Re:Age Reduction Breakthrough?
by throw_away on Monday May 11, 2020 @12:30PM
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Man_from_Earth
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Re:Age Reduction Breakthrough?
by parentheses on Monday May 11, 2020 @12:33PM
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One of the only movies that remains intriguing throughout despite being basically a single conversation.
Re:Age Reduction Breakthrough?
by Supermancho on Monday May 11, 2020 @01:26PM
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I happen to love certain niche movie genres, which happens to include "dinner party movies". Feel free to list some recommendations, if you like "people talk in a room" movies.
Some of my favories:
Coherence (scifi)
Garden Party (sleazy young adult Los Angeles drama)
Murder Party (low budget horror comedy)
How English sounds to non-English speakers (youtube)
Circle 2015 (scifi)12 Angry Men. My Dinner with Andre. Steve Jobs (a stretch, but much more a play than a movie).
There's some play adaptations which have few characters and mostly dialogue: Carnage, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf, Glengarry Glen Ross
Linklater's "Before" trilogy is also heavily dialogue-based, but the there are multiple locations.
"How About Adolf?" (2018) [0].
"Perfect Strangers" (2017) [1].
El método (2005) is a really good take on corporate/personal dynamics.
The Big Kahuna (1999) ("the majority of the film takes place in a single hotel room, and nearly every single line of dialogue is spoken by one of the three actors.")
Re:Age Reduction Breakthrough?
by abiogenesis on Monday May 11, 2020 @07:49PM
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Not exactly a dinner party movie, but Sleuth (1972 and also the 2007 remake) is a good one.
I love those kinds of movies. It's a Disaster (2012) is a good watch.
Exam (2009) is another good single-room film.
The Invitation (2015 film)
What about "My Dinner with Andre?" That's exactly a single conversation.
And so is, mostly, "Rope."
Re:Age Reduction Breakthrough?
by castlecrasher2 on Monday May 11, 2020 @12:36PM
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Just don't look up the sequel.