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

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Trevor Hale: Dec 8, 2008; What have I become, my Swedish friend?

Rupert Buttermilk posted:

"Dream On", man!

Every so often the question goes around on Twitter about what theme song you expect to hear after the HBO static, and my answer is always Dream On. A formative childhood experience.

Also: one of the reasons I loved Strike Back on Cinemax so much is because you could see the conversation they had in the Cinemax boardroom.

�Listen, we can make this action show and it�s gonna be great. We can get a bunch of British actors and game of thrones guys off-season and our travel budget is gonna insane.�

�Will there be tits?�

��.yeah, alright, there�s gonna be tits�

# ¿ Jan 30, 2022 23:41

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# ¿ May 20, 2024 20:36

Trevor Hale: Dec 8, 2008; What have I become, my Swedish friend?

Vorenus posted:

I vaguely remember seeing a movie on TV as a child (sometime mid 90s to 2000) wherein someone was in the desert and found people trapped in pods filled with blue goo. IIRC the people were duplicated and a character was possibly facing off against his own clone?

Having googled this I obviously came across Invasion of the Body Snatchers but upon further looking that isn't it.

Isn�t the climax of The Sixth Day in a desert facility?

# ¿ Jun 6, 2022 00:13

Trevor Hale: Dec 8, 2008; What have I become, my Swedish friend?

Alan Smithee posted:

Bright?

God that movie was stupid

Wanted to respond with the max landis �if this goes well it will be my Star Wars� tweet but frankly 1) gently caress that rapist and 2) god there are so many good tweets dunking on Bright

# ¿ Jun 30, 2022 04:37

Trevor Hale: Dec 8, 2008; What have I become, my Swedish friend?

drat that mirror ending just had me remembering the 2002 horror film They and I have no idea why I saw that movie in theatres nor whom on earth I could�ve seen it with. Weird.

# ¿ Jul 21, 2022 23:29

Trevor Hale: Dec 8, 2008; What have I become, my Swedish friend?

This is going to be a reverse post, but I have been thinking of this snippet of tv show I saw back when I was a wee lad. It was a British kid looking at a little mechanical device and an adult asks him what it is and he said says something along the lines of it being an extraterrestrial communication device or�the mechanical device has two scissor arms protruding that snap shut�a very painful pimple remover.

Had no context for this scene at all except maybe the vague feeling they were on the run.

The other day on twitter, the creator of the Station Eleven miniseries was riffing on a show from youth he couldn�t remember and someone brought up Chocky and everything snapped into place for me

Between this tweet and this thread reminding me of Captain Power and the Soldiers of the Future, I think all of my loose thread memories have been tied off

https://twitter.com/benpmorin/status/1561299264420052993?s=21&t=CeK23mkNOspJZgj69XpGMw

# ¿ Aug 28, 2022 07:14

Trevor Hale: Dec 8, 2008; What have I become, my Swedish friend?

Detective Thompson posted:

Yeah, that's it. Obviously got some details wrong, like the arguing soldiers not being both German and especially with it being a film actually made during the war. Thanks.

Not it, but I haven't seen this in a long time either and I think it might have a scene that also popped into my head awhile back. American soldiers are moving into an Italian village after killing the German soldiers there and the women of the village start hacking up the bodies of German soldiers with farming implements. Is that from Big Red One?

I know this is going to sound weird, but Jim Belushi starred in a really good remake of Sahara

# ¿ Sep 4, 2022 23:44

Trevor Hale: Dec 8, 2008; What have I become, my Swedish friend?

Custard Undies posted:

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0114324/?ref_=nm_flmg_act_114

I watched it late at night years ago as it was the only thing on TV and I actually didn't mind it.

Never actually knew what it was called. And never bothered to look it up.

Same. Caught it by accident one day as a kid and it has stuck with me for decades by this point. Just saw randomly on twitter the other day (some dude was dunking on a different movie available for streaming) but the movie next to the one he was mocking was Sahara. Could legit just rent it now instead of having to troll through the back of a TV Guide to see if it was ever on

# ¿ Sep 6, 2022 05:12

Trevor Hale: Dec 8, 2008; What have I become, my Swedish friend?

Nordick posted:

So this scene popped into my head earlier today and I can't for the life of me remember where it's from or who's in it. It goes about like this:

Guy (possibly the main antagonist) gets shot in the chest.
He barely flinches and the bullet just leaves a neat little hole in his jacket, so there's this fleeting moment of "wait, did he have a vest or something?"
Then the guy just nonchalantly puts a cigarette in his mouth, is about to light (or possibly actually lights) it, and THEN the hole starts bleeding and he collapses.

