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Retro Futurist posted:I’m trying to remember an actor, but I can’t think of his name or anything he’s been in specifically and it’s driving me nuts. He’s a character actor, not a leading man type, and I feel like he usually plays bad guys or at least smarmy types. He’s got one of those kind of tight faces, usually wears glasses and is balding. Kind of reminds me of a skinny John Carroll Lynch. Please help Is there any chance at all you can name the years he was active? Like, you first saw him in 1996 or something like that?
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Megaman's Jockstrap posted:Is there any chance at all you can name the years he was active? Like, you first saw him in 1996 or something like that? Not being able to remember specific things isn't helping but I'm going to say it feels like he's still actively working, but I feel like early/mid 2000s feels right. I keep thinking he was on something like Parks and Rec but I'm pretty sure I'm mixing him up with the guy who played the doctor there.
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Dec 7, 2021 23:23
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Maury Sterling from Homeland? https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0827561/mediaindex/?ref_=nm_mv_close Or these two guys from Fair Game (the not good one from 1995), who I see cropping up time and again, Marc Macaulay and Paul Dillon https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0531333/mediaindex?ref_=nm_phs_md_sm https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0227051/mediaindex?ref_=nm_phs_md_sm Ape Agitator fucked around with this message at 05:09 on Dec 8, 2021 |
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Dec 8, 2021 05:05
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First thing I thought of was the guy who played Ned Ryerson in Groundhog Day. 
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Retro Futurist posted:I’m trying to remember an actor, but I can’t think of his name or anything he’s been in specifically and it’s driving me nuts. He’s a character actor, not a leading man type, and I feel like he usually plays bad guys or at least smarmy types. He’s got one of those kind of tight faces, usually wears glasses and is balding. Kind of reminds me of a skinny John Carroll Lynch. Please help Michael Ensign? Hotel manager in Ghostbusters, businessman in Titanic, conservative politician in the First Contact TNG episode
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Dec 8, 2021 12:38
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bitterandtwisted posted:Michael Ensign? And the realtor in House (with Richard Katt, George Wendt, and Richard Moll). Great campy horror movie.
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Dec 8, 2021 13:46
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I'm starting to think he's an Amalgam character I made up or something 
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Dec 8, 2021 17:24
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Retro Futurist posted:I'm starting to think he's an Amalgam character I made up or something To be honest the first guy I thought of was the dude who played Harry from Total Recall but he's not thin and also no one could forget that guy! "OH YEAH! RECALL, RE-CALL, REE-CAALL!!!!!"
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Dec 8, 2021 20:35
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Megaman's Jockstrap posted:To be honest the first guy I thought of was the dude who played Harry from Total Recall but he's not thin and also no one could forget that guy! "OH YEAH! RECALL, RE-CALL, REE-CAALL!!!!!" Also was Scarface’s boss when he was a dishwasher.
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First thought was Kurt Fuller as he's the first balding smarmy character actor that sprung to mind, but Retro Futurist posted:I keep thinking he was on something like Parks and Rec but I'm pretty sure I'm mixing him up with the guy who played the doctor there. and the comment about darker hair makes me think I'm picturing entirely the wrong physical type. Does he look a bit like the doctor from Parks and Rec? If so, maaaybe Brian Huskey?
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Dec 9, 2021 00:08
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Russell Dalrymple?
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Dec 9, 2021 06:02
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Richard Kind
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Dec 9, 2021 06:06
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feedmyleg posted:Russell Dalrymple? Isn't that Bob Balaban's name in Seinfeld? Also, Bob Balaban?
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Dec 9, 2021 11:58
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This one's bugging me, because I should be able to find it, but I've been over my Letterboxd ratings multiple times over and can't spot it. So: Sci-fi-meets-teen movie. Bunch of kids/young adults, probably 8 or so of them, go out to the Mojave (or some other similar southwestern desert) to have a little break/weekend vacation/party. The specifics of the sci-fi escape me now, but I think they find out that they can't really leave the house anymore, in some sort of Sisyphean turn, where leaving simply brings them back to where they started. It eventually gets some horror inflection, as the number of certain items (cups? maybe?) reflects imminent deaths among the group, and they figure out they'll only be able to leave when there are a certain number of them left, or something? I wouldn't say it's an out and out horror film per se, though. I don't remember any splatter or dwelling on death scenes or anything, anyway. Vaguely remember some scene with hiking out in the desert, and I think someone sorta falls off a small cliff? Can't even remember if they get hurt. Would be very surprised if it was from earlier than 2010, and really can't imagine it was before 2005. That's all I got. It's not +1 or Project Almanac, but it is in that vein. Think it had a relatively bad reception, but I remember enjoying it much more than those two I just mentioned, or many others of its type. Allyn fucked around with this message at 03:14 on Dec 10, 2021 |
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Dec 10, 2021 03:10
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My first thought is that Goatman creepypasta for some reason. They made a short (27mins) film out of that.
