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Eloi Tsabaoth

11:08 / 03.08.05

Now, can anyone identify for me the source of this quote:
"Seize the cheeseburger!"

Pan Paniscus

11:56 / 03.08.05

I've got one - it was a film based in Bosnia (I think) - Most of the action takes place in a tunnel, group of men trapped inside.. think it was on Channel 4 last year, think its quite famous also.. Anyone know - sorry I can't really remember much more but if you've seen it you'll remember.... Lots of insults being shouted both ways, oh yeah and there was a reporter stuck with them in the tunnel and a couple of older guys...

Kayfabe, you might be talking about No Man's Land. Did it feature a bloke lying on an unexploded mine? And did Katrin Cartlidge play the reporter?

Pan Paniscus

11:59 / 03.08.05

er... Just noticed the original request was posted nearly four years ago, so you've probably either worked it out by now or you no longer care. Sorry.

Whisky Priestess

12:53 / 03.08.05

OK, riddle me this.

A black and white sci-fi-horror-porn B-movie from the 50s or 60s. An alien brain in a jar has come down to terrorise/colonise the planet, and can only be kept alive by the physical or mental energy of humans having sex (or some such transparent nonsense). On Channel 4 at about 4 am in March 1999, if that helps.

The only quote I can remember: "They're keeping it alive with sexual juices!"

Smoothly

13:10 / 03.08.05

It's not The Brain from Planet Arous is it, WP?

grant

20:31 / 03.08.05

I asked this one back in the 90s sometime, got the answer, then promptly forgot it.

This causes me despair as to the human condition.

However, I will try again. I think Jack Fear knew what movie this was.

OK, scared the pants off me as a little kid. Story: Newlyweds (wife with dark curly hair, maybe Adrienne Barbeau) move into an old house. They're remodeling, and they open an old fireplace that had been mysteriously bricked shut. They unknowingly release these little creatures with faces like dried apple dolls, who object to them being there and start driving them out of the house. Lots of little lethal pranks and tiny creatures lurking in shadows. There may have been only two of the things -- the image that sticks with me is a pair of them looking like an old man and an old lady apple doll looking at each other significantly behind a balustrade after either the husband or wife survives falling down the stairs.

Smoothly

21:14 / 03.08.05

Have you been Afraid of the Dark ever since, grant?

Gary Lactus

10:21 / 05.08.05

I fine idea for a thread! I just hope it can help me. I wanna know the title of an animated sci-fi film (French, I think) which has these robots with heads that float above their bodies and they can smell emotions. At one point there is a child stranded on an alien planet with a friendly, hairy dog-like beast with a large bulbous nose. The whole look of it looked like Moebius may have had a hand in its design. HELP!

Gary Lactus

10:36 / 05.08.05

Hold on. Found it: Time Masters (Les Maîtres du Temps).

Alex's Grandma

10:37 / 05.08.05

It's not The Brain from Planet Arous is it, WP?

Do you know what, even if it's not, I'm happy because I have found another film featuring alien brains that want to take over the earth.

I will attempt to source this rare classic and report back.

waxy dan

12:26 / 05.08.05

Superb idea for a thread.

One that's been annoying me:
It's fairly recent; about 4 years old or so. Based in New York (possibly Chicago). It follows this guy around for a few days. He's a successful business man who's career is falling apart. His young nephew shows up on his doorstep and tries to persuade him to teach everything he knows about seduction... which he does (kind've).

The film is actually far better and less John Hughes than it sounds. The main character is vaguely Jack Dee-esque and, in many ways, unlikeable.

Bear

12:44 / 05.08.05

Now I want to know what the above movie is called, I remember watching the trailer but can't remember the name of the movie. I thought that one of the Culkin brothers was in it but that lead didn't give any results.

Regrettable Juvenilia

13:02 / 05.08.05

Roger Dodger?

Eloi Tsabaoth

13:02 / 05.08.05

'Tis Roger Dodger.

The film with Kieran Culkin you were thinking of might be Igby Goes Down, also released in 2002.

Eloi Tsabaoth

13:05 / 05.08.05

Damn you Flyboy. I just had to add that extra titbit of info, didn't I, just to be a big man. And now I'm a tiny little pixieish fellow.

"Seize The Cheeseburger!" Come on, people!

Waxy luvs Flyboy

Waxy luvs Flyboy

Hmmm... who's that black private dick? I seem to remember him being a sex machine with all the chicks.
There's this one bit where there's danger all about, and he could cop out, but he doesn't...

Bear

15:04 / 05.08.05

Just noticed that it was a bump of my question that brought this thread back to life and yeah that is the movie Pan Paniscus. Ta.

