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Two tv shows, both from back in the late 80s or early 90s... 1) it was entirely or almost entirely puppets in a medieval setting. Might've been based on Robin Hood, not sure. 2) Edit: ok, so I had no idea that The Waterville Gang was made in the 70s, so my other requests might have also been made then. Edit 2: found the 2nd one, and it's this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8EjfrLCiu1k Rupert Buttermilk fucked around with this message at 13:05 on May 18, 2021 |
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Rupert Buttermilk posted:
Eureeka's Castle?
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Arnm616 posted:Eureeka's Castle? I just checked, and no, that's not it, but that does look great.
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May 18, 2021 16:33
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feedmyleg posted:Could it have been TV? There was lots of obscure TV fantasy for kids, and a frog man seems more fairy tale than fantasy. Fairy Tale Theatre had a frog prince episode so that might be it. It could have been a TV thing. I'll poke around
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May 18, 2021 19:09
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My Lovely Horse posted:Not immediately but was it like, early 20th century/1920s silent movie black and white? The star going through this well-rehearsed routine in one unbroken shot? yeah, its definitely Keaton-esque. but more of a late 40s / early 50s vibe, I'm almost positive it wasn't a silent film. I did some googling and no luck. I either saw it on like TCM or maybe in film studies
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May 18, 2021 19:13
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A MIRACLE posted:yeah, its definitely Keaton-esque. but more of a late 40s / early 50s vibe, I'm almost positive it wasn't a silent film. I did some googling and no luck. I either saw it on like TCM or maybe in film studies There are a lot of scenes like this, it’s so prevalent that Jackie Chan parodies the office savant sequence in Police Story, for example
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May 18, 2021 21:36
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Rupert Buttermilk posted:Two tv shows, both from back in the late 80s or early 90s... There was a version of the Frog Prince done with the Muppets in the early 70s. I remember seeing it on tv in the late 80s and early 90s--maybe on Nickelodeon? https://muppet.fandom.com/wiki/The_Frog_Prince
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Someone described this movie to me and I haven’t actually seen it but here we go: A woman and a man meet and have a very short, passionate love affair for a few hours and then for some reason split up, never to see each other again. The woman writes a song about it which ends up being a huge hit and she becomes famous. The song is a super idealized version of the man and their relationship. Years later the man shows up again, but she doesn’t recognize him. He tells her who he is and she refuses to see acknowledge it- because having the song is better than having the real thing.
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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
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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 The only thing IMDB lists Do Ya being on the soundtrack of is an episode of LAX, although I dunno how complete IMDB is.
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May 20, 2021 21:45
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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 Appears to be Savages 2012 - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1615065/soundtrack?ref_=tt_ql_trv_7
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Ape Agitator posted:Appears to be Savages 2012 - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1615065/soundtrack?ref_=tt_ql_trv_7 I'm at work so I can't look up clips on my phone, but I'm 99.9% sure this is it, thanks
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taco show posted:Someone described this movie to me and I haven’t actually seen it but here we go: I absolutely remember this movie existing. It was about 15 years ago I think.
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There’s this short film I watched probably 15 years ago on Showcase. It’s a short heist movie where the protagonist is one of the other crooks’ dumb brother or friend or something. They’re robbing a bank and you see the other crooks being a dick to the protagonist and then everything goes wrong. Then it tracks backward and you see that actually he intentionally causes it all to go wrong, and he gets away, I think with the money. I think it was black and white. Any ideas?
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Jordan7hm posted:There’s this short film I watched probably 15 years ago on Showcase. It’s a short heist movie where the protagonist is one of the other crooks’ dumb brother or friend or something. They’re robbing a bank and you see the other crooks being a dick to the protagonist and then everything goes wrong. Then it tracks backward and you see that actually he intentionally causes it all to go wrong, and he gets away, I think with the money. That ALMOST sounds like "Before the Devil Knows You're Dead", but not quite. poo poo, I need to rewatch it, plus the one you're talking about, if it's discovered.
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I'm trying to remember an amazing documentary I saw. The subject was a photographer, a schlubby overweight dude, and he would go to crazy lengths to capture one perfect photo. Like spend months location-scouting and hours shutting down streets and positioning models and whatnot. You start the film thinking it's insane to go to these length and then end it thinking he's a goddamn genius. Edit: Nevermind, scrolling Google eventually came through. It's Gregory Crewdson: Brief Encounters PostNouveau fucked around with this message at 07:43 on May 29, 2021 |
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May 29, 2021 07:33
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PostNouveau posted:I'm trying to remember an amazing documentary I saw. The subject was a photographer, a schlubby overweight dude, and he would go to crazy lengths to capture one perfect photo. Like spend months location-scouting and hours shutting down streets and positioning models and whatnot. You start the film thinking it's insane to go to these length and then end it thinking he's a goddamn genius. I really enjoyed that one. I knew who he was and what he did before watching but I didn’t understand the scale of his work, true genius.
