My brother formerly known as Daveblackeye talks a lot about this place and I keep telling him to make this topic for me but he never does... so I decided to come here and do it myself!
So, without further ado, *ahem.*
Throughout my life I've seen clips from various movies on T.V. that kind of jump back into my memory and I have to wonder WTF they were. So I figure that maybe some of you guys might know. No harm in asking, right?
Here are 10 scenes (or so) from movies that I saw when I was growing up and *always wondered what movie they were from!*
1) You know that show "Nick News" on Nickelodeon? Well it's there, trust me. Anyway once about 8 years ago or so they did a special on violence in movies, and they showed a clip from this one movie that looked kind of cool. This person, perhaps a cop, perhaps not, is walking through the woods when he stumbles across a cloaked figure with an axe repetedly hacking away at something in a convertable car in front of him. The guy/officer yell out, and the cloaked figure turns it's head slowly, revealing a bare skull.
Sounds cool, huh? Ring any bells?
2) When I was WAAAY young I watched the end of a movie with my father. I THINK it was sword and sorcery, but I'm not sure. All I remember is it was toward the end and the main character used some kind of spinning star as his weapon. He fought this huge ugly monster but ended up getting the spinning star stuck in it's dead body. He goes to retrieve it, but it suddenly comes back to life and... uh... that's all I remember, sorry :(
The monster was humanoid, but had REALLY shoddy effects... I think it was like a blurred puppet or something.
3) Again when I was young I saw this movie on T.V. where there was this pit of swarming ants. It was set in the jungle, and there are these guys around the pit doing... well I don't know, but it requires being close to the pit for some reason. At one point a guy yells "Be careful!" and the other guy is like "I know what I'm doing!" and suddenly slips and falls into the pit. A few SECONDS later, he's completely devoured and all that remains are his glasses, covered with ants.
Yeah, that could be ANY killer ant movie, but it really freaked me out at the time.
4) Caught the VERY end of a movie where some kind of monster, possibly made of wax, is somehow burned alive and collapses. We see his burning and melting body while "Mr. Sandman" plays and the credits start to roll.
Can't be to hard, eh?
*** These may or may not be 'bad movies,' however I want to take my chances and ask if you've seen them anway.***
5) Again when I was young I saw this movie with the family that was baby sitting me. It MIGHT have been Robocop but my brother says these scenes don't sound familiar. I only remember three parts:
a) At one point the hero comes across this dead woman in a hot tub with a bullet hole in her head.
b) In another scene, a guy's hand gets BLOWN UP. I mean he holds it up and it explodes! I think it was shot or something..
c) In another scene, there's a bunch of guys in a room, and their leader activates some kind of walking battle tank-looking robot. One of the guys starts firing at it but it keeps coming closer... and then it suddenly stops. (Actually, David says that sounds KIND of like a scene from one of the Robocop movies, but instead of stopping it kills the guy.)
You have to forgive me for the lack of details on this one because I was freakin 3 years old at the time! 3 years old and watching people's hands exploding! No wonder I'm so messed up.
(These I saw more recently)
6) I was watching some spoof of Rambo-type movies and the hero starts going ballistic with a machine gun, shooting enemy soldier after enemy soldier. Suddenly, this animated counter appears on the screen, "counting" all the guys the hero kills. As it escalates up, it flashed "Bloodier than 'Commando!'" then after a few more "Bloodier than Rambo!" then finally it flashes, along with a really high kill count, "Most violent movie ever made!!!!"
Also, earlier in the movie, the hero has to rescue this guy from a cage. The guard is asleep so he uses a stick to grab the keys off the table he's laying on. But he keeps poking the guard with the stick and knocking stuff over, but the guard doesn't wake up. At one point he gets the keys, and drops them on the floor. So the guy in the cage PULLS APART the bars on the cage, gets out, grabs the keys, gets back in the cage, unlocks the door, and 'escapes' out of it. The a mouse sneezes and the guard wakes up all surprised.
7) I caught a part of a movie on T.V. which was also really spoofy. In it two guys are fighting on top of a train (or something) but fall off of it and land in a lake. Underwater they keep fighting, but suddenly one of them grabs a beer bottle and whacks the other guy with it, so the guy reaches over, grabs a bar stool, and hits the first guy with it. As they keep "fighting" the setting around them becomes filled with more and more "wild west" bar room type stuff and we realize they're doing a parody of bar fights... UNDERWATER!
I think I caught the end of it, and the heroine, now about to return to wherever she lives, hugs all the characters goodbye in procession saying "Thank you! I'll miss you!" and at the end of the line of characters is the Scarecrow from The Wizard of Oz, and she goes "And I'll miss you most of all, Scarecrow!" in a Dorothy-like fashion.
8) Not terribly long ago I saw the end of one really bad martial arts movie. Can't tell you much about it except the line that would surely be a dead giveaway:
After fighting a bunch of guys in an open field, the heroes finally take down the leader buy breaking his knee. As they start to walk away, leaving him alive, the leader cries "I must die to prove that Buddha exists!!" and squeezes his own forehead until he dies.
