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What’s your opinion on movies that have narration
Posted on 5/5/23 at 6:56 am
Posted on 5/5/23 at 6:56 am
I listen to many of the rewatchables podcasts, and every time they review a movie that features narration, they always have the opinion that they generally hate narration but for this movie it works. I’ve heard people say that it’s a crutch for a poor script, but I actually have trouble thinking of a movie that features narration that I actually dislike.
Forest Gump
Shawshank Redemption
Goodfellas
Stand by Me
Dances with Wolves
The Sandlot
Apocalypse Now
A Christmas Story
The Wolf of Wallstreet
Princess Bride
Clueless
The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford
Brave heart
The Age of Adaline
Many of these make the list of some of my favorites of all time.
It seems like every movie I’ve watched that features narration, I enjoy.
Forest Gump
Shawshank Redemption
Goodfellas
Stand by Me
Dances with Wolves
The Sandlot
Apocalypse Now
A Christmas Story
The Wolf of Wallstreet
Princess Bride
Clueless
The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford
Brave heart
The Age of Adaline
Many of these make the list of some of my favorites of all time.
It seems like every movie I’ve watched that features narration, I enjoy.
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Posted on 5/5/23 at 7:29 am to upgrade
Seabiscuit with the David McCullough narration was good
"In the end, it wasn't the dams, or the roads...or the bridges or the parks. Or the tunnels or thousands of other public works projects that were built in those years. It was more invisible than that. Men who were broken only a year before suddenly felt restored...men who were shattered suddenly found their voice."
With that cool groove music underneath.
Pretty neat.
"In the end, it wasn't the dams, or the roads...or the bridges or the parks. Or the tunnels or thousands of other public works projects that were built in those years. It was more invisible than that. Men who were broken only a year before suddenly felt restored...men who were shattered suddenly found their voice."
With that cool groove music underneath.
Pretty neat.
This post was edited on 5/5/23 at 7:54 am
Posted on 5/5/23 at 7:37 am to upgrade
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but I actually have trouble thinking of a movie that features narration that I actually dislike.
Probably because to you those movies are just not memorable.
ETA: I love the rewatchables but they need to crawl out of their own butthole sometimes with some of their “this was a complete travesty of justice” opinions they throw in there sometime.
Bill Simmons and the gang mocking the older private Ryan breaking down after reliving his WWII experience was horrible. They just totally didn’t get it and basically derided it when I’m sure it’s something many WWII veterans grappled with in reality.
This post was edited on 5/5/23 at 7:40 am
Posted on 5/5/23 at 7:42 am to jlovel7
Fight Club is awesome.
Posted on 5/5/23 at 7:51 am to jlovel7
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ETA: I love the rewatchables but they need to crawl out of their own butthole sometimes with some of their “this was a complete travesty of justice” opinions they throw in there sometime.
Bill Simmons and the gang mocking the older private Ryan breaking down after reliving his WWII experience was horrible. They just totally didn’t get it and basically derided it when I’m sure it’s something many WWII veterans grappled with in reality.
I love that you posted this because that is the worst take on The Rewatchable that will always stick in my mind when listening to their podcast (that I enjoy), and they have plenty of bad takes to choose from. Simmons wouldn't shut up about how the old man parts of SPR were "bad" and should have been cut. I mean, what a white hot take.
Posted on 5/5/23 at 7:54 am to upgrade
My favorite Wes Anderson movie has narration throughout and I’m pretty sure the rewatchable pussies like it too
Posted on 5/5/23 at 7:58 am to DMagic
Also a lot of Tarantino movies have some narration and I think that always crushes it.
Posted on 5/5/23 at 8:03 am to jlovel7
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Bill Simmons and the gang mocking the older private Ryan breaking down after reliving his WWII experience was horrible. They just totally didn’t get it and basically derided it when I’m sure it’s something many WWII veterans grappled with in reality.
This X 10,000
He’s there with his family, thinking about all of the men that died saving his life, not to mention he lost 4 brothers in the war. Why did I get to live and have children and grandchildren when all these men didn’t? Was my life worth more than any one of theirs?
Posted on 5/5/23 at 8:05 am to upgrade
I generally don't like it. It worked for Goodfellas because those were actual quotes from the book that helped Hill explain the mafia to an outsider (which he was) and Princess Bride was a bed time story fairy tale. Apocalypse Now kind of worked as an inner dialogue/philosophy of Willard. Should have kept it out of the other movies you listed.
