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There's a couple of movies I saw on late night television many years ago. Maybe someone can help me identify them: 1. An action movie in which a Chinese-American policeman goes to visit his sister in the rural town where her husband is sheriff and finds that it is being menaced by neo-Nazis. The climax of the movie is a big martial arts fight between him and the neo-Nazis' shirtless leader in the neo-Nazi base, which I believe was some kind of scrapyard or foundry; he beats the leader, which disillusions his followers, and when the leader tries to attack him from behind he is shot dead by one of his men, who had been conflicted throughout the movie. 2. A blonde woman is kidnapped and held prisoner in a basement by an Annie Wilkes type (who wears a fake pregnancy belly at one point and who I recall had this creepy monologue about veal) and her boyfriend, a creepy bearded guy in glasses; they want her to act as a surrogate for them. The creepy boyfriend disappears at some point (I think the female kidnapper might have done him in; I don't remember) and the two women briefly become friends, but it falls apart when the kidnapper discovers her victim has cut a message into her skin when they're visited by a doctor. At the end, the kidnapped woman's husband finds the house where she's being held prisoner, but the female kidnapper beats him up with a baseball bat. The kidnapped woman gets free after this and starts hitting herself in the belly to try and miscarry the baby she's carrying for the kidnapper. That's all I can remember. I recall it having a title like "In Plain Sight" or "In Open Sight", but I know that wasn't it. They might just have been television movies.
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Jan 28, 2018 23:20
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I believe it's Best of the Best 3. Thanks!
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Jan 29, 2018 17:19
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Pablo Gigante posted:Cord AKA Hide and Seek. The creepy boyfriend is famous weirdo director Vincent Gallo Wow. It looks a hell of a lot cheaper than I remembered. Haha, good grief, it's from same director who did Superman IV: The Quest for Peace.  Okay, there's another one I remember from the same era of sitting up late to watch movies; I was going to ask about it in the last post but thought maybe it was a bit too obscure. It was a thriller movie where the bad guys are either housebreakers or kidnappers; one of them is a taller skinny guy with blond hair and a goatee while the other was a shorter, pudgier balding guy. They target a woman, who I remember being blonde and whose character I believe was partially sighted. They want her to give them some kind of combination at one point and she doesn't know what it is, so she makes it up. Scenes I remember: the main character's boyfriend (?) shows up and reveals that he's in league with the bad guys, then has a fight with the blond bad guy in a workshop or a garage and dies when he's kicked over and falls backwards onto some kind of spike; and the blond bad guy stalks the woman through the same workshop/garage and is beaten when she manages to blind him with a bottle of spray. Wheat Loaf fucked around with this message at 21:41 on Jan 31, 2018 |
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Jan 31, 2018 21:39
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Haha, wow, that was fast. Thanks.
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Jan 31, 2018 22:08
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Here's another half-remembered movie I saw on late night TV years ago. Back in 2005-2006, Channel 4 in the UK did a documentary series called The Dark Side of Porn and alternated episodes with movies like Boogie Nights. One of these movies was about this repressed man who spends all his time renting porn videos and eventually decides to direct his own, filming in his office in secret. Eventually, he secretly records himself having sex with his girlfriend (who he'd been trying to coax into appearing in one of his tapes) and gives the video to his sleazy producer. When his girlfriend finds out, she goes to meet the producer to get the tape back, he follows her with a gun to try and back her up, but it goes off and he fatally shoots her. After he gets out of prison, he goes back to spending all his time watching porn videos. While he was inside, the producer released the video of him and his girlfriend under a title like "Earthly Angel" or something like that. Ring any bells?
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Feb 10, 2018 02:46
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Allyn posted:Does anyone remember a random plot/subplot of a film/TV show where a volcano hits a Caribbean island (Martinique, maybe?) while a prisoner is being transferred into a prison, and he gets abandoned by his guard? If I recall correct, he survives but was badly burnt or something? I was reminded of this today but can't figure out where the hell it's from... Can't even remember if this character was a lead or just an aside or anything That was a real historical event (the eruption of Mt. Pelée in 1902) so maybe there was a dramatisation?
