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    #2582
    darkdubh
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 3,628 ✭✭✭darkdubh


    British movie about a bunch of punk teenagers late 70s or early 80s,theres a scene where they steal a double decker bus and go on a joyride with one of them standing on the roof.I think the bus crashes or brakes suddenly and the guy on the roof falls off and is killed.I'm pretty sure the actress who played Rodneys girlfriend in Only Fools is one of the punks.


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    #2583
    NewCorkLad
    Registered Users Posts: 957 ✭✭✭NewCorkLad


    SameDiff wrote: »
    Does anyone know a film which features a massive flood at the end?

    Yes hilarious, not Noah or Evan Almighty. This was set in a typical American suburb.

    It's been driving me demented for about five years now.

    I'm convinced it's got the word "happiness" in the title, or something like that.

    Deep Impact


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    #2584
    Ageyev
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,216 ✭✭✭Ageyev


    darkdubh wrote: »
    British movie about a bunch of punk teenagers late 70s or early 80s,theres a scene where they steal a double decker bus and go on a joyride with one of them standing on the roof.I think the bus crashes or brakes suddenly and the guy on the roof falls off and is killed.I'm pretty sure the actress who played Rodneys girlfriend in Only Fools is one of the punks.

    Bloody Kids?
    NinetyForNone wrote: »
    Hi guys. This popped into my head listening to some Beastie Boys
    Film set in New York about youngish guys ages ~ 18 to 23. I think they were Italian heritage.

    Couple of scenes I think were in the film:
    - They stage a fake fight amongst themselves on the subway.
    - I think at the end of the film guy wakes up after sleeping/passing out and walks away.

    Film was from late 80s / early 90s.

    any ideas?

    Thanks.

    The Steven Seagal film Out For Justice features No Sleep till Brooklyn and there's fighting in it.


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    #2585
    NinetyForNone
    Registered Users Posts: 360 ✭✭NinetyForNone


    Ageyev wrote: »
    The Steven Seagal film Out For Justice features No Sleep till Brooklyn and there's fighting in it.
    No I don't think there was necessarily any Beastie Boys songs in the movie or reference.
    More a Boys coming of age type film.


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    #2586
    SameDiff
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 145 ✭✭SameDiff


    NewCorkLad wrote: »
    Deep Impact

    Nowhere close. It was a good film.


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    #2587
    darkdubh
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 3,628 ✭✭✭darkdubh


    Ageyev wrote: »
    Bloody Kids?

    Yeah that seems to be it allright.


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    #2588
    nlgbbbblth
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,668 ✭✭✭nlgbbbblth


    Bloody Kids was directed by Stephen Frears. He also directed The Hit and The Snapper.


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    #2589
    darkdubh
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 3,628 ✭✭✭darkdubh


    Long shot as it was years ago that I saw this movie and can remember very little of it.1970s I'd say , psychological horror US film about a woman who kills her husband who if I remember correctly was abusive.It was a kind of desert setting maybe Texas or somewhere like that.She sticks his body down a well but she gets paranoid that hes not dead and goes out to the well and finds that hes still there dead.I'm a bit vague about the rest of the movie but I'm sure that he comes back and she kills him again,possibly in her imagination I don't know.I remember he was kind of menacing and sleazy and he looked like a dead ringer for Robert Shaw in Jaws if you can picture him without the moustache but I don't think he was actually played by him as theres nothing in his filmography matching this.


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    #2590
    [Deleted User]
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    Sounds a bit like "Dolores Claiborne" to me but that's from '95.


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    #2591
    nlgbbbblth
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,668 ✭✭✭nlgbbbblth


    darkdubh wrote: »
    Long shot as it was years ago that I saw this movie and can remember very little of it.1970s I'd say , psychological horror US film about a woman who kills her husband who if I remember correctly was abusive.It was a kind of desert setting maybe Texas or somewhere like that.She sticks his body down a well but she gets paranoid that hes not dead and goes out to the well and finds that hes still there dead.I'm a bit vague about the rest of the movie but I'm sure that he comes back and she kills him again,possibly in her imagination I don't know.I remember he was kind of menacing and sleazy and he looked like a dead ringer for Robert Shaw in Jaws if you can picture him without the moustache but I don't think he was actually played by him as theres nothing in his filmography matching this.

