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DoubleCakes posted:Thanks! Naked Gun 2½. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EvXSwDp9nu4
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MachineryNoise posted:You could also be thinking of Severed Ties (1992). I think this is actually it based on the quick scrub through I did on YouTube, I’ll watch it this weekend to confirm. Thank you.
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TITTIEKISSER69 posted:Simpsons season 12 episode 15, "Hungry Hungry Homer": Thank you friend
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Medullah posted:Is that a Jake and the Fatman reference? Definitely a reference today's youth will get Every so often, I'll remember that this was a show with that title, that aired when I was younger, but still old to realize 'what a weird idea for a show'.
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What was that horror movie that came out a year or two ago, that was criticized for plaigarizing House of Leaves? The whole 'the house has impossible and horrifying dimensions' part, anyway. And was it any good? Worth a watch at all?
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Rupert Buttermilk posted:Every so often, I'll remember that this was a show with that title, that aired when I was younger, but still old to realize 'what a weird idea for a show'. Me but for The Hat Squad, a show whose title and premise live in my memory despite it only lasting one season and that I have never seen a single episode of it. Also, Cop Rock.
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Mister Speaker posted:What was that horror movie that came out a year or two ago, that was criticized for plaigarizing House of Leaves? The whole 'the house has impossible and horrifying dimensions' part, anyway. And was it any good? Worth a watch at all? I would very much like to know this.
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Mister Speaker posted:What was that horror movie that came out a year or two ago, that was criticized for plaigarizing House of Leaves? The whole 'the house has impossible and horrifying dimensions' part, anyway. And was it any good? Worth a watch at all? Do you mean You Should Have Left (2020)? It was okay. Didn’t love it, but I like the occasional side of Bacon.
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Apr 21, 2022 20:43
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You Should Have Left was one of the most unmemorable and inconsequential movies I've ever seen. Juuuuust lively enough to keep you from turning it off and not nearly stupid enough to inspire animosity. I'd skip it.
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That's the one, thank you both. Thanks for saving me the watch. I skimmed a plot synopsis and it seems the house dimensions stuff has very little to do with the plot, but I recall it did really upset Danielewski when the trailer dropped. I don't know if I really want a screen adaptation of HoL. The word "unfilmable" gets tossed around too much, but the book itself is so wrapped up in already being this (alleged) multimedia piece that it would have to be very carefully done, and personally I think I'd be left unsatisfied no matter how they decided to shoot it.
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Apr 21, 2022 22:02
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It’s a movie where you watch a guy watching a movie off screen
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Apr 21, 2022 22:15
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Forget "unfilmable," imagine having to write the subtitles or record the descriptive video VO for a House of Leaves adaptation.
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Apr 21, 2022 22:42
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Danielewsky actually wrote a few episodes of a House of Leaves tv show, but the show itself was never made.
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Apr 21, 2022 23:22
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Good. Not every story needs a movie. And if there's one story I can't possibly imagine being adapted it's that one.
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Apr 21, 2022 23:32
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Kvlt! posted:Good. Not every story needs a movie. And if there's one story I can't possibly imagine being adapted it's that one. I’ve heard the movie “You Should Have Left” is a pretty good adaption of the book
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Well, I wasn't expecting a spoof film although it's so absurd it probably would be.
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DoubleCakes posted:Well, I wasn't expecting a spoof film although it's so absurd it probably would be. That scene is pretty much a spoof of Live and Let Die.
