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Stonekeeper's Winter Game: I recommend THIS Mystery Movie #205 [Empire of the Sun (1987), guessed by StoneKeeper]


The rules:

So you guys like to play games? Here is an investigation game that can be time consuming but it's lots of fun. Basically, I have a movie in mind and you have to guess which one it is. For each movie you guys are going to guess, I will give a hint that CONNECTS your guess with the movie I have in mind.

Example of connections: Actor, length, genre, aspect ratio, language, country, year, director, writer in common, rating, number of votes, nominations. It can even be something like: both movies involve a love triangle.

- The winner can either start a new game or say "pass". In case of a pass, the OP gets to start another one.
- After 12 hints, the point goes to the OP and he/she gets to start another one.
- Movie must have at least 3500 votes on IMDb.

Let's get it on!


Hint 1: Training Day (2001) - Runtime at least two hours.
Hint 2: Dark Star (1974) - Metascore in the 60s.
Hint 3: Apocalypto (2006) - IMDb rating 7.5 to 8.5.
Hint 4: Doctor Zhivago (1965) - Shares the war genre.
Hint 5: Braveheart (1995) - The director has won at least one Oscar in their career.
Hint 6: Henry V (1989) - Based on previously written material.
Hint 7: Les Misérables (2012) - Setting is outside of the Americas.
Hint 8: Grave of the Fireflies (1988) - Made in the 1980s.

StoneKeeper wins with Empire of the Sun (1987), an excellent movie starring a young Christian Bale, about a British boy who gets stranded in China during the Japanese occupation in World War II.

Scoreboard:
FredBurroughs: 59
Allaby: 30
StoneKeeper: 29
LauraGrace: 23
Kawada_Kira: 22
SkyCoyote5150: 21
Hownos: 11
KvlhokVjequs: 6
Stratego: 3
MinaVladimir: 1
godewey: 1

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Training Day (2001)

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Hint added.

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Hint added.

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Dark Star (1974) resubmitted for causality violation avoidance.

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Apocalypto (2006)

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Hint added.

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Doctor Zhivago (1965)

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Hint added.

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Braveheart (1995)

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Hint added.

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Henry V (1989)

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Hint added.

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Les Misérables (2012)

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Hint added.

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Hotaru no haka (88)

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Hint added. That wasn't compatible with either hint 1 or hint 5 by the way. :) Takahata certainly should have won an Oscar, but did not.

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I noticed about hint 5 only after but read under 2hours for the other one

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