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Rahonavis posted:I am almost certain that this is “Katy and the Caterpillar Kids”. You know, I feel like I have seen that one so, while nothing matched up perfectly with the imagery in my memory, there's a solid chance the memory is just heavily distorted, or that this film got tangled up with another in my head (my memory depicts more of a full on, body-snatchers, "they look just like us" deal which, honestly, was way more interesting; I probably dreamed it, I had a lot of vivid dreams as a little kid). Gonna bet this is the source of the jumbled memories, though, it fits the broad strokes too well not to be. poo poo, three for three when I wasn't sure I'd get one with the scant information I had to go on and the obscurity of the films involved. I am deeply impressed. Guess I know where to turn next time I become preoccupied with ancient half-remembrances and Google doesn't help.
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I have a weird memory of just the end of this movie - the president (?) has been replaced by a clone or something and to identify him his best friend / bodyguard asks him a question about a fishing trip they once took and how many fish they caught that day. The president answers by giving the story they told everyone, which was a lie. And then the hero shoots him and walks off into the sunset. You'd think this would be easily Google-able but I just can't find it. E: president is of the US; movie is probably 80s / 90s. Hollandia fucked around with this message at 22:48 on May 14, 2022 |
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May 14, 2022 12:38
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Hollandia posted:I have a weird memory of just the end of this movie - the president (?) has been replaced by a clone or something and to identify him his best friend / bodyguard asks him a question about a fishing trip they once took and how many fish they caught that day. The president answers by giving the story they told everyone, which was a lie. And then the hero shoots him and walks off into the sunset. I was going to say Dave until the shooting part.
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May 14, 2022 18:54
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Hollandia posted:I have a weird memory of just the end of this movie - the president (?) has been replaced by a clone or something and to identify him his best friend / bodyguard asks him a question about a fishing trip they once took and how many fish they caught that day. The president answers by giving the story they told everyone, which was a lie. And then the hero shoots him and walks off into the sunset. Freejack has the idea of asking a question to find out if its the original or not, but it wasnt a fishing trip and the guy asking wasnt the hero. It was a secret number.
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May 14, 2022 19:11
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Is the President American, or another country?
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May 14, 2022 19:21
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Could browse through TV Tropes Spot the Imposter section to see if anything rings a bell.
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May 14, 2022 19:30
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There's a doppelganger president in GI Joe Retaliation and, while the movie is pretty forgettable, they definitely would have have been a candidate to do the "shoot the president and walk away from the explosion thing".
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May 14, 2022 22:42
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I remember watching a movie on Sci Fi channel as a lad about a priest with some kind of knife-hand and some woman and a couple American Indians teaming up to fight the Wendigo (who's in league with Satan or is Satan or something)? Does this ring a bell to anyone?
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Carly Gay Dead Son posted:I remember watching a movie on Sci Fi channel as a lad about a priest with some kind of knife-hand and some woman and a couple American Indians teaming up to fight the Wendigo (who's in league with Satan or is Satan or something)? Does this ring a bell to anyone? I'm thinking The Minion with Dolph Lundgren. He's got a spiked gauntlet, and while I don't think it's actually a wendigo, I think the native characters make reference to the evil force as such, though it's been a long time since I've seen it. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Minion
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Detective Thompson posted:I'm thinking The Minion with Dolph Lundgren. He's got a spiked gauntlet, and while I don't think it's actually a wendigo, I think the native characters make reference to the evil force as such, though it's been a long time since I've seen it. Hell yeah this is it!
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There's an absolute dogshit movie I saw a while back, clearly trying to be a ripoff of Fargo with a dash of Tarantino. It's set up north somewhere, in the winter. An insurance salesman type guy somehow gets into a plot to rip off an old man for a violin that turns out to be worth a ton of money. The big twist at the end is that it was somehow a plot to rip off the insurance guy, and like everyone was in on it. The old guy, the violin appraiser, all of the insurance guy's friends and colleagues, even nameless background extras were in on this plot. And the plot required the insurance guy to make a ton of very specific and unlikely choices all along the way. Like, he had to turn down the violin buyer's first offer, if he took it then the whole plan would've been hosed. And if at any point he had decided to back out of the scheme, like say after people started appearing to die, then the plan would've been hosed. Just dogshit movie. Does anybody know what I'm talking about?
