The 'Identify A Movie For Me' Thread 2 - Identify Harder

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Akuma: Sep 11, 2001

Film about vehicles coming alive and killing people, probably from the 80s. There's a bit where someone tries to hide in a barrel but gets smooshed anyway, and I seem to remember it taking place on a construction site of some kind, or at least a scene of it did.

The obvious answer would be Maximum Overdrive, but I don't think that's it. Any ideas?

# ¿ Jun 22, 2008 00:01

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# ¿ May 15, 2024 05:03

Akuma: Sep 11, 2001

Thank you! I wonder if I can track that down...

# ¿ Jun 22, 2008 12:19

Akuma: Sep 11, 2001

What's the name of the movie where there's some kind of throne room on a spaceship of some kind and there's a ton of glass walls and they get shattered? It's definitely in space but it doesn't look like a spaceship inside. I guess it's like the end of Return of the Jedi but it's really not that, the room is much more open and also the glass is shattered by something!

For some reason I thought it was Lifeforce but it's really not that.

# ¿ Jul 28, 2017 23:39

Akuma: Sep 11, 2001

Thanks guys! It's not any of those, though. It's definitely live action, some kind of very sparse throne room with glass walls but it's definitely in space, and I remember space commando types storming the room by smashing the glass which seemed dumb because I don't remember the air being sucked out. It felt very low budget!

# ¿ Jul 29, 2017 08:49

Akuma: Sep 11, 2001

ynohtna posted:

Starcrash (1979)!

YES! That's it!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RJX5O0zDYoU

At about 1hr 16mins.

Thank you! Seems like I conflated the throne roomy place, which also had a lot of glass, with wherever that is where they come crashing through and nobody gets sucked out into space. At least I think they're not the same room, I just skimmed through the whole movie to find it.

# ¿ Jul 29, 2017 11:31

Akuma: Sep 11, 2001

That's a pretty quick turnaround for a knockoff. But I guess that's the point.

# ¿ Jul 29, 2017 22:36

Akuma: Sep 11, 2001

Sir Nose posted:

Flubber

Norbit

Edit: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TjHARsfJYoc

Akuma fucked around with this message at 15:58 on Aug 17, 2017

# ¿ Aug 17, 2017 15:54

Akuma: Sep 11, 2001

Katt posted:

No I'm very familiar with Sean Bean. This guy is way lankier and certainly no hero.

He's like an Irish Marv if Marv was a coward and couldn't fight.

Some time during the 90s there were a bunch of movies with this guy. I would be surprised if they were ever on the cinema.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0087019/?

# ¿ Apr 21, 2018 08:40

Akuma: Sep 11, 2001

Teenage Fansub posted:

Can't remember if they get ruined exactly, but the ultimate rich-people-are-gross movie is Society.

Most of them don�t but some do.

# ¿ Jun 26, 2018 09:15

Akuma: Sep 11, 2001

Is there a TV version of this thread? I'm searching for a UK TV drama (I think! Pretty sure it's not a film!) from the mid-2000s about a giant squid. I vividly remember it ripping apart a boat of some kind and eating one or more persons - a lot like in Jaws, but a squid instead of a shark. It's definitely not the 1996 miniseries The Beast because although I've never seen it, I'm pretty sure that's American, and it seems too old. Although weirdly in my mind I DO remember it having the word Beast in the title, but the 96 series just seems too old and not gritty enough. I could've sworn it was on ITV, but looking through lists of ITV dramas I can't find anything similar.

Does anyone know what I'm talking about, or have I just misremembered it?

# ¿ Jul 20, 2018 20:02

Akuma: Sep 11, 2001

Rupert Buttermilk posted:

I know it doesn't make sense, but I picture Kurt Russell saying this, though it was likely Tom Cruise, right?

It was, with the mask on while being interrogated by Kurt Russell.

Kurt Russell has a lot of shouty business at the very end of the film so that�s probably what you�re thinking of?

