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Davros1 posted:Hard Target or Surviving the Game? Goddamn I've been searching for Surviving the Game for years. My kid self was a fan of Mario Van Peebles thanks to Highlander 3, and I've confused him and Ice T.
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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. So, this wasn't a movie, but you have basically outlined the plot of one of the Kings Quest adventure games. 2, 3, or 4, I want to say.
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May 26, 2020 21:52
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You're the enslaved servant to a wizard in KQ3, while in KQ5, you defeat that wizard's wizard brother by a similar shapeshifting duel. Knowing Roberta Williams, it's quite possible both scenarios where inspired by the movie the OP is looking for.
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May 27, 2020 03:37
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I don't want to say it's not a promising lead, but that kind of shapeshifting duel is also pretty firmly entrenched in folklore and probably pops up in a lot of places.
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Snowglobe of Doom posted: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. THANK YOU SO MUCH. Because although you were right about it being different, it was indeed weirdly similar. And so by doing research into Krabat, I was then able to find the actual film I was looking for. Thank you! On wikipedia I read articles about Krabat, and The Sorcerer's Apprentice, and found that both Krabat and the Disney Fantasia bit with Mickey Mouse are all variants of an archetypal story, named after a 1790s German poem, "The Sorcerer's Apprentice", where he creates lots of brooms that end up flooding a castle. (The basis for the Disney cartoon.) A common variant of this archetypal story is known as "The Master and his Pupil" or "The Magician and his Pupil", which ends in a transformation duel or transformation chase. So I then started doing searches for "The Master and his Pupil" or "The Magician and his Pupil" or "The Sorcerer's Apprentice". Of course searching for The Sorcerer's Apprentice just got stuff about the Mickey Mouse bit of Fantasia, or a 2010 Disney film with Nicolas Cage. And searching for The Master and his Pupil or The Magician and his Pupil got various stories similar to what I was looking for, but not the actual one. I'd previously searched for "animated film about a wizard who turns into a spider", no luck. Thanks to it being related to the Sorcerer's Apprentice, I tried searching for "animated film about a sorcerer who turns into a spider", still no luck. Finally, I searched for "animated film about a sorcerer who transforms into a spider" - and it seems that was the magic word. (Pun intended.) Because after several pages of google results to do with spider-man comics and cartoons, and Dr Strange, and the Disney Sorcerer's Apprentice, and so-on, finally, on PAGE 5 of the google results, I spotted this, a PDF file of someone's academic text about children's books and films about magic, especially ones related to the Sorcerer's Apprentice... https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/add7/96ecf217c79deefcf134583eeba62c404bea.pdf google posted:pdfs.semanticscholar.org › add7 PDF So while most of that seemed to be about the Disney thing, that last chunk seemed relevant. So I opened that up, searched for "spider", and on page 65 found this... The Sorcerer's Apprentice - Semantic Scholar posted:Perhaps the most interesting films since 1945 that have explored the underlying tensions and complexities of “The Sorcerer’s Apprentice” tales are two short films, one a ballet directed by the multitalented Michael Powell, The Sorcerer’s Apprentice (1955), and the other, an animated film, The Sorcerer’s Apprentice (1980), directed by the gifted Canadian filmmaker Peter Sander... (By the way, that same academic text has a bit about Krabat as well.) Anyway... Holy poo poo, it's actually called THE SORCERER'S APPRENTICE. The bloody same name as the Disney Fantasia bit, and the 2010 Nicholas Cage movie, and that Czechoslovakian Krabat film. It's narrated by bloody VINCENT PRICE, and a bit of googling indicates it was nominated for an academy award for best animated film. So you'd think it would be well-known. Except nowadays it is so obscure it doesn't have a wikipedia article! Not only that, the wikipedia article about the Sorcerer's Apprentice poem mentions the various films it inspired - including the Disney ones and Krabat - but doesn't mention this Vincent Price film! Anyway, by knowing it came out in 1980, was directed by Peter Sander, and narrated by Vincent Price, I was able to find it on YouTube. The video quality is poor - not only is it ripped from a VHS, but it was uploaded years ago, when you could only upload short chunks of video at low resolution. It's never been released on DVD or on any streaming service, it seems it's been forgotten about for decades. There's also a more recent YouTube upload with slightly better picture quality, but the sound is awful, constant loud hissing, and when you're watching something narrated by Vincent Price, you don't want bad sound quality. So, I hereby present... a very blurry version of "The Sorcerer's Apprentice". https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BADwDBcv95w https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UAW4n7zBieg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d8fcWbN3XvI
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Hell yeah good digging 
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What movie is this from? https://twitter.com/tornado5007/status/1265624375564304384?s=20
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May 27, 2020 13:53
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Triumph of the Will
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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. 
