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It's been a awhile since this subject has been on the threads, and they always evoke some awesome responses. A film that is a feast for the eye can have beautiful scenery, set designs, costumes, makeup/hair, cinematography, etc. Even if the story and/or the premise and poorly executed kudos can still be given to all those who made the film visually excellent. (I'm looking at you Ve Neill!) I'll start with the usual suspects, Yimou Zhang's films Raise the Red Lantern  Hero  House of Flying Daggers  Curse of the Golden Flower  Tarsem Singh film's (Serious kudos to Eiko Ishioka, who did the costumes) The Cell  The Fall  What Dreams may Come  Bram Stoker's Dracula  Ivan's Childhood  [img]  Apocalypse Now  Romeo + Juliet   What are some of your favorites? Chai Hulud fucked around with this message at Nov 07, 2009 around 23:16 |
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Speed Racer. That movie was such a visual treat. Easily my favorite movie from last year. I guess it was just too colorful for everyone's brown Gears of War tastes.
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Sukiyaki Western Django The movie actively defies reason in favor of beautiful or badass imagery like the scene above. I couldn't find a good picture, but I particularly love the opening scene. It features a backdrop of a Japanese style painting of a Western desert-scape at sundown. Miike deliberately draws attention to the artificial construct of the scene by having blood splatter on the backdrop as a man is gunned down. It's way out there and very cool.
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The Fountain is stunning.  Some people will say what they will about the flaws in Sunshine, but I don't think anyone can deny that it's gorgeous throughout.  And probably an unexpected one, but some shots in Jarhead are fantastic. 
The Arsonist fucked around with this message at Nov 07, 2009 around 22:34 |
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Detective No. 27 posted:Speed Racer. That movie was such a visual treat. Easily my favorite movie from last year. drat, beaten on the first reply. Oh well, here's some more pretty pictures!    That movie was like your dreams being put on film.
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The. Holy. loving. Mountain. NWS for titties http://img.waffleimages.com/3c65a67...ly_Mountain.jpg  
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Dont have screen shots handy, but The Fifth Element fits pretty well here. Looks gorgeous on top of being a great action movie.
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| # ? Nov 07, 2009 22:58 |
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Mr.48 posted:Dont have screen shots handy, but The Fifth Element fits pretty well here. Looks gorgeous on top of being a great action movie. The costumes were designed by on of my favorite designers. Jean Paul Gaultier 
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300 Spartans! Prepare to be artsy!  
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Heh Arsonist I have all of those in my collection, we must have similar tastes. Some of my favorites - Ridley Scott's movies always look great, specifically The Duellists, Black Hawk, Legend, Kingdom of Heaven, Alien, Blade Runner...  Anything shot by Roger Deakins, like The Man Who Wasn't There and The Assassination of Jesse James by the coward Robert Ford.  Ratatouille is Pixar's best looking movie.  N-thing Singh...  Apocalypto's make-up and costumes.  Kubrick, duh, 2001, Strangelove... (haven't seen Lyndon yet but I'd expect it to crop up here)  Malick, Days of Heaven, The New World...  The Proposition.  Voyna i Mir (War and Peace, 1967)  Also in no particular order I love the look of Lemony Snicket, Road to Perdition, Stalker, Children of Men, A Very Long Engagement, Revolver, Sayat Nova, Sin City, There Will Be Blood, Blueberry, Amadeus, The Matrix, Schindler's List, Wes Anderson's stuff, Fincher's stuff, ditto about The Fountain, 300, Speed Racer, Yimou, Jodorowsky... Holcane fucked around with this message at Nov 08, 2009 around 00:41 |
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Chai Hulud posted:Romeo + Juliet To this day, part of me hopes another director will try to take the same approach to other Shakespeare works. It seems like it'd be easy to pull off with Hamlet or Macbeth, for instance, and Shakespeare being in the public domain with scripts already written and there existing a multitude of actors with Shakespeare experience makes it seem like the whole thing would produce itself. Screenshots of this and other movies coming if/when I get the chance.
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Nthing The Fall. Besides being a brilliantly told narrative, every single shot is as valid a work of art as a Rembrandt or Vermeer painting in a museum. Not just the visuals, but the rhythm and movement of shots. It's one thing to have an overall empty film that looks great (Speed Racer), but this an eye candy apple. I don't hesitate to say it's my favorite film from this decade. Jacques Tati's Play Time is more of a buffet. You get to pick out what parts of the detail-saturated frames to focus on. Each viewing. It's a tapestry of a film comedy. 
