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The Best Looking Movie I’ve Seen is a 60s Italian B-Movie
Let me tell you why I find it so beautiful
What’s the best looking movie you have ever seen? 2001: A Space Odyssey? Lord of the Rings? Avatar? 300? Of course, those are visually stunning movies, but beauty, as they say, is in the eye of the beholder. And this particular beholder has a very particular taste.
You may think the title of this article is deceitful clickbait or based on some silly technicality of colour processing. But no, it’s really true. My favourite movie in terms of aesthetics really is a cheesy 60s Italian B-movie.
Beauty is a subjective term. Of course Lord of the Rings and Avatar are beautiful movies. The armies of artists who worked with powerful CGI machines on them are sure to make every shot look amazing.
But there is a movie with visuals that excites me even more. Most of you reading this will think I am just being ridiculous, but I’m completely serious.
The most gorgeous movie I have seen is called:
I kid you not!
It’s a very low-grade Italian B-Movie made long before I was born. It was shot on very small sets, that are filled with mist and beautifully lit with garish contrasting colours. Fantastic miniature work, and out of this world wardrobe design. The dialogue is awful, the story is somewhat unoriginal but serviceable (although it was a huge…
