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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?
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
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 NoNameLegionopenFamily 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.
openMovie 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
openOld 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 LisaPresolved 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
openSitcom from the 90s to early 2000s
I remember a scene from a sitcom that must've aired sometime in the nineties or early two thousands. In the scene, the Dad tells his sons he has superpowers and used his super speed to see if they cleaned their rooms. When his older son is skeptical, he claims he's just jealous that his little brother has superpowers and he doesn't. The younger son asks what his superpower is and the Dad says he can shoot fire out of his tongue when he rolls it up. Naturally, the little boy tries breathing fire.
openMafia TV show, long episodes 10-20 years ago
Can you please find a show for me here is its plot 2 kids lost their mom, mafia killed her and want to kill these kids as well cuz they saw too much one random woman is running away at the start when she took the kids they ran away with a boat from one harbor with them to somewhere else this woman does not know much about them but knows their mom got killedshe is trying to save them by contacting police firstly but unfortunately, a high ranking police detective or smth like that is corrupted and trying to get these 2 kids only for the mafiaso she became wanted and marked as kidnapper of themcuz she cannot rely on the police, she trying to get to the paris for a help some ppl finds out she is that wanted one in the train while she was trying to escapeshe came to the one house where was her partner or smth like that and old man who owns that big house, but later mafia arrives there, trying to get info on where are these kids and that woman, then mafia kills both cuz they dont wanna cooperate anyways one of the kids saw that, and that corrupted cop saw him as well, and makes gestures so that kid can leavethat corrupted cop starting disliking his cooperation with that mafia and their actions, so he would like to change the sides, but ofc he cannot do that so quickly and simply, otherwise he might die kids were like 12-13 that woman was mature, brown hair ig, was not very skinny there was also one scene which happened after the train incident, where she tried to disguise herself one the girl was sick so she tried to get her help one doctor contacted them and invited them to his house he acted like does not know them but he knew that doctor just recognised them from the TV where it was showing her being WANTED but they escaped the episodes are long and it was released about 10-20 years ago
openHelping my mom find a book about a billionaire Literature
A recent book (the kind you’d find in Facebook communities) that my mom is looking for the name of.
The basic plot is that a billionaire goes into hiding, but silences his wife by giving her $500 million, telling her to never tell anyone about him. The billionaire vanishes, but unbeknownst to him, the woman was pregnant. Now with a son, the billionaire returns for them.
openSpace adventure with a group of 4 Videogame
I remember seeing this in around the early 2010s, but I recall seeing some sort of space adventure game that has a group of 4 people. One of them could even get a randomized superpower. I think the last section of the game involved a parkour section
openan online essay that discusses the unfortunate implications of trauma defining a superpower
Trying to find an online essay that discusses the Unfortunate Implications of trauma defining what superpower that people in a universe get.
Edited by Maladyresolved Card game Anime Anime
On Cheez TV or Toasted TV there was an Anime series that based around a card game sorta like Yu-Gi-Oh!
Elements I remember include
- Believe there four main characters
- The male hot headed boy protagonist
- Shorter glasses wearing boy who was The Smart Guy
- A girl who was friends with them
- A slightly ditzy girl who was new to the area and was mostly used to ask questions about the game so it could be explained to her and thereby to the audience
- Before each game the players would hold out their decks in front of them and shuffle them
- One game has the protagonist playing the game outside in near a waterway and some storm clouds start rolling in. The opponent points to the sky and makes a speech about how the storm is harbinger of his victory. The opponent gets exactly the cards he needs for his tactics and while the others are wondering how the ditzy girl points out that he swapped his shuffled deck for an unshuffled one while they look up at the storm clouds in the sky.
- The characters going through rooms beating top players until the come to a girl's room and while they are looking for the occupant, a phone starts to ring and the ditzy girl answers. It turns out it's the ditzy girl's room and she is the player, pretending not to know about the game for some reason I forget and have a game.
openA Mon(?) animated series where the heroes explore a highly technological Ghost City Western Animation
This was back in Italy during the summer of 2009, the same time period I was watching Bakugan, Huntik: Secrets & Seekers, and even Mix Masters, the latter of which I rediscovered thanks to you people again. Well, it wasn't the only obscure Mon series that I almost forgot about, that I watched in 2009.
It was a Low Fantasy/Clock Punk-like setting; the characters had these Mons that they could summon from and store in dice-like items. These Mons could have been artificial in nature, and at least The Smart Guy's Mon looked like a robot. I remember it looked like Western animation (as in, it didn't look like an anime), not sure if American or European; it might even had 2D Visuals, 3D Effects.
I didn't see many episodes of it, but I remember one of them pretty well: it involved a city that locked its inhabitants in devices similar to the ones used to keep the Mons, and use them as Living Batteries. The result was a city that was way mote technologically advanced compared to the rest of the setting (it even had vending machines), but was completely empty. The episode ended with the Villain of the Week, that was responsible for the state of this Ghost City, being converted in one of these Living Batteries off-screen. Does that ring any bells to anybody?
Edited by TMH-Sir-Iron-VomitopenLooking for movie, about father and son. (please please please) Film
This movie tells the story of a father and young son, the father has a sickness, and he is the one that takes care of his son, they also live in a small, poor, and tight community. It's modern setting, at some point the son receives a chocolate cake for his birthday, and the father would pick up trash to make money. The son and father are the main plot, it's all focused on them, mostly the father.
The movie might be Turkish. i think there's a part where the kid goes out to help him collect trash, the father had a beard, they both had brown hair, both were white, the kid was pretty small too.
That's all, please and thank you. It's a matter of great urgency.
Edited by emilydickinson7
(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)).