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Comments on Puzzle #21235: a movie reference
By John Macdonald (perlwolf)

peek at solution       solve puzzle
  quality:   difficulty:   solvability: moderate lookahead  

Puzzle Description:

I've got a mint condition absolutely nothing sitting here ready to go to the first correct contestant.

#1: Joel Lynn (furface1) on Mar 3, 2013 [SPOILER]

Okay, I see maybe a comet

Or maybe the business end of a dull pencil

Although the right end looks like it could be a face - maybe pencil-head?
#2: John Macdonald (perlwolf) on Mar 3, 2013
Joel, one of those is correct about the image.
#3: Brian Bellis (mootpoint) on Mar 3, 2013 [SPOILER]
Is it Night of the Comet"?
#4: John Macdonald (perlwolf) on Mar 3, 2013
Nope, the image is not part of the movie's title.
#5: Norma Dee (norm0908) on Mar 3, 2013
Armageddon?
#6: John Macdonald (perlwolf) on Mar 3, 2013
Nope, not Armageddon.
#7: Kurt Kowalczyk (bahabro) on Mar 3, 2013 [SPOILER]
yeah, I was thinking of something moving really fast like a meteor.... Asteroid...Meteor...Meteorites...Deep Impact...Doomsday Rock...A Fire in the Sky


though I suppose it could be Animal House....food fight! ;)
#8: David Bouldin (dbouldin) on Mar 3, 2013
i found the same page you did kurt ;)
#9: David Bouldin (dbouldin) on Mar 3, 2013 [SPOILER]
add Avatar, The Monolith Monsters, Maximum Overdrive, The Day The Sky Exploded, Lifeforce, The Day Of The Triffids, Anna's Storm and Tycus :)
#10: bugaboo (bugaboo) on Mar 3, 2013 [HINT]
after initial ll:

el the 4 clue in c20 to dot c4-6, 12-19
ll to finish
no guessing
#11: Tom King (sgusa) on Mar 3, 2013
I had a few of the ones already guessed above...
#12: Kurt Kowalczyk (bahabro) on Mar 3, 2013
lol...
#13: John Macdonald (perlwolf) on Mar 3, 2013 [SPOILER]
Comet is the actual image, not a meteor. The movie is a recent one. However, a comet is not a central part of the movie, just a recurrent link (it recurs somewhat more obviously in the book).
#14: Julia Stanfield (stanfield.julia) on Mar 4, 2013
Cloud Atlas!
#15: John Macdonald (perlwolf) on Mar 4, 2013 [SPOILER]
Bingo! Julia, your absolutely nothing prize is on its way - it is tied to the leg of the homing chicken which is busy running in circles to get up to speed.

The comet was a theme through the story - the central character in each era had a comet tattoo. Each one also saw an account of their predecessor (journal, letters, book or movie dramatization), each had some sort of contact with cannibalism, and each had a feeling of connection with the others before and after.

I tried to suggest that reincarnation/connection by putting a white comet inside the black one in the puzzle.
#16: Web Paint-By-Number Robot (webpbn) on May 30, 2013
Found to be solvable with moderate lookahead by infrapinklizzard.

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