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May 27, 2020 15:19
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ilmucche posted:So there's a movie I saw that I think takes place in a future dystopia kind of thing. The only scene I can remember is the main character (who I think is a cop?) goes to visit a gangster who has used his debtors as living statues. He has them all in hosed paralysis but with wires connected to their nerves and stuff so he can torture them. I think at the end of the movie the gangster dies but I'm not sure on that. there is a bit like this in the Riddick: Dark Fury short movie https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Chronicles_of_Riddick:_Dark_Fury
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May 29, 2020 12:03
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About 25-ish years ago, living in $username, I saw a movie on TV a coupla times. French movie, and I could've sworn it was Sophie Marceau, but none of her filmography jumps out as this movie. I barely remember it, I believe it was some kind of coming-of-age movie. The two scenes I remember are: 1) Near the beginning of the film, the protagonist's... brother or lover comes home drunk at night. Protagonist is in the house's garden, or looking out the window. The guy pees in the garden's bushes, and she says something like "i hate that you pee in our garden" to him 2) Towards the end of the movie, she's at fancy villa that has a pool that is both indoor pool and, through a connecting tunnel (as part of the pool) also an outdoor pool. Anyone remember this?
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May 29, 2020 21:35
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Is this Stealing Beauty?
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Torquemada posted:Is this Stealing Beauty? That's what I was thinking.
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May 29, 2020 23:45
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Nope, definitely made in the 80s
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May 29, 2020 23:57
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I'm trying to remember the name of a crime film, it was about a kidnapper and ransomer that targeted other criminals. I think it was made in the last decade.
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May 30, 2020 01:12
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Clearly no one ITT has ever seen Stealing Beauty.
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Seen it, barely made an impression. Pretty people sitting round a pool is like 50% of the movie.
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Dmitri-9 posted:I'm trying to remember the name of a crime film, it was about a kidnapper and ransomer that targeted other criminals. I think it was made in the last decade. Could be A Walk Among the Tombstones.
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May 30, 2020 15:48
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SolarFire2 posted:Could be A Walk Among the Tombstones. Sorry no. It was a noirish film but more psychological and less action. Also the kidnappers targeted children of criminals if I remember correctly.
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Dmitri-9 posted:Sorry no. It was a noirish film but more psychological and less action. Also the kidnappers targeted children of criminals if I remember correctly. Payback?
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Dmitri-9 posted:Sorry no. It was a noirish film but more psychological and less action. Also the kidnappers targeted children of criminals if I remember correctly. Was it that one with Hugh Jackman and Jake Gyllenhaal?
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A sci-fi movie, rented from Netflix on DVD back in the late 2000s/early 2010s, and it was probably made in the 2000s, based on quality. It was in English, and probably American or Canadian. Had a year in the title (like 20xx), and maybe Mars was in the title as well? It was the second film in a trilogy, we accidentally rented it out of order. Earth has been blown up by aliens, and there are two kinds of aliens, the regular grey aliens and then alien-cyborgs made to look human. Stars a bald, light-skinned Black man with a mustache as the lead good guy, and the only other character I remember is a very buff woman who played a good guy cyborg-alien. Has lots of cheesy one-liners, like a woman is captured by the aliens and tied to a wall, and the alien torturing her has a drill bit come out of the top of his fist and he says, "You're screwed". Also has the line, "We don't just kill our enemies, we rape them too", which was a riff on a line in the first film (which we ended up watching after this one), "We just kill our enemies, we don't rape them too" (I do not remember context or anything else about those weird rear end lines). I tried going back through my Netflix history, but it only goes back to 2014.
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May 31, 2020 01:52
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Sounds like a Roger Corman production
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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 |
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May 31, 2020 15:56
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Charles Band has an insanely large output of barely an hour shared universe lovely horror movies that somehow survived the death of video rental stores despite forming his company to sell direct to video rental stores.
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May 31, 2020 16:20
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Licensing out his catalog to services like Tubi and forming his own streaming service probably help keep Full Moon afloat. That, and producing softcore porn on the side.
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Ape Agitator posted: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. Origami Dali posted:Sounds like a Roger Corman production Thanks for the suggestions, but neither one panned out. I do appreciate the link to Charles Band. I'm hosting a bad movie night for friends and he has some horrible-looking stuff.
