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Fabulous New Ideas in "Old" Movies

Subtropic PixelSubtropic Pixel Posts: 2,389
edited December 1969 in The Commons

1989's original Batman movie with Michael Keaton and Jack Nicholson. I have had it for ages on DVD, but now that I have Amazon Prime, I actually watched it, because it's so EASY to watch a streaming movie.

And this was also the first time I saw it in HD. It has given me a new appreciation for the work done in this 26-year-old movie, and I think it was the best of all of them, including the more recent ones, which basically could have happened in Indianapolis, Columbus, Pittsburgh, or Philadelphia, but certainly not in Gotham! Nothing bad about those cities, but they're not Gotham City, and in this old movie, it "felt" like Gotham!

And though it's in the "action" genre, the action didn't meet today's beginning-to-end action movies, but because of the other production qualities, it was and still is a great film. And really, everything else was so top-notch. The writing, dialog, and acting was better back then I think, the costuming was awesome (people wore hats in that film!), and the sets; oh my, the sets! The "Museum" scene, Vicki Vale's brightly-lit apartment, the contrast of the starkly minimal cave, even the newsroom and exterior scenes of an Art Decoesque Gotham City! I loved seeing bold statue or laid-brick load-bearing beams, wide stairways, tiled hallways, high cathedral ceilings, detailed moulding around doorways and such. There were virtually no "mere" architectural elements such as simple columns or entryways, and it gave me so many new reference ideas for 3D work.

Just watching that movie filled with its great many wonderful details really fed my inner muse in so many ways, and I highly recommend it for anybody who may be struggling for visual ideas. And Kim Basinger was beautiful in it to boot! :wow:

So what movie have you seen recently that fed your artist's muse?

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  • NoName99NoName99 Posts: 322
    edited December 1969

    Hard to believe it was that long ago....

    I was 10 years old when I watched Batman '89 in theaters it's still one of my all time favorite films. Tim Burton and Anton Fursts art direction really made a lasting impression on me, as did Nicholsons and Keaton's acting.

    Just watched another of my 80s favorites today, the original Terminator from 1984.

    I've been watching a lot of the more light-hearted 80s flicks like Goonies and ET lately though.

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