Comments on: Film 20h!!: Dunkin Donuts On A Train https://freakytrigger.co.uk/see/2011/04/film-20h-dunkin-donuts-on-a-train Lollards in the high church of low culture Tue, 15 Oct 2013 12:35:29 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.3 By: Mark M https://freakytrigger.co.uk/see/2011/04/film-20h-dunkin-donuts-on-a-train/comment-page-1#comment-1247625 Tue, 15 Oct 2013 12:35:29 +0000 https://freakytrigger.co.uk/?p=20987#comment-1247625 I finally saw The Adjustment Bureau. Very glad I didn’t pay money to see in 2011.

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By: swanstep https://freakytrigger.co.uk/see/2011/04/film-20h-dunkin-donuts-on-a-train/comment-page-1#comment-822061 Fri, 08 Apr 2011 22:15:16 +0000 https://freakytrigger.co.uk/?p=20987#comment-822061 Interview with Duncan Jones here. Have to be careful myself about accumulating (even very indirect) spoilers since Source Code doesn’t open for another month down under, but it’s a good read for everyone else I think.

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By: Pete https://freakytrigger.co.uk/see/2011/04/film-20h-dunkin-donuts-on-a-train/comment-page-1#comment-821257 Thu, 07 Apr 2011 22:03:11 +0000 https://freakytrigger.co.uk/?p=20987#comment-821257 Bookended too with the reflection in Anish Kapoor’s bean in Millennium Park (well done Chigago tourist board). One thing that gets completely overlooked is the possession of poor old Sean in the alternate universe. Let’s hope his schoolkids don’t notice!

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By: Ewan https://freakytrigger.co.uk/see/2011/04/film-20h-dunkin-donuts-on-a-train/comment-page-1#comment-821126 Thu, 07 Apr 2011 16:27:46 +0000 https://freakytrigger.co.uk/?p=20987#comment-821126 I did really like the ‘Quantum Leap’ moment near the start where he looked at himself in the mirror. It’s not exactly a million miles from the QL concept though, really.

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By: Pete https://freakytrigger.co.uk/see/2011/04/film-20h-dunkin-donuts-on-a-train/comment-page-1#comment-821074 Thu, 07 Apr 2011 14:19:40 +0000 https://freakytrigger.co.uk/?p=20987#comment-821074 I hope to talk about the Adjustment Bureau soon (it was enjoyable but disappointing). My gut feeling has been in 2011 that a lot of films have had something really great in them (an idea, a turn, some millinery) but the overall films have been a bit ho-hum. Interestingly the surprising trend in the recent sci-fi batch is trying to fuse more romance, so i think the Kaufmann angle of Eli’s equation may well be right.

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By: Mark M https://freakytrigger.co.uk/see/2011/04/film-20h-dunkin-donuts-on-a-train/comment-page-1#comment-821065 Thu, 07 Apr 2011 13:56:24 +0000 https://freakytrigger.co.uk/?p=20987#comment-821065 Re 4: And rightly so.

Re 6: Every time I went to the cinema earlier in the year I seemed to trailers for this, The Adjustment Bureau and Limitless… three’s a trend, right? And even Jodie Foster’s meant to be directing one.

Apart from what’s been said above, I’d suggest possible contributing factors:

– We’ve got CGI, we might as well use it.

– The role of organised internet-based fan groups.

I’m generally pro-Charlie Kaufman, it’s Christopher Nolan I can’t tolerate.

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By: logged-out Tracer Hand https://freakytrigger.co.uk/see/2011/04/film-20h-dunkin-donuts-on-a-train/comment-page-1#comment-821011 Thu, 07 Apr 2011 11:42:16 +0000 https://freakytrigger.co.uk/?p=20987#comment-821011 Matrix + Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind + time necessary to get scripts written, pitched, financed and made = 2011

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By: swanstep https://freakytrigger.co.uk/see/2011/04/film-20h-dunkin-donuts-on-a-train/comment-page-1#comment-821005 Thu, 07 Apr 2011 11:34:13 +0000 https://freakytrigger.co.uk/?p=20987#comment-821005 I’m not sure that sci-fi thrillers are any sort of default right now unless you count all of the endless superhero/comic book films as sci fi (I don’t). Still, Philip K. Dick continues to be directly and indirectly mined (e.g., Ubik w/ Gondry directing is currently in pre-production), and Charlie Kaufmann has been *the* preeminent original screen-writer of the last ten years (he’s probably the s/writer more recent graduates want to be than any other). Lots of loosely sci-fi stuff with dramatic and thriller elements is what one would predict given these two ongoing strong influences.

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By: Tom https://freakytrigger.co.uk/see/2011/04/film-20h-dunkin-donuts-on-a-train/comment-page-1#comment-820989 Thu, 07 Apr 2011 10:51:35 +0000 https://freakytrigger.co.uk/?p=20987#comment-820989 #3 I was assuming the popularity of suit-fi was down to Inception but the lead times are way too short for it, all this stuff must have been sparked by something else.

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By: mark sinker https://freakytrigger.co.uk/see/2011/04/film-20h-dunkin-donuts-on-a-train/comment-page-1#comment-820944 Thu, 07 Apr 2011 08:58:44 +0000 https://freakytrigger.co.uk/?p=20987#comment-820944 I blame it all on Baudrillard

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By: Mark M https://freakytrigger.co.uk/see/2011/04/film-20h-dunkin-donuts-on-a-train/comment-page-1#comment-820915 Thu, 07 Apr 2011 07:49:58 +0000 https://freakytrigger.co.uk/?p=20987#comment-820915 I’m still pondering how the sci-fi thriller went from being associated with stuff like Timecop to being the default genre of the moment. It’s not something I’m happy about in any way. I have heard good things about Source Code, but I’m still highly sceptical. I was half-tempted by The Adjustment Bureau, but never got round to it. Probably just as well.

My feeling about 2011 in films on the whole is that it has been the year of ‘enjoyable, but disappointing’ (and I wish I’d seen more than just three films in the NFT’s Howard Hawks season).

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By: swanstep https://freakytrigger.co.uk/see/2011/04/film-20h-dunkin-donuts-on-a-train/comment-page-1#comment-820708 Wed, 06 Apr 2011 21:20:52 +0000 https://freakytrigger.co.uk/?p=20987#comment-820708 Excellent poster. Hits the Saul Bass nerve to go along with Herrmannish music and sharp, Lehman-ish script prestidigitations you describe. I confess to looking forward to this film enormously. NbNW in the Matrix? (Maybe Hitch’s cameo could be as one iteration of the Dunkin Donut seller) I’m there with Quantum bells on.

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By: Steve Mannion https://freakytrigger.co.uk/see/2011/04/film-20h-dunkin-donuts-on-a-train/comment-page-1#comment-820610 Wed, 06 Apr 2011 16:22:52 +0000 https://freakytrigger.co.uk/?p=20987#comment-820610 knew that poster had to be Ollie Moss. check out his others on Flickr.

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