enframed wrote: Thu Oct 19, 2023 8:05 am
Could be Goonies, or maybe Romancing the Stone, Conan the Barbarian, or The Beastmaster. Probably there are others that have a scene something like that.
I’ve never seen either one, but there were also two bandwagon-jumping Allan Quartermain movies that came out after Raiders: King Solomon’s Mines and Allan Quartermain and the Lost City of Gold.
Re: Help me remember thread
Posted: Thu Oct 19, 2023 1:19 pm
by Teacher's Pet
Wood Goblin wrote:
enframed wrote: Thu Oct 19, 2023 8:05 am
Could be Goonies, or maybe Romancing the Stone, Conan the Barbarian, or The Beastmaster. Probably there are others that have a scene something like that.
I’ve never seen either one, but there were also two bandwagon-jumping Allan Quartermain movies that came out after Raiders: King Solomon’s Mines and Allan Quartermain and the Lost City of Gold.
Is it definitely not Temple of Doom?
enframed wrote:
enframed wrote: Mon Aug 08, 2022 10:42 pm
There was a film that came out in the 90s or 00s about a girl/woman who was socially awkward. She tried very hard to do the right things but always, with IIRC the best intent, did the wrong thing. You feel sorry for her but also kind of hate her. Does anyone remember this film?
Kind of in the vein of All My Friends Hate Me.
Still searching for this movie...
Anyone? Bueller?
Welcome to the Dollhouse?
Re: Help me remember thread
Posted: Thu Oct 19, 2023 1:40 pm
by pldms
twelvepoint wrote: Wed Oct 18, 2023 5:34 pm
Another movie!
When I was a kid I vaguely remember seeing a movie in a theater with my late father. It was probably early 80s. All I remember is a scene where some people are in a jungle or mountain and they come upon a cave entrance but the rocky entrance is carved in a giant skull shape. I recall it having an Indiana Jones vibe but it wasn’t Raiders. This is a super sketchy and faded memory and I’m not 100% sure it wasn’t a dream.
In addition to all the previous suggestions, there was the TV series Tales of the Gold Monkey which was very post-Raiders.
(And Roger Corman must have done a few rip offs, surely?)
Re: Help me remember thread
Posted: Thu Oct 19, 2023 1:54 pm
by motorbike guy
Tom Wanderer wrote: Wed Oct 18, 2023 9:02 am
When I was a little kid I had a receiver in my bedroom that had a round tuner dial on the right hand side with green illuminated numbers. It was smallish, not a full rack width like most nice pieces of stereo equipment, maybe 2/3rds of that in width. Nothing fancy, more likely a department store cheapie from the 60s or 70s. I think the faceplate was silver and the sides and top were wood. I saw a picture of one in somebody's IG story and asked them what it was and they never responded and the pic expired.
The main thing I remember is that round dial with the glowing green numbers at night.
Does this sound familiar to anyone?
Could it have been the Advent receiver?
Re: Help me remember thread
Posted: Thu Oct 19, 2023 2:01 pm
by twelvepoint
It very likely wasn't fantasy like Conan because I think the characters at the skull cave were present-day. This memory is so long ago but I can't imagine it was after like 1985. Shit maybe it was Temple of Doom but I haven't seen that since it was originally out. I'm gonna watch Goonies (never seen it!) first then will go through some other suggestions. It wasn't Romancing the Stone (which I saw back when, and again recently (still great)).
Unrelated, but that Advent receiver is hot.
Re: Help me remember thread
Posted: Thu Oct 19, 2023 2:19 pm
by atomjackfuser
twelvepoint wrote: Wed Oct 18, 2023 5:34 pm
Another movie!
When I was a kid I vaguely remember seeing a movie in a theater with my late father. It was probably early 80s. All I remember is a scene where some people are in a jungle or mountain and they come upon a cave entrance but the rocky entrance is carved in a giant skull shape. I recall it having an Indiana Jones vibe but it wasn’t Raiders. This is a super sketchy and faded memory and I’m not 100% sure it wasn’t a dream.
Firewalker?
Re: Help me remember thread
Posted: Thu Oct 19, 2023 5:42 pm
by enframed
twelvepoint wrote: Thu Oct 19, 2023 2:01 pm
I'm gonna watch Goonies (never seen it!)
Well, maybe you have...
And no, it's not Welcome to the Dollhouse, it was a foreign film. German or French, Danish maybe...def NOT English language.
twelvepoint wrote: Wed Oct 18, 2023 5:34 pm
Another movie!
When I was a kid I vaguely remember seeing a movie in a theater with my late father. It was probably early 80s. All I remember is a scene where some people are in a jungle or mountain and they come upon a cave entrance but the rocky entrance is carved in a giant skull shape. I recall it having an Indiana Jones vibe but it wasn’t Raiders. This is a super sketchy and faded memory and I’m not 100% sure it wasn’t a dream.
Firewalker?
Definitely wasn't Firewalker, but this looks incredible. Basically, I'm going to spend my next 4 months of free time watching movies from 1975-1985 with cave scenes. I'm going to include that Birthday Party doc with the Cave movies too.
enframed wrote: Mon Aug 08, 2022 10:42 pm
There was a film that came out in the 90s or 00s about a girl/woman who was socially awkward. She tried very hard to do the right things but always, with IIRC the best intent, did the wrong thing. You feel sorry for her but also kind of hate her. Does anyone remember this film?
enframed wrote: Mon Aug 08, 2022 10:42 pm
There was a film that came out in the 90s or 00s about a girl/woman who was socially awkward. She tried very hard to do the right things but always, with IIRC the best intent, did the wrong thing. You feel sorry for her but also kind of hate her. Does anyone remember this film?
Kind of in the vein of All My Friends Hate Me.
Still searching for this movie...
Anyone? Bueller?
Possibly May?
No, but I wanna see that now. The one I am thinking of was NOT an English language film, and not a horror film. It was either German, Danish, or French.
