@bratface said:

@DRDMovieMusings said:

@bratface said:

It's visually stunning.

I've got a list for movies I think are visually stunning called Eye Candy — should I add this one...?!

Yes, if you are referring to 'Three Thousand Years of Longing'.

Looks good indeed!

Yeah, I guess beauty is in the eye of the beholder. I'm not sure that I'm particularly struck by the visuals in any of your list (though there are films there that I like for other reasons).

Blade Runner I first saw at a preview in London and it totally blew me away as the first film I'd ever seen that felt like it was filmed on location in the future. Inception is one I can understand people not liking or finding it hard to get the concept plus even I find a lot of Nolan's work a bit "disengaged", but the dreamworld visuals were something fresh and new at the time.

I'm surprised that you agree about The Fall's aesthetics but not The Promise's, though. The Emerald City trailer didn't really sell what I saw in it but if you ever watch The Fall and enjoy it enough to seek out Singh's other work, bear it in mind. If you want a quick taster of TS, there's this Superbowl commercial: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a-s2r33QSnI or, if you're a fan of REM, he did Losing Your Religion . As most of your list is quite, to me, "grounded", here's one I considered offering up: The Flowers of War. I'm now off to listen to the trailer music, which I love.

@M.LeMarchand said:

Yeah, I guess beauty is in the eye of the beholder.

Right?!

I'm not sure that I'm particularly struck by the visuals in any of your list (though there are films there that I like for other reasons).

In The Tourist, those scenes in Paris and Venice are jaw-droppingly gorgeous to me!

And the wardrobe, colours, and sets in Cafe Society? Splendid!

Blade Runner I first saw at a preview in London and it totally blew me away as the first film I'd ever seen that felt like it was filmed on location in the future.

I bet!

And can you believe Blade Runner's "future" was six YEARS AGO?!

I'm surprised that you agree about The Fall's aesthetics but not The Promise's, though. The Emerald City trailer didn't really sell what I saw in it but if you ever watch The Fall and enjoy it enough to seek out Singh's other work, bear it in mind. If you want a quick taster of TS, there's this Superbowl commercial: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a-s2r33QSnI or, if you're a fan of REM, he did Losing Your Religion . As most of your list is quite, to me, "grounded",

By "gounded" do you mean, like, not fantasy but realistic?

here's one I considered offering up: The Flowers of War. I'm now off to listen to the trailer music, which I love.

The trailer for Flowers of War made me say "Wow, that is beautiful!" right off the tip! Christian Bale sinks himself into period pieces with rigorous detail (The Pale Blue Eye, Ford vs. Ferrari, American Psycho, to name just a few), so just seeing him at top billing raises expectations.

@DRDMovieMusings said:

In The Tourist, those scenes in Paris and Venice are jaw-droppingly gorgeous to me!

And the wardrobe, colours, and sets in Cafe Society? Splendid!

Not seen CS, and I'm ambivalent about Paris in terms of beauty, but Venice is lovely. That said, if pretty scenery pushed a movie into "Eye Candy" for me, there'd be a whole slew of average to surprisingly OK Netflix romances set in a beautiful European location on my list.

@DRDMovieMusings said:

And can you believe Blade Runner's "future" was six YEARS AGO?!

I know!

@DRDMovieMusings said:

By "gounded" do you mean, like, not fantasy but realistic?

Kind of. With the exception of King Kong, most of your list isn't OTT visually. For me, "Eye Candy" is usually far more sumptuous.

@DRDMovieMusings said:

The trailer for Flowers of War made me say "Wow, that is beautiful!" right off the tip! Christian Bale sinks himself into period pieces with rigorous detail (The Pale Blue Eye, Ford vs. Ferrari, American Psycho, to name just a few), so just seeing him at top billing raises expectations.

Hope you enjoy it if you give it a go. Going by your list, I'd say you might enjoy it more than The Fall.