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I didn’t see these mentioned but hopefully someone can help: First movie was I’m going to say late 80’s but set in the 60’s(?). It was about a 13yo spending the summer trying to see the female teacher he has a crush on having sex... like I think it begins with them being given an assignment to set a goal for the summer. I believe it was narrated, and he makes friends with a girl his age who helps him on this essential quest. The only other thing I can remember is that he gets his wish but it turns out his father is cheating on his mom with her. Possibly an uncle. I don’t remember if the movie was any good but it’s been stuck in my head since I saw it years and years ago Movie #2: TV movie by the look of it, early-mid 2000’s. The sun is getting stronger/ bigger/ sending out solar flares? A bunch of people start to mutate, eventually ending up with almost golden looking scaly skin, no hair. It turns out they’re the only ones able to go outside in the new sun. I only caught the back half of it on Movie Central in Canada when I was home sick one day in approximately 2003-2005 if that helps. I’m usually able to find stuff through google or remembering an actor or something but these are my two (stupid) white whales
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The Great Burrito posted:Movie #2: Probably not it, but a long time ago I saw part of some sci-fi movie which seemed to have ecological and metamorphosis themes. Habitat from 1997 with Balthazar Getty.
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This is probably a long shot, but I could use some help identifying a few less-than-half-remembered films from my childhood, as they're kinda stuck in my head. Bear with me on the vague descriptions, I was very young at the time. Also there's a non-zero chance one of them was just a dream I had about seeing a film but the film doesn't actually exist. 1. I saw this movie in class, in first grade, late 1995, and it may have been a European film (we had also watched The Red Balloon in class once, for some reason). It was a live action film, involving a boy and an older relative (I think grandfather), and two sentient, talking, but still completely inanimate, toys. Like, they talked to each other, not the humans, as I recall. I don't clearly recall the exact form of the toys, but there's a sort of sense memory linkage between them and the walking pair of binoculars from Toy Story, so I assume large eyes and a sort of chunky aesthetic were features (they might have been trucks of some kind, but I don't want to get too definitive with such a shaky recollection), and I think they were blue and red. I vaguely recall one scene where the red one was still in, like, the blister pack in a store. I think maybe the kid stole one of the toys or something? But I think I also remember a scene of one of them being discarded? It may have been an educational film of some sort, given the context, but god only knows what it was trying to teach. 2. This was a weekend rental when I was about four or five, so, around 1994. It was a simple animated film about some generic cartoon forest critters (I think; there may have been more variety to the cast) and also a talking balloon (the only character I remember as definitely existing; my fuzzy memory recalls the balloon being either pink or blue, which I doubt is much help). My best guess is it was some small European/Russian film that made its way over here, similar to Samson & Sally (which I owned/drove my mother insane rewatching, though apparently it was Scamper the Penguin that truly traumatized her; they shared a VHS). It had that sort of flat, simple color palette that's the hallmark of cheap children's entertainment (though I recall the actual drawings to have been better than the likes of Dingo Pictures). Now, I vaguely recall there being some sort of covert alien invasion going on in the plot with the balloon as the mastermind and he gets popped at the end, but that whole bit could have been a dream I had after seeing the movie that has since just kinda merged with the film itself in my memory. Or, in fact, I might have just seen the box at the video store, had the dream, and never seen the movie at all. I hold out very little hope of finding the truth behind this one. 3. A made-for-TV movie that I think may have also been an ad, similar to Mac & Me, but featuring a character who was, like, found as the "prize" in a box of cereal and needed water (or, in the film's context, milk) added to take form and do whatever. I could be completely misinterpreting the memory, though, I mostly just remember the imagery of a little shrunken, dried-out looking dude (I wanna say he was yellow and red, like Ronald Mcdonald) and a bowl of cereal, on a back patio, on one of those tables with the parasol in the middle. I was between the ages of three and five for this one, as well. Pretty sure the character was an alien. I do not recall what he looked like rehydrated. I think there were at least two human characters, a brother and sister. This could possibly just be a heavily distorted amalgam of memories of Mac & Me, but watching it on MST3K didn't really clear much up on that front. That's all I got, and if you think that's bad, I've in the past had to piece together from just seconds-long memories from back when I was in, like, kindergarten: The Last Halloween (the Hanna-Barbera special), the 1991 French-British thriller Afraid of the Dark, and It's the Girl in the Red Truck, Charlie Brown (a film starring Snoopy's cousin, Spike, as he plays houseguest to a pair of actual-rear end live-action humans and basically just does some tourism around southern California like a really dull fanfic). I saw a lot of poo poo one could easily assume was just a weird dream back then.
