Name This Movie

Onaflag · #1 02-23-2005, 03:31 AM

This has been bugging me for a long time. I remember the scene very well, but have no idea what movie it's in. It goes like this:

4 or 5 guys are in a room. There's some conversation about how lighters never ever light on the first try. They make some kind of bet where one of the guys had to put his finger under a paper cutter or something like that while another guy would try to light a lighter on the first try.

If I remember right, if it lights, all is cool. If it doesn't, off with the finger. Naturally, it didn't light and the finger came off. they took him to a hospital to have it reattached.

What friggin movie is that?

Onaflag..........

eric5148 · #2 02-23-2005, 03:34 AM

Hitchcock, right? I can't remember the name either.

Onaflag · #3 02-23-2005, 03:38 AM

I could have sworn John Travolta was in it. For a short time a long time ago, I thought it was Pulp Fiction until I became a huge fan of Pulp Fiction. That's the problem. I thought it was something else until I realized it wasn't.

Onaflag..........

nothumb · #4 02-23-2005, 03:38 AM

Well, they do this in Four Rooms, but it's a tribute to another program, I think it was actually a TV show. Look up Four Rooms on imdb and check trivia.

NT

Freakin · #5 02-23-2005, 03:40 AM

Four Rooms. It was zippos specifically, and it had to light 10 times in a row.

You're welcome.

Freakin

nothumb · #6 02-23-2005, 03:40 AM

Yeah, it's from an episode of "Alfred Hitchcock Presents."

NT

bort411 · #7 02-23-2005, 03:41 AM

They reference and recreate this in the movie "Four Rooms." It was one of the TV Hitchcock episodes, not a movie. Not sure about the title, though.

Freakin · #8 02-23-2005, 03:42 AM

Regardless of what it was a tribute to, I am almost certain that it's Four Rooms that OP is thinking of.

Freakin

nothumb · #9 02-23-2005, 03:45 AM

Regardless of what both of you said, you are toooooo sloooooow, and you weren't even sure. [img]/images/graemlins/cool.gif[/img]

Bitches.

NT

captZEEbo1 · #10 02-23-2005, 03:47 AM

"The fourth room, Quentin Tarantino's "Man From Hollywood" is based on a short story by Roald Dahl called "Man from the south"; in which the man who does the bets is actually insane."

http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0113101/trivia

I couldn't remember the name of the story, but knew it was Roald Doahl.