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

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Snowglobe of Doom: Mar 30, 2012; sucks to be right

Ghostwatch doesn't really fit the description because it was a "live" show which constantly cut back to the studio, the format doesn't fit the description.

Charlie Brooker did a segment about it:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FOEozFtqe3s

# ¿ May 7, 2020 21:03

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# ¿ May 9, 2024 21:05

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regulargonzalez posted:

E: my money is on Annie Hall. Does "la di da" ring a bell? What about lobsters?

Nope, that doesn't ring any lobsters

# ¿ May 10, 2020 13:51

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your evil twin posted:

When I was a kid, I saw a short animated film on British TV. Was back in the early 90s, wouldn't surprise me if the film was from the 80s. It was less than an hour, maybe only half hour or 45 minutes. The film didn't have lots of dialogue, the whole story was narrated by a male voice.

It starts with about a boy who is walking through some kind of swamp or blasted wasteland and is then approached by a wizard/sorceror who tricks him into coming to his castle.

The castle has a magical escalator for stairs, and at the top of the escalator there are 2 statues of big black cats like panthers.

Once inside the castle the boy become a prisoner and slave to the wizard. He has to work in sone kind of pit, or underneath a cauldron or something like that, where he gets covered in slime. I think there might also have been a girl prisoner too, but not sure about that.

If they try to leave, the two black cat statues come to life and turn towards them and growl, so they can't go down the escalator.

At the end the boy uses the wizard's spell book to fight him and transform into various creatures; the wizard transforms as well to counter whatever the boy becomes. So the boy becomes a fly. The wizard becomes the obvious thing, a spider, to get him. The spider still has the wizard's face, but with eight black legs.

Then the boy immediately transforms back into a human, and slams the spell book shut on the spider-wizard, crushing him.

With the wizard dead the castle crumbles, the kid/kids escape. The aftermath shows one of the cat statues still briefly standing, then toppling over.

I've spent literally hours googling and looking through lists of animated films on IMDB and other places, with no luck.

That's weirdly similar to the 1978 Czechoslovakian film Krabat L' Apprenti Sorcier with really specific details such as a runaway kid tricked into working for a sorceror, wizard's spell book used for a shapeshifter duel and a black spider with the wizard's face, but the rest is all different.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CBG54ScnyHY

# ¿ May 23, 2020 14:57

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lg2dqFCU67Q

Edit: hilariously, it was entirely the stone giant's fault that the town was placed in danger in the first place due to his incompetence and inattention and he totally could have saved everyone except he got his feelings hurt by annoying little attacks which didn't even hurt him so he abandoned his responsibilities and just let everyone die.

An excellent metaphor for Trump's COVID-19 response. :discourse:

Snowglobe of Doom fucked around with this message at 15:25 on May 27, 2020

# ¿ May 27, 2020 15:19

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Just a page ago I made a wild suggestion about a Czechoslovakian film that had some similar elements to the OP's description and that was enough for them to figure out that they were looking for a US short narrated by Vincent Price

# ¿ Jun 12, 2020 21:13

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ruddiger posted:

I�m thinking of a movie where something (electrical?) happens in the main plot that causes a feedback of some sort. It cuts to two teen girls in their bedroom watching mtv (the mtv spaceman to be more specific) and the tv explodes because of the feedback, one of the girls (possibly an uncredited Sara Gilbert?) says �awesome!� after the tv explodes.

In the novelization they say "Wow" :eng101:

I have no idea why I own the Spies Like Us novelisation but there you go

# ¿ Jul 5, 2020 06:50

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Ape Agitator posted:

So cool!

Immediately curious to know how much of the dialogue is improvised. When he's forming the circuit bridge, "things that are round, things that are square, things that are being electrocuted" was one of those movie quotes that worked into day to day language whenever someone couldn't remember a word. Did they write that or was it improv?

