I just heard a radio interview with Zach Braff about his Kickstarter film project. It was mentioned that it is illegal for him to share the film's profits with his Kickstarter backers. Why is that?
posted by donajo
on May 4, 2013 -
3 answers
A friend of mine is trying to remember the name of a documentary they once saw and Google has failed them. I'm forever touting the skill and speed with which the AskMe community solves dilemmas like these, so don't fail me now! Here's what she asked me:
I saw a documentary about a man who was representing himself in a lawsuit or series of lawsuits -- I think the government had filed them against him for sending threatening letters. Something about defending his land and eminent domain... He had a wife that he met in a foreign country. She was a lot younger than him and she moved to the US and married him. They were both chain smokers and used a plastic fork as a cigarette holder. They lived in a trailer that was a mess and full of document boxes of his "research" for his case. And they had a few big dogs.
posted by ErWenn
on May 1, 2013 -
2 answers
The other day I was watching the movie and like the font. First I thought it's TNR then I thought maybe some Sans but I couldn't figure out.
I loved the clean spacious fonts. Which one was it?
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posted by amar
on Mar 29, 2013 -
3 answers
Hazy recollections: A group of young adults move into a snowbound cabin as part of an experimental reality television show. They come to realize that sicko voyeurs are betting on who will die next or who the last survivor will be.
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posted by 99percentfake
on Mar 23, 2013 -
5 answers
Sci-Fi movie identification halp. Watched a movie when I was a kid that I thought was Futureworld, viewed Futureworld recently, beginning and ending are totally different. And yet certain things/scenes meshed. Am I imagining things? Maybe meshing two different films?
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posted by disconnect
on Mar 6, 2013 -
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On a recent rewatch of the original Alien and Aliens films, I realized something puzzling.
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posted by orrnyereg
on Feb 23, 2013 -
11 answers
There was a movie that came out last fall that we spaced about and missed during its theater run. We want to pay to see it now to support movies of this type and by this filmmaker. Within reason, what is the
best way to do it?
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posted by getawaysticks
on Feb 21, 2013 -
7 answers
I was watching this film on my previous laptop via TV-Tuner card and right then my laptop had crashed. I didn't check channel name and newspaper for the film name at the time, and now I can't remember it. It was at least before May 2010(I was watching the film in college and this when I left college - jic it helps though I am not sure if the film released recently at the time)... It was a train scene in the wilderness.
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posted by amar
on Feb 12, 2013 -
10 answers
Writing a script, need a few believable, throwaway lines for a character. A guy running a TGI.Friday's-like bar praises his bartender, a math genius, for giving him an idea that saves money and improves the business overall. An example of outside-of-the-box thinking that enforces that our math-genius-in-disguise really is a genius. Bonus points if the idea skirts the line of legality -- something funky with accounting, maybe?
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posted by Cool Papa Bell
on Feb 9, 2013 -
22 answers
I feel like I should be able to find the translation with Google, but it is proving more difficult than expected. I would love to know what they were saying in the Vietnamese parts of this
movie.
posted by monkeys with typewriters
on Jan 21, 2013 -
2 answers
The movie was released in the late 1990's early 2000's. It's a movie set in LA in the 70's or 80's. There's a murder (or beating?) at a nice house over a drug deal.
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posted by roboton666
on Jan 17, 2013 -
8 answers
I remember watching a movie that was made in either the late 80s or early 90s which was set in a mental institution (or possibly rehab facility?). What was it?
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posted by cheerwine
on Jan 15, 2013 -
9 answers
There's a character in the 1955 movie "French Cancan" who wears a very fancy uniform. He wears a light blue double-breasted jacket with white braid and bright red pants with stripes on the sides. I think it is some kind of old fashioned military dress uniform. You can see the outfit
0.26 seconds into the trailer (warning:there are 26 seconds of cancan dancing first). My question is:
(1) What sort of uniform was this? Or is it just a costume they made up for the movie?
(2) Where/how could a modern person most affordably get a similar outfit of sufficiently good quality to wear around town at fancy occasions that are not Halloween?
posted by steinwald
on Jan 13, 2013 -
9 answers
I'm pretty sure this was a movie, a woman is in an interrogation room with two way glass. Whoever is questioning her gives her a quarter and says to call someone who cares. He leaves the room, she smashes the edge to make a sharp bit, traces a circle on the two way glass and punches through.
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posted by abitha!
on Jan 11, 2013 -
3 answers
Name that science fiction story / movie: Two people in love with each other are trapped in a box. The box is possibly in some alternative dimension with a Panopticon-type God person. I think the story was written by a famous sci fi author.
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posted by Apropos of Something
on Dec 30, 2012 -
3 answers
Please help identify this 1980's movie: A drug dealer named "Butchie" is forced to overdose on his own supply
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posted by 99percentfake
on Dec 7, 2012 -
6 answers
Early Christmas Present filter: We got a new tv last night. Help us decide on the best movies to watch to "break it in"
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posted by PuppetMcSockerson
on Nov 30, 2012 -
29 answers
When I was a teenager I rented a VHS copy of a Steven Seagal movie (I was young, but it's no excuse) got the video back home and another film was in the box. I cannot remember the name of the film and I believe I will die unhappy if I don't get an answer to this admittedly unimportant but frustrating question...
