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Corbet posted:I remember this movie starring Richard Pryor where he got paid to hang out with a snobby rich kid. What was it? The Toy http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0084809/
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FitFortDanga posted:Amores Perros? No, the city is in some place like India. Its a real documentary type of film. ----------------
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Corbet posted:I remember this movie starring Richard Pryor where he got paid to hang out with a snobby rich kid. What was it? The Toy EDIT: whoops, beaten
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Around 1990 or maybe even earlier, I watched an animated movie which may have been in an anime style. I only remember two things clearly. People flew around in hang glider type contractions. In one scene the main character (possibly female) is trying to stop a large worm (?) entering a sea of acid. She tried to push it back, but it keeps going and eventually her foot hits the acid and gets burned. There may have been an environmental theme to the whole thing. Some sword fighting and bleeding was also present. Can anyone distill this mess of memories into a title?
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Dec 29, 2006 19:49
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Squirrelly Wrath posted:Around 1990 or maybe even earlier, I watched an animated movie which may have been in an anime style. I only remember two things clearly. People flew around in hang glider type contractions. In one scene the main character (possibly female) is trying to stop a large worm (?) entering a sea of acid. She tried to push it back, but it keeps going and eventually her foot hits the acid and gets burned. There may have been an environmental theme to the whole thing. Some sword fighting and bleeding was also present. Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind
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Alan Smithee posted:Err, like fighting in a losing war leading to economic instability in his country and being a failed painter? Similar family conditions, with people trained to look/act like Hitler's dad and mom, events from Hitler's youth recreated for the boys. It's kind of a stupid premise but it's a pretty enjoyable book (written by Ira Levin, who also wrote Rosemary's Baby) and the movie isn't that bad either.
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FitFortDanga posted:Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind drat that was fast. Thanks a lot.
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The movie I'm thinking of is sort of low budget, and possibly from the 80's(On further thought, it's probably from the mid nineties). I don't remember it clearly because I saw it as a kid, but here goes. The movie is about a home entertainment robot that you would play laser tag with and it would shoot foam balls at you. It remembers who each person it encounters is and puts them on its target list. Throughout the course of the movie the robot becomes evil and begins killing everyone, gradually getting smarter and more tenacious. The robot kills one guy under a car by removing the jack and kills a few more by sucking up and shooting metal ball bearings at them. In the end the robot makes a force field around a small child and the remaining people have to defeat the robot to save her/him. I believe they throw the robot in a pool? Does anyone remember this movie? (Sorry, but I couldn't remember any of the actors.) Pogostick fucked around with this message at 23:00 on Dec 29, 2006 |
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Pogostick posted:The movie I'm thinking of is sort of low budget, and possibly from the 80's(On further thought, it's probably from the mid nineties). I don't remember it clearly because I saw it as a kid, but here goes.
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Action Jacktion posted:Evolver, featuring William H. Macy as the voice of the robot. Thank you very much. This has been bothering me for a week.
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Very vague memory of this one scene. Anime movie, and the main character was running or fighting on giant leaves or something. There was more than one person and they were riding on something. Then he or she sinks or goes into the ground and he/she ends up in this world underneath the normal world. The ground is above them and there was a waterfall. I saw this about 10ish years ago and it was on VHS. Some details might be off.
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iggy402 posted:Very vague memory of this one scene. Anime movie, and the main character was running or fighting on giant leaves or something. There was more than one person and they were riding on something. Then he or she sinks or goes into the ground and he/she ends up in this world underneath the normal world. The ground is above them and there was a waterfall. I saw this about 10ish years ago and it was on VHS. Some details might be off.
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Hm, I read about Nasicaa and it sounds probable. Thanks.
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Inspector Hound posted:The Toy Speaking of Richard Pryor I remember a movie with him in which he is put to some kind of test in which he's given a bunch of money and has to spend it within a certain amount of time to...get more money or something. It has scenes where he's going into bars going "drinks on me!" and spending lavishly. At the end he gets into an elevator and some dude trying to sabotage him gives him more money....
