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Man. This all just reminded me of the Total Recall tv show.
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I think it's an older movie? The only thing I remember is a scene where a son takes home some meat from his job at the meat factory. His father is at his apartment and waiting for him(I think they live together?). The father devours the meat and asks for more. Some really creepy surrealist vibe. Does this movie really exist or should I see a psychiatrist about this?
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Dec 3, 2019 01:35
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Alan Smithee posted:I asked about a different episode in an old post and (Mesmer’s Bauble) because I had watched it on sci-fi as well This has happened to me multiple times, where I've tried slamming IMDB and Google with everything I can try, I describe the show to a friend and he just conjures up the magical keyword chain first try and boom, there's that game/movie/show/other media thing I've been fruitlessly trying to locate for a week and which has been slowly driving me insane.
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Dec 3, 2019 01:35
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GABA ghoul posted:I think it's an older movie? The only thing I remember is a scene where a son takes home some meat from his job at the meat factory. His father is at his apartment and waiting for him(I think they live together?). The father devours the meat and asks for more. Some really creepy surrealist vibe. One of The Kids in the Hall's weird shorts has a scene like that. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ChvxsVgT8c
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Dec 3, 2019 01:38
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Detective Thompson posted:One of The Kids in the Hall's weird shorts has a scene like that. haha this is the first thing I thought of too
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Dec 3, 2019 01:40
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Detective Thompson posted:One of The Kids in the Hall's weird shorts has a scene like that. Holy poo poo, that's it! I couldn't remember the rest of the movie because there isn't one. Thank you so much!
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Dec 3, 2019 01:48
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No problem. Gave me a chance to watch it again after so many years.
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Dec 3, 2019 02:06
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Trevor Hale posted:Man. This all just reminded me of the Total Recall tv show. That show sucked!
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Dec 3, 2019 06:39
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oldpainless posted:That show sucked! More like old tasteless! (Nah it was bad!)
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Dec 3, 2019 07:32
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You guys remember the Timecop TV show? Yeah, neither do I.
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Dec 3, 2019 08:10
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Max Headroom, Total Recall 2070, and Robocop are three 90s cyberpunk shows that all have way more going for them than they should. Yeah, they're not always "good" in the traditional sense, but they've got a whole lot of heart and each have moments of greatness. Recall is certainly the worst of them, though.
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Dec 3, 2019 11:19
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Tsietisin posted:There is literally no connection to the movies whatsoever other than the name. Skyscraper posted:That's pretty wild, is it any good?
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The Macaroni posted:Rumor had it that the final episode of the series would have a cursed hockey mask as the Bad Object of the Day, but like a lot of TV series it just kind of petered off into oblivion instead of having a concrete ending. Thanks for spoilering that, I'll come back and read it after I see the show.
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Dec 3, 2019 17:05
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Skyscraper posted:That's pretty wild, is it any good? I'd call it charming rather than good. It has some decent acting and okay effects for the time, and you can tell that most of the people involved really did try their best, but most of the episodes are reasonably predictable and most of the "spooky" moments are ruined by the fact that the soundtrack orchestra seems to have a stroke any time anything even vaguely dramatic happens on screen. It's not a show that "gets" subtlety, for the most part. Still, I enjoy watching it.
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Dec 7, 2019 10:24
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I saw this one on other people's screens on a couple JAL flights earlier this year, I think it's Chinese though, it's about a young girl who keeps thinking she's found what she wants to do in life before changing her mind, and eventually she ends up working in a mine or factory or something. Had a pretty lighthearted tone tho
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Dec 16, 2019 04:52
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Okay, so these might be a dream I had, a TV show, or a movie, so I'm not expecting a ton of answers. 1) I have vague recollections of an old-ish film (or TV show), 1970s era, but two images are stark: one is of a black bug-like creature swaddled in blankets like a baby, lots of 'o no's all around, with an eventual cut to a bright ship that looked kinda snowflake-like falling slowly, slightly tilted, behind a horizon of evergreens. Pretty sure the sequence wasn't quite that quick, I have dim memories of someone peering out a window like 'oh no it's happening again' or something, but that could be where the confabulation comes in. 2) I thought this might be Return to Oz or Through the Looking Glass, but it's not the former, and I haven't had a chance to see the latter. Mostly it's just a scene in which everything is black except what look like large, brightly colored jacks (the game) rolling in and out of frame. Again, could just be childhood dreams I'm remembering, but the images are super vivid, and I'm not entirely convinced that 'dream' is all they are. Sorry if this is stupidly vague.
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Dec 18, 2019 06:05
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ERASERHEAD has a swaddled creature baby and people looking out a window. I don't remember a falling ship but it's been years since I've seen it. But ERASERHEAD is black and white, so I don't know about brightly colored jacks.
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Dec 18, 2019 08:02
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Sir Nose posted:ERASERHEAD has a swaddled creature baby and people looking out a window. I don't remember a falling ship but it's been years since I've seen it. But ERASERHEAD is black and white, so I don't know about brightly colored jacks. Sorry, I should be clearer, 1 and 2 would be distinctly different films/shows, if they actually exist. And the bug one definitely isn't Eraserhead. It was more-- idk, kitschy 70s Outer Limits than anything else, and wasn't nearly that gnarly or surreal. Old Boot fucked around with this message at 10:40 on Dec 18, 2019 |
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Dec 18, 2019 10:36
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Taking a long shot here: Are you possibly recalling the really weird jester stuff from Xtro?
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Dec 18, 2019 23:07
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TTBF posted:Taking a long shot here: Are you possibly recalling the really weird jester stuff from Xtro? No, but it's close enough in film quality and lighting/imagery that it made me think it was for a moment or two. Also  how is it I've never heard of this before?
