Posted: Tue Oct 08, 2013 11:24 pm Post subject:
Dat Film
Easy question, what was/is the film/films that influenced you the most and made you love a whole genre, or not, atleast one/ones do you still consider
the pinnacle of awesome?!
to me
Blade Runner
why? the immersion in the universe, i felt at home when i first saw it, it sucked me right into the whole cyberpunk genre and i still love most of the genre today still. apart from that, this film has such a great story, and narrative, great characters,
some of which don't even need lines but have a lot of expressions in motion and sound.
Also the whole future noir style is something that grew on me, the dystopian streets, the gothic architecture in this depressing city of lights and plastic, the detective blues. and one of the coolest soundtracks to a film.
Three Ten to Yuma and the recent Coen Brothers remake of True Grit made me like Westerns*. They're both surprisingly heartfelt, and manage to juxtapose interesting characters, be they hopeful, naive, brave, misanthropic, pessimistic, or whatever, against a grim and rough reality of an unforgiving environment. The genre as a whole can at its best be one of the more thought provoking dissections of morality (especially good vs. evil).
When done poorly, which seems to be about half the time, they're crap (Meek's Cutoff was awful, No Country for Old Men missed the point entirely). But the good ones are damn good.
*Them and Firefly, but that's another story entirely. QUICK_EDIT
Gits reminds me a lot of Blade Runner, it has the same sort of dystopian cyberpunk style with themes of morality & humanity.
Most importantly tho it showed me that anime wasn't just the crap they showed on Saturday mornings for kids, thus opening up a whole new world for me to explore. _________________
I think Star Wars made me like Sci-Fi, but only after watching Babylon 5 I really loved that genre.
Amazing long and packing story arc, fantastic characters (i loved G'Kar and his views on life, the universe and everything), for that time very cool special effects (better imo than anything Star Trek ever came up with) and very interesting designs (ships, aliens, creatures, stations, planets etc).
Ever since i liked watching every kind of Sci-Fi movie/series.
Some of my favorites (no special order):
-Galaxy Rangers (cartoon, great mix of Sci-Fi and Western)
-Space Rangers (very short lived and imo underrated show, and it had Marjorie Monaghan in a leather suit )
-Star Wars classic episodes 4-6 (1-3 are crap) (and Han shot first)
-Babylon 5
-Starship Troopers
-Star Trek 4, First Contact, and a few TNG episodes like Inner Light and All Good Things...
classic movies i haven't seen since i was a little kid, but which i still remember
-the last Starfighter
-Explorers (3 kids building a shield bubble in which they travel to aliens)
-Flight of the Navigator _________________ SHP Artist of Twisted Insurrection: Nod buildings
The one film that got me into film making was the Evil Dead (1981), because it's great, creative movie with fantastic camerawork and actually felt doable. It was the inspiration for my first film I made with some friends, a zombie movie of course.
But there are so many fantastic movies that drive me to want to make films.
- Blade Runner (1982)
As blubb said, it's just amazing. Has some truly incredible visuals, just beautiful all around and fantastic soundtrack. It achieves what I think sci-fi is all about: exploring Human questions.
- Apocalypse Now (1979)
Absolutely unbelievable film, just grabs me in every way possible. It's incredibly well directed, gigantic, insane, philosophical, deep and has one of the best making-of stories ever. I prefer the Redux version over the original cut though.
- 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
Obviously the ultimate sc-fi or perhaps science truth movie ever created and will hopefully last the millenia time span it itself covers. The birth of modern sci-fi and still beats it all hands down.
- Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me (1992)
Or any and all David Lynch really. He manages to capture Human conscience on screen in a way no other director has and tells some beautiful and terrifying stories. Fire Walk With Me is perhaps my favourite of his for it's power but you need to see the series first which is also wonderful.
- Performance (1970)
My introduction to Nicolas Roeg, another brilliant director and some truly fresh and interesting story telling (which he uses to varying degrees of success in all his films). Performance is a strange and obnoxious first film and definitely one to inspire anyone thinking of making movies. I have to mention Roeg's The Man Who Fell To Earth (1976) as it is his finest film IMO and a truly great one.
