pretty!

[deird_lj]

I'm rewatching Lord Of The Rings, mostly because the landscapes are just so pretty.

Have there been any movies with prettier backgrounds than these?


(Seriously! Pretty! So pretty!)

Comments

[debris4spike]

That's one of the (many) reasons I love The Last of The Mohicans ... that and the background music ... Which can really make or break a film, can't it?

[deird1]

It really can...

[roccondilrinon.livejournal.com]

You're welcome. :-p

[deird1]

*huggles*

[kirby1024.livejournal.com]

Lord of the Rings - Also known as the most commercially successful tourism video for New Zealand in known history! :)

[deird1]

Heh. True.

[jl-in-the-lane.livejournal.com]

Yes, backgrounds are lovely.

Personally, I watch for the furniture.

[deird1]

Hee!

[penny-lane-42.livejournal.com]

It is gorgeous, isn't it?

The only prettier movie I can think of is The Fall, which is impossibly beautiful (see icon) and exactly what I'd always wanted from a movie visually, but could never find. Watchitwatchitwatchit!

Oh! And Hero, the Chinese film. And House of Flying Daggers. ;)

[deird1]

Oooh... I haven't seen any of those...

[penny-lane-42.livejournal.com]

They're all fantastic, though The Fall is one of the best movies I have ever seen. It was shot in like eighteen different countries, and there's no CGI in it, and you would not believe how many unbelievably beautiful locations they found. Plus: Lee Pace! I love every single thing about that movie, and it's the one movie I recommend the most often.

Hero is pretty awesome because the framework of the movie is someone telling a story. It gets told three different times (sorta Faulkner-ish, honestly), and each time the color scheme completely changes. It's mesmerizing. Check out this picspam for a glimpse.

And HoFD is just plain pretty.

not so random commenter

[rowanda380.livejournal.com]

I love the backgrounds in What Dreams May Come, and Life Aquatic is also another visually stunning film. But yes, LOTRs has lovely landscape, especially the first one, I would totally live in the shire :0)

[deird1]

Oh, totally.

[stormwreath.livejournal.com]

the landscapes are just so pretty

I, on the other hand, am cursed. I see this gorgeous sweeping panoramic shot of Edoras or Minas Tirith sitting in the middle of a bleak wind-swept New Zealand moor and I think "Okay, where are the fields? Where do they grow the wheat and barley and oats? Where are the orchards? They don't even have any sheep grazing! What do they eat!" And then I have to be led gently away by men in white coats as I froth and rant at Peter Jackson.


Warning: This post may contain some exaggeration.

[deird1]

Hmm... Good point...

(But - pretty! So much pretty!)

[curiouswombat.livejournal.com]

'S all round the back...

[stormwreath.livejournal.com]

I can just about believe that for Edoras, but Minas Tirith? Minas Tirith has a great big snow-covered mountain round the back of it!!
:-)

[roccondilrinon.livejournal.com]

Minas Tirith should have had farms and fields all around it, where the battle took place. Instead we got grassy plains.

[curiouswombat.livejournal.com]

It is a very, very beautiful film - I can even, almost, forgive the ridiculous charge down hill in TTT simply because it is all so very photogenic!

[deird1]

Absolutely!


(You do realise this is all your fault...)

[curiouswombat.livejournal.com]

Guilty as charged, I guess - but I plead insanity - or maybe I'll just plead elves...

[slaymesoftly.livejournal.com]

*nods* I want to visit New Zealand so bad, I can taste it.

[deird1]

Same here...

[angearia.livejournal.com]

You're so right! Sometimes I just want to watch it for how beautiful it is. I <3 Peter Jackson for doing such stellar work.