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resolved Relatively Modern movie or tv show Film
What I remember, is a family arriving to a town where everyone acts wierd (typical cult town) the main character is a Doctor with his family. After encountering a sacrifice wood altar at the woods he begins to suspect about the weird behaviours of the people in town. One night they wake him up and drag him to the caves, where monsters/creatures that live and lurk in the dark make him help them gave birth of one of this monsters/creatures that is pregnant, because he is a Doctor. The scene is very graphic and dark. The creatures only communicate with growl sounds, and if I remember well have dark-blue/blue skin. So, it's revealed, the "sacrifices" people of this town made were made to feed this creatures for safety.
resolved French crime comedy film Film
a (fairly recent, last ten years or so) French film about a group of people who get coerced into selling drugs? the opening scenes is of a woman (one of the main characters) living with her daughter on an island after the events of the film, and the first few minutes establish the characters of the main group
one of the scenes i remember is where a guy manages to slap three people at once because they try to give back cocaine that they bought from him
at another point in the film, one of the main characters sleeps with the daughter of a drug lord, although he doesn't know she's the daughter of a drug lord
Edited by NoNameLegionresolved Wild West Game Videogame
In the late 90s - early 00s, my family went to Wall Drug and there was a Light Gun arcade game there. It was Wild West themed. The Attract Mode had this big Fat Bastard type yelling, "They call me Nasty Ted!" and then it cut to a handsome guy who said, "I'm too good-looking for jail." I always wanted to play it or find a longplay of it but never found it again.
resolved A video clip about not sleeping at night Music
Hello, i'm here because i've got a melody stuck in me head but i can't find out the title of the song. All i can remember is that it was about being a night owl and the singer in the videoclip was a white guy wearing Mc Hammer style gold parachute pants. I know its slim but i also know internet can do miracles, so thank you if my very lackluster description somehow ring a bell to you. Have a nice night
resolved Artists collaboration and competition to create story Webcomic
I once saw a website where a lot (> 20) artists did collaborate to create a story of a giant world where every artist created their own character.
Every week 2 artists had to draw the encounter of their 2 created characters and had to draw how this encounter concluded. Then the work of one of the two artists were selected to be canon.
On the website there was a giant map as a overview and you were able to view all the created versions of the webcomics.
resolved Pollution Pirates Videogame
There was an Edutainment Game I vaguely remember playing at school in the late 90s (97-98?). I think there were like four missions but the only one I remember playing was called Pollution Pirates.
It had like a live-action video of these two guys on a boat one was older and the other was tall and skinny. They were dumping stuff in the water.
I don’t remember the gameplay but I remember at the end when you won they showed the two guys getting locked in a jail cell.
resolved Card game Anime Anime
On Cheez TV or Toasted TV there was an Anime series that based around a card game sorta like Yu-Gi-Oh!
Elements I remember include
- Believe there four main characters
- The male hot headed boy protagonist
- Shorter glasses wearing boy who was The Smart Guy
- A girl who was friends with them
- A slightly ditzy girl who was new to the area and was mostly used to ask questions about the game so it could be explained to her and thereby to the audience
- Before each game the players would hold out their decks in front of them and shuffle them
- One game has the protagonist playing the game outside in near a waterway and some storm clouds start rolling in. The opponent points to the sky and makes a speech about how the storm is harbinger of his victory. The opponent gets exactly the cards he needs for his tactics and while the others are wondering how the ditzy girl points out that he swapped his shuffled deck for an unshuffled one while they look up at the storm clouds in the sky.
- The characters going through rooms beating top players until the come to a girl's room and while they are looking for the occupant, a phone starts to ring and the ditzy girl answers. It turns out it's the ditzy girl's room and she is the player, pretending not to know about the game for some reason I forget and have a game.
resolved 90s Teen Novel About Being Trapped in a Mysterious Town Literature
Hello! I remember reading a novel that was probably aimed at teens in the 90s or very early 2000s. After having some kind of vehicle-related trouble and getting injured, the protagonist got trapped in a mysterious town or village that I think was in a mountainous area. Every time he tried to leave, he couldn’t. It was like there was some kind of supernatural force field around the town, so that even if he walked for a long time, he would just wind up back where he started. He eventually did get out, though.