# ¿ Sep 12, 2018 13:45

Akuma: Sep 11, 2001

Rupert Buttermilk posted:

I don't remember if this is a tv show or movie, but in it, one of the characters, when listening to someone talk, continually puts together the first initials of all the words spoken.

So asking "Hey, how are you today?" is HHAYT to them.

I should mention that this was such a minor throwaway line, that now I'm starting to doubt whether it was actually in a show or movie. Actually, it might've been them counting the letters of each word as they hear them. So the same example sentence, to them, would obviously be 33335

I can�t remember if he does it in the older stuff but in the very recent Peewee movie on Netflix he does it a lot.

# ¿ Sep 22, 2018 17:32

Akuma: Sep 11, 2001

Anyone know this movie? A colleague of mine described it like this:

quote:

this woman was pinned down to a table, and had a cut on her arm and a big tube thing came down and a giant spider was crawling into the cut

Any ideas?

# ¿ Oct 5, 2018 13:54

Akuma: Sep 11, 2001

Murphys Law posted:

Rupture? With Noomi Rapace?

Good guess! There�s definitely a spider and a tube

My friend is adamant that it was a lady bound to a table, probably naked, and just one large spider.

# ¿ Oct 5, 2018 17:18

Akuma: Sep 11, 2001

Frog Act posted:

I'm remembering a crime show from 2008 or so set in London. It was super gritty and was like six hour and a half long episodes about minority life in social housing, and the first two were about a young black kid who ends up murdering someone? Also about his mother, I think? It was pretty good but also sort of overbaked and melodramatic. It wasn't Luther or anything but I vaguely recall it being on Netflix.

Top Boy? Doesn't quite fit but does have a young boy and his mother... It's been a while but it's the first thing that came to mind.

# ¿ Dec 5, 2018 15:11

Akuma: Sep 11, 2001

ErIog posted:

I'm looking for a movie.

It was on Sci-fi channel in the 90's. I remember it being fairly boring, but had some interesting moments. 3-4 characters were trapped in some kind of giant mansion with no one else there. I think at some point they find out it's purgatory, but it's unclear. The through-line is they're all there in this mansion, and they're trying to figure out why they're there. They're all strangers. Its not like Saw, though. It's more like Cube, but if nothing interesting

Sounds like The Haunting, the 1999 adaptation of The Haunting Of Hill House with Liam Neeson, Catherine Zeta Jones and Owen Wilson. Lots of being trapped in a huge mansion, purgatory is part of the plot and themes.

# ¿ Jan 13, 2019 14:28

Akuma: Sep 11, 2001

Wheat Loaf posted:

However, there is one that I've never been able to discover a title for, which I've mentioned a couple of times in this thread. It was aired on one of the terrestrial UK channels (probably Channel Four) which was running some documentaries on video nasties and "the dark side of porn" and it was presumably chosen for its thematic consistency with the latter subject (this is also how I first saw 8mm and, amusingly enough, Showgirls).

The movie was about a lonely, nebbish office worker who is obsessed with finding "realistic" pornography as a substitute for his unfulfilling love life, and eventually he decides to start directing his own movies to achieve his vision. He ends up secretly recording himself having sex with his new girlfriend and when she goes to his producer to try and get the tape back, he shoots her dead by accident, and the tape is released while he's in prison. Movie ends with him sitting alone watching the video and narrating about how people said he should have been in jail longer, but he'll never be free.

Oh gently caress I saw this too, yeah probably Channel Four! But I don't remember what it was, either...

# ¿ Jan 14, 2019 17:29

Akuma: Sep 11, 2001

That's more than a lot of posts in this thread!

# ¿ Nov 15, 2019 08:03

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# ¿ May 15, 2024 05:03

Akuma: Sep 11, 2001

feedmyleg posted:

Get used to it. More and more emerging directors were raised on video games these days, and many of those likely have a more extensive knowledge of/history with games than with cinema. We'll always have a handful of young film nerds like the Safdie brothers and whatnot at the fringes, but when it comes to blockbusters expect them only to get more video game-like.

Yes, that young lad weened on video games, Jon Favreau!

# ¿ Dec 30, 2019 22:01

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