Zafros13

There are seven Harry Potter movies with a lot of different cinematography approaches, but Interstellar does accomplish more then all of them.

It didn’t connect with me at all, but I think I am starting to grasp why Goodfellas is highly rated.

I think Infinity War is more artistically expressive than people give it credit for.

I don’t have an issue with LaT’s floating head.

It’s like Freddie Francis‘s cinematography quote that there’s "good cinematography and bad cinematography and then there's the cinematography that's right for the movie."

It came across as a stylistic choice.

I voted Infinity War; but to praise Interstellar: It’s music is better, and it has a great sense of scale and epicness. Also it’s not pointless epicness. It’s very story focused epicness. Infinity War is more climactic though.

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Endgame is one of the weaker ones. I have no idea why it’s vfx gets praise.

But it’s more on the director not being able to pace them properly and over-reliance on cgi than the vfx artists themselves. Which I believe is why FotR has better effects than The Sorcerer’s Stone while being on a lower budget. Directors must be strategic with it.

I did vote Infinity War but I am starting to come around to Terminator 2.

The thing that Infinity War is lacking in is essence and I feel that it’s not super polished.

Terminator’s “I know now why you cry. But it’s something I could never do.” is certainly a really strong line that the movie builds up to very well.

Though I am more interested in Infinity War’s storytelling. It’s a very strong script that takes advantage of how marvel movies are formulaic by subverting genre tropes (one example: the first two avengers movies were sit around until the 3rd act type of movies. So IW really throws us into the narrative, giving us an antagonist thats really pushing the story forward and pressing the character’s decision makings. Which is tied to the stories themes, implied early through Thanos’s monologue: “dread it, run from it, destiny arrives all the same”. It’s cool that it’s said by a No Country for Old Men actor. And in the end you have that moment where Thanos is just walking through everything Ironman is dishing out: https://youtu.be/VegKhno-BK8?si=20R9J0jK8CtW_0gD (1:03)) And one of the best opening scenes I have ever seen. And Thanos is such a great villain.

But Terminator 2 does have more of a classic quality to it as a whole. And Infinity War does feel more manufactured.

I’ll talk about it in fragments:

Actors

I wouldn’t say it’s the most technically advanced of all time but I think FotR might be the most well casted movie ever made. The Fantasy genre in general has had a lot of great casting. The Sorcerer’s Stone and The Wizard of Oz come to mind.

Atmosphere:

You can’t really feel the atmosphere of Helms Deep because it keeps cutting away. Easy win for Dune P2.

Character stuff and storytelling:

Relating to atmosphere, the character stuff is really strong in Dune because there’s something about the immersion that gives me a very visceral response to the character development. TTT is pretty good too, but maybe the weakest of the trilogy in this. FotR has most of the character development. RotK has an impactful 3rd act, though a lot of weaker points.

Action:

Neither handle it as well as say Avengers: Infinity War. But Dune P2’s duels pretty cool so I’d go with that.

Anyway: I picked Dune Part 2.

I’d have to rewatch all four movies.