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openCartoon -- boy uses laser to try to be cool
A cartoon I remember seeing on TV in maybe the late noughties or early New Tens. A boy is using a laser (I can't remember if it's Eye Beams, a Ray Gun, or something else) to zap random things, all the while declaring, "I'm cool!"
The part I remember the most vividly is when he passes by a restaurant or a store or something and zaps away some of the letters on the big sign, so the sign now reads, "CLOSED".
openLive Action Movie Scene Film
A women enters a man's office and the man says shit. The movie is live-action, PG-13, realistic fiction.
openA horror film/anthology segment featuring a brutal ending Film
This might've been a full horror film, an anthology segment, or a short film. The decade is surely 2010s (or possibly 2000s?).
The story centers around some main characters (Adults? Kids?) in a cave, where things go wrong. But what I remember is the horrifying ending, which I will spoiler tag due to its violent nature: There were kids in that cave, either dead or controlled by a sinister force. They exit the cave and reunite with their parents, and all seems well... until they start killing their parents, maybe through cannibalism.
openLiterature/OnMyRadar
On My Radar seems to have been deleted from the internet?
Its quotev page seems to have been deleted and the sole editor hasn't made edits in 7 years?
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/el.php?findfor=Lolitroy
Can anyone confirm so we can Move to Darth Wiki?
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
openOld movie about doctor and disabled patients Film
It is an old, live action movie. I remember that at the beginning, a boy is shown to be struggling, with wobbly notes as that differ so much from notes on previous pages. His mom also said that she saw him point at a direction, saying 'Mom, mom' and never spoke again. That boy grows up, becoming a man with a disability. A doctor is the main character (I think), and I also remember the scene where a woman with the same condition as the boy I mentioned does not talk or respond, but when the doctor throws a baseball at her, she catches it. I've seen it once in psychology class in high school, and it now just went into my head. I hope those details will help me, and you, identify it. Those are all the details I can remember.
Edited by edgeofthelemschezopenMovie about dreams Film
I remember about a movie that used to be one of my favorites, from what i remember it was about a girl and her father living together on a farol or sm, dont want to spoil much of the plot but on a part the girl founds some strange man that was on some dream prison that they if they stay they wont woke up, what i was always searching about is the name
openI can't figure out this show Anime
Anime where main character and his two friends travel the world getting stones to find out they need to go collect the monsters they got them from now. In the final battle he starts losing and all the monsters turn on him. It wasn't a long show. Only two seasons. But i can't find it. Help pls
openThe Greatest Story Never Told comic Print Comic
The Greatest Story Never Told has an entry about a Marvel series that I just can't pin down, mainly cause it's written as vaguely as possible (I tried to find it so I could rewrite the entry to be clearer).
"A six-issue limited series from Marvel Comics told the story of a normal human who was down on his luck and borderline suicidal who gets killed right as an extra-dimensional big bad is opening a rift with a magic artifact intending to unleash the embodiment of Death upon the multiverse. His resulting passage through the gate closes it and bonds him to the weapon making him immortal and causing him to be reborn into another universe anytime he dies as only the weapon can end his life. He eventually foolishly returns the weapon to the Big Bad after getting a promise to leave Earth alone and return him there but upon seeing all the deaths occurring, sacrifices his life and dies a noble hero to end the Big Bad's scheme once and for all. Meanwhile back on earth, you see the heartbreaking disposal of his worldly possessions such as family photos in a trash can while being called a worthless loser."
Any guesses?
openReciprocal Actor Swap
(Theatre isn't an option under Select Medium...)
So, Frankenstein (2011) is famous for it's reciprocal Actor Swap, having Benedict Cumberbatch and Jonny Lee Miller alternate the roles of Victor Frankenstein and the Creature. The 2013 Japan production of Mozart L'Opera Rock did the same, with Akinori Nakagawa and Koji Yamamoto alternating as Mozart and Salieri.
My question is, does anyone know of a third example of this — two actors, two roles, alternating? I know that double casting is common in a lot of places, and that there have been actors cast in multiple roles in one production, even playing both Valjean and Javert, but not where the only two actors both did both roles.
Does anyone know of another?
