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openCartoon -- boy uses laser to try to be cool
A cartoon I remember seeing on TV in maybe the late noughties or early New Tens. A boy is using a laser (I can't remember if it's Eye Beams, a Ray Gun, or something else) to zap random things, all the while declaring, "I'm cool!"
The part I remember the most vividly is when he passes by a restaurant or a store or something and zaps away some of the letters on the big sign, so the sign now reads, "CLOSED".
openLive Action Movie Scene Film
A women enters a man's office and the man says shit. The movie is live-action, PG-13, realistic fiction.
openA horror film/anthology segment featuring a brutal ending Film
This might've been a full horror film, an anthology segment, or a short film. The decade is surely 2010s (or possibly 2000s?).
The story centers around some main characters (Adults? Kids?) in a cave, where things go wrong. But what I remember is the horrifying ending, which I will spoiler tag due to its violent nature: There were kids in that cave, either dead or controlled by a sinister force. They exit the cave and reunite with their parents, and all seems well... until they start killing their parents, maybe through cannibalism.
openLiterature/OnMyRadar
On My Radar seems to have been deleted from the internet?
Its quotev page seems to have been deleted and the sole editor hasn't made edits in 7 years?
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/el.php?findfor=Lolitroy
Can anyone confirm so we can Move to Darth Wiki?
openInternet compilation video Web Original
I've tried numerous times to copy and paste the information from reddit over to here but it hasn't worked so I'll try this instead: https://imgur.com/Wld38gq
openOld movie about doctor and disabled patients Film
It is an old, live action movie. I remember that at the beginning, a boy is shown to be struggling, with wobbly notes as that differ so much from notes on previous pages. His mom also said that she saw him point at a direction, saying 'Mom, mom' and never spoke again. That boy grows up, becoming a man with a disability. A doctor is the main character (I think), and I also remember the scene where a woman with the same condition as the boy I mentioned does not talk or respond, but when the doctor throws a baseball at her, she catches it. I've seen it once in psychology class in high school, and it now just went into my head. I hope those details will help me, and you, identify it. Those are all the details I can remember.
Edited by edgeofthelemschezopenMovie about dreams Film
I remember about a movie that used to be one of my favorites, from what i remember it was about a girl and her father living together on a farol or sm, dont want to spoil much of the plot but on a part the girl founds some strange man that was on some dream prison that they if they stay they wont woke up, what i was always searching about is the name
openI can't figure out this show Anime
Anime where main character and his two friends travel the world getting stones to find out they need to go collect the monsters they got them from now. In the final battle he starts losing and all the monsters turn on him. It wasn't a long show. Only two seasons. But i can't find it. Help pls
openThe Greatest Story Never Told comic Print Comic
The Greatest Story Never Told has an entry about a Marvel series that I just can't pin down, mainly cause it's written as vaguely as possible (I tried to find it so I could rewrite the entry to be clearer).
"A six-issue limited series from Marvel Comics told the story of a normal human who was down on his luck and borderline suicidal who gets killed right as an extra-dimensional big bad is opening a rift with a magic artifact intending to unleash the embodiment of Death upon the multiverse. His resulting passage through the gate closes it and bonds him to the weapon making him immortal and causing him to be reborn into another universe anytime he dies as only the weapon can end his life. He eventually foolishly returns the weapon to the Big Bad after getting a promise to leave Earth alone and return him there but upon seeing all the deaths occurring, sacrifices his life and dies a noble hero to end the Big Bad's scheme once and for all. Meanwhile back on earth, you see the heartbreaking disposal of his worldly possessions such as family photos in a trash can while being called a worthless loser."
Any guesses?
openReciprocal Actor Swap
(Theatre isn't an option under Select Medium...)
So, Frankenstein (2011) is famous for it's reciprocal Actor Swap, having Benedict Cumberbatch and Jonny Lee Miller alternate the roles of Victor Frankenstein and the Creature. The 2013 Japan production of Mozart L'Opera Rock did the same, with Akinori Nakagawa and Koji Yamamoto alternating as Mozart and Salieri.
My question is, does anyone know of a third example of this — two actors, two roles, alternating? I know that double casting is common in a lot of places, and that there have been actors cast in multiple roles in one production, even playing both Valjean and Javert, but not where the only two actors both did both roles.
Does anyone know of another?