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Alan Smithee posted:Speaking of Richard Pryor I remember a movie with him in which he is put to some kind of test in which he's given a bunch of money and has to spend it within a certain amount of time to...get more money or something. It has scenes where he's going into bars going "drinks on me!" and spending lavishly. At the end he gets into an elevator and some dude trying to sabotage him gives him more money.... Brewster's Millions http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0088850/
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Ok this one has been bothering me for YEARS. It's about imaginary friends, and I have no idea who starred in it. A young girl had an imaginary friend, a guy who I believe dressed in green and had red hair. This was maybe last watched around 1995--. She eventually became a grown up and he had to go away, because she didn't need him anymore. I thought the friend was Martin Short, but I can't find a movie with that description with him. Well I can't find it at all. This may have been a dream when I was a kid, but I also remember the imaginary friend curling up in a ball, or a jackinabox, something like that. Help please, head boiling.
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Elijah Snow posted:Ok this one has been bothering me for YEARS. Drop Dead Fred starring Phoebe Cates and Rik Mayall. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0101775/
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Inspector Hound posted:Drop Dead Fred starring Phoebe Cates and Rik Mayall. Wow that was quick, thanks a lot!
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Not looking for a movie, but the name of a charictor actor from ye olden days. I've seen him on TCM a few times now, but the pop culture impression is bigger. His gimmic is to usualy be a waiter, master of ceremonies, hotel clerk, etc and talk in a rather snooty voice. A typical gag is something like picking up the phone and making a big deal out of "Hellooooo? Helloooooo?!? yes, Yes, YEESSSS!" The voice sounds a lot like the Mr. Whiteside charictor in The Man Who Came To Dinner, but I don't think its Monty Woolley. The only thing I distincly remember him in was a movie where he was an MC at an event where there were hidden cameras in the room and warning the guests that they might be on television, to the crowd's delight. I know he's been parodied in a lot of TV shows, just kind of wondering about the story behind him.
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PvtJoker posted:Not looking for a movie, but the name of a charictor actor from ye olden days. It's Frank Nelson. I found out his name by searching a "Simpsons" fansite because I remembered he was the clerk in the unwatchable "Prank Monkey" episode. http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0625372/bio
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I'm needing help identifying a movie that I saw a few years ago. It was a French film about two girls who worked in a textiles factory in Paris and made friends with each other, moved in together and the story of the movie is how they drift apart and meet new people and date different guys and so on. It's an outstanding movie and I've been looking for it everywhere but to no avail  . I'm not sure of the exact title but I know it's something like (translated from French) "From the Wings of Angels" or "On Broken Angel Wings" or something like that. Any help would be much appreciated.
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Pastor John posted:I'm needing help identifying a movie that I saw a few years ago. It was a French film about two girls who worked in a textiles factory in Paris and made friends with each other, moved in together and the story of the movie is how they drift apart and meet new people and date different guys and so on. It's an outstanding movie and I've been looking for it everywhere but to no avail Is it The Dreamlife of Angels? http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120449/
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ClydeUmney posted:Is it The Dreamlife of Angels? Why, yes it is  Thanks a lot!
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IGotDConch posted:It's Frank Nelson. I found out his name by searching a "Simpsons" fansite because I remembered he was the clerk in the unwatchable "Prank Monkey" episode. Oh-ho-ho Yesssssssssss! Thanks!
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Watched This: Early 90's maybe Genre: Action/Adventure I guess. Maybe some mystery type stuff. Remember: The hero guy gets partnered up with some girl (by accident probably), and there is this running joke where the guy will demonstrate some crazy skill like being able to speak french or something, and she will say "Hey, you never said you knew how to speak french!". Then he would respond with "I never said I didnt know how to speak french!  I think it was some adventure type movie where the whole time they are trying to find some artifact and give it to a museum or whatever. And at the end the girl is all mad or something because she finds out some rich guy just bought said artifact for like 10 million dollars or whatever. Surprise, surprise, turns out it was the hero.  "You never told me you were rich!" "I never said I wasn't rich" 
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I just remembered another movie that I used to love, but cannot think of the title  It was an Asian film, and I remember it was about either Vampires or Zombies. They moved by jumping slowly with their arms stretched out. And in one scene they performed a ritual on a coffin or something, and it involved chickens blood and rice and some other weird stuff. Anyone able to help. I'm sure it is a cult movie Also, I just thought of another one that I had caught the 2nd half of. It was also an Asian movie (I think), set in a war period, quite possibly Vietnam. I remember it used normal guns for that period, and fighting was your typical Hong Kong style fighting. Not much of this movie sticks out in my head too much, apart from it being a group of people on a mission to get/stop something. I think a spy was involved within the team. At one stage I think during an attack/fight scene, a plank of wood was used to run across and bounce on sort of like a trampoline. I guess thats kind of vague though. Anyway, any help with those two would be great Thanks goons!