    It's familiar. Probably an ABC TVM from this list
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ABC_Movie_of_the_Week#Filmography


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    #2592
    darkdubh
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 3,628 ✭✭✭darkdubh


    darkdubh wrote: »
    Another one thats been bugging me for years ,the details are a bit sketchy.I'm sure this movie was from the early 70s and was about this elderly man who witnesses a murder.I've a feeling he may have been played by the guy who did the Grandfather in the original Willy Wonka movie.Anyway theres a scene where hes looking out the window and he sees a black man sitting in a car.The blackman is smiling menacingly and makes a cutthroat motion with his finger to the old man.When he reports this to the police they don't believe him.I think the black guy may have commited the murder but from what I remember nobody believes the old guy and think hes imagining things.It was an inner city setting.Maybe New York.


    Very interesting list.I'll go through it more thoroughly later but straight away its solved one of my queries about another movie I posted about here some time back,nice one.When I saw it on the list I remembered that as the movie I saw years ago.The Old Man Who Cried Wolf.

    http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0066179/


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    #2593
    nlgbbbblth
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,668 ✭✭✭nlgbbbblth


    darkdubh wrote: »
    Very interesting list.I'll go through it more thoroughly later but straight away its solved one of my queries about another movie I posted about here some time back,nice one.When I saw it on the list I remembered that as the movie I saw years ago.The Old Man Who Cried Wolf.

    http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0066179/

    Glad I could help.

    There's a lot of classics on that list. The accompanying book is also worth a read - Movieofbook.jpg

    I've picked up a few of the films via VHS off-air trades and a couple at a Texas yard sale about 11 years back. I'd love a box set with the lot.


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    #2594
    darkdubh
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 3,628 ✭✭✭darkdubh


    Looking through that list I can see an awful lot of them were shown by RTE in the 80s in I think the movie slot after The Late Late.The Girl Most Likely To Be... was one I remember straight off and quite a few others ring a bell.They weren't half bad for made for TV movies which in my experience are often dire.


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    #2595
    nlgbbbblth
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,668 ✭✭✭nlgbbbblth


    darkdubh wrote: »
    Looking through that list I can see an awful lot of them were shown by RTE in the 80s in I think the movie slot after The Late Late.The Girl Most Likely To Be... was one I remember straight off and quite a few others ring a bell.They weren't half bad for made for TV movies which in my experience are often dire.

    That's right. Friday nights until about 1.00am or so. Usually two commercial breaks. The Girl Most Likely To is great and was written by Joan Rivers. Stockard Channing's finest role. That one got a region 1 DVD release a few years ago.

    The US TVMs from that era were very strong. Very little padding and good storylines. The running times were usually capped at 75 minutes. You'll see a whole host of familiar faces.

    Cry Panic from 1974 is exceptionally strong. Stars John Forsythe.
    TG4 showed a bunch of them in 2001/2002/2003 - usually during the day.

    Another classic that isn't on that list but is definitely one of the greatest is One Of My Wives Is Missing starring Jack Klugman. 1976. Twist-o-rama.
    It was remade in 1986 with Elliott Gould and Margot Kidder as Vanishing Act. Also broadcast by RTE in the late 1980s.

    Trailer - the whole film is there too
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YKjRt8sAM3c


    Satan's Triangle from 1975 and starring Kim Novak got an airing on RTE 1 in June 1985. There's a great twist in that one and it seems that a lot of people watched the broadcast. When I went to college a few years later and got talking to people about horror films from our youth, quite a few had seen Satan's Triangle that particular night. All secondary schools had finished for summer holidays on that Friday so at lot of teenagers were making the most of it and staying up later than normal.


