Thursday, January 14, 2010

Guess That Gun, the results

Alrighty, kids. Guess That Gun has now officially drawn to a close. We had some awesome players with some creative guesses, and I would like to thank everyone for playing. (If you still want to play, there won't be any prizes, but feel free to check out Round 1, Round 2, and Round 3.) Before I announce the winners, here is a recap of every screenshot, with every guess listed below it (and the correct answer in bold caps):


THE BIG LEBOWSKI, Kingpin

Pulp Fiction, Beverly Hills Cop, AMERICAN BEAUTY, The Mummy, Absolute Power, Layer Cake

Cocoon, HOLES, Alien

INDIANA JONES AND THE LAST CRUSADE, Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark

ARMY OF DARKNESS, Rambo

CASINO ROYALE, Scarface, Quantum of Solace

Who Framed Roger Rabbit?, Pulp Fiction, The Godfather, Clue, Johnny Dangerous... The correct answer is MOULIN ROUGE!, people. Come on!

MAVERICK, Sherlock Holmes, Shanghai Noon, Assassin's Creed 2, Three Musketeers

SAINTS AND SOLDIERS, Saving Private Ryan, Jurassic Park, Road to Perdition, Enemy at the Gates, Unforgiven

The Patriot, PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN: THE CURSE OF THE BLACK PEARL

HOT FUZZ, The Fifth Element, The Usual Suspects, A History of Violence, Fargo

The Punisher, V for Vendetta, The Dark Knight, Sin City, EQUILIBRIUM

THE FIFTH ELEMENT

Stand By Me, American History X, BRICK, The Shawshank Redemption

Gone in 60 Seconds, Terminator 2, DEJA VU, The Bourne Identity

THE DARK KNIGHT

Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest, Waterworld, Treasure Island, CUTTHROAT ISLAND

O BROTHER, WHERE ART THOU?, Public Enemies, 3:10 to Yuma, The Untouchables, Bonnie and Clyde

The Matrix, Die Hard, Jaws, A Clockwork Orange, SPACEBALLS

ROMEO + JULIET, Ace Ventura, Miami Vice, True Romance

LEON (THE PROFESSIONAL), The Boondock Saints

Thelma and Louise, Copycat, SAVED!

SERENITY, The Terminator, Shoot 'Em Up

HOOK, Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World

The Matrix, Cobra, STAR WARS: A NEW HOPE

WHO FRAMED ROGER RABBIT?

Wanted, THE USUAL SUSPECTS, The Boondock Saints, The Fugitive

Silence of the Lambs, Hollywood Homicide, THE BOONDOCK SAINTS, Lethal Weapon

DIE HARD, American History X

The Boondock Saints, DESPERADO, Once Upon a Time in Mexico
A few statistics:
  -The most correctly-guessed gun: The Dark Knight (9 right)
  -The most incorrectly-guessed gun: Moulin Rouge! (0 right)
  -The most different guesses for one gun: American Beauty, Saints and Soldiers, and O Brother, Where Art Thou?(6)
  -The guns with only correct guesses: The Fifth Element, The Dark Knight, and Who Framed Roger Rabbit? (1)
  -Shame on all those who missed: Star Wars - A New Hope, Hook
  -Double-shame on those who think that I would own: Wanted, Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest
  -Props to those who got: Brick, Saved!, American Beauty
  -Double-props to those who correctly labeled: Ash's "Boomstick", the "+" in Romeo + Juliet

And now for the winners:
  3rd - In third place, with 16.5 points (out of 30), is "joe". For your prize, I will let you keep my copy of Three Amigos. (That's right, I just called you out.)
  2nd - In second place, with 17.5 points, is "TheOne", my newly-found friend from India. Since the logistics of getting a prize to you would be crazy, for your prize I will do a blog entry about any India/Bollywood/etc.-related topic of your choice.
  1st - And in first place, with a mighty 20.5 points, is "--jeff *". For your prize, I have a brand new DVD of Dr. Seuss's The Grinch Grinches the Cat in the Hat (including the Emmy-nominated The Hoober-Bloob Highway). Congratulations, gentlemen.


--jeff * wins!
The rest of the rankings are as follows:
  TheFormer786 - 16
  Becca - 12.5
  cwils33 - 7.5
  RedSteve - 6.5
  Melinda - 5
  Katie - 4.5
  Tiff - 4
  Rachel - 2
  Tracy - 1

Incidentally, none of you should feel bad for not getting many: two of the three winners were/are film students.*


*Yeah, those guys.
Thanks again to all who played. And if there is enough interest, there will be another similar game coming soon—feel free to leave any suggestions in comments.

7 comments:

--jeff * said...

seriously fun game.

maybe "name that car" for the next game?
or even "name that obscure minor character"? which, incidentally, may very well be harder, since the guns are often iconic.

still, heck of a lot of fun.

i need to borrow brick from you.

Tiff said...

Name the obscure minor character WOULD be fun....but no google cheating, and perhaps a separate scoring system for us non-movie-nerds. Love it!!!!

The Former 786 said...

SONOFA!

I thought I had this one. I at LEAST though I beat Jeff! I'm pretty sure he cheated. I demand a recount!

Based on quickness of response + answers, I totally won!

There, I'm done justifying/rationalizing. It's time for me to hang up my film reels and admit defeat.

TheOne said...

First of all, Adam, thank you!!!
I came across this contest through IMDB. And now here i am the underdog form India :P
I thought TheFormer786 would beat me easily in the last round but --jeff* came from nowhere to take away the prize.
In all fairness; a few were sure shots, a few were guesses but mostly i was lucky :)
Looking forward to another one of these.

Katie said...

i haven't seen most of those movies, but WHY wouldn't you desire to own WANTED, that is a fabulous movie!

Becca said...

I vote for more contests about movies.

I have spoken.

Love, peace, and the dog's bollocks.

Tracy said...

I don't feel bad because I haven't seen the majority of those movies. I also knew it was Hook, I just never told you. :)