At one point, characters went swimming, and I think they had a dance or party on another occasion. Characters might have done some kind of traditional healing, though I could be confusing this book with a different one. At the end of the novel, there was an author’s note about how the culture of the townspeople had been inspired by the real-life Melungeons. The cover of the book might have been blue or green with an image of a person and white writing, but I’m not sure. I would really appreciate any assistance in finding the title or author.
resolved 40K (possibly fan)story
A Warhammer 40 K story I can't remember if I read or read about (and it might have been a fanfic), about two brothers in a Space Marine Chapter. The older brother failed the tests and is a Chapter serf, while the younger brother passed and is a true Astartes.
Edited by Chabal2resolved Brief anime scene in ''Luis and the Aliens'' Western Animation
If you have seen Luis and the Aliens, early into the movie there is a scene onboard the alien mothership where the aliens watch Earth tv broadcast and for a "blink-and-you'll-miss-it" moment there is a scene from some anime*of a short-haired blonde girl takling on a cellphone while lying on her bed on the tv screen, before the aliens switch the channel. Anybody knows what anime is the screen from?
resolved I can't find western movie, can someone help? Film
Movie is about one cowboy, aka main character, i think with no kill rule. During stand off he accidentally kills his enemy. Main character decided to retire because of that. I don't remember much about it, but twist was that aformentioned enemy turned out to be alive and faked his death to break main character. Any ideas what movie is it?
resolved Mother abandons wolf pup Literature
When I was in elementary school my teacher read us a book where a pregnant wolf forces a fox or coyote or something out of its den and uses it to deliver. One of the pups has a deformed paw or something so the mother leaves it to die, but it survives.
Edited by CosmicGhostresolved Prehistoric CGI Cartoon Web Original
I remember a while back about a CGI cartoon on YouTube that was set in a prehistoric-like world with these Mons based on Dinosaurs and other prehistoric creatures where people with a stone-like device can tame and summon Mons along with having some competition based on it. I think it was based on a video game. Does this sound familiar to anyone?
resolved "My Little Pony"? ...Or was it? Western Animation
Back in the 90s when I was four years old my mom rented me a movie and said it was "My Little Pony", but... What I remembered was pretty different from My Little Pony.
For one, the horses had more realistic proportions, and the protagonist was a young human boy. There was a medieval European fantasy setting with thatched roof cottages, and the tone was not as cloying. I distinctly remember a black, shadowy horse, and a fire. Also flying horses, not pegasi, but sort of walking in the air like Santa's reindeer.
Now... It could very well have been My Little Pony and I just have bad memory/my mind playing tricks on me. I was only four afterall. I know the first gen cartoons can get surprisingly tense and maybe I mixed up Megan and Danny, but there is still the possibility it was a completely different movie.
But I don't know of any uh, animated fantasy horse movies from that era other than The Last Unicorn, which matches the proportions and setting I remember, but there isn't a young human boy in it or a shadow horse from what I know.
Sooo, is there some other 90s or earlier animated fantasy movie with horses I could have watched? Or was it indeed My Little Pony or The Last Unicorn and my memory just sucks?
Edited by ninjamitsuki2resolved Reluctant travel companions
All I remember is Person A and Person B travel together. Person C assumes they're friends (or maybe more?) and Person A insists "We are reluctant travel companions!"
resolved Child Abuse drama with fantasy ending Film
I randomly remembered a drama (?) movie aid heard about, but I can only remember the ending. It was a kid with an abusive father, and the movie ends with him building a plane and flying away or something like that. Apparently he movie doesn’t provide a definitive answer on what actually occurred. Did the child escape, and the plane was a fantastical description? Or was he killed by his father? I put a question mark near drama because it might have also been tonally weird, maybe advertised like a family movie or something
resolved 2000s Disney/Family Channel Movie Film
This movie aired sometime in the 2000s or early 2010s. It was a live-action direct-to-TV superhero movie that followed the oldest kid in a superhero family. The family didn't really have powers; their gimmick was that they protected people by flying these airships around. The ships were definitely bird themed; they might've been called falcons. The branding of the family also surrounded birds.
The oldest kid/protagonist's arc was that some threat happened that rendered his parents unable to fly the ship. He ends up learning to fly it himself and saves the day/becomes a real hero.
resolved A biopic about Mozart that actually portrayed Mozart and Saleri as best friends like they were irl Film
Hey guys, I am looking for a biopic movie/tv on Mozart which portrayed him and Saleri as best friends like they were in real life and not like Amadeus (1984 film) where they slandered Saleri and painted him in a horrible light? Does anyone know which works of media portrayed him in a good light?
I don't know what the dub name is but I saw a clip for the aforementioned anime on youtube but tvtropes doesn't appear to have a main page for it. Is this the right page to ask about this?