Directors
This famous director helped create the "summer blockbuster" with a movie about a shark that terrorizes a small New England island.
Who is Steven Spielberg?
Ian Ziering only took the role of "Fin" in this now cult classic franchise to keep his Screen Actors Guild insurance.
What is Sharknado (2013)?
"I'm your huckleberry."
What is Tombstone (1993), Doc Holliday (Val Kilmer)?
This is when the special effects are physical and shot "in camera".
What are practical effects?
This is the year that the stunningly beautiful Gravity and the stunningly appalling Sharknado hit theaters.
Mexican director Alfonso Cuaron won the Best Director Oscar for this movie which he says is about extreme survival set in space.
What is Gravity (2013)?
We meet a young Josh Brolin in this ensemble action/adventure/coming-of-age film where he plays the older brother of the main protagonist. He would later go on to star as Thanos in the Avengers movies.
What is The Goonies (1985)?
"You're gonna need a bigger boat."
What is Jaws (1975), Chief Brody (Roy Schieder)?
This is when a computer renders images after the movie has been shot on film.
What are visual effects or VFX?
This is the fourth movie in the saga and the main character has been played by both Mel Gibson and Tom Hardy.
What is Mad Max: Fury Road?
Mad Max: Fury Road director George Miller is credited with inventing this sub-genre of action/drama movies. Let's hope the world doesn't end up like this for real.
What is post-apocalyptic?
This star plays Danny Ocean in the remake of Ocean's Eleven (2001) and astronaut Matt Kozwalski in the 2013 movie Gravity.
Who is George Clooney?
This group of treasure hunting kids "never say die".
Who are The Goonies?
Roughly 80% of this Sandra Bullock film was done with VFX (it was also shot using IMAX 3D for that fully immersive experience).
What is Gravity (2013)?
All the moustaches in this movie were real except for one. I guess the sheriff was no daisy at all.
What is Tombstone (1993)?
This heist movie is arguably director Steven Soderbergh's most famous. Someone tell Brad Pitt to put down the food.
What is Ocean's Eleven (2001)?
This was the mechanical shark in Jaws (1975) was named this after the director's lawyer.
What is Bruce?
"The greatest trick the devil ever pulled was convincing the world he didn't exist."
What is The Usual Suspects (1995)?
As it was filmed in the 1980's (before computers were really used to help make movies) this "family Christmas" movie about a teenager getting a new pet impressed us with its puppets and stop-motion animation.
What is Gremlins (1984)?
At the end of The Usual Suspects it's revealed that Verbal was making the whole story up by using names and words he saw in the office where he was being interrogated. The name he gave to his lawyer, "Kobayashi", was on this particular item.
What is a coffee mug?
George P. Cosmotos was hired to replace writer/director Kevin Jarre after the latter fell behind schedule while making this western. Though, according to many accounts, lead actor Kurt Russell was the real reason the film got made making him an uncredited "director".
What is Tombstone (1993)?
Kevin Spacey plays this "talkative" character in the modern film noir movie The Usual Suspects (1995). In the end though we do reveal his true identity: Keyser Soze.
Who is Verbal Kent?
"Beverly Hills emergency services are second to none."
What is Sharknado (2013)?
This director of such movies as Inception, The Dark Knight, and Interstellar prefers the use of practical effects over digital as he believes that the audience connects to real "gags" over fake ones.
Who is Christopher Nolan?
This is how much money was in the vault when Danny Ocean's team broke in.
What is $163M? (exact figure was $163,156,759)