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Dec 10, 2021 03:25
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Managed to straight up brute force it by checking every single one of my 3.5 and 3.0 ratings in order until it showed up: Head Count (2018). Apparently much more straight up supernatural horror than I remember. Huh.The_Doctor posted:My first thought is that Goatman creepypasta for some reason. They made a short (27mins) film out of that. But thanks for the effort anyway, appreciate it 
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Dec 10, 2021 04:26
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Allyn posted:Managed to straight up brute force it by checking every single one of my 3.5 and 3.0 ratings in order until it showed up: Head Count (2018). Apparently much more straight up supernatural horror than I remember. Huh. I actually saw that one but I doubt I would have remembered the details you did. Glad you self solved!
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Dec 10, 2021 06:57
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Allyn posted:Managed to straight up brute force it by checking every single one of my 3.5 and 3.0 ratings in order until it showed up: Head Count (2018). Apparently much more straight up supernatural horror than I remember. Huh. Ohh, looking it up, it’s based on the Goatman thing, so I was a bit right!
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Dec 10, 2021 11:45
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Movie from within the past, maybe 10 years? Might've been foreign language. Plot involves a kidnapping/torture, I think. Towards the end, the investigators are closing in on the suspect and in his lair he has like a big vat of piss, because he was using it as a disinfectant.
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WHY BONER NOW posted:Movie from within the past, maybe 10 years? Might've been foreign language. Plot involves a kidnapping/torture, I think. Towards the end, the investigators are closing in on the suspect and in his lair he has like a big vat of piss, because he was using it as a disinfectant. Maybe 'The Treatment' (2014).
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The_Doctor posted:Ohh, looking it up, it’s based on the Goatman thing, so I was a bit right! cause now I'm imagining a world where instead of Slenderman it was goatse that filtered out from the forum into public consciousness and horror pop culture and the potential results are both disturbing and highly entertaining e: "before you die you see the ring"
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Origami Dali posted:Maybe 'The Treatment' (2014). Hmm, maybe? I watched the trailer and it didn't really ring a bell...but I'll look into it more. Thanks!
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My Lovely Horse posted:which Goatman thing Anansi’s creepypasta
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I saw a movie on Netflix streaming maybe 8 years ago? It was an indie flick starring a woman who splits up with her partner and has a breakdown and finds herself. The only details I remember are: (1) the beginning of the movie starts with a flash forward, where the protagonist bumps into someone at the store, gets angry, and wipes her period blood on the other lady (2) the protag works at an ice cream shop with a punk-ish type person? I think it was set in the PNW? I remember almost turning it off after the period blood scene, but the movie actually turned out really good. Thanks in advance!
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Dec 20, 2021 17:06
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500 Days of Summer, maybe?
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Dec 20, 2021 19:01
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Not 500 days of summer - it was a very low budget movie that probably never hit theaters. It had that low-budget digital camera vibe
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Dec 20, 2021 19:32
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OH I found it: it was Rid of Me.
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Dec 20, 2021 19:34
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The lower budget independent "art house" cinema is really hard for people to identify... because hardly anyone watches the films. :P How did you find it? Maybe it will help me find the one I'm looking for.
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I’m embarrassed to say that I found it by searching “indie movie period blood”. I should’ve thought of that first, haha. Try and put together some random stuff you remember about it into a search query and you might get lucky!
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Dec 24, 2021 02:31
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Anime movie about ww2 where a kid is stealing koi fish from a temple. Is that grave of the fireflies or something else?
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Do you associate the film with a feeling of desolation and ineffable sadness at man’s inhumanity to man?
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Dec 29, 2021 18:09
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I think that's Barefoot Gen, an equally depressing (it's autobiographical) but less well-known film about little kids surviving the Hiroshima bombing.
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A while back I was looking for a cheesy fun movie I saw on SyFy back in the day, with Max Payne-esque noirisms a plenty. That movie is Matthew Blackheart: Monster Smasher. So good! We need more movies with outrageous hard boiled one liner observations nonstop. Such a fine artform. Heavy Metal fucked around with this message at 23:38 on Dec 31, 2021 |
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The movie I saw on the Disney channel in the 1980s. It's set in Alaska, has to do with an old guy who just wants to live by himself who accidentally kills some kind of law enforcement and is then subject to a manhunt. One of the people tracking him is a Alaskan native American, at one point the guy walks backwards and snowshoes to throw off the people pursuing him and at the end he causes an avalanche to bury himself rather than give up. Never mind, figured out that it's called a challenge to be free.. PeterCat fucked around with this message at 07:05 on Jan 1, 2022 |
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Heavy Metal posted:A while back I was looking for a cheesy fun movie I saw on SyFy back in the day, with Max Payne-esque noirisms a plenty. That movie is Matthew Blackheart: Monster Smasher. So good! You might be interested in Cast a Deadly Spell.
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And if you're not then you're not my friend 
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Jan 3, 2022 21:34
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For sure, you know I dig that movie! Anything hard boiled is delicious.
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Heavy Metal posted:For sure, you know I dig that movie! Anything hard boiled is delicious. Especially eggs!
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caught a movie on cable sometime in the mid to late 90s. It opens at an outdoor carnival at night (?) there's a clown sitting in a chair doing a finger gun at nearby buzzing flies. When he drops his thumb down, a fly drops to the ground as if shot and killed. All the while there's an annoying kid pestering the clown. The kid starts to walk away off screen and the clown points the finger gun at the kid. As he drops his thumb it cuts to the opening credits. This is the only thing I remember.
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