Coolest Films ( Visually )

Hey, yeah! Man I'll never forget those twins standing by the elevator, and then that wave of blood. Man, that was sick. Or when you get that quick shot of that guy in that wicked Teddy Bear costume between that other guy's legs...whoa!!

I liked Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels, for visual effects. After he loses that card game and the world is swimming...fan-tastic!

Actually, it's a dog costume. Whoa, I just had a Holden moment there...

But God, yes--freaked my sh*t out.

I've never seen Lock, Stock. I loved Snatch, and Lock Stock's been on my list forever, but I still haven't seen it. What's wrong with me??

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Oh yeah! dog costume...heh-heh, what was I thinkin'??

Lock, Stock was better.

So I've heard. I need to get that movie.

sorry to hear that LBJ. how are you doing now? and your "player", is she bummin?

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me thinky prenteee ronng enough.

visually (what dreams may come).....very very cool.
......and if i need to defend my choice i'll be seeing you in the jello ring sistah!

1. Evil Dead 2
2. The Matrix
3. Lord of the Rings: Fellowship of the Ring
4. Full Metal Jacket
5. Apocalypse Now
6. Spider Man
7. Star Wars Episode Two: Attack of the Clones


this is all that i can think of right now

You people... you all just cannot find great visuals in the simplest, less popular, most unknown, most uncared for films.

First, here's my number one rule... if there's something sexy about it - a hot actor, a sexy cast, or even a room filled with S&M props with a rhinosaurus walking through it - is ALWAYS a movie with GREAT visuals! Always! That's why it's hard to judge movies for the Porno Oscars, ya know?

And now here are movies that I think have great visuals:

Jacob's Ladder

Un Chien Andalou (still haven't seen it on video, but I've seen in every scene in pictures -- AWESOME)

Exit To Eden (a sexy movie, even with Rosie O'Donnell. Hey, I think she works in leather. She works !)

Psycho

Sister Act (so many nuns!)

Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me

Batman & Robin

Edward Scissorhands

Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas

The Nutty Professor 2

Terminator 2

Aliens

Mannequin (Andrew McCarthy and Kim Cattral! Sexy and hollow!)

Scary Movie (wasn't Miss Man a stunning visual?)

The Sixth Sense

The Texas Chainsaw Massacre

FIGHT CLUB

Hellbound: Hellraiser II

Beetlejuice

K-PAX

Candyman

The Faculty

Rat Race (Whoopi and her outrageous orange hair!)

Changing Lanes

Hedwig and the Angry Inch (I'll never forget the motel room filled with wigs)

Scream 3

and so on, and so on, and so on.... there are thousands more. Find whatever stuns you visually and be IN TOUCH with it.

I said IN TOUCH!

Thank you.

Ahhh, you do know how to pick 'em!
I'd totally agree with you on this one.

-GTB

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Isn't it wonderful? I watched it for the first time back in December in my room, with the lights off, and in my bed, all bundled up under the covers, just staring at my big TV in front of me. I have the VHS... I definately need to get the DVD.

It's a sexy movie too. I just love it when Elizabeth Pena pulls off Tim Robbins' clothes to get him into a cold bathtub and then their neighbors come in to help him. How dominating and embarrassing!

Some of my very favorite great-looking films of the past few years, and the cinematographer responsible:

• Amelie (2001), Bruno Delbonnel
• The Royal Tenenbaums (2001), Robert Yoeman
• The Pledge (2001), Chris Menges
• Vanilla Sky (2001), John Toll
• Crimson Rivers (2001), Thierry Arbogast
• Unbreakable (2000), Eduardo Serra
• Wonder Boys (2000), Dante Spinotti
• O Brother, Where Art Thou?, (2000), Roger Deakins
• Snow Falling On Cedars (1999), Robert Richardson
• The Limey (1999), Ed Lachman
• Eyes Wide Shut (1999), Larry Smith

Cinematography-wise, there is an existing thread HERE. Jeffries and I listed some of our favorites going back to the '50s.

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What was so visual about that? It's a great movie, but visual ??

Dante Spinotti
>check this out

L.B.J~Thanks for the link. I like what the article said about the technique being invisable, I didn't know anything "special" was going on; I just knew I walked away from that movie, knowing that it was different from anything else I had seen.
Which means they accoplished their goal; to be unique, but noticably so.
That's cool that you and Holds pick up on that kind of stuff.
I DID notice the lighting though...the understated way the various lighting changed according to mood.
...and that "snowfall scene"; that was beautiful.

I gotta say:

The Fifth Element
The Nightmare Before Christmas
A Clockwork Orange
Edward Scissorhands
From Hell (The visuals were the ONLY good thing.)
Yellow Submarine
City of Lost Children
AI
Twelve Monkeys
Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory
Adolescence of Utena
Blue Velvet

I can't think of any more....

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Sorry gotta say Final Fantasy. Movie stunk, but visuals were good

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Some cool looking films from the last few years that I dig:

Mike Hodges CROUPIER
Chan Kaige's THE EMPEROR AND THE ASSASIN
Steven Soderburgh's THE UNDERNEATH
Terry Gilliam's BRAZIL
Darren Aronofsky's REQUIEM FOR A DREAM
Juenet & Caro's CITY OF LOST CHILDREN
Coen Brother's THE BIG LEBOWSKI
Micheal Mann's HEAT
Oliver Stone's NATURAL BORN KILLERS
ANATOMIE

These are just a few films from the last few years that I believe had stunning cinematography that is all the way "cool" in my book

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I can't believe no one has mentioned Fritz Lang's Metropolis. A silent film made in 1929, it is so ahead of its time, it isn't dated even now.

Traffic.

What she said.

I love the color co-ordination of that film!

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