# ¿ Jul 6, 2020 03:23

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My Lovely Horse posted:

Tangentially related question: was that the movie that spawned the "musclebound he-man media star has to deal with children" subgenre, or is there something earlier? So far I've got a list of Mr. Nanny, Kindergarten Cop, The Pacifier, Tooth Fairy and My Spy, and could organize the worst cinematic retrospective in history.

Gamera.

# ¿ Jul 19, 2020 16:26

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Pilchenstein posted:

I swear I can hear Adam West's Batman responding to "your mother wears army boots" with "she finds them very comfortable"

Ding ding ding

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bJJ1HxPitTk&t=611s
(10m 11sec if the timestamp doesn't work)

# ¿ Oct 24, 2020 18:57

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I should have added that even though the Batman show used that line it's probably not what the OP was looking for because none of the other details match and it's also a pretty obvious comeback to what used to be a pretty common insult

# ¿ Oct 25, 2020 21:33

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TITTIEKISSER69 posted:

Is it when Darth Vader tosses the Emperor down the shaft?

A better Star Wars example would be Obi Wan letting Vader strike him down so that Luke would immediately leave the Death Star instead of running over to try and help

# ¿ Jan 24, 2021 08:37

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Request from the GBS thread:

Ganraam posted:

I'm trying to track down a B movie I saw on VHS once about 30 years ago. I've been thinking about it off and on over the years and occasionally will do some idle browsing for it. I think we rented the VHS when I was a kid. This was the late 80s or early 90s. I'm not sure when it was filmed but it has to be older than 1995 and I'd guess late 80s.

It took place in medieval times and the antagonist was what seemed to be a very tall big knight. a lot of the scenes were shot in the forest.

I remember one scene where the protagonist was riding his horse down a really really steep hill as fast as he could, and leaning back so far he was almost touching the ground himself due to how steep the hill was. I guess that could be a different movie but I'm pretty sure it was the same one.

There was a love interest and I think maybe there was a scene where her and the protagonist were hiding out from the big knight.

Anyway he ended up defeating the big knight and it turned out that the knight was this wooden power armor piloted by a dwarf. He beat him, opened up the chest, and saw the little guy inside who said or wrote something about how people bullied him so he built the armor.

I recently looked on reddit and found a guy who has been making a concerted search for at least 4 years! he had this to say about it:

quote:
It is a film from the 80s, maybe 70s. (I probably watched it in the 90's.) Seems to be a medieval fantasy.

The protagonist (young human man) is walking through some woods / forest (which is very dense and dark, but green and has some bright beams of light coming through the leaves). Then, in a small clearing, he meets a huge armored knight. He is tall (2m?) and wide. Maybe he was guarding that path or (part of the) forest - or maybe he was sent to kill the protagonist...

They engage in battle (I think the protagonist was a sword). The knight probably wields a huge and heavy weapon (axe or hammer?), but he is slow. He gets defeated (in a weird/dumb way? Maybe by his own mistake, since the protagonist has a kind heart?).

When the character examines the body of the fallen enemy, there is a "door" on his chest, that he opens (or falls off by itself) and there can be seen a small / little man (dwarf? Gnome?) inside, that dies from the battle a few seconds later. Maybe this "pilot" was naked, or wearing primitive underpants... This small chamber looks very hot (with red lights, maybe?), looked dirty and wet / sweaty (steamy, maybe), and had lots of levers, handles, chains and other "industrial" controllers. The knight was actually some kind of mecha / steampunk armor / mechanical suit / metal body / exoskeleton / robot-like creature...

After that, the hero just goes away.

Impressions I think I have:

the film is not a comedy / comic ?
it is fantasy, but can't remember about magic ?
there was a damsel in distress ?
the protagonist was not "naked" / bare chested (he had clothes on), so it is probably not a barbarian character / film ?
the protagonist was not wearing a heavy armor: he seemed agile ?
the scene I described had a "respectful" feeling to it. The "hero" alnost felt pity for the dying man / foe.

