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Squirtle Squadee posted:I saw a movie a very long time ago, and I can only remember a few key things about it. It might even be a television-exclusive movie, but I don't know. This sounds kind of like The Family Man with Nicolas Cage, except the shower thing which sounds like American Beauty. Neither of these is from "a very long time ago", though.
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Squirtle Squadee posted:I saw a movie a very long time ago, and I can only remember a few key things about it. It might even be a television-exclusive movie, but I don't know. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0169547/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1 American Beauty?
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Apr 24, 2013 08:30
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Sounds like Future Trade
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Apr 24, 2013 12:24
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Definitely American Beauty. Thanks.
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Apr 24, 2013 13:31
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Squirtle Squadee posted:Definitely American Beauty. Thanks. Except that most of what you described never happens in American Beauty.
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I might have been watching two movies at the same time. Like I said, it was over 10 years ago. It was just an early memory that popped into my head. vvv: Just Youtubed it. You're right. I was definitely channel flipping between that and American Beauty. teen phone cutie fucked around with this message at 17:12 on Apr 24, 2013 |
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Apr 24, 2013 16:58
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The other half is future trade, or at least based on the same story. It's been adapted a few times
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Apr 24, 2013 17:00
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Is this Pretty Woman, or something else? A woman and (I think, not sure) her friend wearing plain, average clothes walk into a posh Beverly Hills boutique and start looking around and pretend to try things on. A pompous snob of a worker sees them and tells them to leave immediately as they cannot afford a single thing in the store and are wasting their time and harming the store's profits by just being there; If they refuse to leave, he'll call the cops immediately. One of the women pulls out a comedically huge wad of cash, flashes it in the snob's face and tells him, "Well then I guess we'll just take our business elsewhere" in a total  to Mr. Snooty, and they leave the store.
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Apr 24, 2013 22:26
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Definitely not Pretty Woman, since I saw that same scene a few days/weeks ago and I haven't seen Pretty Woman in years. Really wracking my mind right now to come up with the name. Why the hell won't Netflix let me look at my full history any more? By any chance did the store manager come up to the salesperson after the woman/women left and fire him/her on the spot? Edit: Pretty in Pink. Edit 2: Nope, not it. It'll come to me eventually. MrGreenShirt fucked around with this message at 22:57 on Apr 24, 2013 |
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Apr 24, 2013 22:44
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Sorry for double-posting, but that scene actually WAS in Pretty Woman. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RQQK0VTTXvA Must be a fairly common trope though. I've definitely seen it in something else too. Yet another edit: VVV ...and that was totally what I was thinking of. MrGreenShirt fucked around with this message at 23:30 on Apr 24, 2013 |
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Apr 24, 2013 23:08
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Always Sunny in Philadelphia had a big reference to it in one of the last two seasons
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MrGreenShirt posted:Sorry for double-posting, but that scene actually WAS in Pretty Woman. Yeah, it seems like a fairly common trope. A poor nobody gets poo poo on by some some rich snob, the poor nobody climbs the social ladder, becomes rich and returns to tell the rich snob to suck it. It could also be the "poor nobody" is actually an incredibly wealthy person who doesn't like flaunting their cash and gets mistaken for an actual poor nobody in average clothing. But regarding the ID of my movie, I had a feeling this happened in Pretty Woman, but the movie I'm thinking of isn't PW. I'm positive there was a wad of cash involved, and I thought it might be Romy & Michelle's High School Reunion, but I think that happened when one of them applied for a job at a Beverly Hills clothing store and was immediately looked down upon. Hell, it could be an episode of a TV show, for all I know, but yeah, a fairly common theme with classes, it seems.
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Opopanax posted:Always Sunny in Philadelphia had a big reference to it in one of the last two seasons Season 7 Episode 1 - Frank's Pretty Woman Just watched it and it's exactly as described. That was bugging me too and I immediately remembered the drugged out chick.
