I remember a film like this back in the 80s. A boy loses his parents in an accident in the middle of the wilderness. Then the boy befriends this old mountain man codger who tries to teach him how to be tough by forcing him to climb a cliff while a bunch of wolves are trying to chase him. Then the codger dies at some point, leaving the boy on his own. I thought this film might be My Side of the Mountain but no, it's a completely different film. I guess kids being lost in the wilderness was a popular movie genre at some point because I can remember watching quite a few of those, like Cold River. Maybe my parents were planning on dumping me out in the forest and were trying to toughen me up first...
There's this one with James Marsden and some blonde guy. Apparently they are (were?) lovers or something but I remember that Marsden essentially spends most of the film bound and gagged.
Holy crap lol. I just read the plot summary since its been like.....14 years since I've seen it and....lmao what a stupid film. This is why plays should never be adapted to film unless you can change elements of it. Also where did Scott Speedman go?
Interesting to note that Noah Wyle was in the original stage version.
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There's a stop-motion short film that I can't find. I saw it somewhere between 2008-2009.
I remember it started with an old man telling his grandson about the time he worked as a puppeteer. The film cuts to the past.the grandfather had 3 puppets; an African king, a woman (I think she might be a dancer), and the last puppet was either a clown or a jester (I remember his name was pronounced something like Fah-toosh-ka).
The performance the grandfather did was a love story, where the jester confessed his love to the woman, but she loved the king instead.
It's revealed that the puppets are actually alive, and the jester believed that the woman actually loved him. He went to confess to her, and the king stabs the jester either right before the next show started, or during the show. The jester bled in front of the audience, and the grandfather can't use the jester anymore.
The film ended with a brief cut to the present day, with the grandson saying something that makes the grandfather say he was being haunted by the jester's ghost. Cut back to that past, and that's exactly what happened.
There's a 90s bully video I remember. It involves a kid who gets bullied by a group of kids because I think he had disabilities. The kid then runs into traffic and gets hit by a car and we wee a bloody shoe move across the screen and hit the pavement. The bullies than feel all bad about it. Luckily the kid doesn't die and the bullies promise to be nicer. I remember watching it back in 3rd grade and was shocked by the bloody shoe.
90s action movie with some science fiction elements and a love to hate villain that's hard not to root for. The villain is an AI program that manifests himself into the real world.
There is a scene at the beginning where he is in a computer with the screensaver you see in a lot of synthwave vaporwave videos like this:
The climax of the film has the villain take over a news room to broadcast himself doing terrorism only to be stopped by the hero of the film.
There was this subbed Japanese film I watched years ago while on a plane to Hawaii. Basically, it was a live action version of Inside Out, but instead of a twelve year old girl, it was about a thirty year old woman. (Wouldn't be surprised if it was partially made to cash in on Inside Out's success).
The movie's heroine is an unmarried thirty year old woman, which, in Japan, (as well as most of the world I guess) is considered to be a social failing. As a result, she is deeply insecure about herself and hopes to find a man in her life. Inside her head are little people dressed up in elaborate costumes that represent her different emotions who all meet in a conference room. (I seem to recall they're a bit more complex than simply joy, anger, ect.)
One day, she was rushing somewhere and ends up tripping over herself. As she gets up, she sees this attractive man and experiences a "love at first sight" kind of feeling. The guy is an early twenty something guy who was a bit stand offish and kinda anti-social. Somehow though, the two end up going out, having sex and begin something of an awkward and rocky relationship.
One scene that I distinctly remember was them at the end of a day out together. Things went really well and our main character seemed ecstatic, like her problems were finally over. There's this lady inside her head that is dressed in a poofy pink dress that's supposed to represent her happiness as well as her romantic side I think who was flying around the conference room tied to a wire singing about how great everything is.
Then, as the guy was about to head back to his apartment, he turns to the woman and asked how old she was. She pauses for a moment and then nervously tells him she's thirty.
He says, "You're thirty? No way!"
The scene shifts back inside her head showing the wire keeping the dressed girl flying snap and cause her to flat on the floor with a disappointed look on her face.
Now, the dude was clearly trying to compliment her but said it in the dumbest way possible and didn't realize it. Leaving the main character thinking that because she's thirty, he doesn't want anything to do with her. Causing her to be depressed again. It was a scene that managed to be both pretty funny and depressing at the same time. And I gotta applaud it for that.
Spoiler for the ending:
Eventually, the two were able to patch things up and start living together. But it became very quickly apparent that the two weren't happy with each other. The guy was very clearly insecure in himself, especially when he finds out that the girl ended up getting a promotion or something that lead to her making more money than him. Meanwhile, he was struggling to keep a job. He ends up emotionally and verbally abusing her and taking his anger out on her. Putting her in a miserable position.
This leads to a climax where eventually, after a long amount of deliberation leads to the main character leaving him. Recognizing that she has to be able to love herself and not put herself in an unhealthy relationship for the sake of not being an unmarried thirty year old. The guy begs for her to come back and curls up in a ball crying as she leaves. She herself had a good long cry afterwards which ends up flooding the conference room inside her head and putting the people in there in a panic.
The end of the movie shows her more renewed and ends with a bookend where she trips and looks up and sees another man.
I keep finding myself looking back at this film. It can be easy to look at it and call it an "Inside Out" rip off, and it's rather unfortunate that it came out not too long after. But I genuinely thought it was a really good film on its own merits. I just wish I could remember what it was called.
