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openWhich version of Robin Hood opened like that? Film
My sister grew up in the 80s, I grew up in the 90s, and our parents used VC Rs to make mix-tapes of various movies for us when we were growing up, either by (illegally) copying retail VHS copies we'd rent from the video store, or whenever they would air on cable TV. One tape as I recall included the Disney version of Robin Hood... except that before that, it appeared they mistakenly began recording an entirely different version, a live action version, and stopped the recording when they realized the mistake they made. As I recall, the opening title sequence for this live action version started off with quite a lovely wide shot of a big red sun either rising or setting on Nottingham before dissolving to a panning shot of a darkened Sherwood forest; the recording abruptly ended after a cut to a rabbit surveying its surroundings from the grass.
And no, I can't just check the tape and look at the names from the opening credits and check, because I was really young when that tape was made, as I believe it was one my sister took with her when she moved out.
resolved Creepy Where's Waldo-esque game Videogame
This is a game I remember watching clips of a streamer playing. It's kind of like a Where's Waldo situation where you're trying to find one guy in various locations, only it gets creepier and more dangerous as the game goes on (I think at one point the guy is hiding from the mob or something?) Then at the end of it it's in first person and I think maybe the guy you've been finding all this time kills you?
opendocumentary film about bodybuilding and how it perfectly reflects political corruption
I am looking for a documentary that looks into the parallels of pro bodybuilding and the world of political conspiracies, i.e. how bodybuilder intrigues and manipulation of rules reflects the way political corruption operates. I know it's a long shot, but has anybody ever heard of it?
openHanging from a ledge Film
Can someone give me a list of movies and tv shows that have scenes where a female spy, agent, or cop hanging from a ledge?
openSome british sitcom Live Action TV
I can't remember much about it. I do remember there was an episode that parodied The Prisoner and the main guy gets increasingly annoyed with the white ball following him around. I think in the beginning of the episode he crank calls a plumber in the middle of the night about a bad leek (yes, a leek) in the bathroom, but I might be mixing up shows or episodes there.
resolved 80s-sounding song Music
My mom used to play this song when I was a child, and I've never heard it since. All I can remember was one (recurring?) part of the song: a male singer sounding vaguely like Pat Sajak saying "I" and percussion between his vocals (the best way I can describe it in text is "I- (dun da dun) I- (dun da dun)"). I believe it was a slow romantic song, and there may have been a female singer for the verses. It sounded very 80s, though it could be from anywhere up to the mid-late 2000s (when I heard it). I thought it was by The B-52s for a while, but none of the songs on the one album we have match.
Edit: Memory's still fuzzy, but here's some more details that might help: genre's most likely pop (maybe softer/mellow rock), the "I-"s were spoken with something like a voice crack partway (electronically altered?), the percussion (most likely drums) definitely stood out from the rest of the melody, and I wanna say the instrumentation/overall tone sounded something like "Electrolite" by R.E.M. (not a complete similarity of course).
Edited by CosmicCatopenThis Phone Plan Just Got Satisfying
I remember seeing this ad around the early/mid 2010s. It was for a phone plan company, I think LG, but I can't remember for sure — I also think it was TV or online. There was a yellow background and multiple fuzzy, multicolored shapes which merged together to form the logo. The narration says "This phone plan just got satisfying. Oddly satisfying."
openUnable to remember the name of this show for the life of me. Anime
I can only remember a part of one episode. A character shoots red lightning from their hands, and stumbles while trying to control it. They were wearing purple, and had light orange hair.
Edited by Dragonman2455openNo Title Videogame
I have a list of several video games from various genres and generations that I'm trying to remember. Here are my descriptions in rough chronological order of how old they are, starting with the most recent:
1) An online Flash game in the puzzle genre with an isometric view. Each level spawns a single-file line of small creatures (I can't remember if they're robots, aliens, or whatever) that must be guided to an exit. Your main tools are placing a limited number of arrows on the ground to redirect the minions, and in some levels they have to hop on springs to get over gaps or collect keys to open doors. I'm not positive on this, but the arrows might also be color-coded so that only certain minions will follow them, which adds an extra dimension of thinking to later levels. I played this game sometime within the last decade, so while it's at least from 2000 I doubt it's newer than around 2008. (Found: it's called Light Brigade)
2) Another browser-based PC game that I played sometime between 2002-2004. The gameplay is similar to Geometry Wars in that the entities are abstract shapes in an open 2D arena. It's actually a multiplayer game in that each player is in their own arena, but their performance makes enemies spawn for the other players. I think you get power-ups like weapons, shields, and such as pickups from destroyed enemies, and I also think the enemies spawn from wormhole-like areas. The last player alive wins the round.
3) A point-and-click adventure game for the PC which I saw sometime in the mid-1990s. As I recall it was near-future or cyberpunk with dark and realistic visuals. The one memory that sticks out in my mind is that the line for I Can't Use These Things Together would be a somewhat deep male voice saying "Hmm, that doesn't work" and the cursor would be a slowly spinning hourglass. I checked the examples on that trope page but nothing particularly sticks out. The closest thematic match I've found so far is Beneath A Steel Sky, but that's a little too alien and not quite as dark as I recall.
4) A sci-fi space exploration game. The graphics are similar to the Atari 2600, maybe a little more advanced. I don't actually know what platform it's on because I only saw it in a video embedded on someone's website, but it could have been an older home computer like the Commodore 64. In any case, the player flies over planets in 2D scrolling segments much like Defender but can also fly through space between planets (I don't remember what that part looked like). Throughout the game the player encounters alien ships that are either red or blue; one type is friendly while the other is hostile. Shooting hostile aliens gives you money from bounties, while shooting friendly aliens causes you to get fined. However, the change in money only applies when you dock at spaceports. If you accrue enough fines that you don't have enough money to pay, you're imprisoned and lose the game.
