Need to identify this eighties/early nineties film.

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why do i have a feeling kjb is gonna say "okay" and tuomas is gonna post the link and then we're gonna have the longest-simmering rickroll of all time

death to ilx, long live the frogbs (strongo hulkington's ghost dad), Monday, 4 July 2011 22:38 (fourteen years ago)

http://i203.photobucket.com/albums/aa295/slugbert/indiana-jones.jpg

l-r:chewie, tuomas

slugbuggy, Monday, 4 July 2011 23:30 (fourteen years ago)

state-funded prod cos are nothing to do with the /\.ǀ3.<. though

― undeɹrated ærosm?th b∞tlegs I have pwned (sic)

Huh. Could swear there were some, but yr right of course theres a diff btn film borads and aunty. And, i'd defer to yr knowledge on said in any case :)

Bloompsday (Trayce), Monday, 4 July 2011 23:47 (fourteen years ago)

Stephen Ouimette you was the bomb in Slings & Arrows yo!

some dude, Monday, 4 July 2011 23:55 (fourteen years ago)

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between this and bin laden's death i feel like a whole decade is finally behind us

And forks' song!

kkvgz, Tuesday, 5 July 2011 01:12 (fourteen years ago)

Tuomas, I'd rather you not post the link on ILX. Anyone is who interested in watching it, please just ILX mail me or Tuomas and then we'll give you the link.

Kevin John Bozelka, Tuesday, 5 July 2011 01:36 (fourteen years ago)

Could swear there were some

there may have been some! but I don't think there was a major ongoing back & forth symbiosis, and I'm 99% sure there isn't now

undeɹrated ærosm?th b∞tlegs I have pwned (sic), Tuesday, 5 July 2011 02:56 (fourteen years ago)

Fair enough :)

Bloompsday (Trayce), Tuesday, 5 July 2011 03:18 (fourteen years ago)

(am prob conflating it with the BBC coprods)

Bloompsday (Trayce), Tuesday, 5 July 2011 03:18 (fourteen years ago)

Stephen Ouimette you was the bomb in Slings & Arrows yo!

― some dude, Monday, July 4, 2011 7:55 PM (Yesterday)


^^^

Nhex, Tuesday, 5 July 2011 05:38 (fourteen years ago)

Tuomas, I'd rather you not post the link on ILX. Anyone is who interested in watching it, please just ILX mail me or Tuomas and then we'll give you the link.

Okay, that's fine with me.

Tuomas, Tuesday, 5 July 2011 06:45 (fourteen years ago)

could use 1 link, if anyone has the goods and feels so inclined

(will mail tuomas and hope)

Looking for that #Swagu? (contenderizer), Tuesday, 5 July 2011 07:28 (fourteen years ago)

you have this laying around as an avi ? like, of all the films you could possibly own?

― akm, Monday, 4 July 2011 07:07 (Yesterday) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

important questions still unanswered

ledge, Tuesday, 5 July 2011 08:31 (fourteen years ago)

I have mailed you Tuomas.

kkvgz, Tuesday, 5 July 2011 09:18 (fourteen years ago)

This thread brings a tear to the eye. Now, has anyone tracked down the "not gonna happen" guy?

that was the last arrow in my quiver of whimsy (Ned Trifle II), Tuesday, 5 July 2011 09:44 (fourteen years ago)

I did get Contenderizer's mail, but not KKVGZ's, can you send it again? Remember to include you email address in the message, as the ILX messaging system doesn't automatically include it.

Tuomas, Tuesday, 5 July 2011 09:55 (fourteen years ago)

Now, has anyone tracked down the "not gonna happen" guy?

this was p much 60% of the content of the ngh thread

undeɹrated ærosm?th b∞tlegs I have pwned (sic), Tuesday, 5 July 2011 12:16 (fourteen years ago)

wayn3 l0ftus, three beer qu33r iirc

undeɹrated ærosm?th b∞tlegs I have pwned (sic), Tuesday, 5 July 2011 12:17 (fourteen years ago)

tuomas, I'll try again a little later.

sic, i think he goes bt "tomj or "tommy" now.

kkvgz, Tuesday, 5 July 2011 12:19 (fourteen years ago)

wayn3 l0ftus, three beer tomj

undeɹrated ærosm?th b∞tlegs I have pwned (sic), Tuesday, 5 July 2011 12:55 (fourteen years ago)

