I recently saw ‘Don’t Look Now’ (1973). Good picture, a little slow perhaps by today’s standards but worthy of any movie enjoyer’s time! So this movie was shot in Venice. Venice itself being an already beautiful spot to film even today. The way we get to look in a time capsule of Venice in the 70s makes the movie that much better!

People in the 70s could not in fact appreciate it the same way we do now. Concurrently we also can’t do it for today’s movies. Some movies can only be truly appreciated over time is what I believe. This matter can be expressed in both the movie’s message or, as I did, its cinematography. Hence my question now to you.

  • Yrt@feddit.de
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    3 months ago

    I saw Alien 1 just a couple of weeks ago for the first time and I was amazed how good it still looked. The design of the spaceship and the alien itself still looked amazing in 4k on an OLED TV. And also the story still seemed like a fresh idea. Of course there are moments with stupid acting people, but all in all the decisions made felt plausible and logical, not the normal stupid horror movie group. And also the story twist came (for me) as a real surprise and not like a thing you knew after the first 5min. (And I’m also surprised that after all these years it’s still a surprise, cause everybody knows the alien but not the story of the first movie?)

  • stoly@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    The Sixth Sense is a fantastic movie. None of the stuff Shamalan came up with after are really worth it, but this first movie is wonderful.

    • demesisx@infosec.pubEnglish
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      3 months ago

      Little known fact: the visual effects look so good because they shot the mattes and all elements ON THE SAME PIECE OF FILM. They’d shoot the matte, put the film in storage, build the set, then shoot the scene on top of that.

    • xkforce@lemmy.world
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      3 months ago

      That movie pissed my ex off. 23 minutes before there was any dialogue. Should have known then and there the relationship was doomed.

      • Rhynoplaz@lemmy.world
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        3 months ago

        That sounds pretty similar to our experience. I’ve always heard great things, but never saw it.

        20 minutes in I apologized for suggesting it and we watched some paint dry instead.

  • Margot Robbie@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    Fellow lemmings, for me, it’s “Barbie”, a movie that aged beautifully over the last uh, 8 months, and its message is as relevant today as it was when it was released July 21st of 2023.