SPACE HOMOS posted:Trailer Wars? https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2429800/ I wasn't the one asking, but that looks awesome, I'd watch that.
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# ? Jan 24, 2019 17:01 |
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Trevor Hale posted:Simon Birch. You forgot “Simon is put in to his first little league game and swings and hits a foul ball that kills his best friend’s mother” Short story? A Prayer for Owen Meany is a novel, and a rather lengthy one at that.
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# ? Jan 24, 2019 18:19 |
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FitFortDanga posted:Short story? A Prayer for Owen Meany is a novel, and a rather lengthy one at that. I never read it. Just the wiki. And it is.....a trip
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# ? Jan 24, 2019 19:46 |
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Trevor Hale posted:I never read it. Just the wiki. And it is.....a trip It's a very good novel. Simon Birch, while an interesting film (especially casting Oliver Platt as the stepfather, that was brilliant casting), comes nowhere to doing the novel justice, but it's hard to film a novel that follows a friendship for 20+ years.
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# ? Jan 24, 2019 22:53 |
There is a scene from a movie that I remember incredibly vaguely. I don't know the movie's genre, nationality, or when it was made. It was definitely in English, I do remember that. And it was live-action, not animated. There's a chance I may be thinking of an episode of a television show, not a movie at all. The scene is that a character, probably the protagonist, is challenging a person in authority. I think it was a boss in an office environment but I'm not sure. The authority figure had previously been established to be incompetent, or cruel, or uncaring, generally bad in some way. The really specific thing I remember is a minor character watching the confrontation and very quietly supporting the person who was confronting the authority figure. Pumping their fist in a small way and whispering something like, "Yeah, tell 'em" through clenched teeth. Does anybody know what I'm talking about?
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# ? Jan 25, 2019 05:18 |
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There are a lot of scenes like that: Newly Empowered Protagonist publicly challenges Angry Bully, while Victimized/Timid Minor Character indicates support. Couple of scenes that come to mind are Revenge of the Nerds, Strictly Ballroom, Kindergarten Cop.
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# ? Jan 25, 2019 14:12 |
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Gripweed posted:There is a scene from a movie that I remember incredibly vaguely. I don't know the movie's genre, nationality, or when it was made. It was definitely in English, I do remember that. And it was live-action, not animated. I can only think of two examples of this, and I highly doubt they're what you're thinking of, but whatever: 1. Ghostbusters - Egon yelling at Walter Peck in the basement, and a possessed Louis Tully is pointing at Peck, mimicking what Egon's doing. 2. A recurring Kids in the Hall skit where a guy is in an alleyway about to fight someone else, and his sidekick is talking him up all the time. Man, I gotta watch those again.
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# ? Jan 25, 2019 14:30 |
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Gripweed posted:There is a scene from a movie that I remember incredibly vaguely. I don't know the movie's genre, nationality, or when it was made. It was definitely in English, I do remember that. And it was live-action, not animated. This reminds me of that banned Nutrigrain commercial.
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# ? Jan 26, 2019 08:12 |
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Babies everywhere.....
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# ? Jan 26, 2019 08:20 |
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# ? Jan 26, 2019 10:25 |
The Macaroni posted:There are a lot of scenes like that: Newly Empowered Protagonist publicly challenges Angry Bully, while Victimized/Timid Minor Character indicates support. Couple of scenes that come to mind are Revenge of the Nerds, Strictly Ballroom, Kindergarten Cop. That's what I was afraid of, that even if people could think of a scene that matched that description it might not be the specific one I was thinking of. I haven't seen Revenge of the Nerds or Strictly Ballroom, and I don't think it was Kindergarten Cop because I remember the timid character to be an adult. Thanks, tho Rupert Buttermilk posted:I can only think of two examples of this, and I highly doubt they're what you're thinking of, but whatever: No, I've seen both of those and they aren't what I was thinking of. Although they're both really good Gripweed fucked around with this message at 14:39 on Jan 26, 2019 |
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# ? Jan 26, 2019 14:37 |
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Pretty sure this happens at least once in most episodes of Better Off Ted (usually involving Lem and Phil) so I'll throw that into the mix as a contender. Bad name, good show.
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# ? Jan 26, 2019 20:07 |
Gravy Jones posted:Pretty sure this happens at least once in most episodes of Better Off Ted (usually involving Lem and Phil) so I'll throw that into the mix as a contender. Bad name, good show. I think that's it! poo poo, now I have to watch every episode of Better Off Ted again to find the one I'm thinking of.
