In “Back to the Future” we see Marty come back to 1985 again in hopes of preventing the terrorists from shooting Dr. Brown after having seen it happen the first time.
No one’s mentioned Ground Hog Day yet? It’s all repeating scenes!
So, why has no one mentioned Ground Hog Day yet? Too many repeating scenes in it?
~They say our love~ won’t pay the rent~~~
Before it’s earned, our money’s all been spent ~~~~~~~~~
And the widely loathed Back to the Future II had a number of repeated scenes from the first movie, seen from different points of view.
I kinda liked the second one but I know no one else in North America did.
I liked it too (but don’t tell anybody else about it).
The somewhat obscure (but entertaining) movie 11:14 has a single event shown from four or five different points of view.
There was a movie that had Kris Kristofferson from a long time ago…
IMDB to the rescue.
*Millenium. * What a waste of film and time. He was an investigator for the NTSB, and Cheryl Ladd was a flight attendant on a flight that crashed and killed everyone on board. Except she was really from THE FUTURE and they were stealing the people on the plane right before it crashed and replacing them with dead people. Or something like that. She had a special zappo gun (McGuffin) that she mistakenly left on the airplane and Kris found it, and thus begins the infinite plot loop…
They used the time travel trick to the max - so much so that they pretty much replayed about 20 minutes of the movie. Not even different points of view - just the same damn camera shot that you saw an hour ago and then transition to the next camera shot that you saw an hour ago. Because, you know, she went back in time and is trying to do things over, so YOU get to see everything over again. EXACTLY the same way you saw them the first time.
The first time I saw the movie I was yelling “I’ve already SEEN THIS!” at the TV. Good stuff!
The movie Elephant about a school shooting does this. The story is told through different characters and they all come together toward the end (well, in a way, but it shows the same scenes from different angles, with different emphasis).
Also, if I remember correctly, the movie Go does this, starting with the characters in a grocery store or whatever setting before they head out for their adventures, then ending with all stories told.
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