what movies will people watch to see what the world looked like in the 2010s/2020s?

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one thing i like about watching old movies is seeing what cities or towns looked like in the past. last night i was thinking that for various reasons (CGI/homogenization of landscapes/collapse of the movie industry/etc) that there aren't really this kind of movie for the 2010s/2020s, and i was starting to get depressed about it. but also it's hard to think this way about the era you're currently living in. can you think of any movies that people in the future might watch that would show them what the physical landscape of the current era looks like?

na (NA), Tuesday, 1 December 2020 23:54 (four years ago) link

Caligula

Lover of Nixon (or LON for short) (Neanderthal), Tuesday, 1 December 2020 23:55 (four years ago) link

but in all seriousness, uhhh....

99 Homes

Lover of Nixon (or LON for short) (Neanderthal), Tuesday, 1 December 2020 23:56 (four years ago) link

Florida Project (since the # of people permanently living in hotels has gone up)

Lover of Nixon (or LON for short) (Neanderthal), Tuesday, 1 December 2020 23:57 (four years ago) link

probably the entire fast and the furious franchise, demonstrating the evolution of urban and automotive space over the past 15 to 20 years

imago, Tuesday, 1 December 2020 23:58 (four years ago) link

that's a good one

Lover of Nixon (or LON for short) (Neanderthal), Tuesday, 1 December 2020 23:58 (four years ago) link

Along the same lines as The Florida Project, American Honey. I'm Canadian, but I'm, uh, intuiting that it captures something about the look of the landscape...I have no idea; I just love the movie.

clemenza, Tuesday, 1 December 2020 23:59 (four years ago) link

Boyhood?

Lover of Nixon (or LON for short) (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 2 December 2020 00:00 (four years ago) link

The Romanian film Sieranevada (2016) mostly takes place indoors, but the opening long take of a car illegally parking on the street captures the feel and sound of a modern city perfectly.

Halfway there but for you, Wednesday, 2 December 2020 00:20 (four years ago) link

minding the gap, maybe

la table sur la table (voodoo chili), Wednesday, 2 December 2020 00:25 (four years ago) link

Trying to think of a film with people inhabiting a single space and slowly losing their marbles. Bug, maybe?

You will notice a small sink where your sofa once was. (Old Lunch), Wednesday, 2 December 2020 01:35 (four years ago) link

basically a Michael Shannon movie

Lover of Nixon (or LON for short) (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 2 December 2020 01:37 (four years ago) link

Hell or High Water

but also fuck you (unperson), Wednesday, 2 December 2020 01:38 (four years ago) link

Aquaman

Lover of Nixon (or LON for short) (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 2 December 2020 01:39 (four years ago) link

"american honey" was one of the few answers i came up with before i started the thread.

na (NA), Wednesday, 2 December 2020 14:34 (four years ago) link

Contagion

MarkoP, Wednesday, 2 December 2020 14:41 (four years ago) link

Leave No Trace and Support The Girls come to mind

I guess it's from 2009 but I remember seeing Brothers (the Jim Sheridan remake) and being bothered by how obtrusive and unmovieish the cars were. So maybe that.

swing out sister: live in new donk city (geoffreyess), Wednesday, 2 December 2020 18:29 (four years ago) link

THX 1138

Uptown Top Scamping (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 2 December 2020 18:48 (four years ago) link

10 Cloverfield Lane

Uptown Top Scamping (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 2 December 2020 18:49 (four years ago) link

Lifeboat

Uptown Top Scamping (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 2 December 2020 18:49 (four years ago) link

Phone Booth

Uptown Top Scamping (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 2 December 2020 18:49 (four years ago) link

The Vanishing (the ending, specifically)

You will notice a small sink where your sofa once was. (Old Lunch), Wednesday, 2 December 2020 19:22 (four years ago) link

can i humbly request no more "DO YOU SEE WHAT I DID THERE?!?!?" answers to this question

na (NA), Wednesday, 2 December 2020 19:43 (four years ago) link

Soderbergh has been good at this.

"what are you DOING to fleetwood mac??" (C. Grisso/McCain), Wednesday, 2 December 2020 20:06 (four years ago) link

More affective than physical, but the movie I think of as embodying this era is Under the Silver Lake. I suspect my thinking on this is a bit off the mark, though.

Langdon Alger Stole the Highlights (cryptosicko), Wednesday, 2 December 2020 21:16 (four years ago) link

Sounds like the upcoming Nomadland might be perfect for this thread (going by a trailer I saw and the title of the source material, Nomadland: Surviving America in the Twenty-First Century).

clemenza, Thursday, 3 December 2020 13:10 (four years ago) link

The Beach Bum is an absolute celebration of its locations.

huge rant (sic), Thursday, 3 December 2020 14:44 (four years ago) link

The Intern
This is 40
Long Shot

... (Eazy), Thursday, 3 December 2020 15:10 (four years ago) link

Chef, too

... (Eazy), Thursday, 3 December 2020 15:12 (four years ago) link

Slightly pre-#MeToo, chefs as artists combining bougie plating + tattoos, pre-algorith real-time social media making food trucks a phenomenon, etc.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wgFws3AoIUY

... (Eazy), Thursday, 3 December 2020 15:15 (four years ago) link

Not a movie, but Lodge 49 I think is a good pick for this.

american primitive stylophone (zchyrs), Thursday, 3 December 2020 15:44 (four years ago) link

lodge 49 and brockmire are the two series I think of that capture a certain je ne sais quoi

it bangs for thee (Simon H.), Thursday, 3 December 2020 15:45 (four years ago) link

Oh, and duh, Parasite.

american primitive stylophone (zchyrs), Thursday, 3 December 2020 15:56 (four years ago) link


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