0.o
9) Tell me if these scenes sound familair. They may or may not have been from the same movie (I was so young I can't remember):
a) A guy is running around a farm-house type area where a bunch of bad guys are hiding out. At one point their Pit-bull guard dog jumps out at the hero from a loft,, but he holds up a pitchfork and the dogs lands on it, and howls. In another shot, we hear the bad guys scowl and go "Aw s**t, he killed the dog!"
:,( It was sad. I pretend it was a Zombie dog.
b) A martial artist man is fighting "that really big buff asian guy who stars in all marial arts movies." He defeats him buy kicking him into a glass table.
*shrug* can't give any more details.
c) I'm sure this scene was at the end of either of the movies the preceeding clips were from. The hero watches as the main villain is slowly crushed under some slowly moving but large metallic object. It might have been a train, a tank, but frankly in my mind I remember it looking like neither... possibly it was a massive sliding door in the roof of some place. However it was a cool scene... the guy keeps screaming at twitching until the thing covers about half his body... and then he just stops.
10) I think this was some alien movie or monster movie or something. But in it, this really big slug-looking thing is gloating about how he'd captured his enemy and he points to the wall and there's the guy but now he's sealed in a giant block of metal. We can see his face writhing in agony and everything. And the slug-guy has to talk through this translating golden robot guy, and at one point I think his guards bring in this furry guy that knows the guy in the block. I turned it off then because it looked too dumb to watch.
So... there you have it! Knock yourselves out! I'm hoping that SOME of these movies can be identified... and I'm sorry if it's too long to read! 0.0
Post Edited (12-30-03 07:32)
#2 is definitely "Krull".
#6 is probably one of the "Hot Shots' films.
#10 is the easiest and it's without a doubt "Return of the Jedi".
As for the rest I couldn't tell ya.
Do you REALLY know the answers to all of these questions or don't you Matthew?
I smell a hoax!
Post Edited (12-30-03 05:55)
Some sound familiar, but can't think of them now. I do know that number 6 is Hot Shots 2 with Charlie Sheen and is a rip off of Rambo [Hot Shots 1 was a parody of Top Gun]
Love that movie.
Hope that helps
> Do you REALLY know the answers to all of these questions or
> don't you Matthew?
> I smell a hoax!
No! Not a single one!
Well, ok, MAYBE the last one >.>
But seriously, the others I have no clue what they are. If I could solve some of them I'd be a happy man.
>#2 is definitely "Krull".
YAY! 9 to go!
> I do know that number 6 is Hot Shots 2 with Charlie Sheen and is a rip
> off of Rambo
>
> Love that movie.
>
> Hope that helps
w00t!
# 7 is, without a doubt, Top Secret, starring a rather young Val Kilmer. It spoofs a number of movies, but mostly the WWII espinoge sub-genera. It also hits Blue Lagoon in one of the more funny sequences, and is probably one of my favorite spoof-type movies of all time.
#5 is most likely Robocop. In the edited for TV version, you don't get to see the big robot think kill the executive. Of course, you don't get to see anyone's hand get shot off, or any dead bodies in bath tubs, so what the heck. Still, all these scenes are in Robocop, the only difference ebing that the robot kills the guy in the board room. You sure you're remembering it right?
#3 sounds like Empire of the Ants to me, but like you said- it could be any ant movie. BTW- did you know that Army Ants aren't dangerous? They ignore things that are too big for them. I saw a Discovery Channel program where this South American research center gets invaded by Army Ants every year, and the people that work there are happy about it. "Spring Cleaning" they call it. African Driver Ants, on the other hand, can be deadly... and they're completely blind!
Anyway, there's my bit. Hope it helps!
> You sure you're remembering it right?
Lol. NO! Seriously, I was 3 years old. Hell, the robot and the executive could have had sex and I would have remembered it wrong. But the hand scene and the hot tub scene were in the movie, right? Those parts I DO remember.
Thanks for 7, though! And maybe someday I'll be able to check up on 3!
> They ignore things that are too big for
> them. I saw a Discovery Channel program where this South
> American research center gets invaded by Army Ants every year,
> and the people that work there are happy about it. "Spring
> Cleaning" they call it. African Driver Ants, on the other
> hand, can be deadly... and they're completely blind!
>
It's the Bulldog ants that scare me.... I saw a picture of them with these freaking huge mandibles and I read they can jump FEET into the air... I keep thinking about walking TEETH jumping onto my face... kind of like Piranha 2... 0.o
The "melting max" monster with Mr. Sandman playing over it is, in fact, Michael Myers at the end of Halloween 2.
C'mon, guys, nobody else got that?
