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Advanced apologies if either of these films have been identified in the many previous pages. Recently I got to discussing world cinema with my wife and remembered two, live action East Asian films (exact country of origin unknown, but I want to say both of them were out of Japan) that I saw about ten or eleven years ago. 1. A feature-length, bittersweet comedy from the late 90s(?) about a trio (possibly just a duo) of criminals – bank robbers if I’m not mistaken – who unwittingly find themselves in the temporary care of a young boy. If memory serves me right, the adults try to shield the child from their recent crimes (or crime spree) by basically doing what Roberto Benigni does in “Life is Beautiful” – playing games/fantasy with the kid. One scene I seem to recall is that one of the criminals – his bald head - is painted like a watermelon and he is stuck into the ground. Though I could be wrong about that scene being in this film I seek. 2. I recall this being a shorter film: When a person dies, they are sent to an antechamber for Heaven. (I believe it’s an office building actually.) Once there, the deceased is allowed to watch their entire life on screen and choose a five minute “clip” from it. Once chosen, that scene is dutifully recreated by the “angels” and put on a strip of 35mm film. The piece is then given to the deceased to serve as the single reminder of their life on Earth once they move on into Heaven. A bit comedic and a bit sad, the film’s ultimate aim is to encourage the viewer to think about the concept of boiling their entire life down into a couple of minutes.
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Naked Man Punch posted:2. I recall this being a shorter film: When a person dies, they are sent to an antechamber for Heaven. (I believe it’s an office building actually.) Once there, the deceased is allowed to watch their entire life on screen and choose a five minute “clip” from it. Once chosen, that scene is dutifully recreated by the “angels” and put on a strip of 35mm film. The piece is then given to the deceased to serve as the single reminder of their life on Earth once they move on into Heaven. Are you sure this isn't Defending Your Life? http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0101698/
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Jan 19, 2012 05:43
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Topper Harley posted:Are you sure this isn't Defending Your Life? No, it's not that one. (Although that's a solid film - if only for the "Pavilion of Past Lives" scene.)
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Jan 19, 2012 05:51
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Naked Man Punch posted:
This sounds like After Life.
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Jan 19, 2012 06:23
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morestuff posted:This sounds like After Life. That's it. Thank you!
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Jan 19, 2012 14:50
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I watched one of those fake trailer things for At the Mountains of Madness and it consisted of various shots taken from different movies. Some of the arctic scenery looked really awesome but I couldn't find the names of the movies he used to make the fake trailer, so all I've got is these screen-grabs from the clip.  Does anyone know what movie these shots are from? Tineye returns nothing. (the fake trailer itself: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vw3tuiND_xk)
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Jan 20, 2012 17:14
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It says in the comments "Frankenstein", "King Kong", and "The Mountains of the Moon". I've never seen any of these, but I hope that helps...
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Jan 20, 2012 20:52
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The second one is from Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow, the first one probably is too.
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Jan 20, 2012 20:56
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ladron posted:It says in the comments "Frankenstein", "King Kong", and "The Mountains of the Moon". I've never seen any of these, but I hope that helps... I checked all the movies mentioned in the comments but it didn't seem to match any of them. quote:The second one is from Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow, the first one probably is too. Checking it out now; thanks!
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Jan 20, 2012 22:06
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ladron posted:It says in the comments "Frankenstein", "King Kong", and "The Mountains of the Moon". I've never seen any of these, but I hope that helps... How the hell have you never seen Frankenstein or King Kong? Get on that poo poo!
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Jan 21, 2012 03:33
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Two films, I think both Korean, though the first might be Chinese. First is about a boy that has to go live with his grandmother for whatever reason. She is unable to speak, and communicates in a form of sign language (I don't remember if it's actual sign language or just some stuff she made up). The boy is a real rear end in a top hat to her at first, calling her names and whatnot. I also recall there being another boy that lived in the same village, and he was scared of being chased by a bull or an ox on a certain path that was too narrow to avoid the bull, and one time the first boy tricks him by saying the bull was chasing him. In the end, everything was good and the boy loved his grandmother and all that. Second is about traditional Korean music, and a small family (father and his daughter and son, if I remember right) that continues to practice it despite the fact it's slowly dying out. I don't really recall too much about what happened, aside from the son not wanting to do it anymore and fighting with the dad and stuff like that. I want to say the movie opens and closes with them performing the music at different ceremonies, the ending one possibly the father's funeral. Edit: I saw these in a college class around the mid-2000s, and I think both came out in the early-2000s or late 1990s. Detective Thompson fucked around with this message at 05:56 on Jan 21, 2012 |
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Jan 21, 2012 04:09
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Detective Thompson posted:Second is about traditional Korean music, and a small family (father and his daughter and son, if I remember right) that continues to practice it despite the fact it's slowly dying out. I don't really recall too much about what happened, aside from the son not wanting to do it anymore and fighting with the dad and stuff like that. I want to say the movie opens and closes with them performing the music at different ceremonies, the ending one possibly the father's funeral. This probably isn't it, but the son playing an instrument, fighting with the father, ceremonies and the eventual funeral at the end makes me think of Departures. Even if that isn't it, you still owe it to yourself to watch this wonderful, wonderful movie.
