There Is No Method To Predict How Fallacious This ‘Weakest Hyperlink’ Contestant Was With A Query About Martin Scorsese Movies

We apparently reside in a golden age of recreation present blunders. Not too long ago there’s been a spate of cartoonishly fallacious Wheel of Fortune solutions. Now the development is infecting different reveals. On a current episode of the U.S. reboot of The Weakest Hyperlink — which swaps out unique terrifying host Anne Robinson for the comparatively hotter Jane Lynch — one contestant was requested to point out off his data of legendary filmmaker Martin Scorsese. Not solely was his experience missing, however his reply was powerfully, inventively fallacious.

The viral clip reveals a person named Sean being requested by Lynch a easy query: Of the 9 Oscar nominations the Marvel villain has earned for guiding over his lengthy profession, which movie did he wind up profitable for? The reply is considered one of Scorsese’s hottest movies, 2006’s star-studded gangster epic The Departed, which grossed a fairly penny again within the day and has been a house video/streaming favourite ever since.

Sean didn’t know that. “I’m horrible with movies,” Sean admitted whereas visibly wracking his mind. He admitted he would “should guess.” And so his thoughts landed on…8 Mile. The 2002 biopic about Eminem, starring Eminem as himself.

Sadly, the director of Alice Doesn’t Dwell Right here Anymore, The Final Temptation of Christ, and the prolonged video for Michael Jackson’s “Unhealthy” has by no means as soon as directed the onetime Slim Shady. These duties went to a different Oscar-nominated director, the late Curtis Hanson, the versatile filmmaker of L.A. Confidential who directed 8 Mile in between the comedic dramas Marvel Boys and In Her Sneakers. So it’s not too far-off.

There may be one different connection between the 2: On the 2020 Oscars, when Scorsese’s The Irishman was up for a pile of awards, the nice director was compelled to hearken to “Lose Your self,” the tune that gained 8 Mile’s lone Academy Award. And he didn’t precisely appear to be having fun with it.

(By way of The Impartial)