Moments Out of Time: Cinematic Images of 2017

[Dead & Messed Up]

Feel free to join in and add your own - this is a celebration!

First up, obvious choice, but the sequence really is striking and plays the iconography for all it's got.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v179/deadandmessedup/2017_WonderWoman_zpsl56jpze8.j pg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v179/deadandmessedup/2017_WonderWoman_2_zps2f7su7eh .jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v179/deadandmessedup/2017_WonderWoman_3_zpsvv7zzf6o .jpg

[Dead & Messed Up]

All I can do tonight; might add a couple more from Kong in the next few days, its visuals were big and loud and wonderful.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v179/deadandmessedup/2017_Kong_2_zpsoxvx73xp.jpg

And here's Kong doing his best center-of-frame leading-lines Wonder Woman impression. Furry boy nails it.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v179/deadandmessedup/2017_Kong_1_zps0ab1egj7.jpg

[Dukefrukem]

The image of Kong eating a giant squid was pretty great too.

[D_Davis]

Kong had some great moments. Wish the film was longer, with a slower, more suspenseful build-up. The build-up / discovery portions of those kinds of films are always the best parts, and Kong gets to the action way too fast.

[D_Davis]

Didn't care for WW. My thoughts for it mirror my thoughts for most super hero films. It felt limp and uninspired. There was absolutely no tension, and a complete lack of a strong villain to put up a good fight. The reveal of the final boss was hilarious - old man Magneto-Man, or whatever? Really? It did have a few good shots, and her performance was OK.

[Ezee E]

Blade Runner takes this.

[Mysterious Dude]

Blade Runner takes this.
I must agree.

http://i.imgur.com/SUWFn2t.jpg

[Dead & Messed Up]

Blade Runner takes this.

Indeed. It doubles as a 160-minute long screensaver.

[Dead & Messed Up]

I love this shot because Stan Uris is the same size as the Paul Bunyan statue behind him, in terms of screen size, and you see that image of earthy manliness in the background set against a boy beneath him in beige colors and withdrawn posture.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v179/deadandmessedup/IT_PaulBunyan_zpsvhmafmad.jpg

And just generally the different ways they organize the children on-screen.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v179/deadandmessedup/IT_parade_2017_zpsjbdtm3gp.jpg

This scene with them talking suggests Stand By Me with the background train and - to me - Fellowship of the Ring with the single-file action, but that may be a reach.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v179/deadandmessedup/IT_Trek_2017_zpskgdgm663.jpg

And what may be a conscious nod to Ginger Snaps's similar scene.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v179/deadandmessedup/IT_Wall_2017_zpsmpxcjhss.jpg

And finally the man of the hour.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v179/deadandmessedup/IT_Pennywise_2017_zpsotu8bswy. jpg

[D_Davis]

IT is an absolutely gorgeous movie.

[Dead & Messed Up]

IT is an absolutely gorgeous movie.

I can't wait to watch it again just to soak in dem pretty pictures.

[Ezee E]

I wish I could pull images.

Florida Project also sticks out. I'm not sure which scene I would pick. Seems obvious to pick the one where the kids wander from store to store.

[Dukefrukem]

I Fellowship of the Ring with the single-file action, but that may be a reach.

YES!

[dreamdead]

Lady Bird: final scene with the mother in the car, after she's dropped off Lady Bird;

Columbus: interacting with any of the architecture;

Lost City of Z: last fifteen minutes, but especially the wife's final shot;

[Ivan Drago]

I have tons of screencaps from shots I pull from trailers but can only link to stuff that's already on the Internet. So here's five off the top of my head:

- Blade Runner 2049, as previously mentioned. I especially love the scene with Wallace interrogating Deckard, where the light keeps dimming and brightening above Deckard throughout. It's impeccably effective.
- Slack Bay, a super wide shot where Ma Loute carries his love interest (I think...my memory's a little hazy) to a boat in the middle of the lake. Every frame of this overlooked movie looked like a Dali painting.
- Anything in J.P. Getty's estate in All The Money In The World. The bluish-gray color grading only adds to the bleak grandeur of the billionaire's life.
- The scene in Darkest Hour where Winston Churchill gives a speech on the radio.
- This shot from The Void (low-res but it was the best I could find):

https://78.media.tumblr.com/de108f8abf939e7e5c18204db27fe4 89/tumblr_oowdu6zqX51rrkahjo6_500 .gif

More to come.

