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Re: What's the greatest "single location" film?

Posted: Sun August 06, 2023 7:20 pm
by tragabigzanda
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.

Re: What's the greatest "single location" film?

Posted: Sun August 06, 2023 7:28 pm
by BurtReynolds
Die Hard has too many sets. It is disqualified.

Re: What's the greatest "single location" film?

Posted: Sun August 06, 2023 7:44 pm
by VinylGuy
That Lars von trier movie with Nicole Kidman

Re: What's the greatest "single location" film?

Posted: Sun August 06, 2023 7:47 pm
by bart
Yeah if the one “location” is an enormous space with tons of different individual sets it doesn’t count

Re: What's the greatest "single location" film?

Posted: Sun August 06, 2023 7:47 pm
by bart
oasisfan35 wrote:Alfred Hitchcock's Rope
Rope is not very good though

Re: What's the greatest "single location" film?

Posted: Sun August 06, 2023 7:48 pm
by BurtReynolds
Clerks. Or maybe it's two locations (plus a couple of brief scenes not at the video store/convenience store). But almost entirely one.

Re: What's the greatest "single location" film?

Posted: Sun August 06, 2023 8:08 pm
by The Argonaut
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

Re: What's the greatest "single location" film?

Posted: Sun August 06, 2023 8:48 pm
by lennytheweedwhacker
E.H. Ruddock wrote:Snowpiercer is pretty good
Good call

Re: What's the greatest "single location" film?

Posted: Sun August 06, 2023 8:49 pm
by lennytheweedwhacker
bart wrote:Yeah if the one “location” is an enormous space with tons of different individual sets it doesn’t count
Wow

Re: What's the greatest "single location" film?

Posted: Sun August 06, 2023 10:27 pm
by E.H. Ruddock
So one single filming location not one location in the movie. Got it.

Re: What's the greatest "single location" film?

Posted: Mon August 07, 2023 2:01 am
by wease
Four Rooms

Re: What's the greatest "single location" film?

Posted: Mon August 07, 2023 2:01 am
by wease
Tombstone

Re: What's the greatest "single location" film?

Posted: Mon August 07, 2023 2:01 am
by wease
Deadwood

Re: What's the greatest "single location" film?

Posted: Mon August 07, 2023 2:03 am
by wease
Murder on the Orient Express

Re: What's the greatest "single location" film?

Posted: Mon August 07, 2023 2:16 am
by spike
downton abbey

Re: What's the greatest "single location" film?

Posted: Mon August 07, 2023 2:23 am
by Ello Sailor
spike wrote:Woodstock ‘99
:lol:

Re: What's the greatest "single location" film?

Posted: Mon August 07, 2023 2:24 am
by tragabigzanda
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.

Re: What's the greatest "single location" film?

Posted: Mon August 07, 2023 2:34 am
by epilogue
tragabigzanda wrote:Gosford Park
This movie sucks so hard

Re: What's the greatest "single location" film?

Posted: Mon August 07, 2023 2:35 am
by epilogue
Ello Sailor wrote:
spike wrote:Woodstock ‘99
:lol:
Spike's post, however, super does not.

Re: What's the greatest "single location" film?

Posted: Mon August 07, 2023 2:54 am
by lennytheweedwhacker
epilogue wrote:
tragabigzanda wrote:Gosford Park
This movie sucks so hard
Too much acting?