I can't even remember the setting of the movie; It might have been a western, or set in the 50s-ish, or more modern day. The scene was obviously made to be slightly comical, but I don't think the movie was some kind of super wacky goofball comedy. It's not a very recent movie but not super old either: I don't wanna give too tight an estimate because I don't remember it well enough, but I'd say the timeframe is 80s to early 2000s.

There also may actually be several movies with similar scenes blending together in my head, so feel free to suggest even something where any of the details (sparse though they are) are different somehow.

I feel like the Quick and the Dead had all the good gunshot reactions

# ¿ Oct 16, 2022 20:56

Trevor Hale: Dec 8, 2008; What have I become, my Swedish friend?

Xiahou Dun posted:

They could have at least used like Filipino Box Spring Hog or Heart Attack and Vine or hell even 16 Shells from a .30-06.

Hell Broke Luce is not A-tier Waits.

Perhaps my friend Cookie Monster can persuade you

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

# ¿ Oct 20, 2022 07:10

Trevor Hale: Dec 8, 2008; What have I become, my Swedish friend?

Torquemada posted:

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

White guy blink dot gif to living in a world where someone thinks of the (admittedly good) remake of Manchurian Candidate and not the original

# ¿ Oct 31, 2022 01:25

Trevor Hale: Dec 8, 2008; What have I become, my Swedish friend?

Xiahou Dun posted:

Y�all know that Torquemada isn�t the OP, right? He said it can�t be The Manchurian Candidate because he actually read the request which said it was from the 80�s.

It was like four posts up. This isn�t exactly a feat of reading comprehension.

Yeah, but I am very stupid.

(I see how I hosed up now.)

# ¿ Oct 31, 2022 06:04

Trevor Hale: Dec 8, 2008; What have I become, my Swedish friend?

Jenny Agutter posted:

Mission impossible 5 or 6, Rebecca Ferguson smuggles a gun into an opera in pieces

And smuggles out my heart in the process

# ¿ Jan 4, 2023 20:33

Trevor Hale: Dec 8, 2008; What have I become, my Swedish friend?

Gripweed posted:

Quick, I need a list of every movie prominently featuring a Monsignor!

Roger Ebert apparently hated the Christopher Reeve film �Monsignor�

# ¿ Feb 6, 2023 04:30

Trevor Hale: Dec 8, 2008; What have I become, my Swedish friend?

Alan Smithee posted:

there's a billion movies like that. Does Chris Evans point finger guns at them?

Genuinely love that movie

# ¿ Feb 22, 2023 03:55

Trevor Hale: Dec 8, 2008; What have I become, my Swedish friend?

It�s also hilariously the punchline of a Deep Space 9 episode. Keiko is absolutely convinced that Miles didn�t die in an accident and has been kidnapped. Her evidence is that the footage shows Miles drinking coffee isn�t he afternoon. Won�t shut up about the fact that he�d never do that. Turns out, she�s right. He has been kidnapped. Gets rescued and comes back home and sits down for a cup of afternoon coffee.

(Yes yes there is trauma in not wanting to believe your spouse died in an accident but also Keiko 100% doesn�t know poo poo about Miles)

# ¿ Jun 17, 2023 05:49

Trevor Hale: Dec 8, 2008; What have I become, my Swedish friend?

Captain Swing posted:

I need help with this one, because it's been bugging me for a very long time.

It's about a guy who wins a lot of money at a casino, but he loses his memory at the same time (I want to say something falls on his head?). Some black haired guy with a moustache and glasses claims the prize instead of him.
Not sure what happens in the middle of the movie, except the fact that the guy regains his memory and I think final scenes of the movie happen at a baseball game and some woman expresses her love for him on a jumbotron.
I'm totally prepared to find out I mixed up a bunch of movies I had on the same VHS tape.

I seem to remember the protagonist being in blackface (once again, old movie) when he regains his memory. And he had a child sidekick.

So some of this sounds like the 1999 movie The Runner which is about gambling and criminals and the climax I believe is in an empty baseball stadium where the guy is tied up and about to get murdered by a super powerful hose

# ¿ Apr 3, 2024 21:37

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# ¿ May 20, 2024 20:36

Trevor Hale: Dec 8, 2008; What have I become, my Swedish friend?

Cat Hatter posted:

That was also an episode of Hey Dude. Two dudes were fighting, one twisted his ankle and the other blinded himself opening the radiator cap on their overheated Jeep. They bond over the experience and the blind dude carries the other dude back to the ranch so they don't die in the desert.

Best version of this trope was Babylon 5 though:
"We need to put our differences aside and work together to survive."
"LMAO, I'm going to sit here and watch you die."

Absolutely wild that another person exists who immediately thought of this episode of Hey Dude

# ¿ May 10, 2024 21:59

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