- Hi, this is Ken Jennings. - Hello, this is Richard Garfield.
- And we're taking on
the Guess That Movie Based On A Board Game Challenge.
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- Thank you so much for joining us from home.
We really appreciate you doing this.
- Happy to be here! - Been looking forward to it.
- (FBE) So we've got a twist
on our usual Guess That Movie Challenge today.
- Ooh. - Okay.
- (FBE) These are all movies based on tabletop games.
- Oh!
- (FBE) Here's how the game will work.
The person at the end of the game
with the most points is the winner.
- Okay. - Okay.
- Cool, oh, I'm excited! - Yeah, I'm excited too.
- (FBE) Our first one is set in and around Hawaii
following a classic humans versus alien plotline.
Directed by Peter Berg, the film hosts a star-studded cast,
and a soundtrack that features the work of Tom Morello.
- What board games are these, bro? Let me just think.
'Cause this board game sounds pretty fire.
- I have no idea.
I actually don't think I've seen this movie either.
- Okay. - So I'll be very shocked.
I'm going to guess.
- Hold on, you gotta write it down. - Oh, right, right, right, okay.
- Lilo & Stitch.
- (FBE) Lilo & Stitch, Pacific Rim.
- Lilo & Stitch. (laughs)
- That's a good one, I put Treasure Island.
- That makes a lot more sense than Lilo & Stitch.
- (Tom) Battleship! - Men in Black.
- (FBE) Ted, you got this one right.
- Oh my God! - Yes!
- (FBE) You did get it right, Tom. - Okay.
- Woo, yeah! - Very good.
Aliens are in Battleship?
- Yeah, I didn't see it, but I remember it had
like transformer looking people in it. - I didn't see it either.
- (FBE) Let me show you a screenshot,
maybe that'll help, for four points.
Any idea of what movie this could be?
- I got nothing. - (FBE) Nothing?
- Nope!
- It looks like a whale! (laughs) It's not a whale.
- Yeah, like a robotic whale.
- (FBE) Here's the three second clip for three points.
This one's for three points, so let's see what you have.
- Battleships! - Battleship!
- (FBE) You both said Battleship, and that is correct!
- Oh, it is? - Wow!
- (FBE) Any more context there? (laughs)
- Are you sure that's not Lilo & Stitch?
- I just thought of it, I feel dumb.
- (FBE) Any guess? - Nope!
(bell rings) - (Ken) Battleship.
- (FBE) Our next movie has developed quite a cult classic status over time,
despite only making 14.5 million at the box office.
The game itself is so beloved that it has been
turned into both a British game show and an off Broadway musical.
While it's hard to imagine any of the characters
played in any other way, both Carrie Fisher and Rowan Atkinson
were originally slated to star in the film,
but both of those fell through.
For five points, can you guess what that movie is?
- That has to be an older movie.
I'm not great with older movies. (laughs)
- Yeah, I'll move on to the screenshot.
- I wanna say a guess, but I don't want
to give him an answer for a potential next round if I'm wrong.
- I have a guess.
- (FBE) Okay, and Richard, do you have one as well?
- Sure!
- (FBE) Emily do you have something written down?
- No, I have no idea what it is!
- (FBE) Let's see those answers!
- I said 2 Fast 2 Furious. - Oh, of course.
I put Guess. Guess.
- Ooh!
- (FBE) Those are both incorrect. - Okay.
- Damn it! - Fair.
- (FBE) Ted said Clue, Emily, no guess?
- (gasps) Ah. - (FBE) It was Clue!
- Yeah, now I, okay. That makes so much sense.
- (FBE) Clue, and looks like Clue,
and you both got five points on that one!
- Funny I was just hearing that it was a cult movie,
because when I was a kid, we wore out our VHS tape of Clue,
but I don't think there was any real nostalgia for that
until a few years ago when people started,
everybody started realizing that they also loved Clue.
- (FBE) Here's the second round.
- Yep, got it.
- Isn't, I thought this was Guess.
Isn't it the one where they're in the manor,
and they have to guess who done it?
Oh my God! Is that not it?
- Nope, it's not... - That's, no that's...
- I know what you're thinking! (laughs)
- That's the movie I was thinking of on the first time.
- It doesn't look like a game show to me.
