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Trying to recall a quirky 90's hitman movie. It was very stylized and abstract, had something of an all-star cast for a quirky 90's hitman movie, and everyone dueled from behind giant-assed desks and sang lots of Frank Sinatra. I sure hope this is enough information, because God help me if there are 2 or more movies that fit this description.
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Try "Mad Dog Time" aka 'Trigger Happy."
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Sep 26, 2013 21:02
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A few years ago, I caught the tail end of a short film on AMC (or similar cable channel). All I remember of it was a shot of an elderly lady sitting on a floral couch, with a small [coffee?] table, a phone and a picture of Pope John Paul II. A voiceover explains the scene: "Sometimes, the Pope dials a wrong number. Mrs. ________ [person's name] is waiting." (Or some similar line.) There was perhaps one more short scene and then the credits ran. I want to say that the entire film was about people waiting for things, but I only caught the very end. I've never forgotten that scene, though, and have long wondered what the rest of the film is/was. Any thoughts?
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Sep 28, 2013 14:43
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I am so sorry, Movie-Goons, if this turns out not to be a real movie.  Premise (that I remember correctly//incorrectly): vintage//retro style hospital//mental asylum, and there's a male coma//mental patient who happens to have been vegetative//unresponsive most of his stay (got hurt when he was a teen I think?). Expereimental drug is used and he wakes up//becomes coherent, and the rest of the ward the drug is tested on has similar results. Heartwarming stuff happens (mental patient field trip!)), but the drug starts to have terribly ill effects or stops BECOMING effective, so they take him off of it as well as the rest of the ward. He slowly loses his mind, and doctor who has befriended him is sad. That's it. I don't know if I was drunk or hallucinating the whole movie, but I could SWEAR I remember it.  When I remember catching it on the TV I was going through a really rough and self-harmful period and I was also giving hospice care to three family members, who all managed to die. Due to that...about 3 and a half years of memory (between 16 and 20) are gone almost entirely...so I end up grasping at straws.Thanks in advance!!
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Sep 29, 2013 14:07
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That sounds a lot like Awakenings.
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Sep 29, 2013 14:24
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LtKenFrankenstein posted:That sounds a lot like Awakenings. Based on a really incredible true story. The movie only exaggerates slightly. I believe there is a doc called "The Frozen Addicts."
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Sep 29, 2013 18:11
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Isn't Awakenings based on an Oliver Sacks thing?
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Sep 29, 2013 20:48
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HUNDU THE BEAST GOD posted:Isn't Awakenings based on an Oliver Sacks thing? Yep, on the book of the same name. They Americanized the setting and characters.
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Sep 29, 2013 21:02
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I think this was probably some kind of Christian channel original family movie but there's an outside chance it was a real film. Mid-late 80s? Some Russian exchange student? refugee? teen boy moves in with, I think, a highly religious American host family, and he gets a job at an arcade or Chuck-e-Cheese or something, which I believe his host brother also works at. The Russian kid is being pursued by evil Soviet spies I think with the implication that he shouldn't be allowed to pursue religious freedom. I think there was a scene where they hassled him as he was trying to close the arcade.
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Sep 29, 2013 22:41
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LtKenFrankenstein posted:That sounds a lot like Awakenings. Oh Gosh! That's just the movie! Thank you! The minute I saw it I remembered it.  The idea of bringing back those considered gone had really appealed to me, at that point. I'll have to watch it again now that I'm not waiting on anyone else to 'go'.
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Sep 30, 2013 12:05
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There's a movie, I want to say it's a TV movie, but it's about a little black or hispanic kid living in the NYC subway tunnels and coming up by day to steal food or something. I wish I had more details but I remember loving that movie.
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Sep 30, 2013 17:13
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HUNDU THE BEAST GOD posted:There's a movie, I want to say it's a TV movie, but it's about a little black or hispanic kid living in the NYC subway tunnels and coming up by day to steal food or something. I wish I had more details but I remember loving that movie. Runaway?
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Sep 30, 2013 17:17
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That sounds right, now I have to track down a copy. Thanks!
