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Ape Agitator
Feb 19, 2004

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Acht posted:

This has been popping in my head for years now, so why not give it a try. :)

Horror movie, I think I saw it roughly 25-30 years ago. I recall a test facility blowing up / or something escaping. A scene with a woman looking through a window and I think the monster's head is looking between potted plants.
Also I somehow recall a washing machine.

Sorry I don't have much else to go on.

Give a glance at The Relic. Not an exact match but I think some events might get remembered like that.

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Ape Agitator
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It's really a pretty amazing movie. It's only because it's not obviously a parody movie that people don't give it a chance. The direct wink to the screen when they say "I live my life a quarter mile at a time" is the "stupidest thing I've ever heard" is also great. That was back when Fast and Furious movies were realistic-ish.

Ape Agitator
Feb 19, 2004

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There's also a hair falling out scene in The Craft.

Ape Agitator
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feedmyleg posted:

Alright, I'll throw one out there that may or may not be real. The scene is of a character walking in some sort of a tomb/dungeon/etc. when the floor crumbles beneath them and they nearly fall through. We are then shown the reverse shot beneath them of a much larger hidden cavern with a completely different layer of the tomb/dungeon/etc. with the real path forward inside of it. The hidden space was a long rock bridge over a deep cave/chasm that led to a door or exit on the other side, and there may have been a dais on the bridge that held some kind of artifact.

Perhaps the Allan Quartermain movies from the 80s? Lost city of gold and King Solomon's Mines are both on YouTube, might be worth glancing at

Ape Agitator
Feb 19, 2004

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That or Charles Band. It would take you a while to get through his producer filmography but might be worth the check. Kind of makes me think of a Trancers sequel.

https://m.imdb.com/name/nm0023929/filmotype/producer?ref_=m_nmfm_1

Ape Agitator fucked around with this message at 17:09 on May 31, 2020

Ape Agitator
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sigher posted:

Ok, so I think this might be a mash-up of two films and imagination that I've seen and known for sure, but:

I remember seeing trailers to some film with like... some witches or something in a forest who were part of some tribal/savage clan thing and had dwellings in trees. I remember the savages basically being nude or something and some tit, so I don't know how I this was even a trailer. I remember the word "Brotherhood" in the title, but I THINK it came out around the time that Brotherhood of the Wolf did (2001) so I think I managed to get the name from that film.

So... I think the film I'm thinking of is The 13th Warrior because I remember the group venturing out into the forest and the leader of the savage tribe is female (I believe) but I don't remember any nudity or tree houses. It's probably The 13th Warrior but that came out 3 years earlier, can anyone think of a film like it that came out around 2001? Also I never saw it, just the trailer so I probably made all this poo poo up.

Makes me wonder if some part of King Arthur might have leaked into it. The Merlin being a druid might get you the trees you're after and Keira wears leather boob armor.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LLW0HKJX_sI

Edit: might also be turd fest In The Name of the King although that's several years too late. Kristanna Loken leads a group of trees dwellers though.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L0LE5lMh7QI

Ape Agitator fucked around with this message at 08:42 on Jun 13, 2020

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The go-to school slasher parody is Cutting Class but I don't think it's a reunion. But all of the actors are old playing as kids so maybe it might still work.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=79iQi-2ZL9w

Ape Agitator
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Sir Nose posted:

I don't think it has a class reunion, but maybe Student Bodies? It's pretty goofy.

Good one. Even though it's not it, Student Bodies was the movie I was thinking I was suggesting when I suggested Cutting Class. It's so much more goofy than Cutting Class, : )

Ape Agitator
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Snowglobe of Doom posted:

In the novelization they say "Wow" :eng101:



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

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?

Ape Agitator
Feb 19, 2004

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Davros1 posted:

Everyone should check out this Twitter account:

https://twitter.com/tied_in_film

Posts various movie novelizations from over the years.

https://twitter.com/tied_in_film/status/1264226375700869121?s=20

And now we turn to the Alan Dean Foster Annex, it has 4 floors and celebrates only a fraction of his work...

Ape Agitator
Feb 19, 2004

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:h:

An awesome mix of writing and improv! Thanks!

Ape Agitator
Feb 19, 2004

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Also, unusual for the 80s, they explicitly limited the sexual nature of things although the gender stereotypes are leaned into heavily.