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Egbert Souse posted:Nthing The Fall. Besides being a brilliantly told narrative, every single shot is as valid a work of art as a Rembrandt or Vermeer painting in a museum. Not just the visuals, but the rhythm and movement of shots. It's one thing to have an overall empty film that looks great (Speed Racer), but this an eye candy apple. I don't hesitate to say it's my favorite film from this decade. I love this movie, and my absolute favorite scene is the Wedding. Something about takes my breath away everytime I watch it. Sadly this video is missing the brilliant transition to the next scene, but oh well. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ai7FKfXbO-c
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CloseFriend posted:To this day, part of me hopes another director will try to take the same approach to other Shakespeare works. It seems like it'd be easy to pull off with Hamlet or Macbeth, for instance, and Shakespeare being in the public domain with scripts already written and there existing a multitude of actors with Shakespeare experience makes it seem like the whole thing would produce itself. Titus?
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For all its flaws, Crime and Punishment in Suburbia is one of the most visually striking high school films I've ever seen. Sorry these are in ten minute chunks, but... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6P9iBohte3k Peep the first thirty seconds or so and then fast forward to 4:25, which is the best depiction of a pep rally ever.
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bad movie knight
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McSpanky posted:drat, beaten on the first reply. Oh well, here's some more pretty pictures! Ew, I'd rather just look into a bag of Skittles.
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| # ? Nov 08, 2009 02:53 |
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Let's just throw a few more up for The Fall. Because seriously, its that good. 
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The Fall has been brought up plenty of times but people forget that its main influence was clearly Baraka (I don't have any screencaps, just go loving watch it)
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Cacator posted:The Fall has been brought up plenty of times but people forget that its main influence was clearly Baraka (I don't have any screencaps, just go loving watch it) Sort of. Baraka is only cited in the chant scene and the whirling dancers. Baraka is amazing, though. No story, just absolutely stunning 70mm cinematography.
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Lawrence of Arabia is the most beautifully shot film ever. Period. Especially this:
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Gangs of New York is breathtaking visually.
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It seems like everything I've thought of has been posted except for Casshern. Please forgive the horribly small screenshot: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=emYqURahUKI The plot is really just stupid but the visuals are breath taking.
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People seem to forget that The Fall, no matter how pretty, was still a piece of poo poo. One of my favorite visual treats has always been Altered States.   It truly does need to be seen in motion to really take in the experience.
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| # ? Nov 08, 2009 07:53 |
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I think Eyes Wide Shut is Kubrick's best looking film. The pushed exposure and natural lighting has an awesome dreamy quality.
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Chet Buttsman posted:People seem to forget that The Fall, no matter how pretty, was still a piece of poo poo. I wouldn't go so far as to call it a piece of poo poo, but it isn't very good. Besides the multitude of films it rips off (including the one it's a remake of), it never strikes the right tone, and often just feels like a series of excuses for yet another "money shot". It is a visual feast, though, so it certainly belongs there. This is one of those threads that's going to drive me crazy because there's sooooo many great examples and I want to list them all. A few at a time, though... Werckmeister Harmonies, Damnation, The Man From London and Satantango - Hard to pick one scene from the master of the ultra-long take, but I decided to go with this short one as a brief glimpse. For a longer taste, this blows my mind. The Conformist - Some of my favorite cinematography ever. Dance scene I Am Cuba - The famous rooftop/pool scene. Mikhail Kalatozov did four films with cinematographer Sergei Urusevsky. The Letter Never Sent and The Cranes Are Flying also have absolutely stunning camerawork. I have yet to see The First Echelon. The Red Shoes - I hate ballet, but this is stunning. Pretty much everything Jack Cardiff did with Powell & Pressburger is fantastic. Amelie - Easier to just post the trailer than try to isolate a specific moment. All of Jeunet's films have beautifully stylized visuals. Cremaster 1 - I really need to get around to seeing the rest of these. Here's the first. Anh Hung Tran - The Scent of Green Papaya and The Vertical Ray of the Sun Ming-liang Tsai - The Wayward Cloud and I Don't Want to Sleep Alone FitFortDanga fucked around with this message at Nov 10, 2009 around 20:36 |
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No screencaps but Never Cry Wolf was pretty excellent. You sure get the feeling of the desolation of the arctic at the beginning. Apparently also Disney's first movie with a bare rear end. Oh cool the whole thing is on youtube. I like this clip starting about 6:00 after the pilot drops him off. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_IPy...feature=related RoadKnight fucked around with this message at Nov 08, 2009 around 11:50 |
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Le Haine Wind that Shakes the Barley  Withnail and I  Sunday  I have to admit I am far more heavily effected by scenes of realism the by over the top streams of colours (though they are beautiful to) but the films I have listed had visuals which had an actual emotional effect on me. For some reason the films which inspire rage dulled by melancholy reflection are my cup of tea 
Soviet Stranger fucked around with this message at Nov 08, 2009 around 12:45 |