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The Great Burrito posted:
This one is an Outer Limits episode Music of the Spheres
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The Great Burrito posted:First movie was I’m going to say late 80’s but set in the 60’s(?). It was about a 13yo spending the summer trying to see the female teacher he has a crush on having sex... like I think it begins with them being given an assignment to set a goal for the summer. I believe it was narrated, and he makes friends with a girl his age who helps him on this essential quest. The only other thing I can remember is that he gets his wish but it turns out his father is cheating on his mom with her. Possibly an uncle. I don’t remember if the movie was any good but it’s been stuck in my head since I saw it years and years ago This is definitely Just Looking, directed by Jason Alexander of all people. It's a pretty good movie. EclecticTastes posted:3. A made-for-TV movie that I think may have also been an ad, similar to Mac & Me, but featuring a character who was, like, found as the "prize" in a box of cereal and needed water (or, in the film's context, milk) added to take form and do whatever. I could be completely misinterpreting the memory, though, I mostly just remember the imagery of a little shrunken, dried-out looking dude (I wanna say he was yellow and red, like Ronald Mcdonald) and a bowl of cereal, on a back patio, on one of those tables with the parasol in the middle. I was between the ages of three and five for this one, as well. Pretty sure the character was an alien. I do not recall what he looked like rehydrated. I think there were at least two human characters, a brother and sister. This could possibly just be a heavily distorted amalgam of memories of Mac & Me, but watching it on MST3K didn't really clear much up on that front. Aliens for Breakfast, a TV movie starring Sinbad as the alien. I'd totally forgotten about this one until I saw your description. It's based on a kids book that came out a couple years before. I remember liking the book a lot as a kid, and being disappointed with the adaptation. codyclarke fucked around with this message at 15:28 on Apr 22, 2022 |
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Opopanax posted:This one is an Outer Limits episode codyclarke posted:This is definitely Just Looking, directed by Jason Alexander of all people. It's a pretty good movie. Yesss thank you both so much! Going to have to track these down
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codyclarke posted:This is definitely Just Looking, directed by Jason Alexander of all people. It's a pretty good movie. By god, that's exactly what it is (I just googled it and the whole thing is on Youtube, I guess because what company would want to claim that?). I'm pretty amused that it stars Sinbad, given the whole Kazaam/Shazaam Mandela Effect thing. Finally, one he actually did star in.
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I watched a zombie movie ca. 20 years ago, maybe later. All I can remember is that a huge skyscraper plays an important part, and maybe Kris Kristofferson is the bad guy? Probably not K, google results were bad. Also maybe the zombies walk on the ground underwater?
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George Ramero’s Land of the Dead, maybe?
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Ah yeah, that's it. Not Kris Kristofferson, Dennis Hopper.
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EclecticTastes posted:This is probably a long shot, but I could use some help identifying a few less-than-half-remembered films from my childhood, as they're kinda stuck in my head. Bear with me on the vague descriptions, I was very young at the time. Also there's a non-zero chance one of them was just a dream I had about seeing a film but the film doesn't actually exist. 1. Could be "Batteries not included" Grandfather and sentient toys are there. 2. might be a Barbapapa film of some sort.
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yaffle posted:1. Could be "Batteries not included" Grandfather and sentient toys are there. 2. might be a Barbapapa film of some sort. Oh, no, I love Batteries not Included. No, this was a much cheaper-looking production, and the toys were small enough to fit in a child's hand and all plastic. And for the second one, things definitely had more well-defined shapes, like, broadly identifiable as critters of various persuasions. I'm not holding out much hope on either, as one was likely a low-budget edutainment film (it may be relevant that I lived near Boston at the time, actually, if the production turns out to have been regional) and was quite possibly only ever viewed by the students of my elementary school, and the other was probably an equally low-budget eastern European thing cheaply localized and tossed into the memory hole of video store bargain bins (for those who are not as old as me, it was quite common to cheaply localize foreign animation and toss it onto VHS for a quick buck back in the late eighties/early nineties, and much of it would be obscure even in its country of origin).
