blatman posted:

(I know basically nothing about how movie theaters work)

Pastry of the Year posted:

Over the years I've gotten pretty good at looking up and eventually finding half- or wrongly-remembered things, and it's been really rewarding, but there's one from my childhood I haven't been able to shake, and I guess it's due in equal parts to lack of compelling interest and the amount of time a thorough search would require. Anyway.

I didn't really care about Fraggle Rock when I was a kid. I liked the Muppets just fine, but Fraggle Rock completely failed to connect with me. I was as aware of it as I was anything else in the media landscape, though; I know I had watched several episodes, for whatever reason (channel surfing / younger brother / friend's house / etc) but I don't remember any of them. I do remember one scene, or a sort of mash of scenes, that really stuck with and sort of haunted me, though. Every now and then I'll make a lazy attempt to see if any episode descriptions fit these memories, and they don't.

The memory: one of the Fraggles is being all hyper, dancing and flailing around wildly, and then crashes into one of those crystal tower things the Doozers (little green constructor guys) are always building. Anyway, the tower ends up collapsing onto one of the Doozers, and - this is the image that stuck with me specifically - you see the Doozer sort of struggling to crawl out from under it all, then it just sort of collapses to the ground in a way that makes it obvious that it's dead. Later, the Fraggle in question is super sad and remorseful, and gets a lecture from someone about being careless and its consequences.

It feels like there's no way something like that would have gotten onto children's television, so it's got to be a false memory, but it's as legit a memory as any other, so I'm sure my mind conflated some stuff I saw in passing / dreamed / whatever.

Pastry of the Year posted:

Over the years I've gotten pretty good at looking up and eventually finding half- or wrongly-remembered things, and it's been really rewarding, but there's one from my childhood I haven't been able to shake, and I guess it's due in equal parts to lack of compelling interest and the amount of time a thorough search would require. Anyway.

I didn't really care about Fraggle Rock when I was a kid. I liked the Muppets just fine, but Fraggle Rock completely failed to connect with me. I was as aware of it as I was anything else in the media landscape, though; I know I had watched several episodes, for whatever reason (channel surfing / younger brother / friend's house / etc) but I don't remember any of them. I do remember one scene, or a sort of mash of scenes, that really stuck with and sort of haunted me, though. Every now and then I'll make a lazy attempt to see if any episode descriptions fit these memories, and they don't.

The memory: one of the Fraggles is being all hyper, dancing and flailing around wildly, and then crashes into one of those crystal tower things the Doozers (little green constructor guys) are always building. Anyway, the tower ends up collapsing onto one of the Doozers, and - this is the image that stuck with me specifically - you see the Doozer sort of struggling to crawl out from under it all, then it just sort of collapses to the ground in a way that makes it obvious that it's dead. Later, the Fraggle in question is super sad and remorseful, and gets a lecture from someone about being careless and its consequences.

It feels like there's no way something like that would have gotten onto children's television, so it's got to be a false memory, but it's as legit a memory as any other, so I'm sure my mind conflated some stuff I saw in passing / dreamed / whatever.

Pastry of the Year posted:

Over the years I've gotten pretty good at looking up and eventually finding half- or wrongly-remembered things, and it's been really rewarding, but there's one from my childhood I haven't been able to shake, and I guess it's due in equal parts to lack of compelling interest and the amount of time a thorough search would require. Anyway.

I didn't really care about Fraggle Rock when I was a kid. I liked the Muppets just fine, but Fraggle Rock completely failed to connect with me. I was as aware of it as I was anything else in the media landscape, though; I know I had watched several episodes, for whatever reason (channel surfing / younger brother / friend's house / etc) but I don't remember any of them. I do remember one scene, or a sort of mash of scenes, that really stuck with and sort of haunted me, though. Every now and then I'll make a lazy attempt to see if any episode descriptions fit these memories, and they don't.

The memory: one of the Fraggles is being all hyper, dancing and flailing around wildly, and then crashes into one of those crystal tower things the Doozers (little green constructor guys) are always building. Anyway, the tower ends up collapsing onto one of the Doozers, and - this is the image that stuck with me specifically - you see the Doozer sort of struggling to crawl out from under it all, then it just sort of collapses to the ground in a way that makes it obvious that it's dead. Later, the Fraggle in question is super sad and remorseful, and gets a lecture from someone about being careless and its consequences.

