Yes, movies that inspire you!!!

#91

Zardoz - such a unique and bizarre vision of the future

The Cell - unique and bizarre

Yellow Submarine - yeah, so I have a thing for unique and bizarre; wanna fight about it

The Dark Crystal

#92

I just watched “In Good Company”…and for some odd reason it made me forget about “King Kong”…but then I remembered the “Neverending Story” which made me think of “The Seven Samurai”

Then I realised honestly Calvin…your really ecelectic.

#93

Zardoz

LOL so there you are - the only other person in the world who saw that one! :smiley:

Another sci fi oldie, that always makes me cry at the end - Silent Running, with Bruce Dern. Important message in it too, and the effects were great for the time.

#94

Halmat na borovinkite (http://imdb.com/title/tt0339099/)
Man on the moon
Amadeus
Opasen char
Gospodin za edin den
21 grams
Big fish
Pi
the passion of the christ
and a lot more i can’t remember now!

#95

The dolllar trilogy and mad max the road warrior to name a few.

#96

Wauw im pretty surprised that the alien movies are on so few lists. For me those movies are my biggest inspiration for all. Think about how cruxial the design was to make them work: On one hand you need a very realistic and gritty setting for the surroundings (space ships and space stations) to make them believeable. On the other hand you have Gigers amazing and almost abstract, yet believable biomechanical designs. Whithout those great designs the 4 movies would have been nothing.
(yes not all 4 movies are great movies, but they all have amazing designs imo)

Other movies that inspire me greatly are blade runner and robocop.

Movies mentioned here like Magnolia, Requiem, Donnie darko and Von Trier movies, are to me just fantastic movies, but not necessarily a big source of visual inspiration. :surprised

#97

Of course, the first Alien movie and Giger himself, greatly inspiring and influential to my young self… but I think many of us tend to avoid “me too” posts, it’s been listed once, why keep repeating it. :slight_smile:

#98

Ahh, Voices of a Distant Star…that was really inspiring, and then depressing after I had a stab at 2D animation and managed to create a 5-second movie. Eh.

Dark City is the best movie that I’ve ever seen that aired past midnight on TV. Really effective use of vfx, the shifting buildings were so creepy when I first saw them.

Related to films that don’t use vfx/animation, if you’ve watched 21 Grams but haven’t watched Amores Perros you should do so now. It’s by the same director, I think? It’s very sad at the end, though.

Good to hear people like Gattaca, we’re doing it as our English film study for my final year :slight_smile: So now I’m looking forward to it.

#99

At the moment i’m laying sick in bed with some gastic flu, so its movie time for me, rcently i;ve lost track of time and am not seeing as much movies as i used to. My mind is pretty weary with medicine and so all sorts of thoughts are going through it , can’t really focus on anything really. But till i get back to normal, there is one movie that just has to be mentioned in this thread, its Dark COmical Script truly is the right medium for depicting its philosophy: The movie is “Fight Club”,

Oh yeah and once you get passed the action and Amazing CG in The MAtrix and The Animatrix, it’s concepts and philosophy are nevertheless always inspiring.

#100

Baraka, Blade Runner, Clockwork Orange.

#101

Vanilla sky! But it’s probably the music…
Svefn-g-englar, by Sigur Ros, is wonderfull to paint to. The only problem is that it will only end in sad pictures. =P

#102

I can’t remember all the movies that inspired me throughout my whole life, but I do remember these two :

[b]Ten Minutes Older - The Trumpet
Ten Minutes Older - The Cello

[/b]10min long shots by the most famous directors around the world. I think that this was their chance to shoot their dream movies, however only 10mins long. Really recommend it.

#103

Hero and House of flying daggers: incredible story telling and amazing use of color a must see (find my self watching it with out sound and still able to fell the emotions)

A Series of Unfortunate Events: very unique and strange movie find its a nice change of pace from time to time also credits are incredibly done

Memento: anther very original film and well told or hmm well replayed my be fits better

kingdom of heaven: incredible score and awesome audio effects all throw out the movie (its stated the best music dose not distract from the scene but make it fell alive)

Phantom of the Opera(the new release): very nice even some one such as my self that thought it would be slow torture to sit throw

Requiem for a dream: … that’s one you just have to see

#104

I’d definitely go with “THE PASSION OF THE CHRIST” for sheer emotional and symbolic visual artistry, and Hayao Miyazaki’s “SPIRITED AWAY”. Spirited Away is one of those movies that I can just leave running in the background as I paint, it’s freaky and imaginative and just blows away the artists’ blocks for me. More picks…

Lost in Translation

House of Flying Daggers

Raiders of the Lost Ark (classic)

#105

Lots of movies have inspired me in various stages and moods
Top of the list is always
Shashank redemption,
then Seven Samurai,
Forrest Gump,
Apocalypse Now,
Children of Heaven,
Full Metal Jacket,
American Beauty
Gandhi
Taxi Driver
Batman Begins
Green Mile
Amiele
A very long engagement (amazing cinematography)

#106

My aesthetic sense was very influeced by Blade Runner and Full Metal Jacket, also a little from Star Wars ep. IV.
I think that my inspiration comes from the feelings, the mood and the atmosphere in that movies.

But, looking at other people inspiration, I think that lately more and more people is starting to inspire from the same sources, and that critically affects the works seen lately in CGTalk.

#107

Ohhh…there are loads of great movies out there…I really enjoy foriegn movies, and these have been the most inspiring for me:
-Fantastic Planet
-City of Lost Children
-Amelie (for the music! Yay for Yann Tiersen!)
-Howl’s Moving Castle
-Tezuka’s Metropolis
I don’t really consider Howl’s Moving Castle to be that great of a movie story-wise, you need to read the book to get the full experience. But visually it has to be one of the most mind blowing movies I’ve ever seen. Miyazaki never ceases to please…

#108

Yeah, I watched howl’s moving castle and I couldn’t get it at all. Eventually I just sat back and enjoyed the art and it was really good that way :stuck_out_tongue:

It may have been poor subtitling though.

#109

Do Ankhen Barah Haath(India: Hindi title)—http://www.ultraindia.com/movies/filmography/filmography.php?choice=1&na=DO%20AANKHEN%20BARAH%20HAATH

Lagaan(India: Hindi title) (short title)
Land Tax (International: English title)—http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0282674/plotsummary

Rang De Basanti—A thought-provoking, soul-stirring wake up call to the youth of India. An engrossing entertainer from a genre that’s still young in Indian cinema.

Fifth Element, Matrix Trilogy, LOTR…and many more which are not only great inspiration for art but also have to say a lot about great values in life.:bowdown:

#110

Some oldie but goodies

-Hunt for the Red October
-The Exorcist
-Rosemary’s Baby
-Blade Runner
-Alien

Ill name more soon.

-R