How Well Do You Know Your Movie-Poster Fonts?
If you were looking for a good way to kill some time at work today, I have just the thing: a fiendish, frustrating puzzle! The folks at Empire Online have devised a quiz wherein you are asked to identify a movie based only on one letter taken from its poster. The quiz looks like a ransom note -- "CAN YOU GUESS ALL THESE MOVIES FROM JUST THESE LETTERS?" -- and you basically have to recognize the fonts, though in some cases there are other clues, too. That "S" has a period after it ... or is it a bullet hole? The "O" seems to be spotted. Why is there a hand in that "A"?
I didn't think I'd do very well, but I wound up getting a lot of them. (I'd know that "J" anywhere!) It helps that a lot of the films are fairly recent and that none of them are obscure. Many are Oscar-winners and/or box-office champs. Use your powers of recall, your powers of deduction (why is there a quotation mark with the "G"?), and your powers of wasting time on the Internet.
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
8-19-2008 @ 4:41PM
E-Rock said...
M: Scream
O: Clockwork Orange
V: Vertigo
I: I, Robot
E: Wall-E
S: Psycho
Yes, you are correct, I have no life.
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8-19-2008 @ 5:17PM
Jessica D said...
LOL
8-19-2008 @ 7:12PM
MCW said...
Well darn, I didn't even get a chance to guess. Thanks a lot.
8-20-2008 @ 1:24AM
Rod said...
That is very impressive. Now I can rest easier knowing someone out there has less of a life than I. Thanx.
8-19-2008 @ 8:17PM
Crazyfatrobot@hotmail.com said...
There's even more of these at Internet Movie Poster Awards. It's something they have been doing for a loooooong time I should say.
http://www.impawards.com/fun/
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8-20-2008 @ 1:50PM
MarcDom7 said...
I got 29. Not bad.
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8-21-2008 @ 1:43PM
The Kid said...
this is quite old actually, it's been around since june.
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