The Remains Of The Day and Lost In Translation are both highly watchable examples of great character driven movies wherein essentially, nothing of particular note actually transpires.

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By *ensuallover1000Man over a year ago

Somewhere In The Ether…

Also, American Graffiti and to a lesser extent due to the ending - American Beauty are prime examples of fantastic movies which don’t really ‘go anywhere’.

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

Blue ruin,slow burner but what a good film

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

The Straight Story - one of Lynch’s excellent linear tales.

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

"The Straight Story - one of Lynch’s excellent linear tales. "

David lynch?

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

"The Remains Of The Day and Lost In Translation are both highly watchable examples of great character driven movies wherein essentially, nothing of particular note actually transpires."

Lost in Translation is my favourite flick

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

"The Straight Story - one of Lynch’s excellent linear tales.

David lynch?"

Yes

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

"The Straight Story - one of Lynch’s excellent linear tales.

David lynch?"
and why linear?

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By *auradCouple over a year ago

glasgow

"The Straight Story - one of Lynch’s excellent linear tales. "

One of our favourites

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

"The Straight Story - one of Lynch’s excellent linear tales.

David lynch? and why linear?"

Just an unfolding story in chronological order with no surrealism.

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By *thwalescplCouple over a year ago

brecon

That one with Tom Hanks where he just does DIY at the airport.

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

"The Straight Story - one of Lynch’s excellent linear tales.

David lynch? and why linear?

Just an unfolding story in chronological order with no surrealism."

The Elephant Man is one of his other linears.

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

"The Straight Story - one of Lynch’s excellent linear tales.

One of our favourites "

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

"The Straight Story - one of Lynch’s excellent linear tales.

David lynch? and why linear?

Just an unfolding story in chronological order with no surrealism."

The best film I have seen like that is momemto

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By *lem-H-FandangoMan over a year ago

salisbury

Napoleon dynamite.

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

Beetlejuice.

Immense fun but what actually happens?

Same for Rocky Horror actually.

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

"The Straight Story - one of Lynch’s excellent linear tales.

David lynch? and why linear?

Just an unfolding story in chronological order with no surrealism.

The best film I have seen like that is momemto"

Memento is anything but linear!

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By *lem-H-FandangoMan over a year ago

salisbury

"The Straight Story - one of Lynch’s excellent linear tales.

David lynch? and why linear?

Just an unfolding story in chronological order with no surrealism.

The best film I have seen like that is momemto"

Mega film, goes backwards and forwards at the same time.

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

"The Straight Story - one of Lynch’s excellent linear tales.

David lynch? and why linear?

Just an unfolding story in chronological order with no surrealism.

The best film I have seen like that is momemto

Memento is anything but linear!"

We are on a totally different page

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

"The Straight Story - one of Lynch’s excellent linear tales.

David lynch? and why linear?

Just an unfolding story in chronological order with no surrealism.

The best film I have seen like that is momemto

Mega film, goes backwards and forwards at the same time.

"
there is a forward version of it available

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By *lem-H-FandangoMan over a year ago

salisbury

"The Straight Story - one of Lynch’s excellent linear tales.

David lynch? and why linear?

Just an unfolding story in chronological order with no surrealism.

The best film I have seen like that is momemto

Mega film, goes backwards and forwards at the same time.

there is a forward version of it available"

Was it brought out for Americans?

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

"The Straight Story - one of Lynch’s excellent linear tales.

David lynch? and why linear?

Just an unfolding story in chronological order with no surrealism.

The best film I have seen like that is momemto

Memento is anything but linear!

We are on a totally different page"

Regardless you should watch The Straight Story, although it’s nothing like Memento.

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By *oncupiscentTonyMan over a year ago

Kent

Rear window, for the most part James Stewart perving with his binoculars.

Any of the film adaptations of Waiting for Godot.

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By *tella HeelsTV/TS over a year ago

west here ford shire

on golden pond

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

"...but are still enjoyable!

I’ll start; Nick and Norah’s Infinate Playlist and Th Breakfast Club"
gone in 60 seconds I mean shortest film ever

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By *izzy RascallMan over a year ago

Cardiff

Kluklukclangers.

I don't think it's called that but it's a Spike Lee film.

I got half way through last week before giving in. I still don't know what it was about

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By *ild_oatsMan over a year ago

the land of saints & sinners

The Postman - Three hours of your life you will never get back watching Kevin Costner having a post-apocalyptic wank....

