Best character development movies- modern and all-time

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Posted: 7/3/2017 11:28:15 PM EDT

In the last few years it's been pretty tough to find a good character movie with good dialog.

I actually liked Rogue One, and I think my favorite all-time is Best Years of our Lives.

Posted: 7/3/2017 11:32:53 PM EDT

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Shane

Posted: 7/3/2017 11:34:48 PM EDT

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Good call, that's the S of SCW, so I'm pretty partial to it. I didn't understand the real drama of the show, I just liked the big fistfight at the end.

Posted: 7/3/2017 11:35:39 PM EDT

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Witcher 3

Posted: 7/3/2017 11:42:49 PM EDT

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Good call, that's the S of SCW, so I'm pretty partial to it. I didn't understand the real drama of the show, I just liked the big fistfight at the end.

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Shane has So many lessons. The older I get the more I appreciate them.

Posted: 7/3/2017 11:51:06 PM EDT

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Who? Garelt? That bastard never changes.

Posted: 7/3/2017 11:54:51 PM EDT

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Yeah, I remember realizing that the wife actually had the hots for Shane a little bit, and the husband knew it. Then Shane realizes he's right in the middle and has to go, but needs to stay. Complex show.

Posted: 7/3/2017 11:55:16 PM EDT

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Rogue One really caught me by surprise. I was not expecting that. Because of that departure from the normal, I'm really looking forward to the next "off year" Star Wars film.

Posted: 7/3/2017 11:55:23 PM EDT

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Punisher and John Wick

Posted: 7/3/2017 11:57:11 PM EDT

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Haven't seen Punisher, but John Wick is your choice for character development?

Posted: 7/3/2017 11:57:12 PM EDT

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You forgot the fast and furious
Series

Posted: 7/3/2017 11:58:46 PM EDT

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Yeah, I remember realizing that the wife actually had the hots for Shane a little bit, and the husband knew it. Then Shane realizes he's right in the middle and has to go, but needs to stay. Complex show.

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If they ever remake it,
They'll probably have Shane as a gay with the dad trying to suck his dick

Posted: 7/4/2017 12:03:48 AM EDT

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Cheating because more time in a series.

Posted: 7/4/2017 12:05:22 AM EDT

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Rogue one had character development?

What?

Posted: 7/4/2017 12:07:12 AM EDT

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Rogue One really caught me by surprise. I was not expecting that. Because of that departure from the normal, I'm really looking forward to the next "off year" Star Wars film.

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Yep. I actually watched the original a while back with my son who was 5 at the time and was surprised at how bad the dialogue and characters were. RO was truely well done, those guys threw it all on the line and it would have been wrong for them to make it home.

Kinda like the end of Gladiator a few years back, he needed to die at the end and he did.

Posted: 7/4/2017 12:09:36 AM EDT

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Posted: 7/4/2017 12:10:35 AM EDT

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Pay attention to character actions, dialogue, plot, and story and you'll see a lot of things in movies/video games/TV shows/novels/comics.

Posted: 7/4/2017 12:11:27 AM EDT

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Walter White (not a movie)

ETA: See also, Jimmy McGill

Posted: 7/4/2017 12:15:03 AM EDT

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Winter's Bone

Posted: 7/4/2017 12:20:47 AM EDT

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Glengarry Glen Ross

Posted: 7/4/2017 12:25:00 AM EDT

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Scent of a Woman

scent of a woman flamethrower

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qMx-Lv_eZ3s

It's interesting, because it's the older guy who learns from the younger one.

Posted: 7/4/2017 12:25:35 AM EDT

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American Psycho

Posted: 7/4/2017 12:26:48 AM EDT

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Forrest Gump

12 O'Clock High

Posted: 7/4/2017 12:27:59 AM EDT

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Coffee is
For closers

Posted: 7/4/2017 12:28:12 AM EDT

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Groundhog's Day

Posted: 7/4/2017 12:28:32 AM EDT

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Should be mandatory in preschool

Posted: 7/4/2017 12:29:38 AM EDT

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The Godfather--Michael Corolene reluctantly turns into his father.

Posted: 7/4/2017 12:30:18 AM EDT

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Heat, great character development

Posted: 7/4/2017 12:30:35 AM EDT

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Citizen Kane

Bridge on the River Kwai

ETA
The Searchers

Lawrence of Arabia

Posted: 7/4/2017 12:33:22 AM EDT

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while I liked Rogue One, it's the definition of 'zero character development'

Posted: 7/4/2017 12:34:41 AM EDT

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LOTS of life's lessons going on here, and most are what we should probably not do.

Posted: 7/4/2017 12:39:50 AM EDT

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Unbroken

The Railway Man

Posted: 7/4/2017 12:42:30 AM EDT

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High Noon.

Conan, the Barbarian.

Posted: 7/4/2017 12:43:12 AM EDT

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Uh...

No development in Rey through the show? She never transcends from a selfish juvenile to someone who see the true nature of her father (a character loaded with complexities) and throws all she is and has after the same effort?

How about all the other members of her final team? They were established throughout the show as men who carried massive guilt for all the bad things they've done for a good end. They walked onto that last transport knowing it was a one-way trip, but they were desperate for a 'clean' and noble cause for their final act. Not only that, but they understood that the only way it would work was to go out fighting to the end.

Even all the supporting characters were developed. We knew each of their motives, fears and perspectives. Even the empire leaders and scientists.

Please describe the motives of Han Solo. It's pretty weak.

Posted: 7/4/2017 12:44:08 AM EDT

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Secondhand Lions

Posted: 7/4/2017 12:46:31 AM EDT

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What do you think character development means?

Posted: 7/4/2017 12:46:48 AM EDT

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The Green Mile

Posted: 7/4/2017 1:24:40 AM EDT

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Under Seige.

Posted: 7/4/2017 1:25:10 AM EDT

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Fern Gully.

Posted: 7/4/2017 1:29:59 AM EDT

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PeeWee's Big Adventure...

Posted: 7/4/2017 1:30:47 AM EDT

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Commando

Posted: 7/4/2017 1:43:53 AM EDT

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Naturally all the great shows do it better.

How bout shawshank?

Apocalypse now?

Posted: 7/4/2017 1:46:02 AM EDT

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Scarface?

Lol many Pacino movies here.

Some might not agree, but how about the matrix (first one)

Posted: 7/4/2017 1:47:45 AM EDT

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If we are gonna throw series in, Swearingen is way the hell up there.

Posted: 7/4/2017 1:53:25 AM EDT

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Haven't seen Punisher, but John Wick is your choice for character development?

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I don't know about best, but John Wick has a kind of forcefully oblique character development. It's all in the "past" but it juxtaposes the ruthless, cold blooded, mercenary with the loving husband and dog owner and it shows his break back to his past life brought on by a violent incident.

Also he shoots faces.