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posted by redskythinking
on Nov 6, 2012 -
19 answers
I'm looking for an online video from a couple years back. It is a short scifi movie shot in the first person, which features a scientist waking up in a lab, looking out the window to see a giant tower shooting a beam into the sky, and then grabbing a black cube with lights on it, which appears to have some sort of strange powers. It was hosted on a website which had some other seemingly related material. I don't know if it was from an ARG, or a standalone video, or what, but I'd really like to watch it again.
posted by cthuljew
on Oct 4, 2012 -
4 answers
I've seen The Twilight Zone. I've seen The Outer Limits. I've seen Tales From the Darkside. I've seen (and, puns notwithstanding, was bored by) Tales From the Crypt. I've seen Night Gallery. What else is there for me to see?
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posted by windykites
on Sep 14, 2012 -
41 answers
Weird question: Is there a place I can register my newly-acquired vintage car for use as a movie prop?
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posted by mibo
on Sep 6, 2012 -
10 answers
What's that movie? Heist film where a sharpshooter fires a metal pellet into a lock from a distance.
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posted by tomble
on Sep 4, 2012 -
3 answers
I love Robot Chicken. I love the 100th Episode. When our hero escapes, he returns home to find a dvd waiting to be played. What movie does
this scene reference, when the Mad Scientist catches himself in the mirror?
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posted by Sayuri.
on Aug 22, 2012 -
10 answers
Stupid question: Should I read Hunger Games 1? I've already seen the movie. This is normally a no-brainer because usually book >> movie: in this case, I have seen the movie first and have the book on-hand already, plus tonight I have a book swap and dibs on many other books that I don't know yet! Bonus: your opinion on reading parts 2&3.
posted by whatzit
on Aug 22, 2012 -
32 answers
Help me identify this recent New Zealand movie about teenagers who return from a camping trip to find their city under attack.
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posted by jschu
on Aug 10, 2012 -
5 answers
There are SPOILERS in this question. I was wondering if anyone knows the breed of the second dog in the movie The Wake Wood, starring Aiden Gillen.
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posted by guitareste
on Aug 8, 2012 -
7 answers
OK Woody Allen fans, I've got a question for you. In the movie "Play It Again Sam" he has a date with a woman. What is her name? Her monologue goes something like this (I originally performed it in French) "Before tonight the doctors affirmed that I was frigid. Thank you for proving the contrary. When Dick and Linda spoke of you, they described you as a monster of intelligence, but they never told me that you were also a savage beast". I need the character's name for my resume. Thanks!
posted by Jandoe
on Aug 2, 2012 -
4 answers
Name This Film: I'm trying to remember the name of a dystopian/SciFi film I saw years back in the 90s, could have been from the 80s. The premise must have been similar to City of Ember, with a kid or teen in an underground city. I remember pipes or tubes featuring prominently, and think they were in the title too.
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posted by ts;dr
on Jun 16, 2012 -
5 answers
What are some recent (last ten year or so) Korean film that's worth watching?
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posted by Carius
on Jun 13, 2012 -
40 answers
What strange sci-fi movie or show am I sort-of remembering from ~20-22 years ago featuring a woman giving birth to an egg through her belly button?
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posted by shortyJBot
on Jun 9, 2012 -
8 answers
What early to mid 70s (probably made for TV) sci-fi movie am I half-remembering?
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posted by kimota
on Jun 9, 2012 -
11 answers
I saw a British movie in the late nineties that had a woman falling in love with a cross-dressing man. Any ideas?
posted by Tell Me No Lies
on May 25, 2012 -
4 answers
At the risk of sounding like an idiot, I have some questions about The Avengers (the movie). Mild spoilers inside.
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posted by crapples
on May 19, 2012 -
22 answers
Please help me find the names of three vaguely recalled movies from my past: a teen flick from the 80s, a dubbed (possibly Italian) horror film from the 70s, and a scifi adventure from the 60s (maybe)?
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posted by coolxcool=rad
on Apr 29, 2012 -
13 answers
Name that movie! I am trying to recall the name of a movie I saw in the early to mid 2000s. It was a thriller drama, maybe classified as horror (although I don't remember it being particularly gruesome). It offers an explanation for some of the thousands of unsolved missing persons cases by following a cross country truck driver who is a serial killer.
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posted by click
on Apr 17, 2012 -
11 answers
I saw a movie twenty years ago that appeared to be set in the 70s, with a high school student who loses his virginity in a sleeping bag in an abandoned house, but I don't know much else.
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posted by philosophistry
on Apr 16, 2012 -
3 answers
What font did Alfred Hitchcock use for the intertitles in his 1928 silent comedy
Champagne?
Sample here. Identifont and WhatTheFont have both failed me. I'm looking for a free replica or close match.
posted by Faint of Butt
on Apr 9, 2012 -
2 answers
What is this mid-80's martial arts movie with two kids and terrible editing? It's not "No Retreat, No Surrender".
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posted by Cat Pie Hurts
on Apr 5, 2012 -
4 answers