Discarded possibilities:
Hawk the Slayer (1980)
Clash of the Titans (1981)
Dragonslayer (1981)
Excalibur (1981)
Time Bandits (1981)
The Beastmaster (1982)
The Dark Crystal (1982)
The Sword and Sorcerer (1982)
Conan the Barbarian (1982)
Krull (1983)
Conan the Destroyer (1984)
The Warrior and the Sorceress (1984)
Ladyhawke (1985)
Legend (1985)
Mad Max: Beyond Thunderdome (1985)
Labyrinth (1986)
Lionheart (1987)
Mio in the Land of Faraway (1987)
Willow (1988)
The Adventures of Baron Munchausen (1988)
Erik the Viking (1989)
Basket Case 3 (1991)
Snow White and the Dwarfs' Secret (Snehurka a Sedm Trpasliku / Schneewittchen und das Geheimnis der Zwerge, 1992)
Army of Darkness (1992)
other Terry Gilliam's films

What's more is he drew a short animation of the scene based on his recollection! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yA_ejq-rrqM&ab_channel=RicardoCaco It is a fair representation of what I remember too.

I was content to just keep an eye open for it but this guy's been looking for the same movie for a long time, so I feel like I really have to find it now.

# ¿ Mar 26, 2021 12:57

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Gats Akimbo posted:

Where Has Poor Mickey Gone?

https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x7yslgy

# ¿ Apr 11, 2021 11:05

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SolarFire2 posted:

-Sahara, with Humphrey Bogart.

Here's the scene:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5-QM6sUHGhM

# ¿ Jul 9, 2021 05:13

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Sukiyaki Western Django ticks most of the boxes but was released in '07

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9-TGaGa3QAc

# ¿ Oct 13, 2021 10:27

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Leave posted:

This one popped up in a different thread, and sounds like a movie I'd like to watch.

You might have more luck asking in ADTRW because vampires are a super popular anime subject and there's been hundreds of vampires animes over the last 40+ years

# ¿ Nov 5, 2021 04:30

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GBS request:

Raspberry Bang posted:

I�m looking for the ending of this conservative Christmas movie. All I remember is a kid is on stage and there is a cut to a flashback, or maybe some footage of this guys last report, about some soldier in a cheap looking bunker talking about freedom and why he�s fighting. Then he gets blown up. The crowd cries and gives a slow clap.

I have vague recollections of this film being discussed, I think it might have actually been a live feed to the church service back home so they saw the soldier die in real time

# ¿ Mar 16, 2022 05:09

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Origami Dali posted:

Last Ounce of Courage

Gracias

# ¿ Mar 16, 2022 06:40

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Raspberry Bang posted:

I�m searching for a movie that might not exist.

It�s about a submarine that been submerged for awhile and mysterious man just shows up from behind a door and surprises the crew. Or something like that.

There was a scene in The Abyss where one character who has been unconscious for half the movie randomly wakes up and reappears through a door to everyone's surprise

# ¿ Apr 7, 2022 07:54

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The_Doctor posted:

God, Family Guy is utter dreck.

I watched it for years and years and at one point I had to sit myself down and go "You're not enjoying this any more, you know you're just watching it out of habit and boredom, the fact that you're "That one guy who is still watching Family Guy" does NOT say good things about you, just loving stop"

# ¿ Apr 18, 2022 07:14

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Custard Undies posted:

Another request from me.

80s or 90s corny action movie, set around a military helicopter pilot. I remember he uses a flight simulator and they kept raising the difficulty and he kept wining/dominating. And then they told him to change his vision mode or something and then he was terrible.

They figured out a way to fix it by having him drive around in a Jeep with something like a periscope over his eyes.

Probably really obvious.

Fire Birds AKA Wings Of The Apache

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2FyuHA_zAOM

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# ¿ May 20, 2022 14:08

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Alan Smithee posted:

https://www.facebook.com/groups/623904751657544/permalink/999519930762689/

Sry for fb link

Meme of Bunch of dudes running in field on wire work. Live action but not sure about the environment

Turns into them running on trees in forest somehow

It's an ad for the Burberry Outerwear clothing line

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iCbfq_-cd-g

# ¿ Jun 6, 2022 08:30

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Heem posted:

Pretty sure it�s Doom Runners.
Tim Curry was the villain, if that rings any bells.

