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My wife is a bit of a movie trivia buff, six degrees of Kevin Bacon is a fun distraction. At a party a few months back, someone asked a nice trivia question, "Name actors/actresses that have been in two different sets of trilogies? (voice overs are allowed)". We came up with about six I think it was (eg Stallone, Sylvester - Rocky & Rambo; Damon, Matt - The Bourne * & Ocean's *; Weaving, Hugo - The Matrix & The Lord of the Rings; others I can't remember now...)

However I wanted to know if there were more. Take perl + imdb data (http://www.imdb.com/interfaces) + wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_film_trilogies, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_film_tetralogies, etc), stir, shake and voila

Some more obscure (Mars, Kenneth - The Land Before Time & The Little Mermaid) or in movies you might not want to watch (Davis, Warwick - Leprechaun * & Harry Potter and the * - you decide which I was referring to), or in one of a billion westerns from the 30's/40's (which then raises the question of what a "trilogy" really is...)

Some older movies I didn't know (Goodwin, Harold - Charlie Chan at * & Ma and Pa Kettle *), but also some we should have got (Fox, Michael J. (I) - Stuart Little & Back to the Future; Bloom, Orlando - Pirates of the Caribbean & The Lord of the Rings; Allen, Tim - The Santa Clause & Toy Story)

Some that might have been on the edge of what we'd have gotten (Diesel, Vin - The Fast and the Furious & Pitch Black/The Chronicles of Riddick; Reinhold, Judge - The Santa Clause & Beverly Hills Cop; DeLuise, Dom - All Dogs Go to Heaven & An American Tail; Lee, Christopher - The Lord of the Rings & numerous Dracula movies; Lane, Nathan - Stuart Little & The Lion King; Bronson, Charles - Death Wish & Family of Cops; Wagner, Robert - Austin Powers & Pink Panther movies; Jones, James Earl - Star Wars & The Hunt for Red October/Patriot Games/Clear and Present Danger;)

There's the "why no, i definitely haven't seen those" movies (Dough, Jon - Babewatch & Debbie Does Dallas '99/4/TNG)

And of course, we should have just said "Christopher Walken", because he does always seem to turn up when you least expect (Walken, Christopher - The Prophecy & Sarah, Plain and Tall/Skylark)

The movie trivia buffs were impressed... and I was a bit chuffed :)

In reply to Re: Impressing Your Significant Other III by robmueller
in thread Impressing Your Significant Other III by Limbic~Region

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