Working Title: Scenery Porn:
From YKTTW
bluepenguin: Am I justified in thinking that the bit on
5 Centimeters Per Second is a bit long and it'd be better just to say "Makoto Shinkai's movies tend to have a lot of scenery porn," or am I just looking for excuses to delete all that because I actually really like Makoto Shinkai's movies and don't agree that they're boring?
Azukar: I added
Final Fantasy X, but if anyone can find a better way to phrase its entry, please go right ahead.
Question — would the original opening of first Chris Reeves Superman movie fit here, or somewhere else? In case you don't remember, it featured an endless flight through sunset clouds, with the credits occasionally flying by. It took _forever_. When I saw it in the theater, several people got up and left. When it was released on tv and home video, they'd changed the credits to white letters quickly flying by a star field.
Luthen: Does Serenity - and by extension the rest of Firefly - count? I know there weren't so many vistas but Joss put a
lot of care into the settings and Serenity is kinda the tenth character.
Man Without A Body: Can I remove the quote? It's needlessly obscene, bordering on
troll.
el Igore: Shouldn't
Batman: Gotham Knight be put under Anime? It's from a Japanese studio.
Pavlov: Chopped the quote in half. A little less coherent, a lot less obscene. Putting the deleted section here:
"Crysis is so pretty that were it an inmate in a male prison, it would be the bitch of every motherfucker in that place before you could say Andy Dufresne."
Question — wondering if one should mention
Chrono Trigger under the mention of
Chrono Cross? The game has made backdrops that definitely function as scenery porn, going above and beyond to capture a specific mood. In this tropers opinion of course.
Question — Do the first six pages of Watchmen's last chapter count? They're basically a succession of images of the carnage wrought by the
Big Bad's plan, which is New York with extra dead people
and fake alien.
Answer: Nope, that would be
Scenery Gorn, silly.
Dentaku: Please, people, if you're going to do stuff like putting redirects on top of this page, discuss that here. Yes, I'm talking to you,
Fast Eddie.
Prfnoff: From what I've read,
Follies is set mostly on a (stylized) bare stage except in the
Show Within A Show sequence, so this trope doesn't quite apply. (The costumes are another matter: when someone remarks on one minor character's dress, it's clear that costumes are enormously important in this show.)
- Stephen Sondheim's Follies uses the old days as a contrast to the bitter lives of the performers now. Ironically, because it indulges in this and Gorgeous Period Dress to make its point, it's rarely given full stagings anywhere; Peter Filichia wrote in his book Let's Put on a Musical! (which discusses the pros and cons of various musicals for theater companies that might want to produce them) that it could be the most expensive production a company could ever mount due to the costumes alone, since the show calls for a big cast.