I keep watching Wes Anderson movies waiting for the moment he becomes self-aware in stead of self-indulgent. I respect him massively as a filmaker; Rushmore is a personal all-time favourite, but the formula (music, casting, plot, cinematography, pacing, etc) is wearing pretty goddamn thin now.

I will still probably go and see this movie though.

Despite how evil this film is it was also genius and a breakthrough for cinematography.

"Stellar filmography"

Actually, it's called photography, or cinematography. (Most films have a "director of photography" or "cinematographer")

A "filmography" is a list of films.

If you like way, way over the top special effects and extremely stylized cinematography, it most certainly didn't suck.
Not everyone's cup of tea though. It didn't really need a sequel.

Children of Men is one of the greatest Sci Fi movies ever made. Even just the cinematography, specifically two amazing one shots are astounding. I definitely watching it again today!

I'm ridiculously excited about "Only God Forgives". Drive is one of those perfect movies to me. I'm sure people would love to disagree with me, but still. The music, cinematography, dialogue--or a decided lack of dialogue sometimes--, if "Only God Forgives" even comes close, I'll be satisfied.

Vincent Laforet
"In 2008, Laforet directed "Reverie", the first widely available short film shot with the Canon 5D Mark II camera. The video has been cited by proposers of the use of DSLR cameras in digital cinematography[3] and has been heralded as one of the films that launched the HDSLR movement "

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vincent_Laforet

>> ^EvilDeathBee:
EDIT: I actually believe there could have been a good movie there, and an interesting and mysterious story. However, it was so poorly executed, it's just pretentious wankerey


This.

This is how I felt about the film. They had a competent director, good actors, GREAT cinematography and visual effects and yet somehow, Prometheus was a complete failure of a film. Prometheus was a terrible film. It was a horribly written story and had terrible dialogue.

The cinematography is so bloody fantastic. There are some amazing talents behind these documentaries.

>> ^garmachi:

I think the cinematography is a bit too heavy handed.


Absolutely Agreed!!

I watched the first episode last night and, overall, I liked it.

But the overuse (in my book, any use is overuse) of the really, really stupid "shaky-cam" leaves me nauseated. And the spinning pan shot used to show off the new set is almost as bad.

Story! Characters!

>> ^ant:

>> ^HugeJerk:
If you've seen the trailers, you have seen 90% of the plot points.>> ^ant:
Do I assume this has spoilers? I haven't seen the movie yet.


Damn.


Ant,

Take all of this with a grain of salt. Coming out of the theater I didn't think it was the "fantastic" movie the hype made it out to be. But, I did think it was a good movie. It was entertaining and the cinematography was brilliant. I felt they did an excellent job of using their CGI budget to immerse you in their world, thus drawing you into the film.

The part about the stupidity of the crew and their actions are all true. Characters do things that make you face-palm... But hey, what Sci-fi movie doesn't have those characters? If everyone behaved exactly how you would expect them to, films would be extremely boring.

I actually believe to a certain extent this is done on purpose. Every time a crew member would do something like stick his face close to something that looks like it could pop makes you think, "No, no, no.... why? oh god what's going to happen!? YOU ARE STUPID!" Sometimes something happens, other times it does not. It builds suspense in the movie. The fact that you know the actions of a character will probably have negative consequences puts you on the edge of your seat. If instead of touching the "alien goo" they said, "Hey lets get a robot with a 10 foot pole and extract it remotely from the ship because it would be way safer." it would be utterly boring and mind numbing to watch. You can't have a sci-fi suspense movie where everyone makes the best and safest decision possible.

My best advice is to just go into the movie wanting to be entertained. Laugh at the dumb things people do and enjoy the CGI world along with the neat future technology / heads-up displays.

I think the cinematography is a bit too heavy handed.

>> ^notarobot:

>> ^ant:
Do I assume this has spoilers? I haven't seen the movie yet.

Save your money. The computer animation and cinematography were very well done. I really wish I had more good thing to say than that, but that's all I got.
The thing that is probably most annoying to fans is that there were plenty of element present to make a great film, and then they roll out this quasi-polished turd.


I wasn't planning to see it in theater. I will wait for home release. I still need to see The Avengers.

>> ^ant:

Do I assume this has spoilers? I haven't seen the movie yet.


Save your money. The computer animation and cinematography were very well done. I really wish I had more good thing to say than that, but that's all I got.

The thing that is probably most annoying to fans is that there were plenty of element present to make a great film, and then they roll out this quasi-polished turd.

Excellent cinematography! Clever use of lighting...no small feat considering it was filmed in a parking garage.

Good luck in Palm Springs!!