Do people in general really think stuff like The Fountain is pretty
like it is pretty but it's in such a new-agey and/or religious art-looking sort of way like whoa Jesus has a gold halo are you fucking kidding me man? I mean stuff like the Sistine Chapel is pretty but some religious art seems kind of blingy and like the actual picture is like flat stick people in a field with no perspective (I realize they couldn't even do that stuff yet I just think it's funny sometimes ok)
Darjeeling limited
Anyway, I am always fond of Wes Anderson films in a visual way. I find them to very vibrant and optimistic. The best examples are probably The life Aquatic with Steve Zissou and The Darjeeling Limited.
^^^this was such a fucking boring movie and the visuals got old and looked like a pbs special and it even uses the stupid HAH PARIS IS IN COLOR BUT IRAN ISN'T...COLOR IS FREEDOM shit that got played out in pleasantville in conclusion fuck you velfarre.
I think the art direction is quite impressive in the fountain. A lot of the images from all three time lines has a hint of gold to it that represents the nebula (which is naturally that colour). By using this colour throughout the movie, it is creating a pallet that we see in full effect in the climatic scene at the end when he enters the nebula. Not to mention that instead of CG, the filmed microscopic reactions in petri dishes (like in 2001). I'm not sure what you're getting at when you talk about the old religious paintings being out of perspective, not that I don't agree with you, but not sure how it is relevant to this film.Thanks for the support bud!
Anyway, I am always fond of Wes Anderson films in a visual way. I find them to very vibrant and optimistic. The best examples are probably The life Aquatic with Steve Zissou and The Darjeeling Limited.
The life aquatic with Steve Zissou
Edit: Waking Life is cool but now it reminds me of a Citibank commercial or whatever fuck those commercials
seriously there were all these HORNS.AIFF moments in that movie. heh her boyfriend is gay. heh her new boyfriend? SURPRISE he's a cheater. the entire part about her had all the feel of a disney special about two basketball teams ones rich the other is from the ghetto and one rich kid accidentally goes to the ghetto team and learns what REALLY matters.
hey were you guys aware this existed
It was based on an autobiography so there's only so much you can do about that.
you shouldn't excuse real life situations being played as cliches. I've read Persepolis, and maybe the change in media added it or I don't remember it well but I don't remember it being so predictable.
videodrome
i thought the movie wasn't as good as the book because they kind of glossed over interesting things and in general it seemed very condensed but i liked the book a lot. honestly the entire thing is comprehensive a narration of her life so i don't really know what you want her to do. WHELP i'll omit this significant part of my life because its a lil "clich" lol
The movie has the feel of the comic book, a first-person diary of a girl life as she matures, enters adulthood and figures out who the fuck she's supposed to be. Satrapi's comic books are comprised of stark black and white images which have a stark minimalism to them. That works fine in print. In the movie, though, the same approach gets tiresome. By using the same aesthetic, Persepolis doesn't graphically illuminate the comics. It looks too simplistic and doesn't add information to what she's already done. Instead, it has the feel of some bad PBS show that wants to get artsy with animation but doesn't have the money to do it right. The only time there is color is when Satrapi escapes to France. That's a pretty fucking trite way to use it. See? Black and white is prison, and color is freedom. Ooooooo.
The soundtrack doesn't help, either. It's performed by a string quartet, or quintet or whatever, that is probably competent. However, they are used too simplistically and again not to illuminate. Visual and spoken punchlines receive cheap little string rimshots very much like I've seen on children's shows--usually about baby birds or lost penguins--where the same sounds are used to tell kids when to laugh, or at least to stop crying. Why do I watch children's shows on PBS? Because I think everyone should watch PBS to get more culture and be better educated. I watch the kid's shows because I don't understand the shit they put on for adults. Plus, I can't afford cable, so PBS is the only place IO have a shot of seeing any nudity, even if it's a documentary about African tribes..
Seeing the Islamic Revolution through the eyes of a young girl is an exciting prospect. Especially when she has westernized. We know the story is sympathetic to the Western opinion of the revolution. That part of the story is pretty fucking great. We get to see how a child can be confused and easily swayed by a protest march or her parents' opinions. We see how children sought out heros and also played at being them, while at the same time there was war going on and the games the kids played were real and fatal to adults.