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You Are A Elf posted:Yeah, it seems like a fairly common trope. A poor nobody gets poo poo on by some some rich snob, the poor nobody climbs the social ladder, becomes rich and returns to tell the rich snob to suck it. It could also be the "poor nobody" is actually an incredibly wealthy person who doesn't like flaunting their cash and gets mistaken for an actual poor nobody in average clothing. There's definitely a wad of cash in the Always Sunny episode
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Alright, here's one. I saw this at my grandfather's place when I was like 10 or so. There's a scene where a dude is being controlled by invisible puppet strings to walk through a hospital. We see the puppetmaster silhouetted above the hospital. The guy is forced to walk to the roof of the hospital, where he jumps off. That's all I can remember, and I've been trying to remember what it's from for so long.
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Lance Streetman posted:Alright, here's one. I saw this at my grandfather's place when I was like 10 or so. There's a scene where a dude is being controlled by invisible puppet strings to walk through a hospital. We see the puppetmaster silhouetted above the hospital. The guy is forced to walk to the roof of the hospital, where he jumps off. That's all I can remember, and I've been trying to remember what it's from for so long. A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors
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Somewhere between about fifteen to twenty years ago (or maybe slightly more recently, but it was a while back) I saw a movie where at one point someone is put through a woodchipper and his remains are put in a bag for his friends to take away as a warning or something. In the next scene, someone asks where the guy is and they say he's in the bag, and the person looks in there and vomits. It seems highly unlikely, but I think it might have been a comedy? I mean, that doesn't sound funny at all, so I'm probably wrong about that, but that's all I remember about it.
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Tiggum posted:Somewhere between about fifteen to twenty years ago (or maybe slightly more recently, but it was a while back) I saw a movie where at one point someone is put through a woodchipper and his remains are put in a bag for his friends to take away as a warning or something. In the next scene, someone asks where the guy is and they say he's in the bag, and the person looks in there and vomits. It seems highly unlikely, but I think it might have been a comedy? I mean, that doesn't sound funny at all, so I'm probably wrong about that, but that's all I remember about it. Rumble in the Bronx. That scene freaked me out, because a Jackie Chan film is supposed to be funny and not terrifying.
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Polka_Rapper posted:Rumble in the Bronx. That scene freaked me out, because a Jackie Chan film is supposed to be funny and not terrifying. Was that the same one where at the end the head bad guy is defeated by being run over by a hovercraft?
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CzarChasm posted:Was that the same one where at the end the head bad guy is defeated by being run over by a hovercraft? Yes it is.
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Polka_Rapper posted:Rumble in the Bronx. That scene freaked me out, because a Jackie Chan film is supposed to be funny and not terrifying. Wow, I remember that movie, and I remember the scene, but somehow they've become completely separated in my mind.
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For the last 25 years, I've have a snapshot of a bad movie or TV show haunt me based on a 15 second clip I saw when I was like 5 (1987). There are maybe four guys sleeping and then they are roughly woken up and hoods are put on them. Their hands are handcuffed behind their backs and ski boots are put on their feet. They are then walked to a....water slide and slid into a swimming pool of water. After this, I was shooed out of the room because I was too young. Now that I am old and callused, what the gently caress was this movie?
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This has been driving me crazy for quite some time. It's a film, from probably the early to mid 90s. I can remember snippets of the plot. A group of people are making a movie, about an assassination, possibly of the President (or big gov't official). The person they hire to play the sniper is an actual nut job. I vividly remember a scene where he has a nightmare that he killed his wife and daughter by smothering them. There's a scene where he snipers several guys in a hotel room from another building or hill. The actual plot really stands out for me because towards the end, its revealed that every thing you've been watching has been a film. So the movie has been about these people making a movie about a big assassination. Like, you're watching what you think is the climax and some one yells cut, and yeah, it's all been a film. A movie, within a movie, within a movie. I can't remember any actors, which has made IMDB not helpful.
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Linus Balto posted:This has been driving me crazy for quite some time. The November Men?
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Dr_Amazing posted:I saw this on TV maybe 15 years ago. I'm not sure if it was tv or a movie but it scared the poo poo out of me for a while. I haven't seen it since the original release, but wasn't there a scene similar to that in The Dead Zone?
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Not it. Thanks, though. This might be something I NEVER find out, haha. I thought this guy: http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0002117/?ref_=tt_cl_t6 was in it, playing the nut job assassin. But I can't see any title on his resume from around that time that fits the bill.
