Quiz Bowl Movie
Quiz Bowl Movie
Anyone see this yet?:
http://www.starterfor10.com
Comments, reviews, etc?
I know it's University Challenge and not really "quizbowl," but until we get The Matt Weiner Story this is as close as it gets.
Edit: Added American website
http://www.starterfor10.com
Comments, reviews, etc?
I know it's University Challenge and not really "quizbowl," but until we get The Matt Weiner Story this is as close as it gets.
Edit: Added American website
Last edited by shlack on Tue Feb 27, 2007 9:41 pm, edited 1 time in total.
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My freshman year I secretly began writing a screenplay called "For Ten Points", about a rag-tag team of misfits and neer-do-wells that somehow manages to mesh together and, after many montage scenes, wins ACF Fall.
But I never finished it. And now somebody stole my idea, at least kind of, with this movie's title.
But I never finished it. And now somebody stole my idea, at least kind of, with this movie's title.
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Yeah, we came up with an idea of doing a quiz bowl musical on the drive up to TRASH Regionals last fall.
I recently got the idea that it should involve a nuclear holocaust and the rebuilding of civilizations based on good quizbowl aesthetics.
I recently got the idea that it should involve a nuclear holocaust and the rebuilding of civilizations based on good quizbowl aesthetics.
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Apparently the movie is coming out in full release March 9 here in the States. Has anyone seen any other movies with Quiz Bowl depictions? The only ones I can remember are the QB/AD-esque game in The Day after Tomorrow, the College Bowl-like show in the Disney made-for-TV remake of The Computer Wore Tennis Shoes starring Kirk Cameron, and the original The Computer Wore Tennis Shoes (haven't seen it so I'm not totally sure).
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The great movie "Diner" has a scene in which the character played by Kevin Bacon watches the original GE College Bowl show with Allen Ludden hosting and answers the questions before the players; this occurs before he ends up drunk in the town's nativity creche in his underwear and punches out the Joseph figure. Joe Bob says check it out.
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Surely you mean Shawn Hunter, don't you Mr. Morlan?leftsaidfred wrote:It's not a movie, but Boy Meets World had that one episode where Corey, Topanga and not-Corey were kept on a show because they were "cool.".
Forrest Whitaker could also play the part of the Ismail Twins, perhaps via split-screen technology.
Well, it looks like nobody is going to see this. The film had an absolutely horrible opening, and the distributor is pulling it from most theaters. Shame.
I really hope this doesn't keep us from seeing the Dan Passner-produced documentary NAQT'ia '04, tentatively scheduled for a release by Fox Searchlight in September 2007.
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I really hope this doesn't keep us from seeing the Dan Passner-produced documentary NAQT'ia '04, tentatively scheduled for a release by Fox Searchlight in September 2007.
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It got good reviews, and it was successful enough in the UK to be sent over here. Anyway, it has only opened in a couple of cities so far.shlack wrote:Well, it looks like nobody is going to see this. The film had an absolutely horrible opening, and the distributor is pulling it from most theaters. Shame.
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I just finished reading the novel upon which this movie was based (released under the title _A Question of Attraction_ in the US). All eight copies my city library possesses were not checked out at the time, indicating it's probably not hard to find. The book is an easy read and a bit dull at times. Someone not from the quizbowl world might find the story less intruiging, because the University Challenge content was necessary to hold my interest. Now that I know how it ends, I'm not so sure I want to spend the time on the movie. The story is a bit plucky, which may actually make for a better sappy comedy film that it does for a novel.
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Yes, I read it like in sixth grade, well before I had any idea what academic competition was. Perhaps I should re-read it with a different perspective now.fleurdelivre wrote:didn't anyone else read the view from saturday? e.l. konigsburg won the newbery even though her depiction of middle-school academic competition is pretty screwy. still, it deserves higher mention than these crap movies...
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I really really liked "The View from Saturday" back in the day. The day being like elementary and middle school. I seem to recall some of the alleged questions being pretty arbitrary in form, and in the final round the moderator was pulling questions from a fishbowl. Leaving the weird image of quiz bowl aside, it was a really great book that totally deserved the Newberry.
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