Remember when? Or are you watching it right now? Prologues, exposition, the past invading the present. What flashback worked best or not at all? Any story need a flashback or have too many?
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Oh, Future War gets a piece of cake, that’s for sure. I think one of the riffs is something to the effect of: “His flashback is gonna end at the beginning of the flashback!”
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Remember the great flashbacks we used to have?
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The intro to The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001) is a such striking flashback and one of the most effective in modern times. It established the mythology in one clear voice.
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Worse flashbacking than Cave Dwellers (1984)?
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Don’t forget that the flashback came during an extended flashback (which was pretty much the entire movie - when does “tiny bit of present/extended flashback” become “tiny flashforward/extended present”?).
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We all know any Wayne’s World flashback is the best.
(Technically not a flashback scene, but whatever.)
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The Resurrected has flashbacks within flashbacks within flashbacks. And the whole movie is essentially a flashback.
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The Greatest Flashback Ever? Certainly my favorite.
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I couldn’t easily find a gif of one of the actual flashbacks.
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I am rewatching Cave Dwellers right now to find out!
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Cave Dwellers had the “Ator’s sister/wife died on the way back to her own planet” moment too.
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Angels Revenge is like 65% flashback.
Mike: “THAT was a long flashback.”
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Let’s not forget the riveting and entirely pointless flashback sequences at the end of Gamera vs. Gaos. No context, no purpose, nothing. Just scenes from previous movies.
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That’s much like the beginning of Gamera vs. Jiger, it’s just clips of other Gamera movies. He’s really neat, though.
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Santo and the Treasure of Dracula. Not only is half of the movie a flashback, you get the scintillating storytelling device of characters watching the flashback!
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Well if we’re counting regression into a past life, there’s also The Undead.
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INTERACTIVE FLASHBACK!!! WAVE OF THE FUTURE!!!
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Uh, how do we count something like Memento?
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