What are the best one room-set movies?
Except for the obvious like the breakfast club, dog day afternoon, or reservoir dogs.
>>69668669
12 Angry men is GOAT for single location films
>>69668669
12 Angry Men
The Sunset Limited
>>69668694
My man.
Glengarry Glen Ross
Kinda.
>>69668669
The Thing and Hateful Eight
>>69668694
This movie looks awesome.
>>69668730
This is one of the obvious ones I was talking about, but great one. I love it.
I don't remember the title but it was some gas station hold up situation in the middle of the desert. It came out in the 90s and I remember liking it as a kid. It was also a comedy. Anyone know what the hell I'm talking about?
>>69668829
it's very slow and will be tedious if you aren't into dialogue and character
if you are then it's good as you would expect
this isn't single set..but it's from david mamet who is one of the greatest writers ever..and this was his baby
it Is awesome
>>69668906
SFW?
I remember it being good in a bad 90s movie way.
>>69668814
Yo I saw the hateful eight in theaters, I loved it. I liked the thing also. Not as much as the hateful eight.
>>69668775
Ill check that one out.
>>69668931
It looks good, if I wasn't into dialogue and character I don't think I would asking for these kind of movies.
Apocalypse Now
>>69668931
>mametbro on /tv/
hell yeah
>>69668968
here's one of the best ever made then
timeless
>Rope
>0 results
I have to get to work so I would respond, but I would appreciate it if there were still people giving recs. Thanks to all that recommended something. And one room-set movies general.
Jut discussion and recs if you want, thanks again.
The Man from Earth
Sleuth is pretty much one location
Oleanna
Fermat's Room. Four mathematicians are lured together to a remote location where they must solve a series of riddles while the room gets crushed by hydraulic presses.
>>69668669
Saw
>>69669234
Shit nigga you can't just go busting out a classic like this without warning
The Man From Earth
>College professors discuss many topics with a colleague who claims to be thousands of years old.
It's not the greatest movie ever, i'd give it a solid "good". I mainly like it because it feels exactly like someone found a lost original Twilight Zone script and then made it into a movie in 2007.
Speaking of Twilight Zone there are quite a few great ones that take place in a single room or location.
Buried
>>69668988
pretty minimal sets
excellent movie
>>69668694
fpbp
>>69668694
wizard, was just about to post this when i saw thread
DAMMIT, M NIGHT, YOU FUCKING HACK. THIS COULD HAVE BEEN GREAT
>>69669532
I never saw that, was there a twist. Was there a demon?
>>69669575
Maybe.
The dialogue was atrocious, though.
I enjoyed this movie. Pretty good twist at the end.
>>69669609
Maybe?? What the fuck?
>>69668669
1408 is pretty decent.
Also 12 Angry Men.
Neither take place exclusively in a room, but about 80 to 90% of it does.
>>69669174
I think that conceptually this fits the bill of a 1-set movie but there are actually a pretty large number of scenes that take place outside the single room.
>>69669660
Yes, the twist is that theold woman is the devil/demon.
>>69669660
He's trying to not spoil the movie. A large part of the plot is whether there is a demon or if one of them is a serial killer. If that sounds interesting to you to bad because the movie is poorly executed.
>>69668669
anon ought to love it. it's about incest.
>>69668906
>gas station hold up situation
So close.
It's called Hold Up with Jaime Foxx
>>69669803
Too stoned right now
Held Up*
>>69669635
Cube is great. Haven't seen a movie that has done the concept better.
>>69668775
PUT THAT COFFEE DOWN. Coffee's for closers.
>>69668669
I liked Coherence a lot.
Does Compliance count?
INSERTS
Would someone else just watch this already?
>>69668998
Beat me to it.
>>69669635
ayyy came to make sure this was posted
>>69668669
Frozen.
>>69669174
The way that's constructed none of the walls would move.
>>69670109
It works friendo, they actually built it for the film.
Cube series (First one is good, the others bleh)
Exam (its ok)
Moon (not one room, but the feel is similar)
Coherence (really liked this one)
The Invitation (good, also not just one room but similar feel)
Fermat Room (decent for what it is)
Circle (good concept, mediocre actors)
Time Lapse (its ok)
Hidden (good)
Parallels (great concept for a tv show that was canceled, mediocre actors)
The Man from Earth (good)
Buried (very good)
1408 (decent)
Phone Booth (good)
Those are the ones that i remember, love the genre, you have any more recommendations.
>>69669635
I'm new here and I've seen this movie mentioned like 15 times in two days.
Am I being memed hard or what?
I thought it was meh-core scifi.
>>69670109
It does work, every wall pushes diagonally not in parallel.
