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What are some cool or creative shots in shitty films?
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Tarsem Singh's The Fall is fall of creative shots, as are his other films. A good cinematographer, but a poor director.
I'd say that this and Immortals are actually very good, not just in their cinematography. But I realize I might be alone on that here.
Tarsem Singh's The Fall is fall of creative shots, as are his other films. A good cinematographer, but a poor director.
Tsui Hark's Van Damme movie "Knock Off" is full of weird shots where it felt like they were just doing whatever the fuck they wanted. There's one where they dolly the camera through a wall and through the back of a TV, showing all of the electronics inside, for no reason whatsoever. It's super weird but interesting.
That scene in the Texas Chainsaw Massacre remake where the drifter girl shoots herself in the head, and then the camera immediately reverses through the exit wound in her head and the shattered glass of the car's rear window. It's been done elsewhere but was well executed in TCM.
Actually I don't really think the movie is "shitty", it's not bad for a remake but needless like most.
Actually I don't really think the movie is "shitty", it's not bad for a remake but needless like most.
oooh shitty horror movies with awesome death scenes !
This will be a huge source for this thread =P
For example, i love the laser scene in the first Resident Evil movie
Specially a big fan of how they make a piece of the eye slide first after the laser cuts the dude in lots of pieces
I haven't seen Immortals, but I really like The Fall so you're not alone!
It's a pretty big standard Tokusatsu film (barely more production value than a regular series) but the "last" Den O film with Takeru Satoh has this pretty great scene.
It's all one shot and has Momotaros getting beaten up by a possessed Den-O as he tries to awaken his friend from the villain's possession.
I mean nothing award winning but a strong contender for my favorite Toku scene.
It's all one shot and has Momotaros getting beaten up by a possessed Den-O as he tries to awaken his friend from the villain's possession.
I mean nothing award winning but a strong contender for my favorite Toku scene.
That's a good one. The opening scene of Ghost Ship is very similar - there's a metal wire that comes loose from the ship and slices the entire crew in half while they're in the middle of a dance.
I legitimately love the 2014 TMNT movie but I know most here probably don't.
It has some the best framed action I've seen in film. The full framing of the high quality CG characters, the longer takes, the animation, camera angles, story telling and personality through body movement, the marriage of cg and practical effects and the editing are all on point and showcased brilliantly in this scene:
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It has some the best framed action I've seen in film. The full framing of the high quality CG characters, the longer takes, the animation, camera angles, story telling and personality through body movement, the marriage of cg and practical effects and the editing are all on point and showcased brilliantly in this scene:
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Snow Mountain Chase Scene HD
Sinopse:Afetados por uma substância radioativa, um grupo de tartarugas cresce anormalmente, ganha força e conhecimento. Vivendo nos esgotos de Manhattan, qua...
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Thirteen Ghosts remake where a guy gets cut in half vertically from the sides by a glass door closing on him.
While the movie isn't exactly shit, the decapitation scene in Midnight Meat Train was very creative and awesome.
And finally, pretty much everything having to do with the Sandman in Spider-Man 3.
While the movie isn't exactly shit, the decapitation scene in Midnight Meat Train was very creative and awesome.
And finally, pretty much everything having to do with the Sandman in Spider-Man 3.
Immortals has some great stuff and a darkly hammy Mickey Rourke. Also, some wild fight scenes with God's that don't hold up as well today, but are super fun.
Yeah, this movie really looked good. At least it has that going for it.
Tarsem Singh's The Fall is fall of creative shots, as are his other films. A good cinematographer, but a poor director.
The Fall was such a good movie. Not a big fan of his other films, outside of the visuals in The Cell.
Janusz Kaminski, Spielberg's long-term collaborator, Academy Award winner for Saving Private Ryan and Schindler's List, lol. Talk about slumming it.
i remember literally nothing about that movie except for this scene.
This scene is SO GOOD.
not gonna lie... I kinda enjoy it lol, particularly in rifftrax form.
Hell yeah it does, cinematographer Janusz Kamiński went on to earn an Oscar for filming Schindler's effin' List two years later.
There is a "camera inside the shoe so we can see the foot going in" shot. Tsui Hark is a genius.
I legitimately love the 2014 TMNT movie but I know most here probably don't.
It has some the best framed action I've seen in film. The full framing of the high quality CG characters, the longer takes, the animation, camera angles, story telling and personality through body movement, the marriage of cg and practical effects and the editing are all on point and showcased brilliantly in this scene:
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Snow Mountain Chase Scene HD
Sinopse:Afetados por uma substância radioativa, um grupo de tartarugas cresce anormalmente, ganha força e conhecimento. Vivendo nos esgotos de Manhattan, qua...
It's a cool action scene, but I've always hated the gross leering male gaze moment with Megan Fox in here. TMNT should be a kids centric movie, not a movie where people are shooting revolvers and the audience, not just the characters, are subjected to being fucking creepers.
