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Post by kaylathehedgehog on Mar 7, 2010 21:41:38 GMT -7
I need your help guys. I remember a movie, which I believe was from the 80s, since it was on a tape with several episodes of Care Bears and a Rainbow Brite episode.
Here's what I remember. It opened up with a man in what looked like old fashioned Renaissance-y like clothing giving a brief synopsis of the movie.
It had something to do with a young girl getting lost in a forest in the middle of winter. Someone, who I'm guessing is Jack Frost or Old Man Winter since he has a staff that transforms anything that touched it into ice, saves her.
There also another guy looking for the girl, and he attempts to get help from a witch or something, who lives in a house with legs.
Did this movie actually exist, or am I just going senile at a young age?
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Post by kathyfraggle on Nov 23, 2010 21:11:33 GMT -7
It sounds like something that may be based on a Russian myth, although I don't know the story in full, nor do I know any TV or movie versions of it. There may be different versions of the story.
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Post by teddy4evr on May 4, 2011 7:28:17 GMT -7
OMG, I remember that too!! I wish I could Remember the name!!
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Post by kaylathehedgehog on May 4, 2011 9:10:14 GMT -7
It annoys me so much, because the copy I had didn't have the title with it.
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Post by Sylverwolfe on Jul 5, 2011 19:06:52 GMT -7
Are there any more details you can give us?
For instance; this house that was on legs, were they animal legs, perhaps chicken legs?
If it is a house on chicken legs maybe what I have to say can be of some help.
The House on Chicken legs or chicken feet was an old Russian or Slavic story Baba Yaga. The hag (antagonist) in the story flew around on a pestle and mortar. She rode in the mortar and used the pestle like a rudder to guide it. The antagonist is featured in the film Bartok the Magnificent who is an anthropomorphic albino bat that is unafraid of her.
I remember a book called "Bony Legs" by Joanna Cole with a witch who lived in a similar house. The protagonist of the story was able to escape her with two magic talismans. A Comb and a Mirror given to her by the witch's cat and dog who were hungry. (The girl in the story takes pity on them and feeds them her lunch.) The comb becomes a huge comb and the tines stick in the ground like a row of perfectly planted trees which make it hard for the witch to pass and the mirror makes a huge pond. I seem to remember Levar Burton reading this one on Reading Rainbow but I do not remember if it was ever made into a film.
You mentioned Jack Frost and there is another film with this in it called Jack Frost from 1964.
Without more specifics I cannot be of more help.
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Post by teddy4evr on Jul 5, 2011 19:41:39 GMT -7
OMG, I think it was Jack Frost !! Thanks, I loved that when I was a kid!!
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Post by Sylverwolfe on Jul 5, 2011 19:46:33 GMT -7
COOL! I DID help! I wasn't sure if what I said was going to be useful. The movie Jack Frost has been lampooned by Mystery Science Theater 3000. I have never seen it but now that you have mentioned it and that the witch from Baba Yaga is in it, I might have to give that one a glance.
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Post by TRO Admin on Jul 6, 2011 11:44:21 GMT -7
My favorite 80's movie is probably "Twins" with Arnold Schwarzenegger and Danny DeVito. Ironically, there was a sequel in the works as Arnold's baby daddy scandal came out... somehow I doubt with two sons, one illegitimate, only weeks apart in age there will be another "Twins" movie lol
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Post by Sylverwolfe on Jul 6, 2011 13:21:08 GMT -7
@josh Isaacson: Geeze! How are you able to just pick one? There were too many for me to just pick one.
Lemme see here. Action: Road Warrior Horror: Fright Night Sci Fi: V Miniseries Sci Fi / Drama: War Games Sci Fi / Comedy: Short Circuit Sci Fi / Action: Return of the Jedi Comedy: Teen Wolf Animated: (Too hard to choose!!!)
There are more that are escaping me at the moment. Good shift to the topic, I wonder if it could be split and made into a topic about favorite '80's movies.
