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I saw this on TV in the mid-80s, so I don't know if it was a TV show or a movie, but what I remember about it is someone (a child, perhaps?) had on their nightstand a small statue of what looked to be a stereotypical magician (top hat, red lined black cape, tuxedo). The person is being tormented by someone close to them, and then one night the tormentor is confronted in the home by a real life version of the statue. I remember it ending zooming in on the statue on the nightstand, and there's clearly blood on his gloved hands (indicating that the statue came to life to kill)
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Kudaros posted:That shows up on my vague searches but is not it, unfortunately. Dang, well now I’m curious too!
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Sep 5, 2018 22:04
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Yeah its bothering me. To the best of my memory -- and this was actually quite recent, within the last few months -- it was a chinese-language series with many episodes available. I am nearly certain it was on either netflix or hulu, as those are the only services I have. I also have amazon prime but I watch it so rarely I doubt it was on there. I think I saw only the first episode. What follows is my vague and terrible account of what I think I saw. There was a contest in which salvage workers have to compete. This contest is oriented toward honoring some water god. The series is ultimately a detective show (iirc) and the detective -- or some other character -- is related to an authority figure like a governor or mayor or something. This character is kind of an antihero and spends the night in a brothel, is thus accused of "smelling like rouge" the next day. I take this to mean the smell of the powder that some makeup consists of. I really like that these shows are so easily accessible now on netflix. I had an impoverished but otherwise heavily multicultural upbringing and these were the sorts of things I watched as a kid. Seeing things like this and, say, Mr. Sunshine bring a strange nostalgic feeling to me. The fact that I cant find this is so annoying. Is there a list of shows taken off of netflix and/or hulu by date by any chance? That'd help immensely.
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Sep 6, 2018 05:09
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A weird movie I want to say from the late 80s/maybe VERY early 90s at the latest about a, like, renowned globe trotting psychic guy and how like out of nowhere he learns about a conspiracy to birth the anti-Christ? The main guy was a sort of lanky dude with a dark complexion and the poster for the movie was an illustrated one of him with his arms out stretched. It had a really generic title like The Psychic or The Enchanter or something but I can't quite place it in my searches.
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Sep 6, 2018 05:44
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Neo Rasa posted:A weird movie I want to say from the late 80s/maybe VERY early 90s at the latest about a, like, renowned globe trotting psychic guy and how like out of nowhere he learns about a conspiracy to birth the anti-Christ? The main guy was a sort of lanky dude with a dark complexion and the poster for the movie was an illustrated one of him with his arms out stretched. It had a really generic title like The Psychic or The Enchanter or something but I can't quite place it in my searches. You sure you're not thinking of Vibes, starring noted lanky dude Jeff Goldblum?
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Sep 6, 2018 06:00
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It's from the 70's but, 'The Astrologer'? https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2419808/ https://www.pastemagazine.com/articles/2018/06/1975s-the-astrologer-is-the-greatest-cult-classic.html edit: If not, keep it in mind anyway. It's a wild movie. Teenage Fansub fucked around with this message at 12:57 on Sep 6, 2018 |
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Sep 6, 2018 12:52
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Teenage Fansub posted:It's from the 70's but, 'The Astrologer'? HOLY poo poo I don't know if you or I or anyone is ready for this. Get ready, sit down for this: Okay so that movie? Very similar but it's not it, I will check it out thanks to your suggestion because it does indeed sound crazy. However one of the "MORE LIKE THIS" suggestions provided by IMDB is indeed the movie! I recognized the poster immediately. The movie...IS ALSO CALLED THE ASTROLOGER AND WAS RELEASED ONE YEAR PRIOR TO YOUR SUGGESTION!  https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0187530/ So your suggestion was wrong, but also extremely right because I must have mixed its of the two plots together! Thank you!  Interestingly, despite the poster making me think it was an 80s movie, that as the original art and title for the movie. It seems it was later released on VHS with the title Suicide Cult. Neo Rasa fucked around with this message at 14:51 on Sep 6, 2018 |
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Sep 6, 2018 14:48
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lmao ok thats it close the thread we've reached the zenith
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Sep 6, 2018 14:51
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Haha. That's great. It just happened to be included in a movie marathon I went to a couple of years ago. I couldn't exactly remember the title other than 'The (something like Psychic).' Had to go to my watched list on Letterboxd and reverse sort the 70's by popularity to find it. Teenage Fansub fucked around with this message at 15:10 on Sep 6, 2018 |
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Sep 6, 2018 15:03
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Parachute posted:lmao ok thats it close the thread we've reached the zenith Except my dumb Icelandic movie that I don't even care that much about anyway
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Sep 9, 2018 17:27
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Dark teen movie from 90s/early 2000. It's in the epilogue and one of the teen girls becomes a news reporter because she's on the scene when the Asian reporter gets shot and takes over. I almsot want to say it's Denise Richards but can't recall I feel like it's jawbreaker but I haven't seen that ina while and don't remember an epilogue
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Sep 9, 2018 17:38
