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amishjosh posted:I'm trying to remember a movie from probably the mid90s that I remember seeing bits of on television. It's either a horror or(most likely) a horror anthology movie. The only bits I can remember are from one bit of it. This sounds a helluva lot like an episode of Amazing Stories called "Mirror, Mirror".
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Origami Dali posted:This sounds a helluva lot like an episode of Amazing Stories called "Mirror, Mirror". Oh god, that is it, thanks!
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May 23, 2013 00:40
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Five Cent Deposit posted:This is quoted verbatim from an email I just received from my stepfather: Not nearly as old as he says but it has to be Light Years Away
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I finally thought of a long-shot for this thread. The English band Wire has a song called French Film Blurred. The lyrics seemingly make no sense, but as the story goes, a band member caught snippets of a French movie on TV and was struck by the imagery. I'm curious if anyone is familiar with any possibilities. The imagery that seems to stick out is: he fell and lay dead amongst the fireworks display. Secured you a concrete grave beneath the motorway. Gold scissors cut the ribbon and set them loose. On the opening days the vibrations will shake your bones
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nocal posted:I finally thought of a long-shot for this thread. I think they're actually referencing a Polish film named Ashes and Diamonds Price Check fucked around with this message at 02:33 on May 25, 2013 |
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May 24, 2013 04:19
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Arturo Ui posted:Not nearly as old as he says but it has to be Light Years Away Thanks a million. Too bad I can't buy it for him. No Region 1 release exists. 
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May 25, 2013 02:30
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Jedit posted:If it's colour, it's probably The Untouchables. If it was black and white, it would be The Battleship Potemkin. De Palma homaged the scene. Yes thank you, The Untouchables. I now remember half watching that with my husband and I guess this scene stuck in my mind. I'll have to go back and watch it for real.
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May 26, 2013 00:55
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Five Cent Deposit posted:Thanks a million. Too bad I can't buy it for him. No Region 1 release exists. Depending how badly you want to get it for him, it's easy enough to rip the dvd on your computer and burn the .iso in region 1 format (giving him the physical dvd as well of course so it's all legit).
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Wouldn't you need to do some trickery if it's PAL instead of NTSC? I tried to do that with Ong Bak ages ago and in the DVD players that would actually even play it it looked like the vertical hold had been messed with due to the difference in frame rate between PAL and NTSC.
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May 26, 2013 07:04
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anticake posted:Wouldn't you need to do some trickery if it's PAL instead of NTSC? I tried to do that with Ong Bak ages ago and in the DVD players that would actually even play it it looked like the vertical hold had been messed with due to the difference in frame rate between PAL and NTSC. You get weird 5:6 pulldown and everything will be pitched up a semi-tone, but it should work. I do this with opera dvds since many of them are European in origin and though the pitch shift is annoying it works for the most part.
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May 26, 2013 07:19
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Do modern TVs even give a poo poo about PAL/NTSC?
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Jedit posted:Do modern TVs even give a poo poo about PAL/NTSC? The player has to be compatible and do the appropriate pulldown -- PAL stuff is encoded at 25 (or 50) fps so something along the line has to convert it to your North American tv's 60 / 120 hz. I don't know many if any standalone players that will convert a PAL signal into an NTSC-compatible signal, though software players do it with ease (at least, VLC and GOM player do, though with the afore-mentioned issue of pitch shifting)
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May 26, 2013 09:42
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I was assembling some furniture the other day and the tv ended up on this movie that I kept tuning in and out of but really want to see start to finish. The premise seemed to be that a man was rehearsing for a play (richard iii iirc). The only other person in the movie was an assistant off screen that you heard but never saw. The entire thing was just him rehearsing and discussing theater and events in his life. No idea what this is and haven't been able to find it on google (have been periodically searching for months).
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May 27, 2013 03:57
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DocMcgillicuddy posted:I was assembling some furniture the other day and the tv ended up on this movie that I kept tuning in and out of but really want to see start to finish. If it was recent HBO has a sort of behind the scenes thing for Barrymore, which is a one man show. It's similar to what you described. e:In Barrymore he's preparing to do Richard III so that's for sure it
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May 27, 2013 04:18
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DocMcgillicuddy posted:I was assembling some furniture the other day and the tv ended up on this movie that I kept tuning in and out of but really want to see start to finish. Could it be "The Dresser" with Albert Finney? Sounds like your film, except it's King Lear being rehearsed. I've heard this film is really good but haven't seen it: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0085461/
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May 27, 2013 04:18
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Definitely Barrymore, thanks!