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    #2596
    nlgbbbblth
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,668 ✭✭✭nlgbbbblth


    And if anyone has a spare 70 minutes have a look at this episode of Hammer House of Mystery and Suspense from 1984. It's called In Possession and was broadcast by RTE1 after the Late Late Show in September 1984. Creepy with many turns.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TrsLf6lOvlg


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    #2597
    Ralf and Florian
    Site Banned Posts: 1,489 ✭✭✭Ralf and Florian


    90s Aussie movie about these two layabouts who mug charity collectors and might have been junkies,one of them was a complete scummer and the other guy a bit smarter.The scummer guy wore at shirt with a rude slogan which was some variation on up yours.I remember it featured really annoying jump editing.


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    #2598
    brian_t
    Registered Users Posts: 6,666 ✭✭✭brian_t


    Ralf and Florian wrote: »
    90s Aussie movie about these two layabouts who mug charity collectors and might have been junkies,one of them was a complete scummer and the other guy a bit smarter.The scummer guy wore at shirt with a rude slogan which was some variation on up yours.I remember it featured really annoying jump editing.

    Idiot Box

    images?q=tbn:ANd9GcQiEqxTaFBoPLMs8hz0attoXCgzO-HYyr_jYhvWYVjRcWEpbdeR ?


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    #2599
    Ralf and Florian
    Site Banned Posts: 1,489 ✭✭✭Ralf and Florian


    brian_t wrote: »
    Idiot Box

    images?q=tbn:ANd9GcQiEqxTaFBoPLMs8hz0attoXCgzO-HYyr_jYhvWYVjRcWEpbdeR ?

    That's it,I remember it was marketed as a kind of Aussie Trainspotting but I thought it was crap.Get a dog up ya,is that an Aussie saying?


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    #2600
    Easy Rod
    Registered Users Posts: 1,876 ✭✭✭Easy Rod


    NinetyForNone wrote: »
    Hi guys. This popped into my head listening to some Beastie Boys
    Film set in New York about youngish guys ages ~ 18 to 23. I think they were Italian heritage.

    Couple of scenes I think were in the film:
    - They stage a fake fight amongst themselves on the subway.
    - I think at the end of the film guy wakes up after sleeping/passing out and walks away.

    Film was from late 80s / early 90s.

    any ideas?

    Thanks.

    Kids perhaps?

    http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0113540/


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    #2601
    darkdubh
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 3,628 ✭✭✭darkdubh


    NinetyForNone wrote: »
    Hi guys. This popped into my head listening to some Beastie Boys
    Film set in New York about youngish guys ages ~ 18 to 23. I think they were Italian heritage.

    Couple of scenes I think were in the film:
    - They stage a fake fight amongst themselves on the subway.
    - I think at the end of the film guy wakes up after sleeping/passing out and walks away.

    Film was from late 80s / early 90s.

    any ideas?

    Thanks.


    I do remember a 90s movie where a bunch of young guys stage a fight on a subway train but these guys were all black.I think they were actors and were trying to publicise a play they were in or something.The people on the train all react with fear but then the guys come out of character and take a bow(I think,very sketchy on the details).It deffo wasen't the Larry Clarke movie Kids as suggested above.


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    #2602
    kunst nugget
    Closed Accounts Posts: 10,375 ✭✭✭✭kunst nugget


    darkdubh wrote: »
    I do remember a 90s movie where a bunch of young guys stage a fight on a subway train but these guys were all black.I think they were actors and were trying to publicise a play they were in or something.The people on the train all react with fear but then the guys come out of character and take a bow(I think,very sketchy on the details).It deffo wasen't the Larry Clarke movie Kids as suggested above.

