# Help identify a movie **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [October 8, 2012, 7:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-identify-a-movie/637068 "2012-10-08T07:18:09Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![TV\_time](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/f17d59/32.png) [@TV\_time](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TV_time)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2012, 2:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-identify-a-movie/637068/21 "2012-10-08T14:10:22Z")
> [@lost4life](#): > > I can’t believe you liked it. The original French/Japanese/German/Korean version was better and more cerebral. Hollywood really dumbed down the American version. And I hated the new ending! ---
**Author:** ![Shark\_Sandwich](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f04885/32.png) [@Shark\_Sandwich](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shark_Sandwich)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2012, 2:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-identify-a-movie/637068/22 "2012-10-08T14:19:43Z")
I liked it better before the director started dicking with the special effects. ---
**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2012, 2:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-identify-a-movie/637068/23 "2012-10-08T14:25:55Z")
It was a rip-off of another movie with all the same elements. ---
**Author:** ![August\_West](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/august_west/32/18069_2.png) [@August\_West](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/August_West)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2012, 3:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-identify-a-movie/637068/24 "2012-10-08T15:11:48Z")
I recall this one, I believe they went to the bottom of the Mariana Trench, and the theme song was “Rio” by Duran Duran. ---
**Author:** ![Sr\_Siete](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/6de8d8/32.png) [@Sr\_Siete](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sr_Siete)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2012, 6:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-identify-a-movie/637068/25 "2012-10-08T18:07:05Z")
Oooh… and remember that one scene, when the couple had this argument but you just knew they actually had the hots for each other? Unmistakable. ---
**Author:** ![campp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c5a1d2/32.png) [@campp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/campp)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2012, 6:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-identify-a-movie/637068/26 "2012-10-08T18:34:04Z")
People used to do that to me in my record store: “I’m looking for a song that goes _something something I love you something do do do_. Do you have it?” ---
**Author:** ![Tapioca\_Dextrin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Tapioca\_Dextrin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tapioca_Dextrin)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2012, 7:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-identify-a-movie/637068/27 "2012-10-08T19:13:40Z")
> [@Bryan\_Ekers](#): > > Wow, Gary Sinise looked so _young_ in that movie. To be fair, it was before the sex change operation. Not his, but whatshisnames. ---
**Author:** ![lieu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c2a13f/32.png) [@lieu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lieu)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2012, 7:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-identify-a-movie/637068/28 "2012-10-08T19:34:00Z")
I liked it so much I even stayed for the credits. I mean who ever does that? ---
**Author:** ![Quimby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/22d042/32.png) [@Quimby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quimby)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2012, 8:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-identify-a-movie/637068/29 "2012-10-08T20:03:01Z")
There’s an internet theory that one of them was really a replicant the entire time. ---
**Author:** ![DrFidelius](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/drfidelius/32/3447_2.png) [@DrFidelius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrFidelius)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2012, 8:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-identify-a-movie/637068/30 "2012-10-08T20:40:33Z")
> [@lieu](#): > > I liked it so much I even stayed for the credits. I mean who ever does that? Did you stay for the scene after the credits? ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2012, 10:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-identify-a-movie/637068/31 "2012-10-08T22:31:03Z")
It’s the only movie I know of where the director’s cut is twenty minutes _shorter_. ---
**Author:** ![Tapioca\_Dextrin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Tapioca\_Dextrin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tapioca_Dextrin)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2012, 10:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-identify-a-movie/637068/32 "2012-10-08T22:41:06Z")
> [@Bryan\_Ekers](#): > > It’s the only movie I know of where the director’s cut is twenty minutes _shorter_. [Killing of a Chinese Bookie](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0074749/), then? ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2012, 11:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-identify-a-movie/637068/33 "2012-10-08T23:10:43Z")
> [@Tapioca\_Dextrin](#): > > [Killing of a Chinese Bookie](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0074749/), then? Well, the movies are similar, I admit, but one features a Chinese bookie and the other an Armenian accountant. ---
**Author:** ![Duke\_of\_Rat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ad7895/32.png) [@Duke\_of\_Rat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Duke_of_Rat)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2012, 11:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-identify-a-movie/637068/34 "2012-10-08T23:27:45Z")
> [@TriPolar](#): > > It’s from a while back, but I’m not sure how far back. I don’t remember who was in it, or the characters, except there was a man and a woman. It was set someplace, and they did some things. I forget how it ends. > > Any ideas? Paul Verhoeven directed it, right? ---
**Author:** ![FriarTed](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/friarted/32/1052_2.png) [@FriarTed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FriarTed)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2012, 12:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-identify-a-movie/637068/35 "2012-10-09T00:05:56Z")
It also had a dog. ---
**Author:** ![woodstockbirdybird](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/woodstockbirdybird/32/7905_2.png) [@woodstockbirdybird](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/woodstockbirdybird)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2012, 12:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-identify-a-movie/637068/36 "2012-10-09T00:07:38Z")
Finally, one of these I know: _Problem Child 2_. ---
**Author:** ![ThelmaLou](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thelmalou/32/390_2.png) [@ThelmaLou](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThelmaLou)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2012, 12:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-identify-a-movie/637068/37 "2012-10-09T00:10:39Z")
They’re doing a remake next summer with Jennifer Lopez, Jennifer Hudson, and Jennifer Grey, but there’s no way it can top the original with Joanne Woodward in all three roles. ---
**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2012, 12:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-identify-a-movie/637068/38 "2012-10-09T00:15:55Z")
It was the one with the fake-looking CGI effects. ---
**Author:** ![Roadfood](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/9fc348/32.png) [@Roadfood](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Roadfood)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2012, 12:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-identify-a-movie/637068/39 "2012-10-09T00:36:51Z")
Was it directed by Alan Smithee? ---
**Author:** ![Anduril](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c0e974/32.png) [@Anduril](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anduril)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2012, 12:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-identify-a-movie/637068/40 "2012-10-09T00:37:12Z")
It looks to me like it’s “some movie reference” meets “another movie reference” set against “some historical era”. Do you see it the same way? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-identify-a-movie/637068.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-identify-a-movie/637068.md?page=3)