BvS Batman/Superman Movie - Cinematography?

[ArmsHeldOut]

Yeah there's one thing Snyder excels at more than anything it's the visuals.

Indeed.

 

[Mrs. Wayne]

Indeed.

Wow those are cool comparisons!

 

[MrsKent26]

Those are great, Armsheldout. Snyder seems to love recreating this "awesome" comic book stuff and it shows in his work. Imagine what he can do with Bats and Supes?t:

 

[Tim_Riggins]

I keep thinking about how dour the entirety of MOS looked, including the first flying scene -arguably one of the few moments of actual joy in the film- and I genuinely wonder what laws of color use Snyder must have learned in art school to make him think this was an appropriate look for a Superman movie (and one with "hope" as a main theme, curiously). Not that I presume to better versed than him on the matter; I'd just love to hear his reasoning. I find it absurd, not to mention outright sad, how they tried to negate the character's history as a brightly colored character, all in the name of "realism".

Any Superman movie that sees it fitting to present the character looking like this under intense sunlight deserves to have its sequel fretted over.

To each his own, I love the desatured look of MOS, I don't know, it just fits to me. I kind of like that DC movies with TDK trilogy & MOS & maybe BvS kind of distinguish themselves for the Marvel movies in that area.

Snyder & Mokri (DP) might have been thinking: "more realism, more grounded, more serious, let's go for a raw, "gritty" feel".


About the cameras used, 35 mm film cameras don't matter, they are basically just boxes, what matters is the film stocks used (not that there's much to choose from aside from Kodak Vision 3 50D, 200T, 250D & 500T) & the lenses.

 

[ArmsHeldOut]

Those are great, Armsheldout. Snyder seems to love recreating this "awesome" comic book stuff and it shows in his work. Imagine what he can do with Bats and Supes?t:

Oh, believe me, I have! lol 2016 can't get here soon enough!

 

[TheNextNolan22]

I don't necessarily want the same aesthetic from Watchmen beat for beat to be in BVS as it would be too drastic a change, but when I see shots like this:

I kinda sorta do.

 

[Goopy Snake]

Some 300-style slow downs could actually be helpful when insanely powerful dudes are punching each other. Otherwise you lose so much in the speed.

Granted, sometimes that's a good thing. I love all the scene with Faora-Ul specifically because she's too fast to visually keep up with. But the Zod fight would have benefited from a couple slow mos.

 

[Goopy Snake]

I genuinely wonder what laws of color use Snyder must have learned in art school to make him think this was an appropriate look for a Superman movie (and one with "hope" as a main theme, curiously). Not that I presume to better versed than him on the matter; I'd just love to hear his reasoning. I find it absurd, not to mention outright sad, how they tried to negate the character's history as a brightly colored character, all in the name of "realism".

I continue to fail to understand why the suit must match Ronald McDonald in its brightness in order to be authentically Superman.

 

[Nemeres]

I continue to fail to understand why the suit must match Ronald McDonald in its brightness in order to be authentically Superman.

If you insist on using extremes that I never brought up in the first place to make a point, of course you will.

 

[Boy Scout]

I feel like I'm the only one who isn't that impressed with Snyder's visuals. I've seen countless examples of his "best work", but I've yet to see anything from him that garnered anything more than a raised eyebrow.

MOS was a good looking movie (desaturation aside), so I'd like to see him build on the visual aesthetic of that movie, rather than taking too many cues from his other ones.

 

[Tim_Riggins]

If you're not impressed by his visuals, I really don't know what will.

 

[storyteller]

I loved the visual in Man of Steel. I do feel that some people are just trying to be petty. They didn't like the shaky cam because it's shaky came.


But Watchman was god damn beautiful. It's perfect for capturing DC.

I think the color in MOS was good for the tone of the film. The color is bright when it needs to be bright. Notice how scenes get less saturated when things go to hell.

Mos is good but I think it's more subdued so we can step out of our world into the world of MOS. Otherwise

But seriously Watchman though look is like crack is visual form.


So if Fong is back then all is well.

 

[Boy Scout]

If you're not impressed by his visuals, I really don't know what will.

I dunno...something impressive?

 

[Mrs. Wayne]

I dunno...something impressive?

What visuals are impressive to you? What would you like to see?

 

[Boy Scout]

Like I said: MOS was a good looking movie. He just needs to build off of that aesthetic.

 

[Mrs. Wayne]

Like I said: MOS was a good looking movie. He just needs to build off of that aesthetic.

K got you. Didn't see that.

 

[Boy Scout]

The second and third trailers for the movie offered some pretty cool visuals.

 

[Tim_Riggins]

I dunno...something impressive?

We are not only talking about MOS, but also Watchmen, or 300. If you find none of those impressive, give me one example of a movie you find impressive visually (from a cinematography standpoint, no CG or else)

 

[Boy Scout]

We are not only talking about MOS, but also Watchmen, or 300.

Yes, thank you, I am perfectly aware of that.

Third time saying this: I thought MOS looked nice.

 

[Tim_Riggins]

And you're not answering my question.

 

[Boy Scout]

Yes I am. MOS is obviously a movie that I find visually noteworthy, otherwise I wouldn't have continued to repeat myself. You asked that if I found none of "those" Snyder movies impressive (one of them being MOS), then I should give you other examples. I do, so I didn't.

 

[bluerayer]

I continue to fail to understand why the suit must match Ronald McDonald in its brightness in order to be authentically Superman.

 

[Tim_Riggins]

Oh boy.

 

[Boy Scout]

Oh boy, indeed.

 

[bluerayer]

Those aren't even half of the beautiful shots from that film. Snyder (and Fong) really do have talent in the visual arena. I find sometimes Snyder is dismissed as just being good for visuals, as though this talent doesn't mean much. He deserves more credit than he gets for his visual eye and work with people like Fong. When it comes to movies that are based on comic books, visuals matter and help tell the story.

When i got to this scene at the cinema, with Dr. Manhattan exploding the VC soldiers, my jaw dropped to the floor and stayed there until the movie was over. It almost fell to the floor during the opening credits too, they were so damn well done!:

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