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Rodney Munch posted:Watched This: Early 90's maybe Charade? or possibly the remake The Truth About Charlie?
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Rodney Munch posted:Watched This: Early 90's maybe I really think it's "Year of the Comet" http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0105871/
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freeranger posted:I just remembered another movie that I used to love, but cannot think of the title Was it porn? I've seen this hopping zombie thing, but it was porn. Hardcore Chinese porn. With subtitles. It's too late to call my friend tonight, but if it was porn I can get you the name tomorrow.
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anticake posted:Was it porn? I've seen this hopping zombie thing, but it was porn. Hardcore Chinese porn. With subtitles. It's too late to call my friend tonight, but if it was porn I can get you the name tomorrow. No, it wasnt porn, however that has grabbed my interest  Feel free to give me the title anyway 
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freeranger posted:Also, I just thought of another one that I had caught the 2nd half of. It was also an Asian movie (I think), set in a war period, quite possibly Vietnam. I remember it used normal guns for that period, and fighting was your typical Hong Kong style fighting. Not much of this movie sticks out in my head too much, apart from it being a group of people on a mission to get/stop something. I think a spy was involved within the team. At one stage I think during an attack/fight scene, a plank of wood was used to run across and bounce on sort of like a trampoline. I guess thats kind of vague though. It sounds a little like Bullet in the Head, and I think there was a wood/trampoline bit in there. That could just be my mind playing tricks on me, though.
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Thanks Daduzi, I'm pretty positive that is the one I'm thinking of, it is directed by John Woo, and it seemed to be very much like one of his style of movies. Cheers
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freeranger posted:It was an Asian film, and I remember it was about either Vampires or Zombies. They moved by jumping slowly with their arms stretched out. And in one scene they performed a ritual on a coffin or something, and it involved chickens blood and rice and some other weird stuff. Do you have any more details on this movie? In Hong Kong movies thats how the zombies move. European/North American zombies are the slow shambling ones, Asian zombies hop with their arms outstretched. Mr. Vampire http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0089371/ was pretty popular (spawning 5 or 6 sequels) And allow me to recommend one of my favorites: Kung-Fu Zombie http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0199148/
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This one has been killing me for years. This is old: at least 10 years ago. I probably saw it on TV. My memory is really fuzzy but it probably went like this: It probably took place in England sometime in the WWII era. This guy goes off to war and hires his best friend to look after his wife while he's gone. After a while the wife and the dude get closer and more romantically involved. As they're about to make love the music gets more and more intense and as the guy removes the girl's clothing the music abruptly stops and the camera zooms into the crotch region of the girl, revealing a big flaccid cizzock. Does any of this sound remotely familiar to anyone? Someone please give me something!
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Happy Bear Suit posted:This one has been killing me for years. This is old: at least 10 years ago. I probably saw it on TV. My memory is really fuzzy but it probably went like this: Not WW2 but could it be the Crying Game?
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Internet Gentleman posted:Do you have any more details on this movie? In Hong Kong movies thats how the zombies move. European/North American zombies are the slow shambling ones, Asian zombies hop with their arms outstretched. Is this the film where the characters being chased by the hopping vampires have to hold their breath so it can't find them?
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JamesieAB posted:Not WW2 but could it be the Crying Game?
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Phillyt posted:OK. I have a movie I can't seem to place but I know I've seen it. It's about a teenage girl I assume in the North West. She is "good" girl if you will but is very interested in the local music scene. After attending a few shows, she gets involved in the scene meeting people, losing her virginity, trying drugs, partying etc. Girl!
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Internet Gentleman posted:*snip* That sounds like the one I was after, thanks And i'm also going to check out the other movie you recommeneded, it sounds like it is my type of film 
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This shouldn't be too hard but I'm not sure how to look it up. You remember how there are always underdog movies about the fish out of water or the lower caste-member who everyone thinks they will never in a million years accomplish a specific sports-like act but then they do and it's a feel good for everyone? The greatest game ever played was one of those with a pauper who was a god at golf, for instance. Well, this movie was that but with alien gladiator fighting. And the lowly human who I remember had this retarded costume and was kind of a chump in my late 80s-mid90s eyes. I remember a character that looked like a rat-man, guys dressed up like dracula... hrm... I remember one alien fighter looked like a giant foam bug with huge legs the guy would punch and the main badguy was like a cyborg minotaur kinda thing... He may be an inferior species in a lovely movie, but he had a lot of Heart! Anyone?
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