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everybody wants a plot

posted 8 years ago by roger_dat
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because otherwise you'll end up with loose nostalgia parade like this.

Great colours, good looking people, no story.

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[–] cdunbar-959-324822 8 years ago

Perhaps you have to have the mentality of these jocks to enjoy this type of non-story.

[–] roger_dat 8 years ago

Maybe it's otherwise, you'd have to be one of those modern art reviewers of class B Czechoslovakian films to appreciate the beauty of a woman sitting in a chair for two days straight.

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[–] lorsha_m 8 years ago

Lol!!!! So funny and totally true! I thought through it because some of the guys are kind of hot but there was just no plot it was just about nothing. Great soundtrack though! I guess it was trying to Dazed and Confused for a different era but missed its mark..

[–] zeeke 8 years ago

...theres no plot to dazed and confused...

I'm a contradiction 

[–] speeder-985-717588 8 years ago

Wow another witty "everybody wants _____" thread. So original. Comedy gold! Have you considered a life in letters?

Back to reality.....you must be new to Richard Linklater movies. He intentionally avoids conventional plots. Most movie plots are contrived and not at all how life actually unfolds. Also read James Joyce's Ulysses if you want an example of the wonders that can be achieved when a storyteller unshackles himself from a plot.

[–] ipacac22 8 years ago

I agree with you speeder. This is Linklater's style. Some people are just not used to it.

[–] roger_dat 8 years ago

The thread is not about me, it's about moving pictures, with no direction, that's what he is isn't it ? a director?

He failed.

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[–] zeeke 8 years ago

ha ha! what a moron. Tell whoever's typing your sentences you're tired and you want to go to bed

I'm a contradiction 

[–] emvan 8 years ago

I'd say that 20% to 25% of movies genuinely worth seeing have no "plot" in the strict sense. Like, you know, life.

Just from this year; the numbers in () are where they currently rank in critics top 10 list mentions, out of the top 50.

Moonlight (1)
Jackie (11)
Loving (13) (a single conflict whose resolution we already know the answer to)
Everybody Wants Some!! (16)
American Honey (20)
Nocturnal Animals (27) (the main story, not the story within-the-story)
The Edge of Seventeen (46) (totally ordinary conflict)
Southside With You

All in my top 25 to 30 films of the year. There may be others I haven't seen (of the current top 50 films, 9 haven't been released yet, 6 are documentaries, and I've seen 28 of the 35 others).

Prepare your minds for a new scale of physical, scientific values, gentlemen.

[–] markmcalonan 8 years ago

Old School has been on hbo a lot so I watched it again recently and compared it to EWS!!. After a great beginning with Peter Pan syndrome, partying, hooking up, a Snoop Dogg show, and streaking, Old School takes a turn for the worse with the inserted plot point of Dean Pritchard creating a crisis by claiming Mitch's landlord's house and suspending the fraternity that wasn't school sanctioned anyway. By the resolution plot point of the academic review olympics or whatever, Old School gets way dumb. I'm glad EWS!! doesn't make the same mistakes of shoehorning plot points. It's easygoing pacing is more like Dazed, or even Up in Smoke or Caddyshack.

[–] !!!deleted!!! (70601346) 8 years ago

I agree. So much potential.

[–] roger_dat (1604) 2 years ago

Dude, 70 MILLION posts!? Wtf