Main Menu

One Day Movies.

Started by crackers, March 26, 2013, 06:05:23 PM

Previous topic - Next topic
Print
Go Down Pages1 2 3
User actions

crackers

March 26, 2013, 06:05:23 PM
I have just watched Wassap Rockers for the first time which I quite enjoyed and got me thinking, " There are loads of films I like that are all based in a day". Some examples:

Mallrats & Clerks ( not Clerks 2, I can't stress that enough )
Dazed and Confused
Breakfast Club
Ferris Bullers Day Off

I'm sure there are more, but just wandering what your favourites were.

crackers

#1
March 26, 2013, 06:26:27 PM
Oh and Groundhog Day does not count.

Rev. Powell

#2
March 27, 2013, 08:47:02 AM
Just saw Richard Linklater's SLACKER and it was set in one day, along his next movie, DAZED AND CONFUSED.

THE BREAKFAST CLUB counts. So does AMERICAN GRAFFITI. Also 12 ANGRY MEN.

One of the reasons that so many movies occur in a one-day time frame is that Aristotle said they should. No kidding; Greek tragedies almost always covered a one-day time span and for years it was considered an informal rule for dramas. Many storytellers consider it a challenge to fit a story into a single day.
I'll take you places the hand of man has not yet set foot...

major jay

#3
March 27, 2013, 09:13:12 AM Last Edit: March 27, 2013, 10:57:48 AM by major jay
DIRTY MARY CRAZY LARRY
Just watched this last weekend.
NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD
Well, it happens during one night.

FatFreddysCat

#4
March 27, 2013, 10:38:38 AM
First one I thought of was the 80s teen movie "Three O'Clock High," which takes place over the course of one school day.
"If you're a false, don't entry, because you'll be burned and died!"

JayJayM12

#5
March 27, 2013, 11:41:01 AM
Kids (1995)
Night of the Demons
Check out my movie reviews and articles at:  www.cinedump.com<br /><br />Or, don\\\'t check them out - see if I care.  You\\\'re not my real mom anyway.  Unless, you are.  In which case, whatever, I\\\'ll do what I want.  It\\\'s my hot body.  Y\\\'all don\\\'t know me.

Bushma

#6
March 27, 2013, 01:48:19 PM
The Warriors

This is my awesome signature.  Jealous?

bob

#7
March 28, 2013, 11:08:00 PM
not counting those mentioned already The Evil Dead and Collateral
Kubrick, Nolan, Tarantino, Wan, Iñárritu, Scorsese, Chaplin, Abrams, Wes Anderson, Gilliam, Kurosawa, Villeneuve - the elite



I believe in the international communist conspiracy to sap and impurify all of our precious bodily fluids.

LilCerberus

#8
March 29, 2013, 12:17:14 AM
What was that one by Spike Lee, about a pizza parlor, and they burn it down at the end?
"Science Fiction & Nostalgia have become the same thing!" - T Bone Burnett
The world runs off money, even for those with a warped sense of what the world is.

bob

#9
March 29, 2013, 12:22:52 AM
Quote from: LilCerberus on March 29, 2013, 12:17:14 AM
What was that one by Spike Lee, about a pizza parlor, and they burn it down at the end?

Do The Right Thing
Kubrick, Nolan, Tarantino, Wan, Iñárritu, Scorsese, Chaplin, Abrams, Wes Anderson, Gilliam, Kurosawa, Villeneuve - the elite



I believe in the international communist conspiracy to sap and impurify all of our precious bodily fluids.

rebel_1812

#10
March 29, 2013, 03:41:44 AM
*********************

crackers

#11
March 29, 2013, 06:36:17 AM
Quote from: FatFreddysCat on March 27, 2013, 10:38:38 AM
First one I thought of was the 80s teen movie "Three O'Clock High," which takes place over the course of one school day.


Great choice.

The Burgomaster

#12
March 29, 2013, 01:00:05 PM
* NICK OF TIME
* THE TOWERING INFERNO
* THE OUT-OF-TOWNERS (actually, crosses over into the next day, but it all takes place within 24 hours)
"Do not walk behind me, for I may not lead. Do not walk ahead of me, for I may not follow. Do not walk beside me either. Just pretty much leave me the hell alone."

ChaosTheory

#13
March 29, 2013, 03:26:27 PM
HIGH NOON
It's been a while since I've watched it, but I think GO takes place over a 24-hour period.
Through the darkness of future past
The magician longs to see
One chance opts between two worlds
Fire walk with me

lester1/2jr

#14
March 30, 2013, 08:10:47 AM
Do the Right Thing was kind of a ridiculous blaxploitation movie in retrospect
Print
Go Up Pages1 2 3
User actions