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Trying to think of a live action movie from the late 80's/early 90's that has a scene where a guy (long black hair, possibly in heavy metal-type garb i.e. band t-shirt, studded bracelets, etc.) cares for what essentially looks like a D&D "Beholder" sort of creature.
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The only thing that fits that description for me is Big Trouble in Little China
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Aug 28, 2023 06:38
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Alan Smithee posted:The only thing that fits that description for me is Big Trouble in Little China I almost preemptively mentioned that that wasn't it, since a zillion photos for that little creep popped up when I was searching for my answer. Love Big Trouble in Little China though.
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Aug 28, 2023 06:54
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Cream-of-Plenty posted:Trying to think of a live action movie from the late 80's/early 90's that has a scene where a guy (long black hair, possibly in heavy metal-type garb i.e. band t-shirt, studded bracelets, etc.) cares for what essentially looks like a D&D "Beholder" sort of creature. Maybe the Chet monster in Weird Science? Or TerrorVision?
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Aug 28, 2023 07:13
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codyclarke posted:Maybe the Chet monster in Weird Science? Or TerrorVision? poo poo you got it, TerrorVision. Funny how my childhood memory just filled in the monster with "Beholder" when it definitely doesn't look like that in retrospect. Must be because one of the eyes is way bigger than the other, and it's got another eyeball on a stalk. At least the guy in question (who is apparently Jon Gries?) looked pretty much like I described him. Thanks!
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Aug 28, 2023 07:25
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A couple from me: First is a "cursed body part" movie where a guy has a murderous hand. I don't believe it's "The Hand", although 80s would probably be the correct decade. My very fuzzy memory of this is that it was pitched a lot more camp and goofy than "The Hand" and had a scene with body parts floating in green goo. It's not Bride of ReAnimator, just incase the green goo throws people. Edit: I think this might be Demonoid. The second was a TV movie where a cop is killed and ends up in a dogs body. It's played totally straight. I remember the dog sitting under a tree monologing. Disco Pope fucked around with this message at 11:15 on Aug 28, 2023 |
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Aug 28, 2023 11:12
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Disco Pope posted:A couple from me: Idle Hands?
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Aug 28, 2023 11:16
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Disco Pope posted:
Are you sure this wasn't the short lived Canadian tv series "Doghouse"? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BRg4fvvGv1c
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Aug 28, 2023 11:28
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Cat Hatter posted:Idle Hands? That's the other one I meant to discount - definitely not that, that came out when I was a teenager and I bought it on VHS after reading an article in Kerrang! about the guy from The Offspring getting scalped at the prom scene. The 1990s! I think the hand movie is likely Demonoid upon a bit of digging.
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Aug 28, 2023 11:29
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Rupert Buttermilk posted:Are you sure this wasn't the short lived Canadian tv series "Doghouse"? I remember more of a golden retriever dog and this was played totally straight. I could be wrong about the cop thing - maybe a soldier or secret agent or something? Cat Hatter posted:Idle Hands? That's the other one I meant to discount - definitely not that, that came out when I was a teenager and I bought it on VHS after reading an article in Kerrang! about the guy from The Offspring getting scalped at the prom scene. The 1990s! I think the hand movie is likely Demonoid upon a bit of digging.
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Aug 28, 2023 11:33
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Rewatching that intro that I must've watched hundreds of times as a kid, "his canine dog" sticks out at me as being particularly.... I don't know, dumb?
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Aug 28, 2023 11:36
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Disco Pope posted:The second was a TV movie where a cop is killed and ends up in a dogs body. It's played totally straight. I remember the dog sitting under a tree monologing. Poochinski? https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x6naf6k
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Aug 28, 2023 11:37
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Rupert Buttermilk posted:Rewatching that intro that I must've watched hundreds of times as a kid, "his canine dog" sticks out at me as being particularly.... I don't know, dumb? Is it K9 rather than canine? Using that terminology for police dogs seems very 80s to me, probably because of the movie of the same name. Nah, this movie played itself totally straight - there might have been a religious element, like, he got into heaven if he put things right as a dog? It was on the UK sci-fi channel if that helps.
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Aug 28, 2023 11:43
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Gary Busey played a talking dog in Quigley, and there was a heaven scene. Apparently, Busey got into an argument with the producers because he said it looked nothing like the real heaven he saw when he nearly died.
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Aug 28, 2023 11:49
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Disco Pope posted:
Fluke, with Matthew Modine and Samuel L Jackson, from the mid 90's?
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Aug 28, 2023 12:06
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Disco Pope posted:
Could be Fluke?
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Aug 28, 2023 12:06
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Disco Pope posted:
Oh, Heavenly Dog? I remember it being on TV a lot in the 80s. It's a comedy but Chevy Chase is pretty deadpan so it could have come off as non-comedic to a kid.
