Stanley Kubrick at his best!

Wow. I had no memory of this. That's badass. It looks like they used the cars passing in front of the camera to switch between shots of the car on the actual road and the actors in front of a green matte. It's seamless, though.

That scene reminds me of another one from a movie Down in Front has already covered, Children of Men. I think it deserves to be in this thread anyway.

I love this movie so much. The filmmaking is brilliant, and the following scene is what I consider one of the greatest uses of VFX. The film uses very long takes throughout multiple locations and actions, usually shot in different takes combined into one.

The car scene is brilliant. Shot with the camera inside the car, it puts us with the characters in the action itself. Being one seamless shot adds to the tension and that plus the absence of music makes us feel we're witnessing something real.

Warning: contains spoilers.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ga_r6AGZ2eU

I believe this is the best example, but the film does it quite often, the opening itself using this technique to combine multiple takes and allowing more possibilities (i.e. the explosion).

I recently got the Blu-Ray, it features making-of bonuses I haven't checked out yet but definitely will.

Last edited by Saniss (2013-02-25 02:03:36)

The 360 shot reminded me of this part in Stargate: SG-1 episode "The Warrior." The whole scene is pretty epic but if you want the sexy shot go to 23 second mark.

If I can find it, I will post the behinds the scenes of the rig they built to achieve it. It is pretty impressive set up

I always loved that shot. Slow motion makes anything cool.

'specially when you're nonchalantly walking away from a 'splosion....

Thread resurrection:

Just saw "The Fall" from 2006. Liked the story, loved the visuals and cinematography. Shot in over 20 countries in 4 years, there is some spectacular attention to detail in design and execution here.

1. A sequence of dancers beautifully shot, and the transition from the bad guys face to the desert is pretty mindblowing if it is practical, not to mention the one long shot that goes from static landscape to moving in on the actors, not sure how they moved that camera.

http://youtu.be/SbzNrThw_gA?t=1h10m27s

2. This sequence is mindblowingly good, everything about this, the individual things and the way they are edited together is just superb, it flashes to various aspects of the plot discussed earlier in the movie, in contaxt it is quite powerful but just from the camerawork, lighting and editing aspect it is excellent and riveting.

http://youtu.be/SbzNrThw_gA?t=1h23m39s

3. The intro sequence. It won't make much sense, but it is pretty.

http://youtu.be/SbzNrThw_gA?t=10s

EDIT: Also some bonus stuff:

Fast Five. The best action scenes I've seen in years, not necessarily mindblowing, but classy and oh so well edited and choreographed. Whatever CGI there is they hid well.
Just the end of a great sequence:

Train Rescue: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UCh-HA6p … 89959357B6

Also this one EVERYONE has seen, but the intro to Dark Knight Rises (like The Dark Knight equivalent with the Jokers bank robbery) needs to be here. I can't really stand too much of Hans Zimmers music as it is composed for the Batman movies, but the Bane theme and chant for this sequence is awesome.
Also the sound design here is pretty spectacular great, the planes in particular. The IMAX cameras and shooting on film also gives this sequence a unique aspect.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LNUSDu-Tehg

Last edited by TechNoir (2013-05-24 20:54:41)

Bump for funsies.

I watched the Babadook.
It should also be mentioned that me and horror flicks don't get along. It's not that I'm frightened, I just simply can't put my state of mind in that place. All horror movies, for me, are just silly. I know nothing like that could ever happen, because they're mostly based around the world we already live in, which makes them all impossible, and IMO, dumb.

Sure, I get startled by jump scares every now and then, but apart from that, and perhaps Cabin in the Woords, I'm not watching them. Apart from IT, which I'll get around too, because apparently that thing is the stuff of legends.

//disclaimer: I like sci-fi, fantasy and the likes, because they already set the stage by telling us their worlds.