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Skutter posted:A sci-fi movie, rented from Netflix on DVD back in the late 2000s/early 2010s, and it was probably made in the 2000s, based on quality. It was in English, and probably American or Canadian. Had a year in the title (like 20xx), and maybe Mars was in the title as well? It was the second film in a trilogy, we accidentally rented it out of order. Earth has been blown up by aliens, and there are two kinds of aliens, the regular grey aliens and then alien-cyborgs made to look human. Stars a bald, light-skinned Black man with a mustache as the lead good guy, and the only other character I remember is a very buff woman who played a good guy cyborg-alien. Has lots of cheesy one-liners, like a woman is captured by the aliens and tied to a wall, and the alien torturing her has a drill bit come out of the top of his fist and he says, "You're screwed". Also has the line, "We don't just kill our enemies, we rape them too", which was a riff on a line in the first film (which we ended up watching after this one), "We just kill our enemies, we don't rape them too" (I do not remember context or anything else about those weird rear end lines). I tried going back through my Netflix history, but it only goes back to 2014. Maybe Recon 2020/2022/2023 trilogy?
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There was a horror movie coming out before everything shut down that looked good. 2 kids stuck in a cabin with their step mother/dad's girlfriend and she starts going crazy. Anyone remember the title? E: The Lodge, found is 2 seconds later
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GoldStandardConure posted:there is a bit like this in the Riddick: Dark Fury short movie This is pretty much it except I've never seen that movie and am pretty sure I saw it with real people. auugh
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Retro Futurist posted:There was a horror movie coming out before everything shut down that looked good. 2 kids stuck in a cabin with their step mother/dad's girlfriend and she starts going crazy. Anyone remember the title? It came out, and it’s a horror thread favourite!
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Hello This is not a movie I'd seen, but I've gathered the info - although it's scarce, hopefully it's enough, and I'm interested in seeing it: The premise of the movie is that a group of friends try to encourage the protagonist to do something, I think it's something bad/illegal, but the memories are vague on that front. At one point, there's a party, during which it's revealed that the whole group was actually recruited to do the encouraging, and are basically actors. Two of them (who played a couple a couple) revealed the ruse, and the fact that they both are gay. It was seen about 10-12 years ago. No clue about the cast. Hopefully someone here knows this movie:)
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[quote="Mooseontheloose" post="505044694"] I remember watching 3 minutes of a movie and I can never seem to find out what it is... When I was younger, I was watching WNDS (a ind. New Hampshire station) that used to show all sorts of movies and this looked like a 70s or 80s movie, I am guessing horror. It was two military guys who are in a cave or in the jungle trying to find their way out and they are arguing they are going in circles, one of the guys says that he has been dropping ammo as a maker and they've come back and pulls a bullet out of the ground. I've never been able to find out what this movie is! it might have been What Waits Below where some soldiers get lost in a cave https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0088392/
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Szurumbur posted:Hello This sounds vaguely like it could’ve been Go: https://m.imdb.com/title/tt0139239/
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Russian Guyovitch posted:This sounds vaguely like it could’ve been Go: https://m.imdb.com/title/tt0139239/ I was going to say this. There’s a bunch of stuff there that could be misremembered bits of Go. Go is a really good movie, by the way. Watch it even if it’s not the one you’re looking for.
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Russian Guyovitch posted:This sounds vaguely like it could’ve been Go: https://m.imdb.com/title/tt0139239/ Veni Vidi Ameche! posted:I was going to say this. There’s a bunch of stuff there that could be misremembered bits of Go. I've no idea if that's the one, but I'll check and we'll know - if it's a good movie, no waste in watching it anyway. Thank you very much!
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A spaghetti western where a clown gets involved in a shootout in a corral? Also, repost Milo and POTUS posted:I remember a short film I saw on IFC years and years ago about a bunch of old men hiking in some germanic speaking country and they all get stuck one by one in a bog or something and resign themselves to die. I remember liking it but not if it was actually you know good. I think it might be noregian, danish or swedish but not positive. At the end of it all the old men start singing. I think some young woman out hiking discovers them while they're all trapped waist deep or something lol.
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Older Japanese horror film, I believe it was in color. Probably 1970s. I think a man killed his wife or vice versa. The only image I remember is her/his corpse being tied to some sort of plank and floating back up out of the fog to terrorize the murderer. I think at one point the husband looks up and sees his wife's body suspended from the ceiling as well.
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Could it be the Chinese movie Hex? It's about a man tricking his wife into believing she killed him so that he can dress up as a ghost and give her a heart attack. She then haunts him for real. I think I remember the ceiling bit.
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