Thread: What films would you say have the best production design?

The Lord of the Rings: The value of Tolkien's books is his devotion to the tools we use to translate foreign mythologies, language. He even went so far as to create an archaic language that was the equivalent of our Latin for Elvish! In the movie, this is all turned into a theme park ride with lots of swooping and screaming monsters. Fun for what it is, to some, but hardly the same thing or even in the country as what the books do....

The Lord of the Rings: It wasn't any random pulp novel come to life, it was Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings come to life. The level of detail in recreating such a particular world is astonishing. There are things that are never explained outright to the audience, but are absolutely faithful to Tolkien's vision. The Elvish runes, the Shire, the dwelling of Rivendell, the Argonath, Edoras, Minas Tirith are all straight out of the...

Don't be silly. It's pronounced "Cyboig". Utinni!

Bah, my roots are showing again. No wonder they revoked my membership at the club. Here lies one whose name was writ in water - Keats

2001 Alien Big Fish among others. "Hey whitey! Where's your hat?"

Godfather part II Catch Me If You Can Bladerunner Pleasantville The Truman Show "I'm probably blacker than you are, I've got some slave in me, I can feel it"

Blade Runner Star Wars (IV-VI) LotR 2001 Dr. Strangelove The Wizard of Oz The Lost Horizon (1937) The Night of the Hunter (1955) Some recently seen/rewatched ones that impressed on this area: Park Row (1952) (considering the budget) Lust, Caution (2007) Timeline (2003) O Brother, Where Art Thou? (2000) The Phantom of the Opera (2004) Life is a state of mind

Legend The Fall The Cell Watchmen www.myspace.com/trevormax http://ruse-of-metacarpi.dvdaf.com/owned

Whole thing looked like a fuggin Franklin Mint "collector's plate" vision of Ye Olde Middle Earthe. Which is to say trite, boring and unimaginative as hell. On some level, I admire the labor and skill involved, but that doesn't make the end result any less mind-numbing. You must have been so afraid, Cassie... Then you saw a cop.

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