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Alan Smithee posted:Dark teen movie from 90s/early 2000. It's in the epilogue and one of the teen girls becomes a news reporter because she's on the scene when the Asian reporter gets shot and takes over. I almsot want to say it's Denise Richards but can't recall That's Drop Dead Gorgeous and Kirsten Dunst
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Sep 9, 2018 18:05
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Davros1 posted:I saw this on TV in the mid-80s, so I don't know if it was a TV show or a movie, but what I remember about it is someone (a child, perhaps?) had on their nightstand a small statue of what looked to be a stereotypical magician (top hat, red lined black cape, tuxedo). The person is being tormented by someone close to them, and then one night the tormentor is confronted in the home by a real life version of the statue. I remember it ending zooming in on the statue on the nightstand, and there's clearly blood on his gloved hands (indicating that the statue came to life to kill)
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Sep 11, 2018 13:07
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It's not Xtro
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Sep 11, 2018 15:10
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Borrowed Ladder posted:I don't even know if I've seen this movie, I think this quote is from the trailer. Hey everyone i thought of it, it's Vanilla Sky
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Sep 12, 2018 03:33
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Borrowed Ladder posted:Hey everyone i thought of it, it's Vanilla Sky I know it doesn't make sense, but I picture Kurt Russell saying this, though it was likely Tom Cruise, right?
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Sep 12, 2018 12:36
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Rupert Buttermilk posted:I know it doesn't make sense, but I picture Kurt Russell saying this, though it was likely Tom Cruise, right? Kurt Russell is in it but I haven't seen that film in years.
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Sep 12, 2018 12:51
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Rupert Buttermilk posted:I know it doesn't make sense, but I picture Kurt Russell saying this, though it was likely Tom Cruise, right? Kurt Russell has a lot of shouty business at the very end of the film so that’s probably what you’re thinking of?
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Sep 12, 2018 13:45
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Akuma posted:It was, with the mask on while being interrogated by Kurt Russell. Oh, it definitely is. I remember the movie, and who did what, but it's funny to me that when I read those words, I picture his character yelling them, despite the fact that it wouldn't fit with the story. Also, I found it weird in that movie when Russell's character starts arguing that he's real. And then someone (tech support?) asks his kids' names, and he blanks. Like... C'mon, they program you in there, but can't think of two kids names? And he's AWARE that he's blanking on them? That's nit-picky and  as hell, but whatever.
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Sep 12, 2018 14:52
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I remember a martial arts film from the 70s or 80s in which a fighter gets a tattoo that helps him win by either blocking enemy attacks or boosting his punches, but I can't remember anything else about it. Does that ring any bells?
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Sep 13, 2018 19:35
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Samuel Clemens posted:I remember a martial arts film from the 70s or 80s in which a fighter gets a tattoo that helps him win by either blocking enemy attacks or boosting his punches, but I can't remember anything else about it. Does that ring any bells? The nerds over in the Classic Martial-Arts Cinema thread might also be able to help you. As a bonus you'll also find a bunch of crazy martial arts films to watch. https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3560732
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Sep 13, 2018 19:57
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Yeah, in retrospect, I probably should have posted this in the Martial Arts thread. Doing that now.
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Sep 13, 2018 22:11
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So, I keep wondering about this film I saw in the early 2000's, probably made in the late nineties? I only remember a couple of scenes. The protagonist was this dude with a nineties, spikey haircut who got stuck in a computer, I think. The computer was in this low budget SciFi room with lots of blue colors. In another scene, his girlfriend encounters a group of evil brunettes on what looks like a California street on rollerskates. She exclaims, very badly acted: ''oh no, lesbian rollergangs!'' They then chase her. This is literaly all I remember. Would like to know what film this was, because I somehow confused it with Flash Gordon as a kid and it made me really confused about why Queen would write an awesome song for such a terrible, modern, low budget movie.
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I remember seeing an experimental short several years ago that took place in what I think was a basketball gym (like the kind that would be at a high school or college). It was assembled out of still photographs and the camera would move through jumps from picture to picture so "looked" at different parts of the room. There was an extended bit where there were huge photos that stood up on easels and the camera would move into them until it enveloped the screen. Then it would keep going as if the photo entered into a second gym. Any ideas what this was? I can't remember the filmmaker or name of the film. e: I figured it out! It's Spacy by Takashi Ito. Almost Blue fucked around with this message at 02:40 on Sep 16, 2018 |
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Sep 15, 2018 22:54
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Help me remember this movie: It's the classic concept of "people stuck in a room find out they're actually in the afterlife"; I think it was from the 80s or 90s, it's set during one of the world wars, and for some reason they get to choose one of them to get back to life, while everyone else moves on; I remember one of the characters being a civilian, another the stereotypical snobby/rear end in a top hat english officer. It might have been an episode of a serial but I think it was a full movie.
