"Identify A Movie For Me!" Thread: Part 3D

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therattle: Jul 24, 2007; Soiled Meat

I posted this in the last thread but got no answer. I saw this on TV in South Africa probably in the late 80s. It's a colour film, contemporary. Two boys are orphaned. The state has no idea what to do with them so they are sent to a youth correctional facility. It's hellish. At night the bad kids slide on on their backs along the floor to rape/beat other kids, pulling themselves along using the metal bars under the beds. One morning one kid won't get up. A guard comes to investigate. When he pulls the sheet off we see that the mattress is soaked in blood. As a young teenager (maybe even younger) this film REALLY freaked me out.

I've got another that I saw probably around 1985. May be Escape from the Bronx? It's post-apocalyptic. Groups of soldiers dressed in silver full-body outfits are flushing people from apartments with flamethrowers. Again, freaked me out. I was too young to see that. (I blame the friend who's parents owned a video shop).

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# ¿ May 9, 2024 12:00

therattle: Jul 24, 2007; Soiled Meat

Crow Enthusiast posted:

It's called Escape 2000. But it should be called LEAVE THE BRONX

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1y8SvVoo3P8

That�s it! Thanks. It really stuck with me, and not in a good way!

# ¿ Feb 3, 2020 21:35

therattle: Jul 24, 2007; Soiled Meat

ManDingo posted:

Long shot but maybe this:

Scum 1979
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0079871/?ref_=tt_ch

Thanks but that's not it. I am pretty sure mine was a US film. I should have said.

# ¿ Feb 4, 2020 16:51

therattle: Jul 24, 2007; Soiled Meat

Vier posted:

I feel like it was much more modern than that.

A long shot and it�s in colour (you haven�t given us much to go on!): There Will Be Blood?

# ¿ Mar 17, 2020 09:54

therattle: Jul 24, 2007; Soiled Meat

Lester Shy posted:

There's this scene in the movie Contact (1997)

And I'm thinking of a scene in another movie that takes place in an extremely similar room (or maybe the exact same set) but while the meeting or hearing is taking place, an explosion happens outside the window on the left. Does anybody know what I'm talking about?

It�s a different set, but maaaaybe Homeland?

# ¿ Aug 29, 2020 21:47

therattle: Jul 24, 2007; Soiled Meat

COMPAGNIE TOMMY posted:

What's the movie where the husband poisons his wife by putting something in her shampoo? In one scene I believe the police come to his house and as they're outside he deletes a whole bunch of folders off his computer. Not newer than late 90s I don't think.

Lethal Vows?

# ¿ Oct 17, 2020 10:33

therattle: Jul 24, 2007; Soiled Meat

COMPAGNIE TOMMY posted:

Nailed it! Thank you

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4YURJzH_G04&t=3380s

Yes, all I did was google �film husband poisons wife�s shampoo�. It was the first result. The search engines they have these days are remarkable. You should try one sometime!

# ¿ Oct 17, 2020 13:43

therattle: Jul 24, 2007; Soiled Meat

COMPAGNIE TOMMY posted:

Oh yeah?? Well try cracking THIS Rosetta Stone, tough guy!

If I can�t google it I can�t help you!

# ¿ Oct 17, 2020 14:41

therattle: Jul 24, 2007; Soiled Meat

Chairchucker posted:

Try cracking this one too!

Animation or live action?

# ¿ Oct 17, 2020 14:52

therattle: Jul 24, 2007; Soiled Meat

feedmyleg posted:

You think that's bad? I have an IMDB page.

Me too.

AND I'LL NEVER LET YOU ALL FORGET IT.

# ¿ Nov 17, 2020 17:55

therattle: Jul 24, 2007; Soiled Meat

Rupert Buttermilk posted:

That sounds like a Leslie Nielsen and/or Mel Brooks-style genre parody movie.

I am pretty sure it�s from a Naked Gun film.

Then again, there is this from Loaded Weapon

https://youtu.be/iOEgtJBjMlU

therattle fucked around with this message at 22:55 on Apr 22, 2021

# ¿ Apr 22, 2021 22:52

therattle: Jul 24, 2007; Soiled Meat

PeterCat posted:

An early 90s neo-noir that has a female crime boss choke out a cop with her legs while she's handcuffed in the back of a car and he's driving.

Romeo is Bleeding, I believe. Trashy.

https://youtu.be/utFeHmJ1iUw

# ¿ May 29, 2021 20:07

therattle: Jul 24, 2007; Soiled Meat

WHY BONER NOW posted:

This is a reasonable guess; I think it's the last Muppet thing I've seen. I remember being impressed by the Muppet's motion as it grabbed the velvet rope and unhooked it...I'll have to check!

I�m pretty sure it�s this. It�s Mary, Gary and Walter visiting the abandoned Muppets studio. (My son likes the film, and rightly, so I�ve seen it a LOT).