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Post by TRO Admin on Jul 6, 2011 15:19:04 GMT -7
@ Sylver I have already proved myself wrong.... I forgot Planes, Trains and Automobiles came out in the 80's (I didn't see it for the first time till about '94, so I don't think of it as an 80's movie since I didn't watch it as a kid) so PTA is #1, for sure, while Twins is #2, maybbe for sure.. you get the idea I loved Short Circuit but haven't seen it in a long time. I need to rent it again. Other 80's Favorites: Brewster's Millions Superman 3 Follow That Bird Vacation & Christmas Vacation Parenthood Uncle Buck Throw Momma From The Train Leathal Weapon
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Post by teddy4evr on Jul 6, 2011 15:33:47 GMT -7
Hm, I like Star Wars XD!! And the Lost Boys. I don't watch animated movies, I did that when I was a kid!!
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Post by TRO Admin on Jul 6, 2011 16:13:32 GMT -7
I did it when I was a kid.... and still do Monsters, Inc and Up are two of my favorite movies of all time.
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Post by kaylathehedgehog on Jul 6, 2011 18:05:05 GMT -7
The 1960s Jack Frost might be it. I wish I could find screencaps of it to be sure.
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Post by Sylverwolfe on Jul 7, 2011 11:17:03 GMT -7
@ Kaylathehedgehog: I don't know where you can look to get much information on it. It was a rather short blurb about it on Wikipedia which is linked from the Baba Yaga page.
There was a link to Mystery Science Theater 3000, so it was featured on that program. If you find a link to it, it might be there, but as I remember that was a show about a guy and two robots who watched movies which they thought sucked and they often gave them barb after barb of denigrating and biting criticisms. (Basically it was like Beavis and Butthead to movies instead of music videos. Sometimes the jokes were a little more brainy.) Try looking there but be warned.
@ Josh Isaacson: Wow! I had forgotten Planes, Trains and Automobiles. I love the scene where Steve Martin has a total meltdown out in the rental car parking lot and comes back in asking for keys to another car. Classic flutter-cussing movie scene!!! Another funny scene is when he runs into John Candy in the Airport Terminal pickup and Steve Martin falls over, narrowly missing death from the driver of another car. The driver gets out and tells him to move, he tell him 'Make Me" and the guy picks him up by his privates and the scene ends hours later with Candy driving the car and Martin still speaking like he has inhaled helium!!! Another good movie along those lines of traveling home for the holiday was Dutch. It starred Ed O'Neil (who was better known as Al Bundy from Married with Children.) That Boarding School BRAT of a kid gets schooled in the real world on that trip.
Uncle Buck is a GREAT one too. I really like the "golf lesson" scene in that movie! That scene made me hoo-hah every time I saw it. It rivaled Daniel Stern's girl-like scream in Home Alone when he figures out that a spider was placed on his face!! The "Moley Russel's Wart" scene is a good one too.
John Candy did a lot of GREAT movies! The Great Outdoors was a very good one with John Candy. The scene with the 96er...(96 oz steak that he gets talked into eating to see if he can eat it before a certain amount of time passes.) 6 pounds of meat. I would be thoroughly sick! I got sick trying to finish the 72 oz at the Big Texan Restaurant in Amarillo once.
There are so many that it is hard to name them all.
As a kid I wanted to go to Space Camp so badly. When the movies The Flight of the Navigator and lesser known Space Camp came out, I only wanted to go all the worse.
But yeah, all those movies...Good times.
Now I do not remember it well, what was Throw Mama From the Train about? I know it had the elderly woman who was "Mama Fratelli" in The Goonies and she was Mama, but I do not remember much else.
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Post by kaylathehedgehog on Jul 7, 2011 16:09:54 GMT -7
*tacklehugs Sylver*
That's it! The Jack Frost movie from the 1960s! I just found some clips of it on Youtube, and it's the same as I remember.
Thank you, thank you, thank you!!!
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