Need to identify this eighties/early nineties film.

(i know its because of the wh3rd and p3r difference)

Bump.

oh god no not again

I'be not yet given up hope of finding out some day what the film is.

This got remade, didn't it?

Did you try IMDB, Tuomas?

I don't know.

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.

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Yep, I tried some keyword searched in IMDb but found nothing.

Battlestar Galactica?

That sounds like it could be The Black Hole. I have a very very vague recollection of it.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0078869/

The R2D2 robot:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Robot_v.i.n.cent.jpg

The cyborg:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Robot_maximillian.gif

Bollocks, try again:

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/5/52/Robot_maximillian.gif

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/1/1c/Robot_v.i.n.cent.jpg

No, I don't think that's it. The cyborg was more like a human-looking guy with some cybernetics parts. I think it's possible the lower part of his body was totally mechanic though, with wheels or crawlers replacing legs. But he definitely had a human head. And the plot description of Black Hole on Wiki doesn't ring any bells.

What about Battle Beyond the Stars? Not that I can remember much about it.

That looks more closer to what I'm looking for (I assume it was some B rate film and not a well-known flick), but it doesn't seem to feature either a cyborg nor a robot, so I don't think it's it.

Ice Pirates

This sounds like The Dark Half, based on the Stephen King novel, starring Tim Hutton.

Oh, wait, that one doesn't have rapping and phantom-balls.

It's not Ice Pirates either, I think.

Did StarCrash have robots? If so, that.

Or rather this : http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0079946/

The robots in those last two pics are the awesomest evah!

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.

this is the plot of the Black Hole, to the letter.

cyborgs are alluded to as well:
"Reinhardt claims he is the only human remaining aboard the vessel. But the Palomino crew's suspicions are raised as Booth observes one humanoid robot (who walks with a limp) tending an enormous vegetable garden large enough to feed thousands, and Holland observes a "space burial" being conducted by the humanoids. An older robot model similar to V.I.N.CENT, named Old B.O.B., reveals that the crew of the Cygnus mutinied against Reinhardt when he refused to obey a recall order and return to Earth. After killing the ringleaders of the rebellion (particularly Frank McCrae, Kate's father), he used the fully automated robots aboard the ship, particularly Maximillian, to lobotomize the remainder of his crew and make them the humanoid robots on the Cygnus."

the first one reminds me of this episode of AYAOTD?

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0514415/

The fact that this movie in question is in grainy black and white, but has rapping, seems like it should be some sort of clue, because they invented color movies before rap was a "thing"

this is the plot of the Black Hole, to the letter.

Yeah, but like I said the cyborg I remember didn't look at all like the cyborg(?) in Black Hole, he was definitely a human with some cybernetic parts.

I think this is "That Movie Tuomas Made Up".

ernest borgnine?
man is straight up human, dog

The fact that this movie in question is in grainy black and white, but has rapping, seems like it should be some sort of clue, because they invented color movies before rap was a "thing"

Who said it was in "grainy black and white"? The TV series you link to might possibly be it, but the plot synopsis is too short to really tell.

Oh, I see Tombot for some reason wrote that I said the movie was in black and white, but I never said that. I think it migh'tve had this sort of film noir pastiche feel, but it was in colour.

no, I didn't say that.

I think that the movie 'unfinished business' asked abt on 7 March 2007 might be HEART AND SOULS (1993), from the director of TREMORS

also:

http://www.geocities.com/hollywood/club/4297/pics/android03.jpg

KINSKI!

She's not aged well.

Wow, this thread.

This is still a mystery to me.

You were doing a lot of mushrooms in the early nineties?

This still rings true. That Kinski film is called Android? I remember liking it when I saw it years and years and years ago.

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?

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

Yes, that's it, thanks!

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(reveal on thread if you want to challenge yourself and not look)

The one that'd always bugged me as a kid, I worked out some years ago. A weird Japanese anime version of Jack and the Beanstalk, especially the bits with the witch (hope this link jumps to the right part)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tnd3MFBink4

And also the song about 16 minutes in, which was stuck in my head for YEARS pre-internet never being able to work out what the hell I'd seen.

I remember seeing a film on TV about fifteen years ago. I was half-watching it. It was odd. It was essentially a Japanese sci-fi cartoon - an "anime" as young people call them - but interspersed with the animation was live-action footage of a US actor in a spacesuit talking to a little girl. The animated sequences were supposed to represent some kind of fantasy world that the little girl could access. The live-action used cartoonish matte paintings. I remember it still.

A bit of Googling leaves me none the wiser, although I'm disappointed to learn that Panty and Stocking with Garterbelt isn't nearly as rude as I was expecting. Have you ever played Antichamber? It's a puzzle game with mind-bending portals. I like to call it Pantychamber because that thought pleases me.