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Sir Kodiak posted:So, this is kind of vague, but it's worth a shot. I'm remembering a movie, I think it had supernatural elements, and I remember there being a red room with some sort of Asian decor and a big spherical fish tank. The movie may have been about a private detective or someone in a trenchcoat, but I'm not certain about that. This movie was not The Prestige. Sounds like the TV Show Twin Peaks. There's also a movie Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me
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Price Check posted:Sounds like the TV Show Twin Peaks. There's also a movie Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me This sounds plausible. I've never really seen the show, but I've seen bits and pieces at other people's houses which is consistent to how I vaguely remember it. Maybe this will get me to finally watch it. Thanks!
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Sir Kodiak posted:This sounds plausible. I've never really seen the show, but I've seen bits and pieces at other people's houses which is consistent to how I vaguely remember it. Maybe this will get me to finally watch it. Thanks! It's a fantastic show. You should definitely check it out regardless. So should everyone ITT.
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Sir Kodiak posted:So, this is kind of vague, but it's worth a shot. I'm remembering a movie, I think it had supernatural elements, and I remember there being a red room with some sort of Asian decor and a big spherical fish tank. The movie may have been about a private detective or someone in a trenchcoat, but I'm not certain about that. This movie was not The Prestige. Big Trouble in Little China? Was it funny or serious.
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At some point on youtube or google video I saw a ridiculous semi-psychedelic soviet era film. It had to do with a kaleidoscope, and in one scene a bunch of people including a guy in a bathtub were fighting over the kaleidoscope. Then it cut to some weird music with a video which was clearly trying to rip off beatles-era western music videos, maybe that's what they were seeing in the kaleidoscope or something? Help me out here, I've googled everything.
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Jul 21, 2013 04:42
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Was there a documentary about a guy who entered tons and tons of sweepstakes, drawings, etc. and won all sorts of stuff? I remember hearing about something like that years ago and it sounding interesting. It may not even have been a documentary in which case just link me to the article or evening news video or whatever it was I saw.
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Jul 21, 2013 12:13
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The Time Dissolver posted:Was there a documentary about a guy who entered tons and tons of sweepstakes, drawings, etc. and won all sorts of stuff? I remember hearing about something like that years ago and it sounding interesting. It may not even have been a documentary in which case just link me to the article or evening news video or whatever it was I saw. I don't know if life imitated art, but this happened in the 80s movie "Real Genius", starring a pre-300 pound Val Kilmer.
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Jul 21, 2013 12:43
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I watched this movie when I was a kid, late eighties or early nineties, on VHS. It was about two high school boys that went hunting in the woods. But the movie was very disjointed and cut back and forth in time, flashbacks and flashforwards to both things that did happen and things that didn't happen. I think maybe the boys ran into some other people who may have ended up hunting them? I'm pretty sure at least one of the boys died before the movie ended. Sorry I can't remember more, it's taken up this really hazy spot in my memory and I'm not really sure how much of what I remember about the movie is even real.
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The Time Dissolver posted:Was there a documentary about a guy who entered tons and tons of sweepstakes, drawings, etc. and won all sorts of stuff? I remember hearing about something like that years ago and it sounding interesting. It may not even have been a documentary in which case just link me to the article or evening news video or whatever it was I saw. You might be thinking about this pudding guy: http://www.snopes.com/business/deals/pudding.asp Also is a subplot in Punch Drunk Love: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0272338/
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Jul 21, 2013 15:34
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It also sounds a bit like Big Bucks: The Press Your Luck Scandal though that's a stretch.
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The Time Dissolver posted:Was there a documentary about a guy who entered tons and tons of sweepstakes, drawings, etc. and won all sorts of stuff? I remember hearing about something like that years ago and it sounding interesting. It may not even have been a documentary in which case just link me to the article or evening news video or whatever it was I saw. There was a Japanese reality tv show about this poor guy who had to live off of giveaways and coupons and stuff like that. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nasubi
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Lots of Luck was a Disney channel folk with that premise.
