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Lord Stimperor posted:Someone told me to ask this here, so here it goes. Feverdream or movie? I never watched it or I forgot but something like Iron Eagle?
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Lord Stimperor posted:Someone told me to ask this here, so here it goes. Feverdream or movie? Doesn't quite match up, but just to get it out of the way: The F-16 scene in Jewel of the Nile
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Nov 27, 2023 02:36
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The Lobotomy Kid posted:I'm looking for a movie from the 80s or 90s. It was made in Eastern Europe and I think it's about a detective in a seemingly utopian world who is actually a serial killer. Could it be Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion?
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Nov 27, 2023 03:54
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OK to piggy back on to Lord Stimperor's question about Hot Shots era spoof comedies... what movie ends with Charlie Sheen seemingly offering a hand shake to his rival, but fakes him out and keeps his hand going up to run it through his hair?
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Nov 27, 2023 08:16
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Not sure how tough this will be: Film release date: last five years, I think 2020? Film genre: Thriller Plot: Family hires Iraq vet as bodyguard/caretaker, he's got some PTSD issues and it gets weird/scary Film is supposed to be good, ultimately it's just a home invasion riff but the guy who plays the retired soldier is convincing and effective, it's somebody like Gerard Butler? I think the film title is one word and I think it begins with "C"?
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Nov 27, 2023 18:21
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It sounds like The Guest, but that's from 2014
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Nov 27, 2023 18:22
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There’s a Joaquin Phoenix movie called You Were Never Really Here that’s got a very similar plot to this. Came out in 2017. I never saw it, but it’s supposed to be very good. Edit - He’s trying to track down a kidnapped kid on behalf of a client, so maybe not it.
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Nov 27, 2023 19:26
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The Card Counter ticks some of those boxes.
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Nov 27, 2023 22:17
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westborn posted:Doesn't quite match up, but just to get it out of the way: The F-16 scene in Jewel of the Nile Alan Smithee posted:I never watched it or I forgot but something like Iron Eagle? Nope, but brought me on to the right track! I had been searching for hours and even debated with chatgpt who was permanently but confidently incorrect. Eventually I stumbled on a movie list and deep down I found it. It was Into The Sun (1991). Comedy action movie about an actor who is teaming up with a fighter pilot for movie research. They have to eject over a mysterious middle eastern country, get captured, and escape from their prison. That's when they both squeeze into the jet. Apparently it's not a very good movie but it has some lovely flight footage which is why it must have stuck with me when I was a kid. Also I read that a lot of the footage is cribbed from other movies, which is lol but if it works whatever. So with that I have proven to myself that I did not dream that up, it wasn't Hot Shots but it was a thematically similar comedy movie that is just very unpopular. I'm not crazy!
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Nov 28, 2023 00:49
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Coaaab posted:It sounds like The Guest, but that's from 2014 Origami Dali posted:The Card Counter ticks some of those boxes. It is neither of these, but I just took another stab at tracking it down and found it: Disorder. More like eight years ago, sorry bout that. Thanks for lending a hand!
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Nov 28, 2023 04:53
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Lord Stimperor posted:Also I read that a lot of the footage is cribbed from other movies, which is lol but if it works whatever. Iron Eagle apparently lol
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Nov 28, 2023 04:57
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Lord Stimperor posted:Nope, but brought me on to the right track! I had been searching for hours and even debated with chatgpt who was permanently but confidently incorrect. Crossposting from a discussion in another thread: Snowglobe of Doom posted:It's been noticed that generative AI is gradually getting worse over time and the quality of results is degenerating, most likely because the databases they're pulling data from are slowly accumulating higher percentages of AI created content so there's a feedback loop of all the old lovely AI outputs contributing to the creation of even shittier AI outputs down the line. This doesn't just effect art but also AI's ability to 'solve' math problems, write workable code, etc etc which are also degrading over time. So yeah, ChatGPT currently gives a lot of wrong answers and it's likely to get even worse in the near future
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Nov 28, 2023 07:11
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Just watched Napoleon and was reminded of a synopsis I read once. I’m honestly not even sure if it s a movie or a book but it was about a French soldier under Napoleon’s army who became a straggler or deserter and was trying to make it home on enemy territory. I want to say Russia but even that seems hazy.
