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I just saw The Equalizer over the weekend while visiting a friend, and although the plot itself was nothing to write home about, the movie was stunning to watch. Wow. I wouldn't mind framing some of the stills from it and putting them on my wall.

Similarly, pretty much any movie that came out of CoMix Wave is drop-dead gorgeous. Garden of Words, for example.

Any other movies that just blow you away, visually, regardless of other content?

If you want visually stunning films, let me introduce you to your new best friend:


Wong Kar-Wai

Just... watch:
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I'm a cinematography geek. I live for this stuff. I could seriously list movies for days on end.

5 Centimeters per Second (anime movie)

This isn't really the entire show or a whole movie or anything like that, but when I watched the last half of Matt Smith's series 7 of Doctor Who - the interior of the Tardis was so appealing. Like a mesh of classic and modern Doctor Who.


I love the cuts and sequences in Raiders of the Lost Ark - the play a lot with shadows and give a throwback to some noir.

Sure there's a lot of other stuff that I'm blanking out at the moment. But those came to mind immediately.

Well, I really liked the visual style of 'Dick Tracy'. I liked the choice to cast everything in bright primary colours, to echo the old comic strips. It was kind of the anti-'Sin City' in that regard (among others).

Not sure I know from stunning. I kind of don't notice it a lot. Like, it usually takes a few viewings before I come round to appreciating the visuals-----first couple times I'm too firmly entrenched in the plot and characters and dialogue and all to notice much of the spectacle.

Dick Tracy was fun to look at. Not sure about the plot. I swear there were like 3 montages where the writers were probably too lazy to write out something good and instead wanted to slap a montage.

^I won't swear one way or the other, but I remember two montages------one of them being the 'Sooner or Later' one (the music of which earned Madonna an Oscar nod).

Don't have much of a problem with 'good/bad guys winning' montages, not if it tightens up the pacing of a movie.

Incidentally, you know, that Madonna is a pretty good actress. Like, so far as I remember, I've only ever seen her in the 'Dick Tracy' and 'League of Their Own' flicks, and she was good. She was really alright.

The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford





Sin City





Ghost in the Shell 2: Innocence





Blade Runner





Brazil





A Scanner, Darkly

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Don't have much of a problem with 'good/bad guys winning' montages, not if it tightens up the pacing of a movie.
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Ehhhh I find that they're usually throwaways. Captain America: The First Avenger did one and it was horrible. The first half of that movie was good and then the second half was like they suddenly hired a 5 year old to play with their action figures and record the sequence of events from that.

I dunno. Now that I really over-think it the Captain America one could be justified because it was a war after all. Augh. I dunno. I find myself groaning and losing attention when there's a montage. If I'm ever tired that's the moment when I think, "Good, I can rest my eyes now."


[QUOTE="Booyakasha, post: 1493530, member: 17381"]
Incidentally, you know, that Madonna is a pretty good actress. Like, so far as I remember, I've only ever seen her in the 'Dick Tracy' and 'League of Their Own' flicks, and she was good. She was really alright.[/QUOTE]

Yeah she was real good in Dick Tracy. But my first experience with her on screen was Die Another Day.

^Oh, sure, as the fencing coach.

Rest of the movie was kind of garbage, but that swordfight was pretty hype.

I really liked Gotham City in Tim Burton's Batman movies. It had a mesh of modern, retro and then industrial. Very unique. I think there was a term for it but I'm blanking out on it. They carried some if it into the Batman Animated Series too.