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Chet Buttsman posted:People seem to forget that The Fall, no matter how pretty, was still a piece of poo poo. This is honestly the first time I've ever heard about someone talk about severely disliking this film. I mean, I can understand of it doesn't appeal to your personal taste, but the way you call it a "piece of poo poo" makes it sound like you think most people agree with you... and they don't. Anywho... Lust for Life (1956), the biography of Vincent Van Gogh, while nothing more than a "kinda good" film, is made to look like it were a moving painting of Vincent's. It uses shots at static angles, brightly colored landscapes and scenery, and caricaturized, overly dramatic characters. It even goes as far as to re-create some of Vincent Van Gogh's paintings by aranging the furniture in a specific pattern and such. There aren't any big explosions or mythical kingdoms, and the way that they mimic his artwork is very subtle, but it gives you the feeling that you've just walked through the Van Gogh museum in Amsterdam. Also, here are some films that are generally labeled "bad", mostly by nothing but film snobs, but still have some beautiful special effects. The Matrix: Reloaded http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HVrGMnk5E_M http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9zGw7gnUtHY The Matrix: Revolution http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NhoaoTZJSX4 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GCcM5cRtEok http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ja1Zf-XhaK0 Star Wars: Episode III http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tKQ8_ZJiwqo http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dRFUoqA_vm0 And of course, that scene. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c6bEs3dxjPg
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Seconding Sunshine, one of my favourite films of the past decade. The combination of exquisite cinematography and well-exeucted visual effects make this one of most beautiful films I've seen in the cinemas for a long time. This is my favourite shot in the movie. Yep, that's a guy in the middle of the image. There's also another excellent shot which shows Capa and Keneda on the ship's shield and then the "camera" pulls out to reveal the whole shield which is the size of Manhattan. Wowzers! Also, I'm really looking forward to Gaspar Noe's Enter the Void. I haven't seen it yet, but check out the pics in the link below; the man knows how to shoot a film (especially night-club scenes). Most reviews of the film so far say it's like the StarGate sequence in 2001, but goes for 150 minutes. drat, it's gotta be the most visually assaulting/beautiful film ever made! http://www.letempsdetruittout.net/g.../index.asp?v=22 Also seconding The Matrix Revolutions, honestly one of the most visually stunning films I've ever seen.
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Holcane posted:Ridley Scott's movies always look great, specifically The Duellists, Black Hawk, Legend, Kingdom of Heaven, Alien, Blade Runner... yeah, ridley scott's visuals are fantastic and they hold up very well. the opening panoramic scenes of blade runner will always be breathtaking.
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I really enjoy the use of bright colours, beautiful landscape and large numbers of extras in Kurosawa's Ran. It's such a classic in every way, and fulfills the promise of epicness inherent in the story. More recently I have been wowed by Von Trier's Antichrist and Lynch's Inland Empire. Both are very poetic films and a treat visually, with distinctive camerawork, lighting and cinematography, creating a unique mood.
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Kagemusha is just a gorgeous film all round, but the two scenes that stick in my memory are the dream sequence, and that shot of the army marching along, with the sun setting in the background: Click here for the full 800x447 image.  Ran too. You could take near any single frame from Ran and hang it on a wall. The entire film is just beautiful... 
Oberleutnant fucked around with this message at Nov 08, 2009 around 19:22 |
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I'm not at all a fan of horror/thriller movies, but 28 Days Later is up on my list of all time faves. Another awesome looking movie is Coraline. By far the best clay-mation film ever. Oh, and Aeon Flux, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Where the Wild Things Are, and I'm Not There, too. Speed Racer was the first bluray I watched on my new projector, I think I cried while I was watching it.
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Jellymouth posted:Also, here are some films that are generally labeled "bad", mostly by nothing but film snobs  keep telling yourself that. Most of those shots aren't that impressive either.
McSpanky fucked around with this message at Nov 08, 2009 around 21:23 |
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Fight Club Click here for the full 1706x960 image.  Click here for the full 1706x960 image.
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Jellymouth posted:Also, here are some films that are generally labeled "bad", mostly by nothing but film snobs, but still have some beautiful special effects. I too think a bunch of people have a huge stick up their rear end about the Matrix sequels, but you picked possibly the worst example. The effects in the Burly Brawl are really...well...lame. The Freeway Chase, however, left me stunned. I went back to see the movie again, just for that scene. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oKaT2WWHM_o http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nXv4sevp3co Now this scene works visually, but some of the acting...whoo, awful. Check out the head agent in this scene. He's stiffer than Keanu.
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The City Of Lost Children Jeunet & Caro + Steampunk = Win. They really went nuts for this one.     
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The Searchers is amazing in high def, every other shot is some amazing vista of the west:
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TheBigBudgetSequel posted:The Freeway Chase, however, left me stunned. I went back to see the movie again, just for that scene. The highway chase is cool because it's something we hadn't seen before and provided some unique fight scenarios, unlike most of the other sequel fights which were pretty much just more of the same (but with a slightly nauseating thick shade of green over everything).
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Barry Lyndon   
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