5) An ASCII-based train simulator game from no later than around 1992. Because of the limited graphics it's simply white characters on a black screen, and there's no screen scrolling so the whole track is confined to one screen. The one gameplay feature I remember is that you can build rail junctions and control the switches with the keyboard keys, and each junction is marked with the key that controls it. (Edit: This was almost certainly a DOS game.)
Edited by UltramarineAlizarinopenA chillout song Music
In 2018 I heard a chillout song on the radio that from time to time repeated the words from the song Try Again by Aaliyah ft. Timbaland. The words were these: "Been a long time, shouldn't have left you without a dope beat to step to, step to", the words "step to" repeated fading away. During these words the song was taking a pause, reducing itself to some simple beat, then it was chillout again. As for the music itself, it's hard for me to describe it, I can just say it sounded like chillout, it was instrumental, there were no other words in the song. Now and then there was a meditative "oh" sound, like a human voice, but probably synthesized. I tried to look for it, at first I thought it would be easy, I know the words, but so far I still cannot find it. A very beautiful song I heard when I was far away from home, on a journey, over some local radio station. Does someone recognize this song? Could it be some local mix of the Try Again song? Do radio stations frequently mix things up and then air them?
Edited by Kisujjopenkorean(?) anthology film series? Film
a while ago i watched this series of movies. they were korean i think but it could be a different country. i watched it through a friend streaming them on discord. apparently there were a lot but i only watched a few. i asked that friend about the title and they just said "strange tales i think?" which gives me nothing, do you know how many tales there are bro let alone strange ones. i was wondering if someone knows these films. i remember several of the stories. spoilers i suppose. the stories between the stores were always narrated by this one old man. one of the stories involved a child praying to a shrine that she would get every question on the test right, and it comes true and warps the world around her wrong answers so they are correct, which makes havoc ensue. another story involves a character who gains a condition where they often hear music and have to act along to it, and she finds another person with the same condition. i dont remember exactly how it ended but i do remember they died because of a certain special song. another story involved a man finding a supernatural NES game, which would summon the man's childhood friend who would play the same game with him when he was young. i dont remember a whole lot about this story but i remember something about the childhood friend dying in a river on their way home. another story which i can only remember the concept of was about a world where snobby business men acted like dogs. the last story i can remember and put into words was about a story about half the length of the other ones about a golden egg. i dont remember anything else about it.
if anyone could help me find these films that would be GREATLY appreciated, they were really fun
openSome action movie Film
I do not remember much about this movie, only that I stumbled upon its ending, and there was some weird fight, two men fought each other on some swinging platform, maybe even a giant chandelier or smth, I don't know, it doesn't make a lot of sense, but that's how I remember it. Some building, some men, they fight, some swinging platform, I don't really want to say it's a chandelier, but oh well. Maybe they were swinging on some ropes, like that fight in Highlander III: The Sorcerer. Then the building explodes and the survivor (I guess the main character) sits down, I think, and looks at some photo, probably his girlfriend, maybe that fight had been his revenge. For some reason I think he was a biker, probably there was his bike around. And probably this building was a gas station or smth, the fire was due to gas exploding, I think. I watched this scene maybe in 2005 or even earlier, the movie felt like it was probably from the nineties, maybe it is actually from 2000-2005. It had some style in the camera work and the editing, so probably it is not a B-movie. It resembles Torque and Roadracers in the spirit, I think, I watched them but the movie I am searching is something else. It is not The Saint (1997), though a chandelier fight is there. Probably just a childhood fever dream, unlikely though.
Edited by KisujjopenCannibal Woman Who Lives in a Cave Live Action TV
I've searched everywhere on the entire internet and cannot find the show/movie this scene is from. To the best of my recollection there were 2 guys who were in a forest or jungle and they come across a cave. A normal-looking woman lives inside and invites them in for food. She gets some meat and brings it back to them and they begin to eat it. One guy remarks how good it tastes and the other sees that a piece of meat has a tattoo on it, indicating they're eating a person. They look at the woman, who smiles and shows that she has sharp cannibal-point teeth. The men freak out and run away and see other people tied up in the cave as they try to escape. The woman laughs in the background. I was born in 1990 and I was a kid when I saw this, so it's from 2000/2001 at the latest. There's a scene from Wrong Turn 2 that's similar to this, as well as Green Inferno, but those aren't what I'm looking for. Someone on TOMT said they vaguely remember the scene and think it's from some dark fantasy or sci-fi show. Thanks!
openIssue of Captain America/TheAvengers
I'm looking for the issue/character that this example I found on Born-Again Immortality comes from:
openSong with "shu-shook" in the chorus Music
This song from The '90s that was on the radio a lot.Male singer, genre maybe rock? The main think I remember is in the chorus someone says the "word" "shu-shook" repeatedly. The rest of the chorus (and the song in general) was real words, but I can't remember any to look up
openInternet compilation video Web Original
I've tried numerous times to copy and paste the information from reddit over to here but it hasn't worked so I'll try this instead: https://imgur.com/Wld38gq
resolved Mickey Mouse cartoon dancing Western Animation
There's an old B&W Mickey Mouse cartoon where a load of characters are just dancing. One visual I particularly remember is a large pig that gets a small chair stuck to her backside.
I remember picking up this manga from the library a long time ago, but the title escapes me. From what I remember, it was about a green-haired Cat Girl with white cat ears (that might've resembled the top half of a cat's head complete with eyes) and a Verbal Tic, getting into slice of life-ish adventures with another cat girl and a bunny girl. They might've been aliens too, I dunno.