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Mayor McCheese posted:two dueling sorcerers/wizards My first thought was Big Trouble in Little China, but the bodily harm part doesn't fit...
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Mayor McCheese posted:Google isn't doing me any favors. Doesn't have the decapitation (that I remember) but could be A Chinese Ghost Story or one of its sequels.
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Thanks for the help, guys. It took far too long to search for it but I found it. It's the Boxer's Omen. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w_I-x3nVfuM  It's as loving weird as I remember it. Bit of a warning as there's some semi gross scenes in that link.
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Nov 2, 2015 06:16
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Zogo posted:It's a movie from the late 80s or early 90s. I think two couples are taking a vacation on some island or beach and at one point they're playing high stakes monopoly with real $$$. One guy loses and gets upset. This might be Rat Race, cause the real money Monopoly game happens in that film I believe.
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Nov 2, 2015 22:12
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Skunkrocker posted:This might be Rat Race, cause the real money Monopoly game happens in that film I believe. Rat Race from 2001? I'm sure it's not that one if that's what you meant.
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Nov 3, 2015 00:16
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So I watched this movie years ago in college, it's a black and white Japanese film about a bunch of assassins (hired hitmen?) who are ranked, and the finale features the main character fighting "Killer number 1" in a boxing arena or wrestling ring or something while a tape loop of the number 1 Hitman taunting the main character plays over speakers. I could have sworn the movie was called "Hitman #1" but I've googled everything like that with no result. Thanks!
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Nov 3, 2015 18:07
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centaurtainment posted:So I watched this movie years ago in college, it's a black and white Japanese film about a bunch of assassins (hired hitmen?) who are ranked, and the finale features the main character fighting "Killer number 1" in a boxing arena or wrestling ring or something while a tape loop of the number 1 Hitman taunting the main character plays over speakers. Branded to Kill? ButtWolf fucked around with this message at 22:22 on Nov 3, 2015 |
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Nov 3, 2015 22:20
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YES! Thank you!
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Nov 3, 2015 23:00
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A french movie from the 80s where a man lures a doctor who he blames for the death of his wife into the desert. I mainly remember a scene where they cross a ravine in a tiny cable car.
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Nov 4, 2015 07:35
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My friends are making a quiz, and one of them wants to ask a question about a movie he swears goes as follows: some criminals are digging a tunnel into a bank vault from an old lady's house. However, everything goes wrong and by the time they get into the vault, only two of them are left alive. At the end, one of these two dies by falling into a river/getting hit by a truck, and the old lady ends up with the money. Any ideas?
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Nov 4, 2015 17:32
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Sinecure posted:My friends are making a quiz, and one of them wants to ask a question about a movie he swears goes as follows: The Ladykillers?
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Nov 4, 2015 17:32
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Yeah, barring a few details (it's the vault of a casino instead of a bank and the robbers only die after getting the money) that sounds exactly like the Coen brother's version of Ladykillers.
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Nov 4, 2015 20:39
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People are talking about Total Recall in the General Movie Q's thread and it got me thinking about a movie I've always had trouble remembering. I thought it might be Total Recall but I don't think it is. All i remember is it was about a dude in some sort of prison with lots of levels that could record peoples dreams and store them. Movie would have been made between '85 and '95, probably closer to '85. It's one of those movies that I have had recurring dreams/nightmares about, along with Labyrinth (see a theme?) I don't think it's Total Recall because none of the Mars stuff rings a bell. It's also not 12 Monkeys if anyone was thinking that.
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Nov 5, 2015 02:34
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xcore posted:People are talking about Total Recall in the General Movie Q's thread and it got me thinking about a movie I've always had trouble remembering. I thought it might be Total Recall but I don't think it is. Fortress with Christopher Lambert?
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Nov 5, 2015 03:33
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As soon as I read the name Lambert I knew that was it. Thankyou!
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This is an old, black & white movie. Probably from the 40s or 50s. I saw it playing on a TV in a flea market, and I only saw part of one scene. There was a fat guy with a mustache lying on the floor with a sword sticking out of his abdomen. The guy was apparently in disguise, as the main character (?) pulled some prosthetic makeup and the mustache off the guy's face. He was still alive and talking to the main character while this was happening. I didn't recognize either actor, unfortunately, though they looked familiar.
