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Q: Movie about a karate girl?

Tom AuThis was a movie about a rebellious, American, teenaged girl who learns karate from a Japanese teacher. He has a connection with, or at least visits, her grandmother. I saw it around the year 2000, and it seemed to be set in the 1980s or 1990s. I tried the obvious, karate girl but that doesn't s...

 
12:45 AM
@TomCody I can put together a query with data SE, but you may wish to go look at the quantcast stats which I believe are limited to moderators - quantcast tracks referrer sources and such so you might be able to see some recent referrer popping up
What would you want to know from data.se? You may be best off just searching Data.SE for other peoples queries - there's a ton out there for various things people have already written. I did a weekly roll up one at one point that showed number of Qs and As per week over time, there's tons of basic ones like that you could probably just find pre-written for other sites and point them at Movies.SE
 
@MovieReel Um... to close or not to close? Lists are bad but I honestly don't like "first occurrences" any more.
 
1:04 AM
@JimmyHoffa I largely plan to make a mixture of that and that with some modifications.
 
> 1,014 (83.7%) have a single post on our site
That is not a good stat... I sincerely hope ours isn't as bad.
 
But Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell was quite interesting and gripping. Maybe it was even worth spending the whole evening on instead of making some reasonable statistics.
 
@TomCody Was it on Prime? We found Mission Impossible on Prime and watched the first one.... I was really bothered by the sexist attitudes. "Do what comes naturally"... made me grit my teeth.
 
@AnkitSharma ^- Especially relevant for our discussion of short (i.e. 7 episodes) series to recommend.
@Catija Indeed (to the first sentence).
@Catija You mean the DePalma movie? Interesting that you say that about a DePalma movie, because that's what people always say about him. That being said, what is the actual scene/dialogue you refer to there (and the heavy sexist tone in general)?
 
@TomCody No. The TV show. The main girl in the first episode's entire job is to be eye candy and "do what comes naturally".
I mean, I get it's the 60s but wow... I didn't realize it was that bad.
 
1:13 AM
@Catija Ah. Which one, the original '66 show? Haven't seen that for ages and not much of it.
 
@TomCody Isn't that what you've been watching recently? Or have you been watching a later show? Are there two TV shows???
I guess there are. Bah.
 
I grew up with the '88 show. But well, the woman in the team wasn't always used that greatly there, too.
@Catija It was revived in 1988. The '66 run ended in '73.
The '88 show is supposed to be a story-wise sequel to the '66 show. It was originally intended as a remake (which is why a few episodes of the 1st season actually rehash original episodes), but once they got Peter Graves as Jim Phelps from the original, they rather made it a continuation instead.
 
@TomCody Ah, interesting. It's amazing how far makeup has come... the masks in the '66 version are horrendous and obviously fake.
 
In fact Grep Morris who played team member Barney Collier in the original has some reappearances in the '88 show, where his son Phil Morris actually plays Barney Collier's son Grant as part of the team.
@Catija Well, I don't remember it right now in the '66 version, but in the '88 version they just showed a short mask shot (which wasn't too bad, though) and after that just switched the actors, of course. It actually was pretty convincing, I think.
What I find interesting is that the TV show actually had a supposed actor and speech/dialect expert as team member. So it was supposed that he just perfectly immitates the voice of the guy whose mask he wears. They then dropped that in MI1 (the movie) when the guy always had Tom Cruise's voice. Then in MI2 they used some kind of voice control chip on the throat which they provided with a reasonable technological explanation in MI3. While in MI4 the masks didn't work at all.
 
1:42 AM
@TomCody One of the characters in the first episodes was a "man of a thousand faces" and he spent most of the show looking like a rotting potato.
 
Well, in the '88 show they just changed the actors similar to the movies, which seems like the most reasonable thing to do.
 
But I have seen only very few episodes of the original show. And this must have been like 15 years ago maybe.
 
His face is so lumpy.
 
@Catija Oh my, but that's even still obviously Martin Landau. Was he supposed to actually incporporate someone else or is this just disguise only?
 
