What's the movie "with the guy and the animals and he rides the turtle home"? Cryptic text message from a 23-year-old who may be slightly inebriated has us wondering.
posted by reren
on Oct 29, 2011 -
17 answers
What Spanish language movie is
this?. It is currently playing on a Station I believe is called galacinema at a Mexican restaurant. Is campy horror movie.
posted by travis08
on Oct 29, 2011 -
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Movie - This kid creates a force shield bubble using his computer and he and his friends go into space with it. At one point I remember him putting the bubble around one of the friends and tunneling him into the ground.
Anybody remember this one. It's been driving me crazy for months.
posted by mrflibble
on Oct 25, 2011 -
9 answers
I have the vaguest of memories of a TV movie I may have seen around the mid-80s, possibly on public television. Could have been British, or at least set in the UK. It was somewhat creepy, at least it was to young me at the time. It was about a family wherein one of the boys had magic powers. My only real memory is a shot of this boy putting his hands into a kitchen counter as if the kitchen counter were soft clay or a portal to another dimension, drawing some material out of it, and making a little sculpture of an animal (lion?) Young me found that special effect surprisingly unnerving. I thought it might be a
WonderWorks production but none of the titles seem to match. Ring any bells for anyone?
posted by doift
on Oct 23, 2011 -
2 answers
HiveMind, I need your help in figuring out a name of an actress. All I have is a vague memory of her, but I don't have enough evidence to search properly. Here's some of the gut feelings:
1) Female, in her 20s (at the time)
2) Movies took place in the early 1990s, possibly though 2000
3) I think she's a red-head, but possibly a brunette
4) Usually has a bitchy demeanor, possibly a villian... but a minor villian, like a sidekick
5) Has a large amount of sex appeal
6) Tight facial features, especially around the eyes and cheeks.
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posted by miasma
on Oct 21, 2011 -
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Now that itunes has release the Movie Trailers app, I'm unable to find the full listing of trailers in the itunes store to download for offline viewing to my ipod touch. I like to watch them at work where I don't have wifi access. Any thoughts?
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posted by Draccy
on Oct 20, 2011 -
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What movie or TV show was this? This has been nagging at me for years!
Around 1978 or 1979, when I was 7 or 8 years old, I remember seeing a creepy teaser on TV for an upcoming movie, or episode of something, in which a man wearing dark glasses is speaking to someone off-screen. He says something like, "Don't go in there, kid, unless you want to end up ... like
this!" And then he removes the dark glasses, and instead of eyes he has two things that look like raised, white ridges with horizontal slits cut into them. Something like
Inuit snow goggles, but set into the eyes instead of connected in the middle.
I never saw the show and this is literally all I remember about it. A friend of mine thinks it might be
The Omega Man, but I'm pretty sure it isn't.
posted by Ratio
on Oct 10, 2011 -
6 answers
What is the large red sculpture in LA? I was watching
Ruthless People and noticed the final ransom drop took place in front of a large metal sculpture. To my mind, this sculpture looks like the Flamingo sculpture in Chicago. The scene can't have been filmed in Chicago, so what's the name of this similar sculpture in LA?
posted by Monochrome
on Oct 9, 2011 -
3 answers
I need my memory jogged on movie series where the sequel film takes place in the "real world" and the original was a movie. (Spoilery examples inside)
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posted by arniec
on Oct 8, 2011 -
10 answers
Name-the-MovieFilter: Help me identify the name of this heartwarming movie I saw as a youth. Orphanage moving, with much difficulty, very far away. I think there was also a nun.
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posted by RolandOfEld
on Oct 5, 2011 -
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I'm looking for a German movie, over ten years old, where the main character is a woman obsessed with preparing for her own death.
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posted by Foam Pants
on Oct 3, 2011 -
3 answers
How much money did Brad Pitt earn for the movie Moneyball? I've done some searching, and maybe I'm inept, but if so, can someone enlighten me? Or are such figures not normally made all that public?
posted by ottimo
on Oct 2, 2011 -
2 answers
Can you name any songs or movies which feature palindromic structures? In terms of music, I don't mean notes or lyrics, but the sections, eg, CVCBCVC. Movie patterns would be more loose, but one could be settings, eg, starts out in a house, then a car, then a plane, etc, ends in a car, then a house. Another pattern could be the entrance/exit of characters.
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posted by TheSecretDecoderRing
on Sep 23, 2011 -
21 answers
ID this horror film that featured a bunch of people trapped in a house, someone sliding down a rope bare-handed, and a hole in the ground that opened into hell?
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posted by sillymama
on Sep 22, 2011 -
5 answers
So, there's this movie. It involves a beautiful double-amputee woman and a man, and I think they're in love. I believe there's a prisoner dynamic. Pretty sure it was a mindfuck scenario, very bizarre, and possibly directed by the daughter of a big name. Any ideas?
posted by jingle
on Sep 21, 2011 -
2 answers
Help me recall which movie features a determined maniac lifting up a coed and impaling her on deer antlers above the fireplace?
