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What's the name of that film?

Started by Nuclear Optimism, January 16, 2013, 08:23:12 AM

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Nuclear Optimism

It's a comedy about a school play (it may be a nativity), but the hilarious twist is that all the children are played by - get this - grown-up British comedy actors. It's like Bugsy Malone in reverse, and it's absolutely awful as I recall.

Please tell me I haven't imagined this. It was shown on telly one Christmas. I think I may have taped it (so it must have been at a time when VHS would still realistically have been used).


Kane Jones

Flint Stree Nativity was just a Christmas BBC thing, wasn't it?  It wasn't a film.  It was shit, however.

Noodle Lizard


Nuclear Optimism

I think that might be it. Thanks guys. I thought it was a proper film that I only saw on telly.


Jerzy Bondov

Quote from: Kane Jones on January 16, 2013, 08:26:42 AM
Flint Stree Nativity was just a Christmas BBC thing, wasn't it?  It wasn't a film.
NO you're WRONG!!! It was on ITV.

Kane Jones

Quote from: Jerzy Bondov on January 16, 2013, 08:41:39 AM
NO you're WRONG!!! It was on ITV.

The shame.  Right that's it; I'm going to hang myself.

Jerzy Bondov


Noodle Lizard

So how about that 'Bugsy Malone', eh fellas?

CaledonianGonzo

The 'twist' isn't that the kids are played by adults - the twist is when
Spoiler alert
their parents arrive at the end they're played by the same actors and the kids are shown to mirror the same foibles and character traits as their mums and dads.
[close]
.

It's actually alright.

Cerys


Kane Jones

Didn't Neil Morrissey's character have a lisp?  That may well have been the reason I disliked it so vehemently.  Children with lisps are annoying (see the Miracle On 34th Street remake) so an adult impersonating a child with a lisp makes it 10 times worse.

*edit* I liked all the big props though.  They were pretty cool.

Noodle Lizard


turnstyle

What's that film with the fat bloke who owns a newspaper?

Not really.

BUT, what is this film then? I remember seeing it on TV in the Nineties, an I think it was FUCKING LONG, like, 9 hours or something, and spread over a couple of nights.

The thing I most remember is that it was during a war, and a large part of the film focused on two soldiers from opposing sides, who were in bunkers, taking pot shots at each other, for aggggeeeeessss. Was it set in Vietnam possibly?

I was younger then, with a shorter attention span, so it's possible that the 'film' might have actually been a 30 second Jif commercial or something.

Famous Mortimer

turnstyle, the first thing that popped into my head was "84 Charlie MoPic", but when I looked again I realised it was nothing at all like what you described.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Vietnam_War_films

Have a gander, why don't you?

CaledonianGonzo


The Βoston Crab

Quote from: Noodle Lizard on January 16, 2013, 10:13:11 AM
'Bugsy Malone' is pretty neat.

It's my favourite film, seriously. It's so entwined with my Earthly existence, I know of no world without Bugsy Malone. All these kids in other countries, living in a cement shack in Honduras or a fucking yurt in the Sahara don't know about splurge guns and I really think what the fuck, harsh.  It's like a world without outside boot volleys.

stunted

Trying to remember the name of fairly recent Mexican cartel film that isn't coming up when I google. The film opens with some people hanging a body from a footbridge over a road. It's then about a boy living in rural Mexico, cycling to work in a factory. His wee sister is going out with an older boy who finds a drug stash (or possibly a gun stash) and steals it.

**Spoilers*"

The boy wth the bike's family are killed, The little sister and boyfriend are kidnapped, the boy is tortured and killed and the fate of the girl is unknown for most of the film.



holyzombiejesus

Quote from: stunted on July 17, 2018, 12:15:04 AM
The boy with the bike's family are killed, The little sister and boyfriend are kidnapped, the boy is tortured and killed and the fate of the girl is unknown for most of the film.

So it's a comedy then?

stunted


Chriddof

Here's two movies that I saw when I was fairly young, about late 80s / very early 90s. I think that both were already a bit old at the time, my memory of the visual look of them would suggest they were made at periods during the 1970s up to the early 80s. I've mentioned them before on here but didn't get any results.

