The film opens with one of those dull, routine traveling
helicopter shots of the small town and its green fields and sweet little buildings, but at some point, the image segues into Adam's miniature attic model of the same town.
Despite far too many
helicopter shots of Manhattan (seemingly left over from the end credits), Stahelski and Leitch direct the hell out of what little story there is — particularly the extraordinary car sequences — but this is one film that could actually use a sequel / sidequel for Kolstad's characters to really let rip.
Micro and macro scale are constructed along similar lines in Blackhat:
Helicopter shots of grid - like cities evoke earlier sequences of moving around microchips, the bright moving lights of cars convey the sense of people moving through cities as sequences of code move around the web.
For example, «we LiDAR - scanned the buildings and the streets,» Anderson says, and then re-created a digital version of the city by overlaying a computer - generated model over
helicopter shots of the devastated city.
The panning across the dead reef at the film's intro went from a blanket of bland brown calcium to an intricate collection of reds, oranges, browns, and purples, while scenes like
the helicopter shot of the reef from above exploded with color, revealing electric blue, sapphire, and dazzling aquamarine.
Not exact matches
It's a family
of missiles that are primarily for
shooting down planes and
helicopters but can also attack ships, cruise missiles, and ballistic missiles.
I want to know who cleansed him a navy seal??? Come on, they tossed him probably out
of the
helicopter and when did all this take place if they went at 1 am and
shot him then they quickly cleansed him and threw him out to sea.
As an example, she mentioned that one
of this year's presidential campaigns had painted the URL
of its website on the roof
of the campaign bus, knowing that
helicopter camera
shots of the travelling bus would be a staple
of tv news coverage.
One
of the five passengers on the doorless
helicopter hovering high above Manhattan had just leaned back toward the pilot to snap a photograph
of his feet dangling in midair — a coveted
shot known on social media as a «shoe selfie» — when the trouble started.
The pilot
of a
helicopter, a private charter hired for a photo
shoot, that went down in New York City's East River is the sole survivor
of the crash, after all five passengers died, authorities say.
Earlier, one
of the
helicopters being flown by forces involved in the coup attempt was
shot down over the capital Ankara.
The emotional high point was
of course the Inauguration itself, which I watched with friends on the (covered, heated) roofdeck
of an Adams Morgan restaurant — celebratory
shots all around, and we could see Bush's
helicopter fly away from the Mall from where we stood.
The
shooting death
of one escaped killer brought new energy to the three - week hunt for his jailbreak partner as
helicopters, search dogs and hundreds
of law enforcement officers converged on a wooded area 30 miles from the upstate New York prison that...
WASHINGTON (CNN)- President Barack Obama and top Pentagon officials including Defense Secretary Leon Panetta and Joint Chiefs
of Staff Chairman Adm. Mike Mullen are attending Tuesday's dignified transfer ceremony for 38 U.S. and Afghan personnel killed on board a
helicopter shot down in Afghanistan over the weekend.
Commercial use is also illegal — last week real estate agents in Los Angeles, California, were ordered to stop using
helicopter drones to
shoot aerial movies
of properties they are selling.
Last November, the Alaska Board
of Game decided to kill hundreds
of wolves from
helicopters in three parts
of the state by
shooting them from
helicopters.
Long
shots of this CGI happening, some taken from a
helicopter, will not soon be forgotten.
► A woman
shoots a man in the stomach and he falls with a large spot
of blood on his shirt (we see him later standing on a high - rise roof) and a giant gorilla knocks people down, and then he swallows a woman as the man who was
shot and another woman get into a
helicopter; the
helicopter spins and slides to the ground among falling debris and we see that the people are unhurt.
The lab is one
of those classic Brutalist - fortress - looking monstrosities; it seems to be located deep in the bowels
of the earth but is revealed in
helicopter shots to be within biking distance
of the U.S. Capitol (seems like a bad idea, but this isn't a film that puts a high price on real - world plausibility, so whatever).