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Nov 9, 2015 07:38
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Two guys, late-teens/early-20s I think, are training with an Asian martial arts master. He has them doing all sorts of arduous tasks to get them in shape, but they slack off at first. One thing he had them do was kneel on the sharp edge of a brick. At first they do it by putting their shoes on the edge and making noises as if it hurt them. The master easily figures this out and punishes them. Eventually, they take the training seriously, and do the brick thing again for real, leaving them with cuts on their legs where they knelt. I probably saw this in the mid-90s. This one feels like it might have been from a 90s sitcom, but frankly it could be from anything. There is a briefcase that belongs to the Weights and Measures Division. Inside the briefcase there is a metal square that is the official standard for an inch. At some point the briefcase gets slammed shut, with the metal square sitting on the lip of the case. It gets smashed out of shape.
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Nov 12, 2015 07:48
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Detective Thompson posted:Two guys, late-teens/early-20s I think, are training with an Asian martial arts master. He has them doing all sorts of arduous tasks to get them in shape, but they slack off at first. One thing he had them do was kneel on the sharp edge of a brick. At first they do it by putting their shoes on the edge and making noises as if it hurt them. The master easily figures this out and punishes them. Eventually, they take the training seriously, and do the brick thing again for real, leaving them with cuts on their legs where they knelt. I probably saw this in the mid-90s. The thing with the official inch is from an episode of "The John Larroquette Show," which ran for a few seasons in the early '90s.
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I wanted to read a wiki article or other information source about the "models" for units like that but have no idea what search terms would actually return that, anyone know of one?
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Nov 13, 2015 00:32
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Light Gun Man posted:I wanted to read a wiki article or other information source about the "models" for units like that but have no idea what search terms would actually return that, anyone know of one? As far as I know the only one that still exists is the IPK or International Prototype of the Kilogram. English system distances are based on a definition of the meter which is in turn based on observations of light waves. Other measurements are similarly based on natural constants. Oddly, it appears that english and metric weight measures are based on the IPK, which is observably losing weight. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_metric_system#Convention_of_the_metre https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_yard_and_pound https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kilogram#International_prototype_kilogram
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moller posted:As far as I know the only one that still exists is the IPK or International Prototype of the Kilogram. Haha rad, thanks for the links. Figures that we are basing things on something that is failing at it's job 
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Russian Guyovitch posted:The thing with the official inch is from an episode of "The John Larroquette Show," which ran for a few seasons in the early '90s. I don't even remember that being a show, but I probably watched some of it with my parents at some point. Thanks!
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So there's a farm where a family has some sort of inbred tied up in their barn and some of the family torture said inbred and eventually the inbred is set free and kills all of the family except for one and together they run off. I don't know, my Google powers aren't working. It's a movie I saw on BG this spring. I appreciate the help.
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Nov 13, 2015 12:47
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CountryFriedSnake posted:So there's a farm where a family has some sort of inbred tied up in their barn and some of the family torture said inbred and eventually the inbred is set free and kills all of the family except for one and together they run off. Maybe The Woman?
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ProfessorMurder posted:Maybe The Woman? BINGO! Thanks, ProfessorMurder.
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HystericFactor posted:I saw this one movie on a Canadian movie channel when I was still in elementary school (around early to mid 90s). This is actually an Ator movie from 1990!  It has several names depending on what country you're in, so look for:Ator the Invincible Quest for the Mighty Sword Hobgoblin Goblin III (the creature's mask will look familiar to Goblin 2 fans, I guess in Germany Goblin 2 was a huge hit? No other connection)
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I've got two, one that I've absently wondered about for years and one that is driving me nuts right this second. 1st: I remember nearly nothing about the movie except this small bit of one scene. I wanna say the film is from the 80s, all I remember is this human sized anthropomorphic caterpillar asking a regular human to wipe its rear end. I wanna say the caterpillar had just saved the guy's life and was asking for that in return but I'm not sure. 2nd: Sci-fi movie from I think the 70s/80s, might even be like an Outer Limits episode or something, where someone manages to basically jack out of the matrix and discovers that his entire reality is just big white boxes with lettering that says stuff like "TELEVISION" and "CHAIR" and "CEREAL" etc. but everyone sees them as actual things. Hopefully these ring a bell for someone because Google is failing me.
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devin2 posted:I've got two, one that I've absently wondered about for years and one that is driving me nuts right this second. I've never managed to catch the film but I'm gonna guess Naked Lunch.
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Nov 17, 2015 11:26
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devin2 posted:2nd: Sci-fi movie from I think the 70s/80s, might even be like an Outer Limits episode or something, where someone manages to basically jack out of the matrix and discovers that his entire reality is just big white boxes with lettering that says stuff like "TELEVISION" and "CHAIR" and "CEREAL" etc. but everyone sees them as actual things. They Live is sort of this, but I assume you've seen that. Also Repo Man.