Nickelodeon's first ever made for TV movie! Made in Australia and featuring a whole lot of familiar Australian faces such as Paul Livinginston AKA Flacco

Here's the entire movie: https://archive.org/details/doom-runners-1997

# ¿ Jun 6, 2022 09:23

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donquixotic posted:

A weathy old man visits an office i guess an accounting firm and the man who works there is dressed casually. Old man asks why are you not in a suit and the response is "it's casual Friday" to which old man says "i hope you're not being casual with my money" or something indicating he thought it was a terrible idea. Could've sworn this was in Fargo but I guess not, maybe the old man actor is similar.

????
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x_9hYMVVv_Q

# ¿ Jun 8, 2022 17:19

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Torquemada posted:

A bit of visual comedy where someone is trying to use an old fashioned opera glass (on a stick) and it keeps flopping around from side to side.

Pretty Woman?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9GZoc8Chd_g

# ¿ Jun 12, 2022 14:21

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Pilchenstein posted:

I want to say The King's Man had that in the trailer.

Yep. Dunno if it counts as a "cool version" though

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0pbLPOrTSsI

# ¿ Jul 2, 2022 03:48

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goblin week posted:

A dog comedy movie, and the villain had a vengeance against the dog because it bit his nuts off before, and at the ends of the movie the dog bites his dick off too

See Spot Run? At the start he bites off a testicle of a Mafia bass and at the end he bites off the other one

"You want we should whack a dog??"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rulqLvdrAU0

Snowglobe of Doom fucked around with this message at 08:22 on Jul 5, 2022

# ¿ Jul 5, 2022 08:16

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Alan Smithee posted:

had one myself. I remember a friend describing a horror movie that came out in the 1990s after seeing it theatrically (around the time Hot Shots part deux came out. Weird timestamp I know). It was also horror, bad guy was powerful but human (appearing?). So either posessed or a disguised demon or warlock type deal. At the end he does battle with a couple druids who use telepathy to move a knife back and forth between them (they may have been tied up?)

Warlock: The Armageddon

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=maH3jQ4EHhY

# ¿ Jul 21, 2022 13:12

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bitterandtwisted posted:

A "comedy" from the 50s or 60s about a husband and wife who get dogs. The wife has several small dogs that cause havoc when she�s not watching. The husband has a big, unruly dog.
There are two Japanese interior decorators who may have been white guys in yellowface who are scared of the big dog and think it�s a lion. At one point the husband scares them by yelling "Rook out, Rion!"

The Ugly Dachshund, 1966
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FLQMQYx4y4s

E: IMDB says that it features Robert Kino (aka Robert Tatsuya Kinoshita) and a young Mako in one of his first credited movie roles
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0061135/fullcredits?ref_=tt_ov_st_sm

Snowglobe of Doom fucked around with this message at 15:11 on Jul 22, 2022

# ¿ Jul 22, 2022 15:05

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Wikipedia has a 'Films about Death Games' page but none of them seem to match as far as I can tell: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Films_about_death_games

# ¿ Jul 25, 2022 13:03

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happyhippy posted:

I think Come and See has a scene where they are considering killing soldiers or guards and one guy just goes ahead and does it and everyone joins in, but that wasn't made recently.
I could be wrong even about this scene, such a long time since I saw it.

The whole thing is up on Youtube, that scene starts at pretty much exactly 2 hrs in:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NJYOg4ORc1w&t=7200s

:nms:

warning: realistic depictions + actual documentary footage of liberated WW2 death camps

Snowglobe of Doom fucked around with this message at 14:02 on Jul 30, 2022

# ¿ Jul 30, 2022 13:59

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Arcella posted:

My wife and I were talking about movie covers we remember seeing in the video store as kids and being interested/scared of them, and I'm trying to identify 2:[/url]

Just so you can get the full video store experience, here's the back of the boxes so you can read the blurbs

# ¿ Sep 2, 2022 04:29

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Rupert Buttermilk posted:

Not a movie, but a tv show. The only thing I know about it is that, in syndication, the studio for whatever reason crammed like almost 200 episodes into season 2.

