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ianvincible: Jan 23, 2004

stubblyhead posted:

My dad was watching this movie once on TV when I was little, I doubt I ever knew the title. It was in color, but I'm guessing it was made in the late 50s or early 60s. It was set in the Middle East or maybe India. The only scene I remember was two kids and an older man. One of the kids was a prince of some sort, and reminds me a little of the young Maharajah from Temple of Doom. I don't remember much about the other kid's appearance.

The old man was playing some kind of game with the kids, he showed them a bag of jewels for a few seconds and if they could remember how many and of each kind they could keep it. He offers them a hint, saying there are seven cat's eyes or something like that, but the prince kid says he can tell with a glance. The other one accepts the hint and makes his guess. The prince kid says that there are three rubies, five sapphires, and six cat's eyes. He gets the prize, and the other kid is indignant because the man said there were seven cat's eyes. The old man says "Ah, but I never said I was telling the truth!" Any idea what this movie might have been?

This is a scene in the Rudyard Kipling book "Kim", which looks to have been made into a movie a few times. I'm going to guess the one you saw was http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0042644/ , but I've never actually seen this movie, so I don't know if that scene is in it, or if a similar scene is in some different movie.

# ? Jan 20, 2010 00:57

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stubblyhead: Sep 13, 2007; That is treason, Johnny!; Fun Shoe

ianvincible posted:

This is a scene in the Rudyard Kipling book "Kim", which looks to have been made into a movie a few times. I'm going to guess the one you saw was http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0042644/ , but I've never actually seen this movie, so I don't know if that scene is in it, or if a similar scene is in some different movie.

Ah, awesome. I'm almost certain that's the one I saw. I can definitely see a young Dean Stockwell being the one kid. Thanks!

# ? Jan 20, 2010 01:17

the Bunt: Sep 24, 2007; YOUR GOLDEN MAGNETIC LIGHT

This movie was centered around a young blond woman (maybe early twenties or younger?), and it's a sort of road trip kind of movie. She's driving across the country in a van with a bunch of friends/siblings and they rob people along the way.

The main scene I remember is the girl having some kind of revelation and cutting off all her hair in a bathroom. Then later on, there is a giant statue with her likeness on it and she's a hero for something.

I would probably say it came out between 85-95

# ? Jan 20, 2010 02:10

HaroldofTheRock: Jun 3, 2003; Pillbug

the Bunt posted:

This movie was centered around a young blond woman (maybe early twenties or younger?), and it's a sort of road trip kind of movie. She's driving across the country in a van with a bunch of friends/siblings and they rob people along the way.

The main scene I remember is the girl having some kind of revelation and cutting off all her hair in a bathroom. Then later on, there is a giant statue with her likeness on it and she's a hero for something.

I would probably say it came out between 85-95

The Legend of Billie Jean.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0089470/

FAIR IS FAIR

# ? Jan 20, 2010 02:46

fnkels: Aug 17, 2004

There was a trailer I saw on apple trailers a couple months ago. It was a scene that looked like it was set in the WWII era on a dark smokey battlefield. All of a sudden they're under attack by like humanoid aliens or monsters or something.

It was a red band scene so lots of blood and gore. But now it still hasn't come out yet and I haven't heard anything about it. I can't remember what it was called. Does anyone know what I'm talking about or knows what the hell happened to it?

# ? Jan 20, 2010 09:11

CeeJee: Dec 4, 2001; Oven Wrangler

Sounds a bit like Mutant Chronicles http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0490181/

# ? Jan 20, 2010 12:09

Armyman25: Sep 6, 2005

In the early 90's we watched a PBS produced TV series about libraries. It was set in a future dystopia, and featured bad guys who were afraid of horses. They were eventually defeated when the heroes projected a hologram of a man on a horse, holding a jewel, onto a large cloud, fulfilling a prophecy and scaring off the badguys. Very low budget, but I'd like to see it again.

Also, a 70's softcore porno, in the vein of Emmanuelle. Showed on either Showtime or Cinemax in the mid 90's. Featured a guy who has sex with a girl in her upstairs bedroom, and her dad hears the noise mistakes it for the neighbors next door, who are an elderly couple on the other side of the wall.

A later scene had him having sex with a woman after who two female attendants gave him a massage. The sex was to determine the interest rate for a business deal, and she says "you're ruining me" as he makes her orgasm a bunch of times.