Ape Agitator
Feb 19, 2004

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And your question was helpfully answered by a docent at the Police Academy Academy of the Fine Arts. I used to go before Covid shut us down : (

Ape Agitator
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BioTech posted:

Too old and no gore, but The Thieves is a Korean-Chinese Ocean's Eleven heist movie involving some Japanese and I think it presented the actors as an ensemble cast.


https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2330866/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=28qTsiPhYCI

I know it's not the answer, but I'm going to see the hell out of this. Thanks

Ape Agitator
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Alan Smithee posted:

while ago I was watching iirc Comedy Central playing a movie, it was I wanna say from the 90s synopsis is about a guy scamming the US military pretending to be a contractor with a killer app/weapon? The one scene I remember was a guy in a wifebeater (or something equally nasty and goony) in a motel ranting to the main character that he's been waiting for a phone call that will change his fortunes but for so long (weeks? months?) he's giving up hope. He shoots himself and literally the moment after the phone rings.

Just from the tone, could it be Best Defense? I can't remember the movie clearly enough.

Ape Agitator
Feb 19, 2004

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I'm almost certain this will be very easy. It's a movie that I assume is from like 2005 to 2015 or so. I hope other movies aren't leaking into it but it's about some deadly kid that's being observed in a facility with a lot of concrete. I don't remember if she's supernatural, psychic, or Hanna-like super soldier but by the end some people are dead and they're trying to reason with her. I assume teen/tween kid. I've seen several recent "deadly kids" movies like the Hanna tv series, The Prodigy, and others. I'm almost certain it's the name of the kid (I think a girl) and I think it had a horror movie tilt to it. It would have been a mid-tier recommended movie, like not a big box office movie but the one people would have mentioned or recommended.

The only real visual I can think of is a large concrete room or atrium with concrete steps. Maybe a plastic viewing wall was once in use but the killer kid has overwhelmed whatever defenses they were relying on.

It's killing me because I know it will make me feel dumb when I hear the title. Any ideas?

Edit: I think it would have been in the category of sci-fi/horror.

Ape Agitator fucked around with this message at 09:54 on Jan 4, 2021

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Torquemada posted:

Sounds like Morgan?

Yes, damnit. I knew I'd kick myself as soon as the title rolled in. Thanks!

Edit: Just finished a rental watch. Pretty good overall although it's missing that bit of good writing needed to make the main character's perspective and awareness as interesting as a Blade Runner or Ex Machina character. But good overall.

Ape Agitator fucked around with this message at 01:05 on Jan 5, 2021

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Alan Smithee posted:

there's some great 90s cheese in it and some genuinely decent Total Recall style effects

It's also directed by the same guy as Robot Jox and Re-Animator and he almost always squeezes cool ideas and personality into all of his movies. I'd recommend a watch if only to see what they haul in the future.

Ape Agitator
Feb 19, 2004

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While I don't think it's what you're after, that is the curse/resolution at the end of the Pirates of the Caribbean series.

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SimonChris posted:

I am looking for a movie about a guy who travels to a US state looking for a dude who disappeared down there years earlier. The local authorities try to sabotage him because they were complicit in killing the dude or lynching or something. In the end, the main character defeats the bad guys by figuring out that they have been stealing his mail, which makes it a federal matter!



It's not it but when I was searching I found out that there's a movie about postal inspectors starring Louis Gossett Jr. And it has a sequel with Michael Madsen! It doesn't sound like your movie but I know what I need to see right away.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ULqSeX2iQE

Ape Agitator
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Megaman's Jockstrap posted:

If you guys want an ABSOLUTELY INCREDIBLE story about that sensation - one that literally gave me goosebumps - check this out:

https://gimletmedia.com/shows/reply-all/o2h8bx

It's about a guy who can remember a hit song that literally *no one* else can remember and there's *no trace of it online*. It's wild.

That's absolutely the best!

On the note from the former producers who went into psychology about the theory he'd merged several songs together I had my own merging of things. I was convinced I had seen a skit parodying Alive made during the Phil Hartman era of SNL. I couldn't pinpoint any cast but the gist of my memory was a somber opening followed by enthusiastic survivors chowing down with abandon, having a great time. The killer line I remembered was Where's the dark meat? Oh, that's Passenger 57 In my memory the cinematography, tone, writing, and acting were all 90s era SNL (which I quite liked).

Cue many, many failed google searches, desperate attempts to search when SNL was added to NBC's website and Hulu to eventually find it was a skit on In Living Color that was primarily a Gene Simmons parody that hasn't aged well.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=awKJRRdSr4I

Memory is a fickle thing. Better to live on in ignorance sometimes.

Ape Agitator
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MisterFister posted:

Anybody remember a super low budget sci-fi/horror movie from a few years ago where I think a guy takes a drug and starts running from something and reality starts getting hosed up as he does? This one is driving me crazy because I am starting to think I made it up.

Any other details, like the sci fi setting nature?

Ape Agitator
Feb 19, 2004

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A Shannon Tweed joint?

