Old movies you remember watching, but can't remember the name of
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There was a movie way back when that we never called by its title, just Jojo (JoeJoe? Fuck it.). The most I remember about the plot was that some kids/teens go into a museum, walk out, get in a little rowboat, go into a cave, and come out to go through the entirety of prehistory while strangely barely seeing any dinosaurs. The most significant moment that happens in the dinosaur bit is a fight between a Stegosaurus and Ceratosaurus. For the record the prehistoric animals are stop-motion.
Sounds about right. I meant middle school, as my scoutmaster would often watch those kinds of movies while we were in a patrol meeting. He was a cool guy, but totally insane.Dirty Hipsters said:
Eternal gratitude from someone you will never meet if you can answer either of these.
Of all the half forgotten movies i have seen throughout my life. There are two movies that I have not found. I have very vague recollections of both and every now and then their memory surfaces to taunt me. So here goes.
First and likely the easiest. An asian action movie based around the usual criminal good guy bad guy. The movie focused heavily on action scene ala in a typical asian fashion very kinetic. The hero and bad guy both weild guns in an almost balletic fashion much like Equilibrium. At some point in the movie the good guys shooting hand is maimed and he relearns his skills and seeks revenge. Honestly the movie is likely utter crap bu the memory of it infuriates me.
The second... wow if someone gets this.
When I was around 12-14 this will be about 1993. A cartoon movie was shown on tv. of a style VERY similar to miyzaki. So japanese in style although honestly I am not 100% sure anymore. It was not an overly violent movie. nor was it western child friendly. It had peril : / jesus this description.
The protagonist was a young boy. I am not sure but i think he was trying to rescue a girl.
During the movie there are several Extremely large robots running amok. Massive things very VERY simply designed and coloured equally similar. primary colours. They were rounded in shape rather than sharp edged.
I think i remember that the hands of one of the robots being detachable it could fire them.
It is not Miyazaki's http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0092067/?ref_=nm_flmg_dr_18 Castle in the sky although it gave me shivers when i first found this movie because i thought i found it.
Anyways. I'm not holding out hope. But please if anyone recognizes the names of these movies from my poor description. HELP!
Of all the half forgotten movies i have seen throughout my life. There are two movies that I have not found. I have very vague recollections of both and every now and then their memory surfaces to taunt me. So here goes.
First and likely the easiest. An asian action movie based around the usual criminal good guy bad guy. The movie focused heavily on action scene ala in a typical asian fashion very kinetic. The hero and bad guy both weild guns in an almost balletic fashion much like Equilibrium. At some point in the movie the good guys shooting hand is maimed and he relearns his skills and seeks revenge. Honestly the movie is likely utter crap bu the memory of it infuriates me.
The second... wow if someone gets this.
When I was around 12-14 this will be about 1993. A cartoon movie was shown on tv. of a style VERY similar to miyzaki. So japanese in style although honestly I am not 100% sure anymore. It was not an overly violent movie. nor was it western child friendly. It had peril : / jesus this description.
The protagonist was a young boy. I am not sure but i think he was trying to rescue a girl.
During the movie there are several Extremely large robots running amok. Massive things very VERY simply designed and coloured equally similar. primary colours. They were rounded in shape rather than sharp edged.
I think i remember that the hands of one of the robots being detachable it could fire them.
It is not Miyazaki's http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0092067/?ref_=nm_flmg_dr_18 Castle in the sky although it gave me shivers when i first found this movie because i thought i found it.
Anyways. I'm not holding out hope. But please if anyone recognizes the names of these movies from my poor description. HELP!
I have the dumbest scene in my head from one of those 1980s movies about high school.
The school gets all the boys to do a drug test. So they all line up in the bathrooms to piss in cups.
Some one brought in a carton of apple juice, and a few boys fill their cups up with with the apple juice instead of pissing in the cups.
The boys with juice in the cups go to hand over the "urine sample" but do something like
"wait a sec" one drinks from the cup and spits it out and says "this aint me pee!"
anyone know this movie?
The school gets all the boys to do a drug test. So they all line up in the bathrooms to piss in cups.
Some one brought in a carton of apple juice, and a few boys fill their cups up with with the apple juice instead of pissing in the cups.
The boys with juice in the cups go to hand over the "urine sample" but do something like
"wait a sec" one drinks from the cup and spits it out and says "this aint me pee!"
anyone know this movie?
Ack, there are three that I would love to know the names of.
