Do you like the cinematography of The Avengers?

[The Endless]

It was mostly pure CGI and green screen, a lot like the Krypton scenes in MoS but without the cool costume design.

Xandar looked like budget Coruscant.

Personally I prefer cool sets, locations, and costumes to green screen.

GotG had loads of practical sets. The prison was real. Know here was real. Morag was real. The interiors of the ships were real. Obviously green screen was used but not like the Star Wars prequels or Green Lantern. It was used the same way matte paintings were used back in the day.

 

[Guts]

GotG had loads of practical sets. The prison was real. Know here was real. Morag was real. The interiors of the ships were real. Obviously green screen was used but not like the Star Wars prequels or Green Lantern. It was used the same way matte paintings were used back in the day.

Yep. The CGI in Guardians was mostly used to enhance the scenes.

 

[flickchick85]

I thought the practical sets in GotG were wonderful. They just seemed so "lived in" - so grimy and dirty, haha.

 

[Flint Marko]

Guardians had some of the best production design I've seen in any recent blockbuster.

 

[DA_Champion]

Some good recent blockbusters for production design and general visual beauty, not in order:

Interstellar
Oblivion
Elysium
Catching Fire
Gravity
Maze Runner
Noah
Prometheus
John Carter
Transformers 3

They all had some sort of oomph that wowed me. GoTG only had good visuals in the sense that coca cola + McDonalds french fries taste good.

Most particularly, Xandar was budget Coruscant. In general the movie was just a bunch of homages to star wars with jokes thrown in.

ETA: There was one good part, the collector's lair. Incidentally that wasn't an homage to Star Wars, at least I don't think it was.

 

[spider-neil]

Very blah cinematography. Whedon's TV background showing I suspect. Whedon needs to hire a new DP and get that DP to light and frame the shows because Avengers just looked like a high budget TV episode. Game of Thrones has better photography and that IS a TV show.

 

[100]

I think Avengers: Ultron will have a good cinematography.

 

[Boy Scout]

I liked it when I saw it, but looking back, I find it kind of bland.

 

[BatsDC]

I'm not really bothered by it, but it'll definitely be jarring to see it after how beautifully shot Age of Ultron looks to be

 

[Lord]

The cinematography of the Marvel films have mostly been decent to good, while it doesn't seem like a popular choice, i liked the look of Iron Man 3, felt dynamic and worked well with the plot and pacing. With Guardians of the Galaxy i'm not sure i liked the look much, it used practical effects, but i guess i'm just not into that type of cosmic stuff.

Some good recent blockbusters for production design and general visual beauty, not in order:

Interstellar
Oblivion
Elysium
Catching Fire
Gravity
Maze Runner
Noah
Prometheus
John Carter
Transformers 3

They all had some sort of oomph that wowed me. GoTG only had good visuals in the sense that coca cola + McDonalds french fries taste good.

Most particularly, Xandar was budget Coruscant. In general the movie was just a bunch of homages to star wars with jokes thrown in.

ETA: There was one good part, the collector's lair. Incidentally that wasn't an homage to Star Wars, at least I don't think it was.

Good to see someone else thinking that, the film's plot may have been bad but the look and sound were spectacular. I would also like to add Skyfall in there.

 

[Boy Scout]

Skyfall looked wonderful.

 

[Son of Coul]

Oh god, Roger Deakins would be the bestest get a Marvel movie could get. I suspect they'd have to have a director who worked with him previously come on board though, a la Edgar Wright bringing Bill Pope along.

 

[metaphysician]

Not only do I like it, but I find the complaints about it incomprehensible. To date I've not seen a single person able to point out anything actually *wrong* with it, aside from the aspect ratio. They always complain "looks like TV" and then vanish when asked to give details.

 

[Snow Queen]

I think it's pretty awful looking honestly. Not like a TV show though, like some have said, as I've seen shows with better cinematography. But it just doesn't work for me at all.

 

[Flint Marko]

I had problems with certain shots, but overall nothing dampers my enjoyment in the slightest.

 

[kguillou]

I too wasn't a fan of the look of the Avengers. For such a grand, big scale film I think it definitely needed more of that "epic movie filter" look. Like LOTR or Man of Steel, or 300. Those movies looked BEAUTIFUL, I think cinematography like that is what an Avengers movie needs.

Also, I'm surprised none of you mentioned Kenneth Branaugh's THOR as that movie by far had the best cinematography of the MCU thus far, IMO. I would've been perfectly content if The Avengers looked like THOR.

 

[Lord]

I also want to mention Pirates of the Caribbean 2-3 and The Lone Ranger, not sure who Gore Verbinsky brought in, but the look of those films was great.

 

[ThePowerCosmic]

Some good recent blockbusters for production design and general visual beauty, not in order:

Interstellar
Oblivion
Elysium
Catching Fire
Gravity
Maze Runner
Noah
Prometheus
John Carter
Transformers 3

They all had some sort of oomph that wowed me. GoTG only had good visuals in the sense that coca cola + McDonalds french fries taste good.

Most particularly, Xandar was budget Coruscant. In general the movie was just a bunch of homages to star wars with jokes thrown in.

ETA: There was one good part, the collector's lair. Incidentally that wasn't an homage to Star Wars, at least I don't think it was.

What does that mean?

 

[XtremelyBaneful]

I just watched the movie again and... yeah, why not?

 

[See Cap Run]

I liked its cinematography. I too, like Metaphysician would be interested you hear any specific criticisms of Avengers' besides the very vague "looks like a tv show" or "it looks bland".

 

[Thoix]

There are times where I like the cinematography, but overall I just feel bored by it. The spectacle lost it's charm for me after a few blu-ray viewings.

 

[BarryAllen]

I liked it but I don't think it was anything spectacular.

This. Guardians of the Galaxy by far had the best cinematography, and it looks like AOU will follow suit.

 

[Daedalus]

Very blah cinematography. Whedon's TV background showing I suspect. Whedon needs to hire a new DP and get that DP to light and frame the shows because Avengers just looked like a high budget TV episode. Game of Thrones has better photography and that IS a TV show.

This. Really like the movie, but it looks like a TV show.

I liked Branagh`s cinematography in Thor, even though I don`t find the movie that great.

 

[DA_Champion]

What does that mean?

It means Xandar's look was derivative of Corsucant, and done in a less fancy manner. It's just a big CGI city.

We've seen a lot of CGI cities in the past twenty years. They used to look cool.

 

[kedrell]

Xandar had greens and blues though. It had water and vegetation. Corsucant is concrete jungle from pole to pole.