The Revolution and Iraq-Iran War are not what the movie's about, though. Not enough, anyway. Persepolis is about Marjane Satrapi, It follows her to Vienna and through puberty, making new friends and discovering boys. That is way too much of the moive and is handled tritely. Satrapi comes across as a bit of a pain in the ass, and boring as hell. The first boy she made love to turned out to be gay. Cue the cutesy punchline music. The next one, whom she rambles on about being so perfect, is caught in bed with another girl. Of course he is. Why else would we have to endure all her poetic waxing? She also marries and divorces in quick order. The movie is her story and impartial at that. Satrapi wants us to know these things happened, but isn't bothered to tell us 1) why we should care, and 2) the other side or much information at all. Apparently, they have the Lifetime Channel in Iran or Vienna, too.
hey were you guys aware this existed
what does bother me is the Islamic Revolution parts ARE interesting, especially when it's so rarely covered in the West. but the movie was pretty fucking boring. also Persepolis 2, which is more about her life, sucks compared to 1.
i've had this on my hard drive for months. i don't watch it cos i think it's gonna be gross and i like to eat something while i'm watching a movie and i don't think i'd be able to do that with this.it is pretty gross fyi
it is pretty gross fyi
what's it about?
gross how?
what is this, "salvador dali's disney adventure"?
I mean stuff like the Sistine Chapel is pretty but some religious art seems kind of blingy and like the actual picture is like flat stick people in a field with no perspective (I realize they couldn't even do that stuff yet I just think it's funny sometimes ok)Umm...
I really thought the Daft Punk video was clips from an old cartoon, or made to look like a specific cartoon from the 70s/80s, or edited from an old cartoon like Space Ghost or that Sealab show
Edit: As in designed to be reminiscent of something and not really meant as a serious plot that could be made into a movie
It's really common to laugh at like early pre-rennaisance art and shit :(
But it's like they aren't really out for creating Art, it served a function so I don't like when people compare like nameless craftsmen to masaccio or michelangelo or whatever. It's like comparing Jim Lee to Gerhard Richter.
Also a lot of the stuff is really cool, and I love it.
-urk sorry for the derail
Koyaanisqatsi
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hwYFxCnc9fg
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kAyDMvi01Ms
By Francis Ford Copolla, and music by Phillip Glass.
This is a beautifully orchestrated film. There is no dialouge and no characters, just film of various landscapes, industries, populations, and cities. Set to Glass's music, it plays out more like an extended symphonic music video.
Koyaanisquatsi equates to "life out of balance". You'll see awesome natural wonders, and then the hectic rat race of human life and industry. The message behind the movie is pretty simplistic, but it's fun to watch.
yeah I mean the whole feel of it is really interesting as a whole but I've seen some ones in particular that are like jesus did not have a smiley face and wheels ok you can do better than that
i liked blade runner but i do not know if i would call it visually stimulating!
i thought it was convincing and atmospheric, but i just don't really call a movie stimulating for NOT SUCKING. like "well it's not i, robot wat more could you want???" is a p flimsy justification for calling me on not finding it particularly stimulating. you should have to do more than not be THE VILLAGE to be considered really exceptional i think. i think in general that type of aesthetic and setting has just completely lost all of its impact on me. i have seen and envisioned so many virtually identical environments that as much as i like blade runner, i would not call anything like that stimulating if it did not do something really out of the ordinary or interesting beyond having WELL-CONSTRUCTED SETS. it was excellent at what it did, but what it did was not very intriguing i don't think (vissuals)).really? i'm not absolutely nuts about blade runner but i thought it had a pretty effective and intriguing visual aesthetic, particularly as far as films like that go. i'd go as far as saying that blade runner is probably one of the best examples of set design legitimately contributing to the atmosphere of the film, and really capturing an aesthetic of its own. sure this isn't an exceptionally important accomplishment but i do think it has undeniable merit.
wait is the fall out? i'd been meaning to watch it but didn't think it was out on dvd yet. i should download that; it always looked like something kind of worth watching.
also yeah cat soup is animated. if you are DOWN with that also watch mind game. it is generally an excellent movie all around but the animation is probably the best i've ever seen.
i guess some people would call it kind of cheesy, but i like it a lot. i guess i am gay for weird trippy kinds of animation
This is going to be really gay but the move Stick It has these really good gymnastics scenes where they mix all the takes together and the girls make these kaleidoscope patterns doing gymnastics. It's not consistent through the movie but I liked it enough that I thought I might become a gymnast for like a day.
