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One film you think you could stomach having on repeat for a month.

Dav-Kripler

Member
Freddy got fingered

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GodofWhimsy

Member
Probably something akin to Karate Kid. Light, motivating, not many grating sequences, fun soundtrack.

Some Miyagi wisdom wouldn't be a bad way to start each day.
 

pramod

Banned
Probably one of the Nolan Batman films, like Dark Knight Rises. It's one of those movies you just can kinda zone out to. Nolan films tend to have nice ambient soundtracks too.

Or Zoolander.
 
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For people choosing interstellar... You do remember it's soundtrack right? Shit got old FAST no?
 

BadBurger

Is 'That Pure Potato'
An entire month? I'm going to need something chill in that case. Beyond the Black Rainbow. Just a long, dreamy, trippy and mostly quiet film.
 
Back when I was partying hard in my late teens/early 20's we would have Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas on repeat 24/7. It helped we were on heroic amounts of hallucinogens.

Nowadays... hmm... probably Predator, Blade Runner, Aliens, T2, or Super Troopers.
 
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Quasicat

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Aladdin

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The funny thing is, I was so into this movie and the music, I pretty much did this in high school when it came out on VHS. I would get up early and watch it before school, I would listen to it in class while reading the comic adaptation, and would come home and watch it two or three times that evening. It got so bad, I can still sit here and quote the entire movie, 25 years later, even approximating the inflection, cadence, and voices of the characters.
 

Tschumi

Member
Need more details on this scenario.

Is this movie just playing in the background non stop for a month?

Is it just always on when you turn on the TV and you have no other options?

Is there a quota of needing to sit down and watch it once a day?

My answer would change depending on the parameters here, but no matter how you slice it, it would have to be a good movie that you are okay with never wanting to watch again at the end of the month.

I would probably go with Shoot Em Up for most scenarios. It’s close enough to John wick without ruining John wick for me.

If it’s a background movie playing non stop I would say a foreign movie so I can tune out the words. Honestly, it would probably be that kinky Netflix movie that came out last year. Foreign. Easy to ignore, and sex scenes don’t really get old to watch the way an action scene on loop might.
Let's say it's on a secondary screen at all hours, at a suitable volume so that you will hear every minute of every movie, unless something explodes nearby of course them you won't hear a part of that particular playthrough and perhaps a few playthroughs after it..
 
Jacques Tati <3 i dunno if you've seen Mon Oncle but it's my favourite.. maybe Traffic is my favourite, but it's got a different flavour to it
I hadn't hear of Traffic before, but I actually watched My Uncle before Playtime! It's quite trippy lol. I still prefer the latter, though, mainly because of its complexity.
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Tschumi

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I hadn't hear of Traffic before, but I actually watched My Uncle before Playtime! It's quite trippy lol. I still prefer the latter, though, mainly because of its complexity.
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It's an interesting one, it was the first of his i ever saw and i fell deeply in love with it, yeah... I'm an architect by trade and i love how ambiguous his airport is lol... he made Playtime later in his career and it got kind of lukewarm reception.. but yeah it's definitely one of my favourite films OAT.. all Tati films occupy high slots for me haha.. he had that entire city built out of giant 2D cutouts and such.. i think part of the lukewarm reception was because he was seen as a champion of folksy France but he had megabucks to sling around.. i think it came across as pretty Hollywood.. might have it slightly wrong though, been a while since i researched it

I love traffic because it's kinda more Indy, and it has a lot of great design and details in it, and it has a pretty fun plot, glued together as it is.. cutting social commentary... Yeah great stuff. But yeah, it was a bit of an experiment for him to take his story on the road, rather than focus on a single location.. i don't think it's a well known
 
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A foreign movie called 365. It’s really bad and easy to tune out if you are forced to torture yourself with a movie on loop for a month.

I really don’t recommend watching it outside of this setting though. We watched it because it was early in the lockdown and was trending. It was so boring and forgettable that by the time the action came around it was at an irredeemable state.

Think of porn level acting and substance while also failing to be porn.
god that has to be one of the worst films i've ever seen. I thought there was supposed to be some cool sex traffic story that played out, but it was like the Turkish Starwars of Fifty Shades.

Wayne Gretzky, on steroids!?

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any of these:

the witch
midsommar
shaun of the dead
mad max fury road
kill bill (if you consider vol 1 + 2 the same movie)
ace ventura pet detective
blade runner
blade runner 2049
 
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SJRB

Gold Member
I dunno man, 24/7 for a month is a long ass time. I'd pick runtime over personal favourite for sure.

So Ben Hur or something, I guess.
 
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Alx

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Playtime is the perfect film for this. A fascinating experience that gets better and more fun with every rewatch.
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I was about to post that. Not to sound snobbish, I don't even like the movie as much as most cinephiliacs, but it's the perfect movie to have as background noise. You could even define it as background noise. You can just jump into it, notice new details here and there, skip some parts without having the feeling of missing anything, and even if you watch it in a loop for days you won't be fed up by any music or dialog lines that you'd hear again and again.
 

MastaKiiLA

Member
Raid 2
Fight Club
Den of Thieves
Avengers: Infinity War
Tenet

If I had to pick 1, I'd probably say Raid 2. I could loop just the subway, kitchen, and Bat Man+Hammer Girl fights for a month. That shit was fucking epic.
 
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*Nightwing

Member
After much deliberation: Casablanca

It’s black and white so lights won’t bug me running at night. Music in it is relaxing, can work while it’s playing in background just fine, and can jump in at any point and become engrossed in it and never get tiered of Bogey
 

Hydelol

Banned
Fellowship of the Ring. If I could, I'd say the whole trilogy extended. But if it is strictly one movie, I'd take the first one, because on repeat I like the charming introduction while slowly decending into the action, which Two Towers and Return of the King have an abundance of.
 
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