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12:21 AM
@MovieReel First question.
 
12:37 AM
@TomCody So, is that HP question tagged correctly?
 
12:53 AM
@Catija I honestly don't understand the question enough to know if it needs a specific movie tag. I just chose to ignore it in hopes it'll solve itself. But if it is about a specific movie's plot, than I guess an according tag is in order.
 
@TomCody The question is specifically about goblet of fire, yes. That's why the original title read "Harry Potter 4".
 
Well, I guess it works now.
 
There was a Mission Impossible TV show? Huh.
 
@Catija WUUUT? There were multiple ones. One from 66-73 and one from 88-90. What do you think that theme song and the whole idea is from? Those were cultural icons long before the DePalma movie.
 
Next you're going to tell me that The Saint was a TV show, too.
 
1:01 AM
@Catija But sure, if you don't know the TV shows, that can lead to confusion.
 
And The Avengers
 
@Catija So I assume, you were indeed just joking. Well, you got me there.
 
@TomCody Actually, the first wasn't a joke and I decided to cover up my lack of knowledge with humor.
@TomCody This amuses me greatly.
 
@Catija Oh sure, there were multiple ones. ;-P
 
Um... @TomCody I mean this one: imdb.com/title/tt0054518
The iconic furry party in the film was too awesome to forget.
Anyway, we're off to see the new film. Got to do our homework.
 
1:07 AM
@Catija Yeah, I know, but that title is quite confusing afterall.
@Catija Which new film?
 
Mission Impossible
 
Oh, yeah, I'm glad the movies all running on TV recently. And I finally found the '88 TV show "somewhere". I loved this so much back in the day and am so gald I can reenjoy this.
Unfortunately, though, the new movie comes a week later here. But well, my usual cinema company is in San Francisco right now, so we probably wouldn't have watched it before the very next week anyway.
 
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Q: Was Terry Markwells departure from Mission: Impossible planned from the beginning?

Tom CodyThe episode "The Fortune" (S01E12) of the 1988 run of Mission: Impossible sees the death of primary team member Casey Randall (Terry Markwell) and the introduction of Jane Badler's Shannon Reed, who is from then on practically Casey's replacement for the rest of the show's 2-season run. Now it i...

 
1:50 AM
@MovieReel I always thought it was for some external reason, and a couple of online sources confirm that. Not sure it's enough for an answer, though.
 
 
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4:10 AM
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Q: What is the point of shows referencing erotic asphyxiation and bondage?

user8028Countless television shows, (usually comedy), frequently reference scenes or utilize bits about erotic asphyxiation and bondage. Family Guy has done this at least multiple times that I am aware of and so do other shows such as Bojack Horseman and Rick and Morty just to name a few. When I see ...

 
4:44 AM
Can someone who can see deleted questions tell me what happened to that one?^
 
 
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8:07 AM
@Catija OP deleted it, don't know the reason (it wasn't downvoted). Personally, I don't get that Q at all.
 
 
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12:59 PM
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Q: What does Phoebe mean when she says "I bet they're doing it"

salil87Friends: 'The One With All The Resolutions' (Season 5 Episode 11) When Rachel and Joey find out that each of them knows about Chandler and Monica's secret affair Phoebe enters the apartment. Both of them go for a walk in the rain. Phoebe then says, "I bet they're doing it." What does shey mean...

 
1:40 PM
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Q: what is the title of this samurai film?

Ta Monema japanese samurai film where there is a fight scene in front of a red forest and while they on horses someone through a knife which take curves to hit someone which split into two knives and hit a friend or something.

 
 
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4:00 PM
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Q: Body switching is mainstream

BrondahlI have in my mind a scene in a film, which I thought was from 2009's "Surrogates". But having watched that recently I realise that I am wrong. A premise of the film is that some sort of body switching is de riguer (though possibly exclusively for the rich elite?). There is a scene where a charac...

 
 
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5:16 PM
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Q: Movie: Man warns people of rising water from a dam

DashA man has a job going around to warn people that the rising waters of a recently completed dam will inundate their homes and they need to move out. Some people seem to not understand what this means. In the process he meets some very odd people and some interesting creatures. The man is played...

 
5:48 PM
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Q: What is the pink thing that resides on the Sherman tank in Fury?

UtrechtWhen the Fury tank enters a town a pink thing resides on the tank. Zoom:

 
6:18 PM
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Q: British TV series of thrillers made by "Thames", episode about serial murderer

nathanielI'm looking for a British TV series of thrillers made by "Thames". One episode was about a serial murderer who was murdering a woman in some kind of canyon at night (gloomy and terryfying). When the police was about to catch him, he climbed on a high voltage pole and burned himself. It's a serie...

 
7:13 PM
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Q: Horror Movie - A couple that realise they have been in hell all along

RumenovicI'm looking for a movie that begins when a couple has a car crash. They seek help and someone in a farmhouse takes them in. Things happen and they are tortured. It is revealed that they are horrible people and that they actually died. The satan (or demon or whatever) tells them that and that they...

