What are some slow paced and minimal plot movies?
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Coffee and Cigarettes
Clerks (but just the first one)
I don't know if I would call Clerks a slow-paced movie, like the plot barely advances at all throughout the entire movie, and I get that, but the movie is not really about the plot, it's about a series of seemingly unconnected events that happen in an average, nondescript location in New Jersey, and getting to people watch as the weirdness erupts around the one seemingly normal person in the entire film.
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Napoleon Dynamite
wrote on last edited by [email protected]Rubber
Seriously, give this movie a shot.
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The Thin Red Line
This is part of my top 3 war movies. I’ve heard it criticized as “artsy,” but it is and it’s great.
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I don't know if I would call Clerks a slow-paced movie, like the plot barely advances at all throughout the entire movie, and I get that, but the movie is not really about the plot, it's about a series of seemingly unconnected events that happen in an average, nondescript location in New Jersey, and getting to people watch as the weirdness erupts around the one seemingly normal person in the entire film.
I used to love Clerks when I was a teenager, but after rewatching it as an adult (along with a few other Kevin Smith movies), I feel like I outgrew it. It’s edgy and the characters have good chemistry and was shot well, but end of the day, kinda just juvenile and the dialog pretentious. I get why it was criticized as such.
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Naqoyqatsi was the first thing that popped into my head from the prompt, though I'm not sure if these would be classified as "movies" by some audiences. Cheers.
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i wouldn't know. when i watch movies, i watchitfortheplot.
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wrote on last edited by [email protected]I have to assume people will have different ideas of minimal, but I just watched Love Me, and I think it counts
Other movies
- Moon.
- Cast Away
- 127 Hrs
- 2001: A space odyssey
- Hateful Eight
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It's been a long time since I watched it but I found Bladerunner very slow paced.
It dat noir, baby!
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Gosford Park. It's the slowest, most boring thing I've ever survived.
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Upstream Color might fit this bill.
Oh wow I completely forgot about this movie. It definitely fits the slow-burn category.
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Melancholia.
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I'd recommend First Cow
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Napoleon Dynamite
wrote on last edited by [email protected]Valhalla Rising and Beyond the Black Rainbow are both low on exposition and focus a lot on building an ambiance around the wilderness or a false sense of nostalgia
edit: Unbreakable has some great cinematography and framing with really long holds between cuts by today's standards, slows the visual pacing but makes it feel way more epic and suspenseful
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I used to love Clerks when I was a teenager, but after rewatching it as an adult (along with a few other Kevin Smith movies), I feel like I outgrew it. It’s edgy and the characters have good chemistry and was shot well, but end of the day, kinda just juvenile and the dialog pretentious. I get why it was criticized as such.
kinda just juvenile and the dialog pretentious
You literally just described Kevin Smith...
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Most of these are just slow by modern standards, MTV changed film editing for good
Into the Wild is pretty minimal once he moved to Alaska
The Master is very minimal of plot but the opposite of relaxing
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Peanut butter falcon is amazing.
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The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford
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kinda just juvenile and the dialog pretentious
You literally just described Kevin Smith...
I think I like these movies because I'm also juvenile and pretentious.
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This is part of my top 3 war movies. I’ve heard it criticized as “artsy,” but it is and it’s great.
wrote on last edited by [email protected]The soundtrack is absolutely amazing too. Terrence Malik is such a great director.
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Lost in Translation
The Ice StormKudos for mentioning Lost in Translation. One if my favorite movies. Whenever I try to explain to people what it's about, I get blank looks why that would be entertaining.