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# ? Jan 26, 2019 20:20 |
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Gripweed posted:I think that's it! poo poo, now I have to watch every episode of Better Off Ted again to find the one I'm thinking of. *Does a little fist pump and mouths a silent "YES!"* FWIW I rewatched it recently and it's held up pretty well.
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# ? Jan 26, 2019 20:30 |
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Ok does this sound like anything? I might be imagining half of this. Black and white, might have been an old sitcom. There's a lot of cats in a house, just meowing constantly. One cat meows at an annoyed boy and he tells the cat "Meow, yourself". A dad comes home. Really all I remember for sure is a cat meowing at a boy and that response
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# ? Jan 27, 2019 01:25 |
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Gripweed posted:I think that's it! poo poo, now I have to watch every episode of Better Off Ted again to find the one I'm thinking of. Iwas going to say Dr. Kelso and Ted in Scrubs probably have a situation like that in a bunch of episodes.
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# ? Jan 27, 2019 03:19 |
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Hy fellers ive been thinking about this old movIe, im pretty sure it stars leslie nielsen in it.... At some point a native american dude shoots an arrow at a barnie the dinosaur type character and th song "we are family" start playing... It might of been one of the naked guns movie is but i think It was something Else..
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# ? Jan 27, 2019 04:29 |
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The end of Mafia?
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# ? Jan 27, 2019 06:15 |
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couldcareless posted:The end of Mafia? Bingo! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A7xTi3yBL4s
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I feel like this one's really obvious, I'm just totally blanking on the specifics - an actor's the protagonist in a movie within the movie and the lines are blurring between what's real and what's acting to him. Like, he has an affair or something and there's a tearful confession to his girlfriend/wife that gets interrupted by a "CUT!" and everyone walks off while he's reeling from it.
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# ? Jan 30, 2019 08:46 |
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There's some weird horror movie from the 80s I can't remember the name of. It's about a platoon of soldiers somewhere in the jungle(?) maybe Vietnam war era. There's some sort of alien snake or tendril in the muddy water that leaps out and injures or kills one of the soldiers. There's another scene in the same movie where another soldier, I think a black guy, starts repeating some sort of nonsense word over and over like he's crying, then he runs into the paddy and disappears. Seconds later there's an explosion like he stepped on a landmine or something. I can't for the life of me remember what it's called but I remember seeing those scenes as a kid and the memory stuck with me.
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Flavor Truck posted:There's some weird horror movie from the 80s I can't remember the name of. It's about a platoon of soldiers somewhere in the jungle(?) maybe Vietnam war era. There's some sort of alien snake or tendril in the muddy water that leaps out and injures or kills one of the soldiers. There's another scene in the same movie where another soldier, I think a black guy, starts repeating some sort of nonsense word over and over like he's crying, then he runs into the paddy and disappears. Seconds later there's an explosion like he stepped on a landmine or something. I can't for the life of me remember what it's called but I remember seeing those scenes as a kid and the memory stuck with me. I haven't seen it in years but Jacob's Ladder is Vietnam and supernatural heavy.
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Flavor Truck posted:There's some weird horror movie from the 80s I can't remember the name of. It's about a platoon of soldiers somewhere in the jungle(?) maybe Vietnam war era. There's some sort of alien snake or tendril in the muddy water that leaps out and injures or kills one of the soldiers. There's another scene in the same movie where another soldier, I think a black guy, starts repeating some sort of nonsense word over and over like he's crying, then he runs into the paddy and disappears. Seconds later there's an explosion like he stepped on a landmine or something. I can't for the life of me remember what it's called but I remember seeing those scenes as a kid and the memory stuck with me. There's a bunch of war flashbacks in "House" (1980's, starring William Katt, George Wendt, and Richard Moll). Maybe that's it? Power of Pecota posted:I feel like this one's really obvious, I'm just totally blanking on the specifics - an actor's the protagonist in a movie within the movie and the lines are blurring between what's real and what's acting to him. Like, he has an affair or something and there's a tearful confession to his girlfriend/wife that gets interrupted by a "CUT!" and everyone walks off while he's reeling from it. This feels like it's either EDTV (haven't seen it myself, though) or a Kaufman/Jonez film. Rupert Buttermilk fucked around with this message at 11:35 on Jan 30, 2019 |
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Power of Pecota posted:I feel like this one's really obvious, I'm just totally blanking on the specifics - an actor's the protagonist in a movie within the movie and the lines are blurring between what's real and what's acting to him. Like, he has an affair or something and there's a tearful confession to his girlfriend/wife that gets interrupted by a "CUT!" and everyone walks off while he's reeling from it. Possibly Synechdoche, New York? It’s not a movie within a movie but it’s about a play within a play.