# ¿ Jun 4, 2021 12:12

therattle: Jul 24, 2007; Soiled Meat

Rupert Buttermilk posted:

Oh my god, this. I haven't seen that particular movie all the way through, but if y'all had a question about Minecraft Story Mode, I feel like a goddamned encyclopedia at this point.

Oh, I can do this for a number of films! Luckily he has decent taste for a kid.

# ¿ Jun 4, 2021 12:58

therattle: Jul 24, 2007; Soiled Meat

Akuma posted:

Is there a thread for talking about the stuff your kid watches endlessly? Because I would post in that. I've definitely thought far more about certain pieces of media than the creators did just to make up my own head cannon and stay sane.

I�ve thought about making a kids�/family film thread. I should.

# ¿ Jun 4, 2021 14:29

therattle: Jul 24, 2007; Soiled Meat

VagueRant posted:

The murder details kinda line up and this DID make me uncomfortable, but none of the imagery I can vaguely picture is in there, and I feel like I would've remembered it randomly cutting to a screaming Ralph Fiennes?

Sidenote, that movie sounds super weird! It was Kathryn Bigelow? Is it meant to be any good?

There's a scene where someone gets their head smashed into a mirror in one of the latter ones, but aside from being kinda backstage from a public venue and having glass around them, it's definitely not a match.

Strange Days is really good. I haven't seen it for years but I remember it as being excellent.

# ¿ Jun 22, 2021 14:31

therattle: Jul 24, 2007; Soiled Meat

Trevor Hale posted:

Bit of a departure from the norm but I�m trying to remember a music video from 1998-2003 where the defining image in my head was that the drummer (who I picture being in a warehouse or other open space like that) had red drumsticks which stood out against the black backdrop.

I could�ve sworn this was David Gray�s �Babylon�, and that�s definitely the vibe of the song. In my memory, it wasn�t a band it was just a dude�s name. Also I�m pretty sure that the drum part that focused on the sticks was him hitting the rim and not the actual skin of a snare drum.

Thanks!

edit: it totally was Babylon. Google provides the official video which was the first one filmed around London. He made a different music video when the song became a single in the states but it looks like that one isn�t as popular on the ol� search engines

The thread cracks another case. Well done, fellows!

# ¿ Jul 12, 2021 09:33

therattle: Jul 24, 2007; Soiled Meat

SiKboy posted:

Is it Severance (from 2006)? I think its one of the stories they tell each other about the lodge before they start to get attacked. A surprisingly good horror comedy for the record, despite having Danny Dyer in it.

Harold Pinter cast Dyer in several of his plays.

I worked on Severance (on the sales side.). Decent film actually. If you like that kind of thing.

# ¿ Sep 24, 2021 07:18

therattle: Jul 24, 2007; Soiled Meat

codyclarke posted:

I know it's not 80s or 90s but this sounds like Tears of the Black Tiger, which definitely could be mistaken for 80s or 90s.

I was going to suggest that too.

# ¿ Oct 13, 2021 14:51

therattle: Jul 24, 2007; Soiled Meat

Detective Thompson posted:

Rory Calhoun?!

https://youtu.be/1PaxLSxQblM

# ¿ Dec 4, 2021 18:42

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KICK BAMA KICK posted:

Simpsons, "The Last Temptation of Homer", about the lady at the power plant he has a crush on, Mindy.

�Oh Mindy, you came and you found me a turkey, on my vacation away from worky�
(Quoting from memory so might be slightly off)

# ¿ Sep 13, 2022 00:31

therattle: Jul 24, 2007; Soiled Meat

Rupert Buttermilk posted:

It's actually 'Oh Margie...' for that one. He sings a different lyric about Mindy/Andy earlier, and then at the end, when he and Marge are in the hotel room together, he sings it about Marge. This discussion made me want to rewatch it, so I did.

Sheeeit, you're right, of course. I conflated the two. Marge finds the turkey that fell there when he and Mindy were there previously, right? I haven't seen it for years.

# ¿ Sep 13, 2022 21:20

therattle: Jul 24, 2007; Soiled Meat

Hannibal Rex posted:

Either a Terrence Hill/Bud Spencer movie, or some older physical comedy:

In a brawl, the hero wheel his arm in an exaggerated manner, only to punch his opponent with his other one.

Is there not a scene like that in �Top Secret!�?

# ¿ Sep 15, 2022 19:42

therattle: Jul 24, 2007; Soiled Meat

Hannibal Rex posted:

https://youtu.be/MfRi-a8hPh0&t=1m25s

Yeah, that might be it. If anyone can remember similar scenes, let me know.

The clip isn�t playing but I�d love to see it! Is it the underwater bar right?

# ¿ Sep 15, 2022 23:05

therattle: Jul 24, 2007; Soiled Meat

Hannibal Rex posted:

That's awesome. Hilarious that it worked in real life.

Yeah, that's the one. Maybe it works for you without the timestamp?

https://youtu.be/MfRi-a8hPh0

Ahhh, that�s the good stuff.

# ¿ Sep 19, 2022 09:33

therattle: Jul 24, 2007; Soiled Meat

Xiahou Dun posted:

Call and raise, sir.

