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SkunkDuster posted:I'm having hazy memories of a guy in desperation crying out something like, "just let me keep/have this one thing". Did that happen in "The Fisher King"? I'm sure there's a scene like that in a million movies and one of those movies is The Jerk. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w2X3vVMdh-s
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Andorra posted:A few years ago me dad told me about a movie he watched when he was stationed in Iraq back in '02. He said it was the stupidest movie he's ever seen, and he thought it was Australian. He said there was a scene where guys drove a car up or down stairs, and there may have been a fishbowl involved. The Italian Job has cars driving down stairs, and British is kind of like Australian.
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Dec 16, 2014 03:31
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The Italian Job also fits the bill in that it is the stupidest movie anyone has ever seen.
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Dec 16, 2014 11:35
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SkunkDuster posted:I'm having hazy memories of a guy in desperation crying out something like, "just let me keep/have this one thing". Did that happen in "The Fisher King"?
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Dec 16, 2014 15:23
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Andorra posted:A few years ago me dad told me about a movie he watched when he was stationed in Iraq back in '02. He said it was the stupidest movie he's ever seen, and he thought it was Australian. He said there was a scene where guys drove a car up or down stairs, and there may have been a fishbowl involved. I've never seen the whole movie but A Fish Called Wanda has something about a fish bowl and some assholish driving that maybe included some stairs at some point.
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Dec 16, 2014 19:50
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The Macaroni posted:Was it a period drama? At the end of "The Crucible," Daniel Day-Lewis' character yells "Let me keep my name!" The more I think about it, the more I think it is The Fisher King. I'm picturing Robin Williams saying it while having a breakdown in front of the Red Knight. Since nobody else has placed it in The Fisher King, I'm now wondering if I'm misremembering what he says during that scene.
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Dec 16, 2014 20:29
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Robin Williams does say "Please, let me have this!" in the Fisher King. You can watch the scene on Youtube.
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Dec 16, 2014 22:06
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Samuel Clemens posted:Robin Williams does say "Please, let me have this!" in the Fisher King. You can watch the scene on Youtube. That's it, thanks! I was thinking I'd have to watch the whole movie again to find that part and didn't even think of searching youtube for that particular clip. It's weird how a part of line or imagery from scene from a movie you haven't seen in almost 20 years just comes to mind for no good reason.
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Dec 18, 2014 03:03
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Watched: probably 2011 Genre: not sure. Station: Maybe that antenna TV channel. What I remember: Black & white film from 1940s era about a guy who has some terminal illness. He has a girlfriend or something and he gets stalked by some guy. I think he is forced to visit some secret underground lair for a secret society. The leader of the society looked a little like Boris Karloff or I just thought he did. Anyway the leader informs the protagonist that the society knows of his terminal illness and pending death from said illness. They want to buy the protagonist's head when he dies. It turns out the society's founder died a long time ago and they have his body on display, but the head deteriorated and the protagonist just happens to be his double. They want to use his head to replace the founders. The film had the feel of a noir.
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Dec 18, 2014 04:41
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When I was very young, every Sunday night a recent prime minister of New Zealand would dress up like Dracula to introduce old horror movies on the TV. One I've always wanted to see again was an old black and white horror about a guy who develops technology for any material to pass through any other. He uses it on himself and can reach through jewellery store windows to steal necklaces for his girlfriend. The curse of it is the any living person he touches ages like fifty years. Any ideas? vv Many thanks! vv Chubby Henparty fucked around with this message at 10:50 on Dec 18, 2014 |
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Dec 18, 2014 10:06
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1 800 J JAMES posted:When I was very young, every Sunday night a recent prime minister of New Zealand would dress up like Dracula to introduce old horror movies on the TV. One I've always wanted to see again was an old black and white horror about a guy who develops technology for any material to pass through any other. He uses it on himself and can reach through jewellery store windows to steal necklaces for his girlfriend. The curse of it is the any living person he touches ages like fifty years. Any ideas? 4D Man
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Dec 18, 2014 10:42
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There was a movie I watched at a drive-in in the 80s. It took place mainly inside and around a family's home, which I think may have been a ranch in the countryside. It was mainly about the family encountering strange phenomenon, such as tiny spaceships flying around and exploring their house, or monsters lurking around the ranch who eventually fight each other.
