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 (thirteen years ago) link
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 (thirteen years ago) link
not this?
http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-rcStfxnHSX4/TiUkKJCyVZI/AAAAAAAAAhM/PMOIIoQzSF4/s1600/samurai_jack.jpg
― Philip Nunez, Tuesday, 16 August 2011 21:03 (thirteen years ago) link
Not claymation, stop-motion puppets, like Nightmare Before Christmas.
― Tuomas, Tuesday, 16 August 2011 21:43 (thirteen years ago) link
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 (twelve years ago) link
You don't believe my word that the scene was there?
― Tuomas, Tuesday, 28 February 2012 08:53 (twelve years ago) link
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 (twelve years ago) link
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 (twelve years ago) link
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 (eleven years ago) link
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 (eleven years ago) link
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 (eleven years ago) link
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 (eleven years ago) link
Yeah, TVTropes was able to identify the other two things I was looking for, but so far I've had no success with this sci-fi series.
― Tuomas, Tuesday, 30 October 2012 09:59 (eleven years ago) link
Hmmmm, so I'm sure I've asked this here somewhere before, but here goes nothing . . .
This is One of the movies I overwatched on VHS as a kid (tape sadly missing/destroyed now). Things I remember:
― give me back my 200 dollars (NotEnough), Tuesday, 30 October 2012 16:46 (eleven years ago) link
It doesn't matter what film it is.
― Alba, Tuesday, 30 October 2012 16:47 (eleven years ago) link
Norman Panama's penultimate directorial effort, Barnaby and Me was originally filmed for Australian television. The title character is a talented Koala Bear, who is to Australian fans what Benji is to Americans. Pausing in his escape from a vengeful mobster, American con artist Caesar falls in love with Juliet Mills, whose daughter Sally Boyden keeps Barnaby as her pet. The kooky koala teans up with Caesar for a series of picaresque adventures. It's hardly The Sting, but it's easy to take. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi
― itt: 'splaining men (ledge), Tuesday, 30 October 2012 16:58 (eleven years ago) link
That looks like the fella. Thanks ledge!
― give me back my 200 dollars (NotEnough), Wednesday, 31 October 2012 08:22 (eleven years ago) link
it is this thread still working? im looking for the movie destiny to order. Sorry if its to late, but im just discovered this forum. Thanks
― vady86, Sunday, 3 February 2013 22:39 (eleven years ago) link
ok, on Man Lab this evening they made a fake monster, like Nessie, to promote tourism to skegness.
there was a kid's tv show or a film with the same plot when i was a kid (ie around 35 years ago). monster had kids inside, built around a bicycle?
― koogs, Thursday, 25 April 2013 21:15 (eleven years ago) link
^ uk. and i think it was a uk production. felt like a Children's Film Foundation film (but nothing on their list rings a bell), or BBC. possibly canadian?
― koogs, Thursday, 25 April 2013 21:26 (eleven years ago) link
not 100% sure but:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0067278/
The Johnstown Monster (1971)
set in ireland
― koogs, Thursday, 25 April 2013 21:35 (eleven years ago) link
or maybe this:
http://marciodisneyarchives.blogspot.co.uk/2010/09/strange-monster-of-strawberry-cove.html
title seems familiar. disney, burgess meredith...
― koogs, Thursday, 25 April 2013 21:45 (eleven years ago) link
johnstown monster looks familiar from the utube clip i watched. wikipedia sez it was shown as part of the cbs children's film festival so that's when i would have seen it, mid-to-late 70s-ish.
― slugbuggy, Thursday, 25 April 2013 22:25 (eleven years ago) link
Pretty sure it's the Strawberry Cove one because that monster was definetely bicycle powered.
― everything, Thursday, 25 April 2013 22:32 (eleven years ago) link
Still looking for this series... A friend of mine remembers seeing it on Finnish telly, and someone over at TVTropes remembers it too, so I don't think I've imagined this one. Neither of those remembered the name of the series though.
― Tuomas, Friday, 17 January 2014 13:37 (ten years ago) link
Can anyone here think of a 80s/90s film that features a character with a crescent moon shaped head? I'm asking for a friend, but suggestions that have already been made and were shot down include:
1.) Mac Tonight (from the McDonald's commercials)
http://img2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20130730083542/creepypasta/images/5/54/Mac_Tonight.png
2.) Nightbreed
http://content9.flixster.com/question/40/33/70/4033707_std.jpg
3.) This Sandman cover
http://wac.450f.edgecastcdn.net/80450F/comicsalliance.com/files/2013/10/Untitled-161.jpg
4.) UHF
http://www.bunnweb.org/smbunn/hester/uhf/uhf10.jpg
― how's life, Thursday, 26 June 2014 12:37 (ten years ago) link
Nightbreed would have been my first answer!
