Identify This Movie

Discuss film culture and criticism
Post Reply
Message
Author
User avatar
reno dakota
Joined: Mon Mar 17, 2008 3:30 pm

Re: Identify This Movie

#326 Post by reno dakota »

freestate wrote:Mr. reno dakota thank you very much! And even with the video :) I still left some screencaps. I try to figure out from which movies are taken these screencaps, but i can't manage it.
Sorry, but I have to ask: how are you finding these screencaps without (even incidentally) picking up any information about the films/shows from which they are taken?
User avatar
domino harvey
Dot Com Dom
Joined: Wed Jan 11, 2006 6:42 pm

Re: Identify This Movie

#327 Post by domino harvey »

Back when I had an account, my friends used to post Live Journal entries where they posted screencaps and you had to guess where they came from. These shots are so utterly inconsequential that I seriously doubt any one of the images actually drew anyone to absolutely seek out any film depicted based on the screenshot, so my guess is there's some arbitrary honor amongst people he knows to be finagled
User avatar
Peacock
Joined: Mon Dec 22, 2008 11:47 pm
Location: Scotland

Re: Identify This Movie

#328 Post by Peacock »

It's great fun though! Keep posting 'em.
Although like reno I did wonder how you could see one of these random caps and think 'wow this is a film I want to see'.
freestate
Joined: Wed Jun 23, 2010 6:54 pm

Re: Identify This Movie

#329 Post by freestate »

Guys...while browsing the site where the screencaps are guessing or forums about movies, I discovered some interesting screencaps, some of which I think I saw them, and some wondered what it might be like. And then I accidentally found this site, and I dared to ask the local film experts. More pictures have really not:), I hope that I disregarded the rules of this site. And if yes, I apologize and ask admin to delete my posts.
User avatar
Mr Sausage
Has Risen from the Grave
Joined: Thu Nov 04, 2004 1:02 am
Location: Canada

Re: Identify This Movie

#330 Post by Mr Sausage »

freestate wrote:Guys...while browsing the site where the screencaps are guessing or forums about movies, I discovered some interesting screencaps, some of which I think I saw them, and some wondered what it might be like. And then I accidentally found this site, and I dared to ask the local film experts. More pictures have really not:), I hope that I disregarded the rules of this site. And if yes, I apologize and ask admin to delete my posts.
Don't worry, no one cares if you ask people to identify movie screen caps. Even if you were doing it just to get a rise out of people...meh.
User avatar
knives
Joined: Sat Sep 06, 2008 10:49 pm

Re: Identify This Movie

#331 Post by knives »

Going to have to bug you guys on four, possibly three, that have been bothering my for the last decade believe it or not. They're all animated and at least fifteen years old, but possibly older. The also were all released on VHS in the US by '95 if that helps any.
First one, which may also be part of the second had a really distinctive cardboard animation style that was extremely stiff. The story was something along the lines of a boy wanting to have adventure gets a boat and travels the world gathering crewmates and the such. The only scene that I remember strongly involves one of the crew being driven mad and trying to kill everyone so they leave him on the island they were staying at.
The second one had a yellow machine as an important plot point it was big and looked like the pods in The Fly. The machine was made by a mad scientist who wanted to destroy the world. I remember a character being mutilated or teleported using the machine or both (if so than the scientist was murdered by his own machine.
The third one had large sections in live action using B&W stock footage from the forties I think. The main characters were two animated bumblers, I believe they were smart but very clumsy, who could come to the real world from behind a clock and they had to save the universe or something akin. I pretty sure the animated sequences are in colour.
Finally, thank god, is another that has one image stuck powerfully in my head.in a town after the villain, I believe an official of some sort, has been run out or killed he gets resurrected as some machine black knight thing and as he runs back into town there's smoke billowing around him and I'm pretty sure the smoke is live action.
User avatar
DanielT
Joined: Thu Jun 24, 2010 3:43 pm

Re: Identify This Movie

#332 Post by DanielT »

freestate wrote:I still left some screencaps. I try to figure out from which movies are taken these screencaps, but i can't manage it.

http://img59.imageshack.us/i/71712153.jpg/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
http://img59.imageshack.us/i/37132259.jpg/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
http://img59.imageshack.us/i/49302666.jpg/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
http://img59.imageshack.us/i/13624234.jpg/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
Number 2 looks like a scene toward the end of "Quigley, Down Under" starring Tom Seleck, Alan Rickman and Laura San Giacomo.
User avatar
Murdoch
Joined: Mon Apr 21, 2008 3:59 am
Location: Upstate NY

