Right. Sitting at home, plague carrier and all that, now also with the lovely, lovely side-effects of high-power antibiotics, I thought I might see if, among it's many wonders, the internet could provide a movie I've only every once caught part of on TV over a decade ago. Which I had wanted to watch again for years, but basically forgot until today.
Problem is, I don't know the title. I don't even know the cast. I'm pretty sure there were one or two fairly famous faces in there. For some reason, I associated Walther Matthau with it. I am quite certain now it wasn't him, though, I've plowed through the imdb advanced search and couldn't find nothing that matched. But I'm sure there was some older chap in there somewhere, big-ish name actor, but he wasn't the protagonist, that was a younger guy.
I only ever saw maybe half of it, while metabolizing vast quantities of ethanol and ... other things ... after a night on the town. So my re
It was partly in black&white, but I'm pretty sure parts of it were in color.
I think the protagonist was a concert pianist of some sort. Who, somehow, in the middle of an important performance, traveled to the moon, where he fell in love. I think the scenes on the moon were in color.
I'm sure it wasn't old-old. I'd guess it was made somewhere between the late 1970s and late 1980s.
For some reason, I always associated "Arthurs theme", that song about "if you get lost between the moon and new york city" with it, because it sorta matched the plot. But it absolutely wasn't "Arthur".
Does anyone know the film I'm talking about, or did I hallucinate it?
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Name that movie! (solved!)
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DerGolgo
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Name that movie! (solved!)
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zeets
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Slaughterhouse Five?
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DerGolgo
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Yes, well, concert pianists and POWs are close, but the moon and Tralfalmadore aren't, really ...zeets wrote:Slaughterhouse Five?
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MATPOC
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Only movie I know off with a trip to the Moon and a love story is Airplane 2 http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0083530/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
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xtian
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Funny thing, I only watched this the other day. But that's not it.xtian wrote:Howard the duck ?
The movie I'm looking for was mostly in black & white. Parts of it in color, I think. But mostly, if not after all entirely, in black & white.
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The Man Who Fell To Earth
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DerGolgo
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Nope. Too much color, too much Bowie.
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Dr. Strangelove?
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... you know, with his hand-related problems, he could play a duet with himselfgoose wrote:Dr. Strangelove?
... but now, I'm quite certain this is one of those rare movies without Peter Sellers.If there were absolutely anything to be afraid of, don't you think I would have worn pants?
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Didn't imdb use to have have a search function? I swear I used it to find a movie before.
AHA, it does: http://www.imdb.com/search/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
Edited to add, the search function fucking sucks. Good luck.
AHA, it does: http://www.imdb.com/search/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
Edited to add, the search function fucking sucks. Good luck.
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Believe me, after what I did to it's search function, imdb and I should have had a cigarette. But it got me no and where. All it helped me work out was that, no, it apparently didn't star Matthau. Which might me significant. Or not.
Another thing I remembered about that movie: I'm pretty sure it involved a train. With some scenes set on a train, and some closeup exterior shots of that train.
Another thing I remembered about that movie: I'm pretty sure it involved a train. With some scenes set on a train, and some closeup exterior shots of that train.
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The Adventures of Baron Munchausen ?
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No. Absolutely not, no.Mk3 wrote:The Adventures of Baron Munchausen ?
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Re: Name that movie! (solved!)
Ha hA! The other day, I posted this question on the Criticker forums.
And, indeed, someone found it, I immediately recognized the title, I must have known it at some point.
It's Nothing lasts forever, starring Bill Murray and Dan Ayckroyd even.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0087817/?ref_=sr_1
If you haven't heard of Criticker, go hence: http://www.criticker.com/
It's a movie rating website. Not a silly aggregator, but where users simply rate movies they've seen, from 0 to 100. The site will then use that to generate recommendations of films you might enjoy, based on how your past ratings match other user's ratings for specific movies. And it'll find users who's taste seems to match yours, so you can look over what they've rated to find something they've seen but you haven't and that might be good. And it's evidently a place where badass movie nerds hang out and can identify an obscure, artsy 1980s comedy from the very limited information I provided. It's not entirely useless.
And, indeed, someone found it, I immediately recognized the title, I must have known it at some point.
It's Nothing lasts forever, starring Bill Murray and Dan Ayckroyd even.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0087817/?ref_=sr_1
If you haven't heard of Criticker, go hence: http://www.criticker.com/
It's a movie rating website. Not a silly aggregator, but where users simply rate movies they've seen, from 0 to 100. The site will then use that to generate recommendations of films you might enjoy, based on how your past ratings match other user's ratings for specific movies. And it'll find users who's taste seems to match yours, so you can look over what they've rated to find something they've seen but you haven't and that might be good. And it's evidently a place where badass movie nerds hang out and can identify an obscure, artsy 1980s comedy from the very limited information I provided. It's not entirely useless.
If there were absolutely anything to be afraid of, don't you think I would have worn pants?
I said I have a big stick.
I said I have a big stick.