The 'Identify A Movie For Me' Thread 2 - Identify Harder

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regulargonzalez: Aug 18, 2006; UNGH LET ME LICK THOSE BOOTS DADDY HULU YES YES GIVE ME ALL THE CORPORATE CUMMIES ADBLOCK USERS DESERVE THE DEATH PENALTY, DON'T THEY DADDY?
WHEN THE RICH GET RICHER I GET HORNIER

Trying to remember the name of a movie I watched last year. I'd guess it came out within the last 5 years or so. Man comes home from work, it's his birthday, house is dark / deserted, there's a TV on in the den and his wife is on the tv. She reveals she's having an affair, she's leaving him and taking the kids, and he'll never see them ever again. There's a bit more to it, but that's the basic gist.
Thinking it might have been foreign, but can't say with certainty.

# ? Dec 24, 2010 03:10

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# ? May 29, 2024 00:43

Glass Joe: Mar 9, 2007

regulargonzalez posted:

Trying to remember the name of a movie I watched last year. I'd guess it came out within the last 5 years or so. Man comes home from work, it's his birthday, house is dark / deserted, there's a TV on in the den and his wife is on the tv. She reveals she's having an affair, she's leaving him and taking the kids, and he'll never see them ever again. There's a bit more to it, but that's the basic gist.
Thinking it might have been foreign, but can't say with certainty.

Possibly Synecdoche, New York?

# ? Dec 24, 2010 04:01

regulargonzalez: Aug 18, 2006; UNGH LET ME LICK THOSE BOOTS DADDY HULU YES YES GIVE ME ALL THE CORPORATE CUMMIES ADBLOCK USERS DESERVE THE DEATH PENALTY, DON'T THEY DADDY?
WHEN THE RICH GET RICHER I GET HORNIER

Glass Joe posted:

Possibly Synecdoche, New York?

Nope, definitely not that one. Much more of a revenge story

# ? Dec 24, 2010 04:12

Dr_Amazing: Apr 15, 2006; It's a long story

This was an animated Christmas special. This boy is writing a letter to Santa and making all sorts of gift requests. Somehow he ends up at the North Pole and meets Santa. He learns that due to everyone's greed, Santa had to modernize the workshop. It's now a giant factory, run by an angry computer. The computer has basically forced Santa out of his own operation, and Santa is afraid to go against it since he can't meet production himself.

the kid figures out that if every child just scales back their demands a little everything can run as normal. He attempts to shut down the computer, which responds be trying to bribe him with the bike then kid was asking for. The kid drives the bike into a bunch of computers, killing it.

No one I know has ever seen this or believes that this exits.

# ? Dec 25, 2010 17:43

MachineryNoise: Jan 13, 2008; So I shout "Set your life on fire!"

It exists, don't worry. That was The Boy Who Dreamed Christmas, an episode of an obscure Canadian cartoon called Nilus the Sandman. It was released on VHS, too.

# ? Dec 25, 2010 21:25

Observe Me: Jan 21, 2006; I know shits bad right now with all that starving bullshit and the dust storms and we are running out of french fries and burrito coverings. But I got a solution!

There were two movies I watched as a kid that I totally do not remember. I think they came out in the late 80s/early 90s.

In the first one, I guess the male main character gets powers or something. The only scene I remember was he was forced to go to a ballet, and he used his powers to alleviate boredom by inflating his cheeks, which in turn, inflated the male performer's crotch, making it burst. That is all I remember from that one.

The next movie, I remember there was a house, and I guess the owner killed people by throwing them on some dark roller coaster that ground them up at the end of the ride or something. A hip-hop group showed up at the house too and performed, and danced or something.

Any help would be appreciated, thank you!

# ? Dec 27, 2010 15:08

ladron: Sep 15, 2007; eso es lo que es

Observe Me posted:

The next movie, I remember there was a house, and I guess the owner killed people by throwing them on some dark roller coaster that ground them up at the end of the ride or something. A hip-hop group showed up at the house too and performed, and danced or something.

Any help would be appreciated, thank you!