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Nov 17, 2015 11:34
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codyclarke posted:They Live is sort of this, but I assume you've seen that. Also Repo Man. It's not those. I'm struggling to find the title myself because I know the exact film but don't remember the title and it's driving me nuts. EDIT: it's also not The thirteenth floor donquixotic fucked around with this message at 12:32 on Nov 17, 2015 |
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Nov 17, 2015 11:40
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devin2 posted:2nd: Sci-fi movie from I think the 70s/80s, might even be like an Outer Limits episode or something, where someone manages to basically jack out of the matrix and discovers that his entire reality is just big white boxes with lettering that says stuff like "TELEVISION" and "CHAIR" and "CEREAL" etc. but everyone sees them as actual things. Well you're in luck. I spent my entire morning looking for it but I finally found it. It's called Virtual Nightmare, it's also on Youtube in full. Thank god that's over it's been on my mind on and off for years now and I finally found it
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devin2 posted:
Freaked (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0109838/?ref_=nv_sr_1) Dumb movie that you'll watch all of because it's so weird (but not in the way it was trying to be)
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donquixotic posted:Well you're in luck. I spent my entire morning looking for it but I finally found it. It's called Virtual Nightmare, it's also on Youtube in full. Thank god that's over it's been on my mind on and off for years now and I finally found it Alright, I need to see this thing. Walter from Fringe and Lamb from Veronica Mars? I'm in.
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donquixotic posted:Well you're in luck. I spent my entire morning looking for it but I finally found it. It's called Virtual Nightmare, it's also on Youtube in full. Thank god that's over it's been on my mind on and off for years now and I finally found it Discospawn posted:Freaked (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0109838/?ref_=nv_sr_1) Thank you both so much these are both exactly right. Also codyclarke I haven't ever seen They Live (something I intend to correct) but I can certainly see why you suggested it, I was starting to doubt myself when I watched clips from it because it is so drat close to what I remembered.
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I remember seeing a few minutes worth of a Scott Bakula film about 15 years ago. The bit I remember was some woman, and possibly the police, talking to him about having taken pictures of his son during a bath. I looked through the plot synopses on imdb and didn't see anything that really fit, and considering the details I remember trying to Google seems like a very poor idea  Anyone know what it was, though?e: Actually I checked through the TV movies too, maybe it's this? Allyn fucked around with this message at 23:03 on Nov 18, 2015 |
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Allyn posted:I remember seeing a few minutes worth of a Scott Bakula film about 15 years ago. The bit I remember was some woman, and possibly the police, talking to him about having taken pictures of his son during a bath. I looked through the plot synopses on imdb and didn't see anything that really fit, and considering the details I remember trying to Google seems like a very poor idea If it's not that you might just be remembering a random episode of Quantum Leap, I remember 2000 era Sci-Fi channel was mostly re-runs of that and a half dozen other 70's-90's sci-fi tv shows, plus MST3k.
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donquixotic posted:Well you're in luck. I spent my entire morning looking for it but I finally found it. It's called Virtual Nightmare, it's also on Youtube in full. Thank god that's over it's been on my mind on and off for years now and I finally found it devin2 posted:Thank you both so much these are both exactly right. I just watched this and it was kind of awesome. It borrows heavily from They Live, as well as the Matrix, The Wizard of Oz (arguably even Zardoz!), and Freejack. It kind of had one too many big reveals at the end, but it was still charming as heck.
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Discospawn posted:Freaked (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0109838/?ref_=nv_sr_1) This movie is awesome I don't care what you say. 
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Long time ago, short film, it was a father and daughter in the southwest I guess and they had this well. They find out somehow that there is something down there and giving it a battery resulted in it sending a bit of gold back up. Dad goes holy poo poo and sends down a thousand batteries but gets poo poo in return. This pisses him off so he gets all his guns and lowers himself down for payback and his clothes come back up but he's dead I guess. Then the chick lives happily ever after with her well biddies. I think another one of the flicks was about this writer who has a plant that somehow types out genius poo poo and it saves his career.
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SHISHKABOB posted:Long time ago, short film, it was a father and daughter in the southwest I guess and they had this well. They find out somehow that there is something down there and giving it a battery resulted in it sending a bit of gold back up. Dad goes holy poo poo and sends down a thousand batteries but gets poo poo in return. This pisses him off so he gets all his guns and lowers himself down for payback and his clothes come back up but he's dead I guess. Then the chick lives happily ever after with her well biddies. This was an episode of, I believe, Amazing Stories. edit: this one http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0511117/?ref_=ttep_ep9
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