It’s a weird blend of drama and horror. Feel like it came out in the 70s. It’s set in a rural sort of Midwest area in the mid 1800s and is about a young man who seeks out this older man who iirc is some sort of occultist or white medicine man sort, gets involved with him in a sort of teacher and student situation and the older man ends up coercing thr younger one to start murdering for some reason or another.
Sorry for the vague description. I remember watching this movie on tv late at night when I was around 14 or 15, being interested and entertained by it but can’t remember much more than random snippets
There was this movie I saw when I was really young, maybe 6 or 7. It was basically a mother and her daughter(?) arguing with I presume the father when the daughter takes a fire iron and beats him to death with it while the mother is screaming and crying, right after that the credits roll in with a blood red background. I remember the coloring in it and hairstyles looked older, like anywhere between 50s-70s, but I don't know when it came out or what channel. yOne thing I remembered is the camera never really moved or panned out and just stayed fixed to the scene. I assume it might have been AMC Channel as I used to watch a lot of older westerns and dramas on it when I was that age but I could be wrong. I don't even think I saw the whole movie I might have just flipped the channel to this accidentally. I don't even remember if my parents were in the living room at the time because it seems like something they'd turn off instantly.
A while ago I think I was getting a haircut but I saw part of a movie, there was a cartoon little girl living in the real world, I remember the girl is sleeping in bed, but something happens I think she rolls off or something, so she ends up falling trough the window into a truck with bags or something, later a boy and his dog are shown to have found her and hid her in a tree house.
It was so long ago I only remember one scene and I'm not sure if I remember it correctly. I think it involved a group of kids on top of an old warehouse, bridge, or something old. They were looking for something which I think was a key. I they they also had to move slowly. If I remember correctly there was also a kid with glasses. I was about 5 so It was most likely 80s or 90s.
So the movie I saw was from the 90s and I think it was straight to TV movie. The plot was about this gunslinger type who arrives in Chicago and wishing to prove he was the fastest in the world, so he kills some cops and criminals. Which gets the attention of this old gruff cop and a reporter chick to find this guy and stop him.
There was an educational kid show with talking dot, question mark and exclamation mark. Anyone remembers that? I really want to see how cgi of characters aged.
There was this subbed Japanese film I watched years ago while on a plane to Hawaii. Basically, it was a live action version of Inside Out, but instead of a twelve year old girl, it was about a thirty year old woman. (Wouldn't be surprised if it was partially made to cash in on Inside Out's success).
The movie's heroine is an unmarried thirty year old woman, which, in Japan, (as well as most of the world I guess) is considered to be a social failing. As a result, she is deeply insecure about herself and hopes to find a man in her life. Inside her head are little people dressed up in elaborate costumes that represent her different emotions who all meet in a conference room. (I seem to recall they're a bit more complex than simply joy, anger, ect.)
One day, she was rushing somewhere and ends up tripping over herself. As she gets up, she sees this attractive man and experiences a "love at first sight" kind of feeling. The guy is an early twenty something guy who was a bit stand offish and kinda anti-social. Somehow though, the two end up going out, having sex and begin something of an awkward and rocky relationship.
One scene that I distinctly remember was them at the end of a day out together. Things went really well and our main character seemed ecstatic, like her problems were finally over. There's this lady inside her head that is dressed in a poofy pink dress that's supposed to represent her happiness as well as her romantic side I think who was flying around the conference room tied to a wire singing about how great everything is.
Then, as the guy was about to head back to his apartment, he turns to the woman and asked how old she was. She pauses for a moment and then nervously tells him she's thirty.
He says, "You're thirty? No way!"
The scene shifts back inside her head showing the wire keeping the dressed girl flying snap and cause her to flat on the floor with a disappointed look on her face.
Now, the dude was clearly trying to compliment her but said it in the dumbest way possible and didn't realize it. Leaving the main character thinking that because she's thirty, he doesn't want anything to do with her. Causing her to be depressed again. It was a scene that managed to be both pretty funny and depressing at the same time. And I gotta applaud it for that.
Spoiler for the ending:
Eventually, the two were able to patch things up and start living together. But it became very quickly apparent that the two weren't happy with each other. The guy was very clearly insecure in himself, especially when he finds out that the girl ended up getting a promotion or something that lead to her making more money than him. Meanwhile, he was struggling to keep a job. He ends up emotionally and verbally abusing her and taking his anger out on her. Putting her in a miserable position.
This leads to a climax where eventually, after a long amount of deliberation leads to the main character leaving him. Recognizing that she has to be able to love herself and not put herself in an unhealthy relationship for the sake of not being an unmarried thirty year old. The guy begs for her to come back and curls up in a ball crying as she leaves. She herself had a good long cry afterwards which ends up flooding the conference room inside her head and putting the people in there in a panic.
The end of the movie shows her more renewed and ends with a bookend where she trips and looks up and sees another man.
I keep finding myself looking back at this film. It can be easy to look at it and call it an "Inside Out" rip off, and it's rather unfortunate that it came out not too long after. But I genuinely thought it was a really good film on its own merits. I just wish I could remember what it was called.
90s action movie with some science fiction elements and a love to hate villain that's hard not to root for. The villain is an AI program that manifests himself into the real world.
There is a scene at the beginning where he is in a computer with the screensaver you see in a lot of synthwave vaporwave videos like this:
The climax of the film has the villain take over a news room to broadcast himself doing terrorism only to be stopped by the hero of the film.