# ? Jan 20, 2010 16:06

the Bunt: Sep 24, 2007; YOUR GOLDEN MAGNETIC LIGHT

HaroldofTheRock posted:

The Legend of Billie Jean.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0089470/

FAIR IS FAIR

Yessss, this has to be it. Thanks a lot. I'm gonna watch it regardless but is it any good?

# ? Jan 20, 2010 22:34

Schweinhund: Oct 23, 2004

I barely remember that, but I think it's one of those 80's movies where they'd show it on HBO over and over and you'd watch it every time even though it's stupid.

# ? Jan 20, 2010 23:05

Thoreau Like A Girl: Nov 20, 2006

the Bunt posted:

Yessss, this has to be it. Thanks a lot. I'm gonna watch it regardless but is it any good?

i've noticed it played on tv a lot recently. i grew up with that poo poo and loved it when i was a kid (somehow it's pg-13). watching it again, it's a bit corny, but still enjoyable in a tacky 80s kinda way (but not as disappointing as seeing 'howard the duck' when you're finally over the age of 12)... and very young and illegal christian slater ftw. also features that drat pat benatar song 'invincible' that will stick in my head for a month whenever i hear/think of it. here we go again.

Thoreau Like A Girl fucked around with this message at 01:17 on Jan 21, 2010

# ? Jan 21, 2010 01:09

Seventh Arrow: Jan 26, 2005

There's two movies that I'm wondering about:

First, there's a Clint Eastwood movie that I saw on TV many years ago, but just the beginning. In it, this nerdy kind of guy marries a rich woman, who happens to be completely frigid and resentful - guy isn't even allowed to touch her on their honeymoon. Come morning, however, and nerdy guy is gone and he's taken all of their stuff with him. She bumps into Clint and starts acting very princessy - demanding that he has to help her and all that.

The next one actually came to mind when I saw a trailer for "Youth in Revolt". The title made me think of a movie that I saw part of...I think the premise was that the world's youngest president was in power. His motto was something like "trust no one over 30" or something. Very 60s. Later on, he either gets killed or overtaken by someone even younger, who adopts the motto "trust no one over 18"

Any ideas?

# ? Jan 22, 2010 07:24

FitFortDanga: Nov 19, 2004; Nice try, asshole

Seventh Arrow posted:

The next one actually came to mind when I saw a trailer for "Youth in Revolt". The title made me think of a movie that I saw part of...I think the premise was that the world's youngest president was in power. His motto was something like "trust no one over 30" or something. Very 60s. Later on, he either gets killed or overtaken by someone even younger, who adopts the motto "trust no one over 18"

Any ideas?

Wild in the Streets?

Eastwood one sounds familiar, but I'm drawing a blank.

# ? Jan 22, 2010 07:31

Seventh Arrow: Jan 26, 2005

FitFortDanga posted:

Wild in the Streets?

Looking at the synopsis on imdb, that's definitely it...thanks!

# ? Jan 22, 2010 08:38

Armyman25: Sep 6, 2005

Seventh Arrow posted:

There's two movies that I'm wondering about :

First, there's a Clint Eastwood movie that I saw on TV many years ago, but just the beginning. In it, this nerdy kind of guy marries a rich woman, who happens to be completely frigid and resentful - guy isn't even allowed to touch her on their honeymoon. Come morning, however, and nerdy guy is gone and he's taken all of their stuff with him. She bumps into Clint and starts acting very princessy - demanding that he has to help her and all that.

Any ideas?

Bronco Billy

# ? Jan 22, 2010 16:30

Zoph: Sep 12, 2005

This one is a real shot in the dark since I have so little to go off from it.

Some years back I caught just a small bit of a musical number from a movie on TCM. It was produced either in the 1950s or late 1940s. I remember it had particularly vivid technicolor, though I can't remember if the whole movie was in color if just the musical number was. I *think* the title of the movie pertained to the name of a character in it, who was a teenage boy that, I presume, was mischevious by gleaming some info from the song. The movie felt very soda-jerk, teenage romance-y, which is why I think it may have been 50s. The kid may have just been the subject of that one number, I'm not certain. The musical number I saw was also clearly on an empty-ish soundstage, like the production may have been lifted from a stage show. I'd love to track it down again because I really enjoyed the song and the choreography/cinematography was pretty great. I'm also pretty certain it's somewhat obscure, as far as musicals go.

# ? Jan 22, 2010 18:12

Zwabu: Aug 7, 2006

Zophar posted:

This one is a real shot in the dark since I have so little to go off from it.

