Cinephiliac :: THE LAST PICTURE GAME SHOW: Game 1, Round 3

Hard Rain

The Last Picture Game Show: ROUND 1, GAME 3 Even if you're lucky enough to barbecue instead of work this Labor Day, this has obviously been a laborious week for us all, especially the struggling folks and families in the eye of an unfathomably wrecked region. At the risk of using the Hurricane Katrina tragedy as an excuse for slacking on site updates, this cinephiliac has been too emotional and distracted by both bad news (refreshing CNN.com has become a carpal obsession) and good (spirits were lifted this weekend when I won a brand new fiancée) to bask in my celluloid passions. However, short of donating more money to various charities (please just click right now), the show must go on, even if the sting of anger at my federal government's shameless apathy down South is too sobering to get lost in the movies just yet.

Last week's "Sound Bytes" contest went over like gangbusters with many of you, so pat yourself on the back if you were able to identify the audio clips from three costarring Willem Dafoe:

(#1) David Lynch's Wild at Heart (1990), in which Nicolas "Stab It and Steer" Cage channels Elvis with perverse glee, is an underrated masterwork sprung straight from the dark subconscious.

(#2) Dafoe's quite-German Klaus can be heard in that goofy bit from Wes Anderson's The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou (2004), which polarized the critics and seems to still be a mixed bag for most. Personally, I gobbled it up, warts and all.

(#3) Tobey Maguire wrestles a real freakshow in Sam Raimi's Spider-Man (2002), a Hollywood keeper that proved for the first time since the late '70s -- when a bloated Brando received an equally bloated paycheck -- that superhero flicks could be richer than just live-action cartoons.

ROUND 1, GAME 3: Double Feature Mash-Ups

What if technology allowed the movie industry to meld two films together, so that Jim Jarmusch's neo-western opus were bulked up with hordes of flesh-starved zombies and cheaply re-sold to audiences as Night of the Living Dead Man? What if Spike Lee laid down his jazz with Elwood and Jake, then repackaged the sucker for the multiplexes as Mo' Better Blues Brothers?

Following the example there, the 3 unrelated images below depict this potential marketing disaster, each illustrating two arguably great tastes that don't taste great together. Articles may be omitted (as everyone knows the movie is called THE Blues Brothers), but otherwise, answers must articulate every word from both merged titles. For instance, Aguirre: The Wrath of Khan would NOT be acceptable as it mentions neither "God" nor "Star Trek II" (though both are synonymous with "Shatner," an entirely different game altogether). Check 'em out:

NAME EACH MOVIE MASH-UP. Earn (1) point for every correct answer, and don't forget to include your name when you send your entry to lastpicturegameshow@gmail.com. (Entries must be received by Sunday, September 11th @ 11:59pm EST. -- Read the rules here!) Please note, this is still anybody's contest, so stop wimping out and hand over your best guesses. G'luck!