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anticake posted:Red Planet got a TV adaptation that ran on Fox Saturday Morning in the mid-nineties. The aliens are these tall rear end brown things. The main character has a baby one as a pet. That sounds about right, thanks!
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Saw this film about 15 years ago on TV. It wasn't in english; almost certainly a european movie though I can't remember which language. In colour, subbed and it didn't seem too old at the time, probably made around the early 90s. In it three people, one woman and two men, are stationed on a small inhospitable island which they are told is irradiated. They're expected to stay there for a long period of time and run some tests on the area. They're given a small, featureless facility to stay in and occasionally venture outside for brief periods of time in radiation suits so they can take some soil samples or whatever. From what I remember of the plot it was a slow burning thriller, with tensions in the group rising when one of the men and the woman start sleeping together, making the other guy all jealous and brooding. During a field expedition one of the men has some sort of mishap and passes out, causing part of his radiation suit to open. The other male is the only one who notices the suit malfunction but says nothing, using it as an excuse to see if the island they were on really was irradiated (and/or to get his love rival out of the frame). At some point it turns out that one of the people wasn't supposed to have been an eligible candidate for the group, meaning they have some shady reason for being there. There were a bunch of other twists, but that's all I can remember. Been looking for this one for a while but obviously haven't had any luck so far. Tokyo Incident fucked around with this message at 18:08 on Nov 13, 2011 |
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Comedy Central used to run a Zucker-style film noir spoof a lot in the early 2000s. Anyone remember what it was called?
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morestuff posted:Comedy Central used to run a Zucker-style film noir spoof a lot in the early 2000s. Anyone remember what it was called? Maybe Fatal Instinct. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0106873/
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Topper Harley posted:Maybe Fatal Instinct. Yep, that's the one.
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I thought this was Horrible Bosses, but went back and it must be something else. I think this was near the beginning of the movie. Scene is a corporate meeting, male protagonist and other employees are about to give a big pitch to a senior executive. Last guy to roll in before the boss is a smarmy jock dick the protagonist hates. The guy seems to have it all, but is a huge rear end to protagonist. Boss finally comes in and jerk-guy presents a brilliant idea that has been shamelessly stolen from protagonist, gets kudos, promotion, etc. This may have happened in a few movies but I'm distinctly remembering one where the presentation had charts and paperwork the protagonist was freaking out over when confronting the thief. A very recent Hollywood movie. e: does this happen in Dinner For Schmucks? Pweller fucked around with this message at 22:30 on Nov 13, 2011 |
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Pweller posted:I thought this was Horrible Bosses, but went back and it must be something else. I think this was near the beginning of the movie. It is Dinner For Schmucks.
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Watched part of this movie out of the corner of my eye on a restaurant TV while working in spring 2010. There's a married couple and the woman thinks she's turning into a dog--when the husband talks to her she'll only whine or bark or growl in response. At one point they take her to the doctor and she continues to do her dog thing there. There may also be a scene in which she goes to a dog park; memory is blurry on this one.
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PateraOctopus posted:Watched part of this movie out of the corner of my eye on a restaurant TV while working in spring 2010. There's a married couple and the woman thinks she's turning into a dog--when the husband talks to her she'll only whine or bark or growl in response. At one point they take her to the doctor and she continues to do her dog thing there. There may also be a scene in which she goes to a dog park; memory is blurry on this one. Bark!?
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A friend described a comedy to me which he saw years ago at a drive-in theater, I couldn't find the movie so maybe one of you guys can. It was probably from the 80s. There's a chance it was a British movie as well. The main character is a crooked insurance salesman. The victim of his next fraud is a huge fan of John Lennon, and yet somehow isn't aware that he had passed away. The insurance salesman hires a homeless man who bears an uncanny resemblance to John Lennon, to fool his potential victim. Toward the end of the movie, the homeless man comes to genuinely believe that he is John Lennon.
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Daler Mehndi posted:A friend described a comedy to me which he saw years ago at a drive-in theater, I couldn't find the movie so maybe one of you guys can. It was probably from the 80s. There's a chance it was a British movie as well. Google: movie john lennon insurance salesman Janis and John
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And he assured me it wasn't from the 90s or the 00s.  Thanks for being much more thorough than I was!
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I cannot be sure this is a movie but I wanna hope it was. The only scene I remember is the good guy in the film is stopped by a claymore mine (I think it was in an office or doorway). He somehow reverses the front or some part of the claymore so it would explode toward the enemy who detonated it thinking it would kill good guy but killed him instead.
