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Ever seen a movie on TV but didn't know what it was called? Remember a show from years ago but you don't remember the name? This is a thread about that.
Describe a scene, premise, whatever you remember and see if any kiwis know what it is.
Starting this thread because there's a few movies/shows I remember but don't know the name of, and so far no one has been able to tell me what they were, so I've decided to see if kiwi's can help.
Movie A
I think this was a made for TV movie for the sci-fi channel. A man starts to see the modern world as a burned out apocalyptic husk covered by a simulation. He gets into trouble and is eventually kidnapped by a secret society of people who live in luxury, they know the world is a burned wasteland, but keep the plebs in a simulation for their own benefit. The main character laughs at this, as the secret society is also living in the same burned out world. To prove this, he slams a decaying table they see as brand new, and breaks it. This is written off as the superhuman strength of a crazy person.
Eventually he and a female sidekick end up on walkways under the city. They meet an old man running the real simulation, again for the peoples benefit. He says the secret society cult exists as certain kinds of people want that. The main character turns off the simulation and goes back into the city, only to find everything is made of brown cardboard with bar codes on it, including the cookies from the oven. Everyone else is so dependent on the simulation that, even when turned off, they see the world as the modern day.
I don't think it's 13th Floor. From the trailer of that movie, the simulation is green wireframes, with the twist that the real world is a simulation that built another simulation inside of it.
TV Series B
Michael Madsen plays a man who helps people in need, under the condition they will do him a favour in future. Each episode was him helping people while calling in favours from people he helped in previous episodes. I remember one episode he gets injured and calls in a favour from a vet to patch him up.
Movie C
A movie, but could be a show. Likely before or around 2005. I want to say it was sci-fi but it could be just high tech modern. It looked like a TV movie. The details are super vague here and could be wrong as I'll explain later.
The villain is in a future room (likely an office, secret base, or room of a ship), and suspects the good female sidekick of being a traitor. To prove she's not, he has her strip to her underwear in front of him. She does so, but he's not convinced and has her locked up. (The underwear was red iirc) I want to say there was an evil female villain who was blonde and dressed in a sort of space dominatrix outfit that interrogates her, but I'm not sure.
No. This wasn't a porn movie. And I'm vague on the details because it was on in the background while we played Resident Evil Zero, Metal Gear Solid 2, and Command and Conquer Generals at a friends house many years ago. Because those games are all around 2002, but we weren't playing on release day, I put the date before 2005.
Movie D
A sci-fi movie. Some space men are on Mars with an AI controlled robot dog. I assume something goes wrong, because they decide to salvage the robot for parts. The AI is programmed for self preservation and attempts to kill the space men to save itself. I remember one scene where it attacks a guy, but doesn't kill him which the space men find suspicious. It was a calculated move to leave him injured to slow the group down so it would have an easier time killing the rest.
Describe a scene, premise, whatever you remember and see if any kiwis know what it is.
Starting this thread because there's a few movies/shows I remember but don't know the name of, and so far no one has been able to tell me what they were, so I've decided to see if kiwi's can help.
Movie A
I think this was a made for TV movie for the sci-fi channel. A man starts to see the modern world as a burned out apocalyptic husk covered by a simulation. He gets into trouble and is eventually kidnapped by a secret society of people who live in luxury, they know the world is a burned wasteland, but keep the plebs in a simulation for their own benefit. The main character laughs at this, as the secret society is also living in the same burned out world. To prove this, he slams a decaying table they see as brand new, and breaks it. This is written off as the superhuman strength of a crazy person.
Eventually he and a female sidekick end up on walkways under the city. They meet an old man running the real simulation, again for the peoples benefit. He says the secret society cult exists as certain kinds of people want that. The main character turns off the simulation and goes back into the city, only to find everything is made of brown cardboard with bar codes on it, including the cookies from the oven. Everyone else is so dependent on the simulation that, even when turned off, they see the world as the modern day.
I don't think it's 13th Floor. From the trailer of that movie, the simulation is green wireframes, with the twist that the real world is a simulation that built another simulation inside of it.
TV Series B
Michael Madsen plays a man who helps people in need, under the condition they will do him a favour in future. Each episode was him helping people while calling in favours from people he helped in previous episodes. I remember one episode he gets injured and calls in a favour from a vet to patch him up.
Movie C
A movie, but could be a show. Likely before or around 2005. I want to say it was sci-fi but it could be just high tech modern. It looked like a TV movie. The details are super vague here and could be wrong as I'll explain later.
The villain is in a future room (likely an office, secret base, or room of a ship), and suspects the good female sidekick of being a traitor. To prove she's not, he has her strip to her underwear in front of him. She does so, but he's not convinced and has her locked up. (The underwear was red iirc) I want to say there was an evil female villain who was blonde and dressed in a sort of space dominatrix outfit that interrogates her, but I'm not sure.
No. This wasn't a porn movie. And I'm vague on the details because it was on in the background while we played Resident Evil Zero, Metal Gear Solid 2, and Command and Conquer Generals at a friends house many years ago. Because those games are all around 2002, but we weren't playing on release day, I put the date before 2005.
Movie D
A sci-fi movie. Some space men are on Mars with an AI controlled robot dog. I assume something goes wrong, because they decide to salvage the robot for parts. The AI is programmed for self preservation and attempts to kill the space men to save itself. I remember one scene where it attacks a guy, but doesn't kill him which the space men find suspicious. It was a calculated move to leave him injured to slow the group down so it would have an easier time killing the rest.
