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Disharmony posted:I'm not sure if these are all movies but meh. I remember seeing a commercial back in 93' when I was 8 that scared the poo poo out of me (and I blacklisted that channel temporarily out of fear) and it was basically a montage of extremely violent scenes under the pretext that making your children watch it would make them grow evil. Some of the scenes off the top of my head were: This is probably "Wanted Dead or Alive" with Rutger Hauer.
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Alan Smithee posted:Now for my ID: so I caught the last leg of this movie, basically there's a flashback sequence where a woman is at a soiree with a masked don juan type who she sorta falls for. Later in present day masked don juan turns out to be a badly scarred (facial burns and so forth) psycopath. He kidnaps her and takes her on a boat ride down a river, sending our good guy down another boat which explodes (though good guy gets off in time). She doesn't know this and freaks out, psycho asks her to marry him and she feins interest but then gives him like a gently caress-off slap. Now he's into "I will have you by force!" mode but good guy shows up in time to shoot him with a flare gun. It was a tv version so i think they cut out him actually getting shot To me this sounds a lot like "Deadly Game". The bad guy had facial scarring which he covered up with a phantom of the opera type mask. The people on the island all crossed this guy at one time and they are being chased by killers while trying to escape the island. There is a lot of story telling via flashback in this movie. From the description you have given, I am pretty sure it is the movie you are on about.
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Jun 20, 2007 22:30
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This has been bugging me for years. Sometime in, oh, say, the late 80's, I saw a sci-fi movie on tv that I can't seem to identify. Based on what I remember of the aesthetics and cinematography, the movie was most likely made in the 80's, late 70's at the earliest. I don't have a plot, just impressions of various scenes and the overall mood: -a large bulk of the movie takes place aboard a spaceship, where the crew wear fairly realistic dark-coloured uniforms, and the ship itself is fairly gritty/realistic looking as well. More like 2001 or Alien than Flash Gordon. For a long time I thought I was thinking of The Black Hole, but when I actually watched it, I realized it was all wrong because in the film I'm thinking about, the colour palette is quite muted, mostly blacks and greys. -the tone of the whole thing is fairly dark, there's a sense that the crew will fail on the mission and there are lots of lingering moody shots of the ship gliding past the camera -a central part of the movie seems to be some kind of communication between the crew of the ship and people elsewhere, possibly earth, about an impending disaster. the ship is on some kind of mission vital to stopping the sun eploding/a black hole/some kind of cosmic disaster -another significant portion of the movie takes place on a planet, with people from the ship interacting with people on the planet. The ship people are either fighting with or trying to convince the people on the planet to help them in some way. The people on the planet are sort of wild and uncivilized, and the sets on the planet look vaguely like industrial/construction sites.
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Jun 21, 2007 03:50
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nemesis_hub posted:-a central part of the movie seems to be some kind of communication between the crew of the ship and people elsewhere, possibly earth, about an impending disaster. the ship is on some kind of mission vital to stopping the sun eploding/a black hole/some kind of cosmic disaster This makes me think Earthstar Voyager, although I don't remember it being that muted or gray. I can't find any screen shots, unfortunately.
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Speaking of scifi from way back, I caught a clip of a movie on Starz years ago, I would say it's about 70s/early 80s. Anyway so this guy's on a spaceship, he's got the crazy oldschool hair and looking out a window, I think he was in a kitchen, and you see a big ol American flag draped on the side which kinda suprised me because I can't recall any scifi space shows that suggest the USA still exists as a nation rather than becoming some consolidated Federation or United Earth Something or Other 2nd ID: So I saw this on a bus I would say late 90s, a tour bus in europe (but it's an American movie). So it goes like this. The main character is this young boy, he lives in a typical nuclear family but his dad dies (believe it's cuz of cancer) so it's his single mom trying to raise him and his older brother. I think they move to Baltimore (or she suggests they should). She meets a guy who plays weird music in an orchestra of sorts. At one point they are making out and her nose bleeds and she goes home and the older brother is like "what did he do?!? I'll beat him up!!!" Later the little brother is being a jackass and when the older brother gets on the elevator he presses all the buttons, and this girl comes along the elevator so the older brother feels like an rear end and apologizes to her and she's like "why do you care what I think" and they basically hook up (I think she takes weird pictures of him, like an x-ray almost and she's like "well if still like each other we can make love") The little brother has this "best" friend whom they both buy lottery tickets together. The best friend wins the lottery and our boy is like "but you said we'd split it!" and the "friend" is all like "no dude we said we'd split tickets" (yeah that makes a lot of loving sense, I'll get 1 of hundred-millionth chance of winning and you get the other!) so basically he's stuck being middle class boo hoo. The movie ends with the whole lot at a public pool and the mom is trying to put on her life vest and the older brother's gf gestures that she put it on backwards.