Nothing but Trouble

# ? Dec 27, 2010 15:12

Observe Me: Jan 21, 2006; I know shits bad right now with all that starving bullshit and the dust storms and we are running out of french fries and burrito coverings. But I got a solution!

ladron posted:

Nothing but Trouble

Thats it! AND its on Instant Netflix! Thanks!

# ? Dec 27, 2010 15:28

Ape Agitator: Feb 19, 2004; Soylent Green is Monkeys; College Slice

Observe Me posted:

In the first one, I guess the male main character gets powers or something. The only scene I remember was he was forced to go to a ballet, and he used his powers to alleviate boredom by inflating his cheeks, which in turn, inflated the male performer's crotch, making it burst. That is all I remember from that one.
Any help would be appreciated, thank you!

Modern Problems, with Chevy Chase. Fun but not great.

# ? Dec 27, 2010 16:42

The Uber Skull: Feb 2, 2010; Death is pretty in pink

Okay I have two movies I cannot recall for the life of me, help me out goons!

1. This was a black and white movie about a magical woman of some kind who could turn into smoke. She fell in love with a human man but her father wanted her to leave him. She tricked him into turning into smoke and trapped him in a bottle and they all lived happily ever after.

2. This was a movie about a woman who was some kind of stage performer, a singer, I think. She had a boyfriend who would bring her a china elephant before each show, one night the elephant didn't arrive and she got upset, turned out he'd been in some kind of accident and died, the elephant was broken in half. This may have been a musical.

# ? Dec 27, 2010 16:56

How dreadful!: Mar 17, 2009

My dad is trying to remember some Charles Bronson flicks:

1. He's in a house surrounded by bad guys, so he makes a blowgun out of the tube from a ceiling lamp and kills them all.

2. He's an assassin for hire and he takes on an apprentice.

3. He's a cop and he has to escort a girl.

The only CB film I've ever seen was The Dirty Dozen, so I'm completely in the dark. Help, please.

# ? Dec 27, 2010 19:13

Sir Nose: Mar 28, 2009

How dreadful! posted:

My dad is trying to remember some Charles Bronson flicks:

1. He's in a house surrounded by bad guys, so he makes a blowgun out of the tube from a ceiling lamp and kills them all.

2. He's an assassin for hire and he takes on an apprentice.

3. He's a cop and he has to escort a girl.

The only CB film I've ever seen was The Dirty Dozen, so I'm completely in the dark. Help, please.

#2 is THE MECHANIC. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0068931/

# ? Dec 27, 2010 19:23

Glass Joe: Mar 9, 2007

How dreadful! posted:

My dad is trying to remember some Charles Bronson flicks:

3. He's a cop and he has to escort a girl.

Could he be misremembering Clint Eastwood's The Gauntlet? That's the plot but Charles Bronson isn't in it.

# ? Dec 27, 2010 20:49

einTier: Sep 25, 2003; Charming, friendly, and possessed by demons.
Approach with caution.

Here's one that came up today and I couldn't remember the name of it to save my life.

I can't remember much of the plot, because I was very young and didn't really pay that much attention to it, but it had something to do with actors being killed and replaced with robots so they didn't have to pay the actors anymore.

The scene I remember is a big shoot-out / chase scene through all the scene rooms they had set up, and the robots just kept on doing what they were programmed to do, as they couldn't tell that unexpected things were going on around them. In one part, there's a family having breakfast like nothing at all is wrong while a guy who was just shot dead is sprawled across their table.

For some reason, I found this scene to be particularly funny as a child.

# ? Dec 27, 2010 21:36

Binary Logic: Dec 28, 2000; Fun Shoe

einTier posted:

Here's one that came up today and I couldn't remember the name of it to save my life.

I can't remember much of the plot, because I was very young and didn't really pay that much attention to it, but it had something to do with actors being killed and replaced with robots so they didn't have to pay the actors anymore.

The scene I remember is a big shoot-out / chase scene through all the scene rooms they had set up, and the robots just kept on doing what they were programmed to do, as they couldn't tell that unexpected things were going on around them. In one part, there's a family having breakfast like nothing at all is wrong while a guy who was just shot dead is sprawled across their table.

For some reason, I found this scene to be particularly funny as a child.

