I'm looking for recommendations for 'pretty' movies (if you will) preferably related to the following movies. Bonus if they're creative/werid/artsy.



The Fountain

Mirrormask

2001: A Space Odyssey

What Dreams May Come
(Hm. Couldn't find a decent trailer for this one...)



Did anyone else here like these? All of them are really underrated ​  (well, maybe not 2001)



Also. No, I am not looking for porn.

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)

like to name a movie that was so pretty at times it really stuck out in my mind, I'd say like, The Constant Gardener or something

also Danny the Dog seemed really pretty for an action movie, I mean ugly but pretty. Like mostly the scenes in the apartment and stuff where he wasn't beating up dudes but in general I liked the way they handled things

Edit: Does the movie have to be good? Because I also thought Flightplan was so pretty at first when she's like in Belgium or wherever it is, it was like so atmospheric even if I didn't know why she was in Europe or anything I was all like whoa I hope this movie doesn't suck

then again that was a while ago it probably even was sucky visually

but in general I think COLORS and ANGLES are more appealing to me than random bright things

What Dreams May Come, fucking yes.

If you're looking for visually stimulating, Zhang Yimou's stuff is really impressive.

Hero
(This trailer doesn't really do it justice, also fan made)

House of Flying Daggers

Curse of the Golden Flower
(I couldn't stand this movie, and it gave me a headache. There's not as much fighting in it but it is visually impressive)

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)

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.

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

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.

Yes I'd say Wes Anderson before I said something like The Fountain

I didn't mean the religious paintings were out of perspective like in a rhetorical sense, I mean when you look at an old one from the Middle Ages and there's literally no sense of perspective in the picture - like maybe the trees are smaller but they don't actually look further away and everyone seems like they're standing single file (and baby Jesus always looks like a small adult) - but yeah I just meant where in general there's all this religious art with gold all over the place to make it seem godly I guess but it almost seems half like it's distracting from the sucky picture

I mean I know it probably took a lot of hard work but I just hate that particular aesthetic because it reminds me of a combination of that + those random shots in anime where somebody's in love and everything turns all gold and bubbly

the last shot in the trailer is like that + fighting Kefka in FFVI

I like the way Mirrormask does it a lot more but I dunno I'm still not like I MUST SEE THIS

I thought Persepolis was fucking beautiful:


When I first started to watch it I didn't think it would be so nice since it was in black and white, but dang, I've never seen something in black and white be so vivid, especially in the war/history scenes.

^^^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.

wes anderson only got one type of style. but speaking of him and tim burton, check out bryan fuller's pushing daisies (CANCELLED SOON NO DOUBT) for something on tv that looks neat as hell and please consider this a not so subtle hint to check it out, especially considering it'll be canceled soon.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dVk7o_qZulw

then you have obvious ones like waking life

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_VxQuPBX1_U

or something fucked like fritz the cat

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1_17Qb8V5ds

theres all sorts of neat visual shit in older movies too, like the camera angles in citizen kane or the cabinet of dr. caligari where they painted the shadows on the floor to make them striking.

damn I looked at Persepolis and thought wow that looks like a style it would take a lot to get tired of

Edit: Waking Life is cool but now it reminds me of a Citibank commercial or whatever fuck those commercials

^^^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 didn't think it was boring at all and the visuals were fantastic and it wasn't that paris was in color it was that the PRESENT was in color which is played out yeah but also that is such a fucking small piece of the movie and also fuck you back that is all

speaking of Fritz the Cat/sketchy 60s/70s cartoon movies:


obviously the coolest movie ever

hmm lets see we can cover the sad history of iran and how the revolution failed despite promising so much orrrrrrr I CAN SHOW YOU MY BOOOOOYFRIEND!!!

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.

"heh I was the star player on the rich kids team...ghetto team is lucky to have me" *plays a game, loses* "wh...what? is it possible the ref unfairly judged the games before?" *ponders*

99 Problems But The Rich Ain't One, coming to Disney and ABC Family.

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.

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

Thanks for the support bud!

I'm going to be boring. Here's mine:

Edit: Waking Life is cool but now it reminds me of a Citibank commercial or whatever fuck those commercials

The same r.scoping techniques where used... that or the same people. It was definitely the same style as seen in A Scanner Darkly (which was horrible, but go check it out for the visuals perhaps?).

Mentioning Waking Life and A Scanner Darkly:


Coming to an Oscars ceremony near you (or just in the US).

looks more like 3d models being rotoscoped, which gives it a DARK CLOUD 2 fake feel.

they've got a cartoon/flash/cutout-like movement that I kinda like, but the way it seems to be used with the dialogue in that trailer makes the movie look really boring (I have no sound atm so maybe not)

guillermo del toro loves pretty shit, I feel kinda boring suggesting Pan's Labyrinth but lets do it anyway

hey were you guys aware this existed

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.

It was based on an autobiography so there's only so much you can do about that.

hey were you guys aware this existed

I heard it was being worked on.. then dropped for like 30 years... then picked up again. I saw a two minute trailer once and that's the last I've heard of it.