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Dec 18, 2014 10:55
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Daler Mehndi posted:There was a movie I watched at a drive-in in the 80s. It took place mainly inside and around a family's home, which I think may have been a ranch in the countryside. It was mainly about the family encountering strange phenomenon, such as tiny spaceships flying around and exploring their house, or monsters lurking around the ranch who eventually fight each other. Maybe The Day Time Ended?
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Dec 18, 2014 14:45
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Oh yes, that's it! I watched it on Youtube and that's definitely the movie I saw. Though I didn't remember the time travelling gimmick at all.
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Dec 18, 2014 20:06
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A friend of mine made a post on facebook asking for help identifying a movie, and it's kind of neat that it would happen only a few days after I found this thread. So, I'm hoping someone can help him out because I have no idea, myself. I'm going to put it in spoilers as he mentions a bunch of plot progression as well as the endingquote:
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Dec 19, 2014 00:42
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thunderspanks posted:A friend of mine made a post on facebook asking for help identifying a movie, and it's kind of neat that it would happen only a few days after I found this thread. So, I'm hoping someone can help him out because I have no idea, myself. I'm going to put it in spoilers as he mentions a bunch of plot progression as well as the ending This sure sounds like the Alfred Hitchcock Presents episode 'Mr. Blanchard's Secret' (down to the details about tea and the stolen lighter) except for the ending he describes.
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Dec 19, 2014 03:53
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Morn posted:Watched: probably 2011 I Love a Mystery
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Dec 19, 2014 07:54
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This is exactly it! Thanks!!
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Dec 19, 2014 20:21
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Arturo Ui posted:This sure sounds like the Alfred Hitchcock Presents episode 'Mr. Blanchard's Secret' (down to the details about tea and the stolen lighter) except for the ending he describes. Turns out it was "Murder in Mind"! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rRFXAKNdhYY
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Dec 20, 2014 01:30
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A scene in a movie where thousands of arrows are fired into the air at a guy with him disappearing and only the outline of his body remaining. The movie was of Asian origin if I recall correctly.
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Dec 20, 2014 13:27
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That's Hero with Jet Li.
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Dec 20, 2014 13:34
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So I have a bit of a stretch request here. I saw a movie late at night when I was a kid in the 90s about a serial killer monkey I think. The main character I think was a police inspector maybe who was investigating locked room murders and it turned out to be a monkey. Anyone have any idea?
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Ramadu posted:So I have a bit of a stretch request here. I saw a movie late at night when I was a kid in the 90s about a serial killer monkey I think. The main character I think was a police inspector maybe who was investigating locked room murders and it turned out to be a monkey. Anyone have any idea? Sounds like the plot of Murders in the Rue Morgue. It's a Poe story, so there's probably a few adaptations.
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Ramadu posted:So I have a bit of a stretch request here. I saw a movie late at night when I was a kid in the 90s about a serial killer monkey I think. The main character I think was a police inspector maybe who was investigating locked room murders and it turned out to be a monkey. Anyone have any idea? Monkey Shines maybe? Doesn't really fit but the only monkey killer movie I can think of
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Don't forget Shakma. It probably isn't Shakma.
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headcas3 posted:Monkey Shines maybe? Doesn't really fit but the only monkey killer movie I can think of I just watched Monkey Shines last night and that was actually what prompted me to think about this movie and ask about it. It looks like it was probably the 1986 version of the Rue Morgue story but I'll be damned if I can find it on something that isn't a VHS tape lol.
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Can we ask for help in identifying books here? If so, I've got one. I read it back in the middle 90's. The protagonist was a geeky sickly young man who was in a love triangle with this girl and a jock-ish guy. The twist at the end of the novel was that she was a time traveler from the future who had come back to maybe warn everyone of some future calamity (possibly nuclear war). Further twists were that she had married the other guy, who had become a general. They managed to survive by being relocated to a space station. Afterwards, when the station was about to run out of air and they were all about to die, they were saved by aliens who I think sent her back in time to help fix things. She described them as being a bunch of lights. I remember the protagonist asking her if he died during the war, and she said no he died of some sickness, maybe asthma? On the plus side, apparently the geeky protagonist became something of a success.
