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Demisemicenturian 
"Four ever European"
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 Posted - 01/14/2011 : 14:26:12
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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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bife
"Winners never quit ... fwfr ... "
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Posted - 01/14/2011 : 16:14:07
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Not sure i fully understand the concept; if you want less than or equal to 24 hours then pretty sure breakfast club would qualify, the whole film is one saturday morning detention. 12 Angry Men would also work.
Spanning more than a century, Highlander springs to mind. Assume there are plenty of vampire films that also make the cut. Not sure if you would include time travel movies, obviously many span more than a century but this might not really be what you are after
will sleep on it and see what comes to mind |
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Demisemicenturian
"Four ever European"
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Posted - 01/14/2011 : 16:28:23
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Originally posted by bife
Not sure i fully understand the concept; if you want less than or equal to 24 hours then pretty sure breakfast club would qualify, the whole film is one saturday morning detention. 12 Angry Men would also work.
Yes, 12 Angry Men was the example I intended to originally intended to include, so thanks for reminding me. I thought with The Breakfast Club that the start showed them in the school week being given detention. Have I just imagined that? Is it just them showing up on the Saturday morning?
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Spanning more than a century, Highlander springs to mind. Assume there are plenty of vampire films that also make the cut. Not sure if you would include time travel movies, obviously many span more than a century but this might not really be what you are after
Yes, I think there will be quite a few in the supernatural category (although I only want ones where the historical part is actually shown at the start). If there do end up being a lot and I find some films with more continuous chronologies that fit then I might exclude them, but for now they are fine.
I forgot to say that I don't want time-travel films. However, if there are any that pass the test of starting and ending at least a century apart then I might well include them: in almost all such films characters end up back in their own time.
I should also make it explicit that I only want non-documentaries. |
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Demisemicenturian
"Four ever European"
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Posted - 01/14/2011 : 16:37:13
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| O.K., as far as I can tell from Wikipedia, The Breakfast Club is in but Highlander is out. |
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lemmycaution 
"Long mired in film"
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TitanPa
"Here four more"
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Posted - 01/14/2011 : 18:25:56
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1 day:
Crank
Go!
Dude, Where's My Car |
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Demisemicenturian
"Four ever European"
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Posted - 01/14/2011 : 18:54:57
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Originally posted by lemmycaution
Of the top of my head The Set Up, High Noon and Nick of Time are all set in 'real time'.
This IMDb link to features in real time might help.
Thanks. I'm surprised by Quarantine (and therefore [Rec]), but it's at night so I suppose it's hard to gauge. I'll include those for now, although I'm tempted to separate them out into another accolade. However, I have separated out one-shot films, as they're such a specific style and some of them are not plot-based. |
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Cheese_Ed 
"The Provolone Ranger"
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Posted - 01/14/2011 : 18:56:23
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One day (possibly)
88 minutes
11:14
2:37
Ferris Bueller's Day Off
After Hours
The Blob
Going to be tons of these, I think.
Over a century (maybe)
The Fountain
2001
Idiocracy
What about time travel movies like The Time Machine, Back to the Future, Star Trek 4, etc? |
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Demisemicenturian
"Four ever European"
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Posted - 01/14/2011 : 19:02:02
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Originally posted by 1i1anPa
1 day:
Crank
Go!
Dude, Where's My Car
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Demisemicenturian
"Four ever European"
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Posted - 01/14/2011 : 19:05:41
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Originally posted by Cheese_Ed
One day (possibly)
88 minutes
11:14
2:37
Ferris Bueller's Day Off
After Hours
The Blob
Going to be tons of these, I think.
Thanks; when you say possibly is it that you cannot remember for sure? I think you might be right that there might be a lot, but then again it's very common for films to include a prologue and/or epilogue that rules them out.
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What about time travel movies like The Time Machine, Back to the Future, Star Trek 4, etc?
See above. If any of them start and end a century apart, please let me know. |
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Demisemicenturian
"Four ever European"
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Posted - 01/14/2011 : 19:53:44
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Originally posted by Salopian
I'll include those for now, although I'm tempted to separate them out into another accolade.
Actually, I've decided that I will separate out films in real time. |
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Demisemicenturian
"Four ever European"
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Posted - 01/14/2011 : 20:15:17
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Originally posted by Cheese_Ed
Over a century (maybe)
The Fountain
2001
Idiocracy
Thanks for these as well. 2001 is a shoe-in. I think Idiocracy is in, although if any of the 2505 stuff is shown before the 2005 stuff I might change my mind. I wondered whether there were a film with that Futurama-type basis. Very torn about The Fountain, especially as I don't know whether it begins and ends in the same time. (Wish I'd seen it: I know that it got mixed reviews but I love that kind of structure. It was on at a cinema not that near me and I remember not being able to get there during its short run.) It's really only the lack of linearity that puts it in a different category to 2001: I suppose it just makes it sound less like one narrative over time. I think I'll probably still include it, but the parameters are stricter for time-travel films to go in. |
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Cheese_Ed
"The Provolone Ranger"
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Posted - 01/14/2011 : 21:40:19
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Originally posted by Salopian
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Originally posted by Cheese_Ed
One day (possibly)
88 minutes
11:14
2:37
Ferris Bueller's Day Off
After Hours
The Blob
Going to be tons of these, I think.
Thanks; when you say possibly is it that you cannot remember for sure? I think you might be right that there might be a lot, but then again it's very common for films to include a prologue and/or epilogue that rules them out.
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What about time travel movies like The Time Machine, Back to the Future, Star Trek 4, etc?
See above. If any of them start and end a century apart, please let me know.
Yes, possibly because I can't remember every pro- or epilogue that may disqualify a particular film.
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The Blob remake and Slacker
Before Sunrise and Before Sunset?
From Dusk til Dawn? (not sure at all on that)
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Cheese_Ed
"The Provolone Ranger"
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Posted - 01/14/2011 : 22:25:08
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over a century
A.I.
History of the World: Part I?
The Bible
Planet of the Apes?
Sleeper |
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Demisemicenturian
"Four ever European"
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Posted - 01/14/2011 : 23:20:18
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Originally posted by Cheese_Ed
A.I.
History of the World: Part I?
The Bible
Planet of the Apes?
Sleeper
Yup, all in. |
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Demisemicenturian
"Four ever European"
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Posted - 01/14/2011 : 23:26:22
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Originally posted by Cheese_Ed
The Blob remake and Slacker
Before Sunrise and Before Sunset?
From Dusk til Dawn? (not sure at all on that)
Slacker sounds great. As I've indicated above, I love any kind of unusual structure.
I'm not going to include remakes, more than one of a franchise or more than one adaptation of the same source, seeing as there is no shortage.
Although I haven't removed already-added cases yet, I'm going to apply the midnight-to-midnight rule, to make things tighter.
Haven't seen either Before Sun---. Let me know whether you think either/both should go in (I won't count that as a franchise) and I'll trust your judgment, as I don't want to spoil eventually viewing them by reading about them too much. |
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