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

Lost in Translation.

I used to travel a lot on my own at the time and this film really depressed me

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

"...but are still enjoyable!

I’ll start; Nick and Norah’s Infinate Playlist and Th Breakfast Club"

2001; A Space Odyssey.

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By *risky_MareWoman over a year ago

...Up on the Downs

The one where Tom Hardy just sits chatting in a car...mesmerising!

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By *risky_MareWoman over a year ago

...Up on the Downs

"The one where Tom Hardy just sits chatting in a car...mesmerising!

https://youtu.be/2Ao2r6qD22A

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

Last Year in Marienbad and The Exterminating Angel are my two favourites.

I'd also go for the loose trilogy of L'Eclisse, L'Avventura and La Notte.

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

At*, not In.

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

"The one where Tom Hardy just sits chatting in a car...mesmerising!

Locke. It’s great, agreed

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By *hatYorkLadMan over a year ago

York

Dazed and confused, not a lot happens but it's still a great and funny film

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By *iss_tressWoman over a year ago

London

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By *iss_tressWoman over a year ago

London

Cloud Atlas...three hours of Tom Hanks and Halle Berry running around in multiple roles set in different times...doing nothing.

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By *ilth500Man over a year ago

Merseyside

open water only thing that happened was i lost the will too live watching it

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By *risky_MareWoman over a year ago

...Up on the Downs

"The one where Tom Hardy just sits chatting in a car...mesmerising!

Locke. It’s great, agreed

Oh yes thanks, I forgot to post the title with the link to the trailer!

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By (user no longer on site) OP over a year ago

I’m gonna need to watch some of these

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

Mine. Absolute rubbish!!

It reads "Trapped in the desert after standing on a land mine, a US Marine sniper must single-handedly fight off the enemy while waiting more than two days for a convoy to rescue him."

It was boring as hell.

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By *wisted999Man over a year ago

North Bucks

Lord of the Rings.

It’s just people out on a walk.

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

2001.

my go-to movie when down.

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

Ooops... missed the but about still being good.

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

The Big Lebowski.

Still one of key faves though!

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

Phone booth. Colin Farrell in a phone box for an hour and a half.

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By *xLedZepxx2Man over a year ago

Didcot

I watched Voice From the Stone the other week, billed as a Paranormal psychological thriller, it failed on all counts, nothing really happened apart from a lame twist in the story at the end, only decent thing about it was the song Speak To Me by Amy Lee which is just beautiful.

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By *elvet RopeMan over a year ago

by the big field

"The Straight Story - one of Lynch’s excellent linear tales. "

Its still utterly brilliant- no car chases, no explosions, no fight scenes, no expensive CGI....just a man on a lawn mower and a cracking script

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

Eyes wide shut, Tom Cruise

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By *elvet RopeMan over a year ago

by the big field

"Phone booth. Colin Farrell in a phone box for an hour and a half. "

Thats sort of a holy grail of film directing- can you house an entire film in a single location and keep it entertaining? (it also makes production massivly cheaper in general).

Phone booth does stray from it a little- Reservoir Dogs is a similar example where most of it is set in the warehouse.

If you want to check out what can be done- hunt out Nightingale. Brilliant acting but one of the most depressing films i've ever seen.

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By *agneto.Man over a year ago

Bham

What's the one with Ryan Reynolds in a coffin?

I suspect a lot of these of blacklist scripts that read well but don't necessarily work on screen.

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

"I suspect a lot of these of blacklist scripts that read well but don't necessarily work on screen. "

Blacklist scripts don't even read well nowadays. They're just written to game the algorithm. Been a long time since it was handled by proper readers.

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By *tella HeelsTV/TS over a year ago

west here ford shire

Prometheus

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

"What's the one with Ryan Reynolds in a coffin?

Buried

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

The bad batch.

Mind fuck and 2 hours of my life wasted

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

"open water only thing that happened was i lost the will too live watching it

Good rack at the start

All downhill after that

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By *agneto.Man over a year ago

Bham

"I suspect a lot of these of blacklist scripts that read well but don't necessarily work on screen.

Blacklist scripts don't even read well nowadays. They're just written to game the algorithm. Been a long time since it was handled by proper readers."

Would make sense as to why I'm watching films recently and thinking, I bet this was a black list script, look it up and it was.

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