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Jan 21, 2012 05:46
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MrGreenShirt posted:This probably isn't it, but the son playing an instrument, fighting with the father, ceremonies and the eventual funeral at the end makes me think of Departures. Even if that isn't it, you still owe it to yourself to watch this wonderful, wonderful movie. It's not it, but I have seen Departures and I enjoyed it quite a bit.
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Jan 21, 2012 05:55
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So, I was at a bar last night, and they were playing a movie on the tv above the bar. I only caught bits and pieces of the action, but I'm intrigued by what I saw. I'm pretty sure it was a heist flick from the 70's. There's a group of gentlemen in brown featureless masks and beige worksuits with the word Mayflower on the back. They're in either a hotel or a ritzy apartment building, stealing jewels and hauling em around in a big laundry tub. There's a bit where some of them are in an elevator and they're using the phone to talk to an old guy in the lobby - I'm guessing he was in on the heist. Skip forward a bit and there's a bunch of police officers (definitely not American or British, maybe French) on the roof top with tommy guns (I think).
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Jan 21, 2012 17:16
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Starscream posted:How the hell have you never seen Frankenstein or King Kong? Get on that poo poo! They're referring to "Mary Shelley's Frankenstein" and Peter Jackson's "King Kong." So watch the originals instead.
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Jan 21, 2012 17:49
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Saturniid19 posted:They're referring to "Mary Shelley's Frankenstein" and Peter Jackson's "King Kong." So watch the originals instead. But... Mary Shelley's Frankenstein IS the original  Edit: Oh I see. That was a movie title, I'm retarded.
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Jan 21, 2012 20:52
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tokillthesunflower posted:So, I was at a bar last night, and they were playing a movie on the tv above the bar. I only caught bits and pieces of the action, but I'm intrigued by what I saw. It sounds like "The Anderson Tapes" with Sean Connery which is about a heist of a ritzy apartment building. http://www.tower.com/anderson-tapes-sean-connery-dvd/wapi/112276974 Link shows robbers with masks. They had mover type getups. I remember liking this, and even reading the book when I was a kid.
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Jan 21, 2012 21:05
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Zwabu posted:It sounds like "The Anderson Tapes" with Sean Connery which is about a heist of a ritzy apartment building. Yep, that's it, thanks! I owe my buddy a drink too, he swore up and down he saw Sean Connery, but I refused to believe him.
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Jan 21, 2012 23:58
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I've got a really rough one. As a kid, I only had a crappy mom and pop video store to rent from and mainly picked movies by cover art. I once picked a movie and begged my mom to let me get it but she fought me on it because it looked "too scary", so next week I talked my dad into getting it instead. I go home to watch it and saw what to a 10 year old kid looked like the best thing ever in the first 45 seconds of a movie. Then the tape poo poo itself all over the vcr. When we took it back the guy looked at the tape and threw it away saying we could get another rental and he would order a replacement and put it on hold for me. He never did. All I can remember of it after probably 15 years or so is an army of skeletons carrying assorted maces/swords/clubs/whatever while marching down a road. There was also a truck of some kind full of them. That's all I have to go on because it was literally just the opening credits before the tape got eaten. I don't even remember if the skeletons were stop motion, some kind of extensive puppets or people wearing decent costumes, but I know it wasn't animated and this was long before CGI. I am positive that the movie is not Army of Darkness, as that is always the movie people suggest when I bring this up. I don't even care if its the worst movie ever, I've been wondering about this for 15 years or more.
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Jan 25, 2012 20:49
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Sci Fi Film I saw on TV around 20 years ago. Late 70s or early 80s. About a bunch of Scientists who invent a device that can record peoples thoughts and experiences and play them back. Over the course of the film the device goes from the size of a room to something that can be carried in the pocket. The plot seems to have something to do with it the device recording the mind of someone dieing and big business/government trying to cover it up. It seemed to be a proper intelligent sci fi film but its been so long since I've seem it I have no idea any more.
