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I need some help IDing some movies. If you do too, this is your chance.

Mine:

The grim french one with the ghetto girl that works in a waffle house.

The funny korean one with the office drone that becomes a pro wrestler.

― LC, Tuesday, 16 March 2004 14:05 (twenty-two years ago)

the first one is Rosetta

― Frühlingsj4n (Wintermute), Tuesday, 16 March 2004 14:19 (twenty-two years ago)

Not until you've helped me:

No - help ME! (obscure half-remembered film pt 2)

― N. (nickdastoor), Tuesday, 16 March 2004 14:21 (twenty-two years ago)

Though of course it is Belgian.

The second one is The Foul King.

― Pete (Pete), Tuesday, 16 March 2004 14:21 (twenty-two years ago)

You guys are awesome fast. Thanks, I'm going to try to find them today.

― LC, Tuesday, 16 March 2004 14:32 (twenty-two years ago)

five months pass...

next:
WW2 movie with a scene in which paratroopers have to land covertly in an occupied village and one of them gets stuck dangling from a rooftop. possibly in b&w and almost definitely a well-known classic.

― jones (actual), Wednesday, 1 September 2004 18:19 (twenty-one years ago)

I saw a movie late at night a while back about this girl who ends up staying in a smalltown hotel, where her auntie works, and the hotel is faintly weird mainly due to this photographer dude who's the aunties son I think, and he's sort of following her around and spying on her. he's sort of a sex freak and has blow up dolls in his room but the girl starts to want to meet him and stuff, it was very weird and very hitchcock. big twist at the end.

― Ronan (Ronan), Wednesday, 1 September 2004 18:27 (twenty-one years ago)

jones - I am pretty sure you're talking about The Longest Day.

― TOMBOT, Wednesday, 1 September 2004 19:05 (twenty-one years ago)

YES thank you

― jones (actual), Wednesday, 1 September 2004 19:07 (twenty-one years ago)

That American one with the good looking guy who kills some foriegn looking chaps. At the end he kisses a beautiful woman.

I'm also trying to track down a black and white French one with lots of talking and smoking in it.

― Wooden (Wooden), Wednesday, 1 September 2004 22:11 (twenty-one years ago)

Possibly the worst (and most graphically violent/grisly) TV movie in the world: Two families living in suburbia, one of the wives has an affair with the other husband, wronged wife murders other wife with a meat cleaver on the kitchen floor. Much blood and screaming.

I am not tyrying to find this one to watch it again, I want to avoid it all costs.

― rainy (rainy), Wednesday, 1 September 2004 22:18 (twenty-one years ago)

I am imagining you watching it, mouth increasingly agog.

― Alba (Alba), Wednesday, 1 September 2004 22:35 (twenty-one years ago)

That sounds appallingly creepy! Oops.

― Alba (Alba), Wednesday, 1 September 2004 22:35 (twenty-one years ago)

next to that movie, everything is the antithesis of creepy.

― rainy (rainy), Wednesday, 1 September 2004 22:43 (twenty-one years ago)

I want to watch it now!

― Alba (Alba), Wednesday, 1 September 2004 22:43 (twenty-one years ago)

please don't. You'll blame me when it haunts you for the next ten years.

― rainy (rainy), Wednesday, 1 September 2004 22:47 (twenty-one years ago)

Ronan: if your film involves a camera with a "very sharp" picture, then you were watching "Peeping Tom."

― sexyDancer, Wednesday, 1 September 2004 22:53 (twenty-one years ago)

i have a vague memory of a scene in which a girl dramatically lip synchs gene pitney's town without pity in her bedroom, ending by sinking down to the ground on the last "caaaaaaaaaaan.. doooooooooooooo." but i'm not sure if it's from a movie or if i'm just conflating bits from various 80s films.

― lauren (laurenp), Thursday, 2 September 2004 00:34 (twenty-one years ago)

...with your life.

― Alba (Alba), Thursday, 2 September 2004 06:37 (twenty-one years ago)

yeah right, if anyone on ILX did that it's you Alba, and not to something moderately good like Gene Pitney either.

― Ronan (Ronan), Thursday, 2 September 2004 08:49 (twenty-one years ago)

I know I cut a ridiculous figure. You don't have to rub it in.

― Alba (Alba), Thursday, 2 September 2004 08:53 (twenty-one years ago)

don't take it to heart. I'm sure it would have been good in a film.

― Ronan (Ronan), Thursday, 2 September 2004 08:55 (twenty-one years ago)

there's this one movie i saw on tv a few weeks ago, it had this kazilionaire who invites all these people to this island he owns with these genetically engineered dinosaurs and the dinosaurs get lose and eat a bunch of folks. i think it might've been called 'Carnosaur', maybe?

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Thursday, 2 September 2004 10:46 (twenty-one years ago)

Yes! Carnosaur -- which, according to my TiVo guide, is airing back-to-back with Carnosaur 2 this week on Showtime!