[Skitch]

Trying to think of some lesser known ones...not great quality screen grabs, but best I can do.

Otherlife (Netflix original)
https://i.imgur.com/IixQbmC.png

https://i.imgur.com/7TjeeMw.png

[Ezee E]

What's Otherlife about?

[Skitch]

Its a sci-fi movie about a company developing...its hard to explain. They put a drop in your eye then you are zapped away for a day long vacation in your mind that feels real, and only a couple minutes pass in real time. The company the main character works for wants to sell the tech for virtual prisons. Imagine being sentenced to 100 years in prison and you could have the sentence carried out in the courtroom in minutes, but the prisoner experiences the full effect.

It borrows from a couple other sci-fi movies, but goes to some new interesting places as it progresses. I quite enjoyed it.

Someone online said it would fit well within the Black Mirror universe, and that is 100% accurate.

[Winston*]

https://cdn.vox-cdn.com/thumbor/tG1Xm8KkLIyRK9pEuXFueHEQN_o=/0x0:1564x880/1200x800/filters:focal(578x21:828x271)/cdn.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_image/image/57294929/square1.0.jpg
Best scene of the year from The Square.

[Skitch]

WTF is that??

automatically added to my shape showing with Triangle, Circle (x2), and Cube.

[monolith94]

The Square definitely looked interesting, but how to go see it? A challenging thing.

[MadMan]

IT is an absolutely gorgeous movie.

Oh yes. So is Kong.

[MadMan]

Call Me By Your Name is stunning.

https://www.newjerseystage.com/events2017/CallMe600.jpg

https://www.reviewjournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/9987460_web1_call-me-by-your-name.jpg

https://cdn.theatlantic.com/assets/media/img/mt/2017/11/CMBYN/lead_960.jpg?1511905256

Also hi monolith. I had no idea you still posted here.

[Peng]

Man, when you can't upload it is hard to find some screencaps online. So throwing descriptions out:


Fatherly advice in Call Me By Your Name. More of a (masterpiece of a) speech than a visual setpiece, but how this alternates between Stuhlbarg's empathetic warmth and Chalamet's receptive face (http://d2.static.media.condenast.ru/gq/content/099dc8fc535d57fa6078c6f5cfbeba af.gif/6a77a24a/o/w1023) will forever be the defining cinematic image/scene of 2017 for me.


Star Wars: The Last Jedi's Kurosawa-inspired throne room fight scene. The color and the choreography:
https://heroichollywood.b-cdn.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/Star-Wars-The-Last-Jedi-9.jpg?x42694


The neon-fueled aesthetics of both John Wick: Chapter 2 and Atomic Blonde alone could power at least 2 pages of this thread.


In the doc Faces Places, there's a section where directors Agnes Varda and JR went to Normandy beach, and a stunning shot of the two sitting on chairs in sweeping sand closed out the section. This came at the end of Varda's reminiscing of past friends and events (which is always about her own upcoming mortality), and of the fickle nature of it all (even in art), making the scene so powerfully melancholic:
https://www.femail.com.au/img/facespniv1.jpg


The kid singing "Take Me Home, Country Roads" to her father in Logan Lucky will be one of Soderberg's best scenes ever, both a beautiful scene and the film's thematic pivot. Especially the shot from behind her looking out into the audience (https://youtu.be/F9N7zMXGQ4w?t=110), with Channing Tatum standing far back to the right. (The color-grading is off in that clip though)


Stronger's bandage-changing scene shows how you can have an unflinching depiction of a real tragedy without being exploitative, by grounding empathy and human connection at the forefront.
https://nyoobserver.files.wordpress.co m/2017/09/stronger_sg_00102.jpg?quality= 80&w=970



I'm not big on Wonderstruck overall, but the last 30 minutes are really good, and the decision to tell a flashback story with full-blown diorama fits the film perfectly, and is an utterly beautiful piece of filmmaking in its own right.
http://thefilmstage.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/Wonderstruck-1-620x414.jpg



Lady Bird's scene with the mother in the car, already mentioned earlier, is great. But I'm also partial to this scene, where yet another person in Lady Bird's orbit has their own mini-story alongsides her, and movingly opens up his own anguish to her:
https://media.giphy.com/media/xUOxfb8r3BhgPpfyKs/giphy.gif

[MadMan]

John Wick Chapter 2 makes murder look pretty, heh. And Atomic Blonde has some cool shots.

The fatherly advice scene is excellent, as is the Red Room in TLJ.