- I know, I'm just gonna take a wild guess,
and I really... - Me too.
- Have zero context for this.
- Mystery? (bell rings)
- Clue. - Clue, that's what I thought.
Clue, but I didn't know the name. I said Mystery.
- It's Clue! - Clue!
- You were like, you even spelled...
- Scooby Dooby Doo! (Tom laughs)
I needed a Clue! Aw.
- One of the only two movies based on board games
that have come to mind. I was like Battleship and Clue!
Like... (laughs)
- That one hurts, because I actually loved playing Clue as a child.
- (FBE) So this next movie is a fairly recent horror film
that spawned a prequel and a novel.
While it was a commercial success,
the movie only has a 6% on Rotten Tomatoes.
- I don't watch much horror unless it's like interesting,
like It or something, but okay.
- Nothing's coming to mind for me.
- Okay, I'm gonna write one.
I don't think it's right, 'cause I don't think this is a board game.
- I'm gonna throw around a guess. - Okay, I don't, I don't have a guess.
- This is my guess. (buzzer rings)
Okay. - It was a good guess though.
(rimshot echoes) - Ah, thank you.
- I said Escape Room? (buzzer rings)
- (FBE) Oh, that's a good thought.
- Yeah, I have no idea. Emily, you go.
- Yeah? Okay!
- Yeah! (Emily laughs)
- Please, please be it!
- (FBE) Oh, Ouija! (Emily gasps)
You got that correct!
- Aw, I should've known!
- (FBE) Ken, do you have a guess?
- I don't think so, I think Richard's writing though.
Is he writing? - I was...
I retracted my... Yep, nope.
- (FBE) Nothing, okay. Then here is the screenshot.
- This clears it up. - Really?
- Ah for sure, no, absolutely not.
- (laughs) Oh, I was like I have no idea what this is.
- He's too dark. Who are you, guy?
- Bro, I'm drawing a blank over here.
- Yeah, same here.
- (FBE) Can you think of any board games
that might've had like a horror element to them?
- Candyland, in our house. (Richard laughs)
Or Monopoly, if you share my views about late-stage capitalism.
A horror board game, I got nothing.
- I put 20 questions. - Is it Truth or Dare?
- (FBE) No! - (both) Oh!
- No guesses, no guesses.
- (FBE) Onto the first clip, then? - Yeah.
- (man) This isn't Debbie. - (woman) What do you mean?
- What do you mean?
That classic screen catchphrase, what do you mean?
I don't know, maybe I'm gonna feel dumb when I see it,
I don't know!
- I think I know what it is.
Countdown? (buzzer rings)
- (FBE) Candyland. - No way!
- Never took her to where? To Candyland.
- Is it really [censored] Candyland? - Is it, I don't think so.
- (FBE) It's not. - I was gonna say,
I was like that is a good guess. Holy, damn, man.
- (FBE) Moving on, this next clip will be five seconds
and it will be worth two points.
- (man) This isn't Debbie. - (woman) What do you mean?
- (man) I never took her there. Not once.
- (FBE) Did that add anything?
- (laughs) Nothing.
This could be from any movie in the world.
- (FBE) Here's the final 10 second clip.
Any correct guess now will be worth one point.
- (woman) What do you mean? - (man) I never took her there.
Not once.
- (woman) Is this you, Debbie?
- Ah!
- Yep, that was kind of a big clue.
- (FBE) Yeah. (laughs)
- I guess that's kind of a game.
- I guess I don't feel as stupid. Yeah, yeah.
- This is not a, this isn't a game! (laughs)
- This isn't a game. This is not a game.
- Spelling doesn't have to be right? (bell rings)
- Ouija board? - (FBE) Yeah.
You each got a point.
Yep, it was Ouija.
- The Luigi board! - The Luigi, the Mario and Luigi!
- It's Luigi's Haunted Mansion! - Yes, how did we miss it?
- My mouse pad used to be a fake Ouija board pad.
But the spirits never tried to do my word processing for me.
- Played this a lot as a child during sleepovers.
- Yeah.
- Called up a lot of people.
- (FBE) This next movie,
which has been characterized by critics as looking cheap,
is in the process of getting a remake.
Despite a well-recognized cast, the original was nominated
for several Stinkers Bad Movie Awards,
including worst supporting actor and actress,
least special special effects, and most unfunny comic relief.