Film 1: A fairly normal, boring sort of American family drama, with one really weird detail - there's some sort of massive hourglass-shaped obstruction blocking the family's front door, and whenever they need to leave or enter the house everyone has to awkwardly clamber around it to get by. (This might have been a TV movie.)

Film 2: I only saw a single scene of this, on my black and white portable in my bedroom one night. There was some sort of show inside a conference hall or somewhere (in America) and they had to stall for time as some act hadn't shown up or some technical issue was fucking everything up. They get a woman who I presume was one of the main characters on stage to try and entertain everybody. She starts saying that she believes that as time goes on, women will wear less and less clothes, which is basically an excuse for her to start a kind of striptease. Then it keeps intercutting between this and some people underground in the basement (?) who are trying to fix some machinery.

Eventually all the men in the audience above are whooping away and the stripping lady announces "..and do you wanna see what fashion'll be like in 1988?" (or some such then-future year). They all cheer and she takes her bra off. Then below the stage the machinery explodes a bit and the people fixing it fall over or something, and then above ground this massive machine that's situated directly behind the audience, which is a really big lottery ball selector thing only with actual money in it blows open, and all these dollar bills come flying out. And then the audience go mental and rush over to the machine to grab as many as they can. Except for one 80 year old pervert, who remains at his seat, grinning away at the now topless woman. She nervously waves to him and then rushes offstage as the riot over money continues. And then I turned it over (my mum was probably coming upstairs).

St_Eddie

Quote from: Chriddof on July 18, 2018, 02:44:31 AM
Film 2: I only saw a single scene of this, on my black and white portable in my bedroom one night. There was some sort of show inside a conference hall or somewhere (in America) and they had to stall for time as some act hadn't shown up or some technical issue was fucking everything up. They get a woman who I presume was one of the main characters on stage to try and entertain everybody. She starts saying that she believes that as time goes on, women will wear less and less clothes, which is basically an excuse for her to start a kind of striptease. Then it keeps intercutting between this and some people underground in the basement (?) who are trying to fix some machinery.

Eventually all the men in the audience above are whooping away and the stripping lady announces "..and do you wanna see what fashion'll be like in 1988?" (or some such then-future year). They all cheer and she takes her bra off. Then below the stage the machinery explodes a bit and the people fixing it fall over or something, and then above ground this massive machine that's situated directly behind the audience, which is a really big lottery ball selector thing only with actual money in it blows open, and all these dollar bills come flying out. And then the audience go mental and rush over to the machine to grab as many as they can. Except for one 80 year old pervert, who remains at his seat, grinning away at the now topless woman. She nervously waves to him and then rushes offstage as the riot over money continues. And then I turned it over (my mum was probably coming upstairs).

Sounds suspiciously like a porn parody of The Hudsucker Proxy.

checkoutgirl

Quote from: Noodle Lizard on January 16, 2013, 08:53:02 AM
So how about that 'Bugsy Malone', eh fellas?

Good but Jodie gives Lolita a run for her money in it.

Chriddof

Quote from: St_Eddie on July 18, 2018, 11:52:03 AM
Sounds suspiciously like a porn parody of The Hudsucker Proxy.

Don't think it could have been something like that as this was on one of the four main channels of the time (that's all the B+W portable could pick up). Although now I'm wondering if I tuned into a foreign station via that DX business (the portable was an old 70s dial one that you manually twisted instead of buttons).


St_Eddie

Quote from: Chriddof on July 18, 2018, 09:09:25 PM
Don't think it could have been something like that as this was on one of the four main channels of the time...

Heh.  I was making a joke, or more accurately, I was attempting to.

Dex Sawash


Chriddof

Gah! I see now.

Actually, here's something else: The ending of some old 50s / early 60s film - might have been a really well known one that I've never seen (apart from this bit, obv). The hero of the film is being hunted down by an evil doctor or someone, who has a syringe full of some sort of hallucinogenic drug. There's a fight and the hero stabs the doctor with it, who then goes crazy. He stumbles out of the building they were in (which may have had lots of mirrors in it like Enter The Dragon) and sees one of those "WALK / DON'T WALK" signs, only he thinks it says "RUN / DON'T RUN", which at the age of 11 or whatever stuck me as a bit of a crap hallucination. Anyway, he drops down dead and the hero gets the girl.