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Post by progressiveelement on Jul 16, 2017 23:22:37 GMT
Ever thought of a film scene you remembered but could not figure out, and then find out by sheer accident?
Moi:
-I remembered a ghost story with kinda shitty FX but it was enjoyable, but I could only remember the ending took place over a cliff. Thought it was some TV special. I go through a ton of shit on YouTube, and find Lady in White (1988), and thought, oh cool, I wanted to check that out. Turned out to be the very film I had struggled to remember.
-Recalled opening scene of an F-14 Tomcat taking off from a runway. Knew it wasn't Top Gun, it was older. Remember scenes of a ship encountering freaky storm, and a scene on ship involving fairly bloody shooting. Turned out to be The Final Countdown (1980) (which was cut for some time on video, but now uncut, always rated PG).
-Guy in a cave, ragged clothing, cuts a snake up and feasts on it. Surprised to find out it was Capricorn One.
-Remembered freakish nightmare-inducing scenes involving dude tearing a guy's face off, revealing him to be a lizard; weird scenes with a chick in skintight outfit in some kind of chamber, seeing monsters and shit; and girl giving birth to mutant babies, one humanoid with reptilian tongue, the other reptilian with human eyes and teeth. A couple years later, old man tapes V off TV for me and da bro... Did not think it was a primetime TV show that I knew from merchandise friends owned. 😲
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Post by Isapop on Jul 17, 2017 11:35:14 GMT
A couple of scenes from an old movie that I saw part of as a child stayed in my mind, and it would be more than forty years before I would know the movie. The first scene is in a hospital room where a mother is being told not to worry about her child. But then she sees something being brought into the room. The camera focuses on what's written on the item. I was so young that I couldn't read what it said, but whatever it said it caused the mother to become distraught. And the second scene is of a small airplane flying through a severe rainstorm. I remembered those scenes for decades and had no idea what they were from. Then one day I turned on TCM to watch "Made For Each Other" (1939), starring James Stewart and Carole Lombard. And lightning struck me as I watched Lombard becoming distraught when she sees a tank with the word "Oxygen" being brought into her child's hospital room. And I stared in wonderment as, shortly afterwards, a pilot is flying his small plane through a powerful storm to bring the child the lifesaving medicine. It was surprising, to say the least, to sit down to watch a movie with no idea that a decades old question mark was about to be answered. |
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Post by Marv on Jul 17, 2017 13:41:57 GMT
Is lady in white the one where the kid gets locked in the school overnight and experiences some freaky ghost stuff and it turns out to be the janitor. Or it was really the ghost but they arrested the janitor for abusing him? Something like that?
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Post by Catman on Jul 17, 2017 13:45:17 GMT
Catman to this day does not understand why The Neverending Story ended.
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Post by drystyx on Jul 17, 2017 15:31:29 GMT
There's this film scene I remember. It seems there are three men on a boat. One is an oceanographer. Another is a war veteran captain of the ship who hates the oceanographer. And the third is a guy who thinks they need a bigger boat to hunt a shark bigger than the boat. Can anyone tell me what film this is from? I also remember a mayor who said the oceanographer wanted to prove there was a hungry shark in order to get mentioned in the National Geographic.
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Post by Catman on Jul 17, 2017 15:35:43 GMT
There's this film scene I remember. It seems there are three men on a boat. One is an oceanographer. Another is a war veteran captain of the ship who hates the oceanographer. And the third is a guy who thinks they need a bigger boat to hunt a shark bigger than the boat. Can anyone tell me what film this is from? I also remember a mayor who said the oceanographer wanted to prove there was a hungry shark in order to get mentioned in the National Geographic.
Was it Three Men in a Tub, one of the finer entries in the Our Gang series? |
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Post by Marv on Jul 17, 2017 16:13:13 GMT
There's this film scene I remember. It seems there are three men on a boat. One is an oceanographer. Another is a war veteran captain of the ship who hates the oceanographer. And the third is a guy who thinks they need a bigger boat to hunt a shark bigger than the boat. Can anyone tell me what film this is from? I also remember a mayor who said the oceanographer wanted to prove there was a hungry shark in order to get mentioned in the National Geographic.
Sounds like a Marx Brothers movie. |
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Post by Isapop on Jul 17, 2017 16:14:45 GMT
"Was it Three Men in a Tub, one of the finer entries in the Our Gang series?"
Sorry, you're way off.