1:49 AM
And the dumb thing is that Landau is playing both the role of himself pretending to be the General and the general.
 
@Catija Well, they wanted to make the masks at least remotely realistic, like as some real make-up "expert" could make them. Not like those automatically baked perfect masks from the movies and the later TV-show.
 
Sure. But he's supposed to be able to realistically pass for the General... and supposed to be the best in the world at becoming other people.
 
Well, it was '66 afterall.
In fact I'd say the masks from the '88 show are even more realistic than those from the movies. In the show they were very thin and only the actual face-part and were more or less glued to the face in some elaborate make-up process, with the hair piece being separate. While the movies used more like a complete rubber full helmet which could easily be put on and off and was rather unrealistic.
Anyway, good night!
 
2:06 AM
I'll have to see if I can find the 88 ones. Night!
 
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Q: Scary movie with a couple whose car breaks down and they get help from a family in a farmhouse

EmilyAll I remember is that a couple's car breaks down on the side of the road. They end up getting help from a family in a farmhouse and stay in the house. But then the family traps them in the basement and wants to kill them. The slave who works on the farm tries to help the family escape but when h...

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Q: Foreign movie on cable (showtime), probably from the mid 80's

Dylan DarkIt's a long shot, but here goes ... I am looking for a movie I was years ago on cable (Showtime), showed around the mid to late 80's. It was probably originally a Spanish production, but obviously I don't know the title. What I remember of the plot is this: 1) Multiple sub plots 2) One of the...

 
 
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4:44 AM
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Q: What is the meaning of the term "Kamakrazee" in the movie Mad Max:Fury Road?

AnjunadeepIn Mad Max: Fury Road, the term "Kamakrazee" was used three times. During the scene where Ace loads the War Rig, we hear the following chant: "We are war boys!" "War boys!" "Kamakrazee war boys!" "War boys! " "Fucacima kamakrazee war boys!" This led me to believe that...

 
 
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7:21 AM
@Catija ID, recommendation, downvoted bad titled question
@JimmyHoffa I love them
 
7:58 AM
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Q: Did Ilsa Faust lying?

mujaffarsOpera Turandot which is held in Vienna, lisa Faust failed to kill Austrian Chancellor with gun shot. While Ethan saved chancellor by shooting on Arm -- When asked Iisa 'Why she want to kill Chancellor' She told that she also don't want to kill but only hurt and save. But in the seen when Ethan ...

 
8:35 AM
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Q: Movie about three adventurous friends in a place with conflict

TimmyI have a vague recollection of a movie I saw on television around a decade ago, and I would like it identified. I know that I don't have much to start with, but it's worth a shot. Here is what I remember: Setting The movie is in English, but probably not American. It takes place at a rural tow...

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Q: horror bollywood movie suggestion?

HoNeYBEEI used to watch Bollywood movies of genre action, thrill and comedy, I m also fond of horror movies but never found such that really scares me but unfortunately never found such.Does any one have suggestion for really scary movie which does not let me sleep at night.

 
9:29 AM
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Q: What was Gustavo (Gus) Fring's back story?

Kenny LJHank and the DEA managed to find documents to show that Gus was from Chile, spent some years in Mexico, then moved to the US. However it seems that we are never really told what Gus's back story was---or perhaps I simply missed it. It seems to me that he is obviously not from Chile, because he s...

 
 
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12:13 PM
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Q: Movie, early 90s, involves hijackers and plane

KarenThe movie I am thinking about has hijackers on a plane, they put everyones passports in a bag and threaten to kill one. They pick one, but for some reason a woman asks to take the place of that person, they take her outside on the steps too the plane and on live tv shoot and kill her. Her husband...

 
12:39 PM
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Q: Identify this movie infectious disease 2005-2010

MelThis movie is only a blurry memory for me, so it might not all be correct. I watched it when I was younger, and I remember thinking it was pretty scary and gross. I am fairly sure it is a found footage film, with a group of adults. The one scene i remember in particular is of a girl, with messy ...

