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Okay. Spent a while now (less than an hour) trying to figure this one out. Saw a movie in a theater, late 1990s. There were two movies to choose between, and one of them was I think some kind of Shakespeare-y romance movie. Might've been Shakespeare in Love, might've not been. (I feel like there were a few matching that description around then, right?) My brother and I, as teen/preteen boys, decided against that one and so our dad took us to the other. Afterwards, we all agreed this was a mistake. So. Mid or late 90s. Kind of a Sci-Fi Horror, modern setting. Set mostly/entirely on a ship at sea. Decent amount of the time, the ship was in the middle of the eye of a hurricane. Obligatory talk about it being calm/clear but the eyewall being the strongest part of the storm. I think maybe the ship was some kind of research vessel, maybe everyone on board had died and the main cast were investigating the mystery. Somewhere in this, lightning(?) is involved. Maybe lightning strikes the ship, maybe the ship was designed for that. I feel like lightning is either making the ship itself a hostile entity (like Event Horizon) or maybe people are being threatened by electrical arcs within the ship. It was not a good movie. My other memory of it was that the print had a massive scratch and so there was a green line running down one side of the screen for almost the entire film. But that doesn't help identify it.
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Sounds like it could be Virus? I remember liking it at the time as a teenager, but I haven't seen it since, and from what I've seen everyone (including its cast, e.g. Jamie Lee Curtis) say it really is a huge piece of poo poo.
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Sep 19, 2022 05:02
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Any chance that was Virus, starring Jamie Lee Curtis and some Baldwin? edit: beaten, but holy poo poo were those cyber-monsters memorable in a bad way.
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Sep 19, 2022 05:02
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That looks like it! Thank you both! Now to never watch it again.
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Crackmaster posted:Sounds like it could be Virus? I remember liking it at the time as a teenager, but I haven't seen it since, and from what I've seen everyone (including its cast, e.g. Jamie Lee Curtis) say it really is a huge piece of poo poo. Wow, I just read the Trivia on its IMDB page and: quote:Jamie Lee Curtis has admitted to hating this film, calling it "the worst movie ever made". She added that she lobbied hard to have the director fired and replaced by Steve Miner, with whom she had made Halloween H20: 20 Years Later (1998). However, he wasn't available, as he was working on Dawson's Creek (1998)). quote:In an IGN.com interview, Jamie Lee Curtis said the following about Virus (1999): "Rob Reiner, for his 40th birthday, had a bad show business party where everybody brought show business clips. Rob's was playing a hippie on Gomer Pyle: USMC (1964) singing 'Blowin' in the Wind'. Virus (1999) is so bad that it's shocking. That would be the all time piece of poo poo. It's just dreadful. That's the only good reason to be in bad movies. Then when your friends have [bad] movies you can say 'Ahhhh, I've got the best one. I'm bringing Virus (1999).'" Reading the plot, it sounds like it would have been rendered better as an X-Files episode.
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Sep 19, 2022 06:03
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TITTIEKISSER69 posted:Reading the plot, it sounds like it would have been rendered better as an X-Files episode. It was so bad. Might've been a decent X-Files episode, yeah. Edit: And checking the release date, Virus came out January 15, 1999, while Shakespeare in Love had its USA wide release January 8, 1999. (Limited release was in December 1998, so it gets called a 1998 movie.) Mystery solved! Maybe I should watch Shakespeare in Love. I don't think I ever have. Vavrek fucked around with this message at 06:46 on Sep 19, 2022 |
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Sep 19, 2022 06:40
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Honestly, I don’t get the hate for it. I liked it when I rewatched it a few months ago. Makes for a great double feature with Deep Rising.
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Sep 19, 2022 07:40
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Deep rising is so schlocky and yet it has some of the nastiest most hosed up monster movie deaths
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Hannibal Rex posted:That's awesome. Hilarious that it worked in real life. Ahhh, that’s the good stuff.
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Sep 19, 2022 09:33
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Alan Smithee posted:Deep rising is so schlocky and yet it has some of the nastiest most hosed up monster movie deaths I really love Deep Rising because they go all in at every corner. Heavy gore, ridiculously over the top mercenaries, 80s one liners, and the most hyperactive monster cgi imaginable. The DNA for The Mummy is really visible. Virus is like the toned down version of this in every day. Lower energy, grimmer, grimier, and less fun. That said, one character freaks out and becomes an insane tinkerer so there's that and there's a few moments of conceptual horror that make it worthwhile. At one point a character parlays with the monster which is unique.
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Ape Agitator posted:I really love Deep Rising because they go all in at every corner. Heavy gore, ridiculously over the top mercenaries, 80s one liners, and the most hyperactive monster cgi imaginable. The DNA for The Mummy is really visible. I kind of liked Evil Cyborg Donald Sutherland. Not how he was used in the movie, mind you. But like, conceptually it made me pretty happy.
