both of them
― laraaji p. hensen (clouds), Sunday, 26 April 2015 12:45 (nine years ago) link
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
can't tell you but i do know that i now need to clear my search history so thanks for that
― like a giraffe of nah (forksclovetofu), Sunday, 5 July 2015 05:12 (nine years ago) link
i've been googling it for a decade.
― dylannn, Sunday, 5 July 2015 07:31 (nine years ago) link
i saw it on the drambuie showcase review or possibly bravo, late at night. i feel like the man learned the sex secrets from a book, possibly some taoist sex manual.
― dylannn, Sunday, 5 July 2015 07:36 (nine years ago) link
i actually haven't been googling it for a decade. i thought about it for the first time in 17 years while eating crab today.
― dylannn, Sunday, 5 July 2015 07:45 (nine years ago) link
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sex_and_Zen
This movie has a man learning sex secrets from a manual, and it also has two sequels. Can't remember any crab-eating scene, but I haven't watched it since the 1990s. It has a fairly memorable scene the where the guy has replaced his small penis with a horse's dong (not shown onscreen), and needs to use a ladder to have sex with some woman.
― Tuomas, Sunday, 5 July 2015 13:38 (nine years ago) link
it was arty + modern. the actors may have had british accents.
― dylannn, Sunday, 5 July 2015 22:32 (nine years ago) link
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0145893/
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Tuesday, 7 July 2015 01:47 (nine years ago) link
TriviaSarah Michelle Gellar has stated that this is one of her least favorite films that she has been in.
― johnny crunch, Tuesday, 7 July 2015 01:59 (nine years ago) link
probably not it
― dylannn, Tuesday, 7 July 2015 06:38 (nine years ago) link
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0114134/
haven't seen this since the late 90s and don't recall a scene like you describe but ticks some of the boxes
― efreet liberal (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 7 July 2015 07:03 (nine years ago) link
it makes finding it more difficult but it was a short film and i believe part of an anthology of erotic shorts.
― dylannn, Tuesday, 7 July 2015 08:00 (nine years ago) link
i am offering a $100 USD prize to whoever can find this.
The Pillow Book is a v. good guess. Other possible contenders:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0082422/
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0101316/?ref_=nv_sr_2
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0459666/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1
― sʌxihɔːl (Ward Fowler), Tuesday, 7 July 2015 08:00 (nine years ago) link
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0082422/ -- too old, not the right contemporary setting. have you seen this? is it good?
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0101316/?ref_=nv_sr_2 -- tony leung as "the chinaman." not even close but... looks interesting?
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0459666/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1 -- i love this movie. the goofiness of the sex, the taoist sex manual and the crab eating makes hou hsiao hsien a good guess but it wasn't hou hsiao hsien.
but none of those.
― dylannn, Tuesday, 7 July 2015 08:12 (nine years ago) link
Five Senses of Eros? http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1587422/
― anthony braxton diamond geezer (anagram), Tuesday, 7 July 2015 08:20 (nine years ago) link
too recent. no crab eating or wheelbarrow position.
― dylannn, Tuesday, 7 July 2015 08:29 (nine years ago) link
cpostSaw Fruits of Passion many years ago, in the memory it's pretty barmy and worth seeking out
Haven't seen The Lover, it had a 'shocking' reputation for a while in Britain because it featured a very young English actress who went on to make a terrible film with Bruce Willis
― sʌxihɔːl (Ward Fowler), Tuesday, 7 July 2015 08:31 (nine years ago) link
Lady In Heat? http://www.filmaffinity.com/en/film730748.html
― anthony braxton diamond geezer (anagram), Tuesday, 7 July 2015 08:58 (nine years ago) link
shit, getting CLOSE. but not it.
― dylannn, Tuesday, 7 July 2015 09:01 (nine years ago) link
Erotique http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0109742/
Segment 3 is "Wonton Soup." Here an Australian-Chinese man tries to rekindle his affair with a Chinese woman by returning to their roots: both in the kitchen and in the bedroom.
― anthony braxton diamond geezer (anagram), Tuesday, 7 July 2015 09:12 (nine years ago) link
The Pillow Book is a v. good guess
First thing I thought of but I don't remember there being any, errrr, crabs in it.
― holger sharkey (Tom D.), Tuesday, 7 July 2015 11:38 (nine years ago) link
Ha, just noticed the post above mine, you owe anagram $100!!!!!!