Grumpy Guy wrote:
>
> #5 is most likely Robocop. In the edited for TV version, you
> don't get to see the big robot think kill the executive. Of
> course, you don't get to see anyone's hand get shot off, or any
> dead bodies in bath tubs, so what the heck. Still, all these
> scenes are in Robocop, the only difference ebing that the robot
> kills the guy in the board room. You sure you're remembering
> it right?
>
I don't remember a dead woman in a bath tub in the original Robocop.
Snesman64 wrote:
> It's the Bulldog ants that scare me.... I saw a picture of them
> with these freaking huge mandibles and I read they can jump
> FEET into the air... I keep thinking about walking TEETH
> jumping onto my face... kind of like Piranha 2... 0.o
>
It's not the jaws on the Bulldog Ants you need to be afraid of. It's the stingers. Regular fatalaties due to anaphalaxis, as I understand it. *shudder* How'd you like to have that on your death certificate: CAUSE OF DEATH: ANT STING
Of course, there are also South American Bullet Ants. They're the largest known species of ant, last I checked. They got their name because when one stings you, it feels like you just got shot.
ulthar wrote:
> I don't remember a dead woman in a bath tub in the original
> Robocop.
>
I'm pretty sure I'm remembering that right. Crapo. Now I have to watch it again...
Grumpy Guy wrote:
>
> It's not the jaws on the Bulldog Ants you need to be afraid of.
> It's the stingers. Regular fatalaties due to anaphalaxis, as
> I understand it. *shudder* How'd you like to have that on
> your death certificate: CAUSE OF DEATH: ANT STING
>
The chemical in ant stings is the same as that of bee stings (methanoic acid or formic acid). So anaphalixis from them is not surprising. I guess in general though it is much lesser amount in ant stings.
>
>
> ulthar wrote:
>
> > I don't remember a dead woman in a bath tub in the original
> > Robocop.
> >
>
> I'm pretty sure I'm remembering that right. Crapo. Now I have
> to watch it again...
>
Just 'cause I don't remember it, doesn't mean it's not there. The rest of the description does sound like Robocop, but I am not familiar enough with either of the sequels to say anything about them. Could there have been a flashback to the first one?? My only point being by not remembering that one scene being in the first one, maybe the description goes with a sequel.
Vaguely remember the beginning of an episode of "MacGyver" where a guy with glasses fall into a hole and ants attack him with Mac unable to pull the guy out ..
I think it was "MacGyver"
could be wrong
I remember a MacGyver in which Dana Elcar drops dead of a heart attack and RDA fashions a set of defibrillators out of a pair of table lamps and then jump-starts Elcar's heart. This has nothing to do with the post topic, but everything to do with MacGyver.
Okay, messed up posting the first time. :D
So, again, a summary so far (and adding number 1):
1) Night of the Creeps - when the main cop character has a flashback/nightmare
2) Krull
3) MacGuyver? Empire of the Ants?
4) Halloween 2
5) Robocop?
6) Hot Shots: Part Deux
7) Top Secret
8)
9)
10) Return of the Jedi (You were kidding with this one right?)
For my part I reckon 5) is Robocop, but badly remembered. I've not seen Empire of the Ants but I did see that MacGuyver episode and 3) sure sounds like it could be that.
Post Edited (01-01-04 11:04)
I wish I could be of more help, but, the only one I know is #2, which--like everybody else has said--is apparently "Krull," which by the way, is reviewed at this site.
Wow! I just did a google search for "I must die to prove that Buddha exists" and got a cached page from another message board:
"I don't have any specific lines, but I do like the little ones, like "bastard!", "you want to die?!!", or the best "shut up!!", which is especially effective when a Shaolin monk says it. The only line that is memorable is said by Cheng Shan from the ending of 'Shaolin Vs Lama', which goes something like 'I am the devil. I must die to prove that Buddha exists!!'. One of those 'scratch-your-head' lines."
Hm... so I guess the answer to 8 is "Shaolin Vs Lama." Sweet, only one more to go! (Or two, since I'm not sure the 3 quotes are from the same movie.)
Ok, I usually respect other people's opinions but when you refer to a Star Wars film as dumb, I gotta say somethin'. I felt ROTJ was a good muppet film. ; ) However, it has nostalgic significance for me as well as others whom adore these films.
If you don't know what the film was then you must be at least 10 years of age or so.
No mature mind would ever make such a ridiculous claim. So why don't ya go f**k ya mutha and watch some Fast & Furious sucka!
Post Edited (01-06-04 03:38)
> Ok, I usually respect other people's opinions but when you
> refer to a Star Wars film as dumb, I gotta say somethin'. I
> felt ROTJ was a good muppet film. ; ) However, it has nostalgic
> significance for me as well as others whom adore these films.
>
> If you don't know what the film was then you must be at least
> 10 years of age or so.
> No mature mind would ever make such a ridiculous claim. So why
> don't ya go f**k ya mutha and watch some Fast & Furious sucka!
There aren't enough sweat beads in the word to properly display my reaction to your post.