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Jan 29, 2012 15:31
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wibble posted:Sci Fi Film I saw on TV around 20 years ago. Brainstorm. Natalie Wood's last movie.
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Jan 29, 2012 15:49
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wibble posted:Sci Fi Film I saw on TV around 20 years ago. It's been a while since I've seen Brainstorm, but the more recent film "Strange Days" also has a plot centered around this type of technology.
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Jan 29, 2012 16:38
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SaintFu posted:Brainstorm. Natalie Wood's last movie. Yes thats the one. Thanks!
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Jan 29, 2012 16:56
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So my older brother used to bring all his older cool friends over and watch older cool movies for the cool kids when I was like, 7 or 8. They would usually be rip off pirated tapes and whatever and we're talking a heck of a long time ago here, so bare with me. I do not expect this to be a good film, based on his lovely taste, it's just been bugging me forever. Anyways, that aside, here's what I remember; A Giant golden statue of someone features prominently and is used as cover for a gunfight or an explosion near the end. This was either in a casino or a video rental place. A man attempts to commit hari kari or seppuku but is constantly interrupted by the phone. Thats it. Sorry if its not nearly enough to go on, its been a long, long time.
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Jan 31, 2012 01:26
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Nemesis Of Moles posted:So my older brother used to bring all his older cool friends over and watch older cool movies for the cool kids when I was like, 7 or 8. They would usually be rip off pirated tapes and whatever and we're talking a heck of a long time ago here, so bare with me. I do not expect this to be a good film, based on his lovely taste, it's just been bugging me forever. Anyways, that aside, here's what I remember; What year was it when you were 7 or 8?
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Jan 31, 2012 01:45
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NINbuntu 64 posted:What year was it when you were 7 or 8? The year isn't exact. It could have been anywhere between 1995 and 2000ish.
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Jan 31, 2012 02:08
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Nemesis Of Moles posted:
The Big Hit. Taste the golden spray!
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Jan 31, 2012 02:59
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This is a Bollywood movie, probably from the mid-2000s. A guy and a girl fall in love in India, but the guy has to go to San Francisco in order to pursue his career as an architect (or something similar). He works for a company with the Golden Gate bridge for a logo. One of the musical numbers had a guy dressed as a wizard in a parade prominently featured.
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Feb 3, 2012 18:29
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I've posted this one before to no avail: This one came out in the late 2000s starts with a couple in a small-town diner right before they shoot up the diner (it's not Pulp Fiction) and after they run out the entrance the camera pauses, and it skips forward to the guy, six years in the future, being transported from prison to prison in the back of a van. The girl hits the van with a semi and breaks him out, and they have to go back to an old abandoned town to get money they stole in a bank robbery from a mausoleum. I can add that the ending was that they really got shot to death while escaping the diner and the guy has to relive the whole thing over and over again as his version of hell. It ends with the girl breaking the guy out of the van (I think it was more like a paddywagon in hindsight) again.
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Feb 3, 2012 18:34
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I guess this one was an old 60's biblical epic? I only caught a few minutes of it, I think from near the end. There is a tall stone tower in some ancient Roman city or something and some dude was being put to death for his beliefs or something by being made to jump off said tower. So he's up on top screaming about how his faith would let him walk on air. He steps off and promptly drops like a stone because, gravity. His female companion is then probably ordered to recant or go jump off the tower too, so she defiantly walks inside, where it implied she dies too. Pretty sure it was in color too.
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Feb 4, 2012 01:29
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I saw this movie about a year ago around Halloween time. I remember it being about this little boy, probably around the age of 11. He had somehow befriended a demon who went trick or treating with him and maybe punished/killed the kids who were picking on the little boy. After a while the boy started getting scared because the demon went too far. The demon may have had a weird mask. It was one of those so bad it's good movies, and looked like early to mid-90's. Please help!
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Feb 4, 2012 06:08
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I remember seeing this one around 93 on hbo or something. A blond guy has a accident where he loses use of his legs. He then takes up keyboard and becomes a techno/electronica artist. He is fitted with some sort of mechanical legs and pretty much dresses up like robocop when he performs. A girl he has a crush on becomes infatuated with his techno robot alterego after seeing him perform. The guy is to scared to reveal his true identity blah blah. If I remember correctly one of synthesizers was a Roland sh101 and the movie culminated in a techno keyboard shred-off against some other jerk. Ring any bells?