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Haerc posted:I'm pretty sure I saw this as a kid in the mid 90's, probably on VHS. The only scene I remember shows someone opening a small box containing a human heart (perhaps some other organ) with a bite taken out of it. IIRC the killer/biter was a serial killer? Here's the scene on Youtube
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I posted this nearly 3 years ago and never got a reply. For a while, I thought I had figured it out - I thought it was obscure Canadian children's film George's Island. But I was thinking about it again the other day and I realized that was almost certainly wrong. So here goes nothing. I watched this when I was a kid on VHS - it can't have been much later than 1998, and I suspect the movie was made in the late 80s or early 90s. The only part that I remember distinctly is that in the beginning there's these two kids, a boy and a girl, in the same class at school. The girl is very talented and smart, the boy is kind of a klutz - the girl is always getting gold stars from the teacher, the boy never gets any. However, it turns out, they're both orphans and they're living at the same foster home, even though they pretend not to know each other. That's all I remember for certain. I'm pretty sure they escape from the foster home and go on some kind of adventure. There may have been pirates or ghosts involved, or some kind of cave or island, but I am extremely hazy on that. And I'm kind of thinking that the two main characters weren't brother and sister. I hope someone out there remembers this movie and it's not something I've made up or gotten terrible confused, because it's kind of driving me crazy. Any help greatly appreciated!
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MrGreenShirt posted:Bark!? Well, the probability of there being two of this type of movie out there is pretty slim, so that's almost certainly it. Thanks!
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enuma elish posted:I posted this nearly 3 years ago and never got a reply. For a while, I thought I had figured it out - I thought it was obscure Canadian children's film George's Island. But I was thinking about it again the other day and I realized that was almost certainly wrong. So here goes nothing. That happens in George's Island (I posted looking for that film years ago). If you remember a pirate getting decapitated to guard a treasure as a ghost, the boy's grandpa rolling around in a giant eye on halloween, and the foster care mother (who locked the kids in their room) being tormented by ghost pirates looking for grog than that's the movie you're looking for.
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SneakySneaks posted:That happens in George's Island (I posted looking for that film years ago). If you remember a pirate getting decapitated to guard a treasure as a ghost, the boy's grandpa rolling around in a giant eye on halloween, and the foster care mother (who locked the kids in their room) being tormented by ghost pirates looking for grog than that's the movie you're looking for. I think I've been looking for George's Island for a really long time. At first I thought the film I was looking for was 'Frog Dreaming', but I'm like 90% sure it's George's Island. Thanks!
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SneakySneaks posted:That happens in George's Island (I posted looking for that film years ago). If you remember a pirate getting decapitated to guard a treasure as a ghost, the boy's grandpa rolling around in a giant eye on halloween, and the foster care mother (who locked the kids in their room) being tormented by ghost pirates looking for grog than that's the movie you're looking for. If that does happen in George's Island then it probably is George's Island. I really remember very little else from the movie, so that's probably it. Thanks for the help!
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I saw a movie years ago about a mentally disturbed woman who basically kidnaps a Muslim cab driver in NYC. It was released shortly after the September 11th attacks, anyone have any idea?
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Nutsngum posted:You guys might be able to help me with this. I am super late here, but was it the "Bringers of Wonder" episode of Space: 1999? You probably figured this out already but I didn't see a reply in the thread.
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SolidHavoc posted:I saw a movie years ago about a mentally disturbed woman who basically kidnaps a Muslim cab driver in NYC. It was released shortly after the September 11th attacks, anyone have any idea? Sorry, Haters?
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Origami Dali posted:Sorry, Haters? Awesome, thanks!
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Time for a vague one. I'm looking for an Asian, probably Chinese, movie where it has lots of shots of a very large dilapidated looking city with a river running through it and there's a voice over of a man who at one point talks about how people used to say that mermaids swam in the river. The story also mostly involves a girl. It's a drama of sorts and no, I cannot be any more vague about it.
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A possibly made for TV movie about a cop (maybe NYC) trying to stop a serial killer on the subway. The killer strangles old ladies while dressed up as an old lady. The public is aware of the killers MO. The cop dresses up as an old lady to make himself a target. Just as the cop spots the killer attempting to murder another victim in the next car, some passengers notice that he is really a man, and try to stop him, thinking he is really the serial killer. He finally convices the good samaritans that he is indeed a cop, and stops the psycho.