Sounds like Westworld.

# ? Dec 27, 2010 21:40

Mouser..: Apr 1, 2010

How dreadful! posted:

My dad is trying to remember some Charles Bronson flicks:

1. He's in a house surrounded by bad guys, so he makes a blowgun out of the tube from a ceiling lamp and kills them all.

Love and Bullets

# ? Dec 28, 2010 00:35

Ape Agitator: Feb 19, 2004; Soylent Green is Monkeys; College Slice

einTier posted:

Here's one that came up today and I couldn't remember the name of it to save my life.

I can't remember much of the plot, because I was very young and didn't really pay that much attention to it, but it had something to do with actors being killed and replaced with robots so they didn't have to pay the actors anymore.

The scene I remember is a big shoot-out / chase scene through all the scene rooms they had set up, and the robots just kept on doing what they were programmed to do, as they couldn't tell that unexpected things were going on around them. In one part, there's a family having breakfast like nothing at all is wrong while a guy who was just shot dead is sprawled across their table.

For some reason, I found this scene to be particularly funny as a child.

It's quite possible that this was Looker although the human actors were being replaced by CG instead, not robots. At the end there is a shootout among the physical set by the good and bad guy and onlookers are watching on video monitors so they see oblivious CG humans going on about their commercial while chaos is going on.

# ? Dec 28, 2010 01:01

How dreadful!: Mar 17, 2009

Sir Nose posted:

#2 is THE MECHANIC. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0068931/

Glass Joe posted:

Could he be misremembering Clint Eastwood's The Gauntlet? That's the plot but Charles Bronson isn't in it.

Mouser.. posted:

Love and Bullets

Thank you!

# ? Dec 28, 2010 08:50

Sir Nose: Mar 28, 2009

einTier posted:

Here's one that came up today and I couldn't remember the name of it to save my life.

I can't remember much of the plot, because I was very young and didn't really pay that much attention to it, but it had something to do with actors being killed and replaced with robots so they didn't have to pay the actors anymore.

The scene I remember is a big shoot-out / chase scene through all the scene rooms they had set up, and the robots just kept on doing what they were programmed to do, as they couldn't tell that unexpected things were going on around them. In one part, there's a family having breakfast like nothing at all is wrong while a guy who was just shot dead is sprawled across their table.

For some reason, I found this scene to be particularly funny as a child.

Or this might be the "Terror Over Hollywood" segment of the 1967 horror anthology TORTURE GARDEN.

# ? Dec 28, 2010 22:24

einTier: Sep 25, 2003; Charming, friendly, and possessed by demons.
Approach with caution.

Ape Agitator posted:

It's quite possible that this was Looker although the human actors were being replaced by CG instead, not robots. At the end there is a shootout among the physical set by the good and bad guy and onlookers are watching on video monitors so they see oblivious CG humans going on about their commercial while chaos is going on.

Yup. That's the one. Thanks.

# ? Dec 30, 2010 02:30

CroatianAlzheimers: Jun 15, 2009; I can't remember why I'm mad at you...

I was told about this over ten years ago.

Apparently there's a scene in some crime movie where the protagonist and antagonist (along with the antagonist's girlfriend) sit down for a tense conversation in a club or bar. At the end of the scene, to make a point, the antagonist smashes a bottle and stabs his girlfriend in the face with it. He then turns calmly to the protagonist and says something to the effect of, "I love her. I don't even like you".

Now, granted, I heard about this second hand, in probably 1998, while drinking. Any ideas, or am I just dumb/crazy?

# ? Jan 4, 2011 02:40

SaintFu: Aug 27, 2006; Where's your god now?

BSAKat posted:

I was told about this over ten years ago.

Apparently there's a scene in some crime movie where the protagonist and antagonist (along with the antagonist's girlfriend) sit down for a tense conversation in a club or bar. At the end of the scene, to make a point, the antagonist smashes a bottle and stabs his girlfriend in the face with it. He then turns calmly to the protagonist and says something to the effect of, "I love her. I don't even like you".

Now, granted, I heard about this second hand, in probably 1998, while drinking. Any ideas, or am I just dumb/crazy?