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Feb 13, 2018 00:23
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I'm trying to remember a movie where this doughy-looking middle-aged bald guy with a moustache chases a biker gang who have kidnapped his daughter and goes all Liam Neeson on them; beats them all in fistfights. I think it would've been an 80s movie. It ends with him and his daughter driving out of town and getting stopped by a police officer who knows he's gone and Charles Bronsoned these bikers to death, but decides to let him go and asks, "Do you have any idea how lucky you are?" or something like that.
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Mar 5, 2018 22:51
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Pablo Nergigante posted:Is it Motorcyle Gang? Stars Gerald McRaney aka Major Dad and Jake Busey as the head of the biker gang, made for Showtime in 1994 and directed by John loving Milius lol It looks familiar. I'll have to watch a bit of it and see what comes back to me. Thanks.
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Mar 6, 2018 09:22
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Looking for the name of an 80s thriller involving a detective tracking a serial killer. There's a scene in it where an elderly woman goes down to her kitchen at night, opens her fridge to get something out, then closes the door and the killer is standing there in a balaclava drinking a glass of milk. I'm pretty sure there's also a scene at the end where the protagonist goes to a house where the killer is holed up and I think he finds a dead kid shoved into a washing machine or a dryer or something like that? I might be confusing it with another movie, but I think the killer had a kind of modulated robotic voice and at the end he targets the detective's daughter while she's at home alone. Like I say, might be a different movie.
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Mar 11, 2018 16:27
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Katt posted:Holy poo poo spot on. You are a wizard. Looking at his filmography I don't see any Troubles movies. I liked Gangster No. 1 with him in it, fwiw. Malcolm McDowell and Paul Bettany (it was his first starring role) are also good in it. Wheat Loaf fucked around with this message at 22:58 on Apr 19, 2018 |
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Apr 19, 2018 22:56
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It sounds a lot like Stephen Rea in The Crying Game to me. Do you remember any other characters in the movie?
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Apr 21, 2018 09:03
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My favourite Troubles-related movie is The Long Good Friday which I think is better than most American gangster movies I've seen. I have this theory that Pierce Brosnan's character in that movie grows up to become his character from The Foreigner.
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Apr 21, 2018 15:24
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I asked a while ago about a movie but don't think anybody knew it, so I will ask again and see if anyone has any ideas. This is a movie I saw on TV maybe 10+ years ago during this series of programmes Channel 4 in the UK were running under the theme "the dark side of porn". It was about this nebbish, lonely office worker with a pornography addiction who becomes obsessed with making the perfect porn movie and starts filming homemade movies in his apartment and his workplace. He has a relationship with a porn star that ends when he learns she's secretly been filming them having sex. He meets a girl he wants to cast in his movies and becomes romantically involved with her, then films them having sex and sells it to a sleazy adult video producer. When his girlfriend finds out, she goes to the producer to try and get the tape back and the lead follows her with a gun to try and back her up and ends up accidentally shooting her dead. The movie ends with him sitting by himself in the dark watching the movie he shot with her narrating about how he was in jail for five years but he'll never be free. Something like that. There's a scene early in the movie where the lead guy is chatting up a young woman walking her dog in the park and offers to take her to a musical, then when he comes back later with the tickets her brothers are there and threaten him because he didn't realise she's actually 16.
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Apr 22, 2018 13:42
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It sounds sort of like The Goonies, actually.
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Apr 27, 2018 09:18
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The 'Burbs was going to be my next suggestion too.
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Apr 27, 2018 11:00
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I'm trying to identify an old war movie. It was in colour and I feel like it might have been from the 60s, but I'm not sure. I think it's about a team of soldiers behind enemy lines during the Second World War and there are two scenes I remember: one near the end where one of the main characters is in this rocky pass holding off the enemy (Germans? I'm not sure - I think it may have been set in Europe but it could just have easily been the Pacific) with a machine gun when they cause a rockslide that buries him, and his arm holding his machine gun is shown hanging out from a hole in the pile of rocks; and one where a radio operator, who I think was French, keeps repeating a message (in French, if he was) that sets another guy on edge enough that he eventually shoots him, and another soldier (I think it may have been the same one who was buried by the rockslide) goes, "He was trying to warn us! He was trying to warn us and you killed him!" and the guy who shot him starts crying. One of the many war movies I'd be in the room for when my dad watched them.
