Really Pretty Movies/Shows

Apollo the Just · #1

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?

Bomby · #2

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.

ScottyMcGee · #3

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.

#4

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.

ScottyMcGee · #5

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.

#6

^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.

Deepfake · #7

The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford

Sin City

Ghost in the Shell 2: Innocence

Blade Runner

Brazil

A Scanner, Darkly

ScottyMcGee · #8

[QUOTE="Booyakasha, post: 1493530, member: 17381"]
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.

#9

^Oh, sure, as the fencing coach.

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

ScottyMcGee · #10

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.