 
7:37 PM
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Q: Cannot remember the name of this sci-fi movie

ShuyaI'm trying to figure out the name of a certain film... I can vaguely remember the plot and I've recently(?) watched it too. It's a sci-fi space movie, where Earth was supposedly ravaged by a war, then turned into a peace haven by some Space Union where no one was allowed to return. Only to be...

 
8:36 PM
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Q: I dont know what this tv show is but can describe it

Paige VeenkantIn the first season a teenage boy and his brother steal a car. They get chased by the police but end up crashing. The brother of the teenage boy goes to prison because he is the adult. The teenage boy gets out of juvie because of his case worker/lawyer. He goes home with his angry mother. At his ...

 
9:10 PM
@MovieReel I think it's quite obvious what it is: A pink tank top.
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Sorry, sorry :P
 
9:25 PM
@Walt No need to apologize, that was an amazing joke.
 
9:39 PM
@Walt HA HA HA HA. Nice.
@Walt Hmmm... I was mostly curious because I'd commented on it and someone else had commented as well but then it was deleted. Maybe something said in the comments caused the OP to delete? @TomCody Any thoughts?
 
@Catija I don't know. One comment provided another example and one comment wasn't sure how to approach it and if it is a thing at all. But nothing to intimidate anyone into deleting. I don't know why. But I honestly don't care enough personally about the question to ask him why, since from the title alone it seemed an odd question. But if you want, I can ask him in a comment why he deleted it and encourage him to undelete it (after actually reading the question).
 
@TomCody Nah. I didn't particularly like the question and don't agree with the assertion... just curious if there was some clues and I can't see deleted questions yet so there.
 
9:58 PM
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Q: Need help identifying 90s movie that featured the FBI building

AversaSIn the mid-to-late-1990s, I was at home watching a movie on TV. I had to turn it off before the end, thinking I'd be able to catch it again at a later day, but I never did. Here's what I remember. Something happened, and the main characters had to go to the J. Edgar Hoover building. There was a ...

 
@TomCody I try to keep my puns to myself, it's a nasty habit ;)
 
@Walt It isn't.
@MovieReel That is a nasty habit.
 
@Walt Keeping them to yourself is the bad habit. Puns should be shared with the world.
 
@Catija Well, online maybe. They don't go over too well in public
 
@Walt Clearly you have the wrong "friends".
 
10:03 PM
I mean like at the doctor's ;)
@MovieReel Anyone has any idea other than Arlington Road?
 
@Walt HA HA HA. So serious, they are.
 
@Walt I didn't read it. Just favorited it and celebrated that it did contain more than a single paragraph.
 
@Walt Not exactly much to go on.
 
@Catija Yeah
 
@Walt But from the title, what about that Washington/Willis/Benning thing whose English title I'm not aware of right now?
 
10:06 PM
@TomCody The Siege? Barely remember what it is
 
@Walt Yeah, it was quite good, especially in the wake of 9/11 that was shortly after.
 
Not impressed with ID recently. A lot of them are ignoring that pop up message. I know we talked about it, but really wish there was a way to make ID a privilege
 
@Walt A really low one? 10 rep or something?
 
Yeah, we talked about that already. It's an amazing idea, but hard to implement, I think.
 
Nah, some of them are 101s
More like 150, maybe
 
10:10 PM
Well, I think 10 would already solve heaps of problems really (and wouldn't be as extreme as a 3-digit number).
But well, it's ID Sunday anyway.
 
Oh yeah
 
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Q: what is the name of this movie about a painter?

claudeI can not remember the name of the movie, it is about a painter, an old man that wants to be alone just paint, he remember in flashbacks the american war, it seems that it is a movie that it is after the american war, oliver twist times maybe. At beginning of the movie he tries to paint something...

 
Keep meaning to write that big Meta question with suggestions for ID, but it would require some thinking and I don't have the time. Though sadly most of my ideas are farfetched like that. Like a customized question form for ID with built-in fields like year, country etc.
Hmmf.
 
@Walt "Keep meaning to write that big Meta question with suggestions for ID, but it would require some thinking and I don't have the time." - Well, who does anyway?
 
@MovieReel The asker's name is "claude"... which is very apropo... even though the film's not likely about Monet.
 
10:17 PM
@TomCody Working overtime too :(
 
@Walt Rather undertime, but I still don't want to think about something as serious as ID questions. ;-P
 
@TomCody Well, yeah... because a lot of ID questions don't even get the "ID" tag, so they'd skirt the rules by simply not using it.
@Walt OOOOh, fancy.
 
@Catija Was that actually an elaborately meta joke?
 
@TomCody I don't watch Friends and don't care about the show, so ... no.
 
;-(
 
10:21 PM
@Catija It's always possible. Monet's Giverny period and Oliver Twist are only a few decades apart
 
@Walt But he wouldn't be having flashbacks of the "American war"... whatever that is.
 
@Catija Yeah, not sure what's going on there
 
Is that what non-Americans call the Civil War?
 
Makes sense ;)
 
Could as well be the War of Independence.
That's pretty much all possiblities of anything that could be called an American War, because any other "American War" didn't really have anything to do with America at all.
 