― holger sharkey (Tom D.), Tuesday, 7 July 2015 11:41 (nine years ago) link
I was just about to post Erotique! I remembered watching some multi-part erotic film that had an Asian segment, and the only other thing I remembered about it was that Priscilla Barnes (A Chrissy replacement on Three's Company) was in it, so I went to her imdb page.
― nickn, Tuesday, 7 July 2015 17:14 (nine years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8hSnLqancDA
This is all there is on youtube from Destiny to Order.
― how's life, Tuesday, 7 July 2015 17:50 (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, April 25, 2015 6:43 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― Doctor Casino, Saturday, April 25, 2015 6:43 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
finally found this - it's Éric Rochant's Total Western. Google Translate of French Wikipedia suggests it was about a criminal thug who lays low by posing as a teacher at a juvenile offenders' center in the boonies. Some other mafioso types show up to take him down and recover some protection money he made off with, but with the help of the kids he takes them all down, brutally.
― sisterhood of the baggering vance (Doctor Casino), Thursday, 12 May 2016 04:46 (eight years ago) link
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
Someone at tvtropes.com remembered this series too, though they couldn't remember its name either. They did provide this extra info though:
The house floating in space is almost identical to Zathura, However, the residents are not travelling home and there is a bubble shield around the house that protects it from impact. I would lean toward it being British in origin, and it had reruns in the early 2000s. Most likely on the BBC. live action. There is also one scene I remember: Two boys are standing outside the house (on the floating rock) the first boy is worried about something and asks the second boy for advice. Throughout the conversation the second boy is throwing stones at the bubble shield, trying to get them to go through, but they keep bouncing back, at one point one does penetrate the shield, and he shouts "that one went through!". Near the end of the conversation, the first boy says something that makes the second stop and stare at him. at this point his last thrown stone bounces back and hits him on the head, knocking him over.
Does this ring any bells for you Britons?
― Tuomas, Friday, 30 September 2016 06:28 (seven years ago) link
Oh, and as I mentioned upthread, I saw this series on the telly in the '80s, so it can't be newer than that. "Zathura" is the 2005 film with a similar premise.
― Tuomas, Friday, 30 September 2016 06:29 (seven years ago) link
Tuomas, is it Crash? Danish series from 1984?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5CnERf2d3Yghttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crash_(1984_TV_series)
― thomasintrouble, Friday, 30 September 2016 11:17 (seven years ago) link
Wow, I think that's actually it! I googled Crash and turns out it was show on Finnish telly in 1986, which would the right era for me having seen it as a young kid (I turned 7 that year). Thanks a bunch!
― Tuomas, Friday, 30 September 2016 12:24 (seven years ago) link
No problem! I just googled bedroom spaceship tv. Looks like most of it is on google, enjoy!
― thomasintrouble, Friday, 30 September 2016 12:45 (seven years ago) link
I mean, most of it is on youtube...
― thomasintrouble, Friday, 30 September 2016 13:42 (seven years ago) link
The end credits of Destiny to Order, featuring clips from the film, a song (sadly, not "Destiny Rap") and gratuitous shots of the late, lamented Sam the Record Man.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2uhyXrD6M4g
― rhymes with "blondie blast" (cryptosicko), Tuesday, 20 December 2016 04:32 (seven years ago) link
Wow, thanks! So much eighties hair! And I gotta say, Jefferson Mappin and Richardo Keens-Douglas are pretty awesome names.
― Tuomas, Tuesday, 20 December 2016 08:24 (seven years ago) link
So wait... if that footage is to be trusted, is it in fact a magic IBM XT and not a typewriter at all!?
― mega pegasus for reindeer (Doctor Casino), Wednesday, 21 December 2016 00:40 (seven years ago) link
Top ten ilx threads right here, imho
― healthy cocaine off perfect butts (the table is the table), Saturday, 15 August 2020 23:39 (four years ago) link
This is a movie I saw at a film festival in 2015 or 2016, so it's from the 2010s. A very surreal Japanese movie where a guy falls in the sewers and meets these weird CGI animals. He befriends one of them, who sings a song to him. Guy records the song, it becomes a massive hit and he becomes a big pop star, but he never tells he got it from his animal friend, and his conscience starts to weigh on him. In the end the animal grows into Godzilla size and attacks the guy during a big concert of his. I'm sure some of you must know this one?
― Tuomas, Saturday, 6 March 2021 23:54 (three years ago) link
?https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KNfYMUEJkkk
― G.A.G.S. (Gophers Against Getting Stuffed) (forksclovetofu), Saturday, 6 March 2021 23:58 (three years ago) link
Yes, that's it, thanks!
― Tuomas, Sunday, 7 March 2021 00:08 (three years ago) link