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I have two I've been trying to track down but can remember very little about. The first is French. A young woman dies in a suicide that may not have been a suicide and her brother is heartbroken. The main character, another young woman, makes a bargain with the dead woman's ex boyfriend. She agrees to seduce the brother and cheer him up. In return, the ex boyfriend will sleep with her. A lot of it is set at a Lysee, an elite school and she spends a lot of the movie watching the dead woman's video diaries. EDIT: I'm reasonably sure this was a 90s film, possibly late 80s. The other I remember far less about. I think it's Italian or Spanish. It's mostly about a playboy screwing up and ruining his own life. There's only two scenes I really remember. One is a hilarious scene (possibly unintentionally) where he helps a beautiful woman cross a road before a smash cut to them having sex in a hotel. He says, in voiceover, "Women love me, it is my gift." The other scene is much later in the film. He gets out of prison and a woman who lives nearby takes him in and they very awkardly seduce each other when she drops something, gets on the floor to pick it up and crawls towards him. Those very strange scenes have been stuck in my head for years and I'm desperate to put them in context. EDIT: no idea when this was made, but probably the 70s or 80s. Snowman_McK fucked around with this message at 03:37 on Sep 22, 2022 |
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Sep 22, 2022 03:31
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I believe Chinese movie from the 80s or 90s (or no later than early 2000s), there was a commercial for it on the Internation channel (i channel) back in....I wanna say early 2000s (or late 90s) it's about policemen in Asia who have to clean the streets of wild dogs using limited resources which is contrasted with the iirc Dolph Lundgren action movie they watch on a tv where he's firing a machine gun
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Animation (might have been anime) from the 70s or maybe early 80s where people (including a wizard) play cats like guitars. Saw it on YouTube a year or two ago and can't find it again.
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Sep 25, 2022 06:50
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TTBF posted:Animation (might have been anime) from the 70s or maybe early 80s where people (including a wizard) play cats like guitars. Saw it on YouTube a year or two ago and can't find it again. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=44YQvek1JZ8
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Sep 25, 2022 08:21
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=erLCGSb56KI&t=1474s what's this car chase originally from?
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Alan Smithee posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=erLCGSb56KI&t=1474s Short Time https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PXIZdhoJmY4
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Snowglobe of Doom posted:Oruorane the Cat Player [neko hiki no oruorane] Yep that's it, thank you
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Can someone help me find a documentary? Watched it about 8-9 years ago in media studies undergrad. Made in the late 00s I think. Called Mediocracy or Media-ocracy or something like that. It's (at least partially) about the Italian news and entertainment media, Silvio Berlusconi, and Italian attitudes toward gender roles. There was a recurring motif of gloved hands shuffling playing cards with media logos on them, I think.
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Gertrude Perkins posted:Can someone help me find a documentary? Watched it about 8-9 years ago in media studies undergrad. Made in the late 00s I think. Called Mediocracy or Media-ocracy or something like that. It's (at least partially) about the Italian news and entertainment media, Silvio Berlusconi, and Italian attitudes toward gender roles. There was a recurring motif of gloved hands shuffling playing cards with media logos on them, I think. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Videocracy_(film)
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Trying to remember an obscure sci fi movie, it was spoken of in the 2001 book The Horror Movie Survival Guide. All I can remember is 1) It seemed based on environmental issues, 2) It had a scientist somehow get turned into a swarm of unnatural insects/other stuff that might be microscopic, 3) The scientist swarm could swarm people with certain injuries or diseases and heal them, 4) He genetically modified his son to survive in the bad future screwed up enviroment (I think it was a 'ozone's gone, sun is deadly now' thing, and 5) There's a quote from the scientist espousing about himself that begins with "I'm the sneeze."
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Cornwind Evil posted:Trying to remember an obscure sci fi movie, it was spoken of in the 2001 book The Horror Movie Survival Guide. All I can remember is 1) It seemed based on environmental issues, 2) It had a scientist somehow get turned into a swarm of unnatural insects/other stuff that might be microscopic, 3) The scientist swarm could swarm people with certain injuries or diseases and heal them, 4) He genetically modified his son to survive in the bad future screwed up enviroment (I think it was a 'ozone's gone, sun is deadly now' thing, and 5) There's a quote from the scientist espousing about himself that begins with "I'm the sneeze." You mean Habitat. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W_bhJM297v0
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Philadelphia Experiment 2. Okay. Here's the thing, this ISN'T the movie I'm thinking of, but the trailer is the thing. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5OeF97LDr84&t=57s For a few seconds in the trailer there's a 'melting effect' in the trailer with the toaster I'm 100% sure I saw in the trailer for another film a year or so before or after this. The IMDB nor Wiki seem to give any clues to this effect being reused in another film or an alternate title of PE2 that I might have seen as a trailer.
