Movie Identification (Post here if you're looking for the name of a movie)

nlgbbbblth · 25-09-2014 7:08pm

Southsaturn wrote: »

Does anyone know what movie this is?
A man in a bar bathroom notices a man stuff some paper towel down his pants, giving himself a bit of a bulge. The man takes the idea and runs with it, next you see him walk out of the bathroom with like a 10 foot bulge in his pants, knocking over everything in his path.

Thanks for your help

There's a Saturday Night Live sketch that shows Jim Belushi doing that with paper towels with Bruce Springsteen's Cover Me in the background. Presume it's from 1984.

funrunner95 · 26-09-2014 7:29pm

Hi everyone,

So is this is a recent movie, I actually saw the trailer on youtube, I just can't for the life of me think of the name of the film. It's a horror/psychological thriller about a woman who convinces the guy she's seeing to go off for a weekend from the big city they live in to visit her family in a remote part of the country to visit her parents. Basically she traps him there with a creepy old couple and there may have been kids there too, its vague enough but the movie is no more than two years old, no hugely famous actors in it so may have been indie or arthouse type horror. Any help appreciated!

Ralf and Florian · 26-09-2014 11:31pm

Swedish or Norwegian movie that came out round about 1996/97 and was pretty acclaimed at the time.It was about a postman whos stalking a woman who he then saves from a suicide attempt and they get mixed up with gangsters who are after her for some reason.Can't think what it was called,one scene that sticks in my head is the postman is delivering mail to a rundown flat complex and a couple of junkies try to mug him.One of them swings a plank with nails sticking out of it at him but misses and hits his buddy who is then running around with it stuck to his head.

27-09-2014 12:28am

Ralf and Florian wrote: »

Swedish or Norwegian movie that came out round about 1996/97 and was pretty acclaimed at the time.It was about a postman whos stalking a woman who he then saves from a suicide attempt and they get mixed up with gangsters who are after her for some reason.Can't think what it was called,one scene that sticks in my head is the postman is delivering mail to a rundown flat complex and a couple of junkies try to mug him.One of them swings a plank with nails sticking out of it at him but misses and hits his buddy who is then running around with it stuck to his head.

Sounds a bit like Junk Mail

Ralf and Florian · 27-09-2014 12:52am

Deleted User wrote: »

Sounds a bit like Junk Mail

Yes,thats the one!

Gamb!t · 28-09-2014 7:37pm

Cant remember the name of a film.
There's a comedy movie with Ben Stiller i think? visiting a psychiatrist where he(psychiatrist ) even pops out for lunch while the patient is chatting away on the couch, He didnt even notice he was gone

28-09-2014 7:51pm

Gamb!t wrote: »

Cant remember the name of a film.
There's a comedy movie with Ben Stiller i think? visiting a psychiatrist where he(psychiatrist ) even pops out for lunch while the patient is chatting away on the couch, He didnt even notice he was gone

Fairly sure that is a scene from "There's something about Mary"
I will try and see if it is on youtube.

edit:
Couldn't find a clip but here is a script extract.

INT. PSYCHIATRIST'S OFFICE - PRESENT DAY

Ted, now in his 30's, lays on his therapist's couch.

TED
...Anyway, school ended a few days later
and that July her father got transferred to
Florida.

The CAMERA PANS up to reveal that the CHAIR BEHIND HIM IS EMPTY.
Ted has been telling all this to no one.

TED (cont'd)
It took me half the summer to pay off all
those bets.
(sighs)
I never did see Mary again. That was about
twelve years ago.

Just then the door quietly opens and Ted's PSYCHIATRIST tip-toes
back into the room and takes his seat. (He has a dab of mustard on
his chin and has forgotten about the cloth napkin tucked into his
collar.)

PSYCHIATRIST
Uh-huh. Interesting.