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# ? Jan 30, 2019 16:12 |
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Inland Empire also has the blurring of lines between a movie and reality.
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# ? Jan 30, 2019 16:14 |
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Yeah Inland Empire was my first thought, although it happens to Laura Dern's character, not a male actor.
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# ? Jan 30, 2019 16:46 |
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Those are all good guesses, but I think it's something else - I don't think they'd call cut with a play, Inland Empire's never that direct about the blurring iirc, and it was definitely darker than EdTV (I want to say there's a hanging question of whether a murder actually happened or if it was just in the film within a film)
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actually that exact thing happens in Inland Empire, where the scene seems real until the director yells "Cut!" and she gets disoriented. The scene is someone dying though, not about an affair.
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# ? Jan 30, 2019 17:17 |
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I remember watching some old war movie set during the Cold War. It was in the 80s, two groups of soldiers fighting in the snow, I think they were Americans and Russians, there are 2 scenes I remember. One was the Americans were in metal culverts, one soldier runs out of ammo, tries to crawl out of the tube but his sleeve is frozen to the metal, this stops him long enough that a Russian troop comes up, their eyes meet, then the Russian shoots down the tube and runs off. The other scene is the US and Russian commanders are meeting in a bunker, they are walking forward to shake hands when the Russian's second in command throws a grenade in the room and kills them both. Any help would be great!
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# ? Jan 30, 2019 17:59 |
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gey muckle mowser posted:actually that exact thing happens in Inland Empire, where the scene seems real until the director yells "Cut!" and she gets disoriented. The scene is someone dying though, not about an affair. In that case, I think I'm just crossing wires and it's definitely Inland Empire - it's been a few years, I was just reminded of the scene during Road to Nowhere but couldn't place it at all. Thanks!
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# ? Jan 30, 2019 18:05 |
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There's a similar scene to the one from Inland Empire in Perfect Blue, but it's once again a female actor instead of a man.
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# ? Jan 30, 2019 19:30 |
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Power of Pecota posted:I feel like this one's really obvious, I'm just totally blanking on the specifics - an actor's the protagonist in a movie within the movie and the lines are blurring between what's real and what's acting to him. Like, he has an affair or something and there's a tearful confession to his girlfriend/wife that gets interrupted by a "CUT!" and everyone walks off while he's reeling from it. To add to the previous suggestions, this kind of thing happens repeatedly in Living in Oblivion.
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# ? Jan 30, 2019 20:19 |
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Power of Pecota posted:I feel like this one's really obvious, I'm just totally blanking on the specifics - an actor's the protagonist in a movie within the movie and the lines are blurring between what's real and what's acting to him. Like, he has an affair or something and there's a tearful confession to his girlfriend/wife that gets interrupted by a "CUT!" and everyone walks off while he's reeling from it. I haven't seen it in a while, but this sounds like The French Lieutenant's Woman.
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Breitbart Is Rightbart posted:I haven't seen it in years but Jacob's Ladder is Vietnam and supernatural heavy. that movie is about a dude who went to vietnam but if i recall takes place almost exclusively inside a hospital? been awhile.
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# ? Jan 30, 2019 22:59 |
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Light Gun Man posted:that movie is about a dude who went to vietnam but if i recall takes place almost exclusively inside a hospital? been awhile. Jacob's Ladder? No, there's only one or two scenes in a hospital. There are a lot of scenes in Vietnam, but the majority of the setting is in a cold foggy city.
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Light Gun Man posted:that movie is about a dude who went to vietnam but if i recall takes place almost exclusively inside a hospital? been awhile. It's a movie about a dude who went to vietnam but takes place almost exclusively inside Silent Hill.
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Franchescanado posted:Jacob's Ladder? yeah my memory sucks then, wow Skyscraper posted:It's a movie about a dude who went to vietnam but takes place almost exclusively inside Silent Hill.
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# ? Jan 30, 2019 23:46 |
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They ain't lyin' it's Silent Hill
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# ? Jan 30, 2019 23:56 |
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Jacob's Ladder was one of the primary inspirations for Silent Hill.
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# ? Jan 31, 2019 11:11 |
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Jacob's ladder somehow has so many people in random bit parts I forgot about. Jason Alexander, Lewis Black, Kyle Gass, Ving Rhames and Macaulay Culkin are all in it.
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