Here is a clip, part of the scene is at the beginning and the rest starts at about 1:00. Watch out cause in between there is a guy doing gymnastics with his pants down. It's kinda cool IMO because the negative space is the mat, or the walls, not just a digital screen.
The movie itself is actually not bad if you can stand the disney meets 'bring it on' angle. Jeff Bridges can make even a gymnastics coach look like a badass.
Err, only word in french I do know is "oui" but the first movie's called Delicatessen. Think it's the
same guys that made Amelie (haven't seen that one though). Pan's Labyrinth was awesome.
If you liked that one, you'll either love or hate The Orphanage (basic story is almost exactly the same).
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I can't spell either.
Yeah Mind Game fucken rules
whenever I see a picture of neil gaiman I think he looks like dragonx from gaming world lol
why does everything in this forum lead to anime fights?well this isn't a fair question. nothing here leads to anime fights! this is the only time in recent memory i have even talked about it i think. tbh i was just in the mood for ANGRY INTERNET ARGUMENT. i am not the only one who does this so i imagine this is why many things on gw lead to senseless arguing. it is fun sometimes, pretending to be a dick/ultra angry over some dumb shit, especially since this topic is kind of boring if it is just HERE GO WATCH THIS. also it really was a dumb post so that helped lol
also, i watched tideland last night. it was HORRIBLE. wow. i'm so disturbed i actually had a nightmare about that decaying dead guy attacking me.Haha. Awww. Yeah I might have forgotten to tell you that it's a pretty sad movie.
i don't think i would consider that visually stimulating.. maybe nausea stimulating or nightmare stimulating.
...i did like the all white house though :)
really? you don't think the art is anime based? anime is generally categorized by exaggerated features/expressions and low quality animation (ie only mouth moving while the rest of the screen is just a single image). i'm pretty sure that movie does all that...oh you were talking about the art. yeah the art itself is p clearly influenced by anime for the most part, although!!!! i think it is a lot more creative and the way they integrate other non-anime styles makes me feel like the anime thing is somewhat downplayed. i thought you were referring to the tone and content though, which i didn't think was very ANIME at all (this might not actually be a proper adjective anywhere but gw).
also, i watched tideland last night. it was HORRIBLE. wow. i'm so disturbed i actually had a nightmare about that decaying dead guy attacking me.
i don't think i would consider that visually stimulating.. maybe nausea stimulating or nightmare stimulating.
...i did like the all white house though :)
what do you mean by the content being non-anime? isn't there an anime for every genre and type of movie?yeah i thought this would be unclear. idk there is ANIME and then there is NOTANIME and 99% of anime watches like it is anime, and the other 1% does not. that's what i meant. you watch something like INU YASHA!!! or idk, love hina or something and all you can think is "man this is so fucken anime", but this was never a thought i or the other people i talked to had about mindgame. it has a distinctly different tone/aesthetic i guess? idk it just WATCHES DIFFERENTLY. it's a little hard to explain.
cidade de deux btw
yeah i thought this would be unclear. idk there is ANIME and then there is NOTANIME and 99% of anime watches like it is anime, and the other 1% does not. that's what i meant. you watch something like INU YASHA!!! or idk, love hina or something and all you can think is "man this is so fucken anime", but this was never a thought i or the other people i talked to had about mindgame. it has a distinctly different tone/aesthetic i guess? idk it just WATCHES DIFFERENTLY. it's a little hard to explain.
forgive if someone has already mentioned this, but I didn't see it anywhere sooo
We Are the Strange is a movie made by Mdotstrange, one of the coolest peeps on youtube. the movie just looks really cool, it's pretty original and inspirational!
Yeah, it's the one with Heath Ledger, Depp and five billion other guys, right?
Terry Gilliam's cool. He did 12monkeys too and think someone mentioned Brazil before :P
el topo and the holy mountain, are two by alexander jorodowsky that have some neat images. don't bother reading anything into them though, you'll only be disappointed when you find out the director is genuinely mentally retarded. like cross sheppard with doktormartini and you have him seriously.
zardoz is a pretty cool movie visually and in terms of story line but i might have been distracted by a half naked sean conneryBwahaha, I saw this not too long ago and man. What the hell is he wearing?! How the hell did they make him wear it?!?
El Topo did have great images but I don't know if it fits into the same category of visually stimulating as the other movies people have been mentioning. I think it's a different kind of visual.