New game: Movie associations

As I'm such a movie buff, I designed this new game for our forum: movie associations! It consists of posting a movie title that's somehow (it doesn't matter how far-fetched) connected to the previous post. Please try to briefly explain the connection (as you see it). Links, specially IMDB's, are most welcomed. I'll start and also post a first association as example.

So I start with Casablanca ( http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0034583/) because its release was 70(!) years ago

I'll associate it with Blade Runner ( http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0083658/) because chess is crucial to a full comprehension of both. (Note: also its release will also complete a round 'age' this year: 30!)

Blade

Drop Zone ( http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0109676/) - also with Wesley Snipes

"Play Misty for Me" -- One of the first (?) and best stalker movies.

"The Haunting of Misty Creek"

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0471191/

(The name "Misty" also appears in the title.)

The Bourne Identity

Man accused of/thought to be a traitor, tries to prove innocence with the help of girl.

Three Days of the Condor. (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0073802/)

(older, but a similar theme -- a CIA "reader" suddenly has to apply his knowledge to survive)

The Tomas Crown Affair - just because its with Faye Dunaway (Oh! Faye... she's also in the 1999 remake)

An Affair to Remember

Another "affair". A classic tear-jerker.

A Walk to Remember

A Night to Remember

A Midsummer Night's Sex Comedy

Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex*

*But Were Afraid to Ask

The 40 Year Old Virgin

Date Night

Also with Steve Carell

Megamind - also with Tina Fey

The Green Hornet - also a Michael Gondry's movie

The Mask - another superhero movie with Cameron Diaz (on Richard Lorentz's request)

Liar Liar - also starring Canadian funny man Jim Carrey

Tora! Tora! Tora! - Repeated word (thanks MRFvR!)

Ouch. I really did something wrong. I should know better to mess with formatting, i.e. HTML, I don't understand. Sorry... Can this be fixed?

I think the only way to fix it is to could cough up the 19 Euros, become a member, delete the old post, and repost it the way you want.

1941, also set in ... wait for it ... 1941

The Producers , WWII-themed comedy

Another comic duo: Starsky & Hutch

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0072567/

ITYM Starsky & Hutch

Tropic Thunder - Ben Stiller in a leading role.

ITIM Tropic Thunder

The School of Rock - a fine movie with Mr. Black

[on a personal note to Lorentz - I just watched Tora! Tora! Tora! last month 8-)]

Tenacious D also with Jack Black. Btw for repeats look at this: It's A Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World

Got to get away from the Black links. I was hoping noone would pick up on his presence in T.T., as I thought he was the single actor who did his best to ruin the film, like he does every film. He's unbelievably overrated - I put him only a whisker above Adam Sandler cinematographically.

Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure -- Destiny, and rock music.

This is Spinal Tap the father of all the funny rock movies. (If you don't count TRHPS)

(Don't get me wrong, I love TRHPS, but I think it's in a league of its own, uncomparable to other movies, because it's that different. If you haven't seen 'This is Spinal Tap' or 'TRHPS' then I would highly recommend them)

Almost Famous -- http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0181875/ Never saw "This is Spinal Tap", but I think there may be similar themes.

(Yes, I'm giving up on HTML for now. I'm still horrified and embarrassed that I was actually able to add a useless third column to this forum page.)

The Rocky Horror Picture Show the father of all the funny rock movies. (If you count TRHPS)

Fight Club - Meatloaf (a jump I could have made after Tenacious D, I notice)

aside - has anyone seen a website where the thesis "there are only 7 movie posters" (or some similarly low number) is proposed, and supported by montages of hundreds of different movie posters that are practically indistinguishable from each other. I did a bit of searching and couldn't find it.

Se7en - Brad Pitt

Sorry, wrong link. Correct: Se7en

The Usual Suspects -- http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0114814/ -- Kevin Spacey, who proves he's one of the best actors around in this movie.

(Spacey went to high school with and acted in high school plays with Mare Winningham. Mare's dad is a tennis player and I play tennis with him on occasion. How about that for a connection?! :) )

In the Name of the Father

Pete Postlethwaite, RIP.

The Shawshank Redemption - Prison

Escape From Alcatraz

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0079116/

Birdman of Alcatraz

Escape from New York

Daylight - for Amy Brenneman's parody of New York, New York

National Lampoon's Vacation …

Independence Day - also with Randy Quaid (yeah, I tend to post movies that feature chess). The film is far from great but Randy is hilarious

Virus -- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virus_%281980_film%29 -- Both had themes that depended on, you guessed it, viruses. A Japanese movie with a lot of American actors, but almost all scenes with the Japanese were edited out when shown in the U.S., pretty much ruining the movie. I can't seem to find it on IMDB.

@MRFvR - I don't recall chess being in any of the movies you mentioned. You must have a keen eye!

In Casablanca Bogart (who was a keen chess player) analyzes a French Defense game (with many Semiotics implications); in Blade Runner, there's a reproduction of the "Imortal Game" while Sebastian and Batty are going up in the elevator to meet Tyrell (again, many implications). The Thomas Crown Affair features the sexiest chess scene ever (and one of the most parodies - Austin Powers included). In Independence Day, Jeff Goldblum's character plays with his father in the cliché Washington Square Park and later uses the game as a metaphor to claim alien's intentions are no good.