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I saw this film on TV in 2002 at the latest (although it looked like a '90s movie). It was about a Four or Five Man Band made up of a bunch of kids*
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Might as well make a shot in the dark.
Live action film, probably released before the new millennium, most likely early-to-mid nineties. This could have easily have been a TV show, but I distinctly remember watching it in one sitting. The plot seemed to be of a realistic version of the life of Merlin, but it might have just been a movie set in medieval times, with no connection to the famed wizard. Alternately, it could have been a story about King Arthur, but I doubt it.
The plot might be thus, as my memories are sketchy: it begins with our main character as a young boy running around his village with several other children, who bully him for being a bastard child or a changeling, I think. After he outwits a guard (possibly with magic?), his mother (could have been an older sister) scolds him.
A little bit later in the movie, there's a man who wants to take the boy's mother as his own wife, but she refuses, as she has to take care of the boy (or she's waiting for the boy's father to return? Something like that). The man tries to tempt the boy to eat a poisoned apple, but the boy knows it's poison because of magic, and refuses. The man leaves angrily, and smashes something.
Eventually the boy goes off to live in a magic cave. I can't remember the rest, but eventually he starts living in a castle—I seem to recall that the baron/king/lord/what have you of the castle was the boy's father, but you don't find that out until the end of the movie. The lord of said castle forbids him to join in the army's training, and there's a time skip to the boy as a grown man. I'm fairly certain the lord gives the boy a pendant plot device with a red dragon on it.
Merlin (as I can't keep referring to him as the boy, eh) for some reason or another wants help from an old man who lives in the magic cave, but the old man has apparently died or vanished.
Instead he's almost killed by another lord, but saves himself through the famed red dragon/white dragon story. This is why I'm convinced the man is the famed Merlin of legend. His companion wants to know how Merlin could see something like the Briton/Saxon feud's outcome in a pool of water, and Merlin's answer is that he didn't—he was just making a story up so he wouldn't be sacrificed. I'm fairly certain that it is heavily implied that Merlin was lying, though.
I can't remember the rest, but eventually Merlin's father and mother die, and at the very end they're buried together at Stonehenge (or someplace like it). Merlin discovers his parentage by finding out that his mother has the same plot device pendant as the one he was given by the lord/king/whatever earlier in movie.
Sound familiar to anyone?
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My dad told me about a movie he saw years ago on cable, somewhere around 1999-2000. It was a science fiction movie(most probably a "B" movie) with a plot about virtual reality, and there was this one scene he kept emphasizing where everything outside of the virtual reality environment was made of cardboard. There was also a scene where people at a factory were assembling cardboard boxes, and he described the movie as being very much like a David Lynch movie. Does anybody know what I'm talking about?
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I'm trying to remember a movie I saw on the Disney Channel (I think it was the Disney Channel), from the late 90s, about a boy from modern times who gets transported to an island where a prince and some companions are trying to beat a pirate to a treasure. The kid joins up with the prince's team and helps fight the pirates. He also befriends a mermaid who suddenly gets legs, but I don't remember how. I can only remember two scenes in particular: one, the boy fills a water gun he brought with him with tree sap, and two, the mermaid's legs turn back into a fish-tail and he has to drag her out of a cave.
Also, it may not have been the Disney Channel, but it seems like something the Disney Channel would show. I don't know if it was a made for TV movie or a movie being aired on TV.
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This might have been Live-Action Television, but I'm pretty sure this was a rental, back in the days when DV Ds were either uncommon or not mass-released at all and rental shows on VHS were even more rare than shows on VHS, period. It may have been shortly after the turn of the century, though.
The only scene I recall at all clearly is a nude, blonde woman (possibly dark-blonde or light-blonde, probably medium blonde, with wavy hair that probably wasn't quite long enough to be the short type of Godiva Hair) walking into a white-tile shower room full of thin steam. The guy who was already in there (with guy-short, black or very dark brown hair) said something along the lines of "You can't be in here!" (and possibly that it was a mens' locker room). The woman's response was to open her mouth, at which point something with lots of arthropodic legs and possibly pedipalps or fangs starts to climb from her mouth, feet-first. From the legs alone, it looked like some sort of cross between a parktown prawn and a spider or scorpion, but with much more flexible joints than any of those have. The scene ended with a Gory Discretion Shot and the guy's screams.
I'm fairly certain the woman was some sort of gynoid (probably a Deceptively Human Robot, to be specific), not just the human host for the arthropodic thing.
Things I recall in bits but which may not actually be part of the same movie: The arthropodic thing was later found dead in the shower room (very likely). The arthropodic thing was genetically engineered, or referred as such onscreen (less likely). The arthropodic thing was referred to as being extremely venomous, and was kept inside a glass phial within the probably-robot girl (fairly certain, but while I recall the concept I don't recall any visual or auditory information). The woman was sent to kill other people onscreen (also fairly certain). There was no reason whatsoever for the probably-robotic woman to be naked, unless it was for distraction or because that's how people dress in shower rooms (that being the sort of contextual mistake that robots often make, the trope name of which I can neither recall nor find) (not sure, but it sounds likely). The probably-robot woman was not shown from the front and from the hips down while nude (almost absolutely certain).
This has been annoying me for years, but I never bothered asking because I didn't think I remembered enough for it to be worth asking until I saw what results the revamped You Know That Show got from far less (and more vague) information.