Some years back I caught just a small bit of a musical number from a movie on TCM. It was produced either in the 1950s or late 1940s. I remember it had particularly vivid technicolor, though I can't remember if the whole movie was in color if just the musical number was. I *think* the title of the movie pertained to the name of a character in it, who was a teenage boy that, I presume, was mischevious by gleaming some info from the song. The movie felt very soda-jerk, teenage romance-y, which is why I think it may have been 50s. The kid may have just been the subject of that one number, I'm not certain. The musical number I saw was also clearly on an empty-ish soundstage, like the production may have been lifted from a stage show. I'd love to track it down again because I really enjoyed the song and the choreography/cinematography was pretty great. I'm also pretty certain it's somewhat obscure, as far as musicals go.

Bye-Bye Birdie? (Title character is music star Conrad Birdie)

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0056891/

(I believe it was a stage show before a film)

# ? Jan 22, 2010 19:32

Zoph: Sep 12, 2005

Zwabu posted:

Bye-Bye Birdie? (Title character is music star Conrad Birdie)

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0056891/

(I believe it was a stage show before a film)

Not it, but man, that's pretty close. It was also really campy like this. The number I saw had a dreamlike quality to it, like many musicals would do when they broke away from the more "realistic" scenes.

I'm *pretty* certain it wasn't a big-name or immediately recognizable musical too. I recall not being familiar with the title.

# ? Jan 22, 2010 20:13

the Bunt: Sep 24, 2007; YOUR GOLDEN MAGNETIC LIGHT

An early 90s martial arts movie starring Jean Claude Van Damme I think. JCVD is a teacher to a bunch of kids. They go in a bus to a beach and train martial arts. Then there are bad guys. JCVD kills someone using a gas can.

But here's the most memorable part. The final showdown is on the beach at night and it's JCVD versus the main bad guy and JCVD is getting whooped. His students are circled around, and one of them starts singing. It's this spiritual, scatting gibberish song. I can remember the melody clearly in my head, and even the syllables

"Ba na na wey, ba na na wey, ba nana" or something similar. This gives the guy strength to whoop the bad guy.

# ? Jan 23, 2010 08:06

Schweinhund: Oct 23, 2004

There's a snippet of a movie that popped into my head a while back and I can't think of what it is and it's been irking me for a while. Basically in my mind it's an action movie probably from the 90s and in the middle of a chase the main actor is doing something to get away and a bystander says "That's illegal. What he's doing is illegal." Then the lead actor throws a trash can through a window or something like that. Any ideas?

edit: well I'm dumb, I just googled that line and it's Weekend at Bernies

edit2: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DXFpEdNRYXw

Schweinhund fucked around with this message at 08:27 on Jan 23, 2010

# ? Jan 23, 2010 08:22

the Bunt: Sep 24, 2007; YOUR GOLDEN MAGNETIC LIGHT

Schweinhund posted:

There's a snippet of a movie that popped into my head a while back and I can't think of what it is and it's been irking me for a while. Basically in my mind it's an action movie probably from the 90s and in the middle of a chase the main actor is doing something to get away and a bystander says "That's illegal. What he's doing is illegal." Then the lead actor throws a trash can through a window or something like that. Any ideas?

edit: well I'm dumb, I just googled that line and it's Weekend at Bernies

edit2: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DXFpEdNRYXw

Holy poo poo. I don't remember this movie being this astoundingly bad!

# ? Jan 23, 2010 10:39

Zwabu: Aug 7, 2006

the Bunt posted:

An early 90s martial arts movie starring Jean Claude Van Damme I think. JCVD is a teacher to a bunch of kids. They go in a bus to a beach and train martial arts. Then there are bad guys. JCVD kills someone using a gas can.

But here's the most memorable part. The final showdown is on the beach at night and it's JCVD versus the main bad guy and JCVD is getting whooped. His students are circled around, and one of them starts singing. It's this spiritual, scatting gibberish song. I can remember the melody clearly in my head, and even the syllables

"Ba na na wey, ba na na wey, ba nana" or something similar. This gives the guy strength to whoop the bad guy.

Just go to imdb.com and search for JCVD.

# ? Jan 23, 2010 19:56

Armyman25: Sep 6, 2005

Armyman25 posted:

In the early 90's we watched a PBS produced TV series about libraries. It was set in a future dystopia, and featured bad guys who were afraid of horses. They were eventually defeated when the heroes projected a hologram of a man on a horse, holding a jewel, onto a large cloud, fulfilling a prophecy and scaring off the badguys. Very low budget, but I'd like to see it again.