The Long Goodbye

# ? Jan 4, 2011 02:54

Flynner Magee: Nov 24, 2005; .....bad craziness.....

regulargonzalez posted:

Trying to remember the name of a movie I watched last year. I'd guess it came out within the last 5 years or so. Man comes home from work, it's his birthday, house is dark / deserted, there's a TV on in the den and his wife is on the tv. She reveals she's having an affair, she's leaving him and taking the kids, and he'll never see them ever again. There's a bit more to it, but that's the basic gist.
Thinking it might have been foreign, but can't say with certainty.

It was Alexandra's Project.

hosed up film by the dude that did Bad Boy Bubby.
she was a hooker too, screwing the dude next door while she tells him

# ? Jan 4, 2011 02:57

CroatianAlzheimers: Jun 15, 2009; I can't remember why I'm mad at you...

SaintFu posted:

The Long Goodbye

gently caress yes! You are a prince among men. Of course now I'm embarrassed that I haven't seen this yet :ohdear:

# ? Jan 4, 2011 03:30

get that OUT of my face: Feb 10, 2007

Forgive me, for I have committed a mortal sin: I forgot the name of a Nicolas Cage movie.

It's the one where he's a lawyer who declines going out with a female lawyer in the beginning, then he's somehow transported to an alternate reality where he's married to her and living with a family in New Jersey.

# ? Jan 6, 2011 04:11

CharlieFoxtrot: Mar 27, 2007; organize digital employees

Y-Hat posted:

Forgive me, for I have committed a mortal sin: I forgot the name of a Nicolas Cage movie.

It's the one where he's a lawyer who declines going out with a female lawyer in the beginning, then he's somehow transported to an alternate reality where he's married to her and living with a family in New Jersey.

Sounds like The Family Man.

# ? Jan 6, 2011 04:21

Placenta_Souffle: Dec 30, 2010; finga lickin good

There is an Asian movie I vaguely watched in the wee hours of morning, and for the life of me I can't remember the name of it. All I rememeber are some quite hilariously vivid moments which are imprinted on my brain forever.

* Asian film; Japanese or Korean.
* Watched on TV many years ago.
* A guy whose gangster father is killed, is escorted around with two female bodyguards. One bodyguard is a hermaphrodite, the other can kill people by shooting darts out of her vagina.

# ? Jan 8, 2011 04:22

Flynner Magee: Nov 24, 2005; .....bad craziness.....

Placenta_Souffle posted:

There is an Asian movie I vaguely watched in the wee hours of morning, and for the life of me I can't remember the name of it. All I rememeber are some quite hilariously vivid moments which are imprinted on my brain forever.

* Asian film; Japanese or Korean.
* Watched on TV many years ago.
* A guy whose gangster father is killed, is escorted around with two female bodyguards. One bodyguard is a hermaphrodite, the other can kill people by shooting darts out of her vagina.

Kinda sounds like Fudoh
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0123092/

# ? Jan 8, 2011 05:30

Placenta_Souffle: Dec 30, 2010; finga lickin good

Flynner Magee posted:

Kinda sounds like Fudoh
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0123092/

Yep! That's the one! Thank you so much.

# ? Jan 8, 2011 23:54

Hoestvind: May 17, 2008; ..Satan

I've not actually seen this movie, only had it described to me by my girlfriend, but I believe this was the plot

Mom keeps son indoors for most of his life (until age 30 or so), sleeps with him and abuses him all his life. She says the air outside is poisoned, and puts on a gasmask to go outside. He ends up killing the cat with plastic wrap and realizes he can use this to kill his parents. He kills his parents and escapes outside and meets some kids. That's pretty much what I know.

# ? Jan 9, 2011 16:52

Mouser..: Apr 1, 2010

Hoestvind posted:

I've not actually seen this movie, only had it described to me by my girlfriend, but I believe this was the plot

Mom keeps son indoors for most of his life (until age 30 or so), sleeps with him and abuses him all his life. She says the air outside is poisoned, and puts on a gasmask to go outside. He ends up killing the cat with plastic wrap and realizes he can use this to kill his parents. He kills his parents and escapes outside and meets some kids. That's pretty much what I know.