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Jun 21, 2007 09:44
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Alan Smithee posted:Speaking of scifi from way back, I caught a clip of a movie on Starz years ago, I would say it's about 70s/early 80s. Anyway so this guy's on a spaceship, he's got the crazy oldschool hair and looking out a window, I think he was in a kitchen, and you see a big ol American flag draped on the side which kinda suprised me because I can't recall any scifi space shows that suggest the USA still exists as a nation rather than becoming some consolidated Federation or United Earth Something or Other For some inexplicable reason I'm getting a Silent Running vibe about this. http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0067756/
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Jun 21, 2007 18:52
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Horror movie from the 80's or possibly real early 90s. Well maybe not a "horror" movie since we watch this in gradeschool for Halloween. So it must have been pretty drat tame. A scary movie but also suitable for kids. Possibly even made by Disney. Anyways what I remember is some scary old guy who must have been the main villian. I think a lot of the movie takes place at a fair or a carnival or something. I remember this haunted carousal or fariswheel or something. Maybe it was a haunted circus. I dont really remember.
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Jun 21, 2007 21:13
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Rodney Munch posted:Horror movie from the 80's or possibly real early 90s. This is likely "Something Wicked This Way Comes". This and "Watcher in the Woods" were two Disney movies that scared me silly as a child.
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Jun 21, 2007 21:34
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Fab Boner posted:There's no writer struggling for inspiration or antique ship, but there is a human brain in a jar in an old diner. Maybe you're confusing two films, and one of them is Blood Diner. No, that's not it. I remember this movie, that one had the dancing hitler band... the one I'm talking about had a brain with an eye ball in between the ridge in the frontal lobe...
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Jun 22, 2007 17:05
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JoeNotCharles posted:This makes me think Earthstar Voyager, although I don't remember it being that muted or gray. I can't find any screen shots, unfortunately. Oh wow, after looking it up, I think this might actually be the one. Thanks! Now I just have to track down a copy...
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Jun 23, 2007 07:40
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The portion I can remember of this movie is that there is a subplot involving a court case similar to the OJ Simpson case, but a man was accused of killing his brother, maybe? Either way, what I can definitely remember is that the accused was saying that the killers were asian, they sounded asian, and that the power or something went out during the court verdict while everyone was watching it.
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Jun 24, 2007 03:45
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nemesis_hub posted:Oh wow, after looking it up, I think this might actually be the one. Thanks! Now I just have to track down a copy... Yeah, I wouldn't mind watching it again either...
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Jun 24, 2007 03:56
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oscartheduck posted:The portion I can remember of this movie is that there is a subplot involving a court case similar to the OJ Simpson case, but a man was accused of killing his brother, maybe? The Cable Guy, with Ben Stiller playing the part of the accused. It's really a much better film than I think it gets credit for, with more substance and somewhat good writing behind the silly voices and faces. http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0115798/
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Jun 24, 2007 04:05
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Ape Agitator posted:The Cable Guy, with Ben Stiller playing the part of the accused. It's really a much better film than I think it gets credit for, with more substance and somewhat good writing behind the silly voices and faces. (Eric Roberts was the victim and the accused - twin brothers)
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Jun 24, 2007 19:26
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Pweller posted:(Eric Roberts was the victim and the accused - twin brothers) Eric Roberts played them in a made for TV movie, Ben Stiller played them both in the actual court scenes.
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Jun 24, 2007 19:47
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The Duke posted:Eric Roberts played them in a made for TV movie, Ben Stiller played them both in the actual court scenes. yes you're right
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I saw a movie about 14 years ago that followed a homeless guy around. He was getting harassed by some homeless bully guy. The bully eventually killed the homeless man's best friend. One of them sewed their money into a scarf, so they wouldn't lose it. The homeless guy was buried in a plain box in the ground. I don't know the year it was made or the actors or anything, though.