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DocMcgillicuddy posted:Definitely Barrymore, thanks! Like I say if you check that out and it's not it there's a special called Backstage with Barrymore that should air right around the same time. It's definitely one or the other
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May 27, 2013 04:35
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Zwabu posted:Could it be "The Dresser" with Albert Finney? Sounds like your film, except it's King Lear being rehearsed. I've heard this film is really good but haven't seen it: See it. It's great.
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I'm pretty sure this is a Sci-Fi Channel (back when it was spelled that) original. If not, it aired on it. It revolves around an apocalyptic prophecy - not sure if it was Nostradamus, Biblical, or made up for the film - that starts coming true, and begins to summon poo poo like alien dragons. Soldiers with laser gatlings and jetpacks get deployed against one, and the last survivor gets pissed off enough to make a dumb suicide maneuver and crashes into its forehead, which destroys some sort of mind-control crystal. Then a giant alien demon turtle is summoned and they do battle. Yeah, I'm kind of on a kaiju and bad movie kick right now.
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May 30, 2013 05:24
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JackMackerel posted:I'm pretty sure this is a Sci-Fi Channel (back when it was spelled that) original. If not, it aired on it. I want to say this is one of the sequels to Code Red: The Rubicon Conspiracy or The Omega Code.
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May 30, 2013 05:34
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If the Omega Code had dragons in it, I'd watch it. 
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I'm trying to determine the name of a movie from the early 80's, when everybody was creating Star Wars knock-offs. In this one there is some intergalactic enemy, and somehow those who are chosen to go up against this enemy are chosen by receiving a glowing orange walnut. The main protagonist is a cowboy, or a Indiana Jones type who operates on the outskirts of the law, maybe as a smuggler or mercenary. Initially reluctant to join the cause, because "it's not my fight" I think he saves the galaxy, defeats the Bag Bad, and gets the girl. I think he is the only one who isn't all "proud to serve and do my part", and comes off as arrogant, self-centered, and giving no shits about anything but making a quick buck. He might even have a booze problem, because his glowing walnut turned up in his highball glass. Of course at the end he learns a valuable lesson about himself and making a self sacrifice for the common good, even with using some snarky one liners hinting "I'm still a rogue at heart". TD;DR: space cowboy finds glowing walnut, saves the universe.
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In a similar vein to the above, does anyone remember an early 80s Saturday morning live action show for kids that was kind of a Star Wars ripoff? I think the main bad guy had a black beard and a red crystal eye or something that could shoot lasers.
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Nerdfest X posted:I'm trying to determine the name of a movie from the early 80's, when everybody was creating Star Wars knock-offs. In this one there is some intergalactic enemy, and somehow those who are chosen to go up against this enemy are chosen by receiving a glowing orange walnut. The main protagonist is a cowboy, or a Indiana Jones type who operates on the outskirts of the law, maybe as a smuggler or mercenary. Initially reluctant to join the cause, because "it's not my fight" I think he saves the galaxy, defeats the Bag Bad, and gets the girl. I think he is the only one who isn't all "proud to serve and do my part", and comes off as arrogant, self-centered, and giving no shits about anything but making a quick buck. He might even have a booze problem, because his glowing walnut turned up in his highball glass. Of course at the end he learns a valuable lesson about himself and making a self sacrifice for the common good, even with using some snarky one liners hinting "I'm still a rogue at heart". The glowing orange walnut alone screams "Message From Space" to me. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DJ20uEw9IjI e: whoa, I thought that was a trailer
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Thank you very much for finding this for me again, I watched the whole awful thing. Wonderful!