Maybe Scorned based on the imdb plot? Just a guess though.
https://youtu.be/ovs5pYkhMpM

Whole thing is on YouTube
https://youtu.be/9iZkdNZhbX8

Ape Agitator
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Here's the Tomb Raider version of the knife one

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QyIC147BT7g

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hexwren posted:

this is another one my father-in-law had on the tv (much like the aforementioned nevada smith) and I barely remember any of it

I think it's a movie to do with mexican drug cartels. 2000s-2010s.

the big climactic moment of the thing is (if memory serves) the DEA guy coming over the hill in a helicopter at the last moment while ELO's "do ya" plays on the soundtrack

Appears to be Savages 2012 - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1615065/soundtrack?ref_=tt_ql_trv_7

Ape Agitator
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Hitman from 2007. Someone has kindly uploaded it to YouTube and the scene is about 13 mins in.

Edit: I might be thinking of the sequel, which is too recent. Hold on

Edit2: now I'm down my own rabbit hole. I was certain the plot of Hitman was it but now I've blended two movies together.

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happyhippy posted:

For a friend:

A TV show or movie, where some killer or spy or soldier left their old life behind or had their memory erased. They build a new life as (gardener/chef/tailor/family man) but then they go into a coma or have their memories returned.

Their friends ask them if they are ok and they say, "I was having a dream, but it's over now." The friends say, "What was it about?" and they reply, "I dreamed I was a (gardener/chef/tailor/family man)."

Slight Nowhere Man vibes from this

Ape Agitator
Feb 19, 2004

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My guess after looking at a couple of trailers is that it's the Comic Con trailer. Likely available on YouTube but this is what I just watched and the scene of him tackling the main guy out of the window probably feeds into your carrying up a tower idea.

https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x6pmh6a

Ape Agitator
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I'm blanking on the specifics of the scene, but have a look at Heat when Waingro kills a woman midway through. I remember it was a motel room though so I doubt they'd have had a fishtank.

Ape Agitator
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It's also filmed with a blue tint which could make her race a bit harder to pin down.

Google Strange Days Bako to see some Google images of the scene.

Ape Agitator
Feb 19, 2004

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Wow, I don't remember a sniper plot from that movie at all.

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If it's not that, here's a tv tropes for it: https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/WhenYouSnatchThePebble

Ape Agitator
Feb 19, 2004

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Not that I recall it, but if feels like something you'd find in either One Bitten or either Fright Night?

Ape Agitator
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There's a variation on that in Innerspace with Martin Short and a girl at the grocery store he works with.

You're probably the only person at the supermarket I haven't slept with. And you're the only person I'm even partially attracted to.

Thank you.

Ape Agitator
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I'm getting an odd vibe of it being a time loop/repeat the day movie. One of my favorites was from the 90s and that could be a scene from the middle (not the end). Have them have a look at the trailer:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H35XGYQeIN4

Awesome, whole movie is on YouTube. Whether it's right or not, I recommend as a rough and charming gem of the direct to video 90s


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W3QSdCYSFpw

Ape Agitator
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Maury Sterling from Homeland?

https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0827561/mediaindex/?ref_=nm_mv_close

Or these two guys from Fair Game (the not good one from 1995), who I see cropping up time and again, Marc Macaulay and Paul Dillon
https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0531333/mediaindex?ref_=nm_phs_md_sm
https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0227051/mediaindex?ref_=nm_phs_md_sm

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Allyn posted:

Managed to straight up brute force it by checking every single one of my 3.5 and 3.0 ratings in order until it showed up: Head Count (2018). Apparently much more straight up supernatural horror than I remember. Huh.

But thanks for the effort anyway, appreciate it :)

I actually saw that one but I doubt I would have remembered the details you did. Glad you self solved!

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Light Gun Man posted:

I think that might be this one:
"Sherman Oaks (TV Series 1995–1997) - IMDb" https://m.imdb.com/title/tt0117629/

was on showtime.

This was my guess as well. It fell down the content black hole like so many 90's Showtime series like Bedtime with Felicity Huffman, Rude Awakenings with Sherilyn Fenn, and Beggars and Choosers. I have very positive recollections of all of those series and I doubt I'll ever see them again. I'm guessing they wrote awful contracts back them and lost the rights or something.

Edit: Cool! Sherman Oaks exists!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LUp3kiMs0hI

Edit: They all exist via awesome youtube archivists! Time to either reinforce my impressions or destroy my nostalgia!

Ape Agitator
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Tokelau All Star posted:

Two good guys watch as a bad guy falls horribly to his death, one earnestly asks the other, "You think he's gonna make it?" The other turns and exasperatedly says "No!". I thought maybe the guy who said no was Adam Scott, but I didn't see anything that leapt out at me on his IMDB.

That almost feels like something from The Other Guys or some other buddy chip movie with a straight laced super cop and a goofy idiot.

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Ape Agitator
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Hi, new nightmare.

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