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Can anyone help me identify this movie (fiction)? I watched in in college in the 00s for a Spanish class in the United States: it had to do with migration across the US–Mexican border. I am sorry that I remember very little about it other than the very sad closing scene of our male protagonist having a conversation with his family through the bars of the Tortilla Wall, metal posts driven into the beach between Tijuana and San Diego with waves lapping. The border crossings he had been making were too risky or he had gotten in some legal trouble, and returning to Mexico was not an option for him. Edit: Thank you, Letterboxd: the film was El jardín del Edén (María Novaro, 1994) DasNeonLicht fucked around with this message at 17:48 on Oct 28, 2022 |
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how did you find it through letterboxd
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Oct 29, 2022 00:08
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a movie (possibly TV show?) from the 2000s/2010s, where a guy starts dating an overweight/"unnattractive" woman, and the relationship goes well but he hides it from his coworkers/friends. Eventually she discovers this and becomes violent (I cant remember whether it was towards him or towards herself?) I can remember the female characters face but cant identify her bc I cant remember her name or what else shes been in
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Oct 29, 2022 00:24
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Kvlt! posted:a movie (possibly TV show?) from the 2000s/2010s, where a guy starts dating an overweight/"unnattractive" woman, and the relationship goes well but he hides it from his coworkers/friends. Eventually she discovers this and becomes violent (I cant remember whether it was towards him or towards herself?) I didn’t know someone leaked my fan-edit of Shallow Hal. Huh
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Oct 29, 2022 01:15
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Kvlt! posted:a movie (possibly TV show?) from the 2000s/2010s, where a guy starts dating an overweight/"unnattractive" woman, and the relationship goes well but he hides it from his coworkers/friends. Eventually she discovers this and becomes violent (I cant remember whether it was towards him or towards herself?)
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Oct 29, 2022 01:23
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Alan Smithee posted:how did you find it through letterboxd the Chicano list I linked to — I remembered that much about it and just kept scanning posters on lists of Chicano films until one sounded familiar. then somehow, the whole film is on YouTube — I skipped to the end and there was the scene I remembered
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Oct 29, 2022 03:35
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That’s a great list, thanks for linking it.
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Oct 29, 2022 03:41
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Kvlt! posted:a movie (possibly TV show?) from the 2000s/2010s, where a guy starts dating an overweight/"unnattractive" woman, and the relationship goes well but he hides it from his coworkers/friends. Eventually she discovers this and becomes violent (I cant remember whether it was towards him or towards herself?) Ashlie Atkinson on Rescue Me (2004-2011)? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1x016Cl5J5E
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Oct 29, 2022 19:26
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Was browsing Instagram the other day, and as I closed it, I briefly saw something that looked familiar, but I couldn't place it. Don't know if it's even from a movie. Could be a TV show or even an ad. It was a screenshot of a doctor examining someone's mouth with a tongue depressor, but the shot is from inside the mouth, with the mouth being a clearly oversized prop for perspective.
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Oct 29, 2022 20:34
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Detective Thompson posted:Was browsing Instagram the other day, and as I closed it, I briefly saw something that looked familiar, but I couldn't place it. Don't know if it's even from a movie. Could be a TV show or even an ad. It was a screenshot of a doctor examining someone's mouth with a tongue depressor, but the shot is from inside the mouth, with the mouth being a clearly oversized prop for perspective. Dr Giggles and Little Shop of Horrors, off the top of my head, but I’m sure there are others
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Oct 29, 2022 20:42
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Detective Thompson posted:Was browsing Instagram the other day, and as I closed it, I briefly saw something that looked familiar, but I couldn't place it. Don't know if it's even from a movie. Could be a TV show or even an ad. It was a screenshot of a doctor examining someone's mouth with a tongue depressor, but the shot is from inside the mouth, with the mouth being a clearly oversized prop for perspective. That’s in like every single horror or horror-adjacent thing with a dentist, which are more common than you think. It’s an obvious and really cool shot to do. To add to the list, there’s one in The Dentist (natch) and of all things, Sam Raimi’s Crimewave. poo poo I think it’s in the rightly forgotten Matthew Perry vehicle The Whole Nine Yards (the original Bruce Willis Sleeps Through It Movie).
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Oct 29, 2022 20:53
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I'm gonna randomly guess is that famous scene in The Little Shop of Horrors.
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Oct 29, 2022 20:55
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rollick posted:Ashlie Atkinson on Rescue Me (2004-2011)? That was exactly it! thank you!
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Oct 29, 2022 21:36
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Detective Thompson posted:Was browsing Instagram the other day, and as I closed it, I briefly saw something that looked familiar, but I couldn't place it. Don't know if it's even from a movie. Could be a TV show or even an ad. It was a screenshot of a doctor examining someone's mouth with a tongue depressor, but the shot is from inside the mouth, with the mouth being a clearly oversized prop for perspective. The 80s Little Shop of Horrors?
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Oct 29, 2022 22:57
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Pretty sure it's Dr. Giggles. Found an image of that shot and he's got the tongue depressor and all, and I would have seen that movie once ages ago, so that triggered a vague memory of it. Thanks.
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Oct 30, 2022 03:39
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I'm looking for a film that I only caught the ending of, ages ago. 70s or 80s, about the CIA or a similar sinister government agency using/brainwashing telekinetic or clairvoyant people to perform assassinations, I think. The finale involved the protagonist to unleash his powers in the agency's high tech facility. I used to think it was The Fury, but I just watched that and it doesn’t match. It's not Scanners or Firestarter either. The main antagonist was a well known actor, though apparently not Kirk Douglas, like I thought. Other names that came to my mind for the role were Lee Marvin or Robert Vaughn, but glancing at their filmographies hasn't turned up a match.