The Psychiatrist notices the napkin and quickly wipes his chin,
then tosses it aside.

hallo dare · 28-09-2014 8:07pm

@gamb!t
@wextext

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Gamb!t · 28-09-2014 8:13pm

That's the one.
Thanks wextext and Hallo Dare.

darkdubh · 28-09-2014 8:18pm

Deleted User wrote: »

Fairly sure that is a scene from "There's something about Mary"
I will try and see if it is on youtube.

edit:
Couldn't find a clip but here is a script extract.

Yeah thats from ...Mary, all right.Been a few years since I saw it last but I'm sure its the opening scene or very early on at least.

AlanS181824 · 28-09-2014 11:11pm

Bit of a weird one which I very vaguely remember.

It's a horror and I remember watching it on Zone Horror/Horror Channel.

A group of American/Canadian students go to this weird club and they get killed off one by one by this madman and his henchmen.

It's something like that but I remember one scene where the henchmen turn on the main guy and he's tied to a chair and this box is put over his head and the twist it round and round until....

Just came to my head today so maybe someone knows it?

biketard · 29-09-2014 4:31am

Unfortunately no-one was able to identify my previous movie, but maybe I'll have more luck with this one:

I'm guessing it was from the 80s, but I could be a little bit out with that. It's basically a similar movie to Titan AE (i.e. animation, people in space, etc.) What I remember about it is that there was a boy and a girl at the beginning. I'm not sure if they were brother and sister or just really good childhood friends. Anyway, you are led to believe that one of them has died as the story follows the other one. However, the second one does show up later in the movie and it's a very moving scene when they see each other again.

Could've been a Studio Ghibli movie, but again, not sure.

I know that's not much to go on, but maybe someone will recognise it.

Tigger · 11-10-2014 11:38pm

I'm trying to remember a movie that I saw in the 80s so either 70s or 80s about a punk/rock lady who rises to fame and then starts taking drugs
I remember red lighting and I thought it was toyah Wilcox but it wasn't

Zubeneschamali · 12-10-2014 11:44am

Tigger wrote: »

I'm trying to remember a movie that I saw in the 80s so either 70s or 80s about a punk/rock lady who rises to fame and then starts taking drugs
I remember red lighting and I thought it was toyah Wilcox but it wasn't

Hazel O'Connor, Breaking Glass?

eisenberg1 · 12-10-2014 12:29pm

Tigger wrote: »

I'm trying to remember a movie that I saw in the 80s so either 70s or 80s about a punk/rock lady who rises to fame and then starts taking drugs
I remember red lighting and I thought it was toyah Wilcox but it wasn't

Zubeneschamali wrote: »

Hazel O'Connor, Breaking Glass?

And the one with Toyah was "Jubilee"

Tigger · 12-10-2014 6:34pm

eisenberg1 wrote: »

And the one with Toyah was "Jubilee"

yeah that was the one it wasnt

Tigger · 12-10-2014 6:36pm

Zubeneschamali wrote: »

Hazel O'Connor, Breaking Glass?

brilliant, thanks

Ageyev · 13-10-2014 2:16am

There's a scene set in a prison and a prison guard forces a prisoner to clean/eat faeces off of his shoe by eating it. Probably made in the 1990's.

eddiervp20 · 14-10-2014 10:33pm

Im wondering can amyone help me with the name of a movie I watched many years ago.

Its set in england and the plot is that some guy who is just your average joe accidently bumps into a criminal who is running from the police and both fall over and the criminal gets caught.

After the criminal gets released he becomes paranoid as he feels the crook will come after him as he thinks he is partially at fault for him getting caught.

Then theres a scene when he is in the pub,the criminal walks into the same pub so he leaves and starts walking up the street.
He hears footsteps behind him and the a hand grabs his shoulder so he panicks and pulls some sort of bar or blunt object from his jacket and hits the guy who grabbed him who turns out to be a police man.

He is then sent to jail where he becomes a hardened criminal.

Its been years since I saw it so thats all I remember.

If anyone knows the name could you please let me know.

15-10-2014 12:19am

eddiervp20 wrote: »

Im wondering can amyone help me with the name of a movie I watched many years ago.

Its set in england and the plot is that some guy who is just your average joe accidently bumps into a criminal who is running from the police and both fall over and the criminal gets caught.