10:26 PM
Well... Oliver Twist was set in the 1830s, so I guess it would have to be the American Revolutionary War? Because the war was before "Oliver Twist times"?
 
@Catija I watched it a lot, but not because I'm crazy about it or anything. It was OK. Nice and witty in its early years (first 4-5 seasons), then a bit of a chore.
 
The Spanish–American War (Spanish: Guerra hispano-estadounidense) was a conflict in 1898 between Spain and the United States, the result of U.S. intervention in the Cuban War of Independence. U.S. attacks on Spain's Pacific possessions led to involvement in the Philippine Revolution and ultimately to the Philippine–American War. Revolts against Spanish rule had occurred for some years in Cuba. There had been war scares before, as in the Virginius Affair in 1873. In the late 1890s, US public opinion was agitated by anti-Spanish propaganda led by journalists such as Joseph Pulitzer and William Hearst...
 
@Catija Hmm, granted. And you could as well argue for the French and Indian War maybe (but that one didn't yet have that notion of "America" so much).
But for an inherently "American" war I'd still go with the War of Independence or the Civil War.
 
Doesn't ring a bell, anyway. The usual ID details would help.
 
Sorry, someone doesn't believe me when I say that many films aren't shot in LA any more... sigh
 
10:31 PM
Movies about artists are very hard to get right
@Catija Probably Romania & places like that
 
@Walt Even if they're still in the US, they're not usually in LA. It's too expensive and too difficult to get permissions any more. The city is tired of its biggest industry.
They've gone to the "other LA"... Louisiana.
 
I'd rather see a movie set in Louisiana than Los Angeles anyway.
 
@TomCody Most of them are still "set in" LA, though :P
 
Watched Labyrinth today (well, in my case, rewatched). Odd movie.
 
@Walt You remind me of the babe... what babe? The babe with the power. What power? The power of voodoo. Who do? You do. Do what? Remind me of the babe... what...... ad nauseam.
 
10:37 PM
Just proving my point there :P
 
"So you have a link to back up this claim?" - Says the guy with the 3 line answer? Well, nevermind, I don't care that much about that discussion, as long as it keeps constructive.
 
It's the most true to himself I've ever seen David Bowie be.
 
Amazing puppets, though, even by Henson's standards
 
@Walt Oh, I own that on DVD, amazing movie, gotta rewatch that some time.
But before that I have to finish my rewatch of the 80s Mission: Impossible, Streets of Fire and that Princess thing.
 
@Walt Love the hands in the deep well. Great job by so many people to make the faces so expressive.
 
10:40 PM
@Catija Yeah, one of the highlights. Very Mummenschanzy.
@TomCody [80s MI] People say the new actress was better, but TBH I vaguely remember that both of them were rather misused.
 
@Walt Hmm, Shannon (the new one) certainly has a bit more to do in the team, I think, which might have been a factor. While I like them both, Casey always seemed a bit more soft and warm in her whole demeanour, which I liked a little more than Shannon's slightly cooler type.
 
Offing her always struck me as strange... Whereas nowadays it's the norm.
 
It's strange because when you see such a significant change, it is usually at season boundaries. And on the other hand it seems well-integrated enough that it might just have been planned. Which made me ask the question afterall.
 
@TomCody Well, some guys online say it's because the actress had enough
 
Oh, well that would be a start (if it amounts to more than "some guys online", though).
Similar to how they brought WhatshisnameMrBigGuyFromSexAndTheCity into Criminal Intent to take a bit of pressure from the method-acting-suffering Vincent D'Onofrio (or so I've heard at least).
 
10:51 PM
@TomCody Barely. TV.com, some comments on IMDb
@TomCody Never bothered with CI
 
Oh, I love it. That Bobby Goren guy is amazing.
 
D'Onofrio is only tolerable in small doses
Like that classic subway episode on Homicide
Or as a dubbed Orson Welles in Ed Wood
 
Oh my, it's absurd how many stupid Bobby Goren fan tribute videos YouTube actually has.
 
Can someone tell me if Orphan Black improves in season 2? I'm really considering ditching it after I'm finished with season 1
 
@Walt I don't know, I only watched and rather liked the 1st season (even if not enough to actively search for further seasons).
 
11:02 PM
@Walt I think we're watching season 2. But I'm not sure where we are in it... I don't actually know where Season 1 stopped.
What in particular don't you care for? It's still really convoluted... so that hasn't changed.
 
I just want to know if everything other than Tatiana Maslany improves (she's pretty solid)
@Catija That's... no good :(
It's not a bad show, just very hard to take seriously
 
I think we just finished 2.05.
No, it's just a few too many storylines.
 
@Catija It has some serious plot problems, and I'm not just talking about the cloning stuff, just basic plot points. And there seem to be some budget issues.
It all makes it rather unconvincing. But I mostly like Maslany.
 
11:43 PM
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Q: Detective character with monocle and top hat?

daisy_confused Who is the guy identified by the arrow? (Screenshot is rendition from another show.) By process of elimination, he is not Holmes, Conan, Poirot, or Inspector Gadget...

 

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