What is the most visual movie you have seen?
What movie stunned you with it’s visual artistry? I’m not just talking about special effects but film as an art?
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Akira
At the time, the animation was groundbreaking, as Fantasia was for its time.
A Walk in the Clouds
A crap Keanau Reeves movie with amazing cinematography
What Dreams May Come
A crap Robin Williams move with beautiful visual effects.
King Kong
A marvel in DIY special effects. They projected tiny images onto stretched out condoms to show scale between Fay Ray and Kong (a guy in a suit).
Blade Runner
A distopian future never looked so good.
AI
A gorgeous, if mind numbing movie started by Stanley Kubrick and finished by Steven Spielberg — some 30 years later. The movie felt about that long, but was beautiful.
@Smitha: Good call on the Wizard of Oz. We take it for granted now, but can you imagine being in the theater when it was first released when, all of a sudden, everything is in color!!! Your mind would have been blown.
Blade Runner
The Life of Pi
Lawrence of Arabia
2001: A Space Odyssey
2001, now that was a game changer!
Also, Gone With the Wind, The Lion King, and Avatar made an impression on me.
“Altered States” and “A.I.” are certainly on my list, and coincidentally, though they were made years apart, both co-starred William Hurt.
The car chase in Bullit is pretty good too. Not artistic but totally an adrenaline rush.
Hard to say just one…
Here’s a list:
The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus
The Fountain
THX 1138
The Matrix
Donnie Darko
The Lord of the Rings trilogy
Coraline
A Scanner Darkly
Children of Men
Oldboy
Trainspotting
Requiem for a Dream
A Clockwork Orange
That should keep you busy for a while.
One I didn’t see mentioned that surprised me was Kill Bill – the scene in the snow especially jumped out.
Some other portions were hit and miss, but it had some really great visual moments.
Koyaanisqatsi or Life Out of Balance. 1982.
It is full of time lapse and slow motion scenes of places and events we do not see in normal life
The movie was from a time before the advent of inexpensive CGI. The scenes were real and filmed with movie cameras held and controlled by people. That knowledge makes the images more intense for me.
Spirited Away. Just incredible.
Hugo
Life of Pi
Frozen was actually stunning as well
I haven’t seen many movies
2046 and Far North, for opposite reasons. Also The Fall and Pan’s Labyrinth. I agree with a lot of the answers above, too.
I’m too late but I loved the imagery of Hugo and I’m trying to stay away from cgi so I would say:
Visually The Borgias – each setting was a Renaissance painting. Better than I could find online. Sometimes downright incredible composition and attention to costumes and historic accuracy as well as artistic posing.
Here’s a try but not good enuf:
http://thepinesofrome.blogspot.com/2013/02/rome-in-time-of-borgias-has-anything.html
Oh another one that I loved was “Pleasantville”
The visuals weren’t that stunning in the realm of technology. But when coupled with the meaning, I just loved it.
Fritz Lang’s Metropolis is one. Made in 1927, it was a masterpiece for its time. At almost 90 years old, the film still held me in awe. Just watch the trailer.
A favorite though is Melancholia by Lars von Trier. This trailer is just a sampling of the artistry in the film.
@Pied_Pfeffer Thank you, those look wonderful. Both have been added to my Netflix list.
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