 
@AnkitSharma ah, what kinds?
Mr. Jones: Very well implemented and acted up until the last third where they stretched what should have been a 2-4 minute scene trying to play up an atmosphere like insidious' Nether was dragged out ~30 minutes or so... If they cut that scene down, removing the endless reams of film that served no purpose to the movie they may have had something. Really though, though their production and acting was good, the story ran into plot holes pretty early on with the protagonist being arbitrarily stupid just to try and generate film content
 
12:56 PM
@JimmyHoffa slasher, horror. But with bit unique concept.
 
blech; all the slasher genres are my bane
 
ok
I liked Saw.
Not a fan of wrong turn, hostel was good till 2nd sequel. Most of them are crap
 
I used to was on the fence about them, and then I saw The Strangers and that pushed me over; I've actively and avidly avoided them wholesale ever since. Before seeing that movie I could point to maybe one or two I actually thought were decent...
 
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Q: Other than Arnold Schwarzenegger, was anyone from T1 and T2 involved in making Genysis?

DaftIn my opinion Genysis was much closer to the likes of Transformers than any either T1 or T2, so I was wondering if anyone other than Arnold schwarzenegger was involved with all 3 movies: T1, T2 and Genysis. And just to clarify a bit, by closer to the likes of Transformers than any either T1 or T...

 
The stranger .....will go for it one day
 
12:59 PM
@AnkitSharma The Strangers - it's just brutal
 
@MovieReel What?
@JimmyHoffa i don't mind brutal but it much have a story
 
the early '00s Texas Chainsaw Massacre reboot which everybody has bemoaned I thought was actually good...
 
I liked HIgh lane.....first half was good but second half ruined it.....some hills have eye/wrong turn kind of shit
 
@AnkitSharma it's a well done slasher, but I mind brutal; and slashers of the modern times have gone wayyy overboard on that end where the 70s/80s classics were full of silliness and didn't have the technology for realism like they do now.
I just can't stomach all the torment and trauma of the modern slasher. I love horror, but no slashers
 
For the horror........I never found any which can give me goosebumps
 
1:02 PM
@AnkitSharma Why don't you fix it rather than downvote it? Downvoting doesn't help the question get better at all.
 
aye, well most people hate all horror or only like slashers it seems..
@Catija to be fair, down voting helps the site get better
 
@Catija i was pointing out that first page is full of downvoted, recomendation and ID
 
Things voted below a certain level are pushed off the front page for instance, they're also made available for quick deletion and sometimes auto-cleanup if they aren't fixed
 
Most of them are not downvoted by me but they don't either have any love from me too
@JimmyHoffa i like both
 
@AnkitSharma ah, I misunderstood what you just said about not getting goosebumps from horror
 
1:23 PM
@JimmyHoffa i mean that weird sounds at random moment in horror films are lame. They doesn't give goosebumps.
 
@AnkitSharma sure, nobody honestly cares for the sound-alarm jump scares in horror except teenagers... but there's wayyy more to horror than that cheap crap without getting into slasher brutality
 
I liked babdook
 
aye, given your appreciation for slasher you probably liked Sinister too, no?
I thought those were both pretty damned creepy, awesome atmosphere, but almost too tense for too long; especially Sinister.
I think they worked quite well though. If you haven't seen Sinister you really should, it'd be right up your alley and stars Ethan Hawke putting on a great performance as always.
 
1:57 PM
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Q: Movie/TV Show with hackers

Weatherman159Now this one has been in my memory for forever, but I never figured it out on my own, so I'm giving it to you to try. I don't know if this was a movie or a TV show, but I recall seeing it on TV sometime in between 1990 and 2000. What I remember: it was definitely somehow related to computer ha...

 
2:51 PM
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Q: Movie about a high tech submarine that is sinking to the bottom of the ocean.

Umar HasanStory is about a high tech submarine that is sinking to the bottom of the ocean. There is a monster, too. Some people have hallucinations and kill one of the other crew members. Three people are left, one betrays the other two and manages to use escape capsule but dies due to pressure. The other...