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Nov 28, 2023 10:06
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Lord Stimperor posted:
Damnit, I saw that not long ago and didn't think of it. Unfortunately, it's pretty forgettable to everyone but you, apparently. : )
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Nov 28, 2023 14:03
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Alan Smithee posted:Just watched Napoleon and was reminded of a synopsis I read once. I’m honestly not even sure if it s a movie or a book but it was about a French soldier under Napoleon’s army who became a straggler or deserter and was trying to make it home on enemy territory. I want to say Russia but even that seems hazy. This is ringing some bells for me... picturing the dude hiding out with a family in a little cottage, and falling in love with a woman who lives there or nearby. I feel like my movie was more WWII-era, but could be wrong. I'll keep searching my brain for it.
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Nov 28, 2023 15:46
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Alan Smithee posted:Just watched Napoleon and was reminded of a synopsis I read once. I’m honestly not even sure if it s a movie or a book but it was about a French soldier under Napoleon’s army who became a straggler or deserter and was trying to make it home on enemy territory. I want to say Russia but even that seems hazy. If it's WW2 rather than the Napoleonic Wars, it could be either As Far as My Feet Will Carry Me or The Way Home.
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Nov 28, 2023 16:45
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Napoleonic is just about the only detail I’m positive about
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Nov 28, 2023 16:55
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Alan Smithee posted:Napoleonic is just about the only detail I’m positive about Barry Lyndon? There’s the part where he deserts and has to move through Prussian lines.
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Nov 28, 2023 17:27
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Gripweed posted:Barry Lyndon? There’s the part where he deserts and has to move through Prussian lines. Everyone always forgets about the 7 Years War. 
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Nov 28, 2023 21:42
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Xiahou Dun posted:Everyone always forgets about the 7 Years War. They did the French and Indian war in Europe too????
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Nov 28, 2023 21:50
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Gripweed posted:Barry Lyndon? There’s the part where he deserts and has to move through Prussian lines. Probably not since I feel like the Kubrick thing would have been the most prominent part of the synopsis. Starting to think maybe it wasn't a movie
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Nov 29, 2023 02:48
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Sinking in that this is something you read, not film you watched. So, Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge? (Maybe you read the actual story, a synopsis of the story, or a description of the film of the story)
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Nov 29, 2023 04:41
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I'm still positive it was Napoleon times
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Nov 29, 2023 04:44
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FitFortDanga posted:This is ringing some bells for me... picturing the dude hiding out with a family in a little cottage, and falling in love with a woman who lives there or nearby. I feel like my movie was more WWII-era, but could be wrong. I'll keep searching my brain for it. I just realized I was thinking of the ending to The Grand Illusion, which is WWI.
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Nov 29, 2023 05:14
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Alright, need some help with a silly one. In what movie(?) does a guy look at the camera and say in Spanish (sorry for any mistakes) "Me llamo El Venga de Burro. Yo tengo mas grande verga de todos!" (my name is Donkey Dick, I have the biggest dick of all)"? Emphasis on "todos", probably a thumbs up with it too. Feels like it might have been a Jackass movie or even some TV show, but it will not leave my brain until I find it
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VROOM VROOM posted:Alright, need some help with a silly one. Think that's from this fake commercial right here: Everest College Commercial - Hood Variant https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=yJl0XuDKSjc Actor might sound familiar if you play GTAV
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Dec 10, 2023 00:10
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Oh thank god, I am free (to play the Everest College commercial on loop 5 million times)
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This was a Black List script, probably from about ten years ago, got mentioned on a podcast and I've always wondered if it ever got made in any form.quote:"Frisco: A fortysomething pediatric allergist who specializes in hazelnut and is facing a divorce learns lessons in living from a wise-beyond-her-years terminally-ill 15-year-old patient when she crashes his weekend trip to a conference in San Francisco."