― Disagree. And im not into firey solos chief. (Phil D.), Thursday, 26 June 2014 12:44 (ten years ago) link
Oh, and it was this Sandman film that was suggested, not the Sandman comic, apparently:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UjgHbRrnjhU
― how's life, Thursday, 26 June 2014 12:50 (ten years ago) link
actually, that was the first thing that sprang to my mind, little short animation. was someone's graduation project iirc, Paul Berry, looked like robert smith. went on to do james and the giant peach and died young.
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0077651/
wither four-mations...
― koogs, Thursday, 26 June 2014 13:22 (ten years ago) link
Basket Case 2 or 3 lemme check
― clockpuncher (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 26 June 2014 18:04 (ten years ago) link
http://www.dvdactive.com/images/reviews/screenshot/2012/10/bc2c.jpg
this is from 2, can't remember if the same character reoccurs in 3, god i need to watch these again
― clockpuncher (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 26 June 2014 18:05 (ten years ago) link
2 is p good, 3 is ... not. 1 is a classic obvy
― Οὖτις, Thursday, 26 June 2014 18:58 (ten years ago) link
ah man this thread is heartwarming.
― thomasintrouble, Thursday, 26 June 2014 21:34 (ten years ago) link
― Tuomas, 17. tammikuuta 2014 15:37 Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
I still haven't managed to find this one. All the other movies/series I mentioned in this thread have been identified, so hopefully this one will be too some day.
― Tuomas, Wednesday, 17 December 2014 11:46 (nine years ago) link
I remember watching it on Finnish TV in the 80s, if that's any help.
― Tuomas, Wednesday, 17 December 2014 11:47 (nine years ago) link
French, or maybe Spanish or Andorran film, late 90s or 2000s. I saw it in late 2009 but it was not necessarily new. It's set at some kind of orphanage or boarding house (kids are there, in any case) out in the boonies, kind of scrubby countryside, some hills. I can't remember the plot at all except that it is mostly or entirely set out at this orphanage, and there are mobsters or criminals that come out there to ...kill everybody? Or they just want some money or a particular guy? I feel like the climax is the kids kind of surviving against these gangsters. One kid spends a lot of the movie out on his own, maybe trying to run to the next town? Like he's really good at sports? And you think he's dead at one point but actually he survived and made a plan and comes back in the nick of time, I think. I'm making this sound a little like Home Alone but the kids are older than that and the tone is a lot heavier, though I think there are some laughs.
― Doctor Casino, Saturday, 25 April 2015 22:43 (nine years ago) link
That kind of reminds me on a movie I've been trying to identify since I saw it on TV maybe 15 years ago. I think it's from the 80s, and it's about this kid who defends his home and accosted family from intruding burglars/mobsters/criminals. At one point he fills a super-soaker with gasoline and, from a considerable distance, shoots it so that the stream of gas lands directly on the end of one guy's cigarette. At another point he goes to the bathroom, puts a bunch of chemicals on a rag, and then holds it to the criminal's mouth, knocking him out.
― ed.b, Sunday, 26 April 2015 10:58 (nine years ago) link
el espiritu en la colmena
― laraaji p. hensen (clouds), Sunday, 26 April 2015 12:45 (nine years ago) link
both of them
ed. b., yours is Playing Dangerous I'll bet - - - see 8:50 forward here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WGI-BKctOK8
― Doctor Casino, Sunday, 26 April 2015 14:20 (nine years ago) link
omg, thank you! this answers so many questions.
― ed.b, Tuesday, 28 April 2015 20:11 (nine years ago) link
Interesting side note, for many years I thought that movie was "Stuart Saves His Family" because it's literally about a kid named Stuart saving his family, but then I realized what Stuart Saves his Family actually is.
― ed.b, Tuesday, 28 April 2015 20:14 (nine years ago) link
:( I thought someone had found the typewriter film
― kinder, Tuesday, 28 April 2015 20:16 (nine years ago) link
They did! Further upthread.
― emil.y, Tuesday, 28 April 2015 20:22 (nine years ago) link
It was Destiny to Order: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0099412/reference
― emil.y, Tuesday, 28 April 2015 20:23 (nine years ago) link
i jsut read this whole thread for the first time... wow!!!!
i found out where i can procure this which i am mos def going to do when i get home
― Who M the best? (Will M.), Tuesday, 28 April 2015 20:58 (nine years ago) link
dr. casino: the devil's backbone?
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0256009/?ref_=nv_sr_6
― lxy, Wednesday, 29 April 2015 17:55 (nine years ago) link
Hrmmm, no, set in the present day for sure. Contemporary cars, the running kid has sneakers and stuff. There might even be some French North African immigrant tensions in play.
― Doctor Casino, Wednesday, 29 April 2015 18:14 (nine years ago) link
a three part? erotic film -- one segment was set in hong kong? maybe taiwan? it featured a man having awkward sex with a woman in wheelbarrow position... they ate crabs together, i believe. in my memory, the eating of crabs bestowed some sexual power to the man in the film.
what was it?
― dylannn, Sunday, 5 July 2015 05:03 (nine years ago) link
mid to late 90s, arty
― dylannn, Sunday, 5 July 2015 05:08 (nine years ago) link