Being a movie geek can be a burden some times. The more you know, the more you want to share that knowledge. Unfortunately, there are so few mainstream outlets, because most people could care less. That is why there was a beautiful period in the 90’s when a movie trivia game became all the rage at parties.
Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon
Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon was a simple game. Players needed to link Kevin Bacon to another actor by using movies. Why Kevin Bacon? He had a vast enough filmography that you could easily link him to anyone in six movies or less. The idea was to link them in as few movies as possible.
For example, if someone said John Wayne. You could say Kevin Bacon was in Mystic River with Sean Penn who was in Casualties of War with Michael J. Fox who was in Back to the Future with Christopher Lloyd who was in Suburban Commando with Shelley Duvall who was in The Shining with Scatman Crothers who was in The Shootist with John Wayne. That is six.
It’s time for a new game
Now the more movies Kevin Bacon made, the easier the game became. So I say, “no mas”, time to play a new game. Let’s expand this to all the far flung reaches of filmdom. Each week I will give two people to connect. The goal remains to connect them in as few movies as possible. However, that is only part of the fun. Bonus points are given for creativity, obscurity and downright odd movie choices. Also, try not to use IMDB.com (like I did in the above example). It will be a lot more fun.
A different theme every week
Each week will have a different theme. I will also have an end movie in mind. See if you can guess that. There may also be weeks where I give bonus challenges – for example, use a famed rock musician as part of your chain (this may or may not be a hint to what I was thinking today).
But for today, let’s start simple and celebrate the 80’s mustache.
Connect:
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Post your chains in the comment section below and let’s have some fun!
Dave Umbricht loves his family, movies and the NBA (in that order). His unexplainable, genetic attraction to movies flourished in the early ’80s thanks to Siskel and Ebert. It’s also believed Dave was the only 8-year-old to know of My Dinner with Andre, even though he didn’t see it until he was 28. In the ’90s he wrote three awful screenplays, including next summer’s Cowboys and Aliens (or at least a script with the same title). He still can’t dunk a basketball.
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Sam Elliott was in roadhouse with Patrick swayze who was in the outsiders with Matt Dillon who was in In and Out with tom selleck. Simples!!!
Maggie, I really dig that it goes from the kick-ass awesomeness of Roadhouse to the wacky hijinks of In and Out! The real question is: Does anyone have any more connections? 🙂
Elliott was in SIBLING RIVALRY with Kirstie Alley who was in RUNAWAY with Selleck.
Ian, dude, seriously you got it in one freakin’ move! That’s awesome! 🙂
Sam Elliot was in GHOST RIDER with Eva Mendes who was in HITCH with Will Smith, who was in WILD WILD WEST with Kevin Kline, who was in IN AND OUT with Tom Selleck!
That’s an awesome connection Twauna! 🙂
Holy nutcracker!! This is a grrrreat game, Joel! Loves it! 🙂
Glad you like it Kim! It’s gonna be a regular feature thanks to Dave! 🙂
time to play a new game
so cool trivia game
Hi Zoozli, So Glad you like it! 🙂
Sam Elliot was in “Mask” with Eric Stoltz, who was in “Say Anything” with Joan Cusack, who was in “In & Out” with Tom Selleck.
Well played Chris!
Sam Elliot/Nic Cage – Ghost Rider
Nic Cage/Kathleen Turner – Peggy Sue Got Married
Kathleen Turner/Michael Douglas – Romancing the Stone
Michael Douglas/Charlie Sheen – Wall Street
Charlie Sheen/Dennis Haysbert – Major Leaugue
Dennis Haysbert/Tom Selleck – Mr. Baseball
I’m just happy I could include Nic Cage in this.
Great work everyone – I’ll have to come up with some more difficult twists for next week’s edition. Here is a chain featuring some of the movies mentioned here on the site last week (the chain had to be more than six movies):
Sam Elliot
was in Tombstone with Charlton Heston
who was in Airport 1975 with Beverly Garland
who was in Alligator People with Bruce Bennett
who was in The Outsider with Tony Curtis
who was in The Last Tycoon with Robert DeNiro
who was in Raging Bull with Cathy Moriarty
who was in Neighbors with Dan Aykroyd
who was in Blues Brothers 2000 with John Goodman
who was in O Brother, Where Art Thou? with Christy Taylor
who was in … And God Spoke with Andy Dick
who was in Cable guy with Jim Carrey
who was in Liar Liar with Randall “Tex” Cobb
who was in Blind Fury with Rutger Hauer
who was in Wanted Dead or Alive with Gene Simmons
who was in Runaway with
Tom Selleck
Being old(ish) is really helpful with these things.
I was thinking it would be possible to connect Lou Gossett Jr. (from IRON EAGLE) directly to Cruise, but somehow they’ve never worked together. 😀 Thank you for this post!
Both were in the Sacketts a TV movie