(Incidentally, Nakagawa has also played Victor Frankenstein, in Frankenstein (2014)).
openI am banned from Reddit please help Film
The subject of my thoughts is a movie that I remember vividly the premise is about of group of people getting tortured and murdered in a maze-like building that reminds me of the cube series that is operated by two guys one good hearted guy wearing glases whos hobby is to draw comics well call him (A) and a serious yet still good hearted colege (B) they are bossed around by evil man who has no problem that people are being murdered in this maze like structure some time into the movie (a) does something I can't remember precisely and is punished by being sent with the other people into the maze his fellow worker (b) not wanting to harm his ftind decides to stop the operation buy swallowing a key to the control panel but the evil boss kills him in order to retrieve the key
openNazi commander who escaped justice is sent back in time as a prisoner in his own Nazi death camp.
I saw a clip from this TV show (or was it a movie?) where a Nazi who ran a death camp managed to evade all consequences and is now an old man and somehow gets sent back in time to his own death camp as a prisoner and tries to beg for his life with the commander, tell him "I'm you from the future" or something like that. I'm 99% sure it's not a Twilight Zone episode either. I'm trying to remember what it was.
openOld kids movie Film
It was a kid's movie. I only watched 1 or 2 scenes from the very beginning and this was in like ~2005 so I can be wrong about any details. Supposedly it was a kind of scary movie (scary for kids at least) It starts with a bunch of boys playing outside, I think they were playing soccer. Boys no older than 10yo. Then everyone stops because the gang of bullies arrives. One of the boys whispers about the main bully: he killed a dog and sewed it's ears onto his jacket. It's either an American or a European movie. That's all I have. Have been looking for this for over 7 years.
Edited by LisaPopenFamily with wild Animals Live Action TV
I remember that as a child between 2010-2014 I had seen on tv a scene of a family (a man with children) in a tent that was in their house, probably the living room and then some wild animals arrived, (not giants like elephants) one by one one they saw, a parrot, I assure you it is not Ace Ventura or Jumanji from the 90s, also the scene seems to have been done in late 2000-early 2010, please help me find the scene, or I tried to ask on reddit but it didn't work.
openCreepypasta chat room
It was a creepypasta about a girl home alone. She kept texting this guy, and it starts innocuously enough, but then she sees someone in her backyard. She continues to text him as the figure enters her house, and it's implied she dies in the end.
I thought it was called "Emily is Away" but when I searched it up, I kept getting the videogame of the same name.
openSun sets in the credits Live Action TV
When I was about four or five years old I caught the credits of some show in my grandmother's house. The only things I can remember were the background footage being a close-up of a sunset and the music being a children's choir singing something (not sure what though). The only other things I recall are the credits themselves being in plain white text and both the text and the music stop when the sun disappears below the horizon. It's stuck with me ever since and I still have no idea where it came from.
openAlmost-Eurovision singer Music
Can't remember how many contests ago or which country — there was an artist who was supposed to go to Eurovision but got replaced by the powers that be with someone more generic before the competition. I remember people sharing his music around to give him more visibility but that's it. He was a twink if that helps
openSitcom from the 90s to early 2000s
I remember a scene from a sitcom that must've aired sometime in the nineties or early two thousands. In the scene, the Dad tells his sons he has superpowers and used his super speed to see if they cleaned their rooms. When his older son is skeptical, he claims he's just jealous that his little brother has superpowers and he doesn't. The younger son asks what his superpower is and the Dad says he can shoot fire out of his tongue when he rolls it up. Naturally, the little boy tries breathing fire.
openTrying to find tv show I watches
It's about a teen I think he's from Australia or newzealand and he's working for these bad guys and I think he's trying to find hes missing dad or find out who killed him he becomes friends with some one from he's school who is a genius and they team up the first episode he's breaking into a house to steal a necklace he climbs the building with ease and he opens a safe and finds jewly and he rides a skateboard not sure if the dad is dead and he could probably be trying to find out what happend to him the guys hes working with could be responsible he also has a older sister who is trying to keep him out-of trouble he's hair is kinda long i think it's curly in one episode I think he finds he's dad car and it's not conspiracy 365 the teen isnt white
Hello! I remember seeing this certain Super Robot Wars game or manga where Tiffa Adill gets possessed by many spirits, most of them are male. Also, while being possessed her expressions changes and even her tone of voice as well, albeit more deeper.
Unfortunately, I could not remember which specific Super Robot Wars series/game/manga was that.
Edited by Billie1994