There's several long running soap operas that average about 200 episodes a year such as General Hospital (15,000 episodes over 59 years), Days Of Our Lives, The Young And The Restless, Coronation Street, etc etc

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_television_programs_by_episode_count

# ¿ Sep 10, 2022 01:30

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Rupert Buttermilk posted:

On a whim, even though I'm almost certain it was live action, I checked The Real Ghostbusters, and season 2 had 65 episodes, whereas the others had anywhere ranging between 8 and 24 per.

Here's a list of animated shows (non-anime and anime) which had a lot of episodes:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_animated_television_series_by_episode_count
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_anime_series_by_episode_count

Crusader Rabbit had 2 seasons of 195 and 260 episodes but they were only 4 minutes long each, not full length episodes

# ¿ Sep 10, 2022 10:04

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DoombatINC posted:

Yeah, specifically a last-season plot thread was one of the minor characters on the cast becoming aware of the cameras / audience / limits of the sets and having a nervous breakdown as a result

There was also that one episode of Fresh Prince of Bel-Air where Carson went insane and smashed through the fourth wall :v:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EFX1NtxkqcE

Actually they broke the fourth wall a whole bunch on that show

# ¿ Sep 10, 2022 20:17

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thehandtruck posted:

I was looking for a movie that was recommended here like, an actual decade ago. I pirated it and never watched it, deleted it, and now I want to watch it again. Could have SWORN it was called Cairo, Nest of Spies, but when I looked that up it's a parody/comedy, whereas the movie I'm thinking of was not, and was made in the 70s I think. If this helps, I did open the movie once just to see if it worked and clicked around the intro and I vaguely remember a black woman dancing in a James Bond intro kind of scene. But yeah this was all a decade ago so who knows how accurate any of this is. Thanks! And Sorry!

edit: it might have been a MOTM once

FWIW, OSS 117: Cairo, Nest of Spies is a continuation/parody of a classic 1950s/60s spy movie series which received critical acclaim and won several awards and a forums search shows that a lot of goons have recommended it over the years

EDIT: here's a list of all the really old MOTMs: https://letterboxd.com/franchescanado/list/cined-movie-of-the-month/page/2/

Snowglobe of Doom fucked around with this message at 22:10 on Sep 10, 2022

# ¿ Sep 10, 2022 21:59

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TTBF posted:

Animation (might have been anime) from the 70s or maybe early 80s where people (including a wizard) play cats like guitars. Saw it on YouTube a year or two ago and can't find it again.

Oruorane the Cat Player [neko hiki no oruorane]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=44YQvek1JZ8

# ¿ Sep 25, 2022 08:21

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Alan Smithee posted:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=erLCGSb56KI&t=1474s

what's this car chase originally from?

Short Time
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PXIZdhoJmY4

# ¿ Sep 25, 2022 12:02

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There's also a pretty common trope where someone shoots at a character and apparently misses but when they take a drink it pours out the bullet holes.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yyxkODGdp1E

Snowglobe of Doom fucked around with this message at 18:58 on Oct 17, 2022

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# ¿ May 9, 2024 21:05

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Torquemada posted:

This is Season 2 of the Netflix Punisher, I think.

I thought it was season 2 as well but it turned out to be season 1 episode 1

Robbery scene:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HqBwpJPnOmk

"Leave town" scene:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DTgLdMb24bE

E: just in case someone was unfamiliar with the show that second clip is :nws:

for gratuitous and extended Tom Waits soundtrack

Snowglobe of Doom fucked around with this message at 09:25 on Oct 19, 2022

# ¿ Oct 19, 2022 09:21

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