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Oct 30, 2022 04:24
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Hannibal Rex posted:I'm looking for a film that I only caught the ending of, ages ago. 70s or 80s, about the CIA or a similar sinister government agency using/brainwashing telekinetic or clairvoyant people to perform assassinations, I think. The finale involved the protagonist to unleash his powers in the agency's high tech facility. Sounds like the original Firestarter w George C Scott
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Origami Dali posted:Sounds like the original Firestarter w George C Scott Hannibal Rex posted:It's not Scanners or Firestarter either.
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Oct 30, 2022 04:52
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Hannibal Rex posted:I used to think it was The Fury, but I just watched that and it doesn’t match. It's not Scanners or Firestarter either. The main antagonist was a well known actor, though apparently not Kirk Douglas, like I thought. Other names that came to my mind for the role were Lee Marvin or Robert Vaughn, but glancing at their filmographies hasn't turned up a match. It could be Dreamscape.
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Oct 30, 2022 04:54
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Hannibal Rex posted:I'm looking for a film that I only caught the ending of, ages ago. 70s or 80s, about the CIA or a similar sinister government agency using/brainwashing telekinetic or clairvoyant people to perform assassinations, I think. The finale involved the protagonist to unleash his powers in the agency's high tech facility. The plot doesnt match but your description made me think of Lifeforce with the govt agencies and supernatural powers, idk just rang a bell i figured id toss it out there
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Oct 30, 2022 04:55
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K, how bout The Power with George Hamilton?
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Oct 30, 2022 05:03
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One of the Scanners sequels maybe?
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Oct 30, 2022 05:04
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Zogo posted:It could be Dreamscape. That one looks promising. The Power is too old. It definitely hat a late 70s, early 80s aestethic - another film I at one point thought it might be it was Brainscan. That was another miss, but the tech design was close.
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Oct 30, 2022 05:15
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Hannibal Rex posted:I'm looking for a film that I only caught the ending of, ages ago. 70s or 80s, about the CIA or a similar sinister government agency using/brainwashing telekinetic or clairvoyant people to perform assassinations, I think. The finale involved the protagonist to unleash his powers in the agency's high tech facility. It’s The Parallax View. e: to be clear, they brainwash Warren Beatty into being an assassin, but he doesn’t have magic powers, so I’m probably wrong. Torquemada fucked around with this message at 11:08 on Oct 30, 2022 |
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Oct 30, 2022 11:06
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Manchurian Candidate maybe?
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Oct 30, 2022 12:47
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Very 60’s and in black and white, probably not that.
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Oct 30, 2022 15:25
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Torquemada posted:Very 60’s and in black and white, probably not that. https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0056218/ There was a B&W version in 1962
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Oct 30, 2022 16:27
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Torquemada posted:Very 60’s and in black and white, probably not that. White guy blink dot gif to living in a world where someone thinks of the (admittedly good) remake of Manchurian Candidate and not the original
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Y’all know that Torquemada isn’t the OP, right? He said it can’t be The Manchurian Candidate because he actually read the request which said it was from the 80’s. It was like four posts up. This isn’t exactly a feat of reading comprehension.
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Oct 31, 2022 01:43
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Xiahou Dun posted:Y’all know that Torquemada isn’t the OP, right? He said it can’t be The Manchurian Candidate because he actually read the request which said it was from the 80’s. Yeah, but I am very stupid. (I see how I hosed up now.)
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Oct 31, 2022 06:04
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Trevor Hale posted:Yeah, but I am very stupid. You’re not alone.
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Thank you and I hope we all learned something today.
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This question doesn’t quite fit here but I can’t find anywhere better to post it, apologies. Last night I watched Edge of the Axe, overall a pretty good late-80’s slasher that has some amusingly dumb stuff in it as well. There’s one scene where there’s a computer you can ask random questions to (pre internet search engines) and the female lead asks the computer if the male lead is gay and then kisses him when the computer can’t answer. I remember seeing that clip somewhere before, probably in the context of making fun of it, but I can’t for the life of me figure out where that was and it’s driving me crazy. I thought it might be redlettermedia but google tells me they’ve never done that movie so no clue. Does this ring a bell with anyone?
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Nov 4, 2022 15:11
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different youtube reviewers maybe? https://www.google.com/search?tbm=v...h=1866&dpr=1.05
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Nov 4, 2022 15:23
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Alan Smithee posted:different youtube reviewers maybe? I don’t think so. I don’t really watch any YouTube outside of Best of the Worst and the shadenfreude thread.
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Nov 4, 2022 16:23
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IMDb says these two things reference the film at least: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt16235054/ https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2358836/
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Zogo posted:IMDb says these two things reference the film at least: Haven’t seen them, but thanks for the links, both look interesting! EotA did have a pretty good twist/ambiguous ending that I’d love to discuss with my friends but none of them like old horror movies.
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Nov 4, 2022 21:27
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Something like Conan O'Brian? Sounds like something he'd put on
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I'm going slightly mad I think. I watched a trailer for a movie that I think had Bill Nighy in it. In the trailer he's talking to his mother, in London and its his birthday, he's wearing a suit, looks smart so is she but she's distant, formal with him? They dicuss someone he killed in Paris and its clear he's a hitman, maybe both his parents were as well? I saw this trail with my wife and now we cannot remember anything else about it, and it seems it ls not Bill Nighy as its not on his IMDB. Anyone got any ideas? A new film.
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One of the Kingsmen movies?
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