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I'm looking for the name of an old Black and White Samurai movie I saw at the DIA theater a few years ago. In the movie, a Samurai sits in a castle and tells this long-rear end story about his life and his daugher and son-in-law and betrayal and all this stuff, and at the end of the story he slaughters everyone in the castle. It's sort of like 1001 Arabian Nights but with samurai and lots and lots of blood.
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CroatianAlzheimers posted:I'm looking for the name of an old Black and White Samurai movie I saw at the DIA theater a few years ago. In the movie, a Samurai sits in a castle and tells this long-rear end story about his life and his daugher and son-in-law and betrayal and all this stuff, and at the end of the story he slaughters everyone in the castle. It's sort of like 1001 Arabian Nights but with samurai and lots and lots of blood. It sounds something like Harakiri.
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SaintFu posted:It sounds something like Harakiri. That's the one! Thanks.
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This one time I watched a Turkish TV movie about a humble guy who, at the request of his friend, becomes deeply devoted to a local mosque/temple and a priest figure. He becomes increasingly irate as he delves deeper into his religious service and in the end his sinful dreams and an awful revelations about his beliefs make him go insane and comatose while the mosque looks after him. It was a really good and different movie. Anyone know what movie it was?
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I remember seeing a a movie that was a classic "Guy gets body part transplant but the body part confers part of the personality of the previous body part owner's personality onto the recipient". All I can remember is that the guy got an arm transplant and the drat thing could detach itself at will and go on rampages. I also remember that the guy was trying to control it and was getting better at it? It had like a tentacle as a tail too. I seem to remember one part of the movie had a scene in a sewer or culvert or maybe a cave of some kind? I may have some things mixed up though. I know there are a great many movies with transplant horror stories and there are a few with arms. But this one is kind of distinctive in my memory. e: This movie would probably have been mid eighties to mid nineties, I think.
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Sounds a little like Severed Ties: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0101368/reference
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Or possibly Idle Hands http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0138510/
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There was an 80's or 90's comedy about a smooth-talking Jewish con man, a Curly Howard-style lunkhead, and a British taxi driver. I remember it being called Brain Transplant or something of the sort, but I can't find it on Google.
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Kevin DuBrow posted:There was an 80's or 90's comedy about a smooth-talking Jewish con man, a Curly Howard-style lunkhead, and a British taxi driver. I remember it being called Brain Transplant or something of the sort, but I can't find it on Google. Brain Donors: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brain_Donors
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I got two both from ye olde days where cable networks would eat up late night time slots with 'So Bad It's Theoretically Good Again' Movies. One from TBS or TNT or something with some Texas dude hosting in a trailerpark in the bumpers, and the other I'm pretty sure was hosted by Sandra Bernhardt on USA. The TBS one is just silly. It's got this thing where babies are being born and they're meat eating monsters that devour everything around them. It's really bad, in color, and probably latest release is the 80s. The USA one is a little surreal. It's like a documentary about porno films that has no explicit pornography in it. You see the crew and backstage mostly. The most racy scene I remember is this dude is, ostensibly, loving this girl and the director is yelling "Keep up with her! Keep up with her!" but nearly the entire frame is made up of the woman's face and a little of the guy's face. I don't know if the film was edited to be that way, to make it airable on late night USA, or if it was that way originally. It was at least mostly in black and white and kind of looked 60ish with the hair and clothes.
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zombieman posted:Sounds a little like Severed Ties: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0101368/reference I'm pretty sure this is it! Thanks!
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Most likely It's Alive or one of it's sequels. And the show you are thinking of that played it was Monstervision with Joe Bob Briggs, on TNT. One of the best shows ever on television if you ask me.