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British kids tv show involving a time travel capable motorcycle, I'm guessing early 90s. It was a woman who rode the (probably black) bike and had a young girl (boy? don't remember) with her. At one point they were fleeing the Roundheads (Cavaliers? don't remember) and at another point they get in trouble with Union (Confederate?) soldiers so they could travel through time and space.
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I honestly don't know if it was in theaters or direct to video/tv, just that it was on tv around 1994 or so and looked to have been made around the same time. The only scene I remember is a main character and a portly neighbor arguing about a tree overgrowing their fence. They get into a scuffle and the fat neighbor seriously hurts himself when he falls over. The main character panics and goes to call 911 to get him some help. While he does this, though, a mysterious drifter who they let stay in their place comes out and kills the fat neighbor by smashing his head against a rock. He then changes into some of the main characters' clothing and leaves.
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Dr_Amazing posted:I saw this on TV maybe 15 years ago. I'm not sure if it was tv or a movie but it scared the poo poo out of me for a while. You sure this is that old? Because there's a nearly identical scene in American Horror Story.
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Horror movie. Mid '80s. Nazis during World War 2 find a tower in the backcountry, there's a demon or something inside of it, and it gets loose. They probably die horribly before someone seals the creature back inside. I haven't seen more than a minute of it, but my dad quotes a line of dialogue all the time - "This was not made to keep something out - This was made to keep something in!"
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Mimir posted:Horror movie. Mid '80s. Nazis during World War 2 find a tower in the backcountry, there's a demon or something inside of it, and it gets loose. They probably die horribly before someone seals the creature back inside. I haven't seen more than a minute of it, but my dad quotes a line of dialogue all the time - "This was not made to keep something out - This was made to keep something in!" The Keep
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The Keep Edit: Grrr
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Trying to find out the name of an Anime film I saw on television ten years ago. -It was set in the near future in which the sea levels had risen and everything was partly under water. -At the start a group of soldiers met with a Snake Plissken style character, the film's main protagonist, to enlist him in a war effort. -The film involved fighting against these huge mech-robots which would suddenly emerge out of the submerged world. Just after enlisting Snake they encounter one of these and he succeeds somehow in destroying it. As soon as he does this glowing white female emerges from it and Snake, for some reason, makes a big deal out of running towards her and lowering her peacefully into the water. -There's some kind of huge fight against the robots which humanity loses leaving Snake drifting around in some kind of escape pod. -The last detail I remember is of Snake sitting around on a tiny island surrounded by the strange glowing women I described earlier. Does anyone have any idea what this might be?
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I dunno personally, but you might have better luck in the Help me identify this anime! thread in ADTRW.
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Neo Rasa posted:I honestly don't know if it was in theaters or direct to video/tv, just that it was on tv around 1994 or so and looked to have been made around the same time. I could be wrong, but I think this was actually a Tales from the Crypt episode. I have them all on DVD, and I'll check when I get home. EDIT: I dug through them, and none of the episode descriptions jumped out at me as being this, so who knows. I know it's been done before American Horror Story because I've never seen it, but I have seen whatever Neo Rasa is talking about. girth brooks part 2 fucked around with this message at 03:36 on May 1, 2013 |
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cloudchamber posted:Trying to find out the name of an Anime film I saw on television ten years ago. Are you sure this is a film? Sounds a lot like Blue Submarine No. 6 to me.
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Just watched a few clips and that's definitely it. Thanks.
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I'm going to kick myself when someone gets this. I used to have it on DVD and even then could never remember the name of it. It's from the '70s and is a horror movie; a group of tourists (each one of them represents one of the seven deadly sings) goes to a castle and this creepy Satan lady seduces all of them or something. It's really hokey and really '70s and there's a goofy guy who looks like Thom Yorke (who I think is supposed to be Death or something).
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The Devil's Nightmare
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Yes! Thank you. I've never looked at the IMDB page. That Thom Yorke fellow is supposed to be Satan? I thought the lady (on the freakin' cover) was supposed to be Satan. Boy, I wonder what other movies I've been partially misunderstanding?
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