Bad Boy Bubby

# ? Jan 9, 2011 18:39

Human Tornada: Mar 4, 2005; I been wantin to see a honkey dance.

I saw the end of some movie on TV the other night. I thought it was called D.O.A. but I can't find it on imdb or anything. It was a british movie, where a black guy was fighting a white guy in the woods, and the black guy wins and smashes the white guy's head with a rock.

Then the black guy is tied to a chair and he is bragging about killing this guy's son. The guy gives him a cigarette and then cuts his tongue out. Then the movie ends. What is this movie?

Human Tornada fucked around with this message at 02:11 on Jan 10, 2011

# ? Jan 10, 2011 02:09

havok9: Aug 16, 2005

I'm trying to find out the name of a movie I saw once or twice as a kid. This would have been early/mid 90's, so the movie could be early 90's or 80's.
It was an action flick, the protagonist may have had a mullet. The bad guys were a gang of terrorists or robbers who forced a whole suburb/town into one place (possibly a shopping mall?) and then were used garbage trucks to rob the empty homes and/or use them for some other purpose.

# ? Jan 10, 2011 11:45

BogginHarry: Nov 23, 2004

I remember a film where the guy's parents died in a plane crash. through some kind of adventure, presumably involving time-travel, he was able to somehow go back and, after pleading with them, convinced them not to get on the plane --> happy ending.

Sorry, that's the only thing I remember, but it has bugged me for quite a long time. I'd appreciate if anyone knows what film it might be.

# ? Jan 10, 2011 12:54

zombieman: Aug 8, 2003; That's one happy fucking egg!

BogginHarry posted:

I remember a film where the guy's parents died in a plane crash. through some kind of adventure, presumably involving time-travel, he was able to somehow go back and, after pleading with them, convinced them not to get on the plane --> happy ending.

Sorry, that's the only thing I remember, but it has bugged me for quite a long time. I'd appreciate if anyone knows what film it might be.

This happens to Courtney Cox's character in Masters Of The Universe.

# ? Jan 10, 2011 14:21

BogginHarry: Nov 23, 2004

zombieman posted:

This happens to Courtney Cox's character in Masters Of The Universe.

I would never have thought of that in a million years. It makes sense because I've seen the film but remember nothing about it. Thanks! I must watch this again soon.

# ? Jan 10, 2011 15:25

Ape Agitator: Feb 19, 2004; Soylent Green is Monkeys; College Slice

havok9 posted:

I'm trying to find out the name of a movie I saw once or twice as a kid. This would have been early/mid 90's, so the movie could be early 90's or 80's.
It was an action flick, the protagonist may have had a mullet. The bad guys were a gang of terrorists or robbers who forced a whole suburb/town into one place (possibly a shopping mall?) and then were used garbage trucks to rob the empty homes and/or use them for some other purpose.

This is The Taking of Beverly Hills and you nailed the mullet part. It was lustrous and magnificent!

# ? Jan 10, 2011 18:07

Dancing Potato: May 21, 2007

Glass Joe posted:

Could he be misremembering Clint Eastwood's The Gauntlet? That's the plot but Charles Bronson isn't in it.

I believe this is actually Murphy's Law. There's a young punk girl that witnesses one of the crimes and tags along. Alternately, there's Assassination where he has to escort the First Lady. If it's a young girl, then it could very well be Murphy's Law.

# ? Jan 10, 2011 20:32

havok9: Aug 16, 2005

Ape Agitator posted:

This is The Taking of Beverly Hills and you nailed the mullet part. It was lustrous and magnificent!

Oh my god thank you! Reading wikipedia this definitely looks like it falls into the "so bad it's good" category. I will have to track it down!

# ? Jan 10, 2011 21:45

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teknetik: Jan 13, 2010; SO
JEWISH

This is gonna be vague as hell, but this film was about invaders from out of space who disguise themselves as humans (not 'V'). It revolves around a teenager-type who finds out. I know one scene involves him letting go of a frog while he was in class.

Yea, it's a lovely description but that frog scene was all I remember. I think it was from '80-90's.

# ? Jan 11, 2011 19:52

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