Re: Identify This Movie

#333 Post by Murdoch »

-
Last edited by Murdoch on Sun May 05, 2013 12:10 am, edited 1 time in total.
User avatar
Peacock
Joined: Mon Dec 22, 2008 11:47 pm
Location: Scotland

Re: Identify This Movie

#334 Post by Peacock »

First one is Experiment in Terror, Murdoch.
User avatar
domino harvey
Dot Com Dom
Joined: Wed Jan 11, 2006 6:42 pm

Re: Identify This Movie

#335 Post by domino harvey »

First one's Experiment in Terror
User avatar
antnield
Joined: Tue Jun 28, 2005 5:59 pm
Location: Cheltenham, England

Re: Identify This Movie

#336 Post by antnield »

The second is 10.30pm Summer ---> the grab's from DVD Beaver here.
User avatar
knives
Joined: Sat Sep 06, 2008 10:49 pm

Re: Identify This Movie

#337 Post by knives »

Guess you need photos for a response. :-"
knives wrote:Going to have to bug you guys on four, possibly three, that have been bothering my for the last decade believe it or not. They're all animated and at least fifteen years old, but possibly older. The also were all released on VHS in the US by '95 if that helps any.
First one, which may also be part of the second had a really distinctive cardboard animation style that was extremely stiff. The story was something along the lines of a boy wanting to have adventure gets a boat and travels the world gathering crewmates and the such. The only scene that I remember strongly involves one of the crew being driven mad and trying to kill everyone so they leave him on the island they were staying at.
The second one had a yellow machine as an important plot point it was big and looked like the pods in The Fly. The machine was made by a mad scientist who wanted to destroy the world. I remember a character being mutilated or teleported using the machine or both (if so than the scientist was murdered by his own machine.
The third one had large sections in live action using B&W stock footage from the forties I think. The main characters were two animated bumblers, I believe they were smart but very clumsy, who could come to the real world from behind a clock and they had to save the universe or something akin. I pretty sure the animated sequences are in colour.
Finally, thank god, is another that has one image stuck powerfully in my head.in a town after the villain, I believe an official of some sort, has been run out or killed he gets resurrected as some machine black knight thing and as he runs back into town there's smoke billowing around him and I'm pretty sure the smoke is live action.
User avatar
Murdoch
Joined: Mon Apr 21, 2008 3:59 am
Location: Upstate NY

Re: Identify This Movie

#338 Post by Murdoch »

Thanks for the responses, guys. Sorry I can't help you, knives.
User avatar
Roger Ryan
Joined: Wed Apr 28, 2010 4:04 pm
Location: A Midland town spread and darkened into a city

Re: Identify This Movie

#339 Post by Roger Ryan »

knives wrote:The second one had a yellow machine as an important plot point it was big and looked like the pods in The Fly. The machine was made by a mad scientist who wanted to destroy the world. I remember a character being mutilated or teleported using the machine or both (if so than the scientist was murdered by his own machine.
This probably won't be of much help, but I was watching BEING THERE (1979) last night and there's a brief scene with Chance getting a suitcase from the attic within the first 15 minutes of the film. As usual with this character he turns on a television while he's rummaging around and an animated film comes on which could very well be the "mad scientist / teleport machine" cartoon you remember. It's only on-screen for a few seconds, however, and there was no identification as to what it was.
User avatar
knives
Joined: Sat Sep 06, 2008 10:49 pm

Re: Identify This Movie

#340 Post by knives »

Sadly not it. I wish I had a better memory for this sort of thing, or at least they were more well known. Oh well.
mrmarbach
Joined: Wed Apr 07, 2010 7:16 pm

Re: Identify This Movie

#341 Post by mrmarbach »

I once saw a trailer for a new film on a VHS tape before the main feature. The tape was probably 10-15 years old now. Could possibly have been as young as 8 years old.

I remember the film being about South Africa and being called "A Time for Killing". IMDB has a film of that title, but it's not the one, and a search for South Africa in IMDB hasn't helped me.

I remember it having a substantial A-List cast. The cast alone made me sit up and notice, and it seemed a strong film on difficult subjects.