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Oct 12, 2022 07:55
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That’s a fairly standard mild warping effect used all over the place in the mid 90s. I remember both Sliders and The X-Files doing very similar.
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Oct 12, 2022 15:33
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3mbBbFH9fAg Soundgarden - Black Hole Sun uses the same morph effects
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happyhippy posted:Soundgarden - Black Hole Sun uses the same morph effects As an aside, I actually remember the original version of the Black Hole Sun video that used the morph effect much more sparingly and, as a result, didn't look like complete dogshit 
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It was also on a bunch of Nickelodeon shows, iirc. It must have been part of whatever standard low-budget graphics package everyone was using.
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Cross posting from the silly questions thread.McCracAttack posted:Does anyone remember a WW2 movie about American and Japanese soldiers getting stranded on an island and having to form a truce in order to protect the only fresh water spring on the island from flooding with sea water during a storm? Someone already said that sounded like Hell in the Pacific but I seem to remember more than one soldier on each side. Were there any other movies with this plot?
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McCracAttack posted:Cross posting from the silly questions thread. Kong: Skull Island, but its still only two soldiers total. And there is nothing about protecting the water supply. And its mostly a backstory for a supporting character. Also, I feel like you'd remember the giant ape. Pretty sure this isn't your movie.
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Cat Hatter posted:Kong: Skull Island, but its still only two soldiers total. And there is nothing about protecting the water supply. And its mostly a backstory for a supporting character. Also, I feel like you'd remember the giant ape. Yeah but John C Reilly can paper over a lot of problems like that.
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McCracAttack posted:Cross posting from the silly questions thread. Haven't seen it so I dunno about the specific spring water thing, but it sounds pretty similar.
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Martman posted:Could it be None but the Brave? Yeah, this looks like it. Thanks! Hadn't thought about this movie in forever then it just randomly popped back into my head the other day.
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OK, this is one for Swedish goons: It's a comedy about someone trying to make a movie for a film festival like Cannes. Through lies and cheats, they get a famous actor and tries to get him to have sex with a moose. Someone gets stabbed in the leg with a fork. Everyone masturbates while having fantasies about each other or the movie succeeding. In the end they win the award.
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evobatman posted:OK, this is one for Swedish goons: I haven't seen it but it's not https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0173716/ right i tried googling swedish but that hornied up my search results
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So this scene popped into my head earlier today and I can't for the life of me remember where it's from or who's in it. It goes about like this: Guy (possibly the main antagonist) gets shot in the chest. He barely flinches and the bullet just leaves a neat little hole in his jacket, so there's this fleeting moment of "wait, did he have a vest or something?" Then the guy just nonchalantly puts a cigarette in his mouth, is about to light (or possibly actually lights) it, and THEN the hole starts bleeding and he collapses. I can't even remember the setting of the movie; It might have been a western, or set in the 50s-ish, or more modern day. The scene was obviously made to be slightly comical, but I don't think the movie was some kind of super wacky goofball comedy. It's not a very recent movie but not super old either: I don't wanna give too tight an estimate because I don't remember it well enough, but I'd say the timeframe is 80s to early 2000s. There also may actually be several movies with similar scenes blending together in my head, so feel free to suggest even something where any of the details (sparse though they are) are different somehow. EDIT: It suddenly came to me that the scene I'm (mainly) thinking about was in a Finnish action/thriller film Raid, from 2003, though I sadly can't find a clip of said scene. However I still feel like there may have been other similar scenes that were making my memory so hazy, so if the description reminds anyone of some other movie, do speak up. EDIT 2: To specify, the last bit with the cigarette-before-collapsing is the key part here that got this whole thing stuck in my head. Nordick fucked around with this message at 01:03 on Oct 17, 2022 |
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Nordick posted:So this scene popped into my head earlier today and I can't for the life of me remember where it's from or who's in it. It goes about like this: I feel like the Quick and the Dead had all the good gunshot reactions
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Trevor Hale posted:I feel like the Quick and the Dead had all the good gunshot reactions Nope, haven't watched that one (also, see the edit in my last post), but I looked up the final duel with Gene Hackman, and sure enough there was this similar fleeting "wait, did he get hit?" moment.
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Nordick posted:EDIT: It suddenly came to me that the scene I'm (mainly) thinking about was in a Finnish action/thriller film Raid, from 2003, though I sadly can't find a clip of said scene. However I still feel like there may have been other similar scenes that were making my memory so hazy, so if the description reminds anyone of some other movie, do speak up.
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King of New York has a similar ending too.
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