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DRINK ME posted:I really enjoyed that one. I knew who he was and what he did before watching but I didn’t understand the scale of his work, true genius. Yeah, his work is astounding. Just googling I've found that he's allowed a lot of behind-the-scenes shorts since that doc too. It's awesome just to see any glimpse behind the curtain because his work has so much going on that it's a joy to hear him discuss it. One of the recent ones: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GARXqyRfFcY
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May 29, 2021 08:14
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An early 90s neo-noir that has a female crime boss choke out a cop with her legs while she's handcuffed in the back of a car and he's driving.
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May 29, 2021 18:54
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PeterCat posted:An early 90s neo-noir that has a female crime boss choke out a cop with her legs while she's handcuffed in the back of a car and he's driving. Romeo is Bleeding, I believe. Trashy. https://youtu.be/utFeHmJ1iUw
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therattle posted:Romeo is Bleeding, I believe. Trashy. Nice, thanks!
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therattle posted:Romeo is Bleeding, I believe. Trashy. That scene is amazing. I’m a huge fan of any film where a person can kick out a windshield, shattering it, with their bare feet. It’s almost 70s kung fu.
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From 10-15 years ago. An assassin is looking though the scope of his rifle, and while he's looking, the target is taken out by another sniper. The assassin may have taken a first shot and missed, and then saw this after reloading. The target is some politico or something, on a stage at some sort of outdoor rally.
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Sir Nose posted:From 10-15 years ago. An assassin is looking though the scope of his rifle, and while he's looking, the target is taken out by another sniper. The assassin may have taken a first shot and missed, and then saw this after reloading. The target is some politico or something, on a stage at some sort of outdoor rally. Shooter with Mark Wahlberg?
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If it's not Shooter, I recall Vantage Point had someone being shot at a political rally.
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Pretty sure that also happens in Jack Reacher
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Jun 2, 2021 05:38
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morestuff posted:Pretty sure that also happens in Jack Reacher
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I haven't seen it since I was a child but I feel like that was Assassins. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assassins_(1995_film) The synopsis makes it sound like that happens.
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That's a good shout, I've not seen it since the 90s but I'm pretty sure you're right.
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LesterGroans posted:Shooter with Mark Wahlberg? Pilchenstein posted:If it's not Shooter, I recall Vantage Point had someone being shot at a political rally. morestuff posted:Pretty sure that also happens in Jack Reacher rodbeard posted:I haven't seen it since I was a child but I feel like that was Assassins. Thanks, good suggestions, but it's none of those, I know for sure I haven't seen any of them. I figgered the scenario I described probably occurs in more than one movie... EDIT: Urban environment with old buildings, European or old US city (so not Los Angeles, etc.) Sir Nose fucked around with this message at 07:45 on Jun 2, 2021 |
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Jun 2, 2021 07:23
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Machete has a similar scene
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I think Most Wanted had a similar scene
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Purple Gromit posted:Machete has a similar scene Also the fake Machete Grindhouse trailer before it got made into a real movie. That was my first guess.
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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. Ape Agitator fucked around with this message at 17:16 on Jun 2, 2021 |
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Jun 2, 2021 17:10
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I think there's a scene like that in Grosse Pointe Blank.
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Ape Agitator posted:
If it's any consolation I went down the same rabbit hole last night, certain that the assassination from the start of 2007's Hitman was it
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zombieman posted:I think there's a scene like that in Grosse Pointe Blank.
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I'm trying to remember a movie from the late 80s, early 90s. All I remember is a scene where there is a Japanese dude on a train fighting ninjas. There is a part where some ninjas throw throwing stars at the guy and he knocks them out of the air. After the action is done, feds come in to investigate. While they're all still on the train, a fed says to the Japanese guy that they need his sword as evidence. The Japanese guy doesn't want to, but then he's like fine. He drives the sword into the floor of the train, and then breaks it in half. The only other scene I remember is this guy going to a sword maker and being like I need a new sword to kill the main villain with. That's all I got.
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Re: assassin film- Still not there yet. I've seen Grosse Point Blank and the Machete stuff, it's not them. And I've never seen Most Wanted or the Hitman films. Arrgh. I know once someone puts out the correct title, I'll recognize it instantly.
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Topo Chico Debarge posted:The only other scene I remember is this guy going to a sword maker and being like I need a new sword to kill the main villain with. That's all I got. That reminds me of Kill Bill, but it's a woman requesting the sword.
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