What movies from the 2000s use miniatures?
08-12-12, 01:37 AM
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What movies from the 2000s use miniatures?
Was just watching Alien on BD (good god is that image gorgeous...you'd swear it was a new film almost). And it's always amazed me how amazing the use of miniatures in this film really really sell off that it's real. The framing, timing of movement, etc. It's kind of lost art in a way. Kind of wish they'd do it more often. Peter Jackson seems to really love it. Used wonderfully for the LoTR (and undoubtedly for The Hobbit, one would assume) and King Kong. The stuff filmed in them just...looks real. It's a physical object so scale and texture is given off really well in the image.
Anyway..what films use miniatures in the 2000s? All it got are the Jackson films, The Dark Knight, and Batman Begins. I can't really think of anything else. Just an interesting art form that I appreciate a lot.
Anyway..what films use miniatures in the 2000s? All it got are the Jackson films, The Dark Knight, and Batman Begins. I can't really think of anything else. Just an interesting art form that I appreciate a lot.
08-12-12, 02:08 AM
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Re: What movies from the 2000s use miniatures?
It's a lost art to be sure. Alien is amazing in every respect of course. I'd rather watch a film that utilizes miniatures/bigatures than almost any recent CGI laden film.
Unfortunately I can't answer your question.
Unfortunately I can't answer your question.
08-12-12, 05:28 AM
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Re: What movies from the 2000s use miniatures?
2 that I have seen recently
Hellboy 2
Mutant Chronicles
Hellboy 2
Mutant Chronicles
08-12-12, 07:33 AM
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KILL BILL VOL. 1 (2003) - when the Bride flies in to Tokyo, the plane flies over the miniature cityscape used by Toho in the Godzilla movies.
Speaking of which, every Godzilla film made in the 2000s uses miniatures. Let's see, the list includes:
GODZILLA 2000 (1999)
GODZILLA X MEGAGUIRUS (2000)
GODZILLA MOTHRA KING GHIDORAH: GIANT MONSTERS ALL OUT ATTACK (2001)
GODZILLA X MECHAGODZILLA (2002)
GODZILLA TOKYO SOS (2003)
GODZILLA FINAL WARS (2004)
+ GAMERA THE BRAVE (2006), which was awful.
Speaking of which, every Godzilla film made in the 2000s uses miniatures. Let's see, the list includes:
GODZILLA 2000 (1999)
GODZILLA X MEGAGUIRUS (2000)
GODZILLA MOTHRA KING GHIDORAH: GIANT MONSTERS ALL OUT ATTACK (2001)
GODZILLA X MECHAGODZILLA (2002)
GODZILLA TOKYO SOS (2003)
GODZILLA FINAL WARS (2004)
+ GAMERA THE BRAVE (2006), which was awful.
08-12-12, 08:45 AM
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Re: What movies from the 2000s use miniatures?
I know Revenge of the Sith used a miniature for the sinkhole on Utapau, it's shown on the DVD special features. I'm sure all the Star Wars used them to some extent in spite of all the talk about CG.
08-12-12, 11:48 AM
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I'll have to see HB2 on BD again, I have it. Somehow that escaped me.
08-12-12, 05:25 PM
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Re: What movies from the 2000s use miniatures?
The special features on Hellboy 2 show a lot of the miniature work. The first Hellboy, too, for that matter.
I kind of dig how Tarantino uses miniatures in Kill Bill Vol. 1 and makes it obvious they're miniatures on purpose - yet another of his nods to past cinema he loves so much.
I'd think Scorsese used miniatures in Hugo but I have no idea if he did. Seems like the kind of film and the kind of filmmaker that would see value in it.
I kind of dig how Tarantino uses miniatures in Kill Bill Vol. 1 and makes it obvious they're miniatures on purpose - yet another of his nods to past cinema he loves so much.
I'd think Scorsese used miniatures in Hugo but I have no idea if he did. Seems like the kind of film and the kind of filmmaker that would see value in it.
08-15-12, 12:37 PM
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Re: What movies from the 2000s use miniatures?
LOTR trilogy used them extensively. EDIT: I see you mentioned that in the OP now.
Many films still do AFAIK.
Many films still do AFAIK.
