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I am currently wondering whether there are any good movies about babies. There are certainly moves about babies, and movies starring babies, but frankly they're not good movies. I'm not including Rosemary's Baby, or any other movies that are about how sex is scary and babies are weird. I am talking about movies where the main point is not fear, but something else about a baby that is not terrifying, or was not intended to be terrifying. I will show you the problem with baby movies, based on movies I have seen "starring" babies. Baby's Day Out ![]() I saw this movie when I was like 5 or something and enjoyed it, but I revisited this film after watching the Red Letter Media review, and it is a movie that is incredibly bad. It is unwatchable. Everything about it is not funny and is instead tedious and awful. The only funny part is some nutshot humor that is only funny because it goes on waaaay too long and comes around to being funny again because it is prolonged genital torture. Similarly, ![]() Look Who's Talking is an extremely bad film that is not funny. I only hazily remember this and it bothers me that I have been exposed to this film. John Travola was in it. They made a sequel that John Travolta was still in where the dogs also talk, but this isn't a thread about dog movies. (Note: whoops, that's the third Look Who's Talking film. This is the second one: ![]() ) Along that line, there was also Baby Geniuses ![]() I love Christopher Lloyd but he will be in any poo poo. ... and Baby Geniuses 2. ![]() The only funny thing in Baby Geniuses 2 is on the malaysian bootleg dvd ![]() Storks was predictable, slapdash, and bad: ![]() There are a couple funny things in it, like the wolf pack, but not enough to make it funny or a "good movie". And I think that we can all safely not be able to forget ![]() which did sort of redeem itself by being a great background gag in Bojack Horseman. ![]() (The joke being, for those who don't watch Bojack Horseman, that in this absurdist crazy people-animal world, that the movie Junior was produced completely unchanged.) ![]() I saw Boss Baby. I don't really feel good about this decision. It is not nearly as bad as I was expecting, and I appreciated its absurdity and how hard the artists tried to do something fun while they were on this project. However, it is Boss Baby and I do not think that I, in good conscience, can refer to this as a film which is good. The funniest sequence is almost entirely ripped off from the long-forgotten Dreamworks film, Puss in Boots (2011). I guess they can rip off their own movie no one saw. Can a baby be a movie? I mean a funny movie premise? Or good or whatever?
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# ? Jun 17, 2024 09:32 |
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Rugrats is basically the high point for baby-centric film and television media, and early Rugrats is pretty loving good even if by the time the actual movie came out it was kinda 'eh'. It really should be limited to animated stuff because live action babies are a pain in the rear end to film for any extended amount of time.
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Well, they have robot babies now so you don't need real ones.![]()
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Pick posted:Well, they have robot babies now so you don't need real ones. oh god that's so loving creepy I wish we could just go back to the days where fake babies were hilariously obvious. you know, 2014. ![]()
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actually op the subtitle is "The Winged Serpent"
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God, that movie was poo poo from front to back, wasn't it?
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Pick posted:Well, they have robot babies now so you don't need real ones. Is that real. It's not. Surely. Please.
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Jesus Christ she's everywhere.
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Das Boo posted:Is that real. Ultimately, it wasn't used, but this was shown on dvd extras.
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Pick posted:Well, they have robot babies now so you don't need real ones. lol what in the gently caress is that thing
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That baby got hair for days. What movie is that from?
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One of the later Twilight sequels.
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Pick posted:Well, they have robot babies now so you don't need real ones. Dressing up a King Charles Spaniel as a baby. A bold move by the costuming department.
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Pick posted:Well, they have robot babies now so you don't need real ones. Please make a fake animatronic baby from memory.
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TychoCelchuuu posted:That baby got hair for days. What movie is that from? It's the weird baby from one of the Twilight movies that ages super quick so one of the other characters can gently caress it ASAP.
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how is vampire babby formed?
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Christmas On Mars, op
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Children of Men sorta
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If the condition is solely a non-horror movie where the plot revolves around a baby, how about Raising Arizona? Baby's 100% integral to the plot and he's even included in the climactic fight scene.
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Bringing up baby Baby driver
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bitterandtwisted posted:Baby driver I heard this was good
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Raising Arizona?
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Pick posted:I heard this was good It's alright, it's actually one of the worst Edgar Wright movies but it's still an Edgar Wright movie so it's still good.
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Does Three Men And A Baby count?
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Non-horror? To hell with this thread.
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Shoot 'Em Up
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Hard Boiled isn't baby-centric as a whole but it has a great shootout in a hospital at the end that heavily features babies. It would probably be less cool without the babies.
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2001: A Space Odyssey Baby Boom with Diane Keaton was not particularly good, but it was not terrible either.
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Pick posted:I heard this was good It's a lot of fun, would recommend.
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Raising Arizona doesn't star a baby, but gently caress it, that baby helps. Monsters Inc if you count Boo as a star or a baby, she's more of a toddler. The Rugrats has a trippy Nintendo 64 depiction of the birth canal that has stuck with me.
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Jenny Angel posted:Shoot 'Em Up Oh that's a good one.
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Hat Thoughts posted:actually op the subtitle is "The Winged Serpent"
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Tsotsi is pretty decent.
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There's a Jackie Chan movie where he has to protect a baby so lots of the fight scenes have him finding hilarious ways to keep the baby safe while he destroys mooks Can't remember the drat name of it tho
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Kangra posted:2001: A Space Odyssey I came to this thread to make the Bringing Up Baby joke, but this is much funnier and more accurate.
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Also, Labyrinth
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F8 of the Furious
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A Serbian Film.
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Children of Men managed to be alright, possibly by balancing its being about a baby by also being about an absence of babies.
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# ? Jun 17, 2024 09:32 |
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Raising Arizona you idiot
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