    Nearly 100% sure it's Hangin' with the Homeboys. I remember it being alright at the time but it's been over twenty years since I've seen it so it could have aged terribly.

    http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0101998/?ref_=nm_ov_bio_lk1


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    #2603
    darkdubh
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 3,628 ✭✭✭darkdubh


    kunst nugget wrote: »
    Nearly 100% sure it's Hangin' with the Homeboys. I remember it being alright at the time but it's been over twenty years since I've seen it so it could have aged terribly.

    http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0101998/?ref_=nm_ov_bio_lk1


    Yep thats it alright.The subway scene is at the start of this.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iRpN_yn8hqc


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    #2604
    charlie_says
    Registered Users Posts: 1,666 ✭✭✭charlie_says


    Ok folks, I tried googling but to no avail.

    Recent film about a despicable mid 30's guy who is heir to a big fortune. Set in NYC, he hipsters the **** out of life, but only to take the piss out of real hipsters.

    The opening scene is him and his mates pouring beer on their fat naked bodies. There is also a scene where he brings a girl he likes back to his boat and she has an elliptic fit which he watches whilst sipping his wine.

    Any ideas?


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    #2605
    NinetyForNone
    Registered Users Posts: 360 ✭✭NinetyForNone


    Thanks guys. That's definitely the film I was thinking of, characters are a bit older and different than I remember...


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    [Deleted User]
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    charlie_says wrote: »
    Ok folks, I tried googling but to no avail.

    Recent film about a despicable mid 30's guy who is heir to a big fortune. Set in NYC, he hipsters the **** out of life, but only to take the piss out of real hipsters.

    The opening scene is him and his mates pouring beer on their fat naked bodies. There is also a scene where he brings a girl he likes back to his boat and she has an elliptic fit which he watches whilst sipping his wine.

    Any ideas?

    Sounds like The Comedy

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rqi-0y_65-U


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    #2607
    darkdubh
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 3,628 ✭✭✭darkdubh


    I diden't see this movie in full but saw a clip of it on the MTV movie review show around 1991/92.It was an American indie film and the clip was set in either a high school or college class.The male teacher seemed to be having some kind of crisis or breakdown and I think he was just standing there while the pupils were all messing and playacting.This one guy in the class who I remember had glasses and was kind of nerdy looking goes up to the teacher and shouts into his face something like "for Gods sake teach us" and I think he(the pupil) might have then punched him or kicked him in the balls or something.


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    #2608
    Liam McPoyle
    Closed Accounts Posts: 14,846 ✭✭✭✭Liam McPoyle


    The Substitute?

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=itZVrq6MJMo


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    #2609
    darkdubh
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 3,628 ✭✭✭darkdubh


    Business Cat wrote: »
    The Substitute?

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=itZVrq6MJMo


    No wasn't that.The setting was more white middle class from what I remember.


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    #2610
    AmberBlaze
    Registered Users Posts: 4 ✭AmberBlaze


    Hey, any help would be greatly appreciated here. I saw this movie when I was in the 4-5 grade I believe which would be around 2005-2006 ish? The movie was actually shown in school but the scenes I remember have bothered me for a long time. I can't remember if this older lady had ordered the boy or it was an accident he was sent to her but she opened this big metal barrel and there was a boy sitting inside. I can't remember clearly but I think he was slimy or not quite responsive yet? Almost like he was "Just Born".... not like he was a regular kid locked in the barrel. I believe she taught him everything he needed to know and in the end the government tried to take him back but she got to keep him? If anyone could help it would be great because I would like to watch it again and try to understand why they showed it to us at 8-9 years old :/ it seems weird now and slightly disturbing.....


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    AmberBlaze
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    Hey, any help would be greatly appreciated here. I saw this movie when I was in the 4-5 grade I believe which would be around 2005-2006 ish? The movie was actually shown in school but the scenes I remember have bothered me for a long time. I can't remember if this older lady had ordered the boy or it was an accident he was sent to her but she opened this big metal barrel and there was a boy sitting inside. I can't remember clearly but I think he was slimy or not quite responsive yet? Almost like he was "Just Born".... not like he was a regular kid locked in the barrel. I believe she taught him everything he needed to know and in the end the government tried to take him back but she got to keep him? If anyone could help it would be great because I would like to watch it again and try to understand why they showed it to us at 10ish years old :/ it seems weird now and slightly disturbing.....


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