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In this age of the Internet, devout fans often refer to multi-word titles of albums, films, and TV shows by their abbreviations. Please Please Me becomes PPM, just like Revenge of the Nerds becomes ROTN and The Next Generation becomes TNG.
Today’s Brain Game offers 10 Harrison Ford movies abbreviated this same way. To make the puzzle easier, or maybe more difficult, each of the clues are two words long (meaning each film has a two-word title.) Can you identify all of them? Good luck!
. . . . . AG . . . . . BR . . . . . CO . . . . .
. . . . . HH . . . . . PG . . . . . PI . . . . .
. . . . . RH (2 answers) . . . . . SW . . . . . WG . . . . .
Missing from this list… Apocalypse Now (AN).
posted by Joel on 11-16-2009 at 8:18 am
Joel, y’know, I originally had it on the list but took it off because, unlike the ones remaining, I didn’t think readers would consider “Apocalypse Now” to be a “Harrison Ford film.” He was in it, but he wasn’t a major character. There are another three or four two-word HF titles left off, as well.
posted by Sandy Wood on 11-16-2009 at 8:23 am
I believe Blade Runner is from ‘82.
posted by Bert on 11-16-2009 at 11:54 am
Got 6/10
Missed BR, CO, HH, and WG.
posted by Nerak on 11-16-2009 at 5:50 pm
6/10
missed CO, HH, Random Hearts, and WG (which is the one of the bunch I might have gotten eventually…the others, no chance).
posted by Pylon on 11-17-2009 at 7:00 pm