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zyang31 posted:Can we ask for help in identifying books here?
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Trying to find the identity of a movie I saw a few years back. I think it was a 70s/80s revenge movie. The only thing I remember distinctly is a musical sequence with a folksy song that played while the antagonists were driving down the road in a pickup truck. The song mentioned the characters by name and maybe what they were planning to do, and was totally opposite in tone to the rest of the movie.
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snickles posted:Trying to find the identity of a movie I saw a few years back. I think it was a 70s/80s revenge movie. The only thing I remember distinctly is a musical sequence with a folksy song that played while the antagonists were driving down the road in a pickup truck. The song mentioned the characters by name and maybe what they were planning to do, and was totally opposite in tone to the rest of the movie. The original Last House on the Left had a folky song in it that felt massively out of place. here's one scene where there's music playing - http://youtu.be/N0zEU7WT94g?t=47m53s [NSFW obviously] . there's a fair few scenes of driving around on backroads in a truck in the film too. Chewy Bitems fucked around with this message at 02:16 on Dec 24, 2014 |
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Chewy Bitems posted:The original Last House on the Left had a folky song in it that felt massively out of place. here's one scene where there's music playing - http://youtu.be/N0zEU7WT94g?t=47m53s [NSFW obviously] . there's a fair few scenes of driving around on backroads in a truck in the film too. Yep, that's the one. I kept thinking it was House at the Edge of the Park. I was so close. Thank you! What a bizarre juxtaposition.
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I'm pretty sure the only way Craven and Cunningham could afford sleazemeister David Hess was to agree to let him use those songs on the soundtrack. That Sadie and Krug track is just the worst.
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I just saw a trailer the other day at IFC called The something of something, I think. It's about a lady who hires some woman to be her maid and she keeps her in a box and there's weird sex stuff. What is this called? Google only brings up porn
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I was talking to my wife last night about how Matt Damon was in Interstellar with very little fanfare about his casting, and how it reminded me of another movie where they cast a famous actor in a minor role, with the (explicit?) goal of attempting to pass the other characters' reaction of "holy poo poo it's you" onto the audience by having someone very familiar be in that role. Aaany idea what that might have been? Or am I just describing the aims of stunt casting in general. e: None of those are ringing bells, man, sorry. If it helps it was relatively recent, like in the last 5-10 years or so. Phy fucked around with this message at 20:48 on Dec 28, 2014 |
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Phy posted:I was talking to my wife last night about how Matt Damon was in Interstellar with very little fanfare about his casting, and how it reminded me of another movie where they cast a famous actor in a minor role, with the (explicit?) goal of attempting to pass the other characters' reaction of "holy poo poo it's you" onto the audience by having someone very familiar be in that role. Aaany idea what that might have been? Or am I just describing the aims of stunt casting in general. Sean Connery in Robin Hood? Tom Cruise in Tropic Thunder? Marlon Brando in The Freshman?
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Kevin Spacey was deliberately underbilled in Seven to try and keep it a surprise, you may be thinking of that
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Bill Murray in Zombieland?
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Paul Williams in Phantom of the Paradise?
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Opopanax posted:Kevin Spacey was deliberately underbilled in Seven to try and keep it a surprise, you may be thinking of that Good call, but I'm reasonably sure the character in question was supposed to be known to the main characters as a famous person. Like, "holy poo poo, it's Film Actor Louis Delgado!" where the role of Louis Delgado is portrayed by Notable Film Actor Thomas Hanks. My jaw dropped at Bill Murray in Zombieland, to be sure, but I don't believe that's it either. I'm sorry if my memory is a dog's and I'm sending y'all down a wild goose chase.
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Phy posted:I was talking to my wife last night about how Matt Damon was in Interstellar with very little fanfare about his casting, and how it reminded me of another movie where they cast a famous actor in a minor role, with the (explicit?) goal of attempting to pass the other characters' reaction of "holy poo poo it's you" onto the audience by having someone very familiar be in that role. Aaany idea what that might have been? Or am I just describing the aims of stunt casting in general. There's a really great cameo at the end of 21 Jumpstreet, but they only have like one line. or Channing Tatum in This is the End, but that movie is chock full of brief cameos of very famous people.
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