M-E-A-T M-A-C-H-I-N-E, Meat Machine, Meat Machine! The Green Team would be wearing Red Hats these days.
Word.
That movie needs a remake, with less corn and fewer offensive stereotypes. Seth MacFarlane could do something with this and make it work.
You had me until ‘MacFarlane’. Seriously! I was going to say;
“Seth Gordon may be an odd choice, but…”
OK, what comedy director do you suggest? And also, I think Seth MacFarlane could and should remake Revenge of the Nerds.
I don’t know. But I thought the new Naked Gun movie was boring, with a handful of jokes that worked, and they were all in the Trailer. I mean, Family Guy is basically 2020 AI slop, IMHO.
I just personally don’t enjoy his works.
Sacrilege! Mrs. H and I loved that movie.
I have, so there you go. Seriously, I did see it, but I was unsure what to make of it. It was basically a day in the life of a twenty-dollar bill, and the things that happen to the people in whose hands it ends up as it gets spent, given in change, and so on. It doesn’t really have a plot, or an ending that ties everything up neatly, so I was left wondering what it was all about.
Mrs. H may be good at picking out significant others… not gunna take movie advice from her, tho. ![]()
I’d say Do the Right Thing just barely qualifies.
So a one-day version of The Red Violin?
There was a TV series a few years ago called The Guest Book which did this. Each episode a new story about the guests in a getaway cottage, with a through line from the camp staff.
That film was a classic- kinda dated now, but parts are still hilarious. Also the Groove Tube, and Amazon Women on the Moon.
There was a weird film where they all met at this strange Motel on the CA/Nevada border, plus their backstories?
Don’t forget Disco Beaver from Outer Space.
Quoting Fargo.
Bad Time at the El Royale–it’s another “kind of close/maybe”….for me there’s just too much plot.
That’s the big piece of the puzzle people are missing if you haven’t seen these types of movies…so much of it was meandering character bits and the plot often is shoe-horned in so the movie can have a climax with stakes (“we got the money!”)
I still don’t completely get which kind of films we are talking about, because I haven’t seen most of those that were mentioned. I do know Jim Jarmusch’s “Night On Earth”, actually it’s my favorite movie ever, and a similar episodic movie I’ve seen is “Four Rooms” (though of course that’s also 30+ years old). Am I on the right track?
Four Rooms is an anthology movie.
Does Robert Altman’s Nashville qualify?
I think I get it.
Consider Meatballs. There isn’t really a plot. Well, there is, but it was definitely shoehorned in. It’s set at a summer camp, but the emphasis is on the counselors-in-training (CITs). The movie is a bunch of comedy vignettes about the CITs—their awkward game of tennis, Spaz and Fink get caught spying on the girls, the unorthodox way the CITs got out of a basketball game with the other camp, the guys constantly “kidnap” Morty when he is sleeping, leaving him in his bed in unlikely places (up a tree, at the side of the road, on a raft in the lake). There are plenty more, but no vignette is more important than any other, and none really advances the plot.
There is a plot, but it is not at all apparent from the film’s outset, hence the “shoehorning in.” Seems that camper Rudy likes to go running in the mornings. So does head counselor Tripper, and they run together. That would mean nothing, until a runner is needed for the inter-camp Olympics. Tripper suggests Rudy, Rudy runs and wins, and the film has a climax.
Am I on the right track?
Or A Prairie Home Companion?