Title: Lake Placid 3
Year: 2010
Director: Griff Furst
Actors: Colin Ferguson, Yancy Butler, Kirsty Mitchell, Kacey Clarke, Jordan Grehs, Michael Ironside, Mark Evans, Nils Hognestad
Genre: Action, Horror, S-F, Thriller
Country: USA
Why in Database: The turtle only appears in the dialogue, when a group of heroes is swimming across the lake in a boat, one asks the other what he saw in the water and if it was a turtle.
– What’d you see, college boy? A turtle?
Author: XYuriTT
Title: The Bounty Hunter
Year: 2010
Director: Andy Tennant
Actors: Gerard Butler, Jennifer Aniston, Gio Perez, Joel Marsh Garland, Jason Kolotouros, Matt Malloy, Jason Sudeikis, Adam Rose, Christine Baranski
Genre: Action, Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Why in Database: The turtle only appears in the dialogue, the main character quite vividly explains to his ex-wife that he would not help her even if she were the last tiny sea turtle walking on the burning sand, with hungry gulls circling above her.
– To tell you the truth, l think l really need your advice about something.
– That’s a real shame… because I wouldn’t help you if you were the last baby sea turtle… dragging your tiny little body across the burning sand… whilst hungry seagulls circled overhead.
Author: XYuriTT
Title: Carriers
Year: 2009
Director: David Pastor, Àlex Pastor
Actors: Lou Taylor Pucci, Chris Pine, Piper Perabo, Emily VanCamp, Christopher Meloni, Kiernan Shipka, Ron McClary
Genre: Drama, Horror, S-F, Thriller
Country: USA
Why in Database: One of the dialogues describes the goal of the “main team”, reaching to the beach where there should be many turtles.
– And every summer, when we were little, he would take us to this place. It’s Turtle Beach. And we could swim and surf, and we’d fish and eat these soft- shell crab sandwiches that were soaked in mayo.
– Were there lots of turtles?
– Lots? God, there were thousands of them! They were everywhere. I mean, you could barely put your foot in the water without stepping on one. Sometimes they’d be stacked up on top of each other.
– That’s impossible!
– It is possible. They were everywhere.
– Can we go to Turtle Beach with them?
Author: XYuriTT
Title: Ambushed
Year: 2013
Director: Giorgio Serafini
Actors: Dolph Lundgren, Vinnie Jones, Randy Couture, Gianni Capaldi, Carly Pope, Mel Rodriguez, Susie Abromeit, Cinthya Carmona
Genre: Action, Criminal, Drama
Country: USA
Why in Database: One of the characters, in the scene before the final action of the film, tells her friend that she “likes animals” and would like to save all the cats, dogs and turtles in the world.
I used to feed this cat, wanted to save all the dogs in the world. The cats. The Turtles.
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Title: Jingle All the Way
Year: 1996
Director: Brian Levant
Actors: Arnold Schwarzenegger, Sinbad, Phil Hartman, Rita Wilson, Robert Conrad, Martin Mull, Jake Lloyd, Jim Belushi
Genre: Comedy, Family
Country: USA
Why in Database: The whole movie revolves around a toy/character of Turbo Man, whose main negative character initially incorrectly calls “Turtle Man”. The main character of the film corrects him, which is why he is called by him twice in the later scenes with this term. In addition, during the parade of various characters (the main attraction of which is to be Turbo Man), among the walking figures one can see a person dressed as Leonardo, one of Ninja Turtles.
– And as if I didn’t have enough pressure in my life my son sends me out for some goofy-butt toy some fruity robot named Turtle Man.
-That’s Turbo Man. My son wants one too.
– Myron?
– That’s right, Turtle Man.
– Ta-ta, Turtle Man.
Author: XYuriTT
Title: Milk money
Year: 1994
Director: Richard Benjamin
Actors: Melanie Griffith, Ed Harris, Michael Patrick Carter, Malcolm McDowell, Anne Heche, Casey Siemaszko, Philip Bosco, Brian Christopher
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Why in Database:The turtle appears only in dialogues – the father of the main child character deals with broadly understood ecology, in the initial stage of the film he shows his son mudgrass seedlings and explains that if it survives, the wetlands will also survive, so the Mortlake turtle will be able to return to its natural environment.
If it lives, the wetlands will survive, Mortlake turtle can return to its natural habitat, and birds like the glossy ibis won’t lose another precious nesting place.
Author: XYuriTT
Title: Not Cool
Year: 2014
Director: Shane Dawson
Actors: Shane Dawson, Cherami Leigh, Drew Monson, Lisa Schwartz, Michelle Veintimilla, Terri Middleton
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Why in Database: Turtles are only mentioned in dialogue, one of the characters describes his dorm, where, in his words, lives a swimming turtle named Randy.
– You can always come visit with me. My dorm is super cool. We have a swimming turtle named randy.
Author: XYuriTT
Title: Flutter
Year: 2014
Director: Eric Hueber
Actors: Lindsay Pulsipher, Glenn Morshower, Charles Baker, Clem Beard, Jon Bonzor, Tamera Brown, Raymond Estes, Denton Blane Everett
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Why in Database: The turtle only appears in the dialogue. When the little girl wants her mommy to buy her a bird, mother argues that she doesn’t care for her puppy or the turtle. To which the girl replies that the turtles are stupid.
– You don’t take care of your puppy or the turtle.
– The puppy is ugly and poops on the floor. Turtles are stupid. I want a parakeet!
Author: XYuriTT
Title: Bad Night
Year: 2015
Director: Chris Riedell, Nick Riedell
Actors: Lauren Elizabeth, Jenn McAllister, Julianna Guil, Judy Marte, Owen H.M. Smith, Gareth Reynolds, Matt Walsh, Molly Ringwald
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Criminal
Country: USA
Why in Database: Turtles are here only mentioned in dialogue, in form of a reference to Ninja Turtles.
– You heard of The Painter?
– I know painters. Rembrandts, the Ninja Turtles, sure.
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Title: 13 Posterunek
Year: 1997-1998
Director: Maciej Ślesicki
Actors: Cezary Pazura, Marek Perepeczko, Aleksandra Woźniak, Marek Walczewski, Joanna Sienkiewicz, Piotr Zelt, Paweł Burczyk, Dorota Chotecka, Agnieszka Włodarczyk
Genre: Comedy
Country: Poland
Viewing method: First season
Why in Database: Turtles appear twice in the series. In the episode “Kalambury filmowe”, Zofia at the end dresses up as a “Ninja Turtle“, while in the episode “Imieniny komendanta” Kasia cuffed Jola to desk, and when she is called “to work” (she is a prostitute), Kasia does not want to unfasten her, orders her take the desk with her, on her back, and concludes with the statement “the client will be delighted, I bet he never did that with a turtle.” (“klient będzie zachwycony, założę się, że nigdy nie robił tego z żółwicą.”)
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