What's the greatest "single location" film?

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Steve Albini wrote:Whenever there's active promotion on the part of somebody else, whenever I see somebody all dolled up for a fancy photograph and someone's handing out flyers or whenever there's active promotion for something like that, as an imposition on my day, I hate all those people and I want them to fail. I have a visceral reaction to advertising and promotion. There's just something about salesmanship that grates on me on a very base level and I react very negatively towards it. I want those people to suffer and I want their enterprises to fail.
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Die Hard has too many sets. It is disqualified.
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That Lars von trier movie with Nicole Kidman
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Yeah if the one “location” is an enormous space with tons of different individual sets it doesn’t count
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oasisfan35 wrote:Alfred Hitchcock's Rope
Rope is not very good though
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Clerks. Or maybe it's two locations (plus a couple of brief scenes not at the video store/convenience store). But almost entirely one.
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bart wrote:Yeah if the one “location” is an enormous space with tons of different individual sets it doesn’t count
12 Angry Men is the beau ideal here. Basically all in one room, barely spends any time elsewhere. Think bottle episode
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bart wrote:Yeah if the one “location” is an enormous space with tons of different individual sets it doesn’t count
Wow
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So one single filming location not one location in the movie. Got it.
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spike wrote:Woodstock ‘99
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Steve Albini wrote:Whenever there's active promotion on the part of somebody else, whenever I see somebody all dolled up for a fancy photograph and someone's handing out flyers or whenever there's active promotion for something like that, as an imposition on my day, I hate all those people and I want them to fail. I have a visceral reaction to advertising and promotion. There's just something about salesmanship that grates on me on a very base level and I react very negatively towards it. I want those people to suffer and I want their enterprises to fail.
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tragabigzanda wrote:Gosford Park
This movie sucks so hard
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Ello Sailor wrote:
spike wrote:Woodstock ‘99
:lol:
Spike's post, however, super does not.
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epilogue wrote:
tragabigzanda wrote:Gosford Park
This movie sucks so hard
Too much acting?
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