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Old 04-12-2016, 15:38
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Blade Runner, don't need some awful narration ruining tears in rain thank you very much.
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Old 04-12-2016, 18:41
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Shhhhhhhhh... you know the first rule of Fight Club.


Films with a narration that I especially liked:

Taxi Driver
Annie Hall
American Beauty
Chinatown
It's a Wonderful Life
Rebecca
To Kill A Mockingbird
A Streetcar Named Desire
LA Confidential
Grand Budapest Hotel
Wuthering Heights
Remains Of The Day
Arabian Nights (originally a TV mini series, but released on DVD as a full length film)
True Grit (2010)
Dr Zhivago


I'm going to stop now. Film titles are leaping into my head and I can't type fast enough.
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Old 05-12-2016, 10:07
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I was always under the impression that narration in a movie was always considered to be an artistically lazy way of telling the story?
Yes, I've heard that too. But as with all cinematic devices it's a question of how it's used (e.g. what it affords the visual narrative).

There's enough examples listed here that use it well and to the film's advantage - though if it's laziness you want few could beat the voice-over that informs us it was bacteria that killed the martians in Spielberg's War of the Worlds. About as slack-arsed as it gets.
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Old 05-12-2016, 11:38
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A while since I last watched it, but I don't think LA Confidential is narrated, as such. It has a Danny Devito v/o - speaking the words of the magazine editorials his character writes - which is used to introduce characters that have a lot of back-story from previous novels, but it's not as if it talks you through the plot, and the film certainly isn't from his p.o.v. as is usually the case with a narrator. The editorial style is also used heavily in the novel, so it wasn't just used as a story-telling device in the film.
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Old 05-12-2016, 19:18
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Did Lock Stock and 2 Smoking Barrels have narration?
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Old 09-12-2016, 16:21
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Trainspotting.
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