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Dec 19, 2019 04:14
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It's an 80s horror movie about a race car that's also a vampire and sucks its drivers dry. Possibly 70s.
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Dec 25, 2019 20:33
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mike12345 posted:It's an 80s horror movie about a race car that's also a vampire and sucks its drivers dry. Possibly 70s. Sounds like 1982 Czech horror film Ferat Vampire, or ‘Upír z Feratu’.
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Dec 25, 2019 20:51
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Yeah that's it of course it's a skoda lol
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Dec 25, 2019 21:24
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TIL Total Recall had a showSkyscraper posted:That's pretty wild, is it any good? I asked for an ID on Mesmer's Bauble as I hadn't finished it when I saw it as a teen. It was pretty good, very 90s tv schlock with some good psycho drama. Not the most...trans friendly?
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Dec 27, 2019 13:36
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open question: I'm trying to find cartoon scenes where the character juggles object in a circular ferris wheel pattern as opposed to a....adobe acrobat logo? I don't even know what it's called Anyway I found one on youtube of pluto from a mickey show though I vaguely recall it happening in looney tunes with increasingly heavy/large/dangerous objects. Pretty sure that's where I got the idea
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Alan Smithee posted:open question: I'm trying to find cartoon scenes where the character juggles object in a circular ferris wheel pattern as opposed to a....adobe acrobat logo? I don't even know what it's called Happens in the classic drive-in intermission cartoon: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=26pQNKEOXjo
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Dec 27, 2019 14:36
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Alan Smithee posted:TIL Total Recall had a show Barely. They had the rights to the name, but the creators clearly wanted to make a Blade Runner show instead. So it ends up more of a cheap 90s Canadian PKD remix.
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Dec 27, 2019 15:43
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Now I want a Blade Runner show. But, you know, good.
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Dec 27, 2019 16:17
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Supposedly the Cowboy Bebop guy is making an anime show for Adult Swim/Crunchyroll but all's been quiet on that front for over a year. Supposedly they were finishing work on the new Ghost in the Shell show first so it's not necessarily a bad sign. But a live action one would be ideal—I wasn't blown away by the Blackout short by the same team, which just felt like a remix of the first movie.
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Origami Dali posted:Now I want a Do Androids Dream of Electric show. But, you know, about a guy who runs medical scalpels.
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Dec 29, 2019 00:17
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Origami Dali posted:Now I want a Blade Runner show. But, you know, good. Wasn't that basically Altered Carbon? I didn't see it but I heard tons of good poo poo about it.
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Dec 29, 2019 12:58
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sigher posted:Wasn't that basically Altered Carbon? I didn't see it but I heard tons of good poo poo about it. Eh, kinda-sorta-almost? Like, I guess you could say that there's some DNA of Blade Runner in there but it really does more of its own thing.
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Dec 29, 2019 13:33
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I really didn't like Altered Carbon. It was like Blade Runner if it were made by Paul WS Anderson.
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Dec 29, 2019 13:38
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sigher posted:Wasn't that basically Altered Carbon? I didn't see it but I heard tons of good poo poo about it. Altered Carbon lifts the aesthetics but nothing else. It's a mess of a show but the it's really well made from a visual standpoint and the main story is really entertaining if not particularly thematically rich. I revisited the Max Headroom narrative TV show recently after watching a lot of (bad) cyberpunk and came away really impressed. It's goofy as hell but really nails the tenets of Western cyberpunk in a way that no other TV show manages—or most movies, honestly. I'd highly recommend it if you haven't caught it and dig cyberpunk. The titular character is thankfully a pretty minor presence and is well utilized when he's around.
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Dec 29, 2019 14:55
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feedmyleg posted:I revisited the Max Headroom narrative TV show recently after watching a lot of (bad) cyberpunk and came away really impressed. It's goofy as hell but really nails the tenets of Western cyberpunk in a way that no other TV show manages—or most movies, honestly. I'd highly recommend it if you haven't caught it and dig cyberpunk. The titular character is thankfully a pretty minor presence and is well utilized when he's around. Also check it out if you're a fan of the live action Super Mario movie because it was directed by the same people
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I just wanted to say that I was blown away when I learned that Max Headroom was portrayed by Matt Frewer, best know by me as the neighbour dad from Honey I Shrunk the Kids.
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Dec 29, 2019 15:34
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sigher posted:Wasn't that basically Altered Carbon? I didn't see it but I heard tons of good poo poo about it. Around the same time that Altered Carbon premiered, an article came out that talked about how Netflix gives algorithmic notes to their in-house productions. Things like “at minute 11, X should happen because we find that it doesn’t, people will turn off the episode”. Knowing that, Altered Carbon was the most algorithmically put together show. It wasn’t good, but enough happened in the last 90 seconds of an episode where i felt compelled to watch the next one.
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Dec 29, 2019 16:19
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The source material for Altered Carbon is way way edgier and more energetic than the show. There’s no loving gang of unimpressive hippies in a Canadian forest either.
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Dec 29, 2019 22:00
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Trevor Hale posted:Around the same time that Altered Carbon premiered, an article came out that talked about how Netflix gives algorithmic notes to their in-house productions. Things like “at minute 11, X should happen because we find that it doesn’t, people will turn off the episode”. I would love to see the complete list of notes from the algorithm, for every show, I feel like that'd be a rosetta stone for modern TV.
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in that sense the mandalorian feels like a video game every single episode. i mean they had the episode where he has to upgrade his armor, then do the riding/ controller training tutorial before doing the fetch/kill quest and gets baby yoda as part of the next quest chain.
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