Has there been a comparable "holy shit" moment since?

Or has there been nothing as jaw-dropping in the last 18 years?

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When those two girls in Blue is the Warmest Color started going to town on each other my jaw hit the floor

shit thread

Didn't Avatar blow it out of the water? Or does that not count because you say so?

Any particular moments?

the more i see it the less it makes sense

This is a quaint yet honest answer I feel is in spirit with the threads purpose.

What sort of stand-out cinema-defining moment was in Avatar?

It was pretty forgetful.

When the girl avatar picked up the guy in the wheel chair.

When the mexican who cucked gosling gets shot outside the pawn shop. Also the elevator scene.

the tribbing scene was laughable

This

avatar was very forgettable, literally just a ripoff of ferngully in 3D

>start dating a chick and raising her son while you know the dad is in prison and will get out in like a year or less
why did goose cuck himself?

I'll have to watch it again. It's been a while.

It wasn't that holy shit at the time tbqh (oldfag, saw it opening night and even got to watch them film it).

It was cool seeing it so well done and more impressively in a movie, but we'd seen it in commercials and music videos and other movies before.

The overall film itself felt really derivative - not just of anime obviously - but stuff like City Of Lost Children and Dark City.

THAT SAID...My fucking roommate was OBSESSED with it. Saw it twice just because of him. A lot of people fucking flipped their shit like I haven't seen since for a film. Clothing, music, the entire kit and caboodle.

Other Holy Shit moments I can remember...

>First dinosaur in Jurassic Park
Got bored with the rest of the movie

>Liquid Metal Man in T2

This was HUGE

>Forrest Gump in old news reel footage

Seems ridiculous how impressed people were by this in hindsight.

The Matrix was the same year as Sixth Sense too. Fuck me was that massive. I think people genuinely forget how fucking huge that and Blair Witch were.

'99 was probably one of the best years ever (Magnolia, Malkovich, Three Kings - which also had some impressive technological feats - American Beauty etc etc).

But people could not shut the fuck up about five specific films;

>The Matrix
>Fight Club
>Blair Witch
>Sixt Sense

and...

>American Pie

Also Omaha Beach from SPR was the year before, and that shit blew people's minds in the cinema. Like "literally shaking".

from a technical standpoint probably not.

that was the movie that really opened audience's eyes to the true potential of cgi in action scenes.

after that audiences knew that cgi could do almost anything so nothing was as impressive.
also cgi and action scene planning and cinematography hasn't been even nearly as impressve since then.

I burst out laughing reading this. Nigga the scene isn't anything special, I'm pretty sure he mentioned that as a joke but the idea of you watching avatar for that dumb scene tickles me ya feel me nig

Oh, and the year before people were still erect over Titanic (like most edgy kids at the time I didn't like it, but it was undeniably an amazing thing to simply look at) - but the biggest holy shit moment in cinemas that year was this;

youtube.com/watch?v=sYkHD9y8EqI

I can't remember what it was attached too - but I literally bought a ticket just to watch the trailer (they played it twice)

DID THAT LITTLE CHINAMAN REALLY GET IN HER ASS

OP here. I also saw it back when it came out. I agree that the movie is a bit derivative, although it put together its cyberpunk and neo-noir type influences very competently. But yeah, it's more or less basic Hero's Journey stuff. Even does the Star Wars sort of "open with female hero in trouble, only then introduce young naive male hero" thing. Plus lots of corny stuff toward the end, with quips. And it never addresses well the moral grayness of killing all those innocent cops and security guards, etc.
I agree with all that... yet must admit that the actual visceral experience of the movie was jaw-dropping, with its combination of atmosphere, mystery, and well-executed imaginative action.
I don't think I'd ever seen such effects in commercials or music videos at the time, so maybe that made it more impressive.
>even got to watch them film it
story?
>Dark City
Great movie, although the ending is a bit weak.

>that Samuel L Jackson
seems like Star Wars trailers have a thing for sudden negros

It's not impressive when a CGI person does a CGI thing. That's why that shot from the Matrix is more impressive than anything in Avatar.

It's also why the Matrix sequels were so shit.