If you only know the film from a few melodic snippets and one Austrian
helicopter shot, clear an evening and sit down with one
of the seminal works
of cinema history.
Oh, and there's a shit ton
of new
shots of the King, from walking through a stream to destroying a
helicopter.
Rampage is based on a 1986 arcade game where players control one
of three giant monsters trying to rack up points by leveling cities while avoiding being
shot at by tanks and
helicopters.
When a movie starts with an opening
shot of a
Helicopter battle with Dire Straight's «Money
of Nothing» playing over the opening credits, you know you are in for something a little different.
It's not just the act
of shooting down other dudes,
helicopters, and blowing away large mechanoida — ground gets splattered with little pixel bits
of blood, and explosions and dead bodies can obfuscate landmines and other hazards.
A
helicopter approaches a hotel rooftop and people gathered there move toward it until it turns and opens fire on them; we see several people
shot and blood splatters as they fall dead until the
helicopter becomes caught in cables attached to the roof and spins out
of control before crashing into the roof and exploding.
The Panavision (Color by DeLuxe) cinematography by Fred Koenekamp and Joseph Biroc is always solid, though it stumbles in its occasional efforts to be impressive: the opening
helicopter shots leave no doubt that someone has been watching La dolce vita again; and an unnecessarily baroque crane
shot records the insignificant arrival
of a taxicab delivering Roberts to the Simmons home.
Kosinski and his returning cinematographer Claudio Miranda (who also
shot Life
Of Pi) are experienced in the art of digital imagery, and they capture beauty in images both relatively mundane, like a hose dangling from an initially unseen firefighting helicopter, drawing water from a swimming pool, and genuinely strange, like a recurring image of a bear charging out of a forest on fir
Of Pi) are experienced in the art
of digital imagery, and they capture beauty in images both relatively mundane, like a hose dangling from an initially unseen firefighting helicopter, drawing water from a swimming pool, and genuinely strange, like a recurring image of a bear charging out of a forest on fir
of digital imagery, and they capture beauty in images both relatively mundane, like a hose dangling from an initially unseen firefighting
helicopter, drawing water from a swimming pool, and genuinely strange, like a recurring image
of a bear charging out of a forest on fir
of a bear charging out
of a forest on fir
of a forest on fire.
New Zealand's stunning environment once again becomes the feature
of helicopter sweeping
shots as we follow the two characters and their flight from the authorities who would hunt them down and tear them apart.
Cable, Domino, Deadpool and G.W. Bridge were all members
of the Six Pack, meaning that the superhero team we see assembled in this
helicopter shot could well have been assembled by Cable himself.
The very first aerial
shot of the film suggests this is an open - matte presentation, as fast - moving
helicopter blades find their way into the top
of the frame.
The visuals are simply jaw - dropping, whether
of yaks being led through the snow, a sweeping
helicopter shot that takes us through a canyon before swooping over the characters traversing it on a ropewalk, or the «practice» climb, which sees Weathers stumble on a ladder across an icy chasm.
All
of the above provide excellent opportunities for heart - stopping action, intricate espionage efforts, car and
helicopter chases, gunfire exchanges, depictions
of bodies riddled with bullets, elaborate explosions, death threats, acts
of torture... and some horrible little explosive device that is
shot up a nostril into the sinus cavity.
There are more
shots of a deserted London, this time on a much bigger scale (and from
helicopters!).
That led inevitably to my next question, about the charges facing director John Landis in connection with the
helicopter crash that killed three people during the
shooting of «Twilight Zone.»
When the female characters aren't dressed down, people are
shot, cut in half, sliced up by
helicopter blades, burnt, stabbed and any other form
of decapitation you can think
of.
He reveals that Gary Oldman and Bill Paxton were also in the running for the part, and discusses how his fear
of heights complicated
shooting the
helicopter sequence.
