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
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Posted at 5:17PM on Aug 19th 2008 by Jessica D
4. That is very impressive. Now I can rest easier knowing someone out there has less of a life than I. Thanx.
Posted at 1:24AM on Aug 20th 2008 by Rod
5. 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/
Posted at 8:17PM on Aug 19th 2008 by Crazyfatrobot@hotmail.com
6. I got 29. Not bad.
Posted at 1:50PM on Aug 20th 2008 by MarcDom7
7. this is quite old actually, it's been around since june.
Posted at 1:43PM on Aug 21st 2008 by The Kid
1. M: Scream
O: Clockwork Orange
V: Vertigo
I: I, Robot
E: Wall-E
S: Psycho
Yes, you are correct, I have no life.
Posted at 4:41PM on Aug 19th 2008 by E-Rock