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Gripweed posted:There's an absolute dogshit movie I saw a while back, clearly trying to be a ripoff of Fargo with a dash of Tarantino. It's set up north somewhere, in the winter. An insurance salesman type guy somehow gets into a plot to rip off an old man for a violin that turns out to be worth a ton of money. The big twist at the end is that it was somehow a plot to rip off the insurance guy, and like everyone was in on it. The old guy, the violin appraiser, all of the insurance guy's friends and colleagues, even nameless background extras were in on this plot. And the plot required the insurance guy to make a ton of very specific and unlikely choices all along the way. Like, he had to turn down the violin buyer's first offer, if he took it then the whole plan would've been hosed. And if at any point he had decided to back out of the scheme, like say after people started appearing to die, then the plan would've been hosed. Just dogshit movie. Does anybody know what I'm talking about? The plot sounds like a variant on a old (and famous) con which TV tropes has called the "violin scam" (Its in American Gods, and the Discworld book "Going Postal", among others). Googling "Violin Scam movie" suggests, 2011s "Thin Ice", https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1512240/ which sounds right SiKboy fucked around with this message at 23:01 on May 18, 2022 |
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SiKboy posted:The plot sounds like a variant on a old (and famous) con which TV tropes has called the "violin scam" (Its in American Gods, and the Discworld book "Going Postal", among others). Googling "Violin Scam movie" suggests, 2011s "Thin Ice", https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1512240/ which sounds right That's it! I kept looking for a William H Macey movie but I'd gotten him and Greg Kinnear confused. Thanks so much. I loving hated that movie.
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Thank you for this thread! The movie I’m thinking about is a fantasy/swashbuckling-type story. It features this guy-I think he was dressed in red-and his young child sidekick. I can’t recall if the child was a boy or a girl. Anyway, the strange thing about the guy was that he would be killed, but moments later, he would be alive and well. There were multiple death scenes like this, where it would cut to another scene and he’d be alive like nothing happened. Eventually there is the climactic battle, and the hero seemingly dies for real. There’s a funeral scene, and everyone is sad and crying. The hero’s body is being lowered into the grave, the camera is slowly zooming in on it, and the sad music builds to a crescendo. Suddenly, the scene changes to the hero standing over his own body, and he says something like “And he lived happily ever after.” The crowd bursts into applause. The hero says goodbye to his young sidekick, and then rides away, into the clouds. Anyone know what movie this is?
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Time Machine posted:Thank you for this thread! The movie I’m thinking about is a fantasy/swashbuckling-type story. It features this guy-I think he was dressed in red-and his young child sidekick. I can’t recall if the child was a boy or a girl. Anyway, the strange thing about the guy was that he would be killed, but moments later, he would be alive and well. There were multiple death scenes like this, where it would cut to another scene and he’d be alive like nothing happened. That sounds like the end of the Adventures of Baron Munchausen. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5I1jsBl-9yY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C0iNnVUT6OA PeterCat fucked around with this message at 23:39 on May 19, 2022 |
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May 19, 2022 23:36
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PeterCat posted:That sounds like the end of the Adventures of Baron Munchausen. Yes, that’s exactly what it was! It was a fragment of a childhood memory, thank you for clearing it up!
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Another request from me. 80s or 90s corny action movie, set around a military helicopter pilot. I remember he uses a flight simulator and they kept raising the difficulty and he kept wining/dominating. And then they told him to change his vision mode or something and then he was terrible. They figured out a way to fix it by having him drive around in a Jeep with something like a periscope over his eyes. Probably really obvious.
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Custard Undies posted:Another request from me. Fire Birds AKA Wings Of The Apache https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2FyuHA_zAOM 
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Snowglobe of Doom posted:Fire Birds AKA Wings Of The Apache That's the one. Thanks so much!
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Son, you got a panty on your head.
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A movie set in Eastern Europe (Hungary? Balkans?) where a married man is hiding a young Jewish man, and uses his wife being 'pregnant' as the cover for why he needs more food, then needs the young Jewish man to make his wife pregnant to make his cover story true. At the end he is going to get strung up as a collaborator because nobody believes his story about the Jewish boy (who has run off) and a chase scene of some kind ensues.
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I am going nuts trying to remember a movie. Should be simple to find yet it's like I dreamed it. I might be mixing up two movies.. Something about a house in the middle of nowhere the house is surrounded by elaborate traps someone gets killed in the beginning in them. Turns out there is a women(or man) keeping a alien in a cage in the basement. Their son was abducted ages ago? I thought the title was something like Gate to hell but I find nothing. Fairly recent movie at least later than 2000.
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I think you might be describing Silent Warnings (2003). It's a very inelegant fit but it played pretty widely on the Sci-Fi channel which is why I'm picking it.