Lord Morgue

10:44 / 11.08.05

Ohhh, there's this Japanese animated thing where this girl was riding on a hoverbike and being chased by idiots on motorcycles across Road Runner country, and one guy kept trying to stop her with oil slicks and tyre spikes, ignoring the fact that she was riding a HOVER BIKE as in, NO WHEELS, and only succeeding in making his friends crash. And there was this guy with a bazooka-type weapon that would destroy the entire planet if he fired it, and he kept trying to use it on every little thing that showed up, and all the other characters would tackle him to stop him, and the girl said "Planet destroyer? Really, Joe, I'm suprised." Only it was really funny the way she said it and I missed the ending because half the state was on fire at the time, and I had to drag myself away from the television to hose the roof off because burning embers were falling from the sky, which was REALLY FUCKING INCONVENIENT.

iamus

12:21 / 11.08.05

Hold on. Found it: Time Masters (Les Maîtres du Temps).

TIME MASTERS!!!!!

I've been wanting to know what that film was since I was wee! The only thing I could remember was the giant hornets. It's been driving me insane for years now, in fact, I was just about to ask if anybody knew what it was when I read that post!

Fraely, you are a god made flesh.

grant

13:54 / 11.08.05

don't be afraid of the dark.

but i am.

i am.

thank you.

GogMickGog

16:39 / 13.08.05

Chaps..help needed..

it's a 70s/80s movie, a 2nd world war comedy where the heros are a commando unit, one of whom is black.

Their leader is a dead ringer for some German general, played by the same actor I think, and they swap places by making him fall through a grill while parading in a courtyard.

Later on, the American imposter has to award medals to German oldiers for act of "bravery" against the allies, and basically punishes them by making them lena back absurdly far, or hitting them etc.

Please, o barbeloids, help me!

Much love

Me

Lord Morgue

09:26 / 14.08.05

Henh... was it Jerry Lewis? I think Jerry Lewis did something like that once.

bjacques

07:22 / 15.08.05

Which Way to the Front?

GogMickGog

17:09 / 15.08.05

Thank you so much..that one's been bugging me for a LOOONNNGGGG while...

FinderWolf

16:52 / 18.08.05

random movie-related question: I"ve often heard of the whole 'Region' thing associated with DVDs but I have no idea what it really means other than knowing it's a format. Can most US DVD players play all Region DVDs? Like for a example, a Region 4 DVD? Thanks.

FinderWolf

17:03 / 18.08.05

I just learned the basics from Amazon.com; so US plays only Region 1, it seems.

sleazenation

17:10 / 18.08.05

Short answer, no, more precise answer, it depends.

As a default many North American DVD players will only play region 1 DVDs (although many of these can be altered to play all regions, or region 0). I think you can also buy regionless DVDs but it is cheaper to hack a hackable standard DVD player... details on regions and stuff here on wikipedia

+#'s, - names

18:44 / 28.12.06

My friend Dan was asking about this. Perhaps one of you guys have a clue.

atr KSU one of the instructors showed us a Dada film shot in the 70s
it was a revival film
black and white
mostly typo photo, not moving
more like animations
there was this voice over that kept talking about the "known" and the "unknown"
and there was a section on values of "Zero"
it was mind blowing
I can not find it to save my life.
apparently was a big movement piece for the late 60s
it was propaganda
so there was typography?
animated type and photo
real graphic designer stuff
the voice over was like a business man real CEO style
what class was it in? Art history 1960-1970
"Everything has nothing. Nothing means Zero."
The known has the unknown, and the unknown has zero.
just black + white
shapes but not like Harry SMit

Peach Pie

19:18 / 28.12.06

i only saw the ending of this film... a bunch of hooray henrys were carrying a man who looked near dead at the end of the movie. they either smashed him against a tree or threw him over the cliff. it seemed quite sinister.

Jawsus-son Starship

09:14 / 29.12.06

does anyone know of a film where a spanish fella get's trapped in a phonebox, unable to be freed, so is put in a giant warehouse full of other phoneboxs containing the corpses of those who got stuck in there? think I saw it on the adam and joe show.

GogMickGog

09:58 / 29.12.06

That, mathlete, is one of the most disturbing films I have ever seen - La Cabina

Genuinely horrible stuff.

GogMickGog

10:11 / 29.12.06

Which, incidentally, can be viewed here:-

God bless youtube!

H3ct0r L1m4

11:01 / 29.12.06

ok, this is a hard one, I suppose. one of my still unsolved childhood mysteries...

there's this kid's adventure, and my weak memory tells me it could be a late 70s Disney [TV?] movie. I could be wrong.

a bunch of kids were trying to solve a case, and or running from someone. I only remember a particular scene with one boy playing in a playground and suddendly another boy and a girl [a couple of older ones] appear upside down hanging from a toy like this one to whisper him some important info that adults couldn't get their hands on...

anybody?

yeah, not so much to help, I know...

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