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There's this scene, and it's been bugging me what it's from. In the scene, there is a guy looking in the mirror, wearing a mask. He takes off the mask but you don't see what's underneath and then he yells and smashes the mirror with the mask and... something. Basically some sort of breakdown. I think it's either a cartoon or a movie. The masked person wears a mask all the time and I'm pretty sure you never get to see his face. He might be the bad guy.
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A book about a child, possibly of the nickname Tiger, who is leaving a war zone, and brings a fish from home. We are never told the child's name, or even gender I think, but through miles of hiking up and down mountains and getting caught in mud and avoiding land-mines with Father, Mother, and the guide, the fish (which may or may not have consistent size) comes to a refugee camp, with Father, Mother, and (?) Tiger, first in a pot, then a bottle, then the child's mouth.
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I remember that this show was on Kids WB, and appeared on Saturday Mornings. It featured four teens, who I think had superpowers. One MAY have had the ability to transform into creatures....
And it was also animated in stop-motion/claymation.
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Young adult novel - there's a kid who befriends a girl, and then meets a wealthy relative of hers - he's really impressed with the man and his lifestyle and starts to feel a bit ashamed of his own in comparison (in particular I remember the man listened to a lot of opera, and the boy reminisced about how the only times he ever heard any opera were when his family used to turn the radio to an opera station and would all start mocking it by doing dramatic poses and faux lip-syncing). It then turns out the man was either a hiding Nazi war criminal, or just a former Nazi. I also remember the man had a pet papillon, and it might have been in another book, but I remember the girl saying something about having another relative who she compared to Archie Bunker, and adding that sort of thing isn't as funny in real life.
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I saw the film a number of years ago and I think I caught it halfway through. A group of terrorists had managed to get into a nuclear missile silo. The main protagonist was an Asian guy — I think he was supposed to have just been the pizza delivery guy who got stuck in there — with extreme martial arts skills. On the outside the military commander was a female who at one point had a joke played on her with one of her subordinates sending her a blow-up doll.
There was a Big Guy who kept getting nailed with groin shots by the protagonist leading up to a scene where it's attempted again and there's a metallic clang whereupon he lifts the sheet of metal he'd stuck down the front of this pants. Whereupon I believe the protagonist just kicked him again. Oh, and there's a later scene where the protagonist is being stalked in a dark room by a female with night vision goggles. We see him apparently huddled in a corner trying to hide before he pulls out a flashlight and blinds her. Oh, and I do remember they had a computer guy who was doing the Password Slot Machine thingie where the numbers line up one by one.
^_^ Anyone remember this one?
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This has bothered me for so long I'm wondering if it actually exists.
A crappy horror movie about a clown killing teenagers at a campground. It's got a standard plot: The kids go on a camping trip, their van breaks down and they stuck at a creepy campground. I think they find some weird wind-up false teeth or something, wind them up, and that's what awakens the clown. I'm pretty sure one of them is killed by the teeth.
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So my mom once told me she saw this movie late at night and it freaked her out, but she didn't know what it was called. She said it starts off with a kid killing his mom and sister and propping them up like they're praying. Then he locks himself in a room and apparently lays down on a sword, killing himself. Then it shows him going to hell. That's all I know and i was hoping to check this movie out some time, so please if anyone knows help a brotha out.
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someone know of an anime where a titan with crystal bones holds above him something like a country or even the whole world (sorry don't remember much of it, i was pretty young when i watched it) and needs somebody to play a musical instrument (maybe a harp) for his bones not to break?
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Over at reddit, this one poster was looking for a comic that sounded really interesting. Here is his description:
"Anybody seen this [one] off web comic about a hero who defeats an "evil villain". the people are grateful but in the absence of a villain they start to become [bad]. so the hero decides to become a villain, so the people will band together in bad times, until another hero rises to defeat him."
Any ideas? Here is the link with more information: http://bit.ly/hoedxz
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Spoof teen comedy horror along the lines of "Not Another Teen Movie" and the like.
