What are some of the most realistic fictional movies ever made?
What are some of the most realistic fictional movies ever made?
Movies that are most closest and similar to real life, but NOT based on a true story
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Office Space. Although, it is a little too real sometimes.
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Even though I havent seen the movie, I heard about the birthday cake scene.
The other week staff member had a birthday, when she wasnt there. So we all had cake, while the birthday person didnt.
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Don't Look Up
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Sickeningly good.
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There's a submarine comedy called Down Periscope from the 90s. The story is, of course, absolute ridiculousness (albeit highly entertaining ridiculousness).
I've repeatedly been told by navy veterans, however, that it comes closest to portraying actual life in the navy - in particular, that virtually every character in the film is someone you can (and likely will) actually encounter in the navy.
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My dad was in the Navy (submariner) in the 80s and he loves that movie. He told me they didn't do the thing with the string like they do in the movie ... Instead they strung it up when they were at depth and took bets on when it would break on the way back up.
You couldn't pay me enough to be that far underwater.
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Down Periscope is amazingly underrated.
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Idiocracy. We're basically dumping brawndo on the plants as we speak...
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Idiocracy is an entertaining comedy, but it isn't realistic in the slightest.
Idiocracy uses a eugenicist premise (and the problem with that premise is a whole can of worms unto itself) to set up a world where everyone is an idiot, no exceptions. But they're well-meaning idiots, and they have enough sense to be able to defer to the one and only smart guy in the room who ultimately saves the day.
The real world is suffering not because the people in power are stupid, but because the people in power are selfish and evil, and because they are smart enough to manipulate people who are dumber than them. There's only one exception here, but the one guy who is a true idiot is a puppet being controlled by smart evil people.
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TV shows almost look like OW MY BALLS today; with newer smart TVs injecting ads into content that isn't even theirs.
We've got a president doing McDonalds buffets for events, suggesting people "inject light" into their veins for medical intervention, wanting to rename greenland to "Red White and Blueland"...
Nah. That shit hits far too close to home.
And if other animals can be bred for specific traits, so can humans. We're not special in any way regarding that. Rejecting that because of how it was incorrectly used to justify horrible things in the past is flat out unscientific.
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Fargo is not a true story, though some of it was inspired by true events (wood chipper)
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I got called to Minnesota to serve two years as an LDS missionary back in 2000. I absolutely loved the place. But my first day was I was stationed in Brainerd MN, and my apartment was on the edge of a frozen lake. I took a picture of it, and colored in the old brick BBQ to look like a wood chipper with feet sticking out of the top, and a large red stain across the ice, and sent it to my sister. That picture sat in her cubicle for years after that. I can't think of that scene without thinking of it.
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That’s amazing
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The Room
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Yeah, it really does match the incoherent conversations and relationships that a lot of people have in a way that most scripted movies don't.
It doesn't make for a good movie, but when I did watch it the characters reminded me of people I knew.
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WarGames. Everything but the AI was very realistic. (Well, also except for the fact that the movie's NORAD headquarters was apparently way fancier than it was in real life.)
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The Martian.
Aside from the macguffin that left Matt Damon stranded, the science was solid. Furthermore, the casual dysfunctionality and administrative infighting of the governments and agencies was brilliantly on point.
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There's one person on Mars in that film but in reality there's zero people on Mars. That's a really small margin of error
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Probably would have to be the movie Rubber.
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*Flubber
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One of my absolute favorite science documentaries as a kid!
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The Expanse, one of my favorite Shows ever
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Contagion.
Writers Crystal balled that shit
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This movie made me want to be an epidemiologist it was so good
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- Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
- Civil War
- The Ides of March
- Michael Clayton
- A Most Wanted Man
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There are a bajillion, but maybe you are looking for a specific genre that nails it on the head.
As someone mentioned, there are thousands of social drama films that could've easily happened. The success of that type of film is selling a "day in the life" plot.
Someone else mentioned Office Space. That film is a satire, but it condenses and delivers refined representations of the banality of cubicle life that we all can easily relate to. The characters truly seem to be facsimiles of people we've known in our working lives.
Someone else mentioned Michael Clayton. It's an excellent thriller with flawed characters with believable motives that yes, it could be real. And maybe something like that has happened?
What genre will help us answer your question?
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Marriage Story is one to check out if that's what you are looking for.
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- Children of Men
- Gattaca
Both feel like extremely realistic portrayals of possible near futures.
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Copland.
Read this article and tell me you think these cops are all 100% clean
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I really like Run (2020). I really don't wanna spoil a single bit, you should go watch it.
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Anything in the mockumentary genre because that’s kind of the point. My personal favorite is a film called Kenny from 2006.
It takes a certain kind of person to do what I do. No-one's ever impressed; no-one's ever fascinated. If you're a fireman, all the kids will want to jump on the back of the truck and follow you to a fire. There's going to be no kids willing to do that with me. So, I don't do it to impress people - it's a job, it's my trade, and I actually think I'm pretty good at it.
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