Unfortunately I saw them when I was *really* young and can only remember a scene or two. A real challenge for you buffs!
1) It was a black and white horror movie about a huge swarm of killer ants. Not giant ones - just masses of smaller ones. I vaguely recall the heroes throwing dynamite out of a log cabin into a massive river of ants.
2) Another killer swarm of ants movie. The clearest I can remember is two characters in some sort of barn. I think one was on a ladder and got his head stuck. The ants swarm over and eat it and the next you see of him, he is just a skull.
3) Okay this was an action movie. Very bloody and cheesy 80s stuff. It had a bunch of mercenaries coming to some kind of tropical island. I can recall one scene when a native cuts off his hand and offers it to one of them (why, I cannot remember). I also remember someone who resembles the guy who played Kano in Mortal Kombat getting a bone or something shoved through his jaw.
Unfortunately I saw them when I was *really* young and can only remember a scene or two. A real challenge for you buffs!
1) It was a black and white horror movie about a huge swarm of killer ants. Not giant ones - just masses of smaller ones. I vaguely recall the heroes throwing dynamite out of a log cabin into a massive river of ants.
2) Another killer swarm of ants movie. The clearest I can remember is two characters in some sort of barn. I think one was on a ladder and got his head stuck. The ants swarm over and eat it and the next you see of him, he is just a skull.
3) Okay this was an action movie. Very bloody and cheesy 80s stuff. It had a bunch of mercenaries coming to some kind of tropical island. I can recall one scene when a native cuts off his hand and offers it to one of them (why, I cannot remember). I also remember someone who resembles the guy who played Kano in Mortal Kombat getting a bone or something shoved through his jaw.
There was a movie that my teacher showed us in Social Studies when I was in fifth grade. It was a movie about Native Americans (I think it was Native Americans) fighting with someone else (I don't remember who). The scene I remember is when one of the other guys is with one of the Native American men, who is down on his knees. The one man grabs the hair of the guy on the ground and cuts his head off. I don't think it showed that part, but a little while later, it showed him walking off carrying the head by the hair. The only other scene I remember is at the very end it shows the head which has been put on a stick/pole. After we watched it the teacher informed us that we would be watching the next movie the following day and that in it, the Native Americans (or whoever) would be getting guns so they could fight back. I wasn't there the day the class watched it, but a girl in my class informed me that it started with a closeup of the head on the stick/pole. I've been trying to find the movie for years, but I've had no luck.
One that I remembered quite recently but still haven't found in my half-assed searches was a movie that featured watches that made you move incredibly fast. Like time had stopped fast. I remembered liking it. o:
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That was fast.Dirty Hipsters said:
I must have watched in theaters in 2002 because it is all very vague to me now.
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Yours was a bit less vague than most of the other memories in this thread so it was pretty easy to find.Redlin5 said:
Trying to remember the name of the movie of watched when I was younger and I only remember a little bit of it. Could you help me? This movie is set in space and it had a purple alien and a green alien and I remember laughing hard at it so think it could be a comedy movie too. I cannot remember much of it. Please help if you can.
Trying to remember the name of the movie of watched when I was younger and I only remember a little bit of it. Could you help me? This movie is set in space and it had a purple alien and a green alien and I remember laughing hard at it so think it could be a comedy movie too. I cannot remember much of it. Please help if you can.
There is one.
All I can remember was it started off with a train yard with a turn table and a guy explains that the protagonist must make his way across the city to save his life. Then he sprints away from this guy to "start the game".
I was thinking of it awhile ago and thought it was running man 'cos it kind of fit but that film is way too camp.
All I can remember was it started off with a train yard with a turn table and a guy explains that the protagonist must make his way across the city to save his life. Then he sprints away from this guy to "start the game".
I was thinking of it awhile ago and thought it was running man 'cos it kind of fit but that film is way too camp.
I know this has been necro but whatever-
There was this asian film that had battling toy mechs! All I can remember was that it was made around 1970/1980's and at the start of it there were two large two helicopter that form into one big toy mech and proceed to attack this man at a mansion that had pool. Also at the near the ending, there were several toy mechs fighting the mech mention at the start of it but they were losing their numbers (getting crush easily).
There was this asian film that had battling toy mechs! All I can remember was that it was made around 1970/1980's and at the start of it there were two large two helicopter that form into one big toy mech and proceed to attack this man at a mansion that had pool. Also at the near the ending, there were several toy mechs fighting the mech mention at the start of it but they were losing their numbers (getting crush easily).