Also, a 70's softcore porno, in the vein of Emmanuelle. Showed on either Showtime or Cinemax in the mid 90's. Featured a guy who has sex with a girl in her upstairs bedroom, and her dad hears the noise mistakes it for the neighbors next door, who are an elderly couple on the other side of the wall.

A later scene had him having sex with a woman after who two female attendants gave him a massage. The sex was to determine the interest rate for a business deal, and she says "you're ruining me" as he makes her orgasm a bunch of times.

http://www.quietearth.us/articles/2008/03/28/80s-Post-apocalyptic-educational-show-Tomes--Talismans-coming-to-DVD-and-iTunes

Found the first one.

# ? Jan 23, 2010 20:31

the Bunt: Sep 24, 2007; YOUR GOLDEN MAGNETIC LIGHT

Zwabu posted:

Just go to imdb.com and search for JCVD.

It's not quite as simple as that as he was in dozens of mediocre action movies in the 90s and they all look the same, and I don't know any of the plot. But I'm going through each movie to see if I recognize it, haha.

edit: and it might not have actually been him.

# ? Jan 23, 2010 20:52

dzical: Sep 26, 2002

the Bunt posted:

An early 90s martial arts movie starring Jean Claude Van Damme I think. JCVD is a teacher to a bunch of kids. They go in a bus to a beach and train martial arts. Then there are bad guys. JCVD kills someone using a gas can.

But here's the most memorable part. The final showdown is on the beach at night and it's JCVD versus the main bad guy and JCVD is getting whooped. His students are circled around, and one of them starts singing. It's this spiritual, scatting gibberish song. I can remember the melody clearly in my head, and even the syllables

"Ba na na wey, ba na na wey, ba nana" or something similar. This gives the guy strength to whoop the bad guy.

I don't think it's JCVD in the movie. The movie you're thinking of is probably "Only the Strong."

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0107750/

# ? Jan 24, 2010 02:10

the Bunt: Sep 24, 2007; YOUR GOLDEN MAGNETIC LIGHT

Ahhah. The guy kinda sorta looks like JCVD, definitely doesn't sound like him though. I was tiny.

The music chant I described is about 40 seconds into this. I love it.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WarPnxpRPBc&feature=related

# ? Jan 24, 2010 03:54

Fat Lou: Jan 21, 2008; Desert Heat? I thought it was Dessert Heat. No wonder it tastes so bad.

Alright, I just watched Forbidden Planet again, and I am wondering if any of you could identify an old Sci-Fi movie. I do not remember that much about it, but I remember that a group of people went to another planet, maybe Mars, on a generic looking 1950s style rocket ship and got attacked by a giant amoeba. I seem to remember that in the end the entire movie was a dream for the pilot or something along those lines, but I might be wrong on that point. I saw it when I was like 5 or so on a most likely copied VHS, and I have never seen it since.

Fat Lou fucked around with this message at 05:40 on Jan 24, 2010

# ? Jan 24, 2010 05:36

SubponticatePoster: Aug 9, 2004; Every day takes figurin' out all over again how to fuckin' live.; Slippery Tilde

the Bunt posted:

Ahhah. The guy kinda sorta looks like JCVD, definitely doesn't sound like him though. I was tiny.

The music chant I described is about 40 seconds into this. I love it.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WarPnxpRPBc&feature=related

And I was gonna ask if you were positive it was JCVD, because I remembered this piece of poo poo movie but couldn't remember the title.

# ? Jan 24, 2010 19:11

Gobeachfrog: Jan 30, 2008; by Fistgrrl

Bacon55555 posted:

Alright, I just watched Forbidden Planet again, and I am wondering if any of you could identify an old Sci-Fi movie. I do not remember that much about it, but I remember that a group of people went to another planet, maybe Mars, on a generic looking 1950s style rocket ship and got attacked by a giant amoeba. I seem to remember that in the end the entire movie was a dream for the pilot or something along those lines, but I might be wrong on that point. I saw it when I was like 5 or so on a most likely copied VHS, and I have never seen it since.

maybe angry red planet http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0052564/

# ? Jan 25, 2010 11:01

Fat Lou: Jan 21, 2008; Desert Heat? I thought it was Dessert Heat. No wonder it tastes so bad.

Gobeachfrog posted:

maybe angry red planet http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0052564/

I do not think that is it. It might be, but the amoeba that I remember was more similar to The Blob in terms of how it looked than what that one was. I am still going to watch The Angry Red Planet, just to make sure, but I do not think that is it.