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Sep 30, 2013 17:22
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skimmed the thread sorry if this is a repeat. Its a movie I saw on the USA network. Its about a group of scientist working in a lab for a nasa contractor. one of their co workers gets into an accident and they put him in a prototype robot suit. Well his brain anyway. But they didnt put in all the chips for the brain interface or something. So if anyone on touches him he goes crazy and kills them. He tracks down his wife and talks to her through a stero system. At the end he tracks down the villian in the story who throws his wife at him. He catches her but doesnt kill her cause he figured out how to reprogram himself to stop it. Then there is a show down between him and another cyborg I really wanna say the movie was named something like the thinkinator or I might have that wrong
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Oct 2, 2013 10:19
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Here's one that's been rattling round my noggin for a while. Might have been a World War 2 movie, taking place in the ruins of some city or other. The only scene I remember happens where a man who seems to be living in a ruined home takes in a small boy (likely the protagonist) and gives him food (maybe rice?). The boy, who lives in the ruins or whatever they were, hasn't eaten in a while and wolfs it down. The man becomes angry and tells him he needs to chew his food properly. As far as I can remember, he tells him that he needs to chew it eleven times. Actually, maybe I'm mixing two movies up here. The main points are: - A guy gives a boy some food. - The boy, hungry, wolfs it down. - The guy scolds him and tells him exactly how many times he needs to chew it. Probably eleven. It kind of sounds like "The Island of Bird Street", but I can't find any mention of the chewing scene anywhere. I have no idea why that scene stuck with me 
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Oct 2, 2013 12:36
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Shanty posted:Here's one that's been rattling round my noggin for a while. That boy is Christian Bale in Empire of the Sun. "Chew every mouthful six times to get the benefit".
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Oct 2, 2013 13:07
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westborn posted:That boy is Christian Bale in Empire of the Sun. Ooooh, thanks! Aside from having clearly seen it years ago, I have no recollection of having even heard of this movie. Looks good, though! I was definitely conflating it with something else, though.
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Oct 2, 2013 13:39
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max4me posted:Its a movie I saw on the USA network. Its about a group of scientist working in a lab for a nasa contractor. one of their co workers gets into an accident and they put him in a prototype robot suit. Well his brain anyway. But they didnt put in all the chips for the brain interface or something. So if anyone on touches him he goes crazy and kills them. Ack, I'm pretty sure I watched this on telly (could be a telemovie?) in the late 80s and clocked it at the time as a blatant Frankenstein retelling. Does the ending happen in a radio telescope observatory? I can't recall it's name at all, though.
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Oct 2, 2013 14:19
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1) There's some movie I thinking of where a guy who has previously lived with apes or something has some travails and at the end goes back to live with the apes. There's a scene at the end with a voiceover (I think) where he's sitting in the rain just letting it run over his face like he's ignorant to it (a skill or perspective or something they he picked up from the apes) and the scene is trying to demonstrate that he belongs in this kind of situation. Maybe it's Sean Connery? 2) What movie is this? And is that scene on YouTube?
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Oct 3, 2013 02:23
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Sheep-Goats posted:1) There's some movie I thinking of where a guy who has previously lived with apes or something has some travails and at the end goes back to live with the apes. There's a scene at the end with a voiceover (I think) where he's sitting in the rain just letting it run over his face like he's ignorant to it (a skill or perspective or something they he picked up from the apes) and the scene is trying to demonstrate that he belongs in this kind of situation. Maybe it's Sean Connery? You are close. It's Hopkins
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Oct 3, 2013 02:27
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TY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YT9XpbD_LJ8
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Oct 3, 2013 03:29
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Okay, I got a weird one. My uncle has tasked me to find a movie he remembers seeing as a kid, about a conflict between a Nazi and Allied armored division. The catch is, they've been dead for years and are now zombies or ghosts or something and just keep fighting. He's pretty sure it's set in the arctic or the alps. Apparently the last shot is of a zombiefied tanker manning a machine gun.
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Oct 4, 2013 05:35
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Gr3y posted:Okay, I got a weird one. I don't know how old your uncle is, but maybe Dead Snow? http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1278340/
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Oct 4, 2013 08:16
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ladron posted:I don't know how old your uncle is, but maybe Dead Snow?
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Oct 4, 2013 15:32
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Shock Waves, maybe? http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0076704/?mode=desktop
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Oct 4, 2013 16:48
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Imasalmon posted:Shock Waves, maybe? Nope. I thought of that one too but he's sure the three defining features of this film are snow, tanks, and zombies. It may also have been black and white. It may also have been an Iron Maiden album cover for all I know. Also, I have a personal one that should be easy as someone identified this back in one of the original threads: it's a British movie, there is a woman who is a cannibal, time or dimensional travel is involved, and at the end the surviving characters merge together to form a retarded caveman.