Any ideas? Thanks in advance.
User avatar
George Kaplan
Joined: Mon Jan 31, 2005 11:42 pm

Re: Identify This Movie

#342 Post by George Kaplan »

mrmarbach wrote:I remember the film being about South Africa and... I remember it having a substantial A-List cast... Any ideas? Thanks in advance.
The late 1980's produced several such films. I'd check out A DRY WHITE SEASON (Donald Sutherland, Susan Sarandon, Marlon Brando, Janet Suzman) CRY FREEDOM (Kevin Kline, Denzel Washington, Penelope Wilton, Kevin McNally) or A WORLD APART (Barbara Hershey, Jodhi May, Jeroen Krabbé, Tim Roth, David Suchet), though none of these titles is close to your remembrance. Hope this helps.
mrmarbach
Joined: Wed Apr 07, 2010 7:16 pm

Re: Identify This Movie

#343 Post by mrmarbach »

Thanks. Cry Freedom I know, and it's not that.

A Dry White Season looks quite possible. That's a cast I would have noticed. And Time in my title could be the last remains of Season from the original. Will find the trailer somewhere and see.
User avatar
antnield
Joined: Tue Jun 28, 2005 5:59 pm
Location: Cheltenham, England

Re: Identify This Movie

#344 Post by antnield »

Was it not A Time to Kill (IMDb)? A starry cast (Samuel L. Jackson, Kevin Spacey, Donald and Kiefer Sutherland, Sandra Bullock, Ashley Judd, etc.) albeit set in the Deep South.
User avatar
puxzkkx
Joined: Fri Jul 17, 2009 4:33 am

Re: Identify This Movie

#345 Post by puxzkkx »

A film I caught on TV in the states at some point... can't remember which channel. Anyway I think it is from the late 90s, American or Canadian, I remember it being called "The Philosophy of Guns" but I can't find anything on IMDb that matches the description. It concerns a very slackerish, Gen X guy narrating a shooting at a university. One segment involved him recounting a tale of a bunch of philosophy students that jumped out of a window at the same time. Lots of little absurd bits thrown in there. The main character has glasses, and there's a nerdy girl with glasses in it as well. Quite anticipating of the whole hipster movement. Yeah, lol, I have no idea what it is but it has been bugging me for ages - I remember finding the IMDb page after catching it on TV but I haven't been able to since.
User avatar
Murdoch
Joined: Mon Apr 21, 2008 3:59 am
Location: Upstate NY

Re: Identify This Movie

#346 Post by Murdoch »

-
Last edited by Murdoch on Sun May 05, 2013 12:11 am, edited 1 time in total.
User avatar
Howard Roark
Joined: Tue Aug 24, 2010 2:17 am

Re: Identify This Movie

#347 Post by Howard Roark »

Murdoch wrote:Another one:

http://i433.photobucket.com/albums/qq56 ... 117666.png

Cronenberg?
That's the extremely campy Dr. Caligari (1989).

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5aFBn8hP ... r_embedded" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
Last edited by Howard Roark on Fri Sep 10, 2010 5:47 pm, edited 1 time in total.
User avatar
Murdoch
Joined: Mon Apr 21, 2008 3:59 am
Location: Upstate NY

Re: Identify This Movie

#348 Post by Murdoch »

Well now I have to see it.
User avatar
erezija
Joined: Fri Jun 12, 2009 9:13 am

Re: Identify This Movie

#349 Post by erezija »

erezija wrote:Hello everyone, this is my first post. I have two movies I wish I could identify.

The first was an animation I saw over twenty years ago. I think it was a short and involved these characters (may have had long ears but I can't be certain) who go out hunting for large winged creatures (like sting rays). One of the characters dies, if I recall well, and turns into a winged creature. So basically, the "long eared" people go out hunting for their ancestors reincarnated as the flying creatures. I have been haunted by this cartoon for years and years and I wish to find it, or at least identify it. Anyone know anything about it?
I finally got to the bottom of this.

Here it is: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qQ6qw1nh0tA" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Definitely worth a watch if you're a fan of La Planete Sauvage (Fantastic Planet)
karmajuice
Joined: Tue Jun 10, 2008 2:02 pm

Re: Identify This Movie

#350 Post by karmajuice »

Worth a watch indeed. I'm glad you managed to find it, and thanks for sharing it!
Post Reply