Only saw the first minute or so of the film, a guy's wearing a normal looking mask and accidentally sets himself on fire. He puts it out by putting his head into a bird table/fountain and the mask has melted to look like a scream mask. Then the titles come on screen.
The title's fairly long. Perhaps released 2004/05?
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Hey does anyone remember a show that was around in 2009ish? I think it was one the fox station but im not positive. The show is about a crew that is on a space crafte that is exploring space for a new place to live because earth will soon be uninhabitable. The crew is also being filmed on the ship as a tv show shown back on earth. There is also a thing where they put on like sunglass type things where its virtual reality and they choose what they see and you can chat with other people if they also have theirs on aswell. The captain and the docter(?) lady have an affair together through the virtual reality things. The docter ladies husband or fiance or whatever is in charge of the tv show. the second in command is a bald guy in a wheelchair. There is something wrong with the ship on the outside so the captain has to go fix it but when he gets back he airlock room closes on him and he gets sucked out into space after mouthing i love you to the docter lady. Later her husband/fiance is shown going over the footage of the ship seeing that he mouthed i love you to her. When she goes back to her room there is a virtual reality thing there and when she asks the ship computer who put it there it says it doesnt know. when she puts it on shes in midwestern times and then the captain shows up on a horse asking for a nurse to take good care of his men. before he leaves she tries to talk to him and he says dont worry this is just the begginning or something to that effect then rides of with bad ass music. i think it might have been the pilot. can any one help?
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I remember this show from (I think) a few years ago, and I believe it might have been on Cartoon Network. I remember it centered around a music teacher and kids that might have been his class. I remember a line from the theme song: "Washington DC, that's where life becomes a sitcom; if you ain't got no rhythm we're gonna show you how to get sommmeeee YEAH!". I also remember one episode where the kids were imagining a world without music. One kid said:"If there was no music, we wouldn't have hearts because there'd be no beat" or something like that. Thanks!
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Allright. There's this show that comes on at least once a week on Japanese TV, and it's about a group of monsters. There's a kid with huge ears and stretchy limbs, a werewolf, a frankenstein-type monster, a vampire (with an Ill Girl love interest who he met at the supermarket), an elderly woman and two younger kids. There's also a powerful monster underground that a different group is trying to revive... does anyone know what the title of this is, because I don't speak Japanese and I have no idea.
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I'm trying to remember a science fiction novel. It takes place on another planet. There is an organism like a fungus or plant that grows in the desert that extends life. The only way to harvest it is to spill the blood of a woman who has just given birth on to the sand. There is conflict between the desert dwellers and the evil aristocrats (old men who actually kill their wives and daughters to harvest the life extending plant). The desert dwellers protect their woman by threatening to dig the plant up and expose it to the sun thus killing it. Most the story takes place from the view point of a woman who is the daughter of an aristocrat. She doesn't know the dark secret of the nobles and the deaths of pregnant woman are explained away. I'm pretty sure she gets married and has a child. She needs up running away at some point and learns the terrible secret of the nobles. I read this book five or six years ago. Please help!
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There was this horror/comedy movie, where a character shot someone's brother and him along with 3 other people have to find someplace to bury the body. They tried robbing a store and ended up with a bag of chips. Someone caught their mother cheating on his father, and shot her along with her lover, so now they have 3 bodies to worry about. They ran into a guy the could bury the bodies in exchange for their (dead bodies) thumbs. Through out the movie the guys were always arguing. Would anyone know of this movie by any chance?
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I think this was a PBS series, but I'm not sure. The main characters were a boy and girl who had a sort of "time scoop" they used to bring people out of the past and talk with them. One episode had them bring Moses forward, just before the Burning Bush. They knew better, they really did, but they just couldn't help expecting the pop culture versions of the various people. So they were more than slightly disconcerted to get, when they drew Moses forward, an eighty year old Judean shepherd... who stuttered.
It's a sitcom shown on YTV in the early 2000s. Your average sitcom family/plots, except that they also live with a Egyptian pharaoh/mummy (forgot which). If I remember correctly, people had British accents.