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Aug 28, 2023 12:19
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Disco Pope posted:Is it K9 rather than canine? Using that terminology for police dogs seems very 80s to me, probably because of the movie of the same name. Maybe I'm missing something, but I was under the impression that the only reason the police force, in general, refers to their police dogs as "K9 units" is because it sounds like.... canine... I mean, to my knowledge, there's no K1 through 7 or beyond, it's not some coincidence. They're just playing with the wording, albeit officially. Edit: yeah, here... Wikipedia posted:In some English-speaking countries, police dog units are referred to as K-9 or K9, which is a homophone of the word canine. Rupert Buttermilk fucked around with this message at 12:26 on Aug 28, 2023 |
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Aug 28, 2023 12:23
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Rupert Buttermilk posted:Maybe I'm missing something, but I was under the impression that the only reason the police force, in general, refers to their police dogs as "K9 units" is because it sounds like.... canine... I mean, to my knowledge, there's no K1 through 7 or beyond, it's not some coincidence. They're just playing with the wording, albeit officially. It’s actually the different animal cop classifications, k9 is dogs, k8 is cats, K7 is crabs (IDK why either), and I’ve seen theories to the rest but no one has made a successful FOIA request so it’s unlikely those crackpots are right
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Aug 28, 2023 12:30
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Fluke looks like the likely candidate, the plot description is ringing bells and I wasn't finding it because I was focusing on the cop angle.
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Aug 28, 2023 12:39
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Disco Pope posted:A couple from me: I was going to throw out a suggestion for the only other murderous hand movie I can think of but now I can't remember the title. Anthology film, one segment is about a doctor whose hand starts rebelling, he cuts it off, mayhem at the hospital ensues as everybody's hands start rebelling. The connecting feature is a respected actor in a black leather getup at a carnival or something playing a creepy guy
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Aug 28, 2023 13:27
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Gripweed posted:I was going to throw out a suggestion for the only other murderous hand movie I can think of but now I can't remember the title. Anthology film, one segment is about a doctor whose hand starts rebelling, he cuts it off, mayhem at the hospital ensues as everybody's hands start rebelling. The connecting feature is a respected actor in a black leather getup at a carnival or something playing a creepy guy I never considered anthology films, but now I wonder if this wasn't a hand at all, but "Eye" from Body Bags!
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Aug 28, 2023 13:46
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Gripweed posted:I was going to throw out a suggestion for the only other murderous hand movie I can think of but now I can't remember the title. Anthology film, one segment is about a doctor whose hand starts rebelling, he cuts it off, mayhem at the hospital ensues as everybody's hands start rebelling. The connecting feature is a respected actor in a black leather getup at a carnival or something playing a creepy guy That’s Quicksilver Highway. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quicksilver_Highway
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Aug 28, 2023 14:14
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Action Jacktion posted:That’s Quicksilver Highway. That’s it! Thanks.
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Aug 28, 2023 14:16
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Body Parts with Jeff Fahey has a possession by hand
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Aug 28, 2023 16:02
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Opopanax posted:Body Parts with Jeff Fahey has a possession by hand Ah, jeez, that sounds like a possible match, but I would have been too old by the time I saw it on TV (typically 3ish years after release). I wonder if maybe I just saw a trailer or feature on a review show.
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Aug 28, 2023 16:30
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Disco Pope posted:Is it K9 rather than canine? Using that terminology for police dogs seems very 80s to me, probably because of the movie of the same name. It's still common terminology. They'll have it written either on/near the back door if a dog is in the car. Good puns are timeless. Bad puns don't exist.