- Sounds great. - That's quite a set of credentials.
- How about Mouse Trap?
- (FBE) Ooh, that is a very good guess.
That's not it. (buzzer rings)
- Yeah. - Oh my.
- Sounds like my type of movie!
- What board game bombed that hard?
- (laughs) Chutes and Ladders? I'm just kidding!
- How do you mess up a board game that hard?
- I think I might need to see a clip, I don't know.
- Yeah, I would love to see a clip too.
- (FBE) I can show you a screenshot.
- Yeah! - I would go for a screenshot yeah.
- Does not ring a bell. Does not ring a bell.
- This man is telling me nothing.
- No, I don't have a guess.
- Ah, I was gonna guess this!
- Ugh!
- That deserves all the Stinker Awards.
(Richard laughs)
- (FBE) Okay, let's see those guesses.
You both sound confident. Yep, you got it.
Dungeons & Dragons. (bell rings)
- I don't have a guess but... - Oh wait, I know, I know!
- (FBE) Oh, you do? - I know!
(bell rings) Bam!
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- What? - I mean...
- What the [censored]?
- Magic: the Gathering?
- I'm gonna say D&D, Dungeons & Dragons.
(bell rings)
- Magic: the Gathering? - Is it D&D?
(bell rings) - (FBE) Mikaela got it right!
- Oh, I did? - Damn!
Yeah, right when she said it, I knew it.
- (FBE) This is Dungeons & Dragons.
- Dungeons & Dragons! - What?
- Yes!
- Oh! Never heard of that!
- Very good! - Never heard of that!
- I did not know they made a Dungeons & Dragons movie.
- I don't think they should've!
- (laughs) Academy Award Winner Jeremy Irons
apparently wanted a beach house.
- Yep. - Yeah, that's impressive, Ted!
- I think it was the eyebrow, for some reason.
I was just like it looks like a dragon, Dungeons & Dragons!
- Oh my gosh!
- (FBE) For our final movie, we have an animated feature
about a gingerbread boy named Jib
who attempts to save his kingdom from a terrible fate.
- There's a board game with a gingerbread boy.
Oh! Oh my gosh!
- No, I have no idea. I think this might...
Emily might get this one, no!
- That's all the details? - (FBE) Yep!
- Okay, um... - Uh...
- It's a sweet version retelling of Monopoly.
- Ah! - I'm pretty sure. (laughs)
- I'll guess.
- (FBE) Candyland, and Richard, did you also say Candyland?
- I did.
- I mean, I have an answer, but I don't think my answer's correct.
I'm gonna just put it out there anyways.
- Candyland?
- (Tom) Is it Candyland? - Candyland?
- (FBE) You both said Candyland! You both got it right.
- Woo! - Nice!
- (FBE) And that is correct!
- Oh! - What?
There's a Candyland movie, and I haven't seen it?
- There's a Candyland movie?
- (FBE) You both got it right for five points!
- No way! - There's a movie?
- There's a Candyland movie?
- (FBE) It went straight to DVD. (group laughs)
- Wow!
- I wonder if the movie is as interminable as the game?
- (laughs) I hope Jeremy Irons plays Lord Licorice.
(Richard laughs) - (FBE) Ooh!
With a final score of 16 to 9,
Mikaela, you crushed it. (bell rings)
- Mmm. - You know what?
All I would like to say
is I was not the one [censored] talking in the beginning.
(laughs) - Hey, hey, hey, hey, hey!
(bell rings) - Yes!
- Congratulations. - Still undefeated!
If Richard had beaten me, he would have become
the Jeopardy Greatest Of All Time, so I just dodged a bullet.
- This is one of the biggest wins
I've had since being forced to stay in my house.
So I'm really just buzzing right now.
- I think we tied, I don't know.
- Thank you, Tom. It was fun, it was really fun, Tom.
- That was a good game. - And Lindsey.
- I realized how few movies are based on board games,
and that's probably for good reason.
- This is Richard Garfield.
Thank you for having me, it was a lot of fun
seeing the best attempts we have at making games into movies.
- This is Ken Jennings from Jeopardy.
Thanks so much for having me,
and I will cherish my win at board game movie trivia forever.