Yet I think a lot of the best action shots in the movie only used CGI for touch-up work. If I remember correctly, the bullet time effects were mostly achieved by setting up a ring of cameras around the action and then sequencing the frames in the right order.

Yeah, I think there's a certain crispness and level of detail that this shot achieved that CGI still can't, even all these years later.

Or maybe CGI can, but only with a great deal of artistry and a lot of time spent.

I was only surprised that people thought that shit was necessary. It's 8 minutes of fake fucking. I could just watch lesbian pork. I wanted a film. Aside from the porn, the movie is pretty good.

The effect was in a bunch of commercials and music videos.

For whatever reason I remember the stupid Coolio version.

It was in a film called Buffalo 66 and also Lost In Space. But they used the very crude version (multiple cameras, one shot). Not the "le time slice" super slick variant they invented for The Matrix. Like I said, I wans't blown away by the movie - but I was definitely in the minority - my roommate fucking flipped for it (and he was a bigger nerd than me, strongly into anime). People were obsessed with the effects work.

I thought Fight Club (which came out a few months later for us) was every bit as impressive, but it didn't really catch on culturally like The Matrix did (until later). The camera falling through the floor at the beginning and stuff was pretty exciting for us back then. The part of the Matrix that really got me excited (and most people I knew) was the Kung Fu fight - we hadn't seen anything like that - we'd seen Asian martial arts that were as impressive but they didn't look as technically clean (they didn't have the CGI assisted wire work - they just kind of spun in the air). The martial arts plus the lobby shoot out were the parts we found mind blowing. The use of slow mo - but not like Peckinpah or John Woo, it was more like, well, anime.

>filming

I lived up the road from the studios (also where they shot two other similar looking movies - Babe 2 and Dark City) but we saw them filming the Helicopter stunts in the city and the lady in red scene.

Here's some of the music videos/commmercials with the technique (which REALLY triggered and troubled people online back then trying to figure them out)

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(they used to play this at the movies - the fucking ad also got ripped off in '99 for Being John Malkovich)

And the coolio video from the mid 90's

youtube.com/watch?v=tP1PXRiVoJw

(notice how ugly it is)

Is there a cult of trap worshipers that still argue about the canon Cameron's Avatar?
Didn't think so.

The Matrix method used a lot of CGI to make it more realistic/impressive looking. They sequenced the shots (so there is movement, rather than just a still shot) and they used CGI to touch up missing frames. They did on a green screen and then digitally inserted the character into the environment.

It was a refinement of what they had already done in Lost In Space

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Compare those to it's "on set" non CGI use in something like Buffalo 66

youtube.com/watch?v=36tXOm0LGAE

(skip to 2:15 to avoid tits)

...

youtube.com/watch?v=wxL8bVJhXCM
This scene. I realise how fan-servicy it is and how vader is killing some nobodies but it still was stafisfying and impressive as fuck when I first saw it in the cinema

Deep down you know I'm right.

Thanks for the details, user. I hadn't realized that the Matrix time slice effect was done with blue/green screen. They did a good job of combining the results with the background. And yes, it seems that the extra little bit of verisimilitude gained by advancing through time during the shot, and whatever touch-up work they did with computers, produced a lot of payoff.
Regarding Fight Club, I agree that it was pretty jaw-dropping in many ways. Many people talk about the plot, but I find a lot of the cinematography to be tremendously inventive, and maybe underappreciated. It's an example of filmmakers approaching almost every scene with some fresh idea.

Just wait until the next BLACKED episode

That is pretty scary. Deflecting blaster bolts with the lightsaber is a bit goofy outside of the fairy tale atmosphere of the original trilogy (this was also a problem for the prequels), but I must admit that the scene makes Darth Vader seem terrifying.

Great fan wank scene, but not really mind blowing.

(I'm actually struggling to think of something mind blowing in the last few years that isn't just something slightly better than what we had before).

It seems terrible now, but Gollum and Davy Jones were a big fucking deal and really impressive when they came out.

People don't even think about it now - but Toy Story had a real wow factor too.

The Plane Scene pioneered unintentionally humorous scenes.

Kylo Ren stopping the blaster shot mid-air

>>Liquid Metal Man in T2
Yeah, this was fucking baller. I still think it's the best action movie of all time.