That one, with the guy, who did that thing

December 3, 2005 8:27 AM

What Was That Movie is an online community database of people helping others figuring out what that movie with that guy who did that thing was. Sort of an AskMe that caters to a specific, though frequent, issue of inquiry. It's new, but odds are the longer it's up the more useful it will become, but until then, the unsolved questions are fascinating in among themselves.
posted by XQUZYPHYR (16 comments total)

see also
posted by grouse at 8:43 AM on December 3, 2005

Well, there goes a whole class of AskMe questions....
posted by jimfl at 8:45 AM on December 3, 2005

Coo site. In fact, I just helped somebody with the movie Don't Be Afraid of the Dark. I remember that movie scaring the crap out of me when I was a wee lad.
posted by NoMich at 8:46 AM on December 3, 2005

Coo site.

It's a cool site, too. It's not just for doves.
posted by NoMich at 8:46 AM on December 3, 2005

Not a bad idea, but the Movie Database section seems a little...ambitious. I mean, we already have the IMDb, MovieMistakes.com, Amazon...
posted by Gator at 8:53 AM on December 3, 2005

This was a movie on TV in the late 80s or early 90s, either Showtime or HBO. The scene I remember is in a swimming pool. A girl is somehow possessed to use her stitchery skills to unweave the swimsuits of her swim team or gym class, and when they all get in the pool all their swimsuits come off, and there's a lengthy underwater scene of female bodies with swimsuits bursting off at the seams.

Man, I wanna see that movie.
posted by graventy at 9:03 AM on December 3, 2005

that is cool--it's like half-remembered dreams or something

ok old french black and white about a man who is afraid to talk to women he is in love with a girl but she gets married to another man. he gets depressed and buys himself a crans of flowers and lays down on the traintrack waiting for death, but some how doesnt die but meets an crazy scientist who puts him in his machine and swaps his heart with the heart of a cock, the man wakes, goes chooCoooo and floks of girls chase him everywhere he goes. ???
posted by amberglow at 9:06 AM on December 3, 2005

There's also useless ones like this, "wesley snipes, chris rock, crack is just beginning to be sold. there's a scene of asians making crack in large groups, i think it's new jack city, but can't remember."

A quick check on IMDB reveals one movie in which Wesley Snipes and Chris Rock both appear in and it's about crack. To top it off, the poster already had a good idea which movie it was.
posted by my sock puppet account at 10:22 AM on December 3, 2005

Reminds me of the Kids in the Hall Citizen Kane skit...

Dave: Oh, I saw a great movie last night. It was on the late show. It was-- um, uh, what was it called? It's a classic. It's uh . . . oh, I hate this. I hate it when this happens.

Kevin: Well, what was it about?

Dave: It's about this newspaper tycoon and he's dead, and everybody is telling stories about him, and--

Kevin: It's Citizen Kane.

Dave: Nnnno, that's not it. No, no - but something like that. It's uh . . .

Kevin: Okay, who was in it?

Dave: Orson Welles is in it. It's called . . .

Kevin: Then this is Citizen Kane. It's Citizen Kane.

Dave: Nnnno, that isn't it, but you're not far from it. It's uh . . .

Kevin: Well who else was in it?

Dave: Oh, um, I dunno.

Kevin: Was Joseph Cotten in it?

Dave: What else has he been in?

Kevin: The Third Man, The Magnificent Ambersons . . .

Dave: Oh, The Magnificent Ambersons. Yes, yes, yes, he was in it, yes. That's one of my favourite Orson Welles movies.

Kevin: Well this is definitely Citizen Kane then. You're talking about Citizen Kane.

Dave: Nnnno, no, no. But it's something like that. It's ci . . . ci, ci . . . Si. Si . . . sy . . .

Kevin: No, not sy. It's ci. Ci, ci.

Dave: Sy . . . sy . . . sy . . .

Kevin: It's ci, Citizen Kane.

Dave: Sy . . . sy . . . Psycho!
posted by insomnia_lj at 1:10 PM on December 3, 2005

Sweet, i just answered an Unsolved Question (Pit and the Pendelum). i always knew that encyclopedic knowledge of bad 80's movies would pay off.
posted by quin at 2:08 PM on December 3, 2005

I think the guy asking about the Benicio Del Toro/Michael Mann fake trailer thing was testing the site out, to see how long it took them to get a response. I answered it anyway... then some cheeky bugger put their answer in before mine, to make it look like he got there before me.

I'm sure it reflects badly upon my character that I felt somehow slighted by that.
posted by flashboy at 5:14 PM on December 3, 2005

Yeah, imdb's all you need as long as you know the name of one of the actors or the director etc.

The one film that's been dogging me was a French film I saw during the 70's where two women planned to murder a man (I remember them trying to drawn him in a bath tub), but later it becomes apparent that he hasn't died and the plot thickens. My memory's really fuzzy; I was a kid (probably too young for that film) when I saw it. Maybe I'll use that site to figure it out...or have other people figure it out for me.
posted by Devils Slide at 1:42 AM on December 4, 2005

*drown
posted by Devils Slide at 1:43 AM on December 4, 2005

Devil's Slide: It's Les Diaboliques.
posted by Elsa at 5:11 AM on December 4, 2005

Oh, hell --- I suppose that qualifies as a spoiler, and should have labelled as such. Sorry.
posted by Elsa at 5:13 AM on December 4, 2005

Thanks, Elsa!

No need to apologize, you only named the film. If anything, I'm guilty of giving away a major part of the plot.
posted by Devils Slide at 2:30 PM on December 4, 2005