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Q: A short I saw on YouTube years ago

Niels LillelundI asked about this short on imgur, and a person told me to come here and ask the same question. I hope I can find some help here. So I once saw a short on YouTube with an alien man who came down to earth and imitated all sorts of animals. I think he was shot by a farmer with a shotgun. It was a ...

 
"I asked about this short on imgur, and a person told me to come here and ask the same question." - Oh! Now can we just find that person and shut them up? ;-)
 
@TomCody Ah, so it's an imgur plot, is it?
 
@Walt Which is the underwater movie where one of the crew starts hallucinating scenes from 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea?
Sphere... that's it.
 
@Catija Pretty sure I dozed off during that thing anyway
 
Why is it that every underwater film seems to have someone going nutty?
And, no... I'm not going to ask a question.
 
3:04 PM
Because it actually happens in isolated places.
 
@Walt you're probably better for it. Wasn't very good.
 
Happens not only in subs but in space (Armageddon), the arctic (The Thing) etc.
People go cuckoo bananers when there's no one around:
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x2m7k1y
@MovieReel Dang it, I know this one :(
 
Oh, that one where they're flying towards the sun... um... grrr.
Sunshine... Pretty sure someone goes loopy on that one, too.
 
And Moon
 
@Walt Sounds really familiar to me, too... but I'm probably just confusing it with Weird Science.
 
3:13 PM
Oh, I liked Sphere (as well as Sunshine, amazing audiovisual experience).
 
Seriously, it's another onslaught. 6 IDs from different people in less than 3 hours.
 
So when does someone come up with a reasonable close reason for that "ID this random non-movie YouTube clip probably made by some 13 year old with his webcam?" thing?
 
@TomCody I don't know how to word it diplomatically.
 
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Q: What's the name of this movie?

Mena Shehatathe movie was about a old owner of a house and the court has let a new family moves in and there where the movie starts the old owner gets out by force and he leaves cameras in the house and he tries to blow it up in the end but the family runs out and he blows himself

 
The problem with shorts is that they could always be shown in festivals & TV
 
3:16 PM
We don't really have a requirement that questions be about professionally produced movies and TV... right?
 
Sure, , because obviously the movie was, uh, set in a house.
@Catija Oh, we do. Even webseries have to adhere to some degree of professionalism (and there's a meta about it). We don't do everyone's arbitrary YouTube shit.
 
Interesting... I'd always wondered why SE "hates" Area 51 so much...
@Catija There was a time when Q&A sites worked the same as A51 in that respect. They've been upgraded. Area 51 is a separate codebase and most things we do never make it there. It's so far out of date and so far removed from the rest of our infrastructure that changes are hard (and some are impossible). — Anna Lear ♦ 9 mins ago
@Catija Not sure if there's a meta post. The gist of it is "it works well enough for the site proposal process, and we have a lot more higher priority work to do on Q&A + other projects". — Anna Lear ♦ 1 min ago
@TomCody Ah. I'll have to review that Meta post
 
@MovieReel Improve thy question and ye shall have thy answer
 
@Walt Improve it and you shall have it reopend first. >_<
 
It's not like it's a masterpiece anyway
 
3:22 PM
I fixed the title...
This is my new thing, I think. I have a really pretty auto-text for it and it makes the site look better. My titles may be a bit verbose but they're better than "What's this movie I can't remember".
 
And I fixed the post status.
 
It's about the 3rd-4th answer I'm holding hostage in the last couple of days. Sorry for doing it, but I'm sick of OPs ignoring our pleas. They can have their answer when the question improves.
 
@Walt And if they don't improve the question, it's probably because they've abandoned it, so we should just close the question.
 
Indeed
 
I wouldn't be against a stronger policy for bad quality questions... I just wish there was a way to require ID questions to include more information... or to have some sort of specialized form for asking them.
 