Here's a clip from the correct answer. It unmistakably matches the description given:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=oFOUqRBWH-I |
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Post by progressiveelement on Jul 17, 2017 19:23:02 GMT
Is lady in white the one where the kid gets locked in the school overnight and experiences some freaky ghost stuff and it turns out to be the janitor. Or it was really the ghost but they arrested the janitor for abusing him? Something like that? That's the one! Ghost was of murder victim, janitor blamed for attempting to throttle kid but it was really... SPOILER!!! ....a friend of the kid's father, a serial child killer, who was looking for incriminating evidence (his Uni ring). |
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Post by Marv on Jul 17, 2017 21:25:50 GMT
Is lady in white the one where the kid gets locked in the school overnight and experiences some freaky ghost stuff and it turns out to be the janitor. Or it was really the ghost but they arrested the janitor for abusing him? Something like that? That's the one! Ghost was of murder victim, janitor blamed for attempting to throttle kid but it was really... SPOILER!!! ....a friend of the kid's father, a serial child killer, who was looking for incriminating evidence (his Uni ring). That terrified me as a kid and I spent years trying to figure out what the movie was called before finally realizing it via help on imdb several years ago. |
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Post by Deleted on Jul 18, 2017 22:03:53 GMT
"Was it Three Men in a Tub, one of the finer entries in the Our Gang series?"
Sorry, you're way off.
Here's a clip from the correct answer. It unmistakably matches the description given:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=oFOUqRBWH-I Lol!!! That's definitely it! Haha |
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Post by Deleted on Jul 19, 2017 0:59:13 GMT
Two like that.
Once when I was a teenager I caught a few minutes of this weird movie on TV over christmas. I had to turn over after a few minutes, but what I saw of it fascinated me. There was no story, no dialogue, no characters, just footage of nature and people and the like, all sped up or slowed down. There was an odd hypnotic quality to it that I thought was amazing. I remember reading the title in the TV guide, but it was some weird word that made no sense to me.
Found out maybe ten years later that it was Koyaanisqatsi. Which I still think is one of the most amazing movies I have ever seen.
Then another time I saw an animated short on TV. It was set to Ravel's Bolero, and seemed to be some weird take on the process of evolution. I spent year and years trying to work out what it was. Then eventually the internet came along and the world started to turn into one where you could find out pretty much anything just by typing it into Yahoo (back then). How did we ever find anything out before the internet?!
So one day I googled "Animated movie bolero evolution", and out popped "Allegro non troppo". Which is awesome.
Here's one that I've never tracked down. It was an old movie, black and white. It involved a woman living in a large house, with her husband, possibly others. But there are these monsters in the house, little creatures only a foot or so tall. Only she ever saw them, and everyone else refused to believe her - they thought she was going mad.
The scene I remember is that she's at a dinner table, with a napkin in her lap, and one of the creatures grabs it and tries to pull it off. And she has a death grip on this napkin, trying to hold onto it, and all the while trying to look to everyone else as if there's nothing wrong.
It's an image that always stuck with me, that this woman was in absolute terror but at the same time had to not show any sign of it to anybody. I really wish I could work out what the movie was.
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Post by Marv on Jul 19, 2017 1:57:38 GMT
Dont be afraid of the dark?
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Post by Marv on Jul 19, 2017 1:58:10 GMT
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Post by theoncomingstorm on Jul 19, 2017 3:56:17 GMT
This is only semi-related but I'm not starting a new thread. The first time I watched From Dusk 'Til Dawn I had no idea what it was about and didn't pay enough attention to the title to really figure it out. So I'm watching this shit figuring it's going to be either:
1) A family that develops Stockholm Syndrome after being abducted by two criminals.
2) George Clooney would be forced to kill Tarantino because the weird bastard tries to rape the girl.
3) The father was actually one of the criminals' all along and they had planned in advance for him to pick them up and sneak them into Mexico where he would collect his share and there would be drama when his kids figured out what was going on.
4) The family was even more criminal than the criminals and would end up killing Clooney and Tarantino both before embarking on a huge crime spree of their own.
One thing I was not at all expecting---FUCKING VAMPIRES!
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Post by Catman on Jul 19, 2017 4:03:40 GMT
Catman was surprised that Kenji really didn't crack the OZ code.
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Post by Marv on Jul 19, 2017 10:46:29 GMT
This is only semi-related but I'm not starting a new thread. The first time I watched From Dusk 'Til Dawn I had no idea what it was about and didn't pay enough attention to the title to really figure it out. So I'm watching this shit figuring it's going to be either: 1) A family that develops Stockholm Syndrome after being abducted by two criminals. 2) George Clooney would be forced to kill Tarantino because the weird bastard tries to rape the girl. 3) The father was actually one of the criminals' all along and they had planned in advance for him to pick them up and sneak them into Mexico where he would collect his share and there would be drama when his kids figured out what was going on. 4) The family was even more criminal than the criminals and would end up killing Clooney and Tarantino both before embarking on a huge crime spree of their own. One thing I was not at all expecting---FUCKING VAMPIRES! I was young when I first saw that. Probably 12. So the movie didn't hook me right away. I mean the gunplay is cool but I was over my cousins house and the whole family was watching it so I was kinda distracted. Then they got to the strip club and me and my cousin got a little more interested. 12 year old and boobs, ya know. Then they all turned into vampires and I was like 'This is the greatest movie ever!' Years later I really appreciated the first half and the story they were building up and start to wonder how good a movie it could've been had it continued to be a crime drama and not fallen into a goofy vampire flick. |
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