Sharkissimo 1,973 Posted July 26, 2014 Share Posted July 26, 2014 What are yours? HUGO (2012, dir. Martin Scorsese) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gruesome Son of a Bitch 6,488 Posted July 26, 2014 Share Posted July 26, 2014 Anything modern. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Corellian2019 383 Posted July 26, 2014 Share Posted July 26, 2014 Ugly by intention, or by accident? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Not Mr. Big 4,639 Posted July 26, 2014 Share Posted July 26, 2014 Les Miserables (2012) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sharkissimo 1,973 Posted July 26, 2014 Author Share Posted July 26, 2014 Ugly by intention, or by accident? Both. I'm pretty sure HUGO was intended to look beautiful, and honour the aesthetics of Georges Melles's silent films. Also, its DP (Robert Richardson) is one of my favourite modern cinematographers - so I don't know why it ended up so horrible. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gkgyver 1,645 Posted July 26, 2014 Share Posted July 26, 2014 Die Another Day.Compared to other Bond films, it looks ass ugly. Gone was the travelogue, and it was replaced with drab colours, fake-looking sets and horrible CGI. There is no sense for local environments; Korea is made to look like a mudhole, we see next to nothing of "Havana", what we see of Iceland isn't visually attractive, and the rest takes place either in grey London, or on fake-looking sets.Add to that the non-existent plot and a bored Brosnan, and you've got a terrible movie. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
King Mark 3,624 Posted July 26, 2014 Share Posted July 26, 2014 Films that use washed out,drab green tinged color paletteOne of the HP films had that I forgot which one Ricard 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Not Mr. Big 4,639 Posted July 26, 2014 Share Posted July 26, 2014 The Fellowship of the Ring? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mrbellamy 6,270 Posted July 26, 2014 Share Posted July 26, 2014 300Alice in Wonderland (2010)The Cat in the HatDr. Seuss' How the Grinch Stole ChristmasThe Fifth ElementFight ClubLittle MonstersManos: The Hands of FateMoulin Rouge! (2001)Natural Born KillersSucker Punch Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Faleel 5,326 Posted July 26, 2014 Share Posted July 26, 2014 The Fellowship of the Ring?Only the blu-ray right? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mrbellamy 6,270 Posted July 26, 2014 Share Posted July 26, 2014 One of the HP films had that I forgot which oneYou're probably thinking of Half-Blood Prince. I'm kind of mixed on its look. Some of it is quite evocative, other times it's just drab, though Deathly Hallows: Part 2 is even worse IMO. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Not Mr. Big 4,639 Posted July 26, 2014 Share Posted July 26, 2014 The first two Harry Potter movies look extraordinarily dull. I'll take HBP's drab look over those films' any day. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BLUMENKOHL 1,068 Posted July 26, 2014 Share Posted July 26, 2014 Attack of the Clones. Just hideous. Everything that looked half-way decent was either drenched in mad orange or shit brown, and everything else was a shade of puke green mixed with bad CGI. That second image is one of the worst blue screen jobs I have seen in a modern film. They didn't even try. That scene drives me insane, every time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hlao-roo 389 Posted July 26, 2014 Share Posted July 26, 2014 That scene drives me insane, every time.How many times? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BLUMENKOHL 1,068 Posted July 26, 2014 Share Posted July 26, 2014 42 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matt C 452 Posted July 26, 2014 Share Posted July 26, 2014 Ugly by intention, or by accident?Both. I'm pretty sure HUGO was intended to look beautiful, and honour the aesthetics of Georges Melles's silent films. Also, its DP (Robert Richardson) is one of my favourite modern cinematographers - so I don't know why it ended up so horrible.I loved Hugo's look, it's so far removed from Scorcese's other films. I don't know if you saw it theatrically, but in 3D it looked sumptuous. It doesn't quite have the same impact on a smaller screen, though.I'm shocked no one's mentioned Battlefield Earth. Ugly filters and horrific Dutch angles. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mrbellamy 6,270 Posted July 26, 2014 Share Posted July 26, 2014 Yeah, I really loved Hugo in 3D. Haven't seen it since, but I don't find anything especially ugly about those stills Shark posted.I don't know if I can ever bring myself to watch Battlefield Earth. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dixon Hill 4,232 Posted July 26, 2014 Share Posted July 26, 2014 The later Potter films are so incredibly uninviting and nauseating visually.Blade Runner is also pretty blah. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A24 4,323 Posted July 26, 2014 Share Posted July 26, 2014 Finding Forrester (2000).Piranha Part Two: The Spawning (1981)I can't think of anything else. I think I remember the good better than the bad.Wait! I can't stand the Tony Scott look. Alex Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hlao-roo 389 Posted July 26, 2014 Share Posted July 26, 2014 I don't know if I can ever bring myself to watch Battlefield Earth.That movie makes me barf, every time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mrbellamy 6,270 Posted July 26, 2014 Share Posted July 26, 2014 How many times? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Quintus 5,399 Posted July 26, 2014 Popular Post Share Posted July 26, 2014 The Hobbit 1&2. KK, Sharkissimo and A. A. Ron 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
publicist 4,643 Posted July 26, 2014 Share Posted July 26, 2014 By Jove yes. I paid around 14€ for a high-frame rate 3D HOBBIT and it was living hell. Sharkissimo 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Quintus 5,399 Posted July 26, 2014 Share Posted July 26, 2014 And I've only seen the 2D 24fps versions! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 10,265 Posted July 26, 2014 Share Posted July 26, 2014 I like AUJ's candy cane colorful look Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BloodBoal 7,538 Posted July 26, 2014 Share Posted July 26, 2014 Sharkissimo 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