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I recall a movie about a GI who travels to small town 'murrica after the war to give a medal to his deceased comrade's parents. Complication: fella was Japanese-American and his parents were lynched by the townfolk. IIRC it had a 60s revisionist western vibe. Any help? Edit: VVV Excellent! Thank you. Great Enoch fucked around with this message at 19:37 on Jul 28, 2013 |
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Great Enoch posted:I recall a movie about a GI who travels to small town 'murrica after the war to give a medal to his deceased comrade's parents. Complication: fella was Japanese-American and his parents were lynched by the townfolk. IIRC it had a 60s revisionist western vibe. Any help? Bad Day At Black Rock: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0047849/
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Light Gun Man posted:And the show you are thinking of that played it was Monstervision with Joe Bob Briggs, on TNT. One of the best shows ever on television if you ask me. Except for that time that he showed Goonies and spent the entire time lamenting on how they forced him to show Goonies and how awful Goonies was. Jackass.
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I'm trying to remember the name of a movie about a Finn/Swede/Norwegian government bureaucrat type of guy who monitors someone in their kitchen, and takes notes on how they eat, cook, etc. I vaguely remember it being about either the Finns conquering the Swedes or Norwegians or some permutation - and the conquering country sends these bureaucrats to people's houses to take notes with the idea of maybe improving efficiency or something. The monitor guy has these diagrams drawn and makes all these notes as the irritated tenant just kind of barely tolerates the fact that this is now happening. The bureaucrat lives in a van outside of the guy's house, and is very straight laced. I believe this movie was made in the last 20 years. It was a kind of a sedate comedy or light hearted drama. I'm 90% certain it wasn't in english. Please help. I'd love to watch it again because I don't remember the ending, and I was telling a friend about it.
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YES! Thanks! I owe you a lutefisk.
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tiananman posted:YES! Thanks! I owe you a lutefisk. That's a terrible thing to do to someone who just did you a favor.
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So there was a Naziploitation film I heard about about a year or two ago and I can't figure out what it is. All I know is that it involved Nazis chasing down Jesus through modern city alleys. Anybody know what this is? Thanks!
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TrixRabbi posted:So there was a Naziploitation film I heard about about a year or two ago and I can't figure out what it is. All I know is that it involved Nazis chasing down Jesus through modern city alleys. Anybody know what this is? Thanks! The Tormentors: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eruYAw_9wn8
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This one might be a bit of a long shot, given the little bits of vague memories I have, but here goes: Saw it on TV in what would have been the mid to possibly late 80's. *May* have been a made-for-tv kids (teen?) movie of the kind popular in that time period. Involved kids being trapped in a basement. They may have broken into an old house? Vague memories of them trying to get out through a too-high window. The thing that really sticks in my brain for reasons I can't figure out is the ending music -- the best description I can come up with from what little I remember is a cross between "Suicide Is Painless" and some of the music from underappreciated 80's Chuck Norris film "Silent Rage." Yes, I realize this is the dumbest mish-mash of vagueness ever, but this one has been bugging me for months, no idea what jogged my memory.
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That sounds vaguely like a scene from IT, though I haven't seen it in a while.
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morestuff posted:That sounds vaguely like a scene from IT, though I haven't seen it in a while. Definitely not IT. Had that kind of "Afterschool Special" kind of feeling.
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Starblind posted:The Tormentors: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eruYAw_9wn8 Whoa.
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ExplodingChef posted:This one might be a bit of a long shot, given the little bits of vague memories I have, but here goes: Not sure about the ending music, but otherwise sounds like The People Under the Stairs
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I'm trying to remember this movie and google is not being very helpful. I think I watched it in the 1990s. I thought it had Ed Harris and/or Nicky Katt but I guess it didn't because looking over their IMDBs I don't see the name of it. It was a fairly independent film but still has a decent sized budget I'd say. The plot of the movie is that a father and son have to relocate people who live next to a lake that has dried up; set around the time of the depression I believe(though it could be later I remember them wearing old style suits and driving an older model car). The name of the movie I seem to recall being a place, like the name of the town or some such. In one scene there is a large boat laying or sitting in a very dried up area. The guy who lives there doesn't want to leave, but eventually they convince him to. I remember liking it at the time and would like to see it again now that I'm older and can appreciate movies that are a bit slower. PaybackJack fucked around with this message at 15:18 on Aug 4, 2013 |
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^^Sounds a lot like Northfork, though that was 2003.
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