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open2000s comedy - "nerdy" character has a crush on Seven of Nine, who is depicted oddly Film
I remember reading a recap / review of a comedy film I think was from some time in the 2000s, and given the snarky nature of the site, probably a flop with poor critical reviews. A minor character is depicted as a nerd with Perverse Sexual Lust for Seven Of Nine, which becomes plot relevant somehow - but the strange thing that the recap points out is that the character is mentioned by name in dialogue more than once, but at one point they cut to a supposed picture of her that the nerd character is ogling and it's just a stock photo of a generic Green-Skinned Space Babe: the review didn't speculate on an explanation, but I imagine the filmmakers couldn't get the rights to the character and/or actress' likeness, and it was either too late to rewrite or re-dub dialogue to refer to some fictional, in-universe science fiction character instead, or they just didn't care enough to do so.
Edited by MikeKopenVampire(?) con movie? Film
I just remembered a poster I saw for a film screening at a convention years ago. The poster depicted a voxel-style (I think) boy and girl holding each other's hands, except the boy had also torn the girl's heart out of her chest and was feasting on it with what looked like vampire fangs. I think I might've looked it up later and the description said it also took place at a con, but I'm not sure.
openAnyone know what movie this is referring to (if any) Film
Ok, this is a weird query, but in the song "Break My Heart" by ATB, there's a line where the singers says she feels "Like a ghost in an old hotel", which sounds like its a Shout-Out to some movie (or maybe a book?) Can someone tell me what movie/book/whatever has a ghost in an old hotel?
openRare Sci-Fi with sexless villain Film
In the 80s or 90s I saw a movie on cable TV in Russia, I guess it was pirated like all movies shown on that channel. I don't know the name, may be I saw it not from the start. The movie is a science fiction. The main character is a brunette, his face I remember like similar to Scott Bakula, but I am not sure after these years. The plot is somehow connected with the human organs trade. Some corporations and conspiracies are involved. The main character's eye was apparently stolen, and he spends part of the movie wearing an eye patch or something like this. I also remember that the main villain was sexless (I mean this character had no sexual characteristics at all since his birth, though played by the male actor) and was obsessed with the idea of trying sex, for which he implanted transmitters in the brains of the main character and some girl, which allowed him to experience their feelings. I remember a scene where this sexless man stuck some kind of device down his throat to distort his voice, so that it would become low. It looked like a transparent tube, seemingly twisted into a spiral. There is an assumption that the film is not American, maybe socialist camp, but not for sure. I searched this film in many places for many years, but failed. May be somebody has any clue how to find it? Sorry for possible mistakes, English is not native for me.
openA female dentist vomiting Film
I'm looking a movie that has released from 2000-2010s where a female dentist vomits on her surgical mask while doing a dentist work, so any clues that what was a movie's title where that happened?
openDrived to murder to save his child Film
A man is extorsioned into killing a candidate, or they will kill his daughter
openBurning head Film
Action movie set in a large American park on fire, where the villain, who seemed dead, returns to harm the protagonists, and eventually dies with his head burned by the fire.
openBurnt head Film
Movie set in a large American park, where towards the end the villain dies with his head burned by fire.
openFIlm between 2001-2004 about a teen getting into huffing? Film
I have a question about a film I watched somewhere between 2002 and 2004
The film opens with two teens huffing something straight out of a can or a bottle or something, like properly sucking it out of it.
Then they start smacking each other
Then an entire "this is how we got here" is the whole film
Then the film ends with that same scene, then what happens just after that. I remember one of them sticking a big shiny sticker on an obvious gash on their head.
They were both female, I think.
Thanks for your help and knowledge
openSwedish kids' movie with kids with swords in the countryside and a dead girl Film
I watched this in the early 2010s, I'm pretty sure it was in Swedish but might have been some other similar language. First there was a rich young girl celebrating her birthday and receives a sword and a dress, and talks about how she's going to Paris. But instead she gets taken to the countryside and is pretty disappointed about having to eat porridge for breakfast. Then she meets a girl who she thinks is her sister for some reason, and adopts a baby pig. The second girl's brother is angry about them pretending to be sisters and trips over the laundry she did, and says something like "Of course it took a while to wash them because you washed them with pig's piss anyway". At some point the first girl has a dream about a dead baby who went to the Island of the Dead where she appears as an older kid and talks about how she can't blow her own nose and burps. Then the girl and the other girl's brother become friends and she tells them the story with the dead baby. The other girl finds a sword and they clank swords and declare themselves sisters. Later the first girl's mother shows up and gives her cocoa and cakes but she refuses them as she only eats porridge now. At the end there's a montage of the kids doing stuff.
Edited by HqamiopenLooking for a CGI movie from the early-mid 2000s Film
I only watched the last third of the movie, but it involves a girl saving her city inside an At-at thingy from an Evil Chancellor who tried to execute her father with spinning spikes. Then in that ruckus, some guy assassinated an empress and chaos ensued inside the city in th At-at thingy as the girl and the chancellor in his One-Winged Angel form fight.
Edited by alnair20aug93openHindi bollywood movie Film
I'm looking for a movie that I think was a Hindi bollywood film. It was maybe from the early 2000s or from 2010 to 2014. It was from the brighthouse (the cable company) days and I believe it was a teen drama. I don't remember if it was in English or just subbed.
