Best visual Movie with a poor story

[darlarosa]

So, in this context I mean what movie has good visual appeal and aesthetic but simply does not fully deliver with story.

For example the 1990 Dick Tracey is a wonderful movie to look at. The color palette is keeping with the comics from the buildings to the clothes. Lightening has kind of a feel similar to noir films...I find it fantastic to watch.

Yet...the story isn't great...it isn't awful...but it never quite feels like it was well thought out.

 

[Amethyst Wind]

Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within?

Avatar? (Not to say the story is bad, just recycled. A lot.)

 

[jackpackage200]

The Fall

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Tree of Life

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In my (pretentious} opinion, they are both fantastic films.

 

[Terminate421]

Avatar

I ninja'd over 9000 people.

 

[FalloutJack]

This was the point of Akira.

-Heh-

You yourself were ninja'd.

 

[Ambulo]

Did anyone see the Fountain?

 

[Lilani]

I think I'll hesitantly say Brave. It's not that I dislike all of the story--I think the characters were brilliant and they couldn't have handled the message any better. I particularly loved the fact that at the end they pointed out not only how messed-up it was that Merida was expected to marry one of the princes, but also that it was equally messed-up that the princes had no choice in it either.

The main problem I had with it was...the bears. The conflict should have been allowed to stand without the whole bear thing. It distracted from the main conflict and turned Merida's learning about her mother into less of a story point and more of a joke. And I think it's just so tragic because it's such a gorgeous movie and everything else is amazingly well executed...but God, the bears. That was just unnecessary.

 

[Ruedyn]

2001 A Space Odyssey comes to mind. And because I'm a conformist, Avatar.

 

[aba1]

Fantasia ohh ya I went there

 

[Lionsfan]

Limitless. It looked cool, had some nice scenes, but the storyline was just so jumpy, had a few plotholes, didn't explain any of the questions it asked, and had Robert DeNiro involved for like 10 minutes

 

[Casual Shinji]

Prometheus

In my humble opninion the best looking sci-fi movie since Blade Runner. The story on the other hand... I'm not as hateful on it as most other people, but let's just say it was kind of a mess.

 

[gunny1993]

Transformers 3 ... does that even have a plot or is it just one big explosion

 

[GTwander]

Fear and Loathing.
Don't get me wrong, I liked it and all, but no matter how many times you watch it in order to 'grasp' the story, you'll eventually come upon the point that there just isn't one... it's just a hodgepodge of quirky situations with zero message to them, beyond the idea that Johnny Depp shirked his duty as a journalist to get really high and survive a crazy Mexican dude.

 

[Shocksplicer]

Probably 300 or Suckerpunch.
Both looked fantastic. Both were fairly mediocre in the story department.

 

[Reaper195]

Akira was at anime movie. As far as the story on the other hand, I fucking hated it.

Suckerpunch looked awesome, but the story was...not as good as it could've been (But by no means bad).

 

[Scarim Coral]

That live action film to the manga/ anime Casshern.
That film was a clear case of style over substance since the visual were great but not so much with the story. I mean seriously they make that battle with Casshern against one of the generals offscreen!! I wanted to know what the battle was like.
Make scene the style was the top piroty as it was directed by Kazuaki Kiriya so also did many of Utada music videos which are well know for being a visual treat for the eyes.

 

[Casual Shinji]

I'd LIKE to say John Carter but Christ, that movie STILL looked like garbage. 250 million dollars absolutely wasted.

It's quite an achievement that after all that cash it still looked like Xena: Warrior Princess.

 

[Axolotl]

Fear and Loathing.
Don't get me wrong, I liked it and all, but no matter how many times you watch it in order to 'grasp' the story, you'll eventually come upon the point that there just isn't one... it's just a hodgepodge of quirky situations with zero message to them, beyond the idea that Johnny Depp shirked his duty as a journalist to get really high and survive a crazy Mexican dude.

It's much clearer in the book but Fear and Loathing did have a message, it's that the American Dream is a lie and that the hippie movement was dead. Also he didn't shirk his duty as a journalist, since his duty was to report the truth and that's just what he did.

 

[GTwander]

Fear and Loathing.
Don't get me wrong, I liked it and all, but no matter how many times you watch it in order to 'grasp' the story, you'll eventually come upon the point that there just isn't one... it's just a hodgepodge of quirky situations with zero message to them, beyond the idea that Johnny Depp shirked his duty as a journalist to get really high and survive a crazy Mexican dude.

It's much clearer in the book but Fear and Loathing did have a message, it's that the American Dream is a lie and that the hippie movement was dead. Also he didn't shirk his duty as a journalist, since his duty was to report the truth and that's just what he did.

~and the toaster in the bath scene was a take on cold war politics?