Wat. I saw this last year at the cinema and was just brilliant. Some incredible scenes. I especially remember his boots walking down the corridor and see their shadow stop under the door, was so tense. I'm not a crazy Coen fan either, but I did like No Country. QUICK_EDIT
i feel the same, oh well, those you mentioned, most of them truly are evergreens especially "hello dave", and i love david lynchs version of Dune (even if it's not exactly point on point with frank herberts books) it just has got the right surreal look to it that captures a believable world.
oh and also, very important to me are 3 movies i recently dug up again.
i've watched them a long time ago and it was really hard to find them again.
first one was "stalker"- the film by tarkovsky, very old one but it's watered and dripping with philosophy, extraordinary views on the world and nature, and breathtaking pictures to me.
film is based on the bookm "roadside picnic"
then there's "letters from a dead man" which depicts the life of an old man after the fallout who attends to his wife, trying to survive. also a very dark and bleak but astouding film to me.
and then lastly there's visitor of a museum, also a very bleak film about a man on a journey through wasteland.
all films are cold war era russian films, and the mood of the time definitely can be found in these films again. Last edited by blubb on Wed Oct 09, 2013 12:47 pm; edited 1 time in total QUICK_EDIT
I like Dune a lot too. Recently watched a fan edit called Dune Alternative Edition Redux and it was really good, probably the best version. Still, the end (at least the final battle scene) is about as disappointing as the original and there's nothing anyone can do unless David decides to actually go back to the original material, but I doubt it knowing his stance on the film. :p
I read the book after I first saw the film but for me they lined up pretty well. Despite the book being pretty inscrutable I think David really captured the strangeness of an empire 10,000 years in the future. Probably about the only film to do so as well. QUICK_EDIT
i always thought the books were, especially from a visual decription standpoint very very arabic oriented, yet david lynchs interpretation was a dark surreal look which defined dune for me, and probably for wetwood too.
this especially comes through the harkonnen homeworld and sadaukar soldiers.
oh...and meh, i find the ending pretty epic, especially with paul's sister, the scene in slow motion, kind of creepy. _________________ Hydraw Art on Facebook QUICK_EDIT
Everyone I know that gets into film-making for some reason, starts from Evil Dead. Mostly to the point that it's all they talk about and I really don't want to watch movies anymore because I know the whole process far too well.
Blade Runner was indeed a great cyberpunk movie, really well done Special FX for the time. But I'd like to think I was more of a Star Wars 4-6 (MY 1-3)/Highlander/Braveheart generation-ite than Blade Runner. The whole post-apocalyptic, cyberpunk style really didn't catch my eye, until recently.
Also, never seen Apocalypse Now, and don't plan to, just doesn't do anything for me. Anything to do with apocalypse just makes me wish it was another Mad Max (especially Thunderdome) but then I look at Mad Max: Fury Road, and just want nothing to do with apocalypses anymore. Without Mel Gibson, its just not the same. _________________ "Don't beg for things; Do it yourself or you'll never get anything." QUICK_EDIT
If you think Apocalypse Now is anything to do with a post-apocalypse scenario then you've totally misread everything about it. It's a movie about Vietnam and the insanity of modern warfare/civilisation. "Apocalypse Now" was a play on the hippie slogan "Nirvana Now" QUICK_EDIT
You may consider me weird, but the films that really influenced me are Amelie, The Shawshank Redemption and Goodbye, Lenin!.
I loved Amelie because it's simply weird and cute, and somehow it talks about human nature. Shawshank Redemption, together with Goodbye, Lenin! are simply real good stories.
Honorable mentions: "A Beautiful Mind", "Dead Poets' Society", "The Emperor's Club", "Scent of a woman". QUICK_EDIT
I did not hit her, I did naaat. Oh hi Mark!
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Anyway, how is your sex life? _________________ "Don't beg for things; Do it yourself or you'll never get anything." QUICK_EDIT
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