Great examples here.
I’m going to throw some love out for The Matrix and it’s “bullet time.” Seeing that effect for the first time, Trinity floating in the air, totally sets the mood for the rest of the movie—and became an iconic image that has been homaged to the point of cliche ever since. Quality filmmaking, there.
—PolarisDiB thinks there should be a The Matrix Criterion. He honestly does not expect most people to agree.
The Wild Bunch. Final shootout.
“Give ’em hell, Pike!”
very much more often than a good use of slow motion (as the scarcely noticable one in Raging Bull, while the camera concentrates on Jakes first wife cooking steaks, the poetic ones In The Mood For Love or the scary ones from David Lynch) I encounter a very bad one. Thank god I tend to forget them, but I still have a rather hostile initial reaction towards slow motion. It can be very annoying because of its redundancy and cheap use of effect. Very often a slow motion seems to have nothing more to say than: hey, audience, watch closely now. Even if there is nothing to see.
What is the function of a slow motion anyway, astheticaly-wise or plotwise?
how has no one mentioned kubrick?
kubrick is the beginning and the end of the “slow motion shot”
in other news: zack snyder has made yet another film on the greatly mistaken premise that a constant drivel of slow motion shots can gain you sex, drugs, and rock n roll.
I wistfully remember and watch John Woo for some of my favourite slow mo. The most exciting thing is that’s a real event captured on film . For me the grace and awe is gone thanks to Matrix, the age of digital effects, and it’s garish overuse and digital manipulation. Luckily I can still pop in Harboiled,The Killer,Mean Streets,and Casino,
A military jet in flight close to the surface of a narrow creek and approaching a bridge in Hukkle (2002) by Gyorgy Palfi …
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ev0l_2Scdqs&feature=related
the slow motion in Raging Bull is incredible.
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Scorsese is the master of the slow motion shot; of course the slow-mo of DeNiro at the bar with the murderous smile on his face is a classic example. Great moments with slow motion are legion.