MovieChat Forums > Film Art and Cinematography > What film do you think has the worst cin...

What film do you think has the worst cinematography you have ever seen?


I honestly can't think of many with terrible cinematography, it's usually just mediocre and bland at worst.

http://kinopravda23.blogspot.com
https://www.youtube.com/user/evanchester1988

reply

Cassandra's Dream has some awful cinematography, by a great cinematographer might I add.

Later that day, after tea... I died, suddenly.

reply

Miami Vice-The Movie ain't that great. Seems director Michael Mann was, in gee-whiz fashion, really tinkering with the gain boost on his then-new Sony Cine-Alta camera. It looks like he and his cinematographer had the gain boost cranked up to +21db on some of that stuff. The exterior night scenes, especially in the trailer park where Trudy has been kidnapped, appear to be only available light, from sodium vapor lights and such, and exhibit HORRENDOUS grain.

reply

I'm going to say Michael Mann's Public Enemies. I just can't take to the digital photography of that movie.

reply

Sorry no links. Bandwidth at work is barely capable of reading and posting text.

Dracula 2009 has truly f#cked cinematography. The film has been uploaded in full on youtube. Word of warning however. . .It is one of my top picks for "Worst Movie Ever Made". I have been actively searching for a long time, and this is top tier material. . . weapons grade atrocious film making.

reply

Brilliant question! I will write top 10 of worst movies have ever made, based on my own observational analysis. So, here it is:

1.Me and You - Bernardo Bertolucci
2.Solaris - Steven Soderbergh
3.American Sniper - Clint Eastwood
4.The Maze Runner - Wes Ball
5.Lucy - Luc Besson
6.Exodus: Gods and Kings - Ridley Scott
7.Pacific Rim - Guillermo del Toro
8.The Interview - Evan Goldberg, Seth Rogen
9.Argo - Ben Affleck
10.After Earth - M. Night Shyamalan

reply

Aside from quality, I find ShakyCam to be the worst cinematography, because it makes me nauseous when I watch it. If something is physically unpleasant, then that's worse than merely being artistically or technically flawed.

reply