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The Something Awful Forums > The Finer Arts > Cinema Discusso > The 'Identify A Movie For Me' Thread 2 - Identify Harder
 
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baronanglish
Apr 17, 2004

LOOK I AM A TURTLE posted:

I'm not sure why I even want to find out what this movie is, but here goes:

It's a typical "comical switcheroo" type movie, where two boys -- one black underachiever and one white overachiever -- for a no doubt idiotically contrived reason (can't remember how, exactly) end up having their school applications mistaken for each other, or something like that. Thusly, the nerdy white guy has to go to a predominantly black, inner-city school and the cool black guy is sent to a prestigious private school. Presumably, comedy ensues. Needless to say, the lives of the black kid and the white kid end up intersecting in some way, and at the end the white guy has gotten a lot less nerdy and more cool, while the black guy has gotten less anti-intellectual and has learned to appreciate the value of hard work and blah blah blah. I'm sure you could've figured out exactly how the movie would play out just by hearing the premise. One particular sequence, in which the white boy inquires into the grammatical nuances of African-American Vernacular, specifically the phrase "I be flyin'," stands out in my mind. Also, near the end there's some sort of car chase. Any takers?
This sounds a lot like Class Act (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0103978/), though neither Kid nor Play is white and they both go to the same school, albeit different wings of it (the honors section is really ritzy). Kid (the smart one in the film) is biracial, though, and a lot paler than Play, so this may be the movie you're thinking of.

baronanglish fucked around with this message at 04:11 on Dec 10, 2006

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baronanglish
Apr 17, 2004

Spider Crusoe posted:

A clip from this movie appeared during a montage in the latest Oscars. It had an old guy in a business suit, and the shot had a diagonal line of green lights going to the guy. He was saying something about messing with nature. Anyone know this one?

That's Network.

edit:beaten

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baronanglish
Apr 17, 2004

Reagan Youth posted:

I'm thinking of a French movie, which I believe was indie and fairly recent. The film basically follows the lower-class butcher type who keeps up an internal monologue (which is narrated) of hate and racism against basically every ethnic group. He also fucks his own daughter, except I think it was a dream. anyone know what i'm talking about?

I Stand Alone (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0157016/)

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baronanglish
Apr 17, 2004

NoSleepTillBedtime posted:

I had a dream about this scene the other night and now I have to see it. I thought this was from The Phantom Tollbooth, but I just watched the whole goddamned thing on YouTube and it wasn't in it. It's sort of like Tollbooth, except one of the magical creature guys they meet along the way has a gruff voice like a jazz guy, and he talks all jive-like, and he may or may not be a frog or something. He may even talk in rhyme, but it's definitely 'jive'-sounding. I'm guessing it's from the 70's and I'm 99% sure it's animated. Also, the jazz-man disappears into the shadows or something after offering his jive advice. Anyone?
Could it be the butterfly from "The Last Unicorn"? I couldn't find an English clip, but here's a German clip if you remember the visuals (obviously the "gruff voice" isn't here) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OmUARgmaBLI.

Edit: Here's a condensed clip of English version that cuts out a lot of the "jive talk" but there are a few traces of it: http://tr.truveo.com/The-Last-Unicorn-25th-Anniversary-Edition-The/id/3726104948

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baronanglish
Apr 17, 2004

Alan Smithee posted:

Again I hate to do this but TVIV doesn't have an ID thread. There was a bit from a sketch comedy show, I'm not sure if it was SNL or Ben Stiller Show or what, but basically it was a commercial for food and I believe the mascot was like an anthro talking pig and he starts eating himself and going "mmm I taste good!"

I think it was juxtaposed with live action people

Could it have been a chicken?
http://www.hulu.com/watch/2317/saturday-night-live-cluckin-chicken

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baronanglish
Apr 17, 2004

MAJOR STRYkER posted:

The second one might be a little bit harder: It was an old jap ninja flick or something. The two scenes I remember are is the main dude is fighting on a wooden plank type bridge and ninjas on opisite sides on water skis try to catch him in a net. Later on after defeating those ninjas he comes to a different area where ninjas are popping up out of the sand. Our main hero ends up with a bladed pogo stick and goes hopping around killing ninjas under the sand.

Props to anyone who can help me with these ;o

If you're still interested, this is Five Element Ninjas (also known as Chinese Super Ninjas)http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0084921/

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