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May 13, 2018 18:21
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Can anyone help me identify a movie in which the protagonist was a young woman who was trying to solve a murder at her university, and all of the act breaks ended with a freeze frame that turned into a kind of storybook illustration?
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Jun 29, 2018 11:54
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The Macaroni posted:2) Weird drag scene: a political figure who is clearly a man in drag somehow successfully passes and is embraced by an obnoxious community. Some kind of hacker releases stolen video of the man getting dressed, revealing his secret. is that the one where Warren Beatty raps?
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Jul 18, 2018 14:55
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I saw a movie on television many years ago - I think it was a kids' movie from the 80s and the plot seemed to be about an alien boy who has been mind controlled by some crooks who want to use his superhuman strength for crime, so his sister comes down to Earth and enlists some kids to help her get him back. At the end, the day is saved and their dad comes to pick them up and they all beam up to their spaceship. Does this sound familiar to anyone?
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Aug 30, 2018 18:57
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Was there a film version of The Tempest where Ariel reappears at the end with Prospero's staff and book, prepared to re-enslave Caliban and rule over the island?
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Sep 25, 2018 17:27
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Couple of horror movies I remember seeing on television which I can't remember titles for: One of them took place entirely in the desert and it was about a group of motorists who are targeted by a rogue sniper (who I don't believe is ever seen in the movie) and picked off one by one; I am pretty sure it is not Carnage Park but I believe it was sold as being based on a true story. The other was one with these people trapped in a spooky castle; the characters I remember were a black guy and a blonde woman and the villain stalking them looked like a loving Orc; there was a scene where one of them pretends to be dead floating face up in a pool of water and the Orc stabs them with a harpoon, then another one shortly afterwards where they get to some kind of kitchen or workshop or laboratory where the black guy is going on about how crazy the situation is, and he keeps bending over while he's gasping for breath, then he bends over one last time and suddenly the Orc is right behind him.
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Jan 14, 2019 13:38
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LesterGroans posted:Was the first one recent? Downrange came out last year and is like that. I don't think so; a summary of that movie sounds similar but it would definitely be a bit older than that. It might have been set in Australia, though.
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Jan 14, 2019 14:30
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LesterGroans posted:Could be Wolf Creek, but you definitely see the killer in that. Yeah, it's that one, thanks. I recognise the poster. Reading the summary, it seems that it only had one scene where the bad guy snipes the protagonists. Obviously that's just the one that left the biggest impression on me. Perhaps I conflated it with something else as well.
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Jan 14, 2019 16:19
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LesterGroans posted:It's a really good movie, so you should definitely rewatch it. A few years ago I tried to find and rewatch every movie I'd seen parts of on late-night television when I was younger. I didn't get very far with it because so many of these movies were really bad action movies from the early 90s, but it allowed me to rediscover things like Boogie Nights and Traffic. However, there is one that I've never been able to discover a title for, which I've mentioned a couple of times in this thread. It was aired on one of the terrestrial UK channels (probably Channel Four) which was running some documentaries on video nasties and "the dark side of porn" and it was presumably chosen for its thematic consistency with the latter subject (this is also how I first saw 8mm and, amusingly enough, Showgirls). The movie was about a lonely, nebbish office worker who is obsessed with finding "realistic" pornography as a substitute for his unfulfilling love life, and eventually he decides to start directing his own movies to achieve his vision. He ends up secretly recording himself having sex with his new girlfriend and when she goes to his producer to try and get the tape back, he shoots her dead by accident, and the tape is released while he's in prison. Movie ends with him sitting alone watching the video and narrating about how people said he should have been in jail longer, but he'll never be free.
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Akuma posted:Oh gently caress I saw this too, yeah probably Channel Four! But I don't remember what it was, either... I remember a few other details from it: at the start of the movie, he's spending his time in the local park trying to invite young women to go to the theatre with him, which backfires when he successfully manages to convince a girl who he doesn't realise is underage to see Les Mis with him and he gets threatened by her family when he tries to pick her up; when he starts making his own homemade porn, he gets in troubled for filming it in his office; and there's one scene where he briefly romances a porn star who makes a secret recording of them having sex and breaks up with her after she says something like, "Not so fun being on the other side of the camera, is it?"
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