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posted by jabberjaw
on Sep 21, 2011 -
4 answers
What's the best mobster movie for every country (other than America) that's ever made a mobster movie?
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posted by Afroblanco
on Sep 21, 2011 -
31 answers
I'm looking for movies on audio downloadable like an mp3 album, perhaps divided into tracks by chapter. Where on the web can I find this?
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posted by herbplarfegan
on Sep 17, 2011 -
3 answers
MovieFilter: Transportation planner looses his job. He ends up pitching his plan and gets his job and girlfriend back.
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posted by jjonajason
on Sep 16, 2011 -
4 answers
Trying to ID a movie from someone else's description: Basically, the movie consists of the camera moving from tent to tent; within each tent is a group of people playing flamenco music.
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posted by Karlos the Jackal
on Sep 15, 2011 -
7 answers
Can you recommend movie scores that sound like the OST for
Brick? Organic and evocative, particularly like the last 5-10 seconds of that trailer. Almost like music that's been made without using traditional musical instruments. Words like jangly or handmade come to mind. Thanks!
posted by Bobby Bittman
on Sep 14, 2011 -
13 answers
What is this movie I can only recall one scene from? Starring James Earl Jones.
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posted by zardoz
on Sep 13, 2011 -
3 answers
Can you name the movie or TV show
this image is from? Looks like a classic sci-fi film, though I can’t tell if the set is a spaceship or a submersible.
posted by scamper
on Sep 11, 2011 -
8 answers
What are the must watch movies on Netflix Instant? Any era, any genre.
posted by Ad hominem
on Sep 9, 2011 -
37 answers
The 2010 French movie "
Point Blank" -- who is singing over the credits at the end of the movie? She is great, the band is great, it's a hot song, but I saw no mention of the song/band/singer as the credits rolled, and I cannot find reference to this anywhere online, aside from other people wondering who is singing also.
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posted by dancestoblue
on Sep 6, 2011 -
3 answers
In 2005, on Delta Flight 627 operated by Alitalia, somewhere between Chicago and Milan, an Italian film was shown to the mostly empty cabin. After six years, I have been unable to locate it -- any help?
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posted by nickrussell
on Aug 30, 2011 -
2 answers
Give me movie recommendations where the main character "wants it all". (money, sex, health, etc)
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posted by Patrick Leo
on Aug 23, 2011 -
32 answers
Name that movie filter: Parents have decided to raise their children (at least 2 daughters, maybe a son) in total isolation from the modern world. It's a fairly dark tale, I heard it reviewed on NPR sometime this year, but can't remember the title. Anyone?
posted by arniec
on Aug 23, 2011 -
4 answers
Does anyone know how to hunt down an animated film they used to (or still do) show at the Smithsonian's
National Museum of Natural History? It was attached to the marine life/oceans exhibit and was about the origins of life and natural selection. Absent finding a copy of the film online, does anyone else remember seeing this?
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posted by whitewall
on Aug 20, 2011 -
6 answers
Questions about biology, genes, humans and apes, courtesy of the movie Rise of the Planet of the Apes. SPOILERS WITHIN.
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posted by Brandon Blatcher
on Aug 19, 2011 -
8 answers
Give me horror films that purposefully defy or invert the traditional conservativism of horror movie conventions.
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posted by shakespeherian
on Aug 16, 2011 -
33 answers
What are some movies with a true narrator? In which the narrator is not a character in the film.
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posted by zardoz
on Aug 15, 2011 -
48 answers
Please help me find more movies about journeys leading to or because of a death. (I promise, my interest is not as morbid as it may first appear!)
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posted by royboy
on Aug 15, 2011 -
43 answers
Help me remember the name of a movie, please? Here's what I (think) I remember: 90s or 00s setting, foreign-language with subtitles, set in European local, possibly Scandinavian, overcast skies, commuting to work via train. Plot revolved around a man who lost his job, but did not tell his family, he just kept going into the city every day. Fuzzy on anything else...
posted by Exchequer
on Aug 10, 2011 -
4 answers
Catch-up-the-North-American-filter: Please suggest films that I can watch to get up on the socioeconomic situation in Britain, leading up to the current unrest. Bonus if it's streaming on Netflix. Documentary or not.
posted by toodleydoodley
on Aug 10, 2011 -
23 answers
Help me find an only partially remembered short film I saw in the internet back in 2000 or 2001.
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posted by 1f2frfbf
on Aug 10, 2011 -
3 answers
What was that movie: I watched a trailer more than a year ago of a documentary where they interviewed a guy who claimed he had predicted the 2008 crisis and nobody listened to him. That's all I remember. Any clue?
posted by buck:fuller
on Aug 7, 2011 -
6 answers
