Congrats to MovieZeal overlord Evan Derrick for winning The Great Movie Poster Piece Contest! He wins a $25.00 gift card to Applebees, though with just 11 entries (where's the rest of my loyal and devoted following?), there will be no additional DVD giveaway. Wampa, your chance at eventually taking home the Logan's Run DVD is still alive and kicking. I think Evan's comment after taking the test sums it up best:"Fletch, you bastard. This quiz was cruel and inhumane. Way to suck a dude in. Do you realize what horrid corners of the internet I've had to travel to in order to figure all of these out? But.... I think I got them all."
Indeed he did. Evan blew away the competition, getting every answer correct - truly an amazing feat of determination and geekiness. Were I taking the test and not administering it, who knows how many I would have gotten?
That said, as I've told many of you, all of the posters shown above are either famous posters in their own right and/or from famous movies. Not a one is obscure. Anyway, here are the answers and final results - thanks to all of you that were up to the challenge, even if you knew you had no chance of winning. Next time, if there is one, there'll be a random "door prize" that a non-winner can win.
The Posters, from the image above:
1st row (l-r): A Clockwork Orange, E.T., Jaws, Out of Sight, Titanic, Vertigo, Walk the Line, The Exorcist
2nd row: Rosemary's Baby, The Silence of the Lambs, Pulp Fiction, Straw Dogs, Fargo, Gigi, M*A*S*H, Dr. Strangelove
The Results:
Evan - 16
Joseph - 10
Scott - 9
Alex (Nic Cage) - 8
Rachel - 8
Ross - 8
Andrew - 8
Luke - 7
Gaylord - 4
Shannon - 3
Nick - 2
Some final comments:
* Everyone got Jaws.
* Everyone but Nick (sorry) got The Silence of the Lambs.
* Two of you guessed Dr. Strangelove for the Vertigo poster, but each failed to get the actual Dr. poster.
* Evan was the only one to get Out of Sight, Straw Dogs, and Dr. Strangelove. Only one other person got M*A*S*H (Alex) and Gigi (Joseph).
Stay tuned - if I get another good prize, you're bound to see another one of these (or something like it) in the near future. In the meantime, have fun with Stained Glass Cinema.
Evan, meanwhile, is so hooked on movie poster quizzes that he started a great one of his own. It's easy...and hard. I got 8/10 - how many can you get?
