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resolved Film covered on Siskel and Ebert with horrific scene that Ebert missed Film
Consider this a double-entry for both the film and the Siskel & Ebert episode.
My dad was telling me about one episode of the show where an otherwise standard family film covered contained a "horrific scene of animal cruelty" that never gets referenced again, which Ebert didn't see due to his bathroom break, and he thought Siskel was making it up. My dad suggested the film to have been from the 70's, though I don't know if he remembered clearly.
resolved Animated film about surealness Film
I'm looking for the title of an old animated movie from the 80's-90's. It's possibly European, maybe French. I remember most of it, but I missed the middle part.
The story is set in the far future in a kingdom with highly advanced technology like flying cars. The lead character is a brilliant, but lonely scientist with glasses. His research in the abstract has revolutionized the kingdom. He loves the princess, but she has no interest in him.
One night, he works on his computer and research the inner workings of love. Without warning, he is pulled into a surreal world where the abstract is absolute. Its leader says that the scientist is their worse enemy. Creatures in the surreal world flourish thanks to the abstract and the illogical. The scientist's discoveries has cause the creatures to fade and die. The scientist scoff at all this.
However, later in the story, he is horrified that his research in the abstract will eventually cause WWIII. He returns to the surreal world where he makes deal with the leader: he will destroy his research and in return, the leader will make the princess fall in love with him.
The scientist borrows a laser rifle from a guard and enters a chamber with a super computer. He destroys it and everything in it. He returns the rifle to the guard and have him swear to never reveal what he did to the king. The ending shows that the surreal creatures now coexist with the real world where everything is wacky, funny and completely defies any logic and physics. The scientist is now married with the princess.
Anyone knows the title? Please let me know! Thank you.
Edited by Nevermore2002resolved A new year film filled with rock star tropes Film
I am trying to remember about a film that is made in The '70s with a story when a big wild party is built with some blues and rock bands, the things I remember are:
- A big bathroom filled with mess and drugs (even there is a gigantic heroin syringe moving around)
- A blues band composed by orthodox jews that, after the party, end up really messed
- A rock band with a vocalist that leaves the gig to have sex with his groupie (while leaving the drummer to perform a very long drum solo) just to find her having sex with one of the main characters, this leads to some drama and to have the vocalist leaving the gig for good by entering a bathroom when he starts talking with his penis that encourages him to restart from zero.. (while the drummer ends banging the drums with his head)
resolved Action film Film
Which is this action film with Bruce Willis? Where they have to find a bomb and they travel to France, England, and Russia?
resolved Dark comedy/thriller(?): pregnant twin sisters, religious father tries to kill their boyfriends Film
Hi, everyone! I’m trying to identify a movie I watched a long time ago on Fox (possibly late 90s or early 2000s). I don’t remember the title or the actors and details about the plot are a bit fuzzy in my head, but maybe someone here can help me.
I'm almost positive it was an american movie, maybe an indie/television film. The movie starts off as something of a comedy or dramedy, but I remember it turning increasingly darker and more violent toward the end.
Here's what I remember about the plot:
It’s set in a small town or rural area.
The plot involves two guys who supposedly got twin sisters pregnant. In truth, only one of the girls is actually pregnant — the other one lies about it to convince her boyfriend to marry her. The girls' plan is for both of them to marry their respective boyfriends at the same time.
The girls' father is a big, balding, strict and very religious man, obsessed with chastity and morality. He either invites or forces the guys to live in his house and keeps a close eye on them. He repeatedly calls the guys "fornicators" (or something to that effect) when he's mad and he is constantly suspicious they're sleeping with his daughters. I remember a scene in which the father literally bursts through a wall with his head trying to catch one of them in the act—although it's a misunderstanding.
Eventually, the girl who’s truly pregnant loses the baby - I don’t remember if it's a spontaneous miscarriage or if it happens as a result of an accident, but it's a somewhat intense scene.
As the movie progresses, their father becomes more unhinged and violent, and eventually tries to kill the guys. It seemed like an almost Genre Shift altogether, in which their father stops at nothing until he kills both men.
I have this vague idea that, by the end, the father eventually gets killed either by both guys or by accident and they escape without the girls.