From the opening scenes on Mt. Everest to
shots with
helicopters to echoes and the pinging
of tennis balls, the rear speakers contributed a positive sense
of atmosphere.
Hitchcock's dream
of opening with an elaborate
helicopter tracking
shot was abandoned after it became clear that the technology wasn't up to the task.
Take your pick: the particular way constellations
of pinkish - red candle flames help illuminate Gianni D'Antonio's shadowy underground chambers; the riotous cacophony
of icy blues and fiery reds that accompanies the funhouse climax; or how peering into the detailed aerial
shots of midtown Manhattan at night feels a little bit like hanging out
of the
helicopter.
A plot twist involving veteran actors James Woods (the remake
of «Straw Dogs «-RRB- and Richard Jenkins («Jack Reacher «-RRB-, as well as any number
of shootings, killings, explosions, tank and
helicopter attacks, plane crashes, beatings and the wounding
of a conservative Glenn Beck - type TV host and other fun events round out this two - plus hour feast for dimwits.
Consider a
helicopter chase through a wind farm, too, and the many lovely visuals that such an enticing premise suggests — then look to the end - product, which is a lot
of tight
shots of helicopters in the middle
of the night, parts
of giant windmills, a bad soundtrack, and multiple decibel screaming about «incoming» and «they've got a lock on us.»
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of Domestic Terrorism Air Force Captain Colter Stevens (Jake Gyllenhaal) has been comatose since his
helicopter was
shot down during a rescue mission over Afghanistan.
Kurt Russell and a bunch
of other dudes are chillin», literally and figuratively, down in Antarctica when they are interrupted by some people trying to
shoot a dog from a
helicopter.
What attracted critical minds like Jacques Rivette, Eric Rohmer, and others to Nicholas Ray and his oeuvre — bored stiff as they were by the risk - averse, respectable, and ultimately neutered «cinema
of quality» — was the stamp
of the personal and the element
of danger they discerned in his films, whether that meant the improvisatory handling
of actors with a touch deft enough to coax remarkable performances out
of even non-professionals; the «superior clumsiness,» cited by Rivette in «Notes on a Revolution,» resulting in «a discontinuous, abrupt technique that refuses the conventions
of classical editing and continuity»; or the purely visual flourishes Ray relished — ranging from the sweeping, vertiginous
helicopter - mounted
shots in They Live By Night to disorienting, subjective POV compositions like the «rolling camera» during a car crash halfway through On Dangerous Ground, its very title indicating the source
of Ray's critical appeal.
The actors are set against completely unconvincing green screen backdrops or walk in long
helicopter shots through the snowy mountains (a tableau that will be overly familiar to anyone who's seen a fantasy epic in the last five years (the fact that most
of the movie is
shot in New Zealand makes the effect more apparent)-RRB-.
It is an impressive feat, as Spring often seems on the brink
of flinging itself into orbit at any minute, but the soulful and engaging turns from leads Lou Taylor Pucci and Nadia Hilker, and beautiful Italian vistas (fully taken advantage
of through some gorgeous top down
helicopter establishing
shots) and some real confidence from Benson and Moorhead to stick to their guns makes Spring a unique and satisfying twist on both classic romance and old school body horror.
To director Brad Anderson's credit, he does his best to visually elevate proceedings above their painfully televisual material through heavy use
of helicopter shots on the one hand and leering, shaky - cam close - ups on the other.
The copter was lifted in and placed on top
of huge pistons that will shake it about as Costner and actor / UVU student Mason Davis film scenes inside the craft — scenes that will be edited together with
shots of one
helicopter taken from cameras on another
helicopter.
The police estimated that he was doing upwards
of 180 mph during the chase and by the looks
of the
helicopter camera, his tires gave way at some point and he was
shooting sparks from the rims — a tribute to that wonderful Quattro AWD system, if I may add.
Oregon wildlife officials
shot and killed two wolves from a
helicopter Wednesday in an attempt to reduce killings
of cattle by...