Or even checkmate.

# ¿ Oct 20, 2022 10:26

therattle: Jul 24, 2007; Soiled Meat

It�s definitely that, with Gerard Depardieu. That Thank Heaven For Little Girls scene is very funny; I still remember it from when I first saw it.

I�m not 100% sure that film would get made today�

# ¿ Oct 24, 2022 10:21

therattle: Jul 24, 2007; Soiled Meat

Manchurian Candidate maybe?

# ¿ Oct 30, 2022 12:47

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Torquemada posted:

Very 60�s and in black and white, probably not that.

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0056218/
There was a B&W version in 1962

# ¿ Oct 30, 2022 16:27

therattle: Jul 24, 2007; Soiled Meat

Trevor Hale posted:

Yeah, but I am very stupid.

(I see how I hosed up now.)

You�re not alone.

# ¿ Nov 1, 2022 00:13

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Sir Nose posted:

Twilight Zone episode "The Invaders". The set-up is the woman is in a remote farmhouse fighting these little aliens who crashed on her roof. The twist is at the very end we learn that she is not an earth woman fighting tiny aliens, rather we're on another planet and she is a giant alien woman fighting earth astronauts.

[stoned voice]. Whhhoooaaahhhh.

# ¿ Nov 20, 2022 00:04

therattle: Jul 24, 2007; Soiled Meat

Does anyone know what film scene where a character say something like �then you�re no use to me!�? It may be goldmember, but I can�t find that clip anywhere.

# ¿ Mar 19, 2023 19:27

therattle: Jul 24, 2007; Soiled Meat

Alan Smithee posted:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vqQk2ZNnLP4

Funny but not that!

Pilchenstein posted:

Never seen Goldmember but the first thing I thought of was the bit in Payback where Mel Gibson asks the guy who double-crossed him if he has a light, the guy replies "no" and Gibson says "then what good are you?" and shoots him.

Hmm. Don�t think so but thanks. It is in my head as a comedy. Maybe I imagined it�

# ¿ Mar 19, 2023 22:25

therattle: Jul 24, 2007; Soiled Meat

Davros1 posted:

Hitman?

https://getyarn.io/yarn-clip/2cb5c8d6-7f59-4a27-8838-f35ae45e8616

But it seems like a common trope; the bad guy tries to get something out of a heroic ally or someone, they refuse, then the villain says "then you're no use to me"

Never seen it. May have been �then you�re no good to me�, but perhaps it�s imagined.

# ¿ Mar 19, 2023 22:51

therattle: Jul 24, 2007; Soiled Meat

oldpainless posted:

Maybe Get Shorty when delroy lindo offered to help Travolta

Huh. Maybe. Thanks!

# ¿ Mar 20, 2023 00:59

therattle: Jul 24, 2007; Soiled Meat

Alan Smithee posted:

white noise?

Pretty sure that�s correct.

# ¿ May 31, 2023 19:40

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freebooter posted:

Was also going to suggest this.

Missing salt more than anything else reminds me of the Lykov family.

Yes! Me too.

# ¿ Jun 7, 2023 08:04

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SimonChris posted:

I remember reading about an old choose-your-own-adventure movie from the 60's or 70's, where they only filmed one outcome and just told everyone that this was what the majority had chosen. People would hold up signs with their choice in the theater, and the screen would say something like "you chose option A!" and then continue showing the movie. Since this was a garbage b-movie, no one watched it more than once anyway. I think Roger Ebert wrote about it, but I can't remember the title.

Edit: The closest thing I can find is Kinoautomat, in which the ending was fixed, but there was genuine interactivity during the movie. I distinctly remember this being an American b-movie, though.

That sounds like a classic William Castle gimmick, so I looked up William Castle and it looks like it�s Mr Sardonicus

# ¿ Jun 21, 2023 09:47

therattle: Jul 24, 2007; Soiled Meat

Sandwich Anarchist posted:

Nah, that's the wrist mounted rocket launcher one. This very specifically had a thing pulled from a costume and thrown to kill the villain.

i initially read your post as "pulls a thing from a cow" and thought that it would be very easy for someone to identify. Now I am disappointed.

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# ¿ May 9, 2024 12:00

therattle: Jul 24, 2007; Soiled Meat

ellie the beep posted:

movie request from my wife who swears it isnt harold and maude but cannot really pin down anything better

seen on late night german television somewhere in the mid-90s to early 2000s at latest, but was definitely post reunification - and shes pretty sure the setting of the movie was contemporary, hence ruling out h&m

features a younger guy somewhere around his twenties getting into a fairly racy or
even explicit relationship with a woman two or three decades his senior.
she's unclear how they come to spend time together, and she has an impression of an exotic, maybe south american maybe french influence but she doesnt know if thats really part of it or if shes mixing up other stuff she watched on late night german television as a teen

The Mother (2003) with Ann Reid and Daniel Craig?

# ¿ Dec 26, 2023 21:16

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