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| Demisemicenturian |
Posted - 01/14/2011 : 14:26:12
I'm looking for films set wholly within one day or over at least a century.
Does anyone know which of these apply? A lot of them definitely don't, for example in The Breakfast Club I think they are shown being given detention. I don't even know whether In a Day is valid, but there seems a good chance! I don't have a fixed idea yet whether I mean midnight to midnight or any 24-hour period, but either way it needs to be definite. Shorts and films without real content (e.g. Qur'an) aren't allowed.
For the century one, I've included The Mummy because I think it starts with a long-ago set-up scene. I'm sure there are quite a few films like that, and I'm happy to include them so long as they actually start and end more than one hundred years apart (i.e. the older part is not a flashback). I'd really like to find some films which more properly extend over a century, though. I can't think of any, but the kind of thing I'm imagining is following different generations of a family &c. |
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| Demisemicenturian |
Posted - 01/30/2011 : 11:58:18
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Originally posted by 1i1anPa
In the film Groundhog Day The loop starts at 6 am. and keeps repeating when the clock turns to 6 am.
Thanks; that's out then, even if he never escapes the loop. |
| TitanPa |
Posted - 01/29/2011 : 20:40:10
In the film Groundhog Day The loop starts at 6 am. and keeps repeating when the clock turns to 6 am. |
| Chris C |
Posted - 01/29/2011 : 15:44:33
Another pair of one-dayers:
Phone Booth (2002)
Cellular |
| Demisemicenturian |
Posted - 01/29/2011 : 00:24:59
Thanks. I've seen them but wasn't certain of the bookend details. It doesn't count then. I hadn't thought about different characters ending up in different times but it falls down on several fronts: the first scene should be one hundred years from the final scene; it's presumably not clear when the Doc is even if he is the last on screen (which I suspect not); even if the first and last scenes are 1885 and 1985 then they may be closer than one hundred years by some seconds or minutes. |
| benj clews |
Posted - 01/28/2011 : 23:48:52
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Originally posted by Salopian
Are they taken to the Wild West at the end of Back to the Future II or do they stay there at the end of III?
Spoiler warning! 
At the end of part II, Doc Brown is sent back to 1885 (but, importantly, we don't actually visit 1885 yet). Instead, we stick with Marty in 1955.
At the end of part III, Marty gets back to 1985 and Doc goes off travelling the timestream endlessly. |
| Demisemicenturian |
Posted - 01/28/2011 : 23:19:29
Thanks for the suggestions. I'll add the appropriate ones when I get to a computer.
In view of the Empire Records issue, I'll add the rule that all versions of a film must fit for it to qualify. I'm also not sure that is definite that the action is finished by midnight, which is a requirement. The same goes for Buried and World Trade Center, for example.
Groundhog Day counts if it isn't shown that he eventually escapes the loop (my doubt over which being the reason for not including it originally) and if each iteration of the day finishes by midnight.
Are they taken to the Wild West at the end of Back to the Future II or do they stay there at the end of III?
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| benj clews |
Posted - 01/28/2011 : 10:25:50
Few more one days I don't think I've seen mentioned...
Buried
Clerks II
Colateral
Crank 2
Nick of Time
Timecode
The Taking of Pelham 123 (remake)
World Trade Center
And does Groundhog Day count?
Also, can't quite remember but... Training Day?
100 years or more...
Back To The Future III
Curiously, The Evil Dead fits the former category, whilst The Evil Dead 2 and Army of Darkness fit the latter. |
| TitanPa |
Posted - 01/27/2011 : 16:40:04
Depending on which Empire Records you view. There is either a flashback in the beginning....or it tells why the money is needed the previous day. |
| Cheese_Ed |
Posted - 01/27/2011 : 14:06:22
I believe Mannequin starts in ancient Egypt and ends in the 1980s |
| Demisemicenturian |
Posted - 01/15/2011 : 21:39:47
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Originally posted by wildheartlivie
I'm not sure where you got the memory of The Breakfast Club, but no, it starts with the kids arriving at school and ends with their day of detention ending and them going home. I'm a bit hesitant to endorse From Dusk Till Dawn - the title is an allusion to the Titty Twister hours of operations and I am thinking that it is over a couple of days. The Fuller family first meets Richie and Seth at a motel after a series of events that the Gecko brothers engage in. Most importantly, the prologue goes from robbing a service station, taking a woman hostage, the woman being killed by Richie and finally kidnapping the family. My gut says that too much happened in the prologue to happen in one day, although the actual storyline is sort of vague. Mostly, I wouldn't include based on the title alone, since that alludes to the bar where Salma Hayek dances. But that's just me.
Yup, The Breakfast Club is in and I'm not using From Dusk Till Dawn either way because it falls outside one calendar day. |
| w22dheartlivie |
Posted - 01/15/2011 : 21:35:43
I'm not sure where you got the memory of The Breakfast Club, but no, it starts with the kids arriving at school and ends with their day of detention ending and them going home. I'm a bit hesitant to endorse From Dusk Till Dawn - the title is an allusion to the Titty Twister hours of operations and I am thinking that it is over a couple of days. The Fuller family first meets Richie and Seth at a motel after a series of events that the Gecko brothers engage in. Most importantly, the prologue goes from robbing a service station, taking a woman hostage, the woman being killed by Richie and finally kidnapping the family. My gut says that too much happened in the prologue to happen in one day, although the actual storyline is sort of vague. Mostly, I wouldn't include based on the title alone, since that alludes to the bar where Salma Hayek dances. But that's just me. |
| Demisemicenturian |
Posted - 01/15/2011 : 15:18:30
Can anyone please tell me which of these or these don't fit within midnight to midnight (and in which ones it is impossible to tell)? |
| Demisemicenturian |
Posted - 01/15/2011 : 15:15:50
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Originally posted by AC
Dazed and Confused is about a single all-nighter.
Thanks. That is in the I.M.D.B. list but I hadn't added it yet. I'm trying to decide whether to include every valid film or just have a selection. |
| Demisemicenturian |
Posted - 01/15/2011 : 15:09:55
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Originally posted by Chris C
1 dayers:
All the Die Hard movies
Airplane and Airplane 2 (do Ted Stryker's flashbacks mean these get excluded?)
Collateral
Thanks.
I had seen one of the Die Hards listed, but I left it out for now as I wondered whether the original were the same.
Indeed, no flashbacks allowed. |
| Demisemicenturian |
Posted - 01/15/2011 : 15:07:33
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Originally posted by bife
Highlander starts out in scotland in the mid-1500s/1600s and builds up to present day, as far as i remember
According to Wikipedia*, it's a flashback to 1536, so if that is accurate that's why I don't want to count it. There will be quite a few supernatural films with a short scene in the past, so so that the accolade isn't overwhelmed by them I'm restricting it to ones which actually start with that scene.
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