crocodile 7,973 Posted July 26, 2014 Share Posted July 26, 2014 The Avengers is a pretty ugly looking film. Or, better yet, most unimpressive looking blockbuster ever - belongs to cheap s-f TV almost. It's hugely entertaining, though.Karol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 10,265 Posted July 26, 2014 Share Posted July 26, 2014 It's not bad looking and the effects are very solid. But it doesn't look like a 250 million dollar movie.You can see Whedon's experience lies mainly in TV. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sweeping Strings 2,342 Posted July 26, 2014 Share Posted July 26, 2014 If movies that are depicting a horribly dreary and austere time and place count, then The Lives Of Others. Depressing to look at to the extent that any 'uplift' that the movie was attempting to convey was killed stone dead for me. Similarly, Children Of Men. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
publicist 4,643 Posted July 26, 2014 Share Posted July 26, 2014 I don't think THE LIVES OF OTHERS had 'uplifting' anywhere on its agenda... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SafeUnderHill 205 Posted July 26, 2014 Share Posted July 26, 2014 Bilbo 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sharkissimo 1,973 Posted July 26, 2014 Author Share Posted July 26, 2014 Ugly by intention, or by accident?Both. I'm pretty sure HUGO was intended to look beautiful, and honour the aesthetics of Georges Melles's silent films. Also, its DP (Robert Richardson) is one of my favourite modern cinematographers - so I don't know why it ended up so horrible. I loved Hugo's look, it's so far removed from Scorcese's other films. I don't know if you saw it theatrically, but in 3D it looked sumptuous.I saw it in its cinema run in 3D. I'm sorry, but I don't understand what's sumptuous about it. It's got that nasty orange and teal look so common today, along with a sickening digital sheen. Garish and totally charmless, HUGO has more in common with the most wanton contemporary videogame aesthetics than any painting I've ever seen.Now THIS is fucking sumptuous.Tess (Geoffrey Unsworth) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 10,265 Posted July 26, 2014 Share Posted July 26, 2014 Ah Tess. Complete with that cliched 1970's soft focus look people are still in love with today.Fuzzy and lacking in sharpness and detail. Thankfully that went away in the 80's. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sharkissimo 1,973 Posted July 26, 2014 Author Share Posted July 26, 2014 Fuzzy and lacking in sharpness and detail. Thankfully that went away in the 80's.Um, no. It still persisted then. Allen Daviau, Alan Hume, Caleb Deschanel etc. Remember Peter Suschitzky's beautiful soft-lit, diffused work on THE EMPIRE STRIKES BACK, lacking in sharpness and detail?It's from an age when cinematographers were inspired by great painters, and not you know, dire high-key TV aesthetics...BTW, what you're looking at there is a fog filter. The last film to prominently use fog filters was STAR TREK IV: THE VOYAGE HOME.To educate yourself, please read The Moviegoing Experience, 1968-2001 by Richard W. Haines, and in the mean time sod off. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 10,265 Posted July 26, 2014 Share Posted July 26, 2014 Wow! Why the agression? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sharkissimo 1,973 Posted July 26, 2014 Author Share Posted July 26, 2014 Because you're trashing great art! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 10,265 Posted July 26, 2014 Share Posted July 26, 2014 What is art? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sharkissimo 1,973 Posted July 26, 2014 Author Share Posted July 26, 2014 What is life? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 10,265 Posted July 26, 2014 Share Posted July 26, 2014 Breathing, eating, drinking, defacating and the occasional fuck Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Quintus 5,399 Posted July 26, 2014 Share Posted July 26, 2014 Koray? Wojo 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 10,265 Posted July 26, 2014 Share Posted July 26, 2014 How dare you!Apologize! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Quintus 5,399 Posted July 26, 2014 Share Posted July 26, 2014 I like AUJ's candy cane colorful look Sharkissimo 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 10,265 Posted July 26, 2014 Share Posted July 26, 2014 It's so bright and poppy, like a fairy tale.Pity DOS went darker. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sharkissimo 1,973 Posted July 26, 2014 Author Share Posted July 26, 2014 You like the look of AUJ yet despise TESS. You opinion is null. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 10,265 Posted July 26, 2014 Share Posted July 26, 2014 I actually love Unsworth! But I havent seen Tess and that pic you put up isnt very striking. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sharkissimo 1,973 Posted July 26, 2014 Author Share Posted July 26, 2014 Maybe you're not that bad after all.What about this? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 10,265 Posted July 26, 2014 Share Posted July 26, 2014 Now that does look stunning! Makes me wish i was a druid! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Barnald 365 Posted July 26, 2014 Share Posted July 26, 2014 Public Enemies Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Koray Savas 2,251 Posted July 26, 2014 Share Posted July 26, 2014 Public EnemiesBeat me to it. Michael Mann has this infatuation with shitty digital cameras. Miami Vice is even worse with its blue filter. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A24 4,323 Posted July 26, 2014 Share Posted July 26, 2014 I'm surprised nobody mentioned Beowulf! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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