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Megaman's Jockstrap posted:I think you might be describing Silent Warnings (2003). It's a very inelegant fit but it played pretty widely on the Sci-Fi channel which is why I'm picking it. No students at all! I think there is a fbi agent (a women) that visits the house the story might be centered around her. The aliens keep attacking at night because their pal is trapped in the basement.
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Megaman's Jockstrap posted:I think you might be describing Silent Warnings (2003). It's a very inelegant fit but it played pretty widely on the Sci-Fi channel which is why I'm picking it. Billy Zane AND a supernumerary Baldwin. Hot drat.
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Pod fits some of it but definitely not all of it
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Opopanax posted:Pod fits some of it but definitely not all of it I have seen pod and nope. Really I think I am mixing two movies here.
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Part of that sounds like Digging Up the Marrow, with Ray Wise.
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Almost certainly way off, but parts of the description remind me of Devil's Gate (2017) and parts of it remind me of The Hole (2009).
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I vaguely remember seeing a movie on TV as a child (sometime mid 90s to 2000) wherein someone was in the desert and found people trapped in pods filled with blue goo. IIRC the people were duplicated and a character was possibly facing off against his own clone? Having googled this I obviously came across Invasion of the Body Snatchers but upon further looking that isn't it.
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Vorenus posted:I vaguely remember seeing a movie on TV as a child (sometime mid 90s to 2000) wherein someone was in the desert and found people trapped in pods filled with blue goo. IIRC the people were duplicated and a character was possibly facing off against his own clone? Isn’t the climax of The Sixth Day in a desert facility?
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Hey, I just remembered a movie whose title keeps escaping me, and this time I haven't been able to find it. It's a nineties move about some kids from, as I recall, some sort of generic YA novel dystopia (though, this was a couple decades before most of the YA dysopia stuff got popular). They, and a big, badass bodyguard dude who didn't speak much/at all, go into this maze (fully indoor, fairly smoky and poorly-lit, kind of pinkish lighting IIRC), and are on the run from a villain I don't remember too well, I think. The bodyguard guy sacrifices himself at the end and the kids make it out onto some idyllic beach and that's it, I believe. I'm pretty sure it aired on Nickelodeon at least once, but I mostly saw it on video at an after-school program I attended in elementary school.
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Vorenus posted:I vaguely remember seeing a movie on TV as a child (sometime mid 90s to 2000) wherein someone was in the desert and found people trapped in pods filled with blue goo. IIRC the people were duplicated and a character was possibly facing off against his own clone? Is it The Island?
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https://www.facebook.com/groups/623904751657544/permalink/999519930762689/ Sry for fb link Meme of Bunch of dudes running in field on wire work. Live action but not sure about the environment Turns into them running on trees in forest somehow Alan Smithee fucked around with this message at 02:43 on Jun 6, 2022 |
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The_Doctor posted:Is it The Island? Trevor Hale posted:Isn’t the climax of The Sixth Day in a desert facility? Honestly I'm just doing this as a long shot, "blue crystalgoo somewhere in a desert with people inside" isn't much to go on 
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Alan Smithee posted:https://www.facebook.com/groups/623904751657544/permalink/999519930762689/ It's an ad for the Burberry Outerwear clothing line https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iCbfq_-cd-g
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EclecticTastes posted:Hey, I just remembered a movie whose title keeps escaping me, and this time I haven't been able to find it. It's a nineties move about some kids from, as I recall, some sort of generic YA novel dystopia (though, this was a couple decades before most of the YA dysopia stuff got popular). They, and a big, badass bodyguard dude who didn't speak much/at all, go into this maze (fully indoor, fairly smoky and poorly-lit, kind of pinkish lighting IIRC), and are on the run from a villain I don't remember too well, I think. The bodyguard guy sacrifices himself at the end and the kids make it out onto some idyllic beach and that's it, I believe. I'm pretty sure it aired on Nickelodeon at least once, but I mostly saw it on video at an after-school program I attended in elementary school. Pretty sure it’s Doom Runners. Tim Curry was the villain, if that rings any bells.
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Vorenus posted:I vaguely remember seeing a movie on TV as a child (sometime mid 90s to 2000) wherein someone was in the desert and found people trapped in pods filled with blue goo. IIRC the people were duplicated and a character was possibly facing off against his own clone? Honestly the closest thing I could think about it was the episode of Stargate SG-1 where there came across the body duplicating blue crystals in the desert. They cloned Jack O'Neill and they could morph about a bit. 
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Heem posted:Pretty sure it’s Doom Runners. Nickelodeon's first ever made for TV movie! Made in Australia and featuring a whole lot of familiar Australian faces such as Paul Livinginston AKA Flacco Here's the entire movie: https://archive.org/details/doom-runners-1997
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