And that's all I remember from this (weird) plot. I appreciate any help.
Edited by VicShooterresolved heartwarming movie Film
I'm looking for a movie where the main characters are an older man and a young man, probably late teens. the younger man has some problems and bonds with the older man. I think it's a pretty well known movie but I completely forgot what it's called
resolved Film about serial killer killing people to form a human-sized "doll" with their parts Film
I'm looking for a film from some 20 years ago (ca. 2003-2004). The main villain was a university professor who killed women for their body parts: the first, I think, was an opera singer for her arms, and her body was put on display in her office; the second was a psychiatrist or doctor who invited the villain for dinner, was drugged, has her legs cut off and her body was put on display on the beach; the third victim was male, and, IIRC, the villain's childhood friend who was bald and hospitalized; the fourth victim the killer chose was one of his students for her torso, but he accidentally scares her she hurts her belly on the stairs from her university. The college student begins something of a romantic atraction with the black-haired detective. In the final confrontation, the villain has kidnapped the college student and the detective tosses the villain and the human "doll" from the window into the sea.
If memory serves, the opening credits say the film was based on, I think, a novel titled Il Impalatore or something.
I think it was a European movie, maybe British, French, Spanish or Italian. It's not too "American Horror"-gory.
EDIT: The killer replaces the body parts with mannequin parts.
Edited by KHR-FolkMythresolved Circus Movie Film
The only that I remember of this movie is that teenage boy finds himself in a Circus/Freakshow place, I don't know if he has some powers like the other characters. Sorry if it is vague, but that's all I got.
resolved Woman with huge blond wig and rhinestone gun Film
I don't actually know whether this is from a film or a TV show, but there's a reaction image I see a lot featuring a white woman with a huge semicircular blonde wig with barrettes, a hot pink blazer with a blue bow on one lapel, and a gun covered in pink rhinestones. What's it from?
EDIT — never mind, I should have guessed it's from RuPaul's Drag Race. Thanks anyway!
Edited by higgledypiggledyresolved Movie they aired on Cartoon Network Once! Film
When Cartoon Network started showing a weekly movie, this might have been the 2nd one, and they never showed it again. It stared an orange shapeshifter that defaulted to a bipedal dog with glass and a mute guy dressed like Charlie Chatlen.
The cast also included a fairy godmother, an evil robot army, and a dumb blond superhero.
resolved Bank robbery + RomCom + suicidal pact Film
Searching for this one for quite a while, so let's do a quick list of what I remember from the technical details:
- Made anywhere between 1995 to 2007
- English language (definitely not British, I'm almost certain it was either American or Canadian, but that the furthest I can narrow it down)
- <120 min running time
- Might be a TV movie (which would explain why I can't find it)
- Has an important gimmick of being told in Anachronic Order (not exactly backwards, but almost)
Plot synopsis:
- He is about to rob a bank
- She is depressed and suicidal
- He takes her hostage, she doesn't mind
- Eventually they strike a pact: she works for him as a meat shield and reason why police won't kill him during his escape, and then he will blow her head off to fulfill her desire to die
- Unsurprisingly, they instead fall for each other while he's on the run from law
resolved Veggie Tales movie with pirates that starts with car crash thing? Film
I swear I watched this movie as a kid and want to figure out what the heck I watched, and if it really was all the same movie. It was a veggie tales movie, it started with them driving in a forest and having a sort of car crash but nothing really happens beyond someone(I am pretty sure the tomato guy) getting hit by a airbag and the car stopping. And then they go to some building(might have been a restaurant, but not fully sure). And then there was a bunch of stuff with pirates for some reason. The animation, and especially the lighting, was higher quality than is usual for veggie tales. I watched it repeatedly around 2016 or 2017.

So I think it's more likely to be a film, that I watched on TV in the early 2010s, it looked modern, it was sci-fi. It had that sort of sleek white spaceship walls look, and there was a duel between a human and some alien with a really wrinkly face. I'm not sure what weapons were used in the duel, but it ended with the human falling in a chair with some sort of face stretching technology that was meant for the alien.
I've always thought it was Star Trek, but people keep saying it isn't. The people who keep saying it isn't haven't watched it, though, so it could be. And that's all I can remember.