I don't think that's "Peeping Tom" up there, though (there's no blow up dolls in that,etc.) -- could it be "Buddy Boy"? (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0146516/)

― Softly Weeping at the Oki Dog (Ben Boyer), Thursday, 2 September 2004 21:12 (twenty-one years ago)

..with your life.

i'm not much of a pitney fan, really. what i like to do is dance around to the five du-tones' shake a tailfeather everytime i move into a new house.

― lauren (laurenp), Thursday, 2 September 2004 21:18 (twenty-one years ago)

My dad once got mistaken for Gene Pitney. This is ridiculous as he is Indian, for a start.

― Alba (Alba), Thursday, 2 September 2004 21:20 (twenty-one years ago)

and he is not Gene Pitney.

― Ronan (Ronan), Thursday, 2 September 2004 21:23 (twenty-one years ago)

Other people my dad has been mistaken for:

Ossy Ardiles
Sideshow Bob
Some bloke out of 'Cybill'

― Alba (Alba), Thursday, 2 September 2004 21:23 (twenty-one years ago)

I may be abusing the term 'mistaken for' slightly.

― Alba (Alba), Thursday, 2 September 2004 21:23 (twenty-one years ago)

I think the only one where the other person was actually convinced it was him was Ossy Ardilles.

― Alba (Alba), Thursday, 2 September 2004 21:24 (twenty-one years ago)

teh scene that lauren recounts sounds totally familiar ack

― amateur!!st, Thursday, 2 September 2004 21:24 (twenty-one years ago)

Anyway, this thread isn't about my dad, sorry.

― Alba (Alba), Thursday, 2 September 2004 21:24 (twenty-one years ago)

an old neighbor of ours always told my father that he looked like mr.kotter/gabe kaplan. he doesn't, except that they both have wavy dark hair. we figured she had never seen a jew in real life before.

― lauren (laurenp), Thursday, 2 September 2004 21:26 (twenty-one years ago)

They use "Town Without Pity" over the opening credits of the film of Eric Bogosian's "Suburbia" with Giovanni Ribisi...

― Softly Weeping at the Oki Dog (Ben Boyer), Thursday, 2 September 2004 23:27 (twenty-one years ago)

four years pass...

From the cover of a straight-to-DVD movie (the bracketed terms are approximate)

"Thugs [droppin'] thugs - who's [cappin'] who?"

Did you work in a video store between 2002 and 2004 or are you an afficianado of low-budget gangsta movies? Help me out!

― L.L.N.L. Cool J (kingkongvsgodzilla), Friday, 3 October 2008 20:51 (seventeen years ago)

four years pass...

I'm almost certain the tagline was "Thugs Killin' Thugs - Who's Cappin' Who?"

― how's life, Friday, 24 May 2013 19:17 (twelve years ago)

five months pass...

I remember reading about this, but never saw it, it was basically a film entirely made up of the set-up scenes from porn films before the actual porn starts, a bunch of these clips from different porn films edited together and cutting out before any nudity or sex. I can't remember what it was called though, does this sound familiar to anyone? I think it came out around 8- 10 years ago.

― also known as Princess Chunk and Captain Chunk, real name: Powder (soref), Sunday, 3 November 2013 21:59 (twelve years ago)

Hmm. There 's a segment in the anthology movie "Destricted" that's sort of like that:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Destricted

― Walter Galt, Sunday, 3 November 2013 23:40 (twelve years ago)

This is the segment: Sync (Marco Brambilla) - It only exists out of very fast cuts from different porn films and plays for about two minutes. (2min 15s)

― Walter Galt, Sunday, 3 November 2013 23:41 (twelve years ago)

soref's premise actually sounds a lot cooler than the actual segment from Destricted (which i abandoned somewhere during the Gaspar Noe sequence).

― a fifth of misty beethoven (cryptosicko), Sunday, 3 November 2013 23:51 (twelve years ago)

eleven years pass...

From the cover of a straight-to-DVD movie (the bracketed terms are approximate)
"Thugs [droppin'] thugs - who's [cappin'] who?"
Did you work in a video store between 2002 and 2004 or are you an afficianado of low-budget gangsta movies? Help me out!
― L.L.N.L. Cool J (kingkongvsgodzilla), Friday, October 3, 2008 4:51 PM (sixteen years ago) bookmarkflaglink
four years pass...
I'm almost certain the tagline was "Thugs Killin' Thugs - Who's Cappin' Who?"
― how's life, Friday, May 24, 2013 3:17 PM (eleven years ago) bookmarkflaglink

This movie is Jack Movez, and the tagline is Thugs Robbin' Thugs...Who's Jackin' Who?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m7OsBk2isYw

(have not yet watched, but I can't wait to)

― peace, man, Tuesday, 7 January 2025 21:13 (one year ago)

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― milms and foovies (sic), Wednesday, 8 January 2025 02:07 (one year ago)

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