Topic: Visually Stimulating Movies (Read 4502 times)

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people always said that about star wars, but i never felt that way!  the thing that impresses me perhaps the most about blade runner is that after 25 years, it doesn't feel even remotely cheesy to me.  this is an incredibly rare quality for early sci-fi movies (see: dune) and speaks a lot about the believability of it.  that is what it is, i think.  it felt REAL and BELIEVABLE and i did not really think of it as a set so much as a place that existed.  star wars on the other hand feels incredibly cheesy to me and the effects speed dated and unconvincing in comparison.  maybe i am being too harsh on it and the way it come off is a result of it essentially being a children's movie whereas blade runner really wasn't, though.
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Man I can't believe I forgot about this one until now, but Delicatessen had an amazing visual atmosphere.  It doesn't have to say a dang thing about being post-apocolyptic or give you enough time to figure it out through the story before you already KNOW it is, just based on the COLORS pretty much.  It just has this entire look of "something terrible has happened here", and between the colors and the filmwork, it just...I don't know it just comes together beautifully!
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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.

are you fucking kidding me.

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fffffff man I even saw this movie when my friends and I went to the dollar fifty theater and its fucking awful goddammit this is like someone saying "looking for indie artists" and posting ICP.
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oh I thought videodrome was scary just because James Wood is in it
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Terrence Malick films: Days of Heaven, The Thin Red Line, Badlands and The New World



Almost any Stanley Kubrick film, particularly 2001, Barry Lyndon and The Shining.
Apocalypse Now
The Godfather

Wings of Desire:


Close Encounters of the Third Kind (so much brilliant light!)

Manhattan:

there will be blood
fucking wall-e
shadows:

dammnnn why can;t i think of any? tired and slightly drunkard. hmmm...





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Mmm.. dunno if you find these pretty cause I found many of the above nothing special.
I never thought anyone would've seen Mirrormask. Got it cause of Neil Gaiman :P


Took this instead of the trailer cause this is one of the creepier scenes in the movie. Oh, it's about
cannibals in a post-apocalyptic france (I'm not joking).

This one's a stunning movie. Same fellows that did Delicatessen.

Tideland. Awesome movie as well.

NBC.. well anything made by Tim Burton is usually pretty >_>


This is just personal taste I guess.
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ahh! very cool, bonehead, thanks, i'll probably watch tideland tonight... from the trailor it remings me a lot of Pan's Labrynth.

i've heard of the lost children before, though i hadn't seen the trailor, looks pretty good too!

yeah, NBC is great. i can NOT wait for his alice in wonderland. i'm obsessed with that story/lewis carroll.

what was teh first movie you put up? there are a few actors from amelie in that- also, is it french? if so, je la regarderai tout de suite!
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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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a lot of people around here have seen mirrormask.  it was up in the zoo for quite a while, i think.  i liked it (i did not know the girl in it was like 25 tho; she looked so young!).  also delicatessen rules.
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i've just watched mind game again and yeah it's probably the most "visually stimulating" film i've seen, especially the although it's not just the visuals, the music is great too. that film is very life affirming and makes me go "whoah!!!!" every time i watch it. watch it on a big screen if you can. i haven't yet, but i'm gonna.
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Yeah Mind Game fucken rules

whenever I see a picture of neil gaiman I think he looks like dragonx from gaming world lol
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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.

i would probably hate it... the story itself was so sad. i did like the movie, but only for the awesome "imagination parts" if you will. the best part of the movie was probably the creepy guy with the hands for eyes.

also, yeah, neil gaiman is amazing.


open question: does anyone know the movie about the man who ages backwards (born old, gets younger)? was it any good?



whoa that girl is 25?!
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i don't know if benjamin button is any good (doesn't it come out christmas day?) but it's based on an f scott fitzgerald short story and it looks good.
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i thought it sounded interesting, but i have seen the commercial for it on hulu about 30 times now and it just comes off as hokey as fuck to me at this point.  it reminds me of big fish in that bullshit WHIMSICAL//FANTASTICAL TALE OF LOVE way.
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wtf, are you guys watching the same mind game i watched?? the anime-looking one?

i thought it was pretty much complete garbage. i forgot most of it by now (i forgot to log on and rant about it when i finished watching it) but holy shit it was so bad i couldn't even finish it. the only interesting scene was pretty much the one that panda linked where they make love on the boat, but the rest of it is pretty much ANIME. seriously, the story blows, the characters are shit, BRA CONSTANTLY FLASHING, uninteresting, etc. i can't believe you made me watch that horseshit.
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you didnt get it
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actually i would normally say HMMM WHY WOULD YOU THINK THIS but if you think it is "pretty much ANIME" then really, you didn't get it or have no idea what anime is
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no i don't, lol anime noob right here, why dont u tell me what the TRUE ESSENCE of anime is.

the animation was interesting, at least.
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YES I AM A HUGE ANIME FAN, THAT IS ME flowerpower dont tell me you want to do this man *cracks knuckles*