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Oct 4, 2013 18:48
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Gr3y posted:My uncle has tasked me to find a movie he remembers seeing as a kid, about a conflict between a Nazi and Allied armored division. The catch is, they've been dead for years and are now zombies or ghosts or something and just keep fighting. He's pretty sure it's set in the arctic or the alps. Apparently the last shot is of a zombiefied tanker manning a machine gun. Was it animated? Heavy Metal (1981) has a segment like that: http://youtu.be/M7ccCsPdH-k?t=44m
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Oct 4, 2013 22:32
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I'm trying to remember the name of a movie that I've seen a few times, on Comedy Central I think, when I was younger. It's such a faded memory that I can't narrow it down better than 1980-2005. So that doesn't help much. Basically its about these teenagers who were obsessed with this "Feed Bag" thing that they sold at 7-11 and Circle K type stores. Production of the product was coming to an end, so the young characters were all trying to get the last few by breaking into the stores...any ideas? I now have no memory of this movie. But I had posted this question in a different thread in November of 2010 to no avail. And it would be pretty amazing to illuminate this small dark spot of teenage media gratification that's lost in the growing swamp of my adulthood. Many thanks for any help.
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Oct 5, 2013 16:40
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SausageMahoney posted:I'm trying to remember the name of a movie that I've seen a few times, on Comedy Central I think, when I was younger. It's such a faded memory that I can't narrow it down better than 1980-2005. So that doesn't help much. Some quick googling seems to indicate it might be Killer Bud. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0177885/
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Oct 5, 2013 19:36
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Ok here's one that will test ya all. Earlier my daughter tried to describe a movie to me. Apparently there's a guy with no top who has a monkey and a girl with no shoes. It may be called "Cruise" or something that sounds like that or just reminds her of that word. And it may be a cartoon. I already guessed Aladdin and was told a very stern no. I would love it if anyone could get it because it's driving me mad trying to guess...
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Oct 5, 2013 22:47
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This is a long shot, but it sounds like it could be Swiss Family Robinson. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0054357/
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Oct 6, 2013 01:12
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Pippi Longstocking in the South Seas?
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Oct 6, 2013 06:26
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Gr3y posted:
The Final Programme, Michael Moorcock's Jerry Cornelius movie?
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It turns out it was The Croods she was trying to describe. Would have guessed it quicker if I hadn't forgot that movie ever existed... Krypt-OOO-Nite!! fucked around with this message at 13:40 on Oct 6, 2013 |
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Oct 6, 2013 13:21
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ClydeUmney posted:Some quick googling seems to indicate it might be Killer Bud. Thanks a ton. This 'Google' thing you speak of sounds great, I should get with the times.
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This may have been part of an anthology TV series, or maybe it was a film. I'm not quite sure. It's from the late 60's/early 70's, and it's in color. A group of college students are staying in a home with an old woman, and unbeknowst to the woman, they're running an experiment on her to see if they can drive her insane and/or get her to commit murder. They use trickery to get her to believe that she's seeing ghosts, and she's convinced (or believes that she's had a premonition?) that a young woman in the house is going to drown because of this spirit.
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Oct 9, 2013 18:31
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School Bully posted:The Final Programme, Michael Moorcock's Jerry Cornelius movie? That sounds about right. Thank you.
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Oct 9, 2013 18:34
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Davros1 posted:This may have been part of an anthology TV series, or maybe it was a film. I'm not quite sure. This one might be The Big Cube.
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Oct 9, 2013 18:54
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Starblind posted:This one might be The Big Cube. Thanks, but no. I'm pretty certain they were college students attempting an illegal experiment just to see if they could drive the woman insane.
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Kung Fu Panda has a scene where a fighter's hands catch fire during the battle, and it triggered a memory of another film with a similar scene. It may have been another kung fu movie but I'm not sure. I remember that the bad guy's hands catch on fire, but the good guy is able to dodge his attacks, rendering the fire kind of counter-productive. Still, it stuck with me because it seemed kinda of dangerous to have fire waved around in your face like that. Ring any bells?
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