The internet is a good thing after all *tears of joy*

R. Stornoway (Tom D.), Tuesday, 5 July 2011 13:02 (fourteen years ago)

while it is pretty amazing that after 5 years somebody finally manages to identify this film, what is totally blowing my mind is that another person who just happens to open this thread actually has a copy of the film lying around on their hard drive

peter in montreal, Tuesday, 5 July 2011 13:11 (fourteen years ago)

^^^^ OTM

DJP, Tuesday, 5 July 2011 18:07 (fourteen years ago)

hence why i am still wondering if kjb is the "exiled cubans" to tuomas's c.i.a. in this little operation

death to ilx, long live the frogbs (strongo hulkington's ghost dad), Tuesday, 5 July 2011 18:10 (fourteen years ago)

wanna point out that the guy who put up that MC Breed track on my WHAT FUCKING SONG IS THIS thread, that was his first and only post

it is a mystery

ain't nuthin but a chicken waaaang (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 5 July 2011 18:34 (fourteen years ago)

sock travels back in time, records breed sesh in order to satisfy tofu memories

Looking for that #Swagu? (contenderizer), Tuesday, 5 July 2011 20:49 (fourteen years ago)

IN A WORLD...

brooklyn's complicated relationship with bacon (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 5 July 2011 21:32 (fourteen years ago)

KJB is one of the real deal WTF film dudes. He referenced Final Flesh in another thread and freaked out about the GG Allin blowjob reactions in the Hated thread - not a super big surprise he has this handy.

Walter Galt, Tuesday, 5 July 2011 23:49 (fourteen years ago)

New t-shirt design:

Front: Listen To Walter Galt
Back: Screen grab from Barbara Rubin's Christmas on Earth aka Cocks and Cunts

Kevin John Bozelka, Wednesday, 6 July 2011 01:57 (fourteen years ago)

Sent the download link to those who mailed me.

Tuomas, Wednesday, 6 July 2011 06:26 (fourteen years ago)

got it! and thanks, tuomas. haven't watched it yet...

Looking for that #Swagu? (contenderizer), Wednesday, 6 July 2011 06:47 (fourteen years ago)

Using the typewriter the villain does all sort of nasty things to the writer: first he turns him into a woman...

*reproachful mark loi face*

estela, Wednesday, 6 July 2011 07:50 (fourteen years ago)

ha, that's a point..

Mark G, Thursday, 7 July 2011 10:05 (fourteen years ago)

http://movies.netflix.com/WiMovie/Jason_of_Star_Command/70066208?trkid=2361637

beloved

coffeetripperspillerslyricmakeruppers (Latham Green), Thursday, 7 July 2011 16:02 (fourteen years ago)

Looks like there must've been some kind of deal between the local Finnish television channel and the Canadian distributor of "Destiny to Order", because a lot of of obscure Canadian movies (including this one by the same guy who wrote and directed "Destiny to Call") were shown on Finnish TV back in the 80s and early 90s.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1078280/releaseinfo

jaymc, Friday, 8 July 2011 19:55 (fourteen years ago)

one month passes...

Okay, I have another thing I'd love someone to identify... This one's an animated short, stop-motion, made in the early or mid-90s. It's sort of a faux Japanese folk tale about a samurai who has to save a girl from a demon. The animation is the made to look as if we're watching a play, so the camera remains stationary, and instead of cutting from scene to another the props behind the characters change all the time. Also, since it's supposed to be a play, it has a on-stage narrator, an old guy with a beard. I don't remember much about the story, except that the samurai beats the demon and gets the girl. The narrator then walks to the stage, takes of a mask he was wearing and reveals that he's not actually an old guy but the samurai of the story, who's joined by the girl he saved. You'd think the story would end there, but all of a sudden the camera moves (for the first time in the movie) much closer to the characters than previously, and we see the demon attack the samurai and the girl. The demon kills both the samurai and the girl in a rather gory manner, and the short ends with that. It's quite a shock to have an ending like that, as the rest of the story was more like a classic children's animation. I think the short won some big price for short films, but I can't remember which one.

Tuomas, Tuesday, 16 August 2011 16:51 (fourteen years ago)

i sympathize but nobody is going to go through this again for you tuomas, i'm sorry

Doctor Casino, Tuesday, 16 August 2011 17:43 (fourteen years ago)

At least you know he's telling the truth this time

Race Against Rockism (Myonga Vön Bontee), Tuesday, 16 August 2011 17:49 (fourteen years ago)

Oh yeah, and I'm pretty sure the animation was made in the UK or USA, not in Japan.