It feels like there's no way something like that would have gotten onto children's television, so it's got to be a false memory, but it's as legit a memory as any other, so I'm sure my mind conflated some stuff I saw in passing / dreamed / whatever.

The Golden Gael posted:

One I realized only this past weekend: I've only ever seen the Karate Kid once back in high school but I remembered the scene where Kreese breaks the trophy and strangles Johnny quite well. In fact I remembered it as a big moment in the movie alongside drunk Mr. Miyagi. It was even familiar to me when watching Cobra Kai.

Turns out it's from the second Karate Kid, which I've never seen.

HenryJLittlefinger posted:

Help!
Saw this on TV in maybe 1992ish. About the same time I was getting my poo poo weirded out at late night sleepovers by Class of Nuke 'Em High.

There's a comically long limousine, and maybe some little people in suits fighting on this limo and eventually it crashes.

HenryJLittlefinger posted:

Still looking for help with this one. I saw this picture the other day and it really triggered my memory of whatever that drat movie was.

Pope Corky the IX posted:

Here's one that's bothered me for years.

I saw Jurassic Park in theaters when I was ten years old. There's the scene where Laura Dern decides to stay behind with one of the park's veterinarians to figure out why the triceratops was getting so sick. It's the one that starts with Jeff Goldblum remarking "Well, that's one big pile of poo poo." Somehow I have a memory of another scene a few minutes later where Dern figures out that the triceratops were eating stones to aid digestion and happened to also be ingesting poisonous plants that were nearby. Now, this is a scene in the book, which I read two or three years later, so that's obviously where I got it from. But I still have a vivid picture of that scene playing out even though I don't think it was ever filmed, much less in the final movie.

Pope Corky the IX posted:

Somehow I have a memory of another scene a few minutes later where Dern figures out that the triceratops were eating stones to aid digestion and happened to also be ingesting poisonous plants that were nearby.

Moo the cow posted:

Maybe you saw the production photo from the scene that was filmed, then cut.

Treguna Mekoides posted:

For years I remembered a vibrant music video that I would sometimes hum the bridge to myself, or remember snippets of lyrics, but could never find the music video to show it to people by googling the lyrics. Sometimes, I thought maybe I'd misremembered it from school and it wasn't English. Maybe I'd heard two translations? I had the worst time!

It's this. Not in *any* language, technically. The musical artist is Adriano Celentano, who is Italian.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z5JjH2OOoNY

HenryJLittlefinger posted:

I remember this too. Was it a director's cut maybe? There was also a scene where they looked at spots on the triceratops's tongue.

HenryJLittlefinger posted:

I'm crossposting this from an old "help me identify this movie" thread because nothing ever solved it and now I'm convinced it was a sleep deprived sleepover dream.


It also was not Superbus.

So in conclusion I think my dumb child brain took footage from a bunch of lovely late night movies and stitched them together into what would have been a very weird thing to see.

HenryJLittlefinger posted:

I remember this too. Was it a director's cut maybe? There was also a scene where they looked at spots on the triceratops's tongue.

Phy posted:

I was introduced to Prisencolinensinainciusol by a thread in GBS 1.0 about what the English language sounded like to people who didn't speak it

oll raigh!

Edgar Allen Ho posted:

Yeah I vaguely remember seeing this too. Maybe a deleted scene on some dvd release? Or more likely, we're all from the same mirror universe.

ekuNNN posted:

RandomFerret posted:

The Clean Air Act in the 70s made a huge difference. Every major city in America used to be covered by a haze of brown smog that was thick enough to noticeably dim the sun

DrBouvenstein posted:

Related to movies, I've read several posts across forums in the earlier days off the internet (late 90s-early 2000s) where several people all claimed they remembered a scene in the theatrical release of Star Wars where Luke and Biggs were on Tatooine together.

This does exist as a deleted scene that they must have seen on a Making Of TV or VHS special, but to suggest that meant you're being negative and CLEARLY the all somehow saw a different cut off the film.