After the criminal gets released he becomes paranoid as he feels the crook will come after him as he thinks he is partially at fault for him getting caught.

Then theres a scene when he is in the pub,the criminal walks into the same pub so he leaves and starts walking up the street.
He hears footsteps behind him and the a hand grabs his shoulder so he panicks and pulls some sort of bar or blunt object from his jacket and hits the guy who grabbed him who turns out to be a police man.

He is then sent to jail where he becomes a hardened criminal.

Its been years since I saw it so thats all I remember.

If anyone knows the name could you please let me know.

I'm almost certain that its Going Off Big Time

darkdubh · 17-10-2014 12:27am

Eastern European movie,possibly Russian from maybe the late 70s or 80s.Story centered around these teenage lads who were out in a camp in the wild,I think they were juvenile offenders but the setting wasn't the gulag or harsh or anything.They were doing work and stuff I presume as part of their rehabilitation and there was an adult supervisor,There was a scene where two of the young lads were doing a work detail involving timber logs,maybe moving them and they spot a young couple by a river,she is wearing skimpy clothing and the boyfriend whos in swimming togs is taking saucy pictures of her.The two thugs beat up the boyfriend and one of them forces him to carry the logs that they were working on.The other guy is forcing the girl to kiss him and saying (via subtitles) to touch him.I think that scene ended there.The next bit was the adult supervisor really angry in a frenzy banging a bell to summon the inmates and when theyre gathered he shouts and berates them.The film ends with close ups of all the young guys singing,maybe the National anthem or some patriotic song.Does anyone know what this film is?

Princess Consuela Bananahammock · 17-10-2014 12:32am

Ageyev wrote: »

There's a scene set in a prison and a prison guard forces a prisoner to clean/eat faeces off of his shoe by eating it. Probably made in the 1990's.

I have a vague recollection of this happening in a concentration camp movie, but can;t help with the name. Possibly Escape from Sobibor?

Ageyev · 17-10-2014 10:11pm

Princess Consuela Bananahammock wrote: »

I have a vague recollection of this happening in a concentration camp movie, but can;t help with the name. Possibly Escape from Sobibor?

Not sure it's that one. I thought there was maybe some racial element to it which made me think it was Shawshank.

Was there anything like this in Sleepers? I recall watching bits of that on TV in the late 90's

Princess Consuela Bananahammock · 17-10-2014 10:39pm

Ageyev wrote: »

Not sure it's that one. I thought there was maybe some racial element to it which made me think it was Shawshank.

Was there anything like this in Sleepers? I recall watching bits of that on TV in the late 90's

You could be on to it there - there's a scene in the book where the guard steps on a sandwich and foces one of the teenages to eat it off his shoe. Not sure about the movie though.

cynicaljam · 20-10-2014 5:25pm

I have been onto TV-Tropes forums looking for this and I can't get a sniff.
The only vague description I can give is a kid died and he gets buried in a cemetery and he resurrects as a zombie and it was made before Life After Beth but follows a similar premise and story, in fact I'd go so far as to say Life After Beth is a modern telling of this particular film.

So the teenager is now a zombie and as he leaves the cemetery he's told by the grounds-keeper "the dead shouldn't be getting up" (I'm paraphrasing to be honest, seen this when I was twelve.)

In a few scenes this teenager has erotic fantasies of "eating" his 'crush' and even goes so far as to day-dream of her literally begging to be eaten. Zombie euphemisms were plaguing this movie as far as I could remember.

One particular scene I remember very well is that he was having an existential crisis whilst being a zombie and a few moments later he has this guy tied to a chair who actually resembles the truck-stop guy from Futurama quite a bit.

He eventually eats this man and leaves nothing but the head. I don't think they showed the entire thing though. I'm not making this up, this was literally a film on either RTÉ or TV3 at some point, it was aired during Halloween and it was a teen kind of film.

It wasn't Irish by any means though, definitely an american film.