3:25 PM
@TomCody "We are currently offline for maintenance"
 
@TomCody Apparently they're "offline for maintenance"?
 
@Walt Yeah, they seem to have problems the whole day, should be back in seconds.
Aw crap, those were edit links anyway. Well, nevermind, it's getting more is all they say.
 
So there is numerical proof showing that we're getting more ID questions?
 
I see it now
 
@Catija Indeed. I finally started making some easy queries (for which someone remotely experienced with SQL the slightest would probably have taken a fraction of the time for, though).
 
3:29 PM
Seems to have spiked in July
 
Here are the correct links.
 
Well, they do seem to have been rising steadily.
 
Steadily, yes, but also suddenly in July
 
Well, we're at 70% per week in the last week (which is either this one or the last one).
 
70%? I don't see that on either chart... am I looking in the wrong place.
 
3:33 PM
Well, you can just look at the front page ;)
 
What's the difference between the two graphs? I can't read all the code stuff, so I'm not sure what it's saying.
 
Seems to be the worst period since January before graduation (where only the graduation itself rescued me from my depression when looking at the site. So maybe, uh, now would be a good time to send the graduation swag, I guess.
 
Oh, I see... the first one is what percentage of all questions are "ID"... and the second one is limited to a time period.
 
@Catija It's also in the title. The first link tracks the ratio of all questions, the second one tracks the average ratio asked each week.
 
Someone's doing us a disservice
 
3:37 PM
My guess would be the SciFi.SE people "advertizing" us on some "pertinent" forums, like, uh, YouTube, imgur, IMDb forums or Yahoo Answers maybe. ;-) You know, places where the creme de la creme of reasonable and commited internet users hang out.
 
They're not all sci-fi Qs, though
 
@Walt It wasn't meant that way either. ;-) (And neither was it really meant serious at all.)
 
I don't even know how to find something like that.
 
Well, from the Analytics page there isn't a clear referrer to be recognized. All the usualy suspects, SO, Movies.SE, Google.
 
The problem is that the people asking the questions don't care about them. They've probably asked nearly identical questions on several sites and they just need someone to answer them in one place.
 
3:43 PM
That being said, it's really interesting what stuff people google to get here (e.g. "naked school girl pics").
 
@Catija Some do care. But a sufficiently annoying amount don't, yes
 
@Catija Indeed, and we all know, a Q&A site is there to get answers. ;-)
 
@Walt I will only agree with this statement if "sufficiently annoying" means 90%.
@Walt Stop fixing my typos :P SE really needs spell checkers in the Title field. :D
 
And they're usually 1 reppers
 
I wish there were an effective way to limit who can ask ID questions... or something.
But it seems like the only solution is to ban them... @TomCody Can you see the charts for SF & F? What percentage is their site's ID questions?
 
3:47 PM
@Catija I thought messing around with it will trigger the name. Didn't help. :(
 
Awww, sorry. :(
 
Of course, prove that you will be a valuable member before asking such stuff. Which would of course also lead to people magically writing good questions because they know how the friggin' site works.
 
Much lower ratio on SF&F, I think
 
@TomCody Well... we apparently had a 12k user yesterday fail the "how to write a good ID question" test... so... yeah.
 
Maybe they have stricter rules
 
3:49 PM
@Catija Well, I just have to play with the tag a bit, but should be no problem. I'd wager though it's a fraction of our ration. But at least Anime & Manga is somewhere on hour levels I'd say. (And I don't want to imagine how many are stupid image IDs there.)
 
@Walt I think they probably just have such a broad subject and such enthusiastic users that they get more non-ID questions. It'd be interesting to look at the raw numbers in addition to the percentages.
 
Broader than all movies and shows?!
 
@Walt There are some interesting theories why they actually don't struggle with this crap so much (as pretty much the only site). There's a recent meta post on their meta about that.
 
@Walt There are lots of books. Particularly for Sci-Fi. There are probably more Sci-Fi & Fantasy books than there are movies of any genre.
 