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regulargonzalez posted:In a similar vein to the above, does anyone remember an early 80s Saturday morning live action show for kids that was kind of a Star Wars ripoff? I think the main bad guy had a black beard and a red crystal eye or something that could shoot lasers. Jason of Star Command. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0078631/
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Murphys Law posted:Jason of Star Command. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0078631/ Thanks! Time to watch some episodes on Youtube and see if it's as terrible as I expect. e: yup, it is! Full of stock music you've heard 1000 times before, horrible special effects, terrible acting. But -- and I normally hate so-bad-it's-good things -- it's far more entertaining than it has any right to be. Plus James Doohan! regulargonzalez fucked around with this message at 23:53 on May 30, 2013 |
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I think this was probably a BBC or ITV TV movie. I think it was made in the 1980s, but set in the 40s or 50s. I saw it in Australia c1988. A woman, a very smartly dressed one travels by train from London I think. On the train she talks to a stranger who is slightly creepy. She is visiting her aunt or older sister and she is a spinster. At the train station she witnesses a man leaping from the top of a railway tunnel to his death. I remember there was some friction between her and her sister. And the creepy man begins courting her and the viewer is left with the impression that he is not a nice person.
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Haha, this is a shot in the dark but I once saw a movie on TV and although I don't remember it being particularly interesting, I am oddly curious about looking it up again. Here's what I remember: There's an important man (I honestly don't remember what his deal was) and some criminals blackmail him by drugging his wife and then stripping her naked and taking pictures of her in uncompromising positions. They also rape her. After they send him copies of the photos and their threats, the wife arms herself with a shotgun and ultimately kills them.
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I remember watching this one when I was a bit younger (mid 90s) and it was on VHS. It was a violent sci-fi/horror movie where a crew was stuck on a space station and a large alien was killing them off one by one. I remember heads being severed and a gory transformation sequence with some dudes head getting torn to shreds (not too far from the transformation sequence in the game Dead Space 2).
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e: probably not right.
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Dreamerdeceiver52 posted:I remember watching this one when I was a bit younger (mid 90s) and it was on VHS. Saturn 3 maybe? Kirk Douglas, Farrah Fawcett, and Harvey Keitel isolated on a space station with a homicidal robot. My question: in what movie does Richard Belzer give himself an air embolism with a syringe? Combing IMBD and Wikipedia unsuccessful so far.
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Nerdfest X posted:Saturn 3 maybe? Kirk Douglas, Farrah Fawcett, and Harvey Keitel isolated on a space station with a homicidal robot. Not quite it, but that sounds interesting too, I'll check it out. Thanks! I've been thinking about it a little more, I remember it had the word 'alien' somewhere in the title. Looked like a set of jaws on the VHS cover too.
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Nerdfest X posted:My question: in what movie does Richard Belzer give himself an air embolism with a syringe? Combing IMBD and Wikipedia unsuccessful so far. I believe that is The Puppet Masters http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Puppet_Masters_%28film%29
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HaroldofTheRock posted:I believe that is The Puppet Masters edit: maybe not, if I remember right, a character in that movie uses his IV drip to do it. edit edit: gently caress, the fabeled "edit is not reply" thing. gently caress me.
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Dreamerdeceiver52 posted:I remember watching this one when I was a bit younger (mid 90s) and it was on VHS. Are you certain you're not thinking of John Carpenter's The Thing? ok, so it's a station in antarctica rather than space but the rest of it sounds the same. deadly The thing trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ftmr17M-a4
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Chewy Bitems posted:Are you certain you're not thinking of John Carpenter's The Thing? ok, so it's a station in antarctica rather than space but the rest of it sounds the same. The Thing is an excellent movie, but it's definitely not The Thing, although it's similar in a few ways. The special effects are pretty similar, but it's not in the Antarctic. It may not have been set in space as well, my young memory may be failing me here!
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Nerdfest X posted:Saturn 3 maybe? Kirk Douglas, Farrah Fawcett, and Harvey Keitel isolated on a space station with a homicidal robot. Ian McKellen kills himself this way in Apt Pupil. Maybe you got actors mixed up?
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Dreamerdeceiver52 posted:I remember watching this one when I was a bit younger (mid 90s) and it was on VHS. It may literally be Dead Space: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aE5Npasp4vI
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There's a movie my girlfriend watched at some point when she was a kid (mid-90s) that we're trying to find. It was probably on Nickelodeon or something like that, but could have just been replayed on TV I guess. It had something to do with a kid at a summer camp who faked being sick and the only thing he could do to keep himself occupied was solve a puzzle upside down. She thinks that perhaps one of the guys from Pete & Pete or some other similar Nick show was in it, but that could just be things blending in. Any ideas?
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