Posted on 5/5/23 at 8:42 am to upgrade
In the summer of 1982 a friend and I went to Cinema 8 in Cortana Mall and watched The Thing.
Then we snuck in to Blade Runner just as the lights went down and watched the whole thing.
At the time I was just jazzed that I was getting to see two movies for the price of one.
Little did I realize I'd just watched two of the best movies of that summer, and that was a summer PACKED with good movies.
I say all that to say I'm a Blade Runner purist. I saw it in the theater with its original voiceover. And I loved it. It's still the "real" Blade Runner to me. I don't care about the Director's Cut, Final Cut, etc.
The bored, hopeless tone of Ford's voice over makes the movie. I'll never be convinced otherwise.
Then we snuck in to Blade Runner just as the lights went down and watched the whole thing.
At the time I was just jazzed that I was getting to see two movies for the price of one.
Little did I realize I'd just watched two of the best movies of that summer, and that was a summer PACKED with good movies.
I say all that to say I'm a Blade Runner purist. I saw it in the theater with its original voiceover. And I loved it. It's still the "real" Blade Runner to me. I don't care about the Director's Cut, Final Cut, etc.
The bored, hopeless tone of Ford's voice over makes the movie. I'll never be convinced otherwise.
Posted on 5/5/23 at 8:44 am to upgrade
Casino is like 75% narration lol
Posted on 5/5/23 at 9:11 am to upgrade
quote:
Forest Gump
Shawshank Redemption
Goodfellas
Stand by Me
Dances with Wolves
The Sandlot
Apocalypse Now
A Christmas Story
The Wolf of Wallstreet
Princess Bride
Clueless
The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford
Brave heart
The Age of Adaline
You forgot Dragnet with Aykroyd's narration.
Posted on 5/5/23 at 9:28 am to upgrade
Trainspotting has great use of narration, but it uses it to get the viewer more into the headspace of the character, less so for exposition.
Blade Runner has famously awful tacked-on narration.
Blade Runner has famously awful tacked-on narration.
Posted on 5/5/23 at 9:34 am to upgrade
quote:I’ve seen all of these.
Forest Gump Shawshank Redemption Goodfellas Stand by Me Dances with Wolves The Sandlot Apocalypse Now A Christmas Story The Wolf of Wallstreet Princess Bride Clueless The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford Brave heart
Some of them, the narrator is required because that’s the only thing holding a thread of vignettes together, like Christmas Story, Forrest Gump, Stand By Me, and Shawshank.
In Princess Bride, the Grandpa and kid are major characters.
Most of those I barely even recall the narration. Those movies could probably ditch the narrator pretty quickly and not be any less of a movie.
This post was edited on 5/5/23 at 9:38 am
Posted on 5/5/23 at 9:40 am to upgrade
If it’s a good movie with narration I like It
If it’s a bad movie with narration I hate It
Narration itself doesn’t move it either way for me. It’s a tool like any other cinematic device and Evan be used really well
If it’s a bad movie with narration I hate It
Narration itself doesn’t move it either way for me. It’s a tool like any other cinematic device and Evan be used really well
This post was edited on 5/5/23 at 9:41 am
Posted on 5/5/23 at 9:47 am to Fewer Kilometers
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You forgot Dragnet
Another great one
Posted on 5/5/23 at 9:49 am to upgrade
A River Runs Through It. Redford knows how to tell a story.
Posted on 5/5/23 at 10:27 am to Locoguan0
His voice is made for narration. The cadence is everything.
I find that a lot of Stephen King movies—Shawshank, Stand By Me—benefit from narration because use of his prose is beneficial, if not critical, to the story. That is the case with a lot of movies based on books.
I find that a lot of Stephen King movies—Shawshank, Stand By Me—benefit from narration because use of his prose is beneficial, if not critical, to the story. That is the case with a lot of movies based on books.
Posted on 5/5/23 at 10:27 am to DMagic
The Royal Tennenbaums would suffer without Alec Baldwins narration, imo.
This post was edited on 5/5/23 at 10:29 am
Posted on 5/5/23 at 10:37 am to upgrade
Ice T narrates The Other Guys
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