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Around 2005 I saw a snippet of some movie, and I was completely lost. It seemed to be a dry comedy. There were a couple scenes with a man and a strange woman. I think they were dating. She was unfamiliar with common customs. For example, she thought a vase full of flowers was food. The other character played the part of the straight man, and clearly didn't know what her deal was.
Then there was a scene where two midgets in suits showed up at somebody's door, claiming to be government agents.
For a while I tried to find out what this was so I could make some sense of it. Never succeeded, of course. Then I forgot about it until just the other day.
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There was a movie I watched when I was a kid in the 80s about a boy (or a girl maybe?) and his/her companions battling an evil witch. In my memory, the special effects seem very much like a Henson production. I have vague associations with the Return to Oz film and the Storyteller series.
The main thing I remember is near the end of the movie where the heroes find the source of the witch's power and youth, a vast underground chamber that contains a spreading apple tree. The apples keep the witch young and strong, and I think the tree might be fed by draining the youth out of children or something like that. I think I recall the dark haired woman playing the witch wearing a weird neck-ruff that looked like a bunch of icicles sticking up around her head, but I might be mixing that up with Mombi from Return to Oz.
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I remember a scene in a horror movie where monstrous snakes (stop-motion I think) were trying to kill people. Somebody chopped one snake's head off with an axe, but another snake placed the head back on the neck and it healed.
I don't think this was really a movie worth watching again, but it bugs me that I can't remember what it was.
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I was needing help remembering the name of a movie that came out around the mid eighties to early ninties. There was a family that moved to a large house in the country, where there was a ghost girl who became friends with the boy. He is trying to help her do something I can't remember what she had a doll that was hidden in the well, I think it had diamonds in it or something.
There is another movie as well I only remember a little of it, it is from the late 80s-90s I just rememeber a little kid sleeping in a bed and a little person either a fairy or gnome was trying to hurt the kid while he slept but his cat saved him by knocking the creature into the fan.
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I'm trying to remember the name of a movie. Early on, it has I think about three or four kids playing in the street, one is kidnapped and sexually abused. Later, one of the kids grows up and has a daughter. She gets killed. About the same time, the man who was abused when he was young comes home with blood on him. He says someone tried to mug him. The dead girl's father doesn't believe him, and ends up shooting him. It turn out he didn't do it, the reason he had blood on him is he had caught someone molesting a child that night and killed him.
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It was a film from the late 90s. I know it was either stop-motion or used puppets, but it was a mix of one of those and live-action. This guy was transported to another world and there were all sorts of creatures and monsters. They tried to kill the main character or something along those lines, I think. I know there was something about a monkey? I only saw a snippet of it a while back, so I can't remember much... Thanks in advance!
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Now this was some years ago, but once I watching TV at a late hour in Florida. There was a movie with a blond pale woman and a tall African man. It was like an Adam and Eve story. The two were wandering around a savanna and living off of the land. There was not much dialogue either. Has anyone else even heard of this?
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This is an older (might have been black and white) film. All I remember about it is that it involved a circus, and typhoid fever (or some similar type of disease?). I think the main character was a young boy, and many people including a clown come down with typhoid and die from it. I'd appreciate help in finding this!
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I remember a movie they used to play often on Disney Channel, it was a bunch of kids (siblings I'm pretty sure) who had a recurring nightmare that they all dreamed together, it was this weird dream world and there was a black thing chasing them and in the end the black thing turned out to be their parents arguing. Any help?
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The whole thing is set in France and involves identical twins (they may have been British or American). One girl is a fashion model, the other is a scholar (history graduate student or something like that).
The twin who's a model went off somewhere (she's not responsible type) and asked her twin to cover up for her, so the scholar twin started working (even though they were identical she needed to exercise because her body was nice but not nice enough to be a model).
Then she met an American guy who thought she was the other sister, and he had a bad impression of the model girl, but he thought she's changed because he now falls for her. They end up together in the end.
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The movie I'm looking for is about a futuristic prison. The only clear memory I have about it is that the main character needs, at some point, to escape through a corridor that would freeze him if he opened his eyes or breathed.
If I had to guess, I would say the movie is from the nineties. It has that nineties feeling.
I think the character was also haunted by the imagination of a woman. Maybe she was a dead relative or a lover.
Thanks!
I seem to remember that the prisoners used a necklace that would explode if they didn't stay in a certain area. However, I might be mixing this memory with Wedlock (1991), which I am pretty sure is not the movie I want. I have fast forwarded through Wedlock to check (I find it too awful to watch).
I went through some lists about futuristic prisons and found a potential match: Fortress (1992). I also fast forwarded through this movie and I think it isn't the one. I would say, however, that Christopher Lambert looks like the protagonist I imagine.
I'm sorry if I have commited grammatical mistakes, english is not my first language.
tl;dr: Futuristic prison, freezing corridor, 90s, probably not "Wedlock" or "Fortress".
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http://bogleech.tumblr.com/post/10951917101/this-crazy-alien-puppet-was-used-as-a-screamer
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I remember watching this animated movie that had talking woodland animals, I think. The children of the animals were taken on a journey for some reason. All I really remember was that there was smoke or poisonous gas and the youngest of the animals got sick by it. I kept on wondering if she got better when I watched this as a kid, because the movie wasn't exactly straight-forward and the ending was weird. I just can't remember the name of it. I hope I wasn't too vague; there's a LOT of movies with talking forest animals.