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Feb 4, 2012 07:03
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Krustic posted:I remember seeing this one around 93 on hbo or something. A blond guy has a accident where he loses use of his legs. He then takes up keyboard and becomes a techno/electronica artist. He is fitted with some sort of mechanical legs and pretty much dresses up like robocop when he performs. A girl he has a crush on becomes infatuated with his techno robot alterego after seeing him perform. The guy is to scared to reveal his true identity blah blah. If I remember correctly one of synthesizers was a Roland sh101 and the movie culminated in a techno keyboard shred-off against some other jerk. Ring any bells? The details are all different but could this be Vibrations? Only a few days ago I came across this delightful clip from it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z0S6b7_Z404
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Feb 4, 2012 12:02
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derwalrus posted:I saw this movie about a year ago around Halloween time. I remember it being about this little boy, probably around the age of 11. He had somehow befriended a demon who went trick or treating with him and maybe punished/killed the kids who were picking on the little boy. After a while the boy started getting scared because the demon went too far. The demon may have had a weird mask. It was one of those so bad it's good movies, and looked like early to mid-90's. Please help! Possibly Satan's Little Helper
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Feb 4, 2012 13:26
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I remember seeing this in the early 90's, for whatever reason I remember something about a zombie biting a vampire. Though I could just be making that up. Mostly I remember some guy getting attacked in a phone booth, and he either explodes or melts into goo. The special effects were on par with a Troma film. That's all I remember. 
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I am going crazy trying to remember a movie. I feel like it was within the last 10 years. What I remember is the movie takes place in a cul de sac. I think one of the families lose a son (suicide?), and the movie seems to focus on how the other families in the neighborhood deal with it. I seem to remember another angst ridden teenager in the cul de sac, and possibly I remember a crazy ending (I think during the wake or some big even) where everything goes berserk. Thumbsucker was the first name that came to me but after watching the trailer wrong movie.
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Feb 4, 2012 16:35
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nate fisher posted:I am going crazy trying to remember a movie. I feel like it was within the last 10 years. What I remember is the movie takes place in a cul de sac. I think one of the families lose a son (suicide?), and the movie seems to focus on how the other families in the neighborhood deal with it. I seem to remember another angst ridden teenager in the cul de sac, and possibly I remember a crazy ending (I think during the wake or some big even) where everything goes berserk. Thumbsucker was the first name that came to me but after watching the trailer wrong movie. American Beauty had angsty teen neighbors, but otherwise doesn't fit, although things do blow up pretty spectacularly at the end.
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Feb 4, 2012 16:55
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nate fisher posted:I am going crazy trying to remember a movie. I feel like it was within the last 10 years. What I remember is the movie takes place in a cul de sac. I think one of the families lose a son (suicide?), and the movie seems to focus on how the other families in the neighborhood deal with it. I seem to remember another angst ridden teenager in the cul de sac, and possibly I remember a crazy ending (I think during the wake or some big even) where everything goes berserk. Thumbsucker was the first name that came to me but after watching the trailer wrong movie. I think you are thinking of The Chumscrubber Mouser.. fucked around with this message at 06:27 on Feb 5, 2012 |
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It's like Die Hard at the Hoover Dam, except kinda-to-pretty lovely. Early 90's? I thought it starred Lou Diamond Phillips, but it doesn't appear to be so, yet it may be someone who looks like, acts like, or possibly is Lou Diamond Phillips. I shall name him, "Lou." Lou fights some punker guy or something, who has black clothing and hair worn up, in a small enclosure with pipes. Lou is trying to figure out the code to stop the dam from opening its flood gates. A dying security guard has written, in his own blood on the floor, "RATZ." Lou tries this, it fails. He then intuitively figures out that it's something else related to that word. It works. Lou is being driven away from the ordeal by his black friend in a police car or something of that sort. Unfortunately, his friend is not really his friend, as he starts bashing Lou's head against the passenger side dashboard while yelling "You thought it'd be this easy?" or something that takes issue with Lou's mistaken impression that his journey had ended. Eventually, Lou meets up with the main bad guy and that punker guy in the desert. He throws throwing stars (naturally) at the punker to dispatch the punker, at least. There is a love interest. I don't remember much about her because she was irrelevant and boring.
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Bicycle Courier Jim posted:It's like Die Hard at the Hoover Dam, except kinda-to-pretty lovely. Terminal Rush starring Don "The Dragon" Wilson and Roddy Piper.
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