Tuomas, Tuesday, 16 August 2011 20:53 (fourteen years ago)

is it claymation, or what? you could try going through short/animated film fest websites for their winners, although maybe they don't go back that far.

kinder, Tuesday, 16 August 2011 21:02 (fourteen years ago)

not this?

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-rcStfxnHSX4/TiUkKJCyVZI/AAAAAAAAAhM/PMOIIoQzSF4/s1600/samurai_jack.jpg

Philip Nunez, Tuesday, 16 August 2011 21:03 (fourteen years ago)

is it claymation, or what? you could try going through short/animated film fest websites for their winners, although maybe they don't go back that far.

Not claymation, stop-motion puppets, like Nightmare Before Christmas.

Tuomas, Tuesday, 16 August 2011 21:43 (fourteen years ago)

six months pass...

Wait, so did contenderizer (or any other veteran of this thread) actually get the download link and confirm the existence of the magic typewriter ball-rap sequence?

Doctor Casino, Tuesday, 28 February 2012 08:32 (fourteen years ago)

You don't believe my word that the scene was there?

Tuomas, Tuesday, 28 February 2012 08:53 (fourteen years ago)

You sent me the dropbox link, but I had problems with it for some reason (format maybe?).

I was really hoping that some enterprising ilxor would have gotten some pertinent youtubes up by now.

beachville, Tuesday, 28 February 2012 15:07 (fourteen years ago)

i dropped the ball on this. started to watch the movie (thank you, t), but it was so awful that i never make it more than a few minutes in. have since deleted it (trying to save space during file migration).

Little GTFO (contenderizer), Tuesday, 28 February 2012 15:29 (fourteen years ago)

eight months pass...

Okay, I have another thing I'd love someone to identify... This one's an animated short, stop-motion, made in the early or mid-90s. It's sort of a faux Japanese folk tale about a samurai who has to save a girl from a demon. The animation is the made to look as if we're watching a play, so the camera remains stationary, and instead of cutting from scene to another the props behind the characters change all the time. Also, since it's supposed to be a play, it has a on-stage narrator, an old guy with a beard. I don't remember much about the story, except that the samurai beats the demon and gets the girl. The narrator then walks to the stage, takes of a mask he was wearing and reveals that he's not actually an old guy but the samurai of the story, who's joined by the girl he saved. You'd think the story would end there, but all of a sudden the camera moves (for the first time in the movie) much closer to the characters than previously, and we see the demon attack the samurai and the girl. The demon kills both the samurai and the girl in a rather gory manner, and the short ends with that. It's quite a shock to have an ending like that, as the rest of the story was more like a classic children's animation. I think the short won some big price for short films, but I can't remember which one.

― Tuomas, 16. elokuuta 2011 19:51

I did eventually find this one, it's called "Screen Play", and you can watch it on Youtube:

http://youtu.be/VG4rkjQI7d4

Tuomas, Tuesday, 30 October 2012 09:47 (thirteen years ago)

Anyway, while we're on the subject, there's another film I saw as a kid that someone might identify. I think I was quite small then, so this must be from the eighties. It was a sci-fi film set in the future, or maybe even on another planet. It had a small group of heroes trying to reach some goal, possibly escape from somewhere, and of course they had to fight some bad guys along the way. Most of the group were humans or human-like, but it also included one cyborg and one robot reminiscent of R2-D2. I distinctly remember that the cyborg got killed while helping the others to escape. Possibly he was electrocuted. That's all I remember, but maybe someone can identify this movie.

― Tuomas, 24. lokakuuta 2007 14:55 Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

And this one turned out to be Eliminators.

Tuomas, Tuesday, 30 October 2012 09:50 (thirteen years ago)

This one, however, I've never managed to identify:

2) This one was definitely a TV series: it featured a boy who ended up in space in a rather weird way. Someone or something dislodged his room (but nothing else) from his parents' house, and the room was floating in space. So when he opened the door to his room, all he could see was stars! The series also had a cyborg bad guy with a scary, glowing cyborg eye.

― Tuomas, 1. maaliskuuta 2010 19:29 Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

It was on the telly when I was a kid, back in the mid-80s, so it can't be newer than that. For some reason I recall this series being British, but I could be wrong about that. It was definitely in English, though.

Tuomas, Tuesday, 30 October 2012 09:53 (thirteen years ago)

I just found a hopeful looking page. It turned out to be the question you posted to tvtropes.

itt: 'splaining men (ledge), Tuesday, 30 October 2012 09:57 (thirteen years ago)


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