Edit: By saying it was like The Blob I meant that it was pink/red and just a large mass with no real defined shape.

Fat Lou fucked around with this message at 17:29 on Jan 25, 2010

# ? Jan 25, 2010 17:00

InfiniteZero: Sep 11, 2004; PINK GUITAR FIRE ROBOT; College Slice

Bacon55555 posted:

I do not think that is it. It might be, but the amoeba that I remember was more similar to The Blob in terms of how it looked than what that one was. I am still going to watch The Angry Red Planet, just to make sure, but I do not think that is it.

Edit: By saying it was like The Blob I meant that it was pink/red and just a large mass with no real defined shape.

Maybe it was Robinson Crusoe on Mars?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WLaHJvF59Fg

Excellent movie by the way, and released on Criterion a year or so ago.

# ? Jan 25, 2010 21:15

Fat Lou: Jan 21, 2008; Desert Heat? I thought it was Dessert Heat. No wonder it tastes so bad.

InfiniteZero posted:

Maybe it was Robinson Crusoe on Mars?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WLaHJvF59Fg

Excellent movie by the way, and released on Criterion a year or so ago.

No, it is not this. My dad barely remembers this movie, and I have been trying to figure out what this movie was off and on for the past year or so. Let me ms paint what the amoeba looked like. Maybe that will help.

The amoeba, which I know they called it an amoeba in the movie, is the large red/pink blob and I seem to remember the planet sort of more a red/pink tint, but it could have been another color. Damnit, I will figure out what movie this is even if it kills me.

Fat Lou fucked around with this message at 08:54 on Jan 27, 2010

# ? Jan 27, 2010 08:51

emgeejay: Dec 8, 2007

What's this from? There's some live-action footage at the end that makes me think it came out of a documentary.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PooEhBxh0NY

# ? Jan 27, 2010 09:26

Attack on Princess: Dec 15, 2008; _{To yolo rolls! The cause and solution to all problems!}

I watched alot of crappy cartoons as a kid, but there was a anime that stood out. It was before I learned english so I've no idea what the story was, but I would really like to track it down and watch it again.

It was a full length feature on VHS and it's got to be 18 years old at minimum, and high enough profile for them to bother importing it to the rental shop. I can't remember if it was in english or japanese.

It's set in a Minority Report style future. The main guy lives alone in some dump and is attacked at his workplace. His hand comes off at the elbow and it turns out his entire arm is actually a huge gun. I don't think he knew about it himself so he could've had his memory erased. I can't remember if they were fighting in some dark, gritty complex with alot of piping or in a hallway made of thick glass, but I have a picture in my mind of him fighting in both locations with his arm-gun and blowing a hole in a wall.

In the last half he's in a forest in the hillside. He's trying to track someone down, but they are monitoring him using hidden cameras. He might have fought some sort of robotic hoverdrone that was defending their hideout.

In the ends he finds their hideout. There's a woman there naked in the shower, which is probably why I was obsessed with the movie as a kid in the first place. Anyway, all the skin you see is her back, which got a stylish tattoo of either cards or a serpent. There were definetly cards like aces and stuff spinning around in the credits. The movie stops there with her in the shower so I'm not sure if there's a sequal.

# ? Jan 28, 2010 13:59

mt1: Mar 5, 2007

Donnerberg posted:

I watched alot of crappy cartoons as a kid, but there was a anime that stood out. It was before I learned english so I've no idea what the story was, but I would really like to track it down and watch it again.

It was a full length feature on VHS and it's got to be 18 years old at minimum, and high enough profile for them to bother importing it to the rental shop. I can't remember if it was in english or japanese.

It's set in a Minority Report style future. The main guy lives alone in some dump and is attacked at his workplace. His hand comes off at the elbow and it turns out his entire arm is actually a huge gun. I don't think he knew about it himself so he could've had his memory erased. I can't remember if they were fighting in some dark, gritty complex with alot of piping or in a hallway made of thick glass, but I have a picture in my mind of him fighting in both locations with his arm-gun and blowing a hole in a wall.

In the last half he's in a forest in the hillside. He's trying to track someone down, but they are monitoring him using hidden cameras. He might have fought some sort of robotic hoverdrone that was defending their hideout.

In the ends he finds their hideout. There's a woman there naked in the shower, which is probably why I was obsessed with the movie as a kid in the first place. Anyway, all the skin you see is her back, which got a stylish tattoo of either cards or a serpent. There were definetly cards like aces and stuff spinning around in the credits. The movie stops there with her in the shower so I'm not sure if there's a sequal.

