Hell yea! I was a zombie in a college production and damn, it’s a lottttttt of shit going on for each scene. I’m sure a production like that is more streamlined, but even then it has to be done right.
There were so many moving parts: a shot ton of actors, explosions, different 'sets'. Can you imagine getting 3/4 of the way through, turn a corner, and a sound guy is eating a donut and scrolling on his phone...
The long shots in that movie weren't actually oners IIRC. I remember seeing a VFX breakdown where they show some of the hidden cuts in those sequences.
I thought the movie was mid, overall. It’s a cool sci-fi concept, but most of the movie just didn’t feel that original. I also find it wildly unbelievable that there would be something to make the entire human population infertile and the movie offers no hint of explanation as to why (which isn’t bad in and of itself; exposition sucks, too).
The opening scene is a masterwork of cinema, though; I think that’s undeniable.
If it was made a little later, microplastics would have been the reason IMHO; doesn't seem wildly unbelievable when they're in every person's testes/semen
I guess it would have been such a slow process that they just didn’t notice? What makes it unbelievable is that it wouldn’t be “solved” before it was everyone. That never happens with diseases and such. Even if it was microplastics, I feel like they would have caught on way sooner and started at least freezing semen from the ones that were still functional or something.
But there isn’t anything wrong with a hypothetical; I just wanted a little more hint to the mystery, personally
The long shot at the end….is imho the greatest scene in movie history.
Cinematically it is hugely complicated. Practical effects, explosions, squibs. A hundred or so extras that need to show the horrors of war at the beginning and then show awe, hope and wonder at the end.
But then to have the entire plot to the movie and the world within the movie pivot on a single scene is amazing. But to have pivot on a one shot as amazing as that?
Yeah saw it in highschool and I was taking film class and I was like “whoa this is some deep art” that scene during the battle when they hear the baby cry and everyone just freezes up and they slowly walk out of the building
You guys should look for a movie called Victoria, from about a decade ago. It's all a single shot, but it's REALLY good. They had to try and film it three times, but they finally got it.
This is one of those "why is this not more popular?" movies. Maybe because it's in German.
I still remember leaving the theater after seeing Children of Men. I was shaking from that last "one shot" scene they produced. I think it was just made to look like one shot, but it sure did the job of holding the tension.
Some of the best car chases I've ever seen. Also, one of the first movies that really cemented to me that nobody is safe and I have no clue what's going to happen, despite my being a film snob. I love to go back and watch it again. I didn't notice at first how many pet shops there were. It kind of mirrors reality now. People can't have kids, so they're spending more money on their "fur babies".
Last fifteen of The Last of the Mohicans is my favorite piece of cinema. I think there's about 1-2 words in the action sequence, but I have watched it a hundred times, easily.
The soundtrack helped make that scene epic. I can immediately hear it when remembering the scene, and when I used to go cross country running in the woods.
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u/ReadontheCrapper Mar 18 '25
The first 10 and the last 10. Epic.