>>69670207
Its a low budget sci-fi but very well done, the first one at least, not a meme.
>>69670176
Parallels is essentially a modern remake of sliders. And it would have been so much fun as a Tv series.
What did you like about Coherence? I haven't watched it but I might based on your recommendation.
>>69670176
The Killing Room fits in, not a bad watch
>>69670207
don't expect too much from it, but it's a cool concept and does what it sets out to do.
![phone-booth[1].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/KX4IpyJ.jpg "phone-booth[1].jpg")
Miss me yet?
>>69670327
Its a great play on the "what if" of parallel universes, can't tell you more without spoiling it, actors are top notch most of them.
>>69670355
Oh yeah forgot about this one, its watchable.
The starting scene of Inglorious Bastards shits on everything posted so far
>>69668988
Thanks for reminding me. Got to get my Pond on!
>>69670479
Nah.
>>69668998
this
>>69668669
You know, I was extremely happy that Tarantino returned to his stage play-esque style with the hateful eight.
those things just work really well
>>69670642
I found Hateful Eight rather boring, not worth a movie ticket imo, maybe the expectations were too high.
Obvious pick
>>69669804
op said best not worst
>>69670713
It was a good movie but it shouldn't of been 3 hours long.
>>69670713
well all the movies in between the hateful eight and reservoir dogs do spoil the atmosphere
but if the hateful eight came out a couple of years after reservoir dogs, you might see things differently
(maybe)
Misery
>>69670823
Right. I think it's his 2nd best movie. I've watched it 4 times and feel like I could plenty more.
Carnage.
>>69668998
Rope and Rear Window are both great Hitchcock one room films.
I prefer Rear Window because of Jimmy Stewart.
>>69670713
Starting with Inglorious Basterds, he's had too much reliance on slow talking scenes. They get tedious. IB admittedly probably did it the best with the underground bar scene, and it feels like every subsequent film tries to do repeat this, but to not nearly the same effect. The pacing of his films has gotten significantly slower, with decisive action coming at the end of a 15-20 minute scene of characters talking. Compare the tediousness of The Hateful Eight to, say, Kill Bill vol. 1 and 2. It's not like kill Bill didn't have tension, but it knew when to begin the action that all the talking would inevitably lead up to. Hes losing his touch fast, imo.
>>69670642
Plays in general are 100% more entertaining and enthralling than movies. That's why it's so fun when a movie does these one-room things. To all you anons, if you live in a rather large city head down to your university/city college and check out their plays. Well worth it.
>>69668669
they filmed that at the warehouse a block away from where i live. they tore it down to put parking there.
>>69668998
That and God on Trial.
Dogville is kind of this, it's set in a town, but it's shot all on one set, and there are no structures, all the walls and doors of the houses in town are just lines painted on the floor.
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xbjvgc_budd-dwyer_news
always a classic
>>69670176
Oh, forgot these ones
10 Cloverfield Lane (i watched it today, good movie with very good actors)
Tusk (fun movie)
Air (decent)
The Purge (first one good, second decent)
>>69670973
For different reasons. I know where you're coming from, but having a cinematic camera placed among these one room scenes. If you have not seen High and Low and The Lower Depths by Kurosawa, I highly recommend them. Kurosawa was a lover of theater too, and he combines the thoughtful blocking of actors you'd find in a stage play with the fluidity that a camera can present to create some really dynamic scenes.
![Donzoko 1957 720p BluRay FLAC x264-EA.mkv_snapshot_00.05.53_[2016.05.14_22.42.38].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/UNUlXvG.jpg "Donzoko 1957 720p BluRay FLAC x264-EA.mkv_snapshot_00.05.53_[2016.05.14_22.42.38].jpg")
Lower Depths, one of Kurosawa's lesser known but excellent movies
>>69668998
i just love how fucking smug this guy is
>>69671140
>10 cloverfield lane
What a disappointment. Good actors but I didn't get a sense of any development and the ending can just go fuck itself.
![Donzoko 1957 720p BluRay FLAC x264-EA.mkv_snapshot_01.15.10_[2016.05.15_00.08.52].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/Pk4YKgz.jpg "Donzoko 1957 720p BluRay FLAC x264-EA.mkv_snapshot_01.15.10_[2016.05.15_00.08.52].jpg")
>>69671151
guy can block like no one else
>>69668694
I was told this was filmed all in one take? Pretty impressive if you ask me.
>>69670446
Already spoiled it saying there are parallel universes
>>69671140
10 Cloverfield Lane is a pretty good movie that fumbles the ending. It just didn't know where to stop.I appreciate having the girl drive off to fight the aliens and not "run away from her troubles" as bringing her arc full circle, but it wasn't worth 15 minutes of pissing away the movie on a goofy fight with the flying saucer.