I cant remember if the students were in college or last year of high school. Some definitely drove mopeds around. There was a boyfriend and girlfriend that ended up having sex one night. The girl was on top of him and her boyfriend decided to get his phone and record her. She told him to stop, but in the midst of the things I guess that's all she did. Nothing was really shown during the scene, you could hear a faint moan and her saying once or twice dont record.
The next part that I remember was the boyfriend and friends would frequent this bar or pool hall. One of the boyfriend's friends stole the phone while they were in this bar or pool hall. The friend decided to take the phone and he saw the video the boyfriend recorded. He took the video off the phone. He started sending the video out all around school. A bunch of people started teasing the girlfriend and the girlfriends mother even saw the video while at the school. Her mom I believe worked at the school.
I never got to finish the movie so that is all I got to work with. Thank you in advance if anyone can figure it out.
openHorror 80's-90's anthology movie Film
It came on late at night about over a decade ago on METV it I think starts with a group of college kids on campus in the day telling scary stories to scare each other. One has to do with two girls lost in the city at night they go to get gas at a gas station but they don't see anyone so they go in back and then are like 3 dogs who bark at them a guy unchains them and one of the girls get mauled to death. Another one is about a killer being in a mall. The last one ends with a skeleton breaking through a door with an axe. Reminiscence of the "heres johnny" scene in the shining, the skeleton prop looks very cheap. Then it ends on a jumpscare with them saying how bad the last on was until the same skeleton slashes at the camera.
Scared me bad when I was younger.
openQuotes Film
These past few days, I've been trying to alphabetize GetAStupidAnswer.Live Action Films because it's starting to trigger a "too long" warning and it might need to be split soon. I've been alphabetizing by the film the quote comes from. However, I found a few that aren't Pot Holed and could use an identifier. What films do these quotes come from:
- Is that a moon?
- Who put the bomp in the bomp sh-bomp sh-bomp? Who put the lam in the ram-a-lam-a-ding-dong?
- "The power of voodoo." "Who do?"
- How you livin', chicken boy?
openPoorly Made 90's Movie About Video Gamers Film
I am guessing it was made in the 90's. I saw it on TV over 10 years ago. It was probably the most poorly made movie I've ever seen.
My vague memory of the plot, which might not be accurate, is that the government hired a bunch of adult video gamers to play a video game to save the world. Or maybe to rescue a player. I vaguely remember there being a rescue mission involved.
Almost the entirety of the movie (like at least 90%) consisted of footage of the players sitting on their couches (all in separate houses) talking to each other on headsets, and footage from the video game (VERY basic low-quality graphics/animations).
The game characters were some kind of soldiers. Maybe sci-fi soldiers, I'm not sure.
At least one of the players was a woman.
One of them was an overweight guy, and I remember something about him eating too much pizza or junk food and getting constipated, and then he came back from the bathroom and announced that he had given birth to a piece of (camera zooms in on his mouth) "gray matter"
I might be a bit loose on some of the details but that's what I remember.
openPeople trapped in a room have to lick each others' sweat to survive Film
I'm starting to think this was just a vivid dream I had, this film has absolutely zero online footprint that I can find. It's a generic "strangers kidnapped and trapped in a room" plot. There are three women about in their 20s and one older man, he looks at least 60. They're in a small room with a sealed door and a dirt floor. They're not allowed to talk to each other or there are punishments, they have to figure out questions and riddles without speaking. The kidnapper/observer talks to them over a speaker in the room. The first thing they have to figure out is each persons' number that the kidnapper gave them. The only water in the room is a small bottle in a corner, but I remember them not being allowed to drink it for some reason. When they're informed that only one will get out alive, one of the women seduces the old man to protect her. They end up licking each others' sweat to combat the thirst and having sex. While they're doing it, she has a flashback and realizes she knows who he is, he like murdered her sister or something, I don't remember, so she kills him while on top of him. One of the other women is revealed as being in on the entire thing as an observer, she's the only one who survives.
I saw this movie some time within the last 12 months, that's all I can say for certain. I'm about 95% sure it was either on Amazon Prime Video or Netflix, but it's not in my watch history on either one, and I haven't been able to find some kind of internet archive that tracks past movie circulation on streaming services, so if it was there but removed I can't figure out.
Just as a pre-emptive "no it's not that", I'm not talking about the movie where they're trapped at the bottom of a well in a small cave with offshoot chambers and not allowed to eat anything and one of the small sidechambers has a barrel of stagnant water and the one guy controls the water and uses it to get sex from the girl. I think it's called Hunger? Anyway, not that one, this is completely different.
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openWoman Ripping Clothes scene search Film
Does anyone know of a movie or series that has a scene in which a woman explicitly Ripping a cloth?
Edited by Nakelle2017

I was watching a compilation of old Kids WB commercials and I remember seeing an ad for some kids movie about a group of boys doing stuff during summer. I don't remember the title (I'm like...50, 60% sure it included the word "summer", but I might be wrong), but I do remember looking it up on IM Db and discovering more than one review complaining about it playing ad nauseum in the kids' area of a furniture store chain.