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Nerdfest X posted:A possibly made for TV movie about a cop (maybe NYC) trying to stop a serial killer on the subway. The killer strangles old ladies while dressed up as an old lady. The public is aware of the killers MO. The cop dresses up as an old lady to make himself a target. Just as the cop spots the killer attempting to murder another victim in the next car, some passengers notice that he is really a man, and try to stop him, thinking he is really the serial killer. He finally convices the good samaritans that he is indeed a cop, and stops the psycho. I don't know this movie, but my god, that plot. 
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Nerdfest X posted:A possibly made for TV movie about a cop (maybe NYC) trying to stop a serial killer on the subway. The killer strangles old ladies while dressed up as an old lady. The public is aware of the killers MO. The cop dresses up as an old lady to make himself a target. Just as the cop spots the killer attempting to murder another victim in the next car, some passengers notice that he is really a man, and try to stop him, thinking he is really the serial killer. He finally convices the good samaritans that he is indeed a cop, and stops the psycho. It's probably not it but this scene from Nighthawks came to mind.
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Okay, so this has been bothering me for years and I just thought of posting it here. I saw a movie, maybe 10-15 years ago. I believe it was about some people that were lured to a house under the premise that it was for a reality TV show or something. The owner locked them all inside and started killing them. The only scenes I remember is an acid shower, a person getting ripped open at the stomache by a trap in the kitchen and the final scene where the survivor started cutting her face off.
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Nushergrudger posted:Okay, so this has been bothering me for years and I just thought of posting it here. Eh I don't think this is it, but worth a shot: My Little Eye http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/My_Little_Eye
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Nushergrudger posted:Okay, so this has been bothering me for years and I just thought of posting it here. Kolobos?
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franco posted:Kolobos? That's the one! I knew it started with a "K"... Thank you for putting my mind at ease.
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SneakySneaks posted:It's probably not it but this scene from Nighthawks came to mind. No, not Nighthawks. I think most of the killings, if not all occur on the subway. The killer has some Norman Bates thing going on. As he kills the old ladies, he is crying, calling them "Mommy" and telling them how sorry he is.
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Nerdfest X posted:A possibly made for TV movie about a cop (maybe NYC) trying to stop a serial killer on the subway. The killer strangles old ladies while dressed up as an old lady. The public is aware of the killers MO. The cop dresses up as an old lady to make himself a target. Just as the cop spots the killer attempting to murder another victim in the next car, some passengers notice that he is really a man, and try to stop him, thinking he is really the serial killer. He finally convices the good samaritans that he is indeed a cop, and stops the psycho. No Way to Treat a Lady ?
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Does anyone know what movie I am thinking of? I saw the trailer about a month ago, it was an ancient fantasy seemingly told to a little girl as a story? I cannot for the life of me find the trailer.
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Sixty-Proof posted:Does anyone know what movie I am thinking of? I saw the trailer about a month ago, it was an ancient fantasy seemingly told to a little girl as a story? I cannot for the life of me find the trailer. Sounds like The Fall
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morestuff posted:Sounds like The Fall
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Okay I have two movies I can't remember. First up, the easy one. It's a Golden Age (I THINK), and quite a popular one, I just can't remember which. It's about a man trying to apprehend Nazis operating in the USA during or right before WW2. He teams up with the daughter of a convicted Nazi (however said daughter is a patriot). The daughter takes an assignment as an agent, and seduces and pretends to be a wife of a suspected Nazi. The end scene has the protagonist walking the sick (wounded?) woman out of the Nazi house with a gun hidden in his sleeve, and leaving in a car. Second one is probably going to be a bit harder but worth a try. Its a very old (late 20's or 1930) surrealist short(?) film. I can't remember many details but there was a scene where a...ghost like woman? Kind of drifts around a street/up some outside stairs in a rather unnatural manner.
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Mouser.. posted:No Way to Treat a Lady ? No, this is not it. The movie is from later than that, at least the mid eighties, possibly early nineties. However, No Way To Treat A Lady seems like an interesting film.
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Crazedmongoose posted:Okay I have two movies I can't remember. Notorious and probably House on Haunted Hill.  Is this the second scene?
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Crazedmongoose posted:Okay I have two movies I can't remember. This is almost certainly Notorious.
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