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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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Aug 11, 2017 05:28
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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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Aug 11, 2017 05:37
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Well, they have robot babies now so you don't need real ones.
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Aug 11, 2017 05:39
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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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Aug 11, 2017 06:26
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actually op the subtitle is "The Winged Serpent"
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Aug 11, 2017 06:41
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God, that movie was poo poo from front to back, wasn't it?
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Aug 11, 2017 07:16
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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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Aug 11, 2017 10:58
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Jesus Christ she's everywhere.
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Aug 11, 2017 11:40
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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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Aug 11, 2017 14:59
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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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Aug 11, 2017 16:06
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That baby got hair for days. What movie is that from?
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Aug 11, 2017 16:17
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One of the later Twilight sequels.
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Aug 11, 2017 17:08
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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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Aug 11, 2017 18:57
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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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Aug 11, 2017 20:45
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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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Aug 11, 2017 21:03
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how is vampire babby formed?
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Aug 12, 2017 00:31
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Christmas On Mars, op
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Aug 12, 2017 02:56
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Children of Men sorta
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Aug 12, 2017 12:30
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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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Aug 12, 2017 17:32
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Bringing up baby Baby driver
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Aug 12, 2017 17:49
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bitterandtwisted posted:Baby driver I heard this was good
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Aug 12, 2017 18:20
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Raising Arizona?
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Aug 12, 2017 23:32
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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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Aug 13, 2017 02:59
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Does Three Men And A Baby count?
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Aug 13, 2017 04:42
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Non-horror? To hell with this thread.
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Aug 13, 2017 04:58
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Shoot 'Em Up
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Aug 13, 2017 06:16
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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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Aug 13, 2017 07:19
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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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Aug 13, 2017 09:24
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Pick posted:I heard this was good It's a lot of fun, would recommend.
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Aug 13, 2017 12:48
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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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Aug 13, 2017 15:11
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Jenny Angel posted:Shoot 'Em Up Oh that's a good one.
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Aug 13, 2017 18:36
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Hat Thoughts posted:actually op the subtitle is "The Winged Serpent"
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Aug 13, 2017 20:11
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Tsotsi is pretty decent.
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Aug 13, 2017 21:04
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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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Aug 13, 2017 21:07
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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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Aug 14, 2017 00:29
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Also, Labyrinth
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Aug 14, 2017 00:29
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F8 of the Furious
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Aug 14, 2017 01:07
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A Serbian Film.
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Aug 14, 2017 06:32
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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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Aug 14, 2017 06:43
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Raising Arizona you idiot
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