Total guess but Trigun had a guy with a gun for an arm and some dark fight scenes. It was a series though, maybe a movie version?

# ? Jan 29, 2010 00:18

Arwox: Mar 19, 2007

Trying to identify a movie for my coworkers who will not shut up about it.

This movie has some sort of lab or secret lair where the entrance is a fotomat booth.
Apparently its not Get Smart.

# ? Jan 29, 2010 02:44

Internet Gentleman: Mar 17, 2006; I'm so happy to be here.

Bacon55555 posted:

The amoeba, which I know they called it an amoeba in the movie, is the large red/pink blob and I seem to remember the planet sort of more a red/pink tint, but it could have been another color. Damnit, I will figure out what movie this is even if it kills me.

Here is a review of The Angry Red Planet with some pics at the bottom showing the CINEMAGIC (red tint) effect.
http://www.badmovies.org/movies/angryred/

They fight a giant amoeba too, but more people remember the giant bat-rat-spider.

Internet Gentleman fucked around with this message at 04:59 on Jan 29, 2010

# ? Jan 29, 2010 04:56

Erasmus Darwin: Mar 6, 2001

mt1 posted:

Total guess but Trigun had a guy with a gun for an arm and some dark fight scenes. It was a series though, maybe a movie version?

Trigun doesn't really fit though, other than the arm gun. It's set in a barren, pseudo-western civilization. That doesn't match the setting he described at all.

Arwox posted:

This movie has some sort of lab or secret lair where the entrance is a fotomat booth.
Apparently its not Get Smart.

Google seems to think it's Stormbreaker.

# ? Jan 29, 2010 05:05

mt1: Mar 5, 2007

Erasmus Darwin posted:

Trigun doesn't really fit though, other than the arm gun. It's set in a barren, pseudo-western civilization. That doesn't match the setting he described at all.

Yeah, but theres a few scenes in the floating ship that could be the dark hallways, and the ending has him in a forest/meadow I think. Plus the memory erased stuff. Probably not it but it was a shot.

# ? Jan 29, 2010 05:30

Attack on Princess: Dec 15, 2008; _{To yolo rolls! The cause and solution to all problems!}

mt1 posted:

Total guess but Trigun had a guy with a gun for an arm and some dark fight scenes. It was a series though, maybe a movie version?

No, that doesn't look right. For one thing I don't think any of the dudes had spikey hair. Thanks though. I think it was a detective story of some sort, paced kinda like the first Ghost in the Shell movie.

# ? Jan 29, 2010 09:37

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# ? Jun 8, 2024 21:59

VoodooSchmoodoo: Sep 15, 2007; What's that there, then? Oh.

Donnerberg posted:

I watched alot of crappy cartoons as a kid, but there was a anime that stood out. It was before I learned english so I've no idea what the story was, but I would really like to track it down and watch it again.

It was a full length feature on VHS and it's got to be 18 years old at minimum, and high enough profile for them to bother importing it to the rental shop. I can't remember if it was in english or japanese.

It's set in a Minority Report style future. The main guy lives alone in some dump and is attacked at his workplace. His hand comes off at the elbow and it turns out his entire arm is actually a huge gun. I don't think he knew about it himself so he could've had his memory erased. I can't remember if they were fighting in some dark, gritty complex with alot of piping or in a hallway made of thick glass, but I have a picture in my mind of him fighting in both locations with his arm-gun and blowing a hole in a wall.

In the last half he's in a forest in the hillside. He's trying to track someone down, but they are monitoring him using hidden cameras. He might have fought some sort of robotic hoverdrone that was defending their hideout.

In the ends he finds their hideout. There's a woman there naked in the shower, which is probably why I was obsessed with the movie as a kid in the first place. Anyway, all the skin you see is her back, which got a stylish tattoo of either cards or a serpent. There were definetly cards like aces and stuff spinning around in the credits. The movie stops there with her in the shower so I'm not sure if there's a sequal.

You could probably track this down on TVTropes under arm cannon. Is Space Adventure Cobra too flashy?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lXoaAipd4vY

It looks like it has some urban settings. It's got the tattooed lady in the shower about 2 thirds through that AMV.

Opening/Ending you describe under Super Agente Cobra (I presume that's the Spanish title):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rcgA4rXr6j0&feature=related

I want to watch it now.

VoodooSchmoodoo fucked around with this message at 13:27 on Jan 29, 2010

# ? Jan 29, 2010 13:13

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