actually think of movies.
Orang Utan
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it’s very informative though. I don’t think we’re expected to watch all of these films again to identify dates being mentioned. That’s a hard ask. We’ve watched a bunch of films over the years and can’t be expected to remember exact dates, though we do remember certain scenes, so need the internet to aid our memory sometimes. Not everyone has a photographic memory.
Orang Utan
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Not sure what the point of the internet is if you can’t use it to help you find things out
I'm aware.
Spandex
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I found that site and nicked a load of dates from it, but it answers a slightly different question to the one Santino asks in the OP.
This thread is about scenes in films that happen on a specific date. That site lists specific dates in films, whether a scene happens then or not.
eg. For 8th January it gives Roy Batty's inception in Bladerunner. This appears in the film here:
It's years since I've seen Bladerunner but I don’t remember a flashback to Roy's inception day and I don't remember him celebrating his birthday (happy to be proved wrong, but he doesn't seem the party hats and cake type; bet he's great at pinata).
If someone wants to go through all the films listed and check if a scene actually happens on that date, that'd be grand.
I also think Pegg gets stabbed on 3rd May and the climactic shoot-out takes place on May the 4th, which would be very on-brand.
DaveCinzano
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Have we stalled a little?
Feels like we've stalled
Feels like we've stalled
DaveCinzano
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| 27/05 | Anthropoid | Czechoslovak soldiers attempt to assassinate Heydrich in Prague |
DaveCinzano
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28th March is already taken, I'm afraid
Is there someone in particular who has wronged you that could be given this task?
surreybrowncap
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Regarding Watchmen..
October 16th - Rorschach's voiceover mentions this date from his journal....
Orang Utan
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Do scenes with exploding calendar montages count?
If you can identify visible action on screen as having taken place on a specific day of the year, it counts.
As a reward they can watch the cool fight in the alleyway and the prison break sequence.