(Incidentally, Nakagawa has also played Victor Frankenstein, in Frankenstein (2014)).
openI am banned from Reddit please help Film
The subject of my thoughts is a movie that I remember vividly the premise is about of group of people getting tortured and murdered in a maze-like building that reminds me of the cube series that is operated by two guys one good hearted guy wearing glases whos hobby is to draw comics well call him (A) and a serious yet still good hearted colege (B) they are bossed around by evil man who has no problem that people are being murdered in this maze like structure some time into the movie (a) does something I can't remember precisely and is punished by being sent with the other people into the maze his fellow worker (b) not wanting to harm his ftind decides to stop the operation buy swallowing a key to the control panel but the evil boss kills him in order to retrieve the key
openNazi commander who escaped justice is sent back in time as a prisoner in his own Nazi death camp.
I saw a clip from this TV show (or was it a movie?) where a Nazi who ran a death camp managed to evade all consequences and is now an old man and somehow gets sent back in time to his own death camp as a prisoner and tries to beg for his life with the commander, tell him "I'm you from the future" or something like that. I'm 99% sure it's not a Twilight Zone episode either. I'm trying to remember what it was.
resolved French crime comedy film Film
a (fairly recent, last ten years or so) French film about a group of people who get coerced into selling drugs? the opening scenes is of a woman (one of the main characters) living with her daughter on an island after the events of the film, and the first few minutes establish the characters of the main group
one of the scenes i remember is where a guy manages to slap three people at once because they try to give back cocaine that they bought from him
at another point in the film, one of the main characters sleeps with the daughter of a drug lord, although he doesn't know she's the daughter of a drug lord
Edited by NoNameLegionopenOld kids movie Film
It was a kid's movie. I only watched 1 or 2 scenes from the very beginning and this was in like ~2005 so I can be wrong about any details. Supposedly it was a kind of scary movie (scary for kids at least) It starts with a bunch of boys playing outside, I think they were playing soccer. Boys no older than 10yo. Then everyone stops because the gang of bullies arrives. One of the boys whispers about the main bully: he killed a dog and sewed it's ears onto his jacket. It's either an American or a European movie. That's all I have. Have been looking for this for over 7 years.
Edited by LisaPopenFamily with wild Animals Live Action TV
I remember that as a child between 2010-2014 I had seen on tv a scene of a family (a man with children) in a tent that was in their house, probably the living room and then some wild animals arrived, (not giants like elephants) one by one one they saw, a parrot, I assure you it is not Ace Ventura or Jumanji from the 90s, also the scene seems to have been done in late 2000-early 2010, please help me find the scene, or I tried to ask on reddit but it didn't work.
resolved Wild West Game Videogame
In the late 90s - early 00s, my family went to Wall Drug and there was a Light Gun arcade game there. It was Wild West themed. The Attract Mode had this big Fat Bastard type yelling, "They call me Nasty Ted!" and then it cut to a handsome guy who said, "I'm too good-looking for jail." I always wanted to play it or find a longplay of it but never found it again.
openCreepypasta chat room
It was a creepypasta about a girl home alone. She kept texting this guy, and it starts innocuously enough, but then she sees someone in her backyard. She continues to text him as the figure enters her house, and it's implied she dies in the end.
I thought it was called "Emily is Away" but when I searched it up, I kept getting the videogame of the same name.
resolved A video clip about not sleeping at night Music
Hello, i'm here because i've got a melody stuck in me head but i can't find out the title of the song. All i can remember is that it was about being a night owl and the singer in the videoclip was a white guy wearing Mc Hammer style gold parachute pants. I know its slim but i also know internet can do miracles, so thank you if my very lackluster description somehow ring a bell to you. Have a nice night
resolved Artists collaboration and competition to create story Webcomic
I once saw a website where a lot (> 20) artists did collaborate to create a story of a giant world where every artist created their own character.
Every week 2 artists had to draw the encounter of their 2 created characters and had to draw how this encounter concluded. Then the work of one of the two artists were selected to be canon.
On the website there was a giant map as a overview and you were able to view all the created versions of the webcomics.
Hello! I remember seeing this certain Super Robot Wars game or manga where Tiffa Adill gets possessed by many spirits, most of them are male. Also, while being possessed her expressions changes and even her tone of voice as well, albeit more deeper.
Unfortunately, I could not remember which specific Super Robot Wars series/game/manga was that.
Edited by Billie1994