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Hundreds of Beavers
2024 · Film · 108 min
Directed by Mike Cheslik
In the 19th century, a drunken applejack salesman must go from zero to hero and become North America's greatest fur trapper by defeating hundreds of beavers.
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If you like movies, and you like scrappy beavers, then you might enjoy this:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hundreds_of_Beavers
You should check out this documentary, if you haven't already: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beavers_%28film%29
It's fairly old, but I watched it in college, and it was great.
agree with you on The Substance. another movie Serpell lazily categorized as new literalism. like your sibling comment i think the bar for lowest common denominator for me is lower than for you
last year i thought Hundreds of Beavers was a lowest common denominator movie but it turns out to be cult and im 0/5 on any of my family members liking it at all. a few movie nerd friends love it like i do. after that i decided normys must only like watching families hug on screen. i guess EEAAO has that, i just see the Swiss Army Man inside of EEAAO and think of the whole thing differently
most likely i have no grasp on what normys like
I knew the movie Hundreds of Beavers was a documentary
Perhaps you can share some examples of the films you are referring as "mindless banter in between sex and explosions". I'm not sure that description really fits most of the films coming out recently. If you said, "Dumb comic book films", I would maybe agree with you, but there isn't typically any sex in those so I assume you are not referring to them.
Covid halted the production of a lot of movies, and changed how others were made. It also shut down theaters. So, "since covid", is really talking about before and after an era. Kind of like saying, "since 9/11", in terms of the impact on culture. A lot of creativity has moved from the movie theaters to streaming services and from films to more episodic content.
However, here is a short list of films worth seeing (imo) since covid (2019).
Zone of Interest (2023) The Holdovers (2023) Parasite (2019) Dune (2021) Dune Part Two (2024) Everything Everywhere All at Once (2022) 1917 (2019) The Banshees of Inisherin (2022) The Substance (2024) Palm Springs (2020) Oppenheimer (2023) The Lighthouse (2019) Hundreds of Beavers (2022) Barbarian (2022) Flow (2024)
I believe I've seen such behavior in the documentary film "Hundreds of Beavers".
I feel like it kind of fits in the same category as Hundreds of Beavers (also a fantastic film), as something using the roughness of low-cost methods as a genuine part of the artistic style.
For me the best film of recent years is Hundreds of Beavers - not because it will revolutionise cinema or human thought, but because it was clearly made by people who love what they are doing and had nothing to lose but a tiny budget, so went absolutely hogswild on the creativity. It fills me with joy.
> Hundreds of Beavers (2022)
Hundreds of Beavers! So pleased that someone else here has seen this awesome film
> You can't do 100% "show, don't tell" unless your movie is 15 hours long
You most certainly can, though it relies on trusting the audience.
Flow (2024)
Sasquatch Sunset (2024)
Hundreds of Beavers (2022)
All Quiet on the Western Front (1933) has a silent version. It was shot differently.
More - https://www.imdb.com/search/title/?num_votes=10000,&sound_mixes=silent&sort=user_rating,desc
Also I quite liked "All Is Lost" (2013) and of course "Hundreds of Beavers" (2022) for contemporary films