― zaxxon25 (zaxxon25), Friday, 20 October 2006 11:29 (seventeen years ago) link
(i know its because of the wh3rd and p3r difference)
― Ste (Fuzzy), Friday, 20 October 2006 11:36 (seventeen years ago) link
― wogan lenin (dog latin), Friday, 20 October 2006 11:53 (seventeen years ago) link
― Tuomas (Tuomas), Friday, 20 October 2006 12:05 (seventeen years ago) link
― Nathalie (stevie nixed), Friday, 20 October 2006 12:08 (seventeen years ago) link
― Tuomas, Wednesday, 7 March 2007 09:59 (seventeen years ago) link
― Trayce, Wednesday, 7 March 2007 10:05 (seventeen years ago) link
― Ben Boyerrr, Wednesday, 7 March 2007 10:08 (seventeen years ago) link
― unfished business, Wednesday, 7 March 2007 10:12 (seventeen years ago) link
― Abbott, Thursday, 8 March 2007 03:44 (seventeen years ago) link
Bump.
― Tuomas, Wednesday, 30 May 2007 13:32 (sixteen years ago) link
oh god no not again
― Ste, Wednesday, 30 May 2007 15:33 (sixteen years ago) link
I'be not yet given up hope of finding out some day what the film is.
― Tuomas, Wednesday, 24 October 2007 11:25 (sixteen years ago) link
This got remade, didn't it?
― Mark G, Wednesday, 24 October 2007 11:32 (sixteen years ago) link
Did you try IMDB, Tuomas?
― nathalie, Wednesday, 24 October 2007 11:51 (sixteen years ago) link
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.
― Tuomas, Wednesday, 24 October 2007 11:55 (sixteen years ago) link
(x-post)
Yep, I tried some keyword searched in IMDb but found nothing.
Battlestar Galactica?
― Alba, Wednesday, 24 October 2007 11:59 (sixteen years ago) link
That sounds like it could be The Black Hole. I have a very very vague recollection of it.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0078869/
― nate woolls, Wednesday, 24 October 2007 12:00 (sixteen years ago) link
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
― nate woolls, Wednesday, 24 October 2007 12:01 (sixteen years ago) link
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
― nate woolls, Wednesday, 24 October 2007 12:03 (sixteen years ago) link
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.
― Tuomas, Wednesday, 24 October 2007 12:07 (sixteen years ago) link
What about Battle Beyond the Stars? Not that I can remember much about it.
― Noodle Vague, Wednesday, 24 October 2007 14:41 (sixteen years ago) link
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.
― Tuomas, Wednesday, 24 October 2007 15:07 (sixteen years ago) link
Ice Pirates
― sexyDancer, Wednesday, 24 October 2007 15:54 (sixteen years ago) link
This sounds like The Dark Half, based on the Stephen King novel, starring Tim Hutton.
― Eazy, Wednesday, 24 October 2007 16:04 (sixteen years ago) link
Oh, wait, that one doesn't have rapping and phantom-balls.
― Eazy, Wednesday, 24 October 2007 16:05 (sixteen years ago) link
It's not Ice Pirates either, I think.
― Tuomas, Thursday, 25 October 2007 07:46 (sixteen years ago) link
Did StarCrash have robots? If so, that.
Or rather this : http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0079946/
― pisces, Thursday, 25 October 2007 14:29 (sixteen years ago) link
The robots in those last two pics are the awesomest evah!
― stevienixed, Thursday, 25 October 2007 14:34 (sixteen years ago) link
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.
― Shakey Mo Collier, Thursday, 25 October 2007 16:55 (sixteen years ago) link
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."
― Shakey Mo Collier, Thursday, 25 October 2007 16:58 (sixteen years ago) link
the first one reminds me of this episode of AYAOTD?
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0514415/
― Will M., Thursday, 25 October 2007 17:07 (sixteen years ago) link
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"
― Will M., Thursday, 25 October 2007 17:10 (sixteen years ago) link
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.
― Tuomas, Thursday, 25 October 2007 20:34 (sixteen years ago) link
I think this is "That Movie Tuomas Made Up".
― HI DERE, Thursday, 25 October 2007 20:36 (sixteen years ago) link
ernest borgnine? man is straight up human, dog
― sexyDancer, Thursday, 25 October 2007 20:36 (sixteen years ago) link
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.
― Tuomas, Thursday, 25 October 2007 20:38 (sixteen years ago) link
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.
― Tuomas, Thursday, 25 October 2007 20:45 (sixteen years ago) link
no, I didn't say that.
― El Tomboto, Thursday, 25 October 2007 20:55 (sixteen years ago) link
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
― Ward Fowler, Thursday, 25 October 2007 21:03 (sixteen years ago) link
KINSKI!
― sexyDancer, Thursday, 25 October 2007 21:06 (sixteen years ago) link
She's not aged well.
― nickn, Thursday, 25 October 2007 21:17 (sixteen years ago) link
Wow, this thread.
― Doctor Casino, Friday, 25 July 2008 12:54 (fifteen years ago) link
This is still a mystery to me.
― Tuomas, Wednesday, 6 August 2008 12:33 (fifteen years ago) link
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.
― Tom D., Wednesday, 6 August 2008 12:51 (fifteen years ago) link
New year, maybe someone will finally identify this?
― Tuomas, Tuesday, 27 January 2009 13:25 (fifteen years ago) link
me OTM in 2007
― Barack You Like A Husseincane (HI DERE), Tuesday, 27 January 2009 14:00 (fifteen years ago) link
I watched the "Are You Afraid of the Dark?" episode Will mentioned upthread, but unfortunately it wasn't what I was looking for. So I still need to identify this.
― Tuomas, Wednesday, 18 November 2009 09:50 (fourteen years ago) link
Sexvision?
― Not the real Village People, Thursday, 19 November 2009 00:15 (fourteen years ago) link
(reveal on thread if you want to challenge yourself and not look)
― i cannot help if you made yourself not funny (forksclovetofu), Monday, 5 September 2022 18:37 (one year ago) link
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.
― Stoop Crone (Trayce), Tuesday, 6 September 2022 08:43 (one year ago) link
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.
― Ashley Pomeroy, Tuesday, 6 September 2022 18:53 (one year ago) link