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Jun 25, 2007 00:20
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There's a movie that's been driving me crazy for the longest time. I saw part of it on cable tv in the late 80's. What I remember of the film was that it was about families with kids that lived in the sewers in the future. They had like, apartments furnished in the sewers. One of the scenes that I remember most vividly is that the kids had like a hound dog of sorts, and there were giant ticks all over it, so the kids pulled the ticks off one by one, and threw them at a darts target, leaving blood splotches on the target.
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Jun 25, 2007 10:41
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tokyoakazukin posted:There's a movie that's been driving me crazy for the longest time. LOLOOL this is the same exact movie i came here to ask about. I saw it on late night cable when i was like 10 years old and it disturbed the HELL out of me. like tha worm thingie that they keep stashed in the kitchen and cut off pieces of like bologna to eat. and the grandfather that they're caring for in the room that they feed liquid green stuff to through a large syringe. i always thought Paul Reubens made an appearance in it, and Christina Applegate was in it, but i fail to find it on their imdb filmology.
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The_Skull_Electric posted:I saw a movie about 14 years ago that followed a homeless guy around. He was getting harassed by some homeless bully guy. The bully eventually killed the homeless man's best friend. One of them sewed their money into a scarf, so they wouldn't lose it. The homeless guy was buried in a plain box in the ground. The Saint of Forth Washington. http://imdb.com/title/tt0108026/ at least i'm almost positive this is what you're referring to. does it involve him being buried out on an island near NYC and the guy gets on the barge with the coffins?
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Jun 25, 2007 23:53
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Venialblur posted:The Saint of Forth Washington. Sounds like it. I have to order it from half.com to make sure. I'm so glad this thread exists. Thank you for knowing about this movie.
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Jun 26, 2007 05:16
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This is an 80's movie. I think it was a bunch of short stories, one of which is this kid sneaks into an arcade at night. He's playing this game and gets to the highest level in the game (I think it was the 35th) and then gets sucked into the game. I seem to remember him rocking out to headphones while he plays. Anybody?
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Jun 26, 2007 07:19
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Late 70's/80's slasher type movie. Setting was I think based around a holiday camp out in the woods somewhere. The only scene I can remember is a guy or girl backed up against a tree and zoomed in on his face, then suddenly his/her throat gets cut - not by anything, it just rips open. The thing killing everyone seemed to be a small black floating object - maybe alien related?
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Lucifa posted:The only scene I can remember is a guy or girl backed up against a tree and zoomed in on his face, then suddenly his/her throat gets cut - not by anything, it just rips open. The thing killing everyone seemed to be a small black floating object - maybe alien related? http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0081764/ Basically there's these hunters in the woods and this alien is throwing around this little spinning disk thing that slices them up. I actually had this film identified for me in one of these threads a few years ago!
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Jun 26, 2007 14:29
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Venialblur posted:LOLOOL this is the same exact movie i came here to ask about. I saw it on late night cable when i was like 10 years old and it disturbed the HELL out of me. like tha worm thingie that they keep stashed in the kitchen and cut off pieces of like bologna to eat. and the grandfather that they're caring for in the room that they feed liquid green stuff to through a large syringe. That's hilarious, but also reassuring, because after extensive searching for it which has as of yet turned up nothing, I was starting to believe that I had dreamt it up, especially because I was 6 or 7 when I saw it. This gives me hope that someone in the thread will know what the movie is =)
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PonchtheJedi posted:This is an 80's movie. I think it was a bunch of short stories, one of which is this kid sneaks into an arcade at night. He's playing this game and gets to the highest level in the game (I think it was the 35th) and then gets sucked into the game. I seem to remember him rocking out to headphones while he plays. Anybody? You're thinking of Nightmares where the kid is Emilio Estevez. http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0086014/
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Jun 26, 2007 14:57
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tokyoakazukin posted:That's hilarious, but also reassuring, because after extensive searching for it which has as of yet turned up nothing, I was starting to believe that I had dreamt it up, especially because I was 6 or 7 when I saw it. This gives me hope that someone in the thread will know what the movie is =) i called my older brother to see if he remembered. he has vague memories of it, too. Like the scene where the kid comes home with a black eye and the mother uses some suction device that this big sucker worm comes out of and basically sucks on his eye to "heal"? it. probably one of the most hosed up movies i've seen - and i've seen Visitor Q.
