What are some slow paced and minimal plot movies?

[scytale@lemmy.zip]

Melancholia.

[bl4kers@lemmy.ml]

I'd recommend First Cow

[whotookkarl@lemmy.world]

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

[adderbox76@lemmy.ca]

kinda just juvenile and the dialog pretentious

You literally just described Kevin Smith...

[tankplanker@lemmy.world]

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

[demunted@lemmy.ml]

Peanut butter falcon is amazing.

[runjun@lemmy.dbzer0.com]

The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford

[lizardking13@lemmy.world]

I think I like these movies because I'm also juvenile and pretentious.

[appleseuss@lemmy.world]

The soundtrack is absolutely amazing too. Terrence Malik is such a great director.

[thericofactor@sh.itjust.works]

Kudos 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.

[taminator101@lemmy.world]

Slow West is a great film about a man going to America to find a girl he grew up with in Scotland. It's got Fassbender in it.

[rob_t_firefly@lemmy.world]

Yellow Submarine (1968)

The plot is a very thin, dreamy excuse for a bunch of interconnected psychedelic cartoon music videos full of pretty colors and mostly slow-moving goofball artwork. If you absolutely hate the Beatles' music it's probably not for you, but if your feelings about them are anywhere on the scale from "neutral" to "okay" or above you might like it. I personally don't really have strong feelings about the Beatles' music for the most part, but this is still somehow one of my favorite movies to zone out with.

Night of the Living Dead (1968)

A great zombie flick, the one that started the whole thing, but also really slow and relatively simple in plot by today's standards. Beautiful to watch if you have the taste for horror, and still works if you're not into the ultraviolent bloody gory end of the genre.

Silent Running (1972)

Ambitious, pretty, and very melancholy scifi with ecological overtones. Most people still thought of scifi film as strictly kids' stuff at this time, this movie was one of the earlier attempts to challenge that.

The Room (2003)

It's legendarily bad, but also really fits the slow-paced and minimal plot requirement. If you're the type to have fun with shitty movies, check it out.

The Showa era Godzilla films (1954-1975)

Godzilla's Showa era encompasses basically the original run, and while the plots varied from meager to surprisingly good the monster fights quickly became what it was all about. That era was all a lot more slowly-paced and less frenetic than any more modern takes on the character or the kaiju genre. If you want to chill and zone out pick a random one and let it run in its entirety, or for a quicker fix you can always do what I did as a kid (and sometimes still do) and just skip any scene with only humans and enjoy the monster fights.

[statler_waldorf@sopuli.xyz]

Paris, Texas

[witchfire@lemmy.world]

Room In Rome

If there was a plot, my gay ass definitely missed it

[profgrumpypants@midwest.social]

David Lynch's Straight Story