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Number 1 could maybe be The Indian in the Cupboard (1995)?
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pseudorandom posted:Number 1 could maybe be The Indian in the Cupboard (1995)? That's another film I have actually seen and remember quite clearly, and no, these were toys that nobody would ever mistake for being humanoid, and I cannot stress enough, Hollywood had nothing at all to do with it. Though, focusing on the memory has caused a little more to surface, that being that the toys were, I believe, wind-up toys. Also, in case I wasn't clear enough, I'm pretty sure they had big, googly eyes on their blocky plastic frames. But, yeah, this is something that was probably never seen outside a classroom setting. EDIT: To be more specific, when I say "Wind-up toy" I don't mean the old-fashioned kind with the big key, I mean the kind that was common throughout the eighties and nineties, with the little white nub. EclecticTastes fucked around with this message at 00:35 on Apr 26, 2022 |
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EclecticTastes posted:That's another film I have actually seen and remember quite clearly, and no, these were toys that nobody would ever mistake for being humanoid, and I cannot stress enough, Hollywood had nothing at all to do with it. Though, focusing on the memory has caused a little more to surface, that being that the toys were, I believe, wind-up toys. Also, in case I wasn't clear enough, I'm pretty sure they had big, googly eyes on their blocky plastic frames. But, yeah, this is something that was probably never seen outside a classroom setting. Where The Toys Come From? https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0331711/
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I know the users on it are bleh mixed with  but those weirdos at tvt tropes have catalogued and categorized every single loving trope, major and minor, so while it might take you a while, looking up 'toys come to life' on there should eventually lead to your movie.Same thing goes for any of these where at least some semi-concrete memories and details are still in your head.
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Megaman's Jockstrap posted:Where The Toys Come From? Holy poo poo. I just looked it up on Youtube and yeah, that's it exactly, or else it's the world's most unlikely coincidence. The main moment that's stuck in my memory appears to be about fifty-one minutes and change in, though I completely misinterpreted the context of the visuals. I would not in a million, billion years have guessed that Disney was involved.
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I don't know if it's a movie or a television show, but I'm remembering a scene that's kind of a riff on the Stand By Me leeches scene where the characters are traveling through the wilderness in a lake, one goes "hold up guys leeches" and starts stripping down and taking them off his body when everyone else checks and is fine, and he kind of goes "wait they just got me?" It's a short scene but I'm pretty sure I didn't imagine it? Hopefully?
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Wolfsheim posted:I don't know if it's a movie or a television show, but I'm remembering a scene that's kind of a riff on the Stand By Me leeches scene where the characters are traveling through the wilderness in a lake, one goes "hold up guys leeches" and starts stripping down and taking them off his body when everyone else checks and is fine, and he kind of goes "wait they just got me?" Something very similar to that was in the trailer for the new movie The Lost City https://youtu.be/v82cTiFNoE8
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Wolfsheim posted:I don't know if it's a movie or a television show, but I'm remembering a scene that's kind of a riff on the Stand By Me leeches scene where the characters are traveling through the wilderness in a lake, one goes "hold up guys leeches" and starts stripping down and taking them off his body when everyone else checks and is fine, and he kind of goes "wait they just got me?" Life Aquatic.
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feedmyleg posted:Life Aquatic. Shiiiit this was it thank you!
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EclecticTastes posted:
I am almost certain that this is “Katy and the Caterpillar Kids”. The original “Katy Caterpillar” was a movie about a little caterpillar who’s anxious about turning into a “flying flower”. Then a wise old somebody-or-other (might have been the tree she lived in) gives Katy a book about butterflies. She reads it over and over and learns what to expect and gets excited. She weaves her cocoon, turns into a beautiful butterfly, and it’s all very cute. So naturally the sequel is about an alien invasion.  E: It’s on YouTube! Skip to the 28 minute mark for an awesome hawk singing Almost-But-Not-Quite “Rebel Yell”. 
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