July 18, 2025

Regarding Today's Movie...[TITLE WITHELD]

Regarding Today's Movie...[TITLE WITHELD]

Soooooooooo.... sometimes over at CQ HQ we don't notice that there are two movies, with the same title, released a year apart.

For example, Wes Anderson made a short film called Bottle Rocket before he made his feature with the same title. Often, these function as a proof of concept so the filmmaker can raise money for the bigger, more expensive full length version, sometimes adding in James Caan. You can actually watch the 13 minute short with the Brothers Wilson right here.

Why are bringing this up? Well, anybody who played the game today might have seen two titles with the same name and be confused on what the devil was going on. Now you know.
Even though it's not a glitch on our part, IF, let's say, you got to quote 5 and selected the "wrong" title, causing you to lose today's game, we're offering a solution of sorts.

Step 1. Create a user profile/login. We can tell that many people who made this error have not created a profile.

Step 2. Contact us via your Profile tab. You'll see the letter envelope icon there. Go ahead and click that and let us know you were one of the fallen today and we'll see if we can't give you a reprieve.
For the rest of ya, moving forward we are going to eradicate many (but not all) of the short film selections in the guess database. Famous shorts like How the Grinch Stole Christmas! or the hilariously crowd-pleasing Un Chien Andalou will remain guessable.

If none of the above makes sense, no worries. You probably haven't played today's game yet...

Oh, and Wes Anderson recently got back into the short-film game. Take note, as those may in fact slide into CQ at some point in the future. And apologies for the length of this post. Kinda feels like we were dragging, not rushing.

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