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Added 2022-01-21 00:11:43 +0000 UTCFavorite style over substance movie and why. Go!
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I feel like if Fury Road is considered "style over substance" we need to clarify what "substance" is because that movies feels very substantive to me.
Arthur Augustyn
2022-01-21 15:00:24 +0000 UTCAn excessive amount of lens flair followed by a series of very large explosions - so just about anything made by Michael Bay or JJ Abrams :)
Ross Skilton
2022-01-21 11:20:41 +0000 UTCHard Boiled. A John Woo film is not exactly known for thematic richness and witty repartee. The worlds he creates—with their melodramatic plots, overcooked Christian imagery (those doves!), and twin protagonists who bond not so much through honor but mutual badassery—are sheer, over-the-top absurdity. But Woo makes them watchable—classics, even—through his superb, operatic action sequences. His shootouts are not mere exchanges of gunfire. They’re slo-mo ballets of carnage, filled with leaping bodies and beautiful bloodshed. With his inimitable style, John Woo transformed action cinema. And he never found a better hero to wield dual pistols than Chow Yun Fat. Watching him slide down a bannister, toothpick in mouth, blowing away bad guys is to me one of the coolest images ever put on film. While Woo can be equally lauded for other films like A Better Tomorrow and The Killer, I don’t think he ever topped this one. The hospital shootout alone, which consists of pretty much the entire second half of the film, vaults it to the top. It is one of the great action sequences—a never ending onslaught of mayhem. John Woo is never going to be accused of making high art. His films are thinly conceived in terms of story and character, focusing more on style and attitude—Jean-Pierre Melville gone grindhouse with gun fu. But there’s poetry to be found. It’s there in the motion.
Bennett Oliver
2022-01-21 04:38:51 +0000 UTCScott Pilgrim vs. the World. To me it is the best Edgar Wright movie (I don't like a lot of his later movies.) Its style is unapologetically 8-bit comic Nintendoish and unique even till this day. Drawn straight from its source material by Brian O'Malley, its scene transitions are visually fantastic; its otherworldly yet familiar portrait of Toronto feels very personal to me. It is really just a beautifully made and entertaining film with odd characters, memorable visuals, and lots of fun.
Felix Wong
2022-01-21 04:30:53 +0000 UTCRedline. It has a unique art style that combines deeply saturated colors with heavy black shadow, and it’s all pretty much hand drawn. Each of the characters are extremely detailed and interesting to look at. The action involves multiple cutaways that are edited perfectly so none of the momentum is lost, causing a sense of information overload that’s impossible to look away from. It’s just beautiful to look at and there’s nothing else to it.
Hart
2022-01-21 02:55:01 +0000 UTCMad Max Fury Road - Yes there is definitely some substance to the world George Miller has created here, but the main pleasure of watching this movie is taking it in as one of the most exciting action movies ever made. While the plot can be boiled down to simply being one long chase through the desert, every action sequence feels so perfectly orchestrated from the stunts to the cinematography, the editing, the score, and the sound mix, you can't help but be mesmerized the entire way.
Stephen
2022-01-21 02:44:35 +0000 UTCOne of Nostalgia Critic's best videos before he stopped being funny.
Wolfman Brandon
2022-01-21 02:38:20 +0000 UTCBlade 2 by far! Although, the film had a solid story and some interesting character development. The film has a ton of style and a cool looking ascetic that, while it's more about showing off its action scenes and visual flair, it's a better film than expected.
Tony Moro
2022-01-21 01:21:56 +0000 UTCJan de Bont's The Haunting (1999). I love the epic sets, cast, cinematography, sound design, Jerry Goldsmith score, and overall atmosphere. Atrocious, however, are its story, characters, dialogue and visual effects. Robert Wise’s 1963 version was more intimate and showed that less is more in this genre. Yet, I immerse myself in the former as a routine guilty pleasure because I love how it feels despite some slight shame which may follow. A sort of filmic masturbatory experience I suppose.
Steven Aguilera
2022-01-21 00:59:28 +0000 UTCOcean's 11 (2001). To me, this is the ultimate "style over substance" movie. Cool and interesting people doing cool and interesting things. Just enough plot and plot twists to keep you engaged, but not so many that you have to think or feel too much about anything. Everything is tight, in true Steven Soderbergh fashion. The David Holmes score suits it perfectly without doing anything revolutionary. It's just the quintessential example of a smooth, entertaining movie that looks terrific and is a thoroughly enjoyable use of 1:56, and that will drop neatly out of your brain as soon as it's over, so you can move on to the next thing in your life.
Derek H.
2022-01-21 00:54:17 +0000 UTC2001: A Space Odyssey. WAIT! Hear me out! :) I know it's a work of substance, and I'd never say otherwise. It's brilliant. But when you get right down to it, the "substance" of 2001 is very high-concept stuff that could be explained in a few paragraphs. What makes the film a classic is its style. It's amazing to look at... to hear... to experience. It has probably affected at least half of the films made since its release, and in most of those cases, they owe something to its "look and feel" more than to its plot or its message.
Derek H.
2022-01-21 00:45:02 +0000 UTCClimax. I don't think Noe set out to say anything with that movie and it very much an exercise in his particular style of cinema and what an exercise it was. Otherworldly, dizzing camera worked matched with the labyrinthine design of the seemingly blood soaked dance school makes for a truly nightmarish watch. And I honestly can't get enough of it.
Tyler Shobe
2022-01-21 00:26:29 +0000 UTCSam Raimi's Spider-Man. He takes a routine comic book story and embraces the cheese giving it so much more personality than any MCU story. The performances, dialogue, and action choreography make it feel like they're winking at the camera all throughout. Plus, Wilem Dafoe as the Green Goblin with that hilarious voice and laugh is the quintessential B-movie villain.
Wolfman Brandon
2022-01-21 00:25:26 +0000 UTC
