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Post by willywonka666 on Jan 24, 2013 8:19:10 GMT -5
What I mean are movies that you're not really sure when they are supposed to be happening.
I brought this up in the Grindhouse thread when discussing Death Proof in particular.
Like "Hot Rod" for example. I noticed that he worshiped Evel Knievil and had his posters all over his room like it was the 70s and he even used a pay phone at one point in the movie, though I'm pretty sure it was set in the present day.
Same goes for Whip It. Set in the present day, but being a roller girl, along with the soundtrack, it was like she was in her own little time warp which was cool.
What are some other examples, and what do you think of it?
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Post by wildojinx on Jan 24, 2013 8:22:00 GMT -5
A Christmas story. I've heard everything from the 30s to 1947. We may be able to get some type of time period if we can find out when Red Ryder BB Guns started being made (the father even says he had one when he was Ralphie's age).
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Post by Push R Truth on Jan 24, 2013 8:32:35 GMT -5
Evil Dead could happen anytime between now and whenever that car was built.
The setting being in hillbilly country would explain the odd fashion even today.
The Cabin in the middle of nowhere helps with the technology gap.
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Post by Urethra Franklin on Jan 24, 2013 9:27:42 GMT -5
Not a movie, but nobody really knows when "Archer" is set.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 24, 2013 9:29:06 GMT -5
Star Wars
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Post by eDemento2099 on Jan 24, 2013 9:31:31 GMT -5
Napoleon Dynamite
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Post by Apricots And A Pear Tree on Jan 24, 2013 9:48:26 GMT -5
What's ambiguous about a long time ago? |
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Post by DoubleDare on Jan 24, 2013 10:32:54 GMT -5
Napoleon Dynamite is 2004.
Sin City the movie would be 2005, since at the end becky is talking on a cell phone.
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Post by agent817 on Jan 24, 2013 10:52:59 GMT -5
Mousehunt is a great example of this. It looks like it could be set in the 1940s or 1950s. Yet, there were color TVs present in the film.
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Post by YAKMAN is ICHIBAN on Jan 24, 2013 11:06:48 GMT -5
A Christmas story. I've heard everything from the 30s to 1947. We may be able to get some type of time period if we can find out when Red Ryder BB Guns started being made (the father even says he had one when he was Ralphie's age). According to Wikipedia "Director Bob Clark stated in the film's DVD commentary that he and author Shepherd wished for the movie to be seen as "amorphously late 30s, early 40s," but a specific year is never mentioned." |
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Post by Deleted on Jan 24, 2013 11:23:52 GMT -5
What's ambiguous about a long time ago? The narrative could possibly set way deep into the future and a long long time ago for them is 2 million years in the future for us. |
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Post by skulldouggory on Jan 24, 2013 11:28:09 GMT -5
Yeah that really through me off, I thought the whole movie was set in the late 70s or early 80s, and then i remembered that Napoleon's brother used the internet to meet his girlfriend. |
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Post by Zombie Mod on Jan 24, 2013 14:04:40 GMT -5
xmen
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Post by Wieners=$$$ on Jan 24, 2013 14:09:51 GMT -5
Edward Scissorhands
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Post by G✇JI☈A on Jan 24, 2013 14:13:55 GMT -5
The Matrix - Even Morpheus says he has no idea what year it is.
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Post by SHAKEMASTER TV9 is Don Knotts on Jan 24, 2013 15:22:15 GMT -5
Dark City
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Post by Bone Daddy on Jan 24, 2013 15:35:30 GMT -5
Is it clear when Inception takes place?
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Post by mjolnir on Jan 24, 2013 15:37:44 GMT -5
Is it clear when Inception takes place? Not really, the vibe is the near future though. Given some of the technology mentioned in it and yet some other technology used in it. |
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Post by wildojinx on Jan 24, 2013 16:00:21 GMT -5
Superman. The sequels obviously take place when they came out, but the first one has lots of scenes which look like they could take place in the 60s (paticuarly the smallville scenes) with the exceptions being krypton and the fortress of solitude.
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Post by thirteen3 on Jan 24, 2013 16:20:31 GMT -5
Yeah that really through me off, I thought the whole movie was set in the late 70s or early 80s, and then i remembered that Napoleon's brother used the internet to meet his girlfriend. Well, it is set in Idaho. *zing* |
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