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I heard this sampled in a mixtape where all the other samples (and most of the music) are from 80s action and sports movies, so this is probably one of those, but I've never figured out where the original of this part was - it's a man's voice on a tape recorder, and he says something like "if you're hearing this, I'm already dead. take the money, the list, and the gun, and when you shoot, shoot to kill"
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Sep 20, 2018 12:48
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Are you listening to the Blood Brothers mixes? Because they're awesome! I was wondering where this quote was from too. Unfortunately I don't know either. 
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canepazzo posted:Help me remember this movie: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0038733/?ref_=nm_flmg_act_84 A Matter of Life and Death? Edit: Ah, 80s/90s, missed that one. Still. This may be the original movie. happyhippy fucked around with this message at 20:29 on Sep 20, 2018 |
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Sep 20, 2018 20:25
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The Macaroni posted:Are you listening to the Blood Brothers mixes? Because they're awesome! I was wondering where this quote was from too. Unfortunately I don't know either. Yeah, that's what it was. It was late and I couldn't remember the name of the thing. https://soundcloud.com/maddecent/blood-bros-iii-back-in it's at the very beginning of this
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Sep 20, 2018 20:57
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canepazzo posted:Help me remember this movie: I don't know, but there's a book that came out this summer by an author I've followed for years that dealt with the same "a group of people stuck in the afterlife must vote on which one of them gets to live" concept (Marisha Pessl's Neverworld Wake) and I'd be really interested to know what this is and if it was an influence for her.
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This is gonna be a long shot, but here we go: An early-to-mid 90's kids show from Europe about an old bear telling his grandkids about his youth as a sailor. The characters in the introductory scenes were puppets but the actual stories were animated with a style that looked like watercolors or something like that. The episodes were pretty short, like less than ten minutes. I mostly remember one that ended with some guy getting blitzed and swimming naked in a fountain.
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Sep 20, 2018 23:35
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Käpt'n Blaubär (Captain Bluebear), which was a segment on the German TV staple Die Sendung mit der Maus.
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Sep 21, 2018 01:19
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The Horse in Tears posted:Käpt'n Blaubär (Captain Bluebear), which was a segment on the German TV staple Die Sendung mit der Maus. This was it! Thanks!
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Sep 21, 2018 02:10
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Pentaro posted:This is gonna be a long shot, but here we go: An early-to-mid 90's kids show from Europe about an old bear telling his grandkids about his youth as a sailor. The characters in the introductory scenes were puppets but the actual stories were animated with a style that looked like watercolors or something like that. The episodes were pretty short, like less than ten minutes. I mostly remember one that ended with some guy getting blitzed and swimming naked in a fountain. There are no long shots here. Except the cop rape one and that one other one, those two are made up though
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happyhippy posted:https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0038733/?ref_=nm_flmg_act_84 That sounds similar but no, the movie I'm trying to remember is definitely more modern than that.
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The Horse in Tears posted:Käpt'n Blaubär (Captain Bluebear), which was a segment on the German TV staple Die Sendung mit der Maus. I had no idea there was a cartoon! https://books.google.com/books/about/13_1_2_Lives_of_Captain_Blue_Bear.html?id=blUjCQAAQBAJ The author wrote one of my favorite novels “The City of Dreaming Books”
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Trying to remember a film from mid to late 2000s. A guy wakes up after a plane crash with no memory in some forest in the middle of no where. Movie is based around swapping between him trying to survive in the wreckage, and also trying to remember the events leading to him ending up there. I remember the twist was that he was actually a really bad criminal type. I think I remember him finding another body or two at one point but not much more than that.
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Spiteski posted:Trying to remember a film from mid to late 2000s. A guy wakes up after a plane crash with no memory in some forest in the middle of no where. Movie is based around swapping between him trying to survive in the wreckage, and also trying to remember the events leading to him ending up there. I don't think this is the film, but it was the first thing I thought of. It hits a few of the points but the overall plot is much different. I'll keep looking for something that matches. Polka_Rapper fucked around with this message at 16:30 on Sep 21, 2018 |
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Spiteski posted:Trying to remember a film from mid to late 2000s. A guy wakes up after a plane crash with no memory in some forest in the middle of no where. Movie is based around swapping between him trying to survive in the wreckage, and also trying to remember the events leading to him ending up there. I don’t know it off the top of my head but I remember the trailer and Adrian Brody is in it E: maybe not, I’m thinking of Wrecked which sounds a bit different Opopanax fucked around with this message at 22:39 on Sep 21, 2018 |
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