At the Movies with Nostradamus!

[uberreiniger]

Over at a friend's blog this morning megiloth and I started making up fake Nostradamus predicitions. This led to us describing the plots of various movies and TV shows using Nostradamus-style quatrains. See if you can guess the film or show that the great prophet predicted all those centuries ago.

Some entries modified from their original format.

1)
Biting the fingers of the small one
The twisted one perishes in fire
From the tower a burning eye falls
Amid a lengthy conclusion, the king returns

2)
The wheeled chariot is pulled by many hundred steeds
Upon four score and eight, time is changed
Only when fire from the heavens hits the stone timepiece
Will the youth be sent back and save the doctor

3)
Between keeper of gate and master of key
The traveller arrives, a nimble minx.
That which must not be crossed merges
From a high place, the great marshmallow falls

4)
A circle of four will be accused of crimes they did not commit
Militant in triumph and will not be taken alive
The elder smokes tobacco as the golden African will not fly
Their armanents will be abundant, but few will succumb

5)
Within the frozen chamber the steed of Rome prepares
Blows fall against the flesh of the slaughtered calf
Ten and five shall the battle rage
Before the wrath of Apollo, the warrior falls.

6)
In snow lay the mountains of the west
From thence a youth of vast bones shall come
He shall be as a scourge unto Israel
The Hooded One dies many deaths

7)
In the Asian mountains war is waged
The merchant of death returns a knight
He rises in battle against the Covetous One
Heralded by the sounds of a darkened Sabbath

8)
When the Fated One fails to maintain the Great Code
The silver bird falls from the sky
From the sea a remnant shall emerge
They suffer peril in the dungeons of the Octagon

9)
Once per anuum shall it be decreed
That peril and despair shall rise upon one another
Heaping new sorrows upon each hour of the day
Unending wakefulness for the Golden-Haired one

10)
The hunted Gladiator seeks the Golden Timepiece
The false Elijah shall repent
Europe shall confound the weight of an animal's flesh
Struck through the heart, the fallen Queen arises.

Okay I'm bored with it now. Have fun guessing!

Comments

[cherith.livejournal.com]

I'm too lazy at the moment to read all of them, but #2 is Back to the Future. Also, I'm guessing #1 is Lord of the Rings.

[uberreiniger.livejournal.com]

You are correct!

[gothicbeauty21.livejournal.com]

1) Lord of the Rings
2) Back to the Future
3) Ghostbusters


and considering I don't watch movies anymore, that's about all I can get. I missed a lot of "crucial" stuff growing up, and I've all but given up watching stuff now. I'm just too busy.


Some of them I can recognize the plots a little, but I really don't what to attribute them to.

[uberreiniger.livejournal.com]

You got them. As it went on and got more into it I started making the details more obscure :)

[gothicbeauty21.livejournal.com]

I haven't even seen The Goonies. I finally went out and bought it a few years ago...and it's still shrink wrapped.


Pretty much now I only watch the yearly Harry Potter movie. Although, I did get taken to see GhostRider, Horton Hears a Who, and Burn After Reading in the last two years.


That's pretty much it. I've worked in a movie store for almost 20 years now...I'm really rather burned out on them.

[uberreiniger.livejournal.com]

That makes me feel better about the relatively small number of movies I get to see in a given year.

[gothicbeauty21.livejournal.com]

I also don't watch TV, unless you count Food Network/HGTV/Adult Swim, so pretty much any TV reference goes over my head. :)

[uberreiniger.livejournal.com]

Switch out Tru TV for HGTV and that's pretty much my entire viewing roster too.

[gothicbeauty21.livejournal.com]

yay now I don't feel so bad about being anti-network.

[uberreiniger.livejournal.com]

There are a few network shows that I like... and I watch them almost exclusively online or on DVD.

[gothicbeauty21.livejournal.com]

Same here -- I borrow my rich friend's copies of seasons on DVD.

[featherynscale.livejournal.com]

These sound much better than the actual pitch statements probably do. I'm guessing 9 is 24, but that's the only one I have a clue on that hasn't already been guessed.

[uberreiniger.livejournal.com]

24 is correct! I'm glad I've got a backup career as a movie tagline writer if the whole prophet thing doesn't work out.

[triadruid.livejournal.com]

Hah, these are great.

1-3 I got, but too late; 5 is Rocky (the original, I think).

I feel like I should know 8...

[uberreiniger.livejournal.com]

Yep, five is Rocky. I think that's the one I'm most proud of.

8 seems like something you'd be a fan of given some of your other interests, but I've never heard you mention it so I'm not sure.

[triadruid.livejournal.com]

Oh shi-- - featherynscale getting 24 made me realize some of these are TV shows.

Lost (and no, I don't watch it, but I've absorbed enough by osmosis).

[uberreiniger.livejournal.com]

Your osmosis is impressive, young padawan! :)

[tanarii.livejournal.com]

heh@#4 thats my fave

[triadruid.livejournal.com]

Heh, I just got that one. Nicely played.

[uberreiniger.livejournal.com]

That one was megiloth's. It was quite ingenious.

[zylch.livejournal.com]

#7 is Ironman. Which I haven't seen, and do not wish to see. But the last line gave it away.

[uberreiniger.livejournal.com]

I thought I'd put that last line in there to see who was paying attention ;)