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Dec 17, 2023 16:53
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This is not exactly a movie, but it's adjacent. Does anybody remember going to the theater 30+ years ago to watch a Disney movie, and after the previews (or maybe before?) there was this countdown thing on the screen with Mickey and his rotating arm (similar to those old Mickey watches) that was supposed to give you time to buy concessions or whatever before the movie started? It stands out in my brain because I remember all this griping and complaining from the people around me about how dumb and frustrating this thing was, and it did seem to go on forever (in my admittedly hazy recollection). I don't know what movie I was trying to see and I don't think I ever saw the Mickey timer again. Was this just something at my local theater?
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Alan Smithee posted:Probably not since I feel like the Kubrick thing would have been the most prominent part of the synopsis. Starting to think maybe it wasn't a movie The Raggedy Rawney? Though I suspect you'd've mentioned the whole "dressing as a girl" thing if that was the case.
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Runcible Cat posted:The Raggedy Rawney? Though I suspect you'd've mentioned the whole "dressing as a girl" thing if that was the case. very positive it was Napoleon times. Like the only thing I'm sure of
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Dec 18, 2023 13:32
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I'm vaguely recalling a movie from the 60s-70s where a spy is on the run from his own government, and at some point has to go to a physical telephone interchange building and is rewiring the physical wires to eavesdrop/sabotage/do something else. I thought it was Three Days of the Condor, but it isn't. Any ideas?
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Dec 18, 2023 20:38
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I haven't seen 'The Conversation' for a while, might be that?
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Torquemada posted:I haven't seen 'The Conversation' for a while, might be that? I'm 95% sure it isn't the Conversation, Blow-Out, or Klute. My 'memory' is of a guy in the physical switchboard area of a telephone exchange and moving wires around.
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Dec 18, 2023 20:58
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Cable guy?
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trevorreznik posted:I'm vaguely recalling a movie from the 60s-70s where a spy is on the run from his own government, and at some point has to go to a physical telephone interchange building and is rewiring the physical wires to eavesdrop/sabotage/do something else. I don't like to second guess but are you 100% sure it's not Three Days of the Condor? Because there absolutely is a scene like you're describing in it: 
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UNRULY_HOUSEGUEST posted:I don't like to second guess but are you 100% sure it's not Three Days of the Condor? Because there absolutely is a scene like you're describing in it: Yes! Thank you! I'd gone through a bunch of youtubes looking for it, but not the whole movie. Should have stuck with my gut
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UNRULY_HOUSEGUEST posted:I don't like to second guess but are you 100% sure it's not Three Days of the Condor? Because there absolutely is a scene like you're describing in it: Yeah, I was also gonna hesitantly say this. I rewatched it recently and a scene exactly as you describe is the climax. Are you sure it’s not 3 Days of the Condor?
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Xiahou Dun posted:Yeah, I was also gonna hesitantly say this. I rewatched it recently and a scene exactly as you describe is the climax. I thought it was early on and not at the end, which is probably how I missed it. It popped into my head because a few friends and family have lately had to deal with spoofed phone call scams and I was bemoaning that Back in the Day people had to physically go move wires around. Upon further watching I was probably thinking of a slightly later scene when Condor splices together the phones in Brooklyn to avoid being traced.  Thanks everyone! trevorreznik fucked around with this message at 21:30 on Dec 18, 2023 |
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i was in cspam nitecrew chat once and there was a clip from an old black and white movie, had sound so I want to guess either just before the war or post war, but it had a young boy who was commie/marxist giving a lengthy speech about the govt or capitalism (may have literally been on a soapbox) and an adult man was...trying to get a word in edgewise? Or he was just really shocked or idk. It felt kinda played for laughs.
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