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Aug 29, 2023 00:48
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Ok, this might be very broad, and I don't know if it's a movie or a show. Someone explains something to someone, the other person shows or otherwise demonstrates that they get it, and the first person, completely wordlessly, does the hand and arm gestures as if they're saying "yes, exactly, perfect, you get it, more than most, beautiful". You know the kind of thing I mean? They put their hands and arms upwards to the person as if they're handing them something, maybe they looked to the side to feign showing others that yeah, this guy gets it. I don't even know if anyone else was there. Maybe the other person showed some understanding of the gesturer on a fundamental way, maybe it was actually from understanding instructions. I want to say that the person gesturing is a comedic actor, which isn't a stretch; I think the whole bit was played for a slight laugh. Man, I wanna say it's Martin Short, but I don't think so. It's definitely an old memory, so it's not Only Murders in the Building. I think the whole reason the gestures were being made so emphatically was that the person doing them was probably frustrated at no being understood originally. Maybe there was a chef's kiss, or a finger kiss or something. Rupert Buttermilk fucked around with this message at 19:34 on Sep 4, 2023 |
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Sep 4, 2023 19:31
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Rupert Buttermilk posted:Ok, this might be very broad, and I don't know if it's a movie or a show. I can't find the specific scene but there's one like that with the general in Mars Attacks, and Martin Short is in that. E:this part, except it cuts off right at the gesture Opopanax fucked around with this message at 19:42 on Sep 4, 2023 |
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Sep 4, 2023 19:39
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Opopanax posted:I can't find the specific scene but there's one like that with the general in Mars Attacks, and Martin Short is in that. That isn't it, but thank you! I actually think I might've figured it out.... I think it was Harvey Firestein in Mrs Doubtfire. Now I gotta look for that part. Edit: can't seem to find any part there where this happened. Rupert Buttermilk fucked around with this message at 20:00 on Sep 4, 2023 |
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Sep 4, 2023 19:54
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Opopanax posted:I can't find the specific scene but there's one like that with the general in Mars Attacks, and Martin Short is in that. Christ, do not click that link on mobile. What a godawful pop up ad-riddled site.
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Sep 4, 2023 21:37
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The_Doctor posted:Christ, do not click that link on mobile. What a godawful pop up ad-riddled site. *gestures mutual understanding and appreciation for you*
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Sep 5, 2023 00:07
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Im pretty sure George does that in several episodes of Seinfeld, but I don’t know which ones.
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Sep 5, 2023 05:22
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NObodyNOWHERE posted:Im pretty sure George does that in several episodes of Seinfeld, but I don’t know which ones. Ooooh this definitely feels close... Actually, I might be thinking of him and Lupe, with the "one tuck, one no tuck" deal. Yeah, I'm thinking that's it, but I'll have to rewatch now. Thanks! Edit: yeeep, that's it! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yFXbyut5WkU Rupert Buttermilk fucked around with this message at 13:07 on Sep 5, 2023 |
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Sep 5, 2023 13:04
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Rupert Buttermilk posted:Ooooh this definitely feels close... Actually, I might be thinking of him and Lupe, with the "one tuck, one no tuck" deal. George does it and I swear steve martin does it but Ive seen that man do so many things i couldnt begin to tell you where
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Grassy Knowles posted:George does it and I swear steve martin does it but Ive seen that man do so many things i couldnt begin to tell you where True, that might've been why I also thought it was possibly Martin Short... It's definitely someone with a physical comedy background. But anyway, it was George with Lupe, that exact scene. Man, this thread always delivers.
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Alright, against my better judgement I'm putting this here. This was something I saw over twenty years ago as a dumb teenager watching Skinimax with the volume muted so my parents wouldn't hear. The movie in question was not a porno, but from what I could tell was in fact a serious movie about sex. The movie was structured as a series of chapters; the first chapter would be about an encounter between two people, then the next would feature one of those characters and a new person, the next chapter was the new person with somebody else, and so on. (CW: sex, violence) 1. A black guy gets oral sex from a prostitute in the middle of the night. The prostitute had blond hair and glasses with thick black rims. Afterward they get in an argument and he ends up punching her out and leaving her unconscious in the street. 2. The guy from 1 meets up with his apparent girlfriend. They have sex in a car while it goes through a car wash. Sometime after that the chapter ends with the guy getting shot in a driveby. 3. The girlfriend is waiting tables at a restaurant where some businessmen are meeting. She accidentally spills water on one of them. He goes into the bathroom to try to dry his pants. Somehow she ends up in there with him. He apparently rapes her and leaves her there. 4. The guy from 3 is having sex with a woman from the office. The movie cuts back and forth between that and scenes of her having sex with a different guy. The new guy comes off as confident and self-assured compared to the guy from 3, who seems like an overcompensating dickhead (if 3 didn't make that obvious). 5. From what I could tell this one is about a gay guy who's pining for the new dude from 4. He (I think) tries to sneak into the guy's home, accompanied by another guy who's being dragged along for the ride. Sometime later he tries to kill himself but gets rescued by his friend. Aaand that's all I remember. Like I said, it was over 20 years ago and on the HBO/Cinemax family of channels.
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This one is from a friend:quote:It's not really on the tip of my tongue. More a vague souvenir I've always been curious about.
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Theatrically released film from the second half of the ‘90s, genre might have been crime or thriller. There’s a car explosion, but the guy inside the car expands with the explosion, or maybe his expansion causes the explosion. His expansion is like the guy towards the end of Big Trouble in Little China, but it wasn’t presented in a comedic way, from what I remember of the half-minute I saw from sticking my head in while theater-hopping as a kid.
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Nettle Soup posted:This one is from a friend: Could it be 1966s Blow-up?
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