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December 3

Movie title from 1973

I have tried very hard to track down a movie horror/mystery I saw a long time ago and precisely in the Autumn of 1973 at the Metropole Cinema London SW1 just before the big movies Magnum Force and Live and Let Die. Memories have faded unfortunately I do not have names of actors or any other links in connection. I can just remember when it started there was a mystery about deaths of people, then a medieval building with a great sun coming in someone sitting there hearing of people dying, towards the end of the film everything was crushing down and a young couple holding close managed to survive because they loved each other. Not a big film but quite unforgettable. I have been able to track down other films with very little information without even knowing the year of release but not this one. The disappointment is that it should be a very straight forward search like 1973 in film but there is no link to this one, I have also tried different categories, browsed several I also watched many on line but without success. I have nothing else to try. I am sure that this film is listed in the movie database but probably it has been misfiled or put it in the wrong place. I would be grateful if you could come up with something even if it is not right. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 95.146.182.142 (talk) 12:18, 3 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Ooh, I think I know this - is it Zardoz with Sean Connery? They don't make'em like that anymore. Alansplodge (talk) 12:58, 3 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Thank God! The image of Connery clad only in a big diaper is one I'd like to scrub from my mind. Deor (talk) 13:21, 3 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]

I've removed the image as our claim of fair-use probably doesn't apply to this page. It can still be seen in the film's article. AJ Cham 17:07, 3 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you for the suggestion but it is not likely to be Zardoz far from it I do not remember Sean Connery in it. It was not a big film. I wonder whether it would be possible do dig the films showing at the Metropole Cinema London SW1 in the Autumn of 1973. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 95.146.182.142 (talk) 18:15, 3 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]

I added to the title to distinguish from the earlier Q with the same title. StuRat (talk) 18:38, 3 December 2011 (UTC) [reply]

Sorry OP, I've had a good hunt through the bowels of Google, but haven't been able to find anything else. May I suggest that you try posting on a specialist film forum such as Britmovie? There are others that specialise in horror or sci-fi genres. Alansplodge (talk) 17:07, 4 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Trading Pokemon

I'm a regular here, not that anon IP, so I hope this one doesn't get glanced over, so here goes:

I know that in transfering Pokemon from Gen IV games (Heartgold, SoulSilver, Diamond, Platinum, Pearl) to Gen V, it isn't reversible, ie. you can't send them back. I presume that this implies that any trades within a given generation can be reversed, ie. you can trade from an individual Pokemon from Platinum to HeartGold and back to Platinum. Is this true? I've found it surprisingly difficult to find a straight answer to this one with Google. Mingmingla (talk) 19:10, 3 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]

I think you can... wouldn't bet on it though. Heck froze over (talk) 22:51, 3 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Finally had a chance to try it out: yes, it works. Mingmingla (talk) 05:46, 5 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Which trumps - being bowl ineligible based on record or BCS eligible?

Givent he UCLA Bruins' appearnce in the PAC-12 title game last night, I had a question.

Say a team in a Bowl championship series conference loses all their games out of conference, and a couple teams in their half of the division happen to be good, but on probation. The team ends up 4-7 - they go 4-2 and end up going to the conference title game, where they win.

They are now 5-7 and supposedly ineligible for a bowl, yet they have won a BCS berth. Do they go with a Presdiential election's worth of bickering, complaining, and mudslinging coming their way? Or do they stay home because they are not supposed to go to a bowl with fewer than 6 wins?108.90.95.250 (talk) 19:28, 3 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]

According to Bowl eligibility, "a team that wins its conference but has an overall losing record must receive an NCAA waiver to appear in a bowl game." Clarityfiend (talk) 22:00, 3 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks.108.90.95.250 (talk) 22:33, 3 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]

See, for example, the 2001 New Orleans Bowl. North Texas was 5-6 going into the game, so should not have been bowl eligible, but they were the Sun Belt Conference champions, so were countractually bound to appear in the New Orleans Bowl. The NCAA will generally grant waivers for conference champions in these cases (because otherwise such a conference may not end up with any bowl berths), however they are unlikely to do so for teams lower on the ladder. There has been some talk, this year, of allowing the 6-7 UCLA team to be in a bowl game, despite being ineligible (losing record), because they only got their 7th loss because USC was on sanctions; had USC not been on sanctions, they would have appeared in the conference championship game, and UCLA would have been 6-6 and eligible. Basically, it wasn't their fault they had to play in, and lose, the conference championship, or so goes the argument. Plus, the Pac-12 is responsible for furnishing 7 bowl teams, and without UCLA they would only have 6. If Stanford, as expected, gets an invite as an At-Large to the BCS, that would leave the Pac-12 two teams short. So, they're likely to give UCLA the waiver so that the Pac-12 only ends up one team short. --Jayron32 02:02, 4 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]

As a follow-up, they did approve UCLA's waiver Hot Stop talk-contribs 12:20, 6 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Possibly a sundance movie? Can't remember the title

Hi

This movie is a about a young british couple who falls in love in england but are then torn apart because the girl gets a job in america. The film is shot both in england and america and follows the challeneges they face in a long distance relationship. Anyone know one what it is called? I'm pretty sure it is an independent film, it was released this year and I think it may be on DVD now. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 121.127.193.208 (talk) 23:34, 3 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Like Crazy. You're right, it was a Sundance film - won the Grand Jury Prize at this year's awards. AJ Cham 23:59, 3 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Actually, it's the other way around. The couple meet in America, but the girl has to go back to the UK because she overstays her visa, then can't get another visa to come back to the US because of the previous visa violation. The Mark of the Beast (talk) 05:44, 4 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]