That and the the turtles themselves are gross to look at.
It's a shame because, as you said the action is shot really well and everything's well choreographed to the audience geographically.
I agree. That and the "shell tightening" and such. I dislike the second movie for going against what made the first great but that one kept the creep factor going. Weird when Megan Fox called out Bay for creepy shit but kept it going in future productions of his. Unless I'm misremembering their beef.
I legitimately love the 2014 TMNT movie but I know most here probably don't.
It has some the best framed action I've seen in film. The full framing of the high quality CG characters, the longer takes, the animation, camera angles, story telling and personality through body movement, the marriage of cg and practical effects and the editing are all on point and showcased brilliantly in this scene:
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Snow Mountain Chase Scene HD
Sinopse:Afetados por uma substância radioativa, um grupo de tartarugas cresce anormalmente, ganha força e conhecimento. Vivendo nos esgotos de Manhattan, qua...
I wanted to hate this movie going into the theaters. I came out not hating it. I don't think it was good or anything, but I didn't hate it, which is weird.
I had a smile on my face at Mikey rocket boarding and Donnie "being a badass" and later doing that catapult thing. Also had a 4 year old in tow watching it with TMNT colored and branded 3D glasses with like minded folks in the theater which certainly helped.
Those monster designs are pretty sweet. There should be a companion topic "Great Design Work In Bad Films." I swear it's way harder to find CGI/effects teams who don't bring it in these big budget films than writers. It makes me sad to watch bonus material from, like, TROS showing all the love and care the non-writing creatives had that kinda just went to waste.
Yeah. You could tell the vfx/design/concept team was probably told "Just give us 2 minutes of demons going HAM. Sky's the limit. Go nuts with it." and they totally brought it.
You know, I genuinely can't think of an example of an actual GOOD shot just randomly showing up in an otherwise real shitty movie.
However, if we're counting "didn't love it, but it's still hella cool", the Ghidorah roar in Godzilla II: King Of Monsters stands out.
Also, the entire feel of Halloween 5 is that it is clearly made by a more artistically accomplished group of people, even if it is the one that nobody remembers because it didn't have the Shotgun scene (tm) and the roof scene of Halloween 4.
Technically one might count a lot of establishing shots in James Bond movies too, as well as the 'the best we could get' that you have in the 70s and 80s.
There is also one 'okay now that actually IS cool' scene in Pacific Rim: Uprising, but it's a massive spoiler too, so:
However, if we're counting "didn't love it, but it's still hella cool", the Ghidorah roar in Godzilla II: King Of Monsters stands out.
Also, the entire feel of Halloween 5 is that it is clearly made by a more artistically accomplished group of people, even if it is the one that nobody remembers because it didn't have the Shotgun scene (tm) and the roof scene of Halloween 4.
Technically one might count a lot of establishing shots in James Bond movies too, as well as the 'the best we could get' that you have in the 70s and 80s.
There is also one 'okay now that actually IS cool' scene in Pacific Rim: Uprising, but it's a massive spoiler too, so:
the Kaiju combination scene
Your post made me start watching Knock Off on Prime, and in the opening scene there is a dolly shot that goes inside the eye of a doll.. so good.
Man, I really like every non-horror movie mentioned in this thread. Jurassic Park (any), Cool as Ice, TMNT, Tin Tin, The Fall, Godzilla...
I loved the scenes in Baby Driver that matched the action with the music, but the last third (or more) of the movie stopped doing the gimmick and it was a bummer.
Yeah, the knock off shoe stuff is great.
Yeah, the movie is wild. CW: Rob Schneider tho
Underworld's a guilty pleasure at best, but it's got on of my favourite pieces of wire-fu in any movie:
The title specified "shitty films". Your post is disqualified.
The Last Jedi, sonuvabitch got me
The scene at the pool in Strangers Prey at Night is pretty slick with some great shots. The kid floating on his back bleeding out while the camera dips above and below the water is awesome.
Rest of the movie is not great but my overall view of the movie is heightened by this scene.
Rest of the movie is not great but my overall view of the movie is heightened by this scene.
Pirates of the Caribbean AWE is such a hot mess of a bloated movie, but that night sky scene though
Gorgeous.
At least Gore Verbinski knew how to frame the action scenes.
Gorgeous.
At least Gore Verbinski knew how to frame the action scenes.
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Tarsem Singh's The Fall is fall of creative shots, as are his other films. A good cinematographer, but a poor director.
The Fall is great, though. Not just the visuals either. I quite like how the hospitalised stuntmans storytelling is portrayed as a manipulative and abusive skill used by an adult to control a child. Normally storytelling is portrayed as a creative and virtuous endeavour, and that is often far from the truth.
The dissonance between the story told and the story percieved is a really fun detail, too.
I'll honestly take the laundry chute and car chase scenes Halloween 5 over the best that Halloween 4 has to offer.