Honestly, if they ended with her seeing the ship and then showed her driving away, or just cut after she sees the ship as a punchline, it would have been fine.
>>69670947
Jimmy Stewart was really great in Rope too, though I do prefer him as a main character
>>69670402
>>69671223
is this more subtle in motion? might as well have a visible grid in every shot
![Yojimbo.1961.1080p.BluRay.AAC.x264-EbP.mkv_snapshot_00.23.05_[2015.03.31_12.01.54].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/4Tkcs00.jpg "Yojimbo.1961.1080p.BluRay.AAC.x264-EbP.mkv_snapshot_00.23.05_[2015.03.31_12.01.54].jpg")
>>69671289
Kurosawa always blocks his scenes in very showy ways
My Finger With Andre
>>69671220
What do you mean no development?
The next movie is going to connect story lines with both movies if that is what you wanted.
>>69671228
Not at all.
>>69671253
Yeah i thought that the ending was a very fast change of pace but i guess that they thought it was a good tie-in for what was about to come in the "third" one.
>>69671171
>>69671223
Perfect shots of what I was talking about. The Lower Depths in particular has the camera peeling back layers of that one room in a way that introduces all the characters. It's really interesting.
![Donzoko 1957 720p BluRay FLAC x264-EA.mkv_snapshot_01.12.38_[2016.05.15_00.06.05].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/PV160y4.jpg "Donzoko 1957 720p BluRay FLAC x264-EA.mkv_snapshot_01.12.38_[2016.05.15_00.06.05].jpg")
>>69671395
he shot the living fuck out of that room, listened to Donald Richie's commentary track, has some really good bits about composition. might wind up rewatching it again, was really surprised how compelling the movie is considering how restrained it is compared to his other jidaigeki films.
>>69669276
>a colleague who claims to be thousands of years old.
Wut?
>>69668669
Wait Until Dark.
>>69669276
>I mainly like it because it feels exactly like someone found a lost original Twilight Zone script and then made it into a movie in 2007.
dude that literally is a Twilight Zone episode
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_Live_Walter_Jameson
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_Live_Walter_Jameson
>>69671440
Oh man i love listening to him just ramble on the commentary tracks. I need to watch it again as well. I remember that every camera angle in that room never felt unnecessary. It felt so calculated.
![Donzoko 1957 720p BluRay FLAC x264-EA.mkv_snapshot_00.15.08_[2016.05.14_22.53.18].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/4e8Of5d.jpg "Donzoko 1957 720p BluRay FLAC x264-EA.mkv_snapshot_00.15.08_[2016.05.14_22.53.18].jpg")
>>69668975
is this a meme that i'm not familiar with
>>69671171
speaking of samurai movies
Harakiri (1962) spends most of its time in one location, though there are some flashbacks to different locations.
Still, a great movie if you're into Kurosawa. Very well shot and acted.
does Dial M For Murder have any scenes outside of the room or hallway?
I can't remember anything else but I'm not sure
>>69671672
the wood sword seppaku is fucking brutal
>>69668669
Exam (2009) is decent
>>69671680
there's one scene right outside the building, although it's very obviously done in a studio with rear screen projection.
>>69671753
yeah that had me actually think about the horrors of comitting seppuku, jesus fucking christ imagine the mindset of a person that comitted and often you would be commanded to do so due to something as trivial as not meeting certain expectations.
Reading about real events like this is even more horrifying
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seppuku#European_witness
"There are many stories on record of extraordinary heroism being displayed in the harakiri. The case of a young fellow, only twenty years old, of the Choshiu clan, which was told me the other day by an eye-witness, deserves mention as a marvellous instance of determination. Not content with giving himself the one necessary cut, he slashed himself thrice horizontally and twice vertically. Then he stabbed himself in the throat until the dirk protruded on the other side, with its sharp edge to the front; setting his teeth in one supreme effort, he drove the knife forward with both hands through his throat, and fell dead."
>>69671672
>ywn see Kurosawa's four and a half hour adaptation of The Idiot
>>69672008
Is that good? He said that was his least favorite of his films.
>No High And Low
Goddamn plebs
>>69672106
I think he was disappointed with the released version, which had half of the movie cut out.
Based Pontypool.
![High.and.Low.1963.1080p.AAC4.0.x264-REVO.mkv_snapshot_00.44.42_[2016.01.31_17.16.50].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/ljYfxHV.jpg "High.and.Low.1963.1080p.AAC4.0.x264-REVO.mkv_snapshot_00.44.42_[2016.01.31_17.16.50].jpg")
>>69672240
hell yeah