Johnny Bubble · 20-10-2014 5:28pm

darkdubh wrote: »

Eastern European movie,possibly Russian from maybe the late 70s or 80s.Story centered around these teenage lads who were out in a camp in the wild,I think they were juvenile offenders but the setting wasn't the gulag or harsh or anything.They were doing work and stuff I presume as part of their rehabilitation and there was an adult supervisor,There was a scene where two of the young lads were doing a work detail involving timber logs,maybe moving them and they spot a young couple by a river,she is wearing skimpy clothing and the boyfriend whos in swimming togs is taking saucy pictures of her.The two thugs beat up the boyfriend and one of them forces him to carry the logs that they were working on.The other guy is forcing the girl to kiss him and saying (via subtitles) to touch him.I think that scene ended there.The next bit was the adult supervisor really angry in a frenzy banging a bell to summon the inmates and when theyre gathered he shouts and berates them.The film ends with close ups of all the young guys singing,maybe the National anthem or some patriotic song.Does anyone know what this film is?

Angelski Sabinovitch

carlowplayer · 21-10-2014 7:43am

cynicaljam wrote: »

I have been onto TV-Tropes forums looking for this and I can't get a sniff.
The only vague description I can give is a kid died and he gets buried in a cemetery and he resurrects as a zombie and it was made before Life After Beth but follows a similar premise and story, in fact I'd go so far as to say Life After Beth is a modern telling of this particular film.

So the teenager is now a zombie and as he leaves the cemetery he's told by the grounds-keeper "the dead shouldn't be getting up" (I'm paraphrasing to be honest, seen this when I was twelve.)

In a few scenes this teenager has erotic fantasies of "eating" his 'crush' and even goes so far as to day-dream of her literally begging to be eaten. Zombie euphemisms were plaguing this movie as far as I could remember.

One particular scene I remember very well is that he was having an existential crisis whilst being a zombie and a few moments later he has this guy tied to a chair who actually resembles the truck-stop guy from Futurama quite a bit.

He eventually eats this man and leaves nothing but the head. I don't think they showed the entire thing though. I'm not making this up, this was literally a film on either RTÉ or TV3 at some point, it was aired during Halloween and it was a teen kind of film.

It wasn't Irish by any means though, definitely an american film.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Was_a_Teenage_Zombie

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/My_Boyfriend%27s_Back_%281993_film%29

darkdubh · 21-10-2014 3:22pm

Johnny Bubble wrote: »

Angelski Sabinovitch

Was wondering why googling that brings nothing up then noticed yer mans banned.Oh well.

NinetyForNone · 22-10-2014 12:47pm

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.

SameDiff · 23-10-2014 9:06am

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.

darkdubh · 23-10-2014 11:37am

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.

NewCorkLad · 23-10-2014 11:40am

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

Ageyev · 23-10-2014 12:17pm

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.

NinetyForNone · 23-10-2014 2:53pm

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.

SameDiff · 23-10-2014 3:34pm

NewCorkLad wrote: »

Deep Impact

Nowhere close. It was a good film.

darkdubh · 23-10-2014 7:36pm

Ageyev wrote: »

Bloody Kids?

Yeah that seems to be it allright.

nlgbbbblth · 23-10-2014 7:54pm

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

darkdubh · 23-10-2014 7:55pm

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.

23-10-2014 8:04pm

Sounds a bit like "Dolores Claiborne" to me but that's from '95.

nlgbbbblth · 23-10-2014 9:25pm

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

darkdubh · 23-10-2014 9:58pm

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/

nlgbbbblth · 24-10-2014 6:32pm

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 -

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.

darkdubh · 25-10-2014 12:27am

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.

nlgbbbblth · 25-10-2014 10:25am

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.

nlgbbbblth · 25-10-2014 10:33am

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

Ralf and Florian · 27-10-2014 9:15am

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.

brian_t · 27-10-2014 11:06am

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

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Ralf and Florian · 27-10-2014 1:12pm

brian_t wrote: »

Idiot Box

?

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?

Easy Rod · 28-10-2014 5:28pm

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/

darkdubh · 01-11-2014 9:37pm

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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