I'd put it down to a site topic encouraging a more commited user base and a few other factors hard to put into words right now.
 
3:52 PM
@TomCody Sure. All of the Trekkie/Star Wars/Harry Potter hardcore fans are there, not here.
 
Huh. By a rough estimate, ID is 20% on SF&F and about 30% here. Less, but not hugely so.
@Catija I don't know about that...
 
Bleh, when they'd get their stupid SEDE servers under control again I could run the queries there.
 
@Walt Well, you've certainly seen more of the movies than I have :D I still think it's a popularity thing.
 
Well, an online popularity thing, where sci-fi seems to rule all
 
At least there's much much much MUCH less greyed-out stuff on their frontpage, for sure. And that is the subjective image that's drawn of the site.
 
3:57 PM
And yet another one! OK, it's fairly detailed, but still!
 
@TomCody Do they still use the East/West Germany terminology?... Or would you guess the film is pre 1990?
 
@Catija Well, with "foreigners" you never know. But when a German says it, you can be sure they mean pre-90.
 
@TomCody That's what I thought. When we were in Berlin it seemed pretty chill... the wall's in the middle of a street and we got passport stamps from "East Germany"... I think.
Such a tourist!
 
Ah crap, stupid SEDE links don't friggin' work. Wrong tag. ;-(
Anyway, SciFi's weekly ratio seems way more favourable and, and that's important, stable. Though, their overall ratio is rising, too, quite bit, even if not as ours.
@Catija Do you mean pre-90 or as a post-90 "tourist souvenir"?
 
@TomCody The latter. We were there in... '09, I think.
I heard an interesting report on the news this morning... apparently the use of "LOL" is dropping out of popularity in preference to "HA HA" and its variants... Which I find amusing because I usually say "HA HA"...
 
4:09 PM
Now if that isn't a reason to celebrate! I hate this awful "internet speak". rolflmaooatn!
hlp me plz, thx!
 
We went to Munich, too. :D For New Year's. It was fun... but cold.
 
4:28 PM
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Q: What is this High School black comedy?

TimI saw this movie on UK TV a few years ago. It was set in early 1980's Eastern Europe but not I think Russia. Either East Germany, Poland or Czechoslovakia would be my guess. The plot centres on a group of classmates - the cool rebel one who sleeps with all the pretty girls (including one encount...

 
4:45 PM
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Q: Animated apocalyptic sci-fi movie from the 70's or early 80's

mcfinniganEvery few years I make an attempt to find information about this barely-remembered show that I saw. I was probably around 6 years old, and lived in South Africa at the time, for what that helps. There were two protagonists, one of whom was a scientist or technologist of some format. They were ...

 
5:11 PM
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Q: What is inspiration for Trial by Combat?

PantherWe have seen that Tyrion has asked for trial with combat two times. How realistic is it? Was it a common practice during medieval times? Is it inspired from any medieval time custom? It does not look logical if someone like the Mountain, Barristan or Oberyn Martell can do any crime and can easily...

 
 
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7:50 PM
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Q: Help identifying quirky 80s/90s movie - road trip, post-apocalypse, comedy-ish?

Brian KerkDate: probably 80s, maybe early 90s. What I remember: very vague. Two people (man an woman) on a road trip, though I'm not sure that was the entire plot of the film, maybe just a part of it. It feels sort of post-apocalyptic, but not in a mutants/zombies/nuclear war kind of way. There are just v...

 
 
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11:26 PM
I wonder when the first asker will use the tag on one of the frequent "are there spiders in The Hobbit Part 47?" questions. ;-)
 
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Q: Question about spiders in Arachnophobia

steelerfanI just watched Arachnophobia for the first time in many years. I understand the story line on how the Venezuelan spider that hitched a ride in the photographer's coffin mated with the house spider that Jeff Daniels' family put out in the barn and that their offspring are deadly. The scene that...

 
11:41 PM
eesh, too much work today. Flew by, now to choose up tonight's horror selection..
 
Try a non-horror instead, like Under Fire or Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow.
 

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