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tokyoakazukin posted:There's a movie that's been driving me crazy for the longest time. I FOUND IT! (thanks to 3 hours in work of searching through imdb keywords) Meet the Hollowheads http://imdb.com/title/tt0095608/ Juliette Lewis... Christina Applegate. same thing =P
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I've been racking my brain on this one all day, its a longshot but here goes: Premise is that a bunch of people traveling on a train all suddenly become suspended via carbon freezing or some other such nonsense. When they "thaw" about 100 years later, the earth has been through some sort of apocalypse, everyone else is dead, etc. It had a lot of British actors and I remember something about them being chased by killer dogs and so on. It wasn't really a horror/Sci-Fi type thing, more like a survival thing. It was kinda cheesy but somehow it grew on me and now I want to revisit it. I saw it on The Movie Network in Canada like 8 years ago. I keep wanting to say "Savage Earth" or "Savage Planet" but Google turns up non-related nonsense for those, same with imdb.
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Was a TV mini series rather than a movie but that sounds like The Last Train
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You are a god, thank you  Also known as "Cruel Earth" in Canada, I cant believe I didn't get that earlier asghidashgahsdgidhgd.Edit: Shame its not available on DVD or VHS or pretty much anything else, sigh. The Gunslinger fucked around with this message at 21:15 on Jun 26, 2007 |
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Jun 26, 2007 20:48
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Venialblur posted:I FOUND IT! (thanks to 3 hours in work of searching through imdb keywords) Amazing! Thank you so much! I can't believe you found it!
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Jun 26, 2007 22:14
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Ape Agitator posted:You're thinking of Nightmares where the kid is Emilio Estevez. Thank you!
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Jun 27, 2007 01:15
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InfiniteZero posted:You might be talking about Without Warning. Doesn't ring a bell, and from googling the film it doesn't appear to have the scene I can quite vividly remember though it's similar. Thanks anyway!
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Jun 27, 2007 13:41
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This has bothered me for YEARS! I remember watching this when I was elementary school-age ('90s). The only thing I remember is that this English kid lived with his aunt and uncle. His father was a king in some other magical land. It's a fantasy movie, if you can't tell. In the beginning, the aunt sends the kid out to buy crackers for the uncle. The kid is narrating about how he's not supposed to buy the salty ones. I wish I could remember more. I know I asked my mom to buy it for me because I thought the VHS cover looked cool.
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Jun 28, 2007 02:28
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mariolatry posted:This has bothered me for YEARS! Mio in the Land of Faraway http://imdb.com/title/tt0093543/ the only reason i remember it is because Christian Bale was in it =P
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Venialblur posted:Mio in the Land of Faraway Well, that appears to be it. Thank you so much!
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I remember some horror movie covers freaking me out as a kid though in reality they were probably cheesy. One had a broken window (I think it was broken) and a dude in a tuxedo with roses, only this dude was bleeding (I don't remember if it was cuz he was shot in the chest or bleeding from the face/eyes but he was bleeding). The other was a cover that showed a monster hand ringing a doorbell, and the tagline was this "Dying dong, your dead" And a third ID, I remember seeing a relatively recent movie in which a child (black) is shown playing Sim Themepark (the newest 3D one) on the computer and I remember thinking "Oh whoa Sim Themepark" I think the kid (might've been a girl) had a dad played by either Samuel L Jackson (not positive) or Jamie Fox (in which case it was probably Bait but again not sure about this either)
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Alan Smithee posted:I remember some horror movie covers freaking me out as a kid though in reality they were probably cheesy. One had a broken window (I think it was broken) and a dude in a tuxedo with roses, only this dude was bleeding (I don't remember if it was cuz he was shot in the chest or bleeding from the face/eyes but he was bleeding). The first is most probably Night of the Creeps, which is awesome and funny. http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0091630/  The second is House, which I know definitely used the tagline "Ding Dong, you're dead" in some of the VHS covers. It too is also an awesome horror comedy. http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0091223/ 
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Alan Smithee posted:The other was a cover that showed a monster hand ringing a doorbell, and the tagline was this "Dying dong, your dead" House http://imdb.com/title/tt0091223/ i've never seen this one, but i've seen the sequal - the